God's Imitator

All the players carefully read the entire notice board and each fell into deep thought.

Zeng Yiming (Store Manager) considered for a moment and said:

"The game rules stated that when we return to the community, all injuries sustained in the pharmacy room will be removed.

"This means that although the punishments in these five different pharmacy rooms differ, they are generally just physical torment and not serious long-lasting effects.

"The differences between the pharmacy rooms can be summarized like this:

"The first pharmacy room is probably the most dangerous, involving severe pain and toxin accumulation.

"Although these toxins will be cleared upon returning to the community, if they accumulate too heavily before the end of the game, there might be a risk of death.

"The rules on the notice board don’t explicitly state this, but such risks must be considered.

"The second pharmacy room is probably the most costly because besides spending visa time to insert coins, you also need to spend visa time to purchase a special cleaning solution, which is an extra expense.

"The third and fourth pharmacy rooms are somewhat similar; both endure extreme cold and heat, collectively deciding the processing duration and the drug’s quality rate.

"The fifth pharmacy room involves electrocution.

"All these can be seen as purely physical torture punishments, and it is hard to say how severe they will be, though judging from past judgment-type games, it certainly won’t be easy.

"So the current issue is how should these five different pharmacy rooms be allocated.

"Does anyone have any ideas?"

He Qing (Installer) curled his lip dismissively: "You’re the Director of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, so you can arrange it however you like. If it were up to me, I’d obviously choose the easiest. Are you okay with that?

"No need for the pretense of asking our opinions."

Liang Guicheng (Fruit Farmer) hesitated for a moment before speaking cautiously: "You’ve already used an Immunity Coupon for us, so you should choose the easiest one. That would be fair."

During previous game sessions, Liang Guicheng hadn’t spoken much, and his words now gave off a good-natured impression.

Zhao Xiuying (Vendor) immediately agreed: "Yes, you should choose first."

Zeng Yiming didn’t immediately agree, but continued to frown in thought.

Wen Wan suddenly realized something and hurriedly said: "Oh, wait a moment, these prison cells should correspond to our crimes, right?

"Boss Zeng, you run a sushi shop, and your crime was not cleaning the plates properly, correct?

"The second pharmacy room is precisely about ’cleaning.’

"Also, I remember the five machines in the lounge for guessing crime numbers, and you are right at the second one.

"Following this order, I’m ’e-commerce,’ and conveniently the fifth one.

"E-commerce is actually equivalent to a sales channel, and the ’sorting’ determines the exact pricing of these drugs, which seems to match up as well.

"Moreover, the punishment of ’electrocution’ somewhat relates to ’e-commerce,’ doesn’t it?"

This last statement was somewhat forced, but those prior deductions were clearly reasonable.

Zeng Yiming paused for a moment, then nodded: "Hmm... there is indeed some sense to that.

"There have often been cases in previous judgment-type games where the sinner’s punishment directly corresponded to their crime.

"So then...

"He Qing, your job is as an installer, should be for refrigerators or air conditioners, right? It coincides with the third pharmacy room."

He Qing looked at him warily but didn’t respond.

Zeng Yiming (Store Manager) pondered for another moment: "Well, I have a plan in mind now.

"I’ll make the arrangements directly.

"He Qing, Zhao Xiuying, Wen Wan, you three will respectively enter the 3rd, 4th, and 5th pharmacy rooms, as they coincide with your serial numbers and correspond to your crimes.

"These three pharmacy rooms don’t require additional visa time, nor do they present extra dangers, and they perfectly match your crimes—no issues, right?

"As for the 1st and 2nd pharmacy rooms...

"Brother Liang, I’ll go into the 1st one."

Liang Guicheng (Fruit Farmer) hesitated: "I’ll enter the 2nd one? This, this doesn’t seem right..."

Zeng Yiming asked: "Is it because you don’t have enough visa time? If that’s the case, I could certainly enter the 2nd one instead."

Liang Guicheng quickly shook his head: "No, no, no, that’s not the issue. The notice board says each time is 1000 minutes, 10 times is 10,000 minutes. No matter how poor I am, I would never lack this visa time.

"It’s just that I would feel a bit guilty.

"By the crime correspondence, you should enter the 2nd one and I the 1st one.

"The 1st one is the most dangerous.

"You’ve already used one Immunity Coupon, and letting you enter the most dangerous room is somewhat..."

Zeng Yiming shook his head: "No need to mind these minor details.

"In this elimination-type game, surviving together is more important than anything; being punished more or less is not of concern.

"Since I’ve already used an Immunity Coupon, let’s carry on being the good guy. If everyone truly agrees with my arrangements, then there’s no need for polite words, but should show me through genuine action.

"Let’s cooperate seamlessly and aim to produce more M-type drugs."

Liang Guicheng (Fruit Farmer) couldn’t help but feel moved: "Alright, then thank you! I’ll certainly try my best!"

The five players each entered their respective pharmacy rooms.

...

Huang Shengjie watched the big screen and couldn’t help but remark: "This Zeng Yiming... indeed very intelligent.

"He could have allocated rooms strictly according to crimes, but doing so might have posed a threat.

"Because Liang Guicheng... I always feel he isn’t as simple as he appears to be.

"He says ’I’m sorry,’ but in reality, that was just false evasiveness.

"Zeng Yiming insisted slightly and he conceded, showing he wanted to enter the 2nd room.

"Actually putting him in the 1st room might make him deceitful, disrupting the entire drug production process.

"Now that Zeng Yiming voluntarily opted for the most difficult part, as long as the remaining four people follow their tasks systematically, things should go smoothly."

Ye Lin nodded: "Liang Guicheng’s profession is a Fruit Farmer, and the punishment in the first pharmacy room is ’soaking.’

"So... I think his real crime is most likely that he sprayed pesticides on his fruits and sold them to unsuspecting consumers.

"Although throughout the game, he has tried hard to present as a simple and honest farmer, considering his crime... that image is certainly not genuine.

Zeng Yiming’s distrust of him is justified.

"Thusway, Zeng Yiming assumes virtually all responsibility within this game, but it’s indeed the only way to ensure proper drug production."

Neither spoke further and continued watching the big screen.

Ultimately, as an elimination game, its progress to this point is relatively optimistic.