God's Imitator

Everyone fell into silence; for the question raised by Qin Cheng, no one could give a definite answer.

Ye Lin thought for a moment: "Hmm... Perhaps it’s just the nature of this imitator. Maybe inherently more forgiving, or maybe likes to use this more extreme way to test players?

"There’s actually no need to delve too deep into this kind of question, because many design details might just be the imitator’s spur-of-the-moment decision, with no special meaning."

Lu Bingjun considered for a moment and looked at Lin Sizhi: "Lawyer Lin, what do you think?"

Lin Sizhi thought for a moment: "What Ye Lin said is indeed a possibility.

"Under the rules in the Walkway, every imitator has their own ideas. If they see some cases of ’not guilty enough to die,’ it’s possible to relax the rules a bit.

"However, from the results of this game, saying this imitator is very forgiving seems somewhat far-fetched.

"I personally lean towards the following two possibilities:

"First, the imitator can see the players’ files, can infer their personalities and their possible status in the community, or among them, there are acquaintances known to the imitator.

"Thus, the imitator believes that even asking for only one Immunity Coupon, these six people couldn’t provide it.

"Second, the imitator is using this relaxed phase to negotiate for stricter rules in subsequent rounds from the Walkway."

Qin Cheng was taken aback: "Hmm? What does this mean?"

Lin Sizhi explained: "In the community where I was previously, we also obtained some information from the imitator. One of which is: when designing a game, whether the imitator can stand out under the Walkway’s review mechanism actually follows a rather dynamic standard.

"Evaluation of a particular game plan is conducted from multiple dimensions.

"For instance, if the plan is very targeted at players and can stimulate the dark side of their humanity, it will naturally have a high score. Under such circumstances, imitators might produce some ’smuggled goods’ or ’relatively unfair’ designs, which would reduce the score to some extent but still enough to ensure the plan stands out.

"Similarly, if imitators provide two ways to pass the game, and one is relatively simple, then the other one can be set more strictly.

"If there’s only one way to pass the game, it can’t be set so strictly.

"I can’t fully confirm the authenticity of this information, but judging from the current game cases, this statement does have some reason."

Huang Shengjie widened his eyes, naturally arriving at a conclusion that even shocked him a bit.

"But could both explanations hold?

"That is to say, this imitator might have seen the files, speculated on the ecology of our three communities, therefore judged that those willing to offer an Immunity Coupon had not cooled down, and those with a cooled down coupon were unwilling to offer it initially?

"So, he deliberately set up such a relaxed phase.

"The benefit of this is not only to shame players, creating an illusion of ’I left a way out, but you didn’t choose,’ but also to balance the difficulty of the game, making subsequent formal game phases tougher?

"For example... increasing heart attack and angina damage, making players easier to die?"

Yao Yuan paused for a moment, interrupting Huang Shengjie’s words: "That’s going a bit too far. Without concrete evidence, it’s better not to make such guesses, as it might actually mislead."

Lu Bingjun looked around at everyone: "So, this game should be relatively clear now.

"’One Word Breaks the Prison’ should be a game designed by some reasoning enthusiast, modeled on a one-sentence reasoning puzzle, where the preparatory phase lets three members of the audience obtain extra information through the words of the deceased, and the formal game phase lets players attack each other, declare offenses based on transcribed words.

"From a game strategy perspective, players can choose to always conceal their offenses, like Shi Guoliang; or choose to expose their relatively minor offenses to cover up more serious ones.

"Or, they can shift focus by attacking other players.

"For specific details, I don’t think there’s need for much analysis, as most strategies in this game are reactive and hard to learn as a game coping paradigm.

"If everyone is interested, then review and study it in detail yourselves later.

"However... during my break time, I thought for a long time, ultimately deciding to leverage the close of this game opportunity to establish two things within the community.

"First, considering Lawyer Lin’s performance in the previous two games, it should be enough for him to serve as the game’s core.

"If everyone has no objections, then this matter will be finalized directly.

"Of course, there are currently 14 players in the community, and it’s still unclear whether we will regroup into four as in the first phase when encountering an Allocation Game.

"We also discussed earlier that perhaps three cores are still not enough, so we can set up a fourth game core to anticipate any special circumstances.

"Other players who have performed equally excellently can continue working hard.

"What does everyone think?"

The others looked at each other and then nodded.

"Yes, agree."

A portion of the players present still had some doubts, and these doubts could be multifaceted, such as thinking Lin Sizhi wasn’t perfect in the ’Pain Game,’ or considering that as an outsider, Lin Sizhi might not be entirely trustworthy.

But anyway, his performance in these two games indeed showcased his capabilities, especially in ’One Word Breaks the Prison,’ playing an extremely crucial role.

So, no one could propose particularly convincing rebuttals.

Lu Bingjun continued: "The second thing, I decide to donate all the proceeds from this game.

"Of course, primarily to purchase Immunity Coupons.

"The community’s Immunity Coupons roughly have one or two days to cool down; we’ve also discussed before that encountering special modes of death in games may be rare, and Immunity Coupons can still save lives in most cases.

"This visa time is earned by me and Deng Xiao together; I think it’s also a good way to memorialize him."

Yao Yuan nodded: "Technically, during the first phase, many players left; in this ghostly place, we should have already become indifferent to life and death.

"But when death happens again, it is admittedly still hard to accept for a while.

"Reviewing the past events of the first phase, although Deng Xiao wasn’t a very smart player, he was always a good friend and partner in the community, often playing a pillar role in games.

"So, I support Brother Lu’s view.

"Remembering Deng Xiao in this way kind of immortalizes him in the 2nd community."

Lu Bingjun stood up: "Then I will go donate now.

"Please join me as witnesses."