God's Imitator

Chapter 506: Mutual Testing

According to what Lin Sizhi said, Officer Cao had actually realized very early on that Cai Zhiyuan might be a God's Imitator and told this news to Lin Sizhi and Li Renshu.Lin Sizhi himself was also a God's Imitator, so he didn't do anything. This was understandable.

But what about Li Renshu?

She not only didn't do anything but instead remained close to Cai Zhiyuan.

Obviously, in many people's eyes, this was absolutely not what a qualified "community leader" should do.

Li Renshu explained somewhat helplessly, "I didn't do nothing.

"After 'Shelter Game' ended, I separately found Lawyer Lin and Cai Zhiyuan and asked if they agreed to 'check time.'

"As a result, they both agreed.

"In the end, nothing unusual was found."

Qin Yao thought for a moment, "Huh, right. Why was there nothing abnormal when checking time back then?"

Lin Sizhi explained, "After designing an S-ranked game, God's Imitators can hide their visa time.

"Of course, only hide the portion obtained as a God's Imitator."

Li Renshu sighed, "So there was this kind of setting...

"But for everyone except S-rank God's Imitators, this was an unknown factor that couldn't be taken into consideration.

"Since checking time showed nothing abnormal, we could only assume there were no God's Imitators in the community.

"Of course, if we must say, everyone probably more or less detected some abnormality, but again, the act of 'finding God's Imitators' basically relied entirely on players' subjective judgment. No definitive evidence could be found.

"Officer Cao indeed told me a lot, but there still wasn't any evidence to support it, and we couldn't assert that the God's Imitator of 'King's Judgment' was definitely Cai Zhiyuan.

"So at that time, I was truly powerless."

Everyone fell into brief silence. Obviously, some people still had different opinions on this issue, but it was no longer appropriate to continue pressing forward.

Wei Yinzhang changed the subject, "Let's discuss the more definite parts first.

"'Conglomerate Nation' was a distribution-type game. Lawyer Lin, how did you determine it was also designed by Cai Zhiyuan?

"Is it because your proposal wasn't selected?

"Or because Cai Zhiyuan displayed a level beyond the reasonable range in the game?"

Wei Yinzhang had also participated in this game, and after entering Community 17, she had also studied the corresponding details.

Lin Sizhi explained, "Both of these factors were present, of course, but neither was the deciding factor.

"At that time, after receiving the game invitation, I didn't submit a proposal.

"Because I had already realized that while God's Imitators were designing games, they were actually also exposing themselves.

"If I always racked my brains to secure all design proposals, then as time passed, no matter how carefully I hid, I would eventually be found with weaknesses.

"Conversely, letting other God's Imitators design more games would be more conducive to finding them.

"As for me and Cai Zhiyuan entering this game together, it was actually 'mutual testing.'

"I was testing him, and he was testing me, except we were testing in different directions.

"However, what made me most certain wasn't these things, but rather an insignificant detail.

"The game's scene arrangement."

Zheng Jie was somewhat confused, "Wait, wasn't 'Conglomerate Nation' much earlier than 'Shelter Game'? And much earlier. There were 'Childbirth Judgment' and 'Fool's Game' in between.

"Officer Cao told you his speculation should have been after 'Fool's Game' and before 'Shelter Game,' right?"

Lin Sizhi nodded, "I never said I only started suspecting Cai Zhiyuan after Officer Cao told me, did I?"

Qin Yao tried hard to recall the scene at that time, "I remember we had some discussion about how personnel should be allocated.

"At that time, Luo Wei had just joined the community, and Brother Wang wanted to pull Luo Wei to his group.

"But it was cleverly dismantled by Cai Zhiyuan.

"In the end, after all the selections, the three team members on Lawyer Lin's side became Luo Wei, me, and Cai Zhiyuan.

"This seemed like a natural choice because after the three weakest players were chosen, Yuting and Xu Tong defaulted to Brother Wang, Fu Chen and Renshu automatically went with Officer Cao, so I and Cai Zhiyuan naturally went with Lawyer Lin.

"But thinking about it now, was this grouping also what Cai Zhiyuan hoped for?"

Zheng Jie asked, "Lawyer Lin, you said you and Cai Zhiyuan were mutually testing each other? You tested whether he was a God's Imitator? Then what did he test you for? This game was clearly made by him."

Lin Sizhi explained, "He also had to test me to see if my level was consistently stable as always, whether I would expose corresponding weaknesses in specific games.

"And his conclusion would determine the strategy he would adopt when designing games for me later."

Everyone recalled the entire review process at the time and quickly understood what Lin Sizhi meant.

Lin Sizhi deliberately gave up the opportunity to design the game because he wanted to see other God's Imitators' proposals and conversely find their true identities.

And Cai Zhiyuan taking on this game was attempting to use a distribution-type game to verify his game design ability.

Because before this, Cai Zhiyuan had only designed one game, 'King's Judgment.' He already had some experience with this type, but distribution-type games were obviously a different type. The experience from the two wasn't interchangeable.

As a God's Imitator, Cai Zhiyuan also needed to verify through players' performance in the game how lethal his designed 'algorithmic' or 'strategic' games were to players.

To see what level different players could reach in his game.

The reason he deliberately teamed up with Lin Sizhi was to test:

When he already knew all the rules in advance and understood all the traps, what kind of performance would Lin Sizhi give?

Would he fall far behind? Or would they be completely in sync?

Surpassing him was impossible because he was the game's designer.

If the two's thinking was completely synchronized, that would be very bad news for Cai Zhiyuan.

Because it meant that no matter how hard he tried, 'algorithmic' or 'strategic' games couldn't defeat Lin Sizhi. At most, it would be a draw, and there was a high probability he would lose.

Then, if he wanted to win, only one choice remained: 'judgment games.'

And everyone already knew the result of the testing.

After Lin Sizhi and Cai Zhiyuan entered the game, they thoroughly understood all the game rules in an extremely short time, and the two jointly completed the plan.

During this period, neither directly revealed all the details but were mutually guiding each other.

But looking at it now, removing either person wouldn't have changed the result too much.

After this game, both obtained the conclusions they wanted.

For Lin Sizhi, the possibility that Cai Zhiyuan was a God's Imitator greatly increased.

And for Cai Zhiyuan, he completely determined Lin Sizhi's true level, which also determined all his subsequent strategies.