God's Imitator

The second round of the game began.

[In this round of the game, ’food’ materials are designated as ’forbidden items.’]

Yao Yuan waited for about 3 minutes before he forcefully ripped open the package of ’miscellaneous goods’ materials, revealing the black weight block inside.

The badge on his chest vibrated slightly, showing a line of prompt information.

[You have triggered a ’minor violation.’]

[Please enter the detention room after paralysis ends, and you may leave after 20 minutes.]

Yao Yuan’s body immediately became immobile due to full-body paralysis, but it didn’t last long.

He Qinyun also saw the tool inside the weight block:

A sharp dagger.

She picked up the dagger and lightly touched the blade, looking very puzzled.

"Why would the imitator put something like this inside?"

Yao Yuan was also a bit baffled, but he didn’t have time to think deeply, he could only step into the detention room immediately after the paralysis ended.

...

Outside the prison.

Compared to the left field of the game site, the right field appeared quiet and empty.

But more than ten minutes later, a figure appeared in the permeating fog.

Peng Xinyuan walked tensely, carrying five portions of ’food’ materials in each hand, heading toward the detention room.

Obviously, his physical condition was much better than Zhou Xiaoying’s, and he carried more forbidden items.

Peng Xinyuan deliberately walked under his side’s walkway, being briefly obscured by the pillars under the walkway at intervals, and combined with the fog that permeated, it somewhat provided him with some cover.

Soon, he could already see the outline of the detention room.

Peng Xinyuan let out a breath, since the time wasn’t displayed outside, he could only approximately estimate by counting silently, in order to return to the Review Room in time, he also had to conserve some margin as much as possible.

However, he was quite familiar now, so the chances of mishap were low.

Peng Xinyuan passed the Review Room of Community 2. He suddenly felt uneasy, stopped to look around, but could see nothing or hear anything through the thick fog.

Without daring to delay, he continued forward, preparing to cross the corner of the detention room. Only then could he come to the side of the prison and throw the forbidden items through the detention room’s iron window.

However, just as he crossed the corner, a figure suddenly appeared!

Peng Xinyuan was startled and instinctively wanted to run, but the materials he was carrying were too heavy, severely limiting his movement.

Though Peng Xinyuan reacted quickly, upon seeing the figure, he almost instinctively threw his whole body backward while releasing the materials to the ground.

Huang Shengjie made a light pounce touching Peng Xinyuan, with very mild force, so it wouldn’t be judged as a violent act.

But Peng Xinyuan didn’t trigger a violation behavior because he had already thrown the forbidden items on the ground.

"Tsk, quick reaction."

Huang Shengjie felt some pity; if Peng Xinyuan had been slower, just being touched would trigger a minor violation and cause full-body paralysis.

If that had happened, he could take all the forbidden items during Peng Xinyuan’s paralysis and put them into his side’s cell.

Unfortunately, Peng Xinyuan reacted quickly, missing the chance.

Both stood up, keeping a slight distance, looking at the ground’s forbidden items, falling into a stalemate.

The situation was still similar to encountering Zhou Xiaoying: both didn’t dare to pick up the forbidden items, but neither dared to leave.

Peng Xinyuan looked incredulous: "How did you think of this?

"No, how were you faster than me?"

Peng Xinyuan’s legs were seemingly just as healthy as Huang Shengjie’s.

Seeing Huang Shengjie remain silent, Peng Xinyuan began to speculate.

"Logically, our speed should be similar, but you were faster, ambushing me at the corner.

"Was it because you didn’t bring forbidden items?

"No, that’s not right. Since you already thought this through, and must have passed the cells of Community 2 on your way, you definitely also carried forbidden items.

"Which means... did you depart early?

"I chose to transport boxes 7 and 12 together, totaling 19 portions, taking 12 minutes; you might have opted to transport boxes 6 and 7 together?

"Though transporting fewer materials, it only took 7 minutes.

"You can squeeze out an additional five minutes, send forbidden items to the prison early, and block me here."

Huang Shengjie neither admitted nor denied, only glanced at the forbidden items on the ground, suggesting: "There’s no point in dragging this out, how about this, split the forbidden items, half for each.

"You lost half the materials’ worth, but at least I caught you, accept the gamble and the loss."

Peng Xinyuan considered for a moment and nodded: "Fine, you take it first."

Huang Shengjie didn’t move: "No, you take it first."

Peng Xinyuan sighed: "Don’t treat me like an idiot, we might as well keep dragging it out here."

Huang Shengjie was indifferent: "Fine, drag it out then."

As Peng Xinyuan suspected, Huang Shengjie had brought some forbidden items during his journey and had already thrown them through Community 2’s cell window.

The gap between the two sides was narrowing.

Moreover, location-wise, Huang Shengjie was more advantaged because they were at the upper right corner of the prison, between Security Zone 6 and Security Zone 8.

The right field only had the detention room’s window and Community 2’s cell window, and it was closer to Huang Shengjie.

So Huang Shengjie held more initiative and refused to yield.

They remained silent, waiting for the other to lose composure, hoping to make the move.

Just then, a deep voice echoed from the fog behind Peng Xinyuan.

"You can go back, leave this to me."

Huang Shengjie froze for a moment, then saw a mountain-like figure emerge from the fog.

This was a tall and strong man, seemingly over 190cm, with exceedingly exaggerated muscles.

A scar ran across his left cheek, making him appear fierce.

Huang Shengjie rarely saw such a build—whether in the walkway or in real life.

Peng Xinyuan said nothing, no longer concerned with the forbidden items on the ground, quickly running back.

Huang Shengjie looked at the name tag on the other’s chest: [Community 23 - Zhao Heng].

This name made Huang Shengjie pause.

Because he remembered Zhou Xiaoying mentioning that the leader of Community 23 was Zhao Heng.

"What’s the situation, duplicate names?

"No way, there are so few people in the community, it’s almost impossible to have duplicated names.

"What happened, how could a leader still manage to pass the game’s selection mechanism and get in?"

Many thoughts flashed through Huang Shengjie’s mind, but it was obvious that the current scenario had only one possibility.

The strong man before him was the leader of Community 23.

Zhao Heng continued walking forward, clearly entering Huang Shengjie’s surrounding danger zone, which gave Huang Shengjie a strong sense of oppression.