God's Imitator

Huang Shengjie furrowed his brows and continued his analysis:

"Firstly, we can further confirm Yao Yuan’s negative identity.

"Qin Cheng and Yao Yuan accused each other of having the mindset of an Imitator. When neither of them admits it, everyone can only punish both equally.

"But if Qin Cheng admits first, Yao Yuan will be extremely passive.

"Yao Yuan absolutely cannot admit it because Qin Cheng is a new player who joined in the second stage, not involved with ’Repentance Poker’ or entangled with the old players, making him naturally innocent. Meanwhile, Yao Yuan is a direct participant, his identity is gray.

"In the second stage of the game, Qin Cheng claimed the ’Jury Game’, ruled out ’Prison Poker’ and ’Endorsed Game’, and successfully put the blame for the biggest issues, ’One Word Breaks the Prison’ and ’Trust Marketplace’, on Yao Yuan.

"Secondly, they can demonstrate their sincerity.

"No Imitator has ever candidly revealed their identity in the Community. Gao Teng didn’t, and neither did Yao Yuan.

"Qin Cheng being the first to reveal his identity will create a striking contrast, significantly elevating his image in everyone’s eyes.

"Lastly, he can establish himself as a unique, indispensable role in the Community.

"The Imitator holds special information, and obtaining this special information is crucial for each Community.

"Before Qin Cheng, there was no known Imitator in the Community, so when the next known Imitator will appear after Qin Cheng is also a distant possibility.

"This means once Qin Cheng is dead, this information will be lost again.

"And with Qin Cheng clearly stating his position, if Yao Yuan is indeed another S-Class Imitator, then regardless of whether Yao Yuan stays in the Community or is expelled, he could continue to plot games to kill Qin Cheng.

"Therefore, anyone who understands this and wants to ensure Qin Cheng’s survival must vote to eliminate Yao Yuan.

"Some players figured this out and made decisive choices.

"Others might not have understood but naturally leaned towards Qin Cheng.

"The remaining few players might have been hesitant, misled by the illusion that ’Yao Yuan will surely have at least one vote of innocence’.

"In such a case, if they want to ensure Yao Yuan’s departure from the Community, they should vote ’guilty’.

"But as that illusionary vote disappeared, it resulted in a final outcome of zero votes for innocence.

"So the conclusion is...

"Every link in this chain was carefully considered and calculated by Qin Cheng, not a spur-of-the-moment decision."

Huang Shengjie took a deep breath, clearly realizing by now that Qin Cheng’s victory was not due to honesty, luck, or player support, but his powerful ability to orchestrate.

Achieving this result under existing conditions was indeed not easy, but Qin Cheng accumulated numerous small tactics to create a winning opportunity.

This was just the part Huang Shengjie could see.

What about the parts he couldn’t see?

There must be many of those too.

As Qin Cheng said, this was his biggest gamble after staking everything in the New World, so he would have used every method he could think of to maximize the probability of success.

Including the bickering between Qin Cheng and Lu Bingjun over Zheng Chunhua—Qin Cheng said it was under Lu Bingjun’s instructions, while Lu Bingjun said Qin Cheng was setting it up.

Which one is it?

Now it seems, even that remains uncertain.

"But... Qin Cheng doing this seems a bit too...

"Too...

"Unlike how I remembered him."

With a conflicted expression, Huang Shengjie pondered for a long time but couldn’t find the right words to describe it.

Lin Sizhi asked, "Do you mean ’too dirty’? Or ’too despicable’?"

Huang Shengjie sighed, "Something like that, I feel conflicted, even if the end goal is good, is achieving it through wrong means truly justified?"

With profound meaning, Lin Sizhi replied, "Why do you have the illusion that ’politics can be clean’?

"Perhaps Wei Changfeng also had this illusion.

"But you saw what happened to him."

Huang Shengjie was stunned, momentarily unsure of what to say.

Is Yao Yuan an S-Class Imitator? Yes.

Is Yao Yuan the biggest threat to Community 2? Yes.

Because there are only two S-Class games, ’Jury Game’ and ’Trust Marketplace’. Since ’Jury Game’ was done by Qin Cheng, and ’Trust Marketplace’ perfectly targeted Wen Wan’s personality weaknesses, it must certainly be Yao Yuan’s doing.

Did Lu Bingjun know? Probably.

Therefore, for the safety and stability of the Community, killing Yao Yuan and expelling Lu Bingjun is the only correct choice.

Even the smallest deviation in the plan, leading to Yao Yuan’s survival or Lu Bingjun not being expelled, would leave Community 2 in perpetual unrest.

Pretending nothing happened? That seems impossible too.

Lu Bingjun and Yao Yuan will not kill again in the short term; their goals have been achieved, and they need to stabilize their power.

But as time progresses, new frictions or new opposition will inevitably arise in the Community.

At that time, they are sure to fall back on their usual methods and continue using killings to achieve their goals.

So, from a god’s-eye perspective, eliminating Yao Yuan is the only correct choice.

From the beginning, there was no option for ’winning fair and square.’

𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Only ’losing fair and square’ and ’winning through underhanded methods.’"

Huang Shengjie looked at Lin Sizhi: "So... Lawyer Lin, do you mean Qin Cheng is right?"

Lin Sizhi shook his head: "How I see it doesn’t matter; everyone will have different judgments."

Huang Shengjie seemed lost, staring at the pitch-black night sky, silent for a long time.

"Thinking about it, it seems similar to what happened at the ’Prison Factory’, doesn’t it?

"Zhao Heng thought he gave Wu Xiufang enough status, but Wu Xiufang won’t appreciate it; given a chance, she would choose to replace him.

"Lu Bingjun and Qin Cheng are the same...

"The most ironic part is that Yao Yuan, when observing Zhao Heng and Wu Xiufang, could see clearly and made the most correct choice.

"But when it came to Lu Bingjun and Qin Cheng, he couldn’t see it.

"Was it that Qin Cheng hid too well? After all, even I was deceived.

"Or was it because the ecology of the two Communities differed, leading to Yao Yuan’s misjudgment of the situation?

"He might have thought of this risk but didn’t expect the window to be so brief, and it was decisively seized by Qin Cheng?

"If Yao Yuan could have realized this earlier, and limited Qin Cheng sooner or secured a definite vote of support for himself privately, would he have not lost?"

Lin Sizhi nodded: "That could be one interpretation.

"Qin Cheng’s political capabilities in this Community are unmatched.

"Yao Yuan’s political ability is commendable, so he was quickly able to outwit Zhao Heng, whose political skills were abysmal;

"But when faced with the politically astute Qin Cheng, even similar strategies would ultimately result in very different outcomes due to slight discrepancies.

"However, that’s not the sole reason.

"There is a deeper reason... Yao Yuan lacks ambition.

"He genuinely seems to want to remain an adviser."