God's Imitator

Chapter 496: Active Choice

Prison Cell 5 "Death Surveillance" appeared to reuse the mechanism from ‘Lifting Game.’If following the original rules of ‘Lifting Game,’ this game was very safe. Chen Ran had played it pretty well at the time, only getting whipped a few times. The biggest negative impact was probably just that it might cause him to lose his grip on the pen.

But in this game, it was no longer "Surveillance" but "Death Surveillance," and the punishment had changed from whipping to nail gun.

The nail gun just happened to be a prop that had appeared in ‘King’s Judgment.’

There were many types of nail guns in reality, and the nail gun in the game was obviously a more powerful type. Once it hit a vital area, death was almost certain.

From a literal standpoint, Prison Cell 5 was the most dangerous.

As for Prison Cell 6, it seemed somewhat unclear in meaning.

After entering this prison cell, there were two choices. The first choice was to randomly draw one from the other prison cells, but it was also very likely to draw the dangerous Prison Cells 4 or 5.

The second choice was incomprehensible. From the literal meaning, if the God's Imitator who designed this game didn't suffer a death threat, or made a choice that met the expectations of the player in the prison cell after suffering a death threat, then the player inside the prison cell would be safe and sound.

However, if the God's Imitator who designed this game suffered a death threat and made a choice that didn't meet the expectations of the player in the prison cell, then the player would suffer immediate death penalty.

At first glance, some people might think this prison cell was absolutely safe.

Because the God's Imitator who designed this game most likely hadn't entered this game, and this kind of game that pulled people in the middle of the night had never appeared before.

If the God's Imitator didn't suffer a death threat, this room would be absolutely safe.

But why would the God's Imitator go to the trouble of setting up such a rule in this room?

Was it because they sensed danger and actually, like the players present, had the possibility of suffering a death threat?

Moreover, this rule was judged through the Gallery's mind-reading mechanism, which meant players actually couldn't truly know what happened to the God's Imitator who designed this game.

Whether the God's Imitator made a choice consistent with the player's expectations completely depended on the Gallery's judgment.

Although up to now, all the Gallery's mind-reading judgments had been absolutely accurate, most players still weren't willing to entrust their fate to such a thing.

This prison cell had many problems and wasn't the optimal choice for most players.

After choosing and eliminating, only Prison Cells 1 and 2 were relatively safer.

Prison Cell 2 was definitely the safest because there were clear explanations at the rule level.

But it had no benefits, and one had to scatter all the visa time from "one week ago" to other players.

For players like Sun De, they might not have much visa time, but it was all accumulated minute by minute through painstaking effort.

He hadn't participated in the last game, so he hadn't gained any benefits, and inevitably consumed time during this week.

In other words, if Sun De entered this prison cell, he would definitely incur debt.

The natural consumption of visa time in a week was about 10,000 minutes. This amount of "50,000 minutes" actually left sufficient margin for error.

Even if players spent lavishly during this week, there shouldn't be a gap of 50,000.

However, for players like Sun De, this was still something difficult to accept.

After all, players like him couldn't ensure they would steadily gain benefits in future games, nor could they guarantee other players in the community would be willing to help him fill in these debts.

So for Sun De, Prison Cell 1 was a better choice.

This looked exactly the same as the mechanism in ‘King’s Judgment,’ with the only difference being that the rewards had increased.

In the original game, pushing one rotation only gained 10 minutes of visa time. Now each rotation could gain 1000 minutes of visa time.

The game time was 15 minutes. If roughly estimating at 30 seconds per rotation, 30 rotations could gain 30,000 minutes of visa time.

For players like Sun De, this already had enough appeal.

Song Xiao from Community 15 laughed coldly, "At a time like this you're still thinking about earning visa time. Can't you tell which is more important between money and life?"

Sun De wasn't angry, only corrected, "In the Gallery, money is life and life is money. There's no essential difference between the two.

"Moreover, aren't I asking the 'Hermit' to verify it for me with the lantern?

"This is a rule clearly written out, so as long as the 'Hermit' verifies there's no danger, then there's definitely no danger."

Song Xiao looked at Cai Zhiyuan, "The rules also say that only the Hermit himself knows the verification result. He can completely lie to you.

"There are 6 prison cells in total, and the 'Hermit' can't be sure whether he's the 'Super Authority Player' or not, so he'll most likely still have to choose a prison cell to enter.

"As long as he deceives others into dangerous prison cells through deception, he himself can enter a relatively safe prison cell.

"Are you sure you want to trust him?"

Sun De didn't answer but pointed to Prison Cell 5, "According to your logic, you can directly enter Cell 5. Everyone should have no objections."

Song Xiao was momentarily speechless.

Sun De looked at Cai Zhiyuan again, "Regardless, you helped me in 'Conglomerate Nation.' I trust you."

Cai Zhiyuan looked at Sun De and was silent for a long time.

Then he said, "In 'Conglomerate Nation,' I actually didn't intend to help you. It's just that to complete the strategy and layout, I happened to need to help you 'exit the country.'"

Sun De nodded, "I know.

"At that time we didn't know each other and were players from opposing communities. It was very normal for you not to trust me.

"But from the result, you indeed helped me. Without you, perhaps I would still have only been able to stay in Community 4, and maybe would have already become 'cannon fodder' in some game.

"In the Gallery, expecting other players to treat you sincerely is unrealistic to begin with. Judge by actions, not by heart. As long as your actions indeed helped me, I should be grateful."

Song Xiao rubbed his chin, making "tsk tsk tsk" sounds.

"Not bad. Underestimated you. Turns out you're all old foxes."

Cai Zhiyuan glanced at Song Xiao, "You seem to really not fear death. Don't forget, I have the power to force any player into any prison cell once, and can also verify the threat level of any prison cell to any player.

"If you continue to stir things up, I don't mind sending you on your way first and choosing the most dangerous prison cell for you."

Song Xiao wisely chose silence.

Sun De stood in front of Prison Cell 1. Cai Zhiyuan raised the lantern in his hand and pressed the button.

The lantern emitted a slight tremor.

This kind of tremor could only be felt by Cai Zhiyuan himself, and it was very subtle.

This meant that if Sun De entered Prison Cell 1, it would be very safe.