God's Imitator

The elimination in the fifth round of the game followed the first standard, with 50% of the spokespeople with lower popularity being eliminated.

After this round of elimination, only 6 spokespeople remained on stage.

Liquor Spokesperson: Jiang Chenyan.

Luxury Spokesperson: Gao Jialiang.

Tobacco Spokesperson: Qin Cheng.

Drugs Spokesperson: Hu Yingxu.

Tea Spokesperson: Tang Qing, along with another player from Community 9.

Another eliminated player chose to throw away the mask and enter the ’Reflection Room’.

[The sixth round of the game begins!]

[The endorsed product in this round of the game is: coffee products in the community.]

[If the spokesperson for this product is not eliminated in the last round of the game and achieves the highest popularity among all spokespeople, ’coffee products in the community will receive a special boost’.]

[Players interested in becoming the ’coffee spokesperson’ should take the stage within 5 minutes.]

As another new round of the game started, Lu Qi already felt somewhat drowsy, as over three hours had passed since the game began.

However, what surprised her was that this time there were more players attempting to take the stage as spokespeople, with as many as 6 players.

In terms of product categories, tea and coffee are quite similar, but only 4 players took the stage for tea.

This might be because most players believe that coffee is a more widely accepted product among community players and has a better chance of achieving higher popularity than tea.

The players who took the stage continued to speak for themselves.

After so many rounds, the players campaigning as spokespeople have already figured out the basic routine.

Choose a product where one has a relative advantage, and introduce one’s advantages to the audience as much as possible without lying, such as having a relevant professional background or a philosophy that resonates with most of the audience, to try and become the most popular in this category.

As for how elimination will be specifically determined afterward, there doesn’t seem to be a particular pattern, and they can only adapt and react spontaneously.

But at that moment, Lu Qi noticed that the content displayed on the sixteen large screens around them changed again.

No longer were the words of each spokesperson shown; instead, several screens simultaneously displayed another sentence.

[No more spokespeople needed!]

Additionally, another screen displayed further information.

[Zhang Yuzheng.]

Lu Qi was puzzled: "Zhang Yuzheng?

"Who is that? Is it a player from some community? But among all the spokespeople so far, I don’t recall seeing this name?

"Is it some kind of special hint or code?

"’We don’t need other spokespeople’... several large screens are displaying this message. Which community mogul bought so many advertisement screens at once?

"It must have cost a lot, right?

"But... what’s the point? Does putting this message on advertisements mean that players from other communities will stop running for spokespersons? How is that possible!

"Isn’t this just wasting visa time?"

Apparently, many players shared Lu Qi’s confusion, as many were puzzled by the content on the large screens.

Nevertheless, as the game continued, during the 10 minutes of Frenzy Time, they had to do as before and provide as much popularity as possible to the spokespeople by staring at them.

[!! Elimination Time !!]

[In the third round of the game, elimination will be according to ’Standard Three’.]

[Please, audience, make choices based on common sense: Which kind of product is likely to be most beloved by the general office workers for its evident refreshing effect? Spokespeople for that category (except the first place) will lose qualifications and leave the stage.]

[The remaining spokespeople on stage can ’reveal’.]

Seeing the prompts on the large screen, many players instinctively looked toward the 6 newly appointed coffee spokespeople.

Too unlucky!

This elimination standard is almost a clear target.

As it stands, each elimination follows different standards. The first two standards only eliminate the top 50% or bottom 50% of spokespeople, so at least half remain.

But elimination based on ’Standard Three: Common Sense’ often wipes out all but the first place in a product category.

The drug category spokespersons previously suffered heavy losses for this reason.

Undoubtedly, this elimination targets coffee spokespeople.

If it’s merely about refreshing effects, tobacco and tea also qualify; there is an ambiguous space for the audience.

However, considering the other condition, ’loved by the general office workers’, this practically locks the answer onto coffee.

The audience still voted using the displays on their arms as before.

The spotlights fell one by one, and except for the player from Community 5, who was the most popular ’coffee spokesperson’, all other spokespeople were eliminated.

But this was clearly not the end.

[!!! Interrogation Session !!!]

[The most popular spokespersons from other categories will take turns interrogating the ’coffee spokesperson’.]

[Each ’coffee spokesperson’ will be interrogated once.]

[Please follow the guidance of the spotlight and conduct ’interrogation’ and ’responses’ in order from high to low popularity.]

Lu Qi was stunned: "Another interrogation session?

"Moreover, isn’t there only one coffee spokesperson left? Why interrogate?"

By this time, another round of ’Frenzy Time’ had passed, and the popularity of the spokespeople on stage shifted again.

Hu Yingxu from Community 17 successfully surpassed Jiang Chenyan, becoming the most popular player and earning the first interrogation rights.

However, he didn’t bring up anything related to the spokesperson itself, but simply stated.

"I’m sorry, but this game no longer requires more spokespeople.

"Please leave."

This Community 5 player, also the sole coffee spokesperson, was taken aback, unsure what Jiang Chenyan’s statement meant.

However, in his view, the interrogating player only saying such a brief thing was evidently good news. After all, such an attack was harmless, and he only needed to perform a little bit better within the 2-minute timeframe to ensure he wasn’t eliminated.

After a brief thought, he spoke as sincerely as he could:

"Compared to other products, coffee clearly has distinct advantages and irreplaceable roles.

"I don’t believe tea and coffee are inferior to each other; they represent different scenarios.

"When we’re leisurely contemplating within the community, tea is suitable; however, when we’re intensely discussing game strategies within the community, coffee is the optimal choice.

"Additionally, from the perspective of game mechanics, having more spokesperson product categories is a good thing for all players, and we can completely achieve mutual benefits!

"According to the game’s rules, a spokesperson pays their own 30,000 minutes visa time to come on stage, providing a return of 300,000 minutes visa time benefits to 10 additional players.

"And the audience can support the spokesperson by staring, creating visa time at no cost.

"It’s undoubtedly a double win!

"So those in the audience who haven’t been chosen as spokespersons yet, everyone should actively support more new spokespersons because this is truly the optimal solution in this game!"