Chapter 739 - 738: The End of the Trust Marketplace
Ye Lin paused slightly before continuing:
"Third point of doubt, ordinary Audience also managed to buy the medicine, and they can verify it themselves, but why did they only notice the problem when the game was about to end?
"This was obviously part of Zeng Yiming’s plan.
"First, these medications were sampled and inspected by Audience Representatives, so due to their trust in the Audience Representatives, ordinary Audience would at most suspect the medication might have a ’quality control’ issue.
"Even if they occasionally found an ineffective bottle, they wouldn’t suspect all of them.
"Secondly, these medicine bottles are all sealed; they can only be sold properly if the seal is intact, once opened they become self-use and severely depreciate.
"Currently, everyone isn’t sure how much profit can be made by selling these medicines to other Community, so they tend not to break the seal.
"Fourth point of doubt, what if no Audience ever discovered these were fake medicines?
"Would Zeng Yiming allow other Sinners to survive and share the visa time equally?
"Of course not.
"This time the game duration is long. As the game progresses, there will surely be some players addicted to medicine who show withdrawal symptoms and want to take them to alleviate pain.
"Therefore, the later stages the easier the fraud is uncovered.
"Even in extreme cases, even if no one finds it, Zeng Yiming would use some means to expose the reality.
"But generally speaking, it would be better to have unrelated Audience Community expose it, it seems more natural.
"Please think carefully, there are actually many other points of doubt to support this argument.
"For example, in the middle of the game, Zeng Yiming had a performance intended to turn the tide: he urged all Sinners to stop Guess the Number and stabilized the situation.
"But after that, the crime numbers of the Sinner players continued to be exposed.
"Don’t you think it’s strange?
"At that time, players whose crimes hadn’t been exposed should have restrained themselves, whereas players whose crimes were already exposed might not be smart enough to guess the specific number.
"It’s clear that the player who has been consistently guessing numbers is Zeng Yiming himself.
"His behavior when confessing shows he’s very shrewd in business, very sensitive to data, and adept at ’Fermi Estimates’.
"So, in reality, he used ’displacement’ tactics, not blindly guessing numbers but rather inferring the guessing difficulty of specific digits based on players’ exposed crimes, thereby further improving his accuracy.
"This is what led to the current situation!
"In short, his plan was perfect and is about to succeed.
"Right now, he still has many sympathy votes, and when the game ends, he will be able to exonerate himself successfully and enjoy a million minutes of visa time!
"But we cannot allow that to happen!
"I hope you can carefully think through the cause and effect here, and don’t let wicked people like Zeng Yiming return to the Community alive!
"Please use your sympathy votes to save the player who’s more deserving!"
...
Zeng Yiming’s eyes widened, although he was still trying to maintain composure, his expression management slipped out of control, lacking the earlier calmness.
"Don’t listen to her nonsense!
"I’ve done so much to save everyone! Sacrificed so much!
"You all have seen it!
"Her argument is a baseless, irrational conspiracy theory, vile, shameless personal attacks!
"And the reason she says this is to fish in troubled waters, turn me into an unjust dead, and save Sinner Wen Wan of her Community!
"Please think really carefully if you should be manipulated into unjustly killing one of the few good people left in Walkway?
"I have nothing to be ashamed of.
"I have nothing to be ashamed of!"
[Zeng Yiming had 1 sympathy vote revoked.]
[Zeng Yiming had 1 sympathy vote revoked.]
[He Qing had 1 sympathy vote revoked.]
[Wen Wan received 1 sympathy vote.]
[Wen Wan had 1 sympathy vote revoked.]
After hearing Ye Lin’s words, Wen Wan saw the hope of survival again.
The Audience had to cast all their sympathy votes.
So, if they chose to revoke the sympathy votes on Zeng Yiming, those votes could likely go to Wen Wan, helping her exonerate.
But the broadcast had become extremely chaotic, as if at every moment there were players casting or revoking sympathy votes, making it difficult to accurately judge the overall trend of vote changes.
Gradually, Wen Wan felt something was amiss.
Because increasingly she heard the names of two other players in the broadcast.
[He Qing received 1 sympathy vote.]
[Liang Guicheng received 1 sympathy vote.]
[Liang Guicheng received 1 sympathy vote.]
Indeed, a significant number of players revoked sympathy votes from Zeng Yiming, but those votes did not go to Wen Wan, instead, they went to Liang Guicheng.
Even the sympathy votes Wen Wan originally had were being revoked.
"Why? Why vote for him!"
Wen Wan felt quite puzzled because Liang Guicheng’s vote type was the worst among all Sinner players, 27:0.
This meant he had to get exactly 270 sympathy votes to avoid execution.
With only 3 Sinner players’ crimes exposed, this goal was barely attainable, but now, with all 5 Sinner players’ crimes exposed, this goal became impossible.
Because there will always be other players dividing the votes.
Quickly, Wen Wan understood the reason, her entire being felt like it plunged into an icy abyss.
"The Audience wants to kill all of us..."
The only reason for such a voting pattern is that the Audience seeks to adjust the distribution of sympathy votes so that all 5 Sinner players in the inner circle receive just enough votes, falling short of the required standard for exoneration.
For example, Zeng Yiming requires 30 sympathy votes to be exonerated, but they cast only 29 votes.
Liang Guicheng needs 270 sympathy votes to be exonerated, but they cast only 269 votes.
Five players received sympathy votes, but none had enough to be exonerated.
All the Audience from the Communities made the same choice with perfect mutality.
This was not only out of hatred but also due to pragmatic considerations.
Because if any Sinner player survives, they will take away 1 million minutes of visa time.
The audience of the same Community can’t cast sympathy votes for Sinners in their own Community, nor will they allow Sinners from other Communities to reap benefits.
So they will find every way to achieve the outcome of ’no one surviving’.
Realizing this, Wen Wan was instantly overwhelmed with emotion, shouting at the screen: "Don’t! Don’t treat me like this!
"I am the most innocent!
"My crime is the lightest, the pharmacy was the last step, I couldn’t control anything at all!
"The game reaching this point has nothing to do with me!
"I just need 20 sympathy votes! Just 20 votes!
"I beg you, offer me lenience, spare me!
"Spare me!!
"Sister Yelin, Huang Shengjie, save me, save me!!"
But it was all in vain.
[Now announcing the ’Judgment Again’ results for all Sinner players.]
[Zeng Yiming (Store Manager): received 14 sympathy votes]
[Guilty: 15-1 votes]
[Innocent: 12 votes]
[’Judgment Again’ crime confirmed, Sinner will face Instant Death Penalty.]
[Liang Guicheng (Fruit Farmer): received 242 sympathy votes]
[Guilty: 27-24 votes]
[Innocent: 0 votes]
[’Judgment Again’ crime confirmed, Sinner will face Instant Death Penalty.]
[He Qing (Installer): received 59 sympathy votes]
[Guilty: 17-5 votes]
[Innocent: 9 votes]
[’Judgment Again’ crime confirmed, Sinner will face Instant Death Penalty.]
[Zhao Xiuying (Vendor): received 73 sympathy votes]
[Guilty: 18-7 votes]
[Innocent: 9 votes]
[’Judgment Again’ crime confirmed, Sinner will face Instant Death Penalty.]
[Wen Wan (E-commerce): received 17 sympathy votes]
[Guilty: 14-1 votes]
[Innocent: 12 votes]
[’Judgment Again’ crime confirmed, Sinner will face Instant Death Penalty.]
Zeng Yiming’s strength drained instantly, he slumped to his knees in despair.
"No, it shouldn’t be this way...
"My plan was perfect, it was perfect..."
But in the next instant, he blacked out, collapsing to the ground.
The other four Sinner players also fell successively.
Within the inner circle, no life remained.
[Game Over.]