God's Imitator

"Beep——"

A sharp buzzing sound rang out, and Wen Wan looked around nervously, realizing she had arrived in a narrow and simple lounge.

Besides the common furnishings like a sofa and a coffee table, the most noticeable feature here was a row of special machines.

There were a total of 5 machines, roughly similar in size to ATMs, but with very simple designs, only featuring a basic numeric keypad in the middle layer, while the upper screen displayed different brief messages.

In the center of the screen, there was a four-digit physical number frame.

From left to right, there were photos and names of 5 different players on the five machines.

[Liang Guicheng (Fruit Farmer): Total sales ’XX67’ tons.]

[Zeng Yiming (Store Manager): Owns a mid-sized sushi restaurant operating for 5 years, with about 30% of the dishes not cleaned properly. The total number of times uncleaned dishes were served to customers: ’XXXX’ ten thousand times.]

[He Qing (Installer): Total installations ’XXXX’ units.]

[Zhao Xiuying (Vendor): Illegal profits ’XXXX’ ten thousand yuan.]

[Wen Wan (E-commerce): Problematic sales amount ’XXXX’ ten thousand yuan.]

Wen Wan scanned the photos of the five people and found that the players participating in the game this time were generally older, with her being the youngest.

Liang Guicheng, Zeng Yiming, and He Qing are male, while Zhao Xiuying and she are female.

Wen Wan wasn’t sure what the machines’ specific functions were yet, so she could only wait for the formal introduction of the game rules.

At this moment, she was more concerned about another issue.

"Where are the others?"

Lu Qi, Ye Lin, and Huang Shengjie had also entered the game, but at this time, Wen Wan was the only one in the lounge.

This indicated a high probability of a designated ’Audience Room’ in the game.

While feeling uneasy, the large screen beside her started displaying the game rules.

[Good morning players, welcome to the ’Trust Marketplace.’]

[This game is an ’elimination type,’ with a total of 32 players from 8 communities participating. Five communities are ’Sinners Communities,’ while the other three are ’Audience Communities.’]

[The personnel structure of the ’Sinners Community’ is: 1 Sinner, 1 Audience Representative, and 2 Ordinary Audience members.]

[The personnel structure of the ’Audience Community’ is: 1 Audience Representative, and 3 Ordinary Audience members.]

[The total duration of this game is not fixed. It will end after ’10 batches of medicine are produced by the Sinner players,’ so please pay attention to the game process timing on the external screen.]

[The following are the detailed rules.]

[1. Crime Exposure]

[In this game, there are 5 ’Sinner players.’ You can clearly see each other’s photos, names, and partial crime information in the lounge.]

[Your goal is to guess the ’crime numbers’ of other sinners.]

[Each time you return to the lounge, you can each ’guess’ a number on all the machines and enter it.]

[Each digit can be guessed ’up to 5 times,’ after which it will be permanently locked.]

[If the ’4-digit crime number’ of any sinner player is accurately guessed by any other 3 sinner players, it is considered ’crime exposure,’ and the sinner will immediately undergo ’initial judgment.’]

[The entire audience will vote ’guilty’ or ’not guilty,’ and no insincere votes are allowed. If ’guilty votes exceed half,’ it is considered ’crime established,’ and the sinner player will directly face an ’instant death penalty.’]

[However, the sinner player is allowed to ’pledge an Immunity Coupon’ for this penalty, using the next available Immunity Coupon from the community on credit. But until the Immunity Coupon is repaid, all special goods in the community will be disabled.]

[Additionally, near the end of the game, players whose ’crimes were exposed’ will face ’re-judgment,’ but there will be no re-voting. The voting results from the ’initial judgment’ will be directly adopted.]

[During ’re-judgment,’ it is possible that the result may change due to special ’sympathy votes’ in the game. If the result is still ’crime established,’ the sinner player will face an ’instant death penalty’ again.]

[2. Medicine Production]

[In the formal gaming venue, the 5 sinner players will each enter different ’Pharmacy Rooms,’ responsible for different stages of drug manufacturing, and will sell the produced ’painkillers’ to the audience on-site.]

[The first sinner with ’crime exposure’ will become the ’Director of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing,’ and will decide how sinners and ’pharmacy rooms’ are matched.]

[After the ’first batch of medicine is sold out,’ the audience can continue to cast ’sympathy votes’ for the sinners until the end of the game.]

[Sympathy votes have special rules: The total number of votes held by each audience is limited and must be cast before the end of the game, but a small number can be ’withdrawn and recast’ after ’paying a considerable price.’]

[During the sinner’s ’re-judgment,’ every 10 ’sympathy votes’ can offset 1 ’guilty vote’ and may thus change the judgment result.]

[For the specific rules on drug production, please check the notice at the entrance of each pharmacy room.]

[3. Purchasing Medicine]

[The audience of this game can freely choose whether to purchase the drugs produced on-site.]

[If choosing to purchase: The purchased medicine can be taken back to the community or sold to other communities through vending machines. However, they will no longer participate in the drug dividend.]

[If choosing not to purchase: They can participate in the drug dividend at the end of the game. A total profit from selling all the drugs, 50% will be evenly divided among the ’surviving sinner players,’ and the remaining 50% will be divided among the ’audience players who did not purchase the drugs.’]

[For more detailed rules, please explore during the game.]

[This is a game about ’trust,’ and your understanding of ’trust’ will determine the game’s final outcome.]

[The game will officially start in 10 minutes, please prepare yourselves, players!]

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The room where Huang Shengjie and Ye Lin were in was a special audience lounge, much more spacious than the lounge where Wen Wan was. It was fully equipped with basic facilities like a sofa, coffee table, and vending machine.

Notably, besides the large screen for introducing the game rules, there was also a special console in the room.

However, Lu Qi, serving as the ’Audience Representative,’ was not present in this lounge.

At this moment, the large screen was still continuously playing the game rules, and both Huang Shengjie and Ye Lin were attentively listening.

[Below are the game rules for the audience side.]

[1. The ’Audience Representative’ has an independent lounge where they can ’inspect’ the medicine after the sinner players produce it and choose whether it is ’qualified’ or ’unqualified.’]

[’Inspection’ may affect other audiences’ willingness to purchase the medicine.]

[2. ’Ordinary Audience’ members have two opportunities to assist sinner players.]

[First assistance: Send a text suggestion of no more than 5 words to the Sinner player’s lounge, with each word costing 2000 minutes of visa time.]

[Second assistance: Make a broadcast to all players not exceeding 3 minutes, at the cost of 10,000 minutes of visa time.]

Additionally, ordinary audiences can also impact the sinner players’ judgment results through ’purchasing medicine’ and ’casting sympathy votes,’ so please consider carefully!

The rules on the large screen continued to be displayed, allowing players to understand better.

Huang Shengjie frowned, trying to quickly think of possible game strategies. A moment later, he sensed that Ye Lin seemed to be looking at him.

This indicated that Ye Lin seemed to have mostly thought things through already.