God's imitator

Chapter 270, "The Shelter Game," has ended.

Cao Haichuan returned to the lounge where the 17th community was located, comfortably lay down on a single sofa, and took out a cigarette from his pocket.

"At this point, you don't mind, do you?"

Everyone nodded silently.

Cao Haichuan exhaled a puff of smoke, looked at everyone, and said, "Don't be sad. For me, this is a good result."

“When Chen Peng called the police about the house issue, I really sympathized with him, but I was also powerless to help. But no matter what, it was my fault, and I admit it.”

"I've made many other mistakes, and I admit them all."

"That's what happens when I'm a policeman."

Li Renshu was in low spirits: "Officer Cao, is there anything else you want to say to me?"

Cao Haichuan shook his head: "No, I've already said what I needed to tell you in the community."

"You can worry about the rest. I'm going to rest now."

Cao Haichuan took another deep drag of his cigarette, then leaned back on the single sofa and calmly closed his eyes.

……

The game is about to end.

[A lie detector test will now be conducted on all players inside the room. If a player's true thoughts at this moment are completely consistent with the previous voting results, they will be marked as a "perfect judge."]

[The lie detector test is over. There are fewer than 10 "Perfect Judges". All players except the "Perfect Judges" and the "Spectators" will trigger an additional instant-death penalty.]

[All players in Community 17 suffered an additional instant death penalty due to the 'final vote'.]

In the square, many players who had lost their chance to escape death fell into despair. Some angrily rushed towards other players, some tried in vain to remove their visa bracelets, and some collapsed to the ground, losing all their strength.

Death came quickly.

The few remaining shelters were destroyed one after another. Although the players in Community 17, except for Cao Haichuan, suffered an instant death penalty, they were ultimately safe and sound thanks to the protection of the shelters.

Players in other communities who have already lost their chance to escape death are not so lucky.

One by one, the players on the field fell down.

All five players in Community 7 have died.

All five players in Community 9 have died.

All players in Community 12, except for Chen Guangming, have died.

In Community 15, Feng Bo, Shao Xinying, and two others died, while Wang Weidong and another player survived.

Cao Haichuan from the 17th community died.

In the end, there were 7 players remaining in the inner area.

The players in Community 17 had originally reserved two shelters for each person as a precaution. After using up four shelters to avoid death, they immediately put the remaining six shelters up for sale at 12 gold coins.

If some viewers have persisted until now and are unwilling to buy expensive shelters, then they will be able to purchase these reasonably priced shelters and minimize their losses.

Almost instantly, five shelters were snapped up.

However, one shelter remained unattended.

This means that only 5 lucky viewers made it to the end.

The latest listed price for the shelter is 12 gold coins.

A few moments later, the broadcast resumed on the big screen.

[In this game, all players from Communities 7, 9, and 11 have been eliminated. All the gold coins from these communities will be equally distributed among the surviving players inside the arena and the spectators.]

On average, each player received 19 gold coins.

This information confirmed Cao Haichuan's guess. There were indeed "hidden players" in this game, and they came from Community 11.

These players cannot escape death through the shelter, so a single instant death penalty can kill them all.

The gold coins accumulated by these "hidden players" through various means were then divided equally among them.

Unfortunately, there was no notification in the game that the copycat had died, which means that the copycat was neither among the hidden players nor among the other dead players in the inner area.

It's also possible that the copycat never even entered the game in the first place.

Lee In-sook looked in the direction of the 12th and 15th communities.

Their final outcomes share some similarities: the core players all survived to the end.

Clearly, they made other players in the same community share the risk.

Wang Weidong sent others to lobby the 7th and 12th communities, so he himself remained unharmed.

As for the 12th community, all four other players died, with only Chen Guangming surviving.

This is clearly not a coincidence.

Because Lee In-sook noticed that the shelter in Community 12 was intact and had not been damaged.

This means that Chen Guangming did not suffer an immediate death penalty.

He likely cast his "insincere vote" during the rehearsal stage, just like Community 17.

At the same time, he was aware of the existence of the "hidden player" very early on, because as early as the fourth round of the game, he was already consciously spending more coins to win the favor of the "hidden player".

Chen Guangming did not lie to Fan Zehui; he did indeed possess the foolproof method to win this game.

This winning strategy is simple: it's about "acting as an accomplice to a tyrant." As long as you keep bidding high prices for land and giving away money according to the wishes of the "hidden player," and squeeze as many coins as possible from the audience, then the "hidden player" will use all his privileges to help him.

In the selection of land parcels, priority is given to certain areas.

The timing of the announcement of the crimes will be chosen to be most advantageous to Chen Guangming.

These "hidden players" may even have been directly transmitting information to Chen Guangming through the displays on their hands.

Everything indeed unfolded as Chen Guangming had predicted.

But what Fan Zehui didn't expect was that Chen Guangming's "sure-win method" did not include the other four players in the 12th community.

Even killing the other four players in the 12th community was part of Chen Guangming's plan.

Chen Guangming's words to Fan Zehui and others from the beginning, such as "giving up the profits of this game in order to gain more say in the future," were all half true and half false.

Regardless of whether Fan Zehui and the others live or die, Chen Guangming will definitely be in the safest position.

As for how Chen Guangming should explain the deaths of Fan Zehui and the other four players to the other players after returning to the 12th community?
The answer is most likely that there's no need to explain at all.

Given Chen Guangming's skill level, all the players in Community 12 could only be manipulated by him.

Perhaps he had already formed his own small group in Community 12 before entering the game.

After this game ends, he will keep all the gold coins that the 12th community earned in the game, and the visa he will eventually bring back will be astronomical.

He could easily buy out the community while simultaneously intimidating them, turning the 12th community into his personal fiefdom in the shortest possible time.

Of course, some players might try to kill him by voting and divide his visa time, depending on the specific ecosystem of Community 12 at that time.

Those things remain unknown.

The disorganized 12th community had been hoping for a powerful player to join them, and their wish came true, albeit in a distorted way.

【game over. 】

(End of this chapter)