God's Imitator

Lu Bingjun sighed silently: "Worse than that.

"The subsequent rounds of the game were quite boring, what truly shocked us were their self-confessed crimes.

"Let me tell you all the crimes exposed by three people at once.

"The real Imitator in the Community isn’t Wei Changfeng, but Gao Teng.

"It should have been after a certain game when Gao Teng privately confessed his identity as the Imitator to Old Wei.

"Originally, Gao Teng intended to confess his identity to all the players in the Community, but Old Wei stopped him, demanding that he keep it confidential and only share the information with him.

"However, Old Wei didn’t ask him to share all the information, just told Gao Teng that after being selected for the game, he should only disclose some core rules or details.

"Even at just that level, it was enough for Old Wei to gain a huge advantage in the game."

Shen Bowen pondered for a moment: "Because withholding all sharing might lead to a short-lived Imitator? It seems that Wei Changfeng and Gao Teng knew this long ago.

"They had much more information about the Imitator than you guys."

Qin Cheng frowned deeply: "So it seems... Wei Changfeng may have had selfish motives, but he still treated Gao Teng as a brother."

Lu Bingjun was silent for a moment: "It’s hard to say.

"Because looking at the subsequent confessions, Old Wei’s actions weren’t out of concern for Gao Teng as a person, but more like... treating Gao Teng as a rare commodity.

"Old Wei was just worried that if Gao Teng died prematurely, he wouldn’t find another Imitator who would unconditionally obey and reveal key rules."

Huang Shengjie seemed unable to accept such a conclusion: "Is this your guess? Isn’t such a conclusion a bit too arbitrary?"

Lu Bingjun sighed again: "Let me finish.

"These aren’t my personal inferences, but the content of the confessions of the three at the time, clearly written in the game records.

"Just because of the nature of the game, to maximize the use of these crimes, they exposed the crimes gradually, from shallow to deep, and reused them.

"I’ve only slightly adjusted the sequence in my narration for clarity, but there’s absolutely no embellishment whatsoever.

"All the old members present can testify.

"Old Wei’s own confession said that he has always been using some special methods to control Gao Teng.

"Gao Teng has always had special feelings for Xu Yili.

"He sees Xu Yili as an elder sister, or a mother, with a very strong attachment.

"As for Old Wei, Gao Teng has very mixed feelings. On one hand, he received a lot of care from Old Wei and regarded him as a reliable big brother; on the other hand, he had a special jealousy because of the relationship between Old Wei and Xu Yili.

"Of course, he knows inside that he should maintain the right mindset, trying hard to suppress his wrong ideas, but in this repression, he grew more and more distressed.

"He was actually tired of the Walkway very early on, and it can even be said that when he first entered the Walkway, he was prepared to die in any game.

"Only to be forcibly pulled up by Old Wei and Xu Yili.

"Old Wei always knew about Gao Teng’s mindset.

"It can even be said that deep down, he mostly held contempt for Gao Teng.

"Yet, he couldn’t do without Gao Teng.

"Although Old Wei showed slightly higher skill than me and Ye Lin in previous games, Gao Teng’s extra disclosed information played a huge role.

"Moreover, breaking the impasse in many games was actually done by Gao Teng, only after returning to the Community, during the review phase, Gao Teng voluntarily attributed all the credit to Old Wei.

"Old Wei himself said that if he lost Gao Teng, he probably wouldn’t be able to maintain such skill and performance, and not just would his core status in the game be shaken, but his position as the Community leader could be threatened too.

"He even discussed this privately with Xu Yili.

"Xu Yili knew very well about Gao Teng’s attitude toward herself and was very troubled by it, but under Old Wei’s request, she still had to strive hard to play the special role that Gao Teng expected of her.

"Originally, this situation could be maintained for a long time, because although Old Wei and Xu Yili’s acting wasn’t very good, Gao Teng would brainwash himself, even if he doubted, he would force himself not to think too much.

"But in this game, everything was brutally exposed."

Huang Shengjie was shocked by the sudden flood of information and couldn’t care too much, hurriedly interrupting Lu Bingjun.

"Wait!

"There’s too much information, Brother Lu, let me digest it...

"Are all these from the confessions of the three during repentance?"

Lu Bingjun reluctantly nodded: "Yes.

"Actually, your reaction is very understandable because that’s exactly the part we found hard to believe in any way after seeing the game records.

"As I said before, they intentionally fragmented and gradually exposed during the repentance process, ensuring this information always shocked the other side.

"So... Old Wei and Xu Yili’s true attitude toward Gao Teng was only revealed at the end.

"It was already near the end of the game."

Shen Bowen vaguely sensed something bad: "This information... seems too cruel for Gao Teng.

"It turns out that the big brother and sister he always respected only ever viewed him as a tool, and that kindness and care were entirely staged.

"Even Wei Changfeng and Xu Yili were deliberately exploiting Gao Teng’s twisted personality to better control him.

"His spirit was already in an extremely unstable state, subjected to such extreme stimuli during the Judgment game... it’s no wonder he did something."

Lu Bingjun sighed silently: "Just as you expected.

"Because before, both sides were consciously spreading the ’punishment’ to avoid losing members first.

"But this inevitably pushed the game into a more brutal direction.

"Zheng Qingyun deliberately exposed more of the domestic abuser’s crime, so by the 28th game, the domestic abuser was the first to die.

"In the 29th game, Gao Teng was the first to draw a card.

"At that time, the mechanism on the player to Zheng Qingyun’s left was activated to the waist, another two ’punishments’ would lead to death.

"And the mechanisms on Zheng Qingyun, Old Wei, Gao Teng, and Xu Yili were activated to the chest, another ’punishment’ would lead to death.

"They probably never thought they would be so difficult against each other, reaching a point where one round determined life and death.

"Logically, none of the players present should draw any more cards because no one could endure an extra punishment.

"The game seemed to return to its initial state, deciding victory and defeat only with the initial hand.

"But Gao Teng chose to draw cards and repent.

"Moreover, he drew two cards."