God's Imitator

The rules on the large screen continue to display for players to check and understand.

Huang Shengjie tried to touch the mechanism beside his mouth, still showing no sign of unlocking.

As mentioned in the rules: during this preparation time, players can move around to check out the conditions within the venue, repeatedly read and consider the game rules on the large screen or notice boards, but they are not allowed to speak.

In other words, they can only contemplate their game strategy silently.

This preparation time is as long as 30 minutes, which seems lengthy at first glance.

After all, in previous games, the Imitator generally left players with only 10 to 15 minutes for contemplation, and some Imitators deliberately compressed the thinking time to just 5 minutes.

But upon careful consideration, one realizes that this venue is quite large, and the notice boards with detailed rules are scattered across different rooms.

The time needed to access different areas must also be factored in.

Huang Shengjie gestured simply to Zhou Wanlin and Aunt Geng Yuxia, then stood in front of the game scene map, pointing out a few areas.

First is the ’Raw Material Warehouse’ adjacent to their resting room.

Then the area between the ’Raw Material Warehouse’ and the ’Review Room’, marked with two-way arrows, suggesting as per previous game rule introductions, this should be the mini train tracks for transporting raw materials.

Finally, he pointed to the central building on the site, the prison factory, which includes cells from two Communities, as well as special rooms like the medical room and the solitary confinement room.

Huang Shengjie intended for everyone to view these areas in this sequence.

Geng Yuxia nodded in agreement.

Zhou Wanlin pondered for a moment, reached out, pointed from the bridge on the left side of the resting room all the way to the ’Review Room’ at the other end, emphasizing it emphatically.

Huang Shengjie immediately understood her meaning and adjusted the sequence.

He pointed out ’Raw Material Warehouse’, ’Mini Train’, ’Review Room’, ’Prison Main Building’.

According to the map layout, the Review Room of the 2nd Community is located between the Raw Material Warehouse and the cells of the 23rd Community, meaning both sides need to review each other’s raw materials for illegal items.

Before the official start of the game, they shouldn’t be able to enter each other’s Review Room, while their Review Room is located at the other end of the venue, requiring the bridge to access.

Hence, it’s necessary to check the specific rules in their Review Room, while determining the specific distance and walking time.

The three reached a consensus and first proceeded through the just-opened door at the front towards the raw material warehouse.

At the prominent location at the entrance of the raw material warehouse, three ’work badges’ and a special sleeve badge were displayed.

These three work badges can be worn on the chest, displaying players’ Community, name, and can activate functions in specific areas of certain equipment.

Beside them were three stacks of ’Gold Pounds’.

These are standard paper bills, each with a face value of ’100’.

Huang Shengjie roughly counted and felt the thickness, this should total to 30,000 Gold Pounds, 10,000 per person.

The trio was quite surprised, because according to the game rules, all Gold Pounds can be exchanged for visa time at a rate of 1:2 upon leaving the game.

This means the game initially offers each person a generous visa time equivalent to 20,000.

Of course, there are many places in this game that require spending Gold Pounds, so it’s uncertain how much can be taken away.

Each of the three took a work badge and wore it on their chest, and each took a stack of Gold Pounds, storing them properly in their pockets.

Huang Shengjie looked at the sleeve badge placed beside the work badge, which had the words ’Inspector’ written on it.

The inside of the sleeve badge contained a small line of instructions.

[Players will suffer severe pain when acting or staying in ’outdoor areas without a roof’, wearing this sleeve badge negates this effect.]

He gestured towards Zhou Wanlin and Geng Yuxia regarding the sleeve badge, and Zhou Wanlin indicated for him to keep it.

The three then looked at the shelves.

The shelves are divided into three different types of raw materials, with noticeable signs labeled ’Food’, ’Medicines’, and ’Miscellaneous Goods’.

These raw materials appear identical, all brick-sized in sealed packaging with a small handle on top.

The only distinction is the specific type written on the packaging.

All raw materials are priced equally: 500 Gold Pounds per portion.

Swiping the work badge and paying Gold Pounds at designated positions on the shelves trigger automatic delivery, transporting them to the outside mini steam train station via a conveyor belt.

The game hasn’t officially started, so they can’t purchase raw materials and the three arrived at the raw material warehouse entrance.

The sky was dark, and the outdoor areas without roofs were shrouded in misty fog.

According to the ’Inspector’s Sleeve Badge’ introduction, entering the fog will cause severe pain.

However, the direct corridor area from the raw material warehouse to the Review Room is an enclosed passageway, thus considered indoor and unaffectable.

Within the corridor are tracks and a mini dual-headed steam train.

The entire scene, whether it’s the misty fog, prison architectonics, or mini steam train, exudes a ’19th Century European Victorian style’.

"This Imitator this time is quite particular, like an artist."

Huang Shengjie mused as he approached to observe the mini steam train.

Its design is peculiar, with two steam engines at the front and rear, with two rectangular cargo boxes mounted in parallel between the engine heads.

Beside it were three individual cargo boxes, along with a set of special loading and unloading equipment.

The external dimensions of the five cargo boxes are consistent, but the internal load capacity varies.

The sides were marked with striking numbers: ’1, 3, 6, 7, 10’.

This set of loading and unloading equipment is connected to the raw material warehouse via a conveyor belt, meaning the raw materials purchased by players will be directly transported through the conveyor belt, and this set of equipment can automatically complete sorting, boxing, and changing cargo boxes operation.

Next to the track was a console with a display screen and a noticeable notice board.

[Numbers on the cargo boxes represent ’load capacity’ and ’movement speed’.]

[If the number is 3, it means this cargo box can hold 3 portions of raw materials, reaching the Review Room 3 minutes from the raw material warehouse.]

[The train can load up to 2 cargo boxes at a time, moving speed consistent with the slowest cargo box.]

[When the train runs, the following conditions must be met:]

[1. There must be a player from this Community in the transport area.]

[2. The train must not be ’empty’: all cargo boxes must be fully loaded, and at least one cargo box must be attached to the train.]

[If the above conditions are not met, the transport mission will end directly, and the train will be locked until the end of this round, unable to perform further operations.]

[Before each game round starts, the train returns to its initial position, entering a 2-minute ’loading time’.]

[During ’loading time’, players can set up a fixed cargo box docking program for the train.]

[Upon the end of ’loading time’, automatically enter 26 minutes of ’transport time’.]

[After ’transport time’ ends, automatically enter a 2-minute ’review time’, transporting raw materials automatically entering the review process.]

[If, before ’transport time’ ends, the five cargo boxes fail to reach the station outside the Review Room simultaneously, odd position materials from the arrived raw materials will be reviewed, even position materials will be returned.]

[The entire process follows a ’small to large box number’ order for loading and unloading, consistent with the sequence during review.]

[Materials entering the review process must have a presence from Community players assisting with the review completion, or all materials will be destroyed.]