God's Imitator

[!!Elimination Time!!]

[In the second round of the game, elimination will follow ’Standard Two’.]

[The top 50% most popular spokespersons of similar products (excluding the first place) will lose their qualification and leave the stage.]

[The spokespersons who remain on stage can ’reveal themselves’.]

This time the elimination did not trigger a forced entry into the Reflection Room, indicating that Yu Xinming was indeed not lying.

But the drawback is that the elimination criteria have changed, resulting in more popular players being eliminated.

Four players were highlighted by colorful spotlights, meaning they successfully advanced to the next round.

First were Jiang Chenyan and Gao Jialiang, their advancement was without doubt, as they were the most popular spokespersons for ’liquor’ and ’luxury goods’, respectively.

The other two advancing players were neither Yu Xinming nor the other ’liquor’ spokesperson, but rather the two least popular ’luxury goods’ spokespersons.

Each of them only had more than 2,000 popularity points.

Yu Xinming, on the other hand, faced elimination.

Gao Jialiang took off his mask and threw it towards the stage floor, the audience broke into loud applause and screams once again.

It must be said, his looks were indeed the most outstanding among all the male players, instantly attracting the audience’s gaze.

His name also briefly appeared on the screen behind him: [Community 13 - Gao Jialiang].

The other two luxury goods spokespersons came from Community 18 and Community 22 respectively.

The player from Community 18 also chose to reveal his face, but his looks held no advantage compared to others on stage, hence there was no response.

The player from Community 22 seemed to realize this, he chose not to reveal his face and continued to wear his mask, his name was not displayed on the screen behind him.

Clearly, he plans to use reverse thinking: since all other players on stage chose to reveal themselves, and with no advantage in appearance, it’s better to be the only player keeping his mask on.

This would leave some sense of mystery for the audience present.

Lu Qi couldn’t help but admire this, it was indeed a thought process. At least among the spokespersons on stage, this sole masked Community 22 spokesperson would indeed make her subconsciously glance twice.

Thus, he could gain a bit more popularity.

Just as all the audience waited to enter the next round, an unexpected situation occurred.

Yu Xinming unexpectedly chose to take off his mask!

He seemed unwilling to resign, as from an appearance standpoint, he was not too bad either, although not as good as Gao Jialiang, but compared to Jiang Chenyan, they were evenly matched, just with different styles and temperaments.

Yet, his name did not appear on the big screen, but instead, a red warning message showed up.

[Spokesperson made erroneous behavior, will be forced into Reflection Room until the game ends.]

[Please enter the Reflection Room within 10 minutes, or face an Instant Death Penalty!]

Yu Xinming had a grim expression on his face, angrily throwing his mask to the ground, and silently left the stage heading to the Reflection Room.

The audience erupted in a booing sound, evidently a public mockery of his inability to play the game.

Looking at the 4 remaining spokespersons on stage, Lu Qi suddenly felt anxious.

Because so far, there were no players from Community 2 among them.

"According to the current situation, each round of the game requires a fixed 50% elimination rate, and only by becoming the undisputed spokesperson of a certain category can one be considered relatively safe.

"After four rounds of the game, if the number of spokespersons on stage remains unchanged for two consecutive rounds, the game will end. If we can’t become the ’top 10 fans’ for a spokesperson, 30,000 minutes of visa time will be deducted."

"But supporting other spokespersons are definitely too late now, like Jiang Chenyan, Community 15 must have had players keeping an eye on him, sending him popularity points from the start, and will continue so afterwards.

"Same with players close to him.

"Once this advantage is established, other players will have no chance.

"It would be best if a player from our own Community becomes the spokesperson and holds out till the end.

"We only have Qin Cheng left in our Community.

"But when does he plan to stage? Every spokesperson actually only has one chance, after being eliminated, you can’t get back on, and you’ll lose 30,000 minutes of visa time."

Lu Qi looked towards the others and found Qin Cheng also seemingly contemplating the best time to take the stage.

Just then, the first four big screens that were photographed began displaying text information one after another.

All uniform five words.

[Support Jiang Chenyan!]

Obviously, it was the player from Community 15 playing the role of agent, sending ads to the ’media representatives’ of the first four screens and taking the lead.

It’s just unclear how much visa time was specifically spent.

[The third round of the game begins!]

[The endorsed product of this round is: Tobacco products in the Community.]

[If the spokesperson for this product is not eliminated in the last game round, and gains the highest popularity among all the spokespersons, ’luxury goods in the Community will receive a special boost’.]

[Players interested in becoming ’Tobacco Spokesperson’, please take the stage within 5 minutes.]

[The four flashing big screens will enter ’bidding mode’, please use the touchscreen on your arm to bid, the player with the highest bid will become the ’Media Representative’ for that screen.]

Lu Qi was a bit stunned: "Tobacco?"

This product category surprised her, as she didn’t expect it to become one of the endorsed products and appear so early.

Compared to ’liquor’ and ’luxury goods’ before, tobacco is a rather poor choice.

From a health perspective, liquor is also a kind of carcinogen, but for most players, the harm from occasional drinking is negligible, and drinking doesn’t affect other players.

But tobacco is different, not to mention its health hazards, even second-hand smoke is enough to repel players.

This is the least popular product category, probably won’t get much support.

To win, the spokesperson’s image is important, as is the endorsed product itself.

Yet before Lu Qi could react, two players from Community 2 had already quickly taken the stage.

"Eh? Are we choosing to endorse this product?"

Lu Qi couldn’t speak and ask, but since Qin Cheng already took the stage, he should have a corresponding plan.

Lu Qi attempted to guess Qin Cheng’s intention: since each elimination is done by product category, Qin Cheng doesn’t actually need to compete with Jiang Chenyan or Gao Jialiang, he just needs to compete with the players who also chose ’tobacco’.

If he can win unexpectedly and take first place in the ’tobacco’ category, he can also hold out until the end and get the reward.

As for Lu Qi and the others as the Audience, the only thing they can do is to keep an eye on Qin Cheng and provide him popularity immediately.