God's Imitator

Chapter 503: Sudden Change

"Bang bang bang!""Bang bang bang!"

Li Renshu was awakened by intense door-banging sounds.

She felt her brain was still somewhat foggy because she had drunk quite a bit last night.

She opened her sleepy eyes and looked at the clock by the bed. It was now 5 AM.

According to the community rules, players couldn't enter each other's rooms, but they could knock on doors or speak outside.

However, most players were relatively mindful of boundaries and basically wouldn't deliberately disturb others by visiting their doors.

So Li Renshu instantly became alert, realizing this was an unexpected special situation.

She quickly came to the door in her pajamas and opened it a crack.

"What is it?"

Zheng Jie said somewhat incoherently, "The big screen in the hall! Some information appeared. Come look quickly!"

Li Renshu was silent for a moment, "Okay, wait a few minutes."

Soon, she changed clothes and left her room, walking briskly toward the hall with Zheng Jie.

"Didn't you also drink a lot last night? How did you wake up so early?" Li Renshu asked.

Zheng Jie's condition looked somewhat bad. His hair was messy like a bird's nest, and his eyeballs were bloodshot. Obviously he hadn't fully recovered from his hangover yet.

"When I got up this morning, my stomach felt a bit uncomfortable, so I went to throw up for a while. As a result, I couldn't fall back asleep.

"I thought I'd sit in the hall and drink some tea to relax.

"Then I saw this information on the big screen.

"So I hurried to find you."

As they spoke, the two had already arrived at the first-floor hall. Li Renshu looked at the big screen, which displayed a few lines of simple information.

[Two "Special Games" have concluded.]

[The final results of related players from Community 17 in the two Special Games will now be announced.]

[‘Hermit Judgment’, Player 5 Cai Zhiyuan: Deported.]

[‘Simple Roulette’, Player 12 Lin Sizhi: Survived.]

[Due to the emergence of special circumstances, the New World and the Gallery will update rules. Community 17 will receive a special reward.]

Seeing this content, Li Renshu couldn't help but be stunned and didn't speak for a long time then she asked, "When did this information appear?"

Zheng Jie shook his head, "I don't know!

"When I came down just now, the big screen was already displaying this information."

Li Renshu thought for a moment, "Wake everyone up.

"I'll call players 1 through 6, you call players 7 through 12.

"Yinzhang and Lawyer Lin definitely know something."

The two of them split up and returned to the second floor to knock on doors one by one to wake everyone.

After a while, all ten players came to the hall one after another.

Seeing the message on the big screen, their expressions varied.

Some people were obviously shocked by the information contained within, even seeming completely unable to accept such facts.

But some people seemed to have some mental preparation for this.

Li Renshu looked at Zheng Jie, who was the last to return from the second floor, "Where is Lawyer Lin?"

Zheng Jie somewhat helplessly handed over a white piece of paper, "This was posted on Lawyer Lin's door."

Li Renshu took it and saw only four words written on it: "Do not knock."

She thought for a moment and said to everyone, "Everyone sit down first. Drink some tea or water to clear your heads."

Everyone went to the vending machines to buy tea or coffee. Some people also bought a small amount of breakfast. Then everyone sat around the long table again.

The mess from last night's dinner hadn't been cleaned up yet. However, on the floor, a shattered bracelet was clearly visible.

Li Renshu bent down to pick up the bracelet, her expression somewhat complex for a moment.

She looked at Wei Yinzhang, "What are 'Special Games'? You should know, right?"

Wei Yinzhang nodded, "I know.

"The day before our dinner, the Gallery sent a notification to God's Imitators updating this rule.

"Simply put, God's Imitators can pay 1 million minutes of visa time to designate a player to enter a 'Special Game.'

"This kind of game is not affected by death exemption tickets or other items.

"After a 'Special Game' passes review, it won't open at a fixed time. The target player will be directly pulled into the game, and other unrelated players won't be notified when the game opens.

"However, from the current situation, when the game ends, the results should be announced normally."

Qin Yao's face was full of surprise, "One million! Really one million? Who could have that much visa time!"

Yang Yuting's focus was elsewhere, "Wait, why didn't you mention such an important rule in advance?"

Wei Yinzhang was silent for a moment, then explained, "Because I thought that currently, no one, including players and God's Imitators, could gather 1 million minutes of visa time. Even if they did gather it, they couldn't possibly really make up their mind to use it in a very short time.

"Considering the last life-and-death game had just ended, and everyone was going to have a celebratory dinner the next day, I felt I shouldn't tell everyone this news to avoid affecting everyone's good mood.

"After all, in the short term, the possibility of this rule taking effect wasn't high.

"I originally planned to tell everyone today."

Li Renshu nodded, "Yes, having this kind of thinking is understandable."

Li Jiang leaned back, "Were you really planning to say it today?

"I guess everyone should have some secrets, right?

"At this point, there should be no need to hide anything anymore. After all, the results are already out, aren't they?"

Qin Yao was somewhat confused, "Secrets? What secrets?"

Wei Yinzhang didn't deny this point, only saying, "Things have come to this. Let's wait for Lawyer Lin to explain these matters."

Everyone fell silent again, just drinking their tea or coffee.

Some looked out the floor-to-ceiling windows, some stared at the big screen, thinking about the meaning behind these few lines of information.

Qin Yao was also trying hard to think.

"From the information on the big screen, while we were sleeping, two 'Special Games' occurred simultaneously in the Gallery.

"One was Cai Zhiyuan's 'Hermit Judgment,' the other was Lawyer Lin's 'Simple Roulette.'

"But the final result is that only Lawyer Lin survived...

"Yinzhang also said that only God's Imitators can initiate 'Special Games,' and must pay 1 million minutes of visa time.

"Did some God's Imitator from another community pay 2 million minutes of visa time all at once to target both Lawyer Lin and Cai Zhiyuan?

"Or is it that...

"Both of them are also God's Imitators?

"If Cai Zhiyuan is a God's Imitator, which game was his? 'King's Judgment' probably isn't it, right? Maybe 'Simple Q&A'?"

Obviously, among the players present, quite a few each had some secrets and held some details, but almost no one knew the complete truth.

The atmosphere in the community became very oppressive.

Qin Yao felt the more she thought about it, the more confused she became. In the end, she gave up. She looked at the mess left from last night's dinner, stood up, and began cleaning up.

The other players also stood up one after another, each silently cleaning up the battlefield without saying a word.