God's Imitator

Lu Qi tried to speculate on the possible reason: perhaps there was some ambiguous description in Zheng Chunhua’s words, and he intended to use this method to deceive the game’s Lie Detection Mechanism.

"There is someone very important to me who smokes," the key is who exactly this "very important person" is.

According to the general Audience’s understanding, it could be a former Lover, or it could be parents, or even a good friend.

But Lu Qi knew that Zheng Chunhua’s true identity was a teacher, so this person could also be a former student of his.

It seems that Zheng Chunhua clearly wanted to exploit a loophole this way. Which teacher hasn’t had a few problem students who secretly smoked before?

If the Walkway’s lie detection was lenient, maybe he could have slipped through. After all, Zheng Chunhua’s insistence that a problem student was "a very important person" to him is understandable from a teacher’s standpoint.

But unfortunately, his plan failed.

This time, the Walkway’s lie detection mechanism seemed quite strict, and it likely judged that those people weren’t considered "important people" to Zheng Chunhua, resulting in a violation for lying.

Lu Qi felt a bit regretful: "Too bad, if Uncle Zheng could have stayed on stage by this method, holding on for another round could regain more visa time, and he could have covered for Qin Cheng, at least ensuring one Spokesperson from our Community to persist until the end.

"Now... it backfired a bit."

[!! Elimination Time!!]

[In the third round of the game, elimination will proceed according to ’Standard Three.’]

[Please Audience, make a choice based on common sense: which type of product is most likely to cause health damage? The Spokespersons of this category (except the top one) will lose eligibility and leave the stage.]

[The Spokespersons still on stage can ’unmask’.]

The display on Lu Qi’s arm sent a slight vibration reminder, prompting her to participate in interactive voting.

This voting is not mandatory, meaning one can choose to abstain, but cannot vote for a deceptive option.

Lu Qi tried clicking, but ’Alcohol Products’ and ’Luxury Goods’ were both unselectable, because deep down she was convinced that ’Tobacco Products’ were more likely to cause health damage.

The players from Community 2 all chose to abstain, but clearly, this couldn’t change the final result.

Before the brief countdown ended, ’Tobacco Products’ undoubtedly received more votes.

To Lu Qi’s surprise, some players actually voted for ’Alcohol Products’.

Some smokers genuinely believe that smoking is harmless, and they use cases of smokers living to eighty or ninety as evidence. Although these people are a small minority, they still exist in this game.

This is good for Community 2, as these people are likely to become steadfast supporters of Qin Cheng.

On stage, two other players besides Qin Cheng who tried to endorse ’Tobacco Products’ were eliminated.

They were somewhat unlucky because, under the first two elimination methods, only one of them would have been eliminated, and one player should have been able to persist to the next round with Qin Cheng.

But this time, using ’common sense’ to eliminate directly wiped out the tobacco category, leaving only the top-rated lone contender.

Qin Cheng also chose to unmask.

He didn’t make too many excited actions, just gracefully bowed to thank the Audience below the stage, yet he still received some applause and cheers.

Perhaps because of his slim figure, decent appearance, and doctor’s identity, he had some added effect in endorsing tobacco products.

Meanwhile, Lu Qi also heard Yao Yuan’s voice beside her.

"Alright, from now on, the four of you have the primary task to closely watch Qin Cheng before and after every ’Frenzy Time,’ not missing a second, ensuring to be among the top ten to provide heat value to Qin Cheng.

"I’ll handle the other matters.

"I might leave from time to time to engage with players from other Communities, you just focus on completing your task."

Hearing this, Lu Qi felt much more at ease.

With Qin Cheng becoming a Spokesperson, Yao Yuan also voluntarily chose to become an ’Agent,’ although still unable to unmask, he was now free to speak and purchase advertisements with the Media Representatives.

The other players now had a backbone.

Shen Bowen previously seemed to hesitate about becoming an agent, but now that Yao Yuan had made this choice first, she didn’t need to consider it again.

Lu Qi quickly pointed to the ’Reflection Room,’ because she was a bit worried about Zheng Chunhua.

Zheng Chunhua did not unmask before entering the Reflection Room, so other players didn’t know his specific name, which should be relatively safe.

But theoretically, if Zheng Chunhua’s name leaks, he could still encounter the risk of death.

This is true for every player entering the ’Reflection Room.’

Yao Yuan thought for a moment and shook his head slightly: "Don’t worry, he likely went in deliberately."

Lu Qi was stunned for a moment, she couldn’t quite tell if Yao Yuan was saying this truthfully or to comfort everyone.

Purely from a rule perspective, entering the Reflection Room offers no benefits, only drawbacks.

But judging by Yao Yuan’s expression, does the Reflection Room have some hidden mechanism? Yet even if it exists, how could Yao Yuan be so sure?

But since he had said so, everyone stopped dwelling on it and instead focused on doing their tasks well.

Shen Bowen pointed to the distant big screen, the implication clear: ask if Yao Yuan wants to purchase or advertise on the big screen.

If they want to bid for a big screen and become a Media Representative, Shen Bowen is obviously the best candidate.

But after considering it for a while, Yao Yuan still shook his head.

In the game, there are a total of sixteen big screens, with four being bid on each round; now, in the third round, twelve big screens already have designated Media Representatives.

And Community 2 hasn’t bid on any yet.

In the next round, the final four big screens will also be auctioned off, and by then, all big screens would have ownership.

Although agents could choose to spend money on advertising, when Media Representatives receive many advertisement requests, they can choose which one to publish.

For many Communities, spending 20,000 minutes of visa time to control a big screen is quite expensive but necessary to ensure stability, forcing them to spend this unjustified money.

Perhaps because of this reason, the bidding price for big screens has always maintained a high level, showing no signs of dropping.

But Yao Yuan and Qin Cheng seemed to have no such intention and instead adopted a more passive defense strategy, that is, keeping one Spokesperson in an unpopular category to persist until the end, disregarding everything else, minimizing potential losses.

The big screen once again showed new advertising information.

[Cosmetics! Clothes! Famous Watches! Gao Jialiang!]

At the same time, six big screens displayed this information, while the original ’Support Jiang Chenyan!’ advertisement was squeezed to only two screens.

Clearly, Community 13, where Gao Jialiang belongs, is ready to strike while the iron is hot, using his high attractiveness and popularity to continue garnering more heat value and suppress Jiang Chenyan.

So they must have spent a lot of visa time advertising Gao Jialiang.