God's imitator

Chapter 267 The Final Judgment

Clearly, this collective punishment mainly affects players who own more shelters.

Especially the 12th community.

They built all substandard shelters, and the shelters were almost evenly distributed among the four players besides Chen Guangming. Therefore, apart from Chen Guangming, everyone else was implicated.

Community 15 had obviously anticipated this crime, so Wang Weidong had been deliberately avoiding allowing players in the same community to hold too many shelters.

Logically speaking, the two shelters should be absolutely safe.

Therefore, Wang Weidong tried his best to ensure that everyone only owned two shelters, and then built new ones after selling them.

This also prevented them from being affected.

The 17th community also took similar precautions, so it was also safe and sound.

The situation in Community 9 was somewhat special. Although Zhang Shichao had guessed that owning multiple shelters at the same time might be a crime, he chose to let the only player who still had a chance to escape death hold all the remaining shelters.

Therefore, these players are implicated, but they still have shelters that can save them from death.

Many plots of land where shelters had been built continued to glow, and signs crumbled one after another.

Especially in Community 12, they use substandard shelters to avoid death, so there is a possibility of two or even three being used up in a row.

However, because there are enough shelters reserved, even in the worst-case scenario, one can still escape death.

Fan Zehui felt heartbroken looking at the destroyed shelters.

But he had no choice, because they had already discussed this issue within the community; it was a risk that had to be taken in order to earn gold coins.

In the end, although the shelter was lost, it didn't have a significant impact.

Because the game is about to end, all the sinners' crimes have been revealed, and apart from the final vote, there will be no more instant death penalties.

As for the communities that will ultimately vote, they have reached a consensus.

They are safe now.

……

The broadcast started playing again on the big screen.

The latest listed price for the shelter is 26 gold coins.

At this moment, more and more players are unable to contain themselves and are starting to buy shelters.

Because this is the final round of the game, if they haven't purchased any shelters by then, all their visa time will be deducted when they leave.

The 26 gold coin shelter allows them to retain at least 20% of their visa time, which is much better than having it all deducted.

Since it was the final round of the game, the viewers' coins would be credited to their accounts immediately.

A large amount of gold coins poured out from the coin dispenser next to the shelter sign, feeling heavy in the hand.

Each gold coin represents a considerable amount of visa processing time.

At the same time, a broadcast appeared again on the big screen.

[The final vote will then take place. The community selected by the vote will suffer an additional instant death penalty at the end of the game.]

Players looked at the screens on their arms. There was plenty of time to vote, as the final round of the game had only just begun, and the votes would not take effect until the end of this round.

However, at that moment, Cao Haichuan came to the center of the field and said in a calm tone: "I know what you are thinking. Perhaps you want to select the 17th community as your target."

"But I advise you, if you choose Community 17, you will pay the most terrible price. This game will be bloody."

Wang Weidong was stunned for a moment: "Blood will flow like a river? Why?" Cao Haichuan shook his head: "I can't prove it to you now, because once I do, this will inevitably happen."

Wang Weidong frowned slightly: "That's alarmist. Who do you think you can fool with such a simple bluff?"

"Aside from the final vote, there is now only one rule of death left in the game: the punishment of a trial against one's conscience."

"But with such clear rules, everyone voted according to their true feelings, and the trial of Chen Guangming also used 'votes against their conscience'."

"The number of people who fail a lie detector test could never exceed half."

Cao Haichuan glanced at Jin Cheng from Community 7 and Zhang Shichao from Community 9.

“Our three communities can vote together for Community 12 or Community 15, which would be enough to exceed half.”

“When my crimes were made public, there must have been players in both of your communities who engaged in similar behavior. I chose to plead guilty so that you would not be implicated.”

"Furthermore, we have been expressing our sincerity to you ever since the game started."

Even so, are you still going to vote for us?

However, Jin Cheng kept his head down and did not speak.

Zhang Shichao glanced at Jin Cheng, then at Cao Haichuan. Clearly, if it was certain that Community 17 would win, he wouldn't mind standing on Community 17's side.

However, the combined player count of the two communities is less than half, not to mention that he himself is a beneficiary of selling the shelter at a high price.

Chen Guangming walked over and silently shook his head.

"Don't waste your breath, my friend from Community 17."

"Let me say what they're too embarrassed to say aloud."

"Why are you, Community 17, standing by and watching the fire from the sidelines, completely unscathed? You're acting so noble, and perhaps everyone can see it, while we're all inflating the prices of substandard shelters, which looks so despicable."

"You can also use special items to directly avoid death and easily avoid the punishment of being implicated by others."

"Since your community is the most noble and suffers the least loss in this game, then in the end, you should be the ones to bear the final instant death penalty, because that's the only fair way."

"Our four communities are accomplices, we are conspirators."

"But that's precisely why we must vote for you."

Clearly, the other four communities have been firmly bound together by shared interests.

They were accomplices in inflating shelter prices.

Cao Haichuan certainly saw this, but there was nothing more he could do.

Because Community 17 would never collude with them, selling the shelter at a low price would certainly thwart their plan to inflate prices, but it would only provoke greater hatred and make the outcome of the "final vote" even more predictable.

Therefore, the players in Community 17 chose to wait until now, trying their best to persuade Community 7 and Community 9 again.

After that, regardless of the outcome, they will sell the extra shelters at the last minute so that the lucky few in the audience who can hold on can return to the community with as much visa time as possible.

In any case, it can be considered that everyone was given one last chance.

However, as the broadcast on the big screen began, even the last possibility vanished.

The final vote has ended.

[More than half of the players chose 'Community 17,' and players in this community will suffer an additional instant death penalty at the end of the game.]

(End of this chapter)