God's Imitator

Everyone fell into deep thought. Looking at the game mechanics, this analysis indeed has a high possibility of being valid.

The true selection criteria of the Imitator is not ’morality,’ but ’ability.’

That is, intelligence, decisiveness, and execution power.

However, during the selection process, since it is framed with a ’voluntary confession’ filter, it misleads the audience.

They subconsciously believe that such players are inclined to be benevolent.

And players who voluntarily confess certainly won’t give up such a ’moral asset,’ and will actively perform to meet the audience’s expectations.

Thus, as the game proceeds with normal mechanics, the audience and the ’Director of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing’ naturally come to a mutual journey, as if there are truly selfless and just players in the elimination game.

But upon more careful consideration, you’ll realize the problem:

The crimes judged in the Walkway may not constitute direct legal violations in the real world but are definitely not trivial matters.

How many players defined as Sinners by the Walkway can remain absolutely virtuous?

And among them, how many can be intelligent, decisive, and selfless?

Under the influence of these three selection criteria, the situation where ’Zeng Yiming is genuinely a good person’ turns out to be a low-probability event instead.

Of course, this is essentially an analysis after the fact, so many analyses come with hindsight elements.

In the desperate realm of elimination games, players find it difficult to make completely rational and objective decisions, more or less having some fluke mentality.

Not all of them were deceived by Zeng Yiming, more of them actively chose to believe in Zeng Yiming, believing in a better possibility.

Lu Bingjun sighed silently, exclaiming, "So, don’t be too harsh on Wen Wan.

"She’s an old player in our Community, and everyone is quite familiar with her personality.

"She indeed harbors quite a serious fluke mentality, often not being smart or strong enough, frequently trying to rely on others subconsciously. Moreover, when encountering crucial issues, it’s difficult for her to make immediate decisions, often choosing to procrastinate subconsciously.

"After the delay, she often misses good opportunities.

"This, I am well aware, and everyone else should be too.

"On the flip side, if Wen Wan could truly accept suggestions in the game immediately, voluntarily confess, and guess the numbers correctly to become the ’Director of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing,’ it would mean she has actually become a different kind of person.

"Smart, decisive, independent, with a fast understanding of game mechanics.

"But such a Wen Wan would turn into another Zeng Yiming. When she discovers she can create a perfect scenario in the game, earning enough moral assets and a million visa time, could she resist the temptation?

"I don’t know."

Yao Yuan sighed, evidently feeling powerless in this game: "After all, it’s an S-Class game.

"Lawyer Lin, you’ve seen more S-Class games. Why do you think this game gets the S-Class designation?

"I believe most people have the same doubt as I do: previously we discussed that the game’s innovation is the decisive factor for a high rating.

"But this game seems blatantly influenced by ’King’s Judgment,’ shouldn’t that be a setback?

"Or is it like Zhang Yan said, just a coincidence in creativity?"

Lin Sizhi pondered for a moment: "Firstly, from the universal standards of all games, ’exposing human weaknesses’ is a significant scoring item, which is evident to everyone.

"Moreover, I think the main reason lies in that: it’s an elimination game, we must consider its rating from the dimension of elimination games.

"Firstly, different game types could be seen as different tracks.

"Within the Walkway’s game types, elimination games and judgment games, although somewhat close, are ultimately two different game types.

"I’ve never seen an elimination game get an S rating before, so ’Trust Marketplace’ is truly competing not with ’King’s Judgment,’ but with other elimination games.

"As long it outperforms other A-Class elimination games, it has a chance for an S rating.

"Secondly, the primary goal of elimination games is elimination.

"According to information acquired from the Imitator, different games seem to have different requirements for ’death rates.’

"In other types of games, like selection games, ’complete player extinction’ should be a clear setback.

"But currently, elimination games are different; complete player extinction might very well be a scoring item.

"Lastly, apart from ’innovation,’ ’subsequent impact’ seems to considerably boost the game rating as well.

"This ’subsequent impact’ not only includes the inspiration game’s content brings to other Imitators but also changes the atmosphere of the entire Walkway."

Qin Cheng nodded silently: "In this respect... indeed.

"’Trust Marketplace’ completely shattered the few remaining mutual trusts among players.

"Actually, when I saw the last sentence in the game rules, I was surprised, thinking it might be a quote from a benevolent Imitator."

Huang Shengjie thought for a while: "Which one? ’Understanding of trust will determine the game’s outcome’?"

Qin Cheng nodded: "Yes, because the literal meaning of this sentence seems to encourage players to trust each other, to overcome difficulties together, full of positive energy.

"But now... it seems more like a prediction or crime forecast.

"Different players will interpret completely opposite meanings.

"Some players will mistakenly understand this sentence as ’Imitator encourages mutual trust,’ thus, in ambiguous circumstances, subconsciously ignoring doubts and trusting others.

"But precisely because of this credulity, the game slides into an irrecoverable abyss.

"Everyone trusts just a little, thinking that this little deviation doesn’t matter, but Zeng Yiming cumulated all these trusts into a sky-high lie.

"Meanwhile, other players, like Chen Guangming, understand trust as ’no one is worthy of trust,’ and as long as they hold onto this belief, they can easily win in this game.

"So I guess... Community 12 probably reaped quite good gains in this game.

"Looking at the final outcome, this sentence instead becomes a mockery: players choose to trust others, which is already a superficial and foolish understanding, directly leading the game to its worst conclusion.

"The key point is, the Imitator provided players ample freedom of choice within the game.

"He indeed offered M-type drugs within the game and indeed gave players the chance to take these drugs back.

"But eventually, it was all ruined by the players themselves in the venue.

"If the Imitator had manipulated the rules, not truly providing the M-type drugs, even if the venue’s sinners were all extinguished, most audiences would only turn their hatred onto the Imitator.

"But now, that is not the case; players’ hatred can only spread among players.

"Thus, after this game, more players will lean towards ’unconditionally not trusting anyone.’

"Chen Guangming type players will become more common."

Yao Yuan added: "What got thoroughly shattered is probably not just mutual trust.

"But also long-term thinking."