God's Imitator

Ye Lin nodded and then solemnly said, "First, I want to apologize to everyone.

"Regardless of why Wen Wan chose me, as the core of the game within the community, I am fully responsible for her.

"I did not achieve the optimal outcome in this game.

"I will narrate the entire process of the game in detail and also explain my thoughts when making those decisions.

"Huang Shengjie, Lu Qi, you two can also correct me at any time."

Soon, Ye Lin detailed the entire process of the game.

Huang Shengjie pondered for a moment, "Well, I have nothing to add."

Lu Qi was somewhat surprised, "Oh? There were so many details in the game... I was completely unaware..."

Lu Bingjun nodded, "These details are sufficient. I believe there is no deliberate concealment involved here.

"However, the specific motives might still need further explanation.

"Let me ask one question first, and if anyone else has other questions, you can continue to pursue them later.

"What I want to ask is... How did you consider and plan the use of these two suggested functions?

"Why did you never consider purchasing any medication from start to finish?"

Ye Lin sighed quietly, "As I said earlier, to be honest, I didn’t do my best in this game.

"Looking back now, if I had realized Zeng Yiming’s issue earlier and directly used the broadcast to warn or expose, or if I had insisted that Wen Wan report the ’coin truth’ she witnessed to the audience, perhaps the result of this game would have been different.

"You could say, I underestimated Zeng Yiming’s audacity and malice and was deceived by his superb performance.

"By the time I realized the truth, it was too late."

Qin Cheng was thoughtful, "From my perspective, I think Sister Yelin has already tried her best.

"First, Sister Yelin sending the ’plead guilty early for leniency’ suggestion to Wen Wan at the first opportunity was already the optimal solution, even in hindsight.

"If Wen Wan had chosen to believe without reservation, been the first to expose her crime, and obtained the advantageous identity of the ’Director of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing,’ the game’s result would undoubtedly be different.

"Even whether or not to use the subsequent broadcasts would be irrelevant.

"After that, deciding the right timing for using the broadcast was indeed difficult.

"Because Zeng Yiming consistently presented himself as a perfect good person image, even arguably in a special superposition state.

"Whether he was good or bad entirely depended on whether what he cast was real or fake coin, and only Liang Guicheng could see that particular point.

"Zeng Yiming’s behavior involved a significant gamble, but he won the bet.

"In such a situation, it is truly hard to make a ’Zeng Yiming is a big traitor posing loyalty’ judgment at the first moment, unless... the audience themselves inherently disbelieve any good people exist in Walkway. But Sister Yelin is not such an extreme player.

"At this point, Sister Yelin could forcefully use the broadcast to warn all Inner Court Players and the audience or directly question Zeng Yiming’s motives.

"The problem is... What if Zeng Yiming is actually a good person?

"What if the drugs are indeed no problem?

"That might instead cause a terrible negative impact.

"Because to verify this claim, a large number of audiences might have to unpack already purchased medication, which is an additional loss for them; the sinners during the dangerous judgment game encountering such slander would be infuriated.

"These angers might very well target Wen Wan.

"At that time, Wen Wan’s crime numbers were not exposed, everything seemed smooth, according to normal logical thinking, indeed it called for more caution.

"And when the audience indeed discovered the medication was fake, everything was already too late."

Ye Lin nodded, "Hmm, at that time, the game truly only had two outcomes left.

"The first outcome was for me not to speak up, nor did any other player expose Zeng Yiming, Zeng Yiming might very well leave with nearly a million visa time, and he would build a perfect good person image in front of all communities.

"All the blame would be shifted to other sinners, and attempting to reopen the old case afterward would be too late.

"The second outcome would be for me or other players to broadcast and expose the truth, leading to the current conclusion.

"When I made the broadcast, I honestly didn’t have much hope. I knew by then, under circumstances like that, I probably couldn’t save Wen Wan.

"But... one still had to try.

"For example, when exposing the sinners’ performance, I deliberately didn’t mention Wen Wan, and when finally urging everyone to redistribute sympathy votes, I also didn’t name Wen Wan but just said to rescue ’more deserving players.’

"I could only hope for a few audience members from other communities with enough empathy to use sympathy votes to keep Wen Wan alive.

"This number truly doesn’t have to be large.

"But no way, the game at the end was no longer a ’moral interrogation’ but mixed in with too much interest-driven reality consideration.

"If there were an option to ’voluntarily forfeit a 50% dividend,’ then Wen Wan might still survive, but the imitator left no such possibility."

Ye Lin paused briefly, then continued, "As for why I consistently decided not to buy drugs from start to finish...

"This decision mainly came based on the objective situation of our community.

"Although M-class drugs are extremely rare discontinued drugs, excluding their ’investment product’ properties that might appreciate in value, their greatest uses are no more than three:

"First, if drug addiction appears within the community, M-class drugs can help with withdrawal.

"Second, they cope with regular occurrences of pain within the community.

"Third, they are to be resold to other communities for profit.

"But these three for our community aren’t very cost-effective.

"Our community has strict drug controls, and for now, no player is showing severe addiction symptoms that would require M-class drug-assisted withdrawal.

"Will drug addiction requiring withdrawal occur in the future? That’s too distant a matter, not worth taking the risk to invest now.

"Regarding the second and third, those are indeed tangible benefits, but as long as you buy drugs, no matter how much, it means giving up a share of dividend. Rationally speaking, it’s not worthwhile from my perspective.

"Of course, one can’t say this judgment is absolutely rational and objective. When making the decision, unavoidable subjective judgment was involved."

Lin Sizhi abruptly interjected, "Or it might be for this reason:

"Deep down in your subconscious, you’ve always harbored significant distrust towards Zeng Yiming, but in the situation at the time, it was hard to make an extreme decision based merely on such subconscious.

"So what manifested in the end was this somewhat contradictory state."

Ye Lin froze for a moment, then nodded helplessly, "Perhaps."

Lu Bingjun turned to look at the others, "Everyone feel free to speak, don’t forget, we now have speaking-related proposals in our community, and every player must ensure sufficient speech content."