God's Imitator

He Qing’s expression was volatile, his eye twitching incessantly with anger.

But he wasn’t as shocked and broken as Liang Guicheng. Clearly, he seemed to have been fully prepared psychologically for such a situation.

He looked at Wen Wan with malice in his eyes.

Because, so far, Wen Wan was the only player whose crimes hadn’t been exposed, potentially making her the biggest benefactor of this game.

Instinctively, Wen Wan defended herself, "I didn’t fill in your number!"

But obviously, such a defense didn’t convince He Qing, and Wen Wan had no way to prove her innocence.

Just then, the broadcast sounded again.

[Wen Wan (e-commerce)’s crime number has been guessed by at least two Sinners, the crime has been exposed.]

[Wen Wan’s crime: Operated an online store through unregulated channels, selling high-quality counterfeit goods with a cumulative sales of 930,000 yuan over five years.]

[Judgment result: Not yet judged.]

[Please all Audience vote to complete the ’Initial Judgment’.]

[Now announcing the judgment voting result for Wen Wan (e-commerce):]

[Guilty: 14 votes]

[Not Guilty: 12 votes]

[’Initial Judgment’ crime established, the sinner will face the Instant Death Penalty.]

Wen Wan felt a darkness before her eyes, nearly losing her balance.

Her crime number was exposed after all.

...

The situation took another drastic turn.

In the lounge, Huang Shengjie began pacing anxiously.

Of course, Wen Wan wouldn’t die for the time being, Lu Bingjun would definitely use his Immunity Coupon to save Wen Wan.

Moreover, looking at the vote pattern, Wen Wan’s pattern was the most optimistic, only needing 20 ’sympathy votes’ to successfully absolve her crime.

And she had already garnered 25 ’sympathy votes’ during the earlier game sessions.

Yet Huang Shengjie still felt restless, a strong sense of foreboding lingering in his heart.

Ye Lin appeared grave: "Among these five Sinners... there are players hidden with extreme malice, and not just one."

"Wen Wan still held onto a bit of clever thinking when confessing, hence her crime number was exposed relatively late."

"But unfortunately, she couldn’t hide it until the end."

Huang Shengjie pondered, "Sister Yelin, are you saying she deliberately misled others on the issue of the sales amount?"

Ye Lin nodded, "Yes."

When Wen Wan actively confessed, she explained her behavior, yet seemingly intentionally or inadvertently mentioned a sentence: "The final sales amount was indeed considerable."

Obviously, this was a false message released by Wen Wan.

Through this sentence, other Sinners would subconsciously assume it had a self-glorifying element: Wen Wan herself said "indeed considerable," meaning in reality, it was ’very large.’

At least it should be at the million level, possibly tens of millions.

Thus the first digit of the four-digit figure is easier to guess, either 0 or 1.

But after guessing the first digit as 0, when guessing the second digit, they would likely choose to guess from top to bottom, that is in order of 9, 8, 7, 6 or 5, 4, 3, 2.

But in reality, Wen Wan’s second digit is also 0.

This, to some extent, delayed other players from guessing her number.

If those Sinners were a little more kind-hearted or a little more foolish, Wen Wan might indeed have successfully muddled through with this method, never exposing her crime number.

But unfortunately, she underestimated the malice and competence of these Sinners.

Ye Lin sighed, "Surely more than one Sinner player deliberately adopted a staggered approach to guess numbers."

"Each number can only be guessed five times, but there are altogether more than ten opportunities to return to the lounge in the game."

"Some players chose to guess numbers at the beginning, like Liang Guicheng, he managed to guess consecutively when luck was with him, but failed when luck or direction was against him."

"However, some players deliberately reserved their chances to guess numbers."

"They chose not to guess initially, but waited until others had mostly guessed, then ruled out incorrect answers based on the difficulty of the numbers left unguessed."

"For instance, when they found Wen Wan’s number was guessed late, they could infer that the first two digits were very likely 00 or 01."

"Mixing in possible luck factors... it led to the current situation."

"Hence, from the start I realized that the strategy of ’hiding the number’ was unreliable, better to confess early."

Huang Shengjie nodded, "Sister Yelin’s judgment is correct, the success rate of hiding numbers is indeed low."

"The only good news is that we gave advice in advance, Wen Wan confessed, so the vote pattern is relatively optimistic."

"However... I still have an ominous feeling."

"Should we use the broadcast now?"

Ye Lin frowned, "But we can’t privately chat with Wen Wan, using the broadcast means everyone present will hear it."

"If we make things worse, it could put her in even greater danger."

"Her situation is still quite optimistic now, let’s wait and see."

On the big screen, the five Sinners had already left the Pharmacy Room, completing the ninth batch of drugs.

But just then, a new broadcast sounded.

[Players from Community 22 chose to send a broadcast to all players.]

Huang Shengjie was stunned, because this was the ’Audience Community,’ none of them were Sinners in the game venue.

According to the game rules, ordinary Audience have two chances to help Sinner players, once by sending suggestions, and once by broadcasting.

The Audience Community had no Sinners in the game, theoretically, there’s no reason to use this function, especially as it costs visa time to use.

But what followed, shocked all players.

"Damn it! All the drugs I bought are useless! They’re all fucking fake! Fake!"

Broadcast continued, clearly, this player was extremely angry.

"I just had a pain attack and opened a bottle, but it had no effect."

"I thought it was a quality issue and opened another, but still no effect!"

"All the drugs have no effect at all!"

"I don’t know what exactly happened, is it just our community’s misfortune to encounter faulty drugs, or are all drugs faulty?"

"What are you players responsible for inspection doing!"

"Everyone, check immediately if your drugs are genuinely effective, immediately, right now!"

Huang Shengjie froze.

He and Ye Lin had never bought any drugs, so they naturally couldn’t try.

But you can guess what kind of extreme anger expression the player would have upon realizing the drugs were ineffective.

At this point, the game was nearing its end, almost all batches of drugs previously produced had been snapped up by the Audience.

Though there weren’t many instances of extra pricing, the total number had increased to quite a staggering figure.

After a moment, a new broadcast sounded, from another Audience Community.

[Audience from Community 7 chose to send a broadcast to all players.]

"All the drugs are fake.

Including the earliest batch of drugs.

All have no effect whatsoever."

This broadcast was shorter than before but held even greater impact and destructiveness.