God's Imitator

In the 8th and 9th rounds of the game, no new spokesperson will take the stage.

So far, there are seven spokespersons on stage from Communities 15, 13, 2, 17, 7, 24, and 18.

A total of 16 communities participated in the game, but less than half have a spokesperson. This means at the end of the game, the remaining nine communities will each lose 30,000 minutes of visa time, which will be divided among the seven communities with spokespersons.

But even so, they can’t do anything about it.

Because anyone who takes the stage later will be eliminated.

Though they could try to continue to take the stage in each round and extend the game indefinitely, it’s a pointless action.

Because each community only has three male players, and before taking the stage, they must pay 30,000 minutes of visa time without getting any reward.

So, all the communities can only accept this final outcome.

The seven spokespersons on stage are no longer dispersed at various corners of the stage but gather together, and all communities involved in this layout naturally gather at one place.

Those communities that didn’t participate are pushed aside to other places.

Chen Yumei, acting as the agent for Community 18, stands below the stage, satisfied with the gains from the game so far.

She vaguely becomes the center of the entire game, a feeling she has never experienced before.

Yao Yuan stands not far away, somewhat hesitant.

After pondering for a moment, he still slightly moves closer to her and says, "It seems you’re quite satisfied with your performance in this game."

Chen Yumei turns her head to look at Yao Yuan, her brow furrowed under the mask.

Clearly, Yao Yuan’s words carried hidden aggression, which she keenly felt.

"What else?"

Yao Yuan praised, "Your performance in this game is indeed impressive, but the entire plan wasn’t devised solely by you, was it?

"It seems more like a plan from Community 15 or Community 17, but just executed by you."

Chen Yumei was visibly more displeased, "So what?

"Being able to execute this plan already proves my capabilities.

"Moreover, I would’ve thought of such a plan sooner or later."

Yao Yuan nodded, "Of course, I don’t doubt that at all.

"You successfully implemented the whole plan, fully grasped the game’s situation, completed the distribution of interests, and perhaps even participated in deciding the attribution of the ’highest accumulated popularity’ endorsed product.

"As it stands, there’re nine communities without a spokesperson, and deducting 30,000 minutes of visa time from each gives 1.89 million minutes of visa time, divided equally among the 49 players from seven communities, each getting 38,000 minutes of visa time.

"In addition, your community’s spokesperson players can earn an extra 20,000, and you as the audience can earn 30,000, while the ’media representative’ player should’ve also earned a certain amount from advertising income.

"The seven players of your community averaged about 60,000 in gains, much higher than the average.

"That’s indeed an excellent performance."

Chen Yumei furrowed her brow, "What are you trying to express?

"I feel you aren’t expressing praise and appreciation, nor trying to get close to me hoping for cooperation opportunities later."

Yao Yuan asked, "Do you think Jiang Chenyan from Community 15 is smarter or dumber than you?"

Chen Yumei was taken aback and pondered for a moment, "Smarter than me.

"He was originally a player from the same region as me, I’m very aware of his real capabilities.

"Xu Zhao from the same community is also a strong player."

Yao Yuan nodded, "So have you ever thought about why players from Community 15 didn’t execute this plan themselves but gave such a good opportunity to you?

"Why didn’t they even bid for a large screen?

"Besides, have you considered the reactions of other players?

"I’m an irrelevant player, so there’s no need to mention it. But what level do you think Tang Qing from Community 7 is?

"Why didn’t he seize the execution rights for this plan and just honestly act as a spokesperson instead?"

Chen Yumei was stunned; she couldn’t answer this question.

In fact, somewhere deep inside, she also had such concerns, but she quickly convinced herself with various reasons.

For instance, Community 15 was short on manpower, after all, Jiang Chenyan had to be a spokesperson, Xu Zhao had to go to the Reflection Room, not enough players to control many large screens.

Or, deep down, she didn’t want to give up an opportunity to grasp the whole situation in the ’selection-type game’.

From the first stage to the second stage, from initially hiding cautiously to gradually becoming a veteran player who could play an important role in the community later, she needed such a big victory too much to further enhance her status in the community.

...

The system prompts began appearing continuously on the big screen, indicating the game is about to end.

[The ’spokespersons’ still on stage who haven’t been eliminated will receive an additional 20,000 minutes of visa time.]

[The audience players in the top ten ’contributions of popularity value’ from above will receive 30,000 minutes of visa time.]

[Players from the spokesperson’s community will have priority collecting. Each audience may collect once at most, in case of duplicates, it will move backward according to rank.]

[All players from ’communities without spokespersons’ will each be deducted 30,000 minutes of visa time, and enter the ’extra prize pool’, divided equally among ’communities whose spokespersons haven’t been eliminated’.]

All screens on players’ arms started popping up prompts in succession; some were deducted visa time, while others gained visa time.

[The endorsed product with ’highest accumulated popularity’ is ’pharmaceuticals’, please choose one from the three ’special benefits’ options for the spokesperson with the highest product popularity.]

Hu Yingxu from Community 17 clicked several times on his arm’s screen, presumably completing the selection.

No one knows what was specifically chosen; the answer should be obtained after returning to the community.

However, according to the game rules, these choices were originally decided by Hu Yingxu himself, and even if other players were dissatisfied with this choice, they couldn’t do anything.

The game settlement process continued.

[The number of ’spokesperson’ players on stage hasn’t changed for two consecutive rounds; the game will end and enter the settlement process.]

[Next, a ’death vote’ will be conducted to impose punishment on ’a certain type of player’.]

[1. This type of player must be precisely described, with a maximum of two selection criteria;]

[2. Must have over 70% of all players’ votes to be effective;]

[3. Each voting failure will change the selection criteria once. If voting fails three times, ’death vote’ will not continue, and the game will directly end.]