God's imitator

Chapter 490 Special Game
night.

Lin Sizhi returned to her room and habitually opened her laptop to take a look.

Normally, new game invitations will appear about 3 days after the game ends, allowing for 2 to 3 days of design time. It is rare for game invitations to appear consecutively.

When there is no game invitation, no other information will usually appear on the computer.

But then, a new pop-up window appeared.

Hello, Lin Sizhi.

The arcade will be updated with a new rule.

[A copycat can spend '100 million minutes of visa time' to purchase a design opportunity for a 'special game'.]

[Special games will have the following characteristics:]

[1. You can select any player in the new world as a target and view their profile.]

[2. A maximum of 10 players can be selected, but only one player can be at serious risk of death. For each additional player, an additional 100,000 minutes of visa processing time will be required.]

3. If the review fails, the proposal will be returned, but it can be revised and submitted an unlimited number of times until it is approved.

[4. Once the game is approved, it will not be launched at a fixed time. Target players will be directly and forcibly added to the game, and other unrelated players will not receive a notification.]

5. Death penalties cannot be waived by any means or items outside of the game (including but not limited to community death-avoidance vouchers).

Whether or not to design "special games" is entirely up to the copycat's personal choice.

【Good luck! 】

Lin Sizhi paused for a moment, then carefully read through the rules again before falling into a brief moment of thought.

Although the text suggests that all copycats can use this rule, it will likely become a privilege reserved for the most outstanding copycats.

One million minutes of visa processing time is an incredibly staggering astronomical figure.

After all, a "get out of jail free" voucher only costs 30, and it often requires the entire community to pool their resources to reach that amount.

If you do the math, these visa durations are enough for players to live in the new world for up to two years.

Given the current frequency and intensity of game launches, it's essentially a huge sum of money that you don't have to worry about running out of: the probability of dying directly in the game is far higher than running out of visa time.

It's very difficult for players to accumulate such a large amount of visa time because there's a limit to the rewards in each game, and the game often features a variety of types of challenges, such as trial, selection, reward, and elimination.

To avoid the risk of death, players will likely only participate in one or two of these matches within a month.

Furthermore, players are hesitant to bring too much visa time into the game, in case they encounter a mechanism like the "Shelter Game" where they are penalized with a percentage of their earnings, all their hard-earned visa time will be wiped out.

If you stay in the community, you have to save it through the community fund, and it's hard to guarantee that other players won't be tempted by it.

Copycats can quickly collect players' visa time through the game. As the undisputed elite in the arcade, they can certainly accumulate visa time much faster.

The problem is that, unless one is an S-level copycat, too much visa time could easily be exposed.

Establishing a public presence in the community and playing an irreplaceable role, like Wei Yinzhang did, might temporarily solve this problem, but potential risks may still exist.

In general, copycats who have designed S-class games can hide their visa durations, and they must have accumulated a lot of visa durations, making them the most likely to exploit this rule.

Once selected by this rule, the player will be in extreme danger.

Because copycats who design games can directly view player profiles and see the player's crimes as marked in the arcade.

Furthermore, you can modify and submit an unlimited number of times until it passes the gallery's review.

The game will not start at a fixed time, and there will not even be any prior notice. This means that the selected target players may participate in a completely unexpected game without any preparation time.

Furthermore, this game does not allow players to avoid death using any invincibility items.

This makes sense, considering that the copycat had already spent 100 million minutes of visa time to buy this opportunity. If the player could simply avoid death for 30, the copycat would be the one who got ripped off.

Of course, being selected for such a game doesn't necessarily mean certain death, because copycats must also leave themselves a way to survive within the game; otherwise, the arcade won't pass censorship. But compared to all other known types of games, this kind of "special game" is undoubtedly the most dangerous.

"What will my player profile and crimes look like?"

Lin Sizhi had some simple guesses, but ultimately couldn't be sure how the gallery would determine it.

……

……

The next morning, Lin Sizhi got up as usual and had breakfast in the lobby.

The other players gathered in small groups, and many of them were discussing tonight's dinner.

Clearly, for the vast majority of people, food is a topic with the greatest common denominator, and very few people can remain completely indifferent to it.

At noon, everyone had already begun their lively shopping spree.

Yang Yuting and Qin Yao volunteered to show off their improved cooking skills, so they bought some ingredients from the vending machine.

Zheng Jie, Dai Yifan, Li Jiang, and others also volunteered to help clean the kitchen and do odd jobs.

Lee In-sook suggested that everyone could symbolically make some dumplings, even though they could buy them directly from the vending machine, the process was more important.

As for those high-end dishes that are difficult to prepare ourselves, we simply bought them from vending machines, but they could only be served close to the start of the gathering in order to maintain the best temperature and taste of the dishes.

Speaking of housework, Zhou Guifen is definitely the best at it, but everyone unanimously asked her not to do anything, which made her a little uncomfortable.

Shen Xing helped her in the kitchen and worked alongside everyone else.

Cai Zhiyuan and Yang Hui were also in the hall, but they couldn't find any good work to do for the time being, so they could only chat and wait for orders.

Lin Sizhi was reading a book by the French windows.

After a while, Qin Yao came out of the kitchen and sat down opposite Lin Sizhi.

"Hmm? Is there anything I can help you with?" Lin Sizhi asked, putting down the book.

Qin Yao shook her head: "No need, the kitchen work is basically done. Yuting is planning to make some cakes and bake some things. The ingredients are all ready, and all that's left is to bake them in the oven, so there's nothing else for now."

"but……"

Qin Yao hesitated for a moment, then lowered her voice and said, "Just now, when it was just Yu Ting and me in the kitchen, I subtly asked her a question."

She said she probably wouldn't be in the five-person group.

"Attorney Lin, this shouldn't be good news for you, right?"

Lin Sizhi looked at her: "Hmm? What makes you say that?"

Clearly, Qin Yao's political awareness has improved significantly compared to the beginning.

Although Lin Sizhi never revealed anything about this incident to Qin Yao, Qin Yao still deduced from the previous community situation and possible changes that Yang Yuting might be the next member of the five-person group.

It was impossible for Li Renshu to talk to Yang Yuting privately without everyone's knowledge. Of course, she didn't try to avoid it; it wasn't a particularly important secret.

Qin Yao lowered her voice and continued her analysis: "Hmm... this is what I think."

"If we were to clearly divide the five people in the group now, Li Renshu and Cai Zhiyuan would be standing closer, and you and Yin Zhang would be standing closer, right?"

"So it's roughly a 2:2 situation. Lee In-sook has more control over things, and you have more influence in the game, so it's basically slightly biased towards Lee In-sook, but overall it's still balanced."

"So the fifth member of the five-person group became a 'swing vote,' right? Whichever side he stands on, that side's voice will obviously increase."

"If it were Yuting, she might lean towards the middle ground?"
"But if it's Li Jiang, I feel that he entered the community at Cai Zhiyuan's behest, right? Or maybe the two of them had collaborated before in the 'Tarot Game'."

"In general, if Yang Yuting doesn't join the five-person group, then Li Jiang's entry is probably not good news for you and Wei Yinzhang."

(End of this chapter)