God's Imitator

From the very beginning of the game, Zeng Yiming was continually pushing for collaboration.

Among the three players who confessed, Zeng Yiming was the only one to voluntarily expose his crime number.

After that, he entered the more dangerous Pharmacy Room willingly, and when the sinner players were about to break into a conflict, he tried every possible way to stabilize the situation.

Honestly speaking, no other player could have done better than him.

In the inner court, the countdown on the big screen continued ticking.

This is the last batch of drugs, but there is no longer any need to continue production.

Even if the sinner players don’t enter the Pharmacy Room, the production process will automatically proceed once, but no drugs will be produced, and the game won’t be indefinitely delayed.

The ending seems already predetermined.

Yet, at this moment, another broadcast sounded.

[Community 2 Audience chooses to send a broadcast to all players.]

Ye Lin’s voice came from the broadcast.

"Everyone, don’t be deceived, Zeng Yiming is the culprit of this entire farce! He was the first player to cast a Fake Coin!

"From beginning to end, everyone has been manipulated by him!"

The originally chaotic inner court temporarily quieted down.

Zeng Yiming seemed to change instantly, his face darkened as he looked towards the direction of the big screen.

Wen Wan who was originally in despair, teared up and felt helpless, but upon hearing Ye Lin’s voice, it seemed like she saw hope again.

The game seems not to be over yet.

In the broadcast, Ye Lin sighed and continued:

"We’ve all been played by Zeng Yiming; now, let me expose all this.

"Actually, at the very beginning of the game, before the first batch of drugs was produced, Zeng Yiming had already decided to take a risk to earn an unprecedented profit in Walkway.

"Please think about it, what is the theoretically highest profit in this game?

"The answer is: one million minutes of visa time!

"To achieve this theoretical maximum, two conditions must be met: all ten batches of drugs are successfully sold, and all four other sinner players die.

"Because the approximate price of each batch of drugs is 200 thousand, then ten batches are 2 million, eventually all surviving sinner players share 1 million, and all audience who haven’t bought drugs share the other 1 million.

"Then why did Zeng Yiming have to sell fake drugs?

"Because if they were real drugs, the audience would definitely vote sympathetically to save the other sinner players.

"If the four other sinner players don’t die, then Zeng Yiming would only get around 200 thousand.

"Therefore, he had to sell fake drugs, ignite hatred among all audience, make them withdraw their sympathy votes and kill other sinner players.

"And Zeng Yiming himself could clear his name and become the sole winner.

"I know, everyone may feel this sounds like lunacy because the pharmaceutical process is decided by five sinner players who can check each other’s coin results, and the audience can also sample the drugs.

"There are actually many uncontrollable factors in this.

"Zeng Yiming couldn’t possibly control all the players; any mistake at any point would make the plan fail completely.

"But this is precisely where Zeng Yiming is the most audacious; he solved all the above problems through specific methods and a bit of luck.

"The first suspicious point, why did the audience sampling not find any issues?

"Because, in this game, the sampling mechanism itself is fine, but the mechanism of ’selecting sampling candidates’ has a fatal flaw!

"Do you remember the criterion by which the Sinners Community chose the ’Audience Representative’ upon game invitation?

"’Players who absolutely trust sinner players and are absolutely trusted by sinner players.’"

"I’m not sure about the Audience Community’s situation, but probably it’s similar.

"Players selected through this ’mutual absolute trust’ are highly likely the most innocent, inexperienced, socially naive, and most easily deceived new players in the community!

"It’s like some street vendor selling substandard barbecues outside renowned universities for years, yet these brilliant graduates fail to notice any problem—it’s the same principle.

"Because the selection mechanism filtered out a batch of people who are most easily gullible, and herd mentality continually reinforces this cocoon effect.

"These players might simply think, since the five sinner players weren’t colluding and didn’t report each other, then the drug production process should be fine.

"These Audience Representatives have likely never used the drugs and don’t want to trial drugs on their own body without experiencing pain.

"’Anyway, there will be other Audience Representatives who will trial the drugs’, they would certainly think so.

"And upon seeing some players actually trial the drugs and press the ’Pass’ button, they would believe these drugs had no problems.

"But why did those who took the drugs press ’Pass’?

"During the sampling of the first batch of drugs, 3 out of 8 player representatives tried them but didn’t find any anomalies. Is this reasonable?

"Of course, some Audience Representatives may never have tried M class drugs, and even if they had, they couldn’t compare with previous experiences. At this moment, without clear pain, they can’t verify the analgesic effect.

"Seeing other Audience Representatives not raising any doubts, they’d succumb to herd mentality, believing the drug itself should have no issues.

"This possibility exists, but it’s a very low chance; certainly not all 3 players are like this.

"Someone must have recognized it but deliberately didn’t speak up.

"It’s because of that selection mechanism: player representatives and sinner players trust each other absolutely.

"So even if they discovered the drugs were fake, they’d choose to cover for sinner players.

"These two types of Audience Representatives pressed the ’Pass’ button, and thus, these fake drugs passed the sampling smoothly.

"Of course, even if an incident occurred, it wouldn’t affect the overall situation, as Audience Representatives can’t communicate with anyone, other people would only speculate there was an issue with the product rate.

"The second suspicious point, why didn’t other sinner players expose it, even though they could see the previous player cast a Fake Coin?

"Because Zeng Yiming exploited the other four players’ sense of luck.

"He Qing once said he was shocked to see Liang Guicheng cast a Fake Coin, but he didn’t expose it immediately, choosing to wait.

"He wanted to wait for the Audience Representatives’ sampling results.

"If the sampling failed, he’d immediately point out Liang Guicheng and shirk responsibility.

"But if the sampling passed, he’d remain silent and share the fraudulent proceeds.

"And all other sinner players thought the same: if something went wrong, they’d scapegoat the previous player; if nothing went wrong, they’d share the proceeds, analyzing its yield greatly exceeds its risk.

"Zeng Yiming didn’t need to communicate with others.

"Because they committed similar crimes, they shared similar character weaknesses and made converging choices.

"In the Pharmacy Room, the excruciating pain displayed, such as hands soaked in the drug solution, shivering in the extremely cold environment...

"Were all staged.

"The fact that He Qing remained curled up in the corner without moving for a long time wasn’t to keep warm but out of fear he couldn’t feign a frostbite reaction, choosing this simpler way to disguise.

"Even Liang Guicheng displayed exaggerated acting: with only a little contact with the first Pharmacy Room’s solution, he withdrew his fingers as if shocked.

"Zeng Yiming deliberately placed himself and Liang Guicheng in the first and second Pharmacy Rooms, which was a complete setup.

"In Liang Guicheng’s eyes, he merely followed Zeng Yiming in casting a Fake Coin, but to other players, the source of the Fake Coin was him, never could it be Zeng Yiming!

"So, when the fake drugs were uncovered, Zeng Yiming easily removed suspicion.