God's imitator

Chapter 309 Unanswerable Questions

Because if you choose option C, even if your game history is checked in the community, you can at least try to explain yourself to other players in the community.

Although many people will still have doubts, at least it won't be definitively proven.

Every player may have some dark thoughts in their mind, but having them is one thing, and actually revealing them to everyone is another.

Xu Zhao then understood why some players had initially suggested choosing option C.

They also wanted to cover it up.

The problem is that there are also many players in this room who have a clear conscience and want to choose option B.

These players would absolutely not agree to choose option C.

Because options A and B target players from the same community, while option C targets players from other communities.

Many players may not have thought about harming other players in their own community, but they are very likely to have thought about harming other players in judgment or selection games.

In this way, they originally chose option B, which was the correct one, but now they have chosen option C, and are being punished against their conscience for no reason, with a lot of extra visa time being deducted.

Players who chose B and those who chose C could not reach an agreement no matter what.

This effectively created divisions even within the 15th community.

Moreover, Xu Zhao considered an even more serious possibility.

What if the player who had this idea happened to be a leader in the community?

"Wang Weidong..."

Xu Zhao thought of the previous "Shelter Game".

In that game, a total of 5 players entered Community 15, but only 2 players survived.

However, in return, Wang Weidong also earned a lot of visa time from the game, and established a new fund in the community in the name of three deceased players, donating more than half of the visa time in the game to it, successfully unlocking the "immunity ticket".

The players in Community 15 certainly wouldn't blame Wang Weidong for this.

In retrospect, the "Shelter Game" was indeed too dangerous, with too many penalties for death.

As the player leading the team, Wang Weidong couldn't completely avoid all the death rules; he had done his best within his capabilities.

Moreover, Wang Weidong obtained information about the "possible existence of special invulnerability items" through the 17th community in the game, and donated the proceeds to unlock invulnerability vouchers, providing protection for all players. These are all real contributions.

Therefore, after that game, Wang Weidong's position in Community 15 actually became more secure.

But... was Wang Weidong truly unable to save those three players, or was he deliberately refusing to do so in order to gain profits?
Did he anticipate that persuading other communities might result in immediate death, so he deliberately sent someone else instead of himself?
Is it that the player was deliberately causing other players to die without knowing the specific rules, or that the player was deliberately killing other players in the same community to earn coins after guessing the rules?
Logically speaking, even if the players in the original 15th community had doubts about this, they would have no way to verify it.

There's no point in asking; nobody's stupid enough to tell the truth.

But things are different now.

If the players in Community 15 knew about the content of this game, someone would definitely check Wang Weidong's game records privately to see what he specifically chose when he encountered this question.

If you are forced to choose B and then trigger the penalty for acting against your will, then everything is self-evident.

But choosing A won't work either; if you choose A but don't trigger the penalty for acting against your conscience, it's the same.

If you really have this idea, then the only choice is C.

Although this is still a bit of a cover-up and most players will still be suspicious, at least it's not absolute evidence, and perhaps we can still cover it up with some rhetoric.

But Wang Weidong is not a free man; he cannot choose C at will, but is forced to choose B according to the room rules.

What will Wang Weidong do?

Thinking about this, Xu Zhao's heart pounded even harder; those five minutes of thinking time felt incredibly long. Finally, as the time for answering the question was about to end, a prompt appeared on the screen.

The room owner has cancelled the room rules.

In other words, the original constraints are no longer in effect.

Clearly, Wang Weidong couldn't think of a solution either, so he could only choose this expedient measure for the time being.

The correct answer to this question is: Choose either 'A. Yes' or 'B. No' based on your true feelings.

The net gain for the 12 participants in this room is -51000 minutes of visa processing time.

The question setter will receive 51000 minutes of visa time. An additional 30000 minutes of visa time will be deducted.

The question setter will be the "repeater" (or "go-to person") for the next round.

Judging from the results, the players who answered the questions lost miserably.

Most players would choose option B, which is the correct option, but it would also be the majority option, so the final payout would be -6000.

The free agent player who chooses this option will receive a reward of 4000 because it transfers the majority penalty to the question setter.

The key lies with the player who chose C.

These players clearly didn't dare to choose A or B; they didn't want to reveal their true thoughts.

If they return to the community and other players check their game records, they could very well be wiped out within the community.

However, choosing C will also trigger the penalty for acting against one's conscience.

Because someone who has thought about killing players in their own community must have also thought about harming players in other communities.

As a result, since many players triggered the penalty for acting against their conscience, the person who set the questions still earned a very considerable profit.

Cai Zhiyuan didn't give them any time to think and quickly presented a second question.

If I set room rules, I will continue to encounter similar problems. If I don't set room rules, I will choose to encounter general problems. Do you think I should set room rules to prevent me from encountering similar problems?

【A. Settings】

【B. Not set】

C. I want to kill you.

Clearly, this wasn't a question, but rather a conversation between Cai Zhiyuan and Wang Weidong.

Cai Zhiyuan's meaning is simple: as long as Wang Weidong sets the room rules, he will keep asking these kinds of questions, exposing the darkest corners of all the respondents' hearts.

Under the lie detector mechanism in the arcade, there will be no room for ambiguity.

Afterwards, any player who checks the game records can find out what these respondents were really thinking.

This question, while already quite pointed, is not the most pointed one.

Cai Zhiyuan clearly showed leniency.

Of course, this was not to let Wang Weidong off the hook, but simply because they were worried that he would resort to desperate measures and fight to the death.

If the first question forces Wang Weidong into a corner, then with his darkest thoughts already exposed, he might choose to give up entirely.

He would reset the rules, forcing all players to choose the same option, and no longer consider how to end things after returning to the community.

That was not the situation Cai Zhiyuan wanted to see.

(End of this chapter)