God's imitator

Chapter 191, "The Trial of Childbirth," concludes.

[The first person to be tried: Yang Yuting.]

The answer to the initial question is: CACAC.

You have one minute to make a decision. Please vote.

Each person has two different buttons on the judgment table in front of them: 'Life' and 'Death'. The buttons are very conspicuous and far apart, so there is absolutely no possibility of pressing the wrong one.

Jiang He was taken aback; Yang Yuting's answer was far from what she had expected.

"There isn't a single Option B? How could that be?"

In her confusion, Jiang He pressed the "Life" button, which was only natural.

As for the others, although they could roughly tell which option was pressed by the arm movements, the time was too short to see everyone.

One minute is a relatively long time to think, and there may still be people who have not yet made a decision, but the trial will be completed ahead of schedule as long as the number of votes meets certain conditions.

[Final verdict: Yang Yuting, born.]

Yang Yuting was so frightened that she almost had a cardiac arrest. Upon hearing the result, she felt a huge sense of relief and leaned against the judge's bench, taking deep breaths.

Jiang He quickly said, "It's alright, Yuting, it's alright! I told you that even if the trial is triggered, everything will be fine!"

[The second person on trial: Li Jiang.]

The answer to the initial question is: ADADD.

You have one minute to make a decision. Please vote.

Option D represents a bias towards male chauvinism or egalitarianism, and Jiang He suddenly thought of a possibility.

"Li Jiang is a copycat! He's the one who designed this game!"

"Otherwise, why would he know so much data in advance and keep leading us to make the wrong choices!"

"Vote to kill him! Kill him and the game is over!"

Jiang He pounded on the iron cage and shouted loudly.

Li Jiang's expression changed drastically, and he angrily cursed, "You're talking nonsense! If I were really a copycat, would it be your turn to kill me? I could have killed you long ago just by writing a rule that 'no violence is prohibited'!"
"You made all the decisions from beginning to end, and you actually think it's my fault?"

Jiang He pressed the 'death' key hard. She wanted to say something more, but the final result was already decided.

[Final verdict: Li Jiang, alive.]

Jiang He couldn't accept this result: "What are you thinking! He's definitely a copycat! Absolutely!!"

[The third person on trial: Jiang He.]

The answer to the initial question is: BBBBB.

You have one minute to make a decision. Please vote.

Jiang He subconsciously looked at Yang Yuting, but Yang Yuting did not press the button; she was still struggling and hesitating inside.

Clearly, even though Jiang He had tricked her terribly, Yang Yuting still couldn't make the decision to kill him so decisively, since they had lived together in the community for so long.

But before Yang Yuting could press the button, the verdict was already out.

[Final verdict: Jiang He, dead.]

[In 10 seconds, you will suffer instant death.]

Jiang He looked at Chen Yumei, Chen Xin and Zhao Dong in disbelief. Clearly, all three of them had to press 'death' in order to combine with Li Jiang's votes to reach 4 votes, which was more than half.

"But why?"
"I saved both of you! I saved you!"

"If I had taken the advice to kill everyone from the beginning, you two would both be dead!"
"Is this how you repay kindness with enmity?!"

In her despair, Jiang He seemed to have grasped at the last straw.

A get-out-of-jail-free card! There are get-out-of-jail-free cards too!
She looked around, wondering if the audience could see her.

……

In the game, in the audience lounge of Community 17, Jiang He's expression of despair yet clinging to the last glimmer of hope also appeared on the big screen.

Fu Chen breathed a sigh of relief. His biggest worry was that if Yang Yuting also suffered the instant death punishment, only one of the two could be saved.

Fortunately, Yang Yuting is safe and sound, which means that if the death-exemption ticket is used to offset the immediate death penalty, all of these people can survive.

According to the rules of the "immunity ticket," it "offsets one future instant death penalty," while the rules of this game require "at least one instant death penalty to be triggered."

It's fine if no one dies after it's triggered. However, as half of the 10-second countdown passed, Fu Chen realized the problem.

He looked at Lee In-sook with some shock and confusion: "In-sook, what are you waiting for?"
"Aren't you going to save them?"

"Don't you need the 'immunity from death' ticket?"

Lee In-sook didn't turn to look at him; she just stared at the screen and remained silent.

No one else spoke.

Clearly, Fu Chen was the only person in the room willing to use his immunity ticket to save Jiang He at this moment.

……

At this moment, the image had already appeared on the large screen in the lobby of the 17th community.

Everyone who hadn't entered the game gathered around, staring in shock at the scene before them.

They didn't know exactly what was happening in the game, because the live stream only started after the "Barbarian Invasion" death trial mechanism was triggered.

"Why is everyone covered in blood... What happened in this game?"

"Is my newly purchased 'get out of jail free' voucher about to be used up?"

"It's alright, thankfully I had a get-out-of-jail-free card..."

Wang Yongxin's attention was drawn more to the small picture-in-picture window on the big screen: it displayed the image of Li Renshu remaining silent.

Wang Yongxin was still hesitant about whether he should use his veto power if Li Renshu really decided to use the pardon, and how he should explain it if he did.

But after the dust settled, he breathed a sigh of relief; he ultimately didn't need to play the villain.

……

Jiang He felt a sharp pain in her wrist as the poison rapidly spread throughout her body.

She looked around in confusion, trying to find where the cameras were broadcasting the footage to the audience, but unfortunately, the arcade's play area didn't need cameras for broadcasting.

"Why……"

Jiang He fell to the ground with a "plop" and remained silent.

The trial is still ongoing.

[The fourth person on trial: Chen Yumei.]

The answer to the initial question is: BBBBD.

[1 minutes of visa time were deducted for giving insincere answers.]

You have one minute to make a decision. Please vote.

[Final verdict: Chen Yumei, alive.]

[The fifth person on trial: Chen Xin.]

You have one minute to make a decision. Please vote.

[Final verdict: Chen Xin, death.]

[The sixth person on trial: Zhao Dong.]

You have one minute to make a decision. Please vote.

[Final verdict: Zhao Dong, alive.]

Yang Yuting watched helplessly as Chen Xin fell to the ground, her mind going completely blank.

She couldn't figure out what was going on for the time being.

Zhao Dong is guaranteed to survive because she was the last to be tried, and Yang Yuting cast the "life" spell for her. So even if Chen Yumei and Li Jiang both cast the "death" spell, it will be fine.

But why did Chen Xin die?
Yang Yuting still voted "life," the only explanation being that Chen Yumei, Li Jiang, and Zhao Dong all voted "death."

But why did Zhao Dong want to kill Chen Xin?
As the last broadcast came over the loudspeaker, Yang Yuting began to understand.

It's unclear whether this was a decision Zhao Dong made on the spur of the moment, or the result of a private discussion with Li Jiang and Chen Yumei long beforehand.

The remaining 16000 points of the Fertility Fund will be converted into 16 minutes of visa time, which will be equally distributed among all surviving players.

【game over. 】

(End of this chapter)