God's Imitator

Chapter 493: ‘Farmers Walk’

The muscles on Cui Yifeng's face twitched, but he still smiled somewhat forcedly and said, "What are you talking about? Are you trying to turn the tables at a time like this?"Cai Zhiyuan spread his hands toward everyone quite candidly, "I am indeed a participant of 'King's Judgment.' There's nothing to hide about that.

"I don't know if any of you here checked the specific game process at the time.

"I can say frankly that in 'King's Judgment,' my crime was writing big data algorithms for food delivery software, which indirectly exploited delivery workers and led to traffic accidents.

"In that game, I already passed the judgment, and the vast majority of spectators also believed I had redeemed my sins. After all, among the sinners at the time, mine was originally the lightest crime.

"The Gallery has no reason to pull me in for judgment again.

"On the contrary, there was a Spectator Number 1 at the time whose performance was quite 'eye-catching.'

"From start to finish, he spared no effort sending messages to incite the victim from our community, and ultimately led him toward a deadly outcome.

"Afterward, I checked that Spectator Number 1's information, and how strange that he happens to have the same name as you?

"You could recognize me as a participant of 'King's Judgment' so quickly because you were also there at the time, right?

"Think carefully, if another judgment game were to be held, which of us two should become the 'sinner,' and who should become the 'spectator'?"

The other players looked at each other, all somewhat confused about the current situation.

Obviously, most communities had only reviewed the relevant rules of ‘King’s Judgment’ but were unwilling to invest precious visa time to thoroughly investigate the game process of all players.

But there would certainly be special cases.

Fu Yujun was silent for a moment, then said, "Our community checked the content of this game.

"Everything he said is true."

Cui Yifeng obviously found it difficult to accept the current situation. He pointed at Fu Yujun somewhat angrily, "Do you two already know each other? Are you putting on a double act?"

Although Cui Yifeng was trying hard to distance himself from the situation, unfortunately his acting wasn't very good, so the gazes the other players directed at him still carried suspicion.

Of course, this didn't mean the others would trust Cai Zhiyuan because of this. They would only choose to stay far away from these two high-risk individuals.

Cai Zhiyuan sighed quietly, "Alright, have you had enough?

"This is a judgment game. Before it even starts, you're already thinking about infighting. Do you all want to die that badly?"

His voice wasn't loud, but it was full of confidence and persuasiveness, instantly making everyone else quiet down.

Cai Zhiyuan looked around at everyone, "Don't treat an S-rank God's Imitator as an idiot.

"This game is strange everywhere and definitely has many new rules that players don't understand.

"Do you think this is the work of an ordinary God's Imitator?

"This is most likely also from the hand of the God's Imitator who designed 'King's Judgment.'

"How could they possibly let you find the 'Super Authority Player' in such a simple way in this game?

"I actually think you players who currently seem unrelated to 'King's Judgment' are more suspicious."

Everyone unconsciously dispersed a bit more.

But Cai Zhiyuan changed his tone and continued, "From the situation in 'Lifting Game,' the 'Super Authority Player' is just a means to make players fight among themselves.

"'Lifting Game' at least gave some hints. This game doesn't even give hints. If we guess wildly, it will only cause the already limited trust among everyone to completely collapse, most likely leading to a total wipe.

"If you want to survive, you should try cooperative strategies as much as possible. After we really find definite clues about the 'Super Authority Player,' it won't be too late to fight among ourselves."

Fu Yujun nodded, "Yes, I agree with this view."

Huang Ming, who hadn't spoken much, finally understood the situation and stated his position, "Yes, I agree too. Let's not have infighting first and try to cooperate."

Everyone looked toward Cui Yifeng and Song Xiao from Community 15.

These two had been the first to attack Cai Zhiyuan, but at this moment they also had no choice but to nod.

"Fine, let's cooperate first."

...

The ten-minute preparation time wasn't very short. If they could quickly form an absolute core, they might still have time to arrange some group strategies.

But obviously, these several players couldn't possibly unite together.

So after they reached a broad and superficial cooperative intention, they each silently went to their corresponding paths and stood before the dedicated contraptions for ‘Farmer’s Walk.’

These contraptions were all designed according to each player's "body weight," so they were in one-to-one correspondence and couldn't be mixed up.

Gao Jialiang tried to get under the contraption and tested it slightly, but the contraption didn't budge at all.

He looked at the sign again to confirm this was indeed his contraption.

"No way, can I really carry this thing for forty meters?"

Before he could think more, the first 60-second countdown on the sign had already started jumping, which meant all players had to set off immediately.

Gao Jialiang gripped the handles on both sides of the contraption with both hands and pushed upward with all his might.

"Please, hurry, hurry up..."

Unexpectedly, the situation after the official game started was completely different from his previous attempt. Under the pressure of the game rules, Gao Jialiang realized he was clearly bursting out with much more strength, and the entire contraption really did shakily lift off the ground.

Then, he had no time to think more and could only struggle to step forward, walking ahead.

This kind of movement almost mobilized all the muscles in his body. Gao Jialiang's brain went completely blank, leaving only his initial instinct.

It wasn't until figures of other players appeared through the glass curtain wall at the edge of his vision that Gao Jialiang barely confirmed the current order of the several players.

What surprised him somewhat was that Cai Zhiyuan, who didn't look very strong, was actually walking in first place.

Huang Ming, Sun De, and Song Xiao were slightly slower than him, while the others were even slower.

Overall, there were no players with particularly good stamina. The whole thing was more like chickens pecking at each other.

Gao Jialiang gritted his teeth and walked forward. He was already beginning to feel it getting harder and harder, relying entirely on willpower to persist.

Finally, as the countdown was about to end, everyone crossed the finish line one after another. No one triggered the spikes on the contraption due to overtime.

Gao Jialiang saw a special button on the wall with several eye-catching large characters next to it: [Press to stop countdown].

He had no time to think more and hurriedly reached out to press it.

And as the last player pressed the button, the signs on everyone's paths all changed to a new, unified countdown.

58 seconds.

Seeing this number, Gao Jialiang let out a long breath.

Anyone who understood the relevant rules of ‘King’s Judgment’ would know that the mechanism of the ‘Farmer’s Walk’ segment was that the time when the first player pressed the button would become the time limit for the second stage.

In other words, Cai Zhiyuan crossed the finish line earliest, but he understood this rule clearly, so he didn't press the button, leaving as much time as possible for the players behind him.

Only when there were 2 seconds left did he press it together with the bottom-ranking players like Gao Jialiang.

Although the second segment of the route was shorter, after the severe physical consumption from the first segment, the players would definitely walk even slower.

Those extra five or ten seconds could make the result completely different.

Cai Zhiyuan truly chose cooperation as he himself advocated, so the current situation was worth celebrating.