God's Imitator

Qin Cheng nodded slightly, "Then, my hypothesis can receive more evidence.

"Gao Teng and another imitator’s cooperation might not entail a blatant full disclosure of all rule specifics.

"They are both top-notch imitators, perhaps merely sharing some concepts, designing some key hidden rules could be sufficient to achieve the ’dark shop’ goal.

"And from the standpoint of exposing human evil, ’Repentance Poker’ might hope to receive an S rating, but its mortality rate is too high, and it has the suspicion of ’dark shop’, so it was only given an A in total.

"Anyway, it seems more likely that ’Repentance Poker’ was submitted by other imitators.

"The clues don’t end there.

"If Gao Teng is the only imitator in the community, then why did Deng Xiao and Wen Wan’s deaths occur after his?

"Moreover, Deng Xiao’s death case, ’One Word Breaks the Prison’, is also very likely related to Gao Teng’s leftover designs.

"’Repentance Poker’, ’One Word Breaks the Prison’, ’Trust Marketplace’, these three games possess some commonality.

"Be it in hidden rule settings, grasp of human nature, or specific murder methods, there’s some similarity and correlation.

"And the only unharmed survivor among them is Lu Bingjun, isn’t that strange?

"Let’s recall ’One Word Breaks the Prison’s game rules again; in this game, Lu Bingjun actually did not suffer any death threat.

"He protected himself appropriately, while cleverly cutting off Deng Xiao’s lifeline through delay.

"Of course, it can be thought that he was more capable, had better game strategy, so he was safe.

"But looking at the situation in these three games, whenever the top-grade imitator acts, it almost always succeeds, the probability of using conventional methods to break the game is nearly zero.

"Because these games target the personality weaknesses of sinners.

"Did ’One Word Breaks the Prison’ target any personality weakness of Lu Bingjun? No.

"In other words, if the imitator must choose someone to kill between Lu Bingjun and Deng Xiao when designing ’One Word Breaks the Prison’, whom should they choose?

"Of course, they should choose Lu Bingjun because he is now the community leader, the game core, killing him would cause the community the greatest disruption.

"But there was no special mechanism targeting Lu Bingjun in the game.

"So the answer is clear: ’One Word Breaks the Prison’ was created by Lu Bingjun himself, achieving three objectives through this game simultaneously:

"First, survive his judgment game safely;

"Second, clear his suspicion, solidify his position in the community;

"Third, eliminate Deng Xiao, clear the way for ideal community structure."

Qin Cheng paused slightly, then continued:

"Afterward, using ’Trust Marketplace’ to remove Wen Wan was for similar purposes.

"I highly suspect that as Lu Bingjun’s stalwarts, Deng Xiao and Wen Wan must know something.

"They may not know the real situation of ’Repentance Poker’, nor the specifics of Lu Bingjun’s scheming and arrangements, but they definitely know that Lu Bingjun is ambitious and has long considered replacing Wei Changfeng, and has done certain things.

"Because they are Lu Bingjun’s stalwarts, when Lu Bingjun paints a picture of the future benefits, these issues are inevitably involved.

"So, just before ’Trust Marketplace’, Wen Wan suddenly exhibited particularly abnormal behavior.

"She suddenly sought help from other players in the community and chose Ye Lin, Lu Qi, and Huang Shengjie as assistants after the game started.

"Because she had already vaguely realized that Deng Xiao’s death was no accident, Lu Bingjun had already contemplated killing her.

"Therefore, she cannot trust any player who seems related to Lu Bingjun on the surface.

"Wen Wan is worried that these people entering the game would, like Lu Bingjun schemed Deng Xiao, calculate her, letting her die in the game.

"But what she didn’t expect was that Lu Bingjun was well-prepared, even predicting her predictions.

"In the ’Trust Marketplace’ game invitation, a very nasty word game was actually played.

"’Choose players you absolutely trust to become the audience.’

"This phrase, superficially, has no issue, 100% correct.

"Because choosing players who are absolutely trusted to enter the game indeed has great benefits: they would help cover up counterfeit drugs, and do their best to help players clear the game.

"So this sentence could pass the audit in the Walkway and appeared in the game invitation.

"But absolute truth can also be deceitful.

"Lu Bingjun utilized this mechanism to prevent Wen Wan from choosing Lawyer Lin as an assistant, but instead chose the slightly weaker Ye Lin, ultimately falling into a trap.

"Of course, if Wen Wan really chose Lu Bingjun as an assistant, I think it would be the same result.

"Lu Bingjun’s determination to kill Wen Wan is hard to say whether it’s right or wrong.

"On one hand, killing Wen Wan exposed his motive and purpose, that’s the downside;

"But on the other hand, it cleaned the informed individuals in the community, that’s the advantage.

"Suppose Wen Wan were still alive now, and we initiated a public trial against Lu Bingjun; she would most likely turncoat and reveal everything she knows.

"Choosing the lesser of two evils, from Lu Bingjun’s perspective, the dead are always more tight-lipped than the living."

Qin Cheng glanced at the time, then finally said: "Thus, my conclusion is...

"Lu Bingjun was already colluding with Gao Teng in the first stage; they may not have a close relationship, but at least one goal aligns, which is to kill Wei Changfeng.

"Because only when Wei Changfeng dies can Lu Bingjun hope to become the community’s leader.

"Perhaps Lu Bingjun saw through Gao Teng’s nature, or maybe Gao Teng actively sought out Lu Bingjun to plot, anyway, Lu Bingjun is Gao Teng’s accomplice, and also the most dangerous imitator in the community to date.

"I can further tell everyone what he intends to do next.

"He wants to use the ’Community Judgment Bill’ to kill Uncle Zheng.

"In the previous recap, he has been leading the topic toward Uncle Zheng, killing Uncle Zheng is like killing a chicken to scare the monkeys.

"One aspect is to completely cut off Ye Lin’s influence, having her lose her ability to resist, completely consolidating;

"The other aspect can deter other players in the community from daring to conceive any rebellious thoughts.

"Before this recap, he privately arranged me to do one thing: openly tell everyone that it was Uncle Zheng who voluntarily entered the Reflection Room.

"If I said so, Uncle Zheng’s suspicion would increase, and the likelihood of dying in public trial would also rise.

"Lu Bingjun might feel, I benefited a lot from him, can’t and don’t dare to oppose him.

"But unfortunately, I will never do that."

Lu Bingjun’s eyes widened, his chest rose and fell slightly, his fingers also faintly trembled.

He realized he was set up.

Before this recap, the reason Qin Cheng found him privately and said those words was to guide him into making the behavior ’to frame Zheng Chunhua as preparation.’

This isn’t preparation or procedure, but the purpose itself.

Lu Bingjun originally thought, mentioning it briefly in a simple few words wouldn’t have much serious impact.

No matter if Qin Cheng wants to accuse Zheng Chunhua or not, the groundwork Lu Bingjun laid wouldn’t pose any fatal danger.

But accompanied with such an accusation, the nature of Lu Bingjun’s original words has undergone a drastic change, almost confirming his intention to kill Zheng Chunhua.

Logically, Lu Bingjun should be more cautious.

But no matter what, he could not foresee Qin Cheng achieving and daring to achieve such an extent.