God's imitator

Chapter 81 Accusation and Murder
Some female players, upon seeing that he only had a bottle of mineral water, immediately gave him the cold shoulder and didn't follow up.

Some female players passed the first screening and expressed their gratitude after receiving the bottled water, but they were immediately exposed.

When Zheng Jie suggested exchanging likes before giving them the vouchers, he was almost immediately met with ridicule.

"What do you mean we have to exchange likes first? Do you mean you don't trust me?"

"Ha, then where is your sincerity?"

"You're really treating this worthless voucher like a family heirloom? If you don't give it away, plenty of others will. Keep it for yourself, and let's see if you can even give it away in the end."

Zheng Jie had heard similar remarks several times.

Moreover, Zheng Jie could clearly sense that the female players he was matched with in the later stages of the game were increasingly using various methods to hint to him to give them vouchers.

Zheng Jie hesitated, but ultimately did not fall for the scam.

Because of poverty.

As a player who had only recently arrived in the new world, he didn't have much time left on his visa, so how could he easily exchange for a 10,000-minute pass and then give it away indiscriminately?

Many meetings ended unhappily, and in the end, I received three more downvotes.

Zheng Jie also "downvoted" female players with bad attitudes, but it's unclear what specific consequences this might have.

Of course, there was one piece of good news: Zheng Jie still received two likes.

One of them was obtained during a talent show.

The other one was voted on by other female players.

Furthermore, judging from the attitudes of the other two female players within the same hour, it's easy to filter out those who gave him a thumbs up:
Zhou Rong, a female player from Community 12.

Zhou Rong appears to be a petite and cute girl. She was very polite throughout the meeting and was considerate of Zheng Jie's feelings.

As for the other two I met in the same hour... don't even mention them, they weren't as good as Lu Xinyi.

Lu Xinyi only lied to Zheng Jie and didn't give him a thumbs up. Zheng Jie was a little angry at first, but after comparing, he felt that Lu Xinyi was actually quite nice.

At least Lu Xinyi split the room cost with him without saying a word.

As for other female players, if their attitude in the meeting room is terrible, then it's absolutely impossible for them to give him a thumbs up.

Therefore, Zheng Jie naturally concluded that the female player who gave him the thumbs up was Zhou Rong.

This is already quite good. If one of the other two female players in the same hour hadn't acted so genuinely and had tricked him into giving a like, Zheng Jie really wouldn't have been able to tell the difference.

But what to do next? Zheng Jie was once again caught in a dilemma.

As per the previous agreement, once Zhou Rong and he exchanged likes, he would invite Zhou Rong to meet again in a subsequent meeting and give her a voucher for 10,000 minutes of visa time.

This is equivalent to a deposit.

After the arrangements were finalized, he invited Zhou Rong again during their final meeting. The two exchanged likes to complete the "final vote" and each received 3 minutes of visa time.

But now Zheng Jie is in a dilemma again. He is suddenly worried that after the other party takes the voucher, he will refuse his invitation in the last round.
Is Zhou Rong a fraudster?
Previously, a player from Community 9 shouted that a female player from Community 12 had cheated him. Could it be Zhou Rong?
However, each community has 2 to 4 female players participating, and they cannot contact each other. Just because one of the female players cheated does not mean that Zhou Rong will also cheat.

Judging from the current situation, if Zheng Jie doesn't choose Zhou Rong, he really has no one else to choose.

After 12 meetings, Zheng Jie roughly determined the game's matchmaking mechanism:
The game avoids matchmaking with players from the same community by default, so he hasn't encountered any players from Community 17 yet.

If you can meet players from the same community, things will be much easier, and you can easily build mutual trust. After all, if either party lies, they will be punished severely in the community, so it is quite binding.

But now they can't even speak, and they have no idea how the other three are doing.

The probability of being matched with someone of the same sex or the opposite sex is roughly 1:3 or 1:4. In other words, there is only a small chance of being matched with a player of the same sex.

There's no point in liking posts from players of the same sex, since there's no extra benefit.
I like posts from players of the opposite sex, but I never get a response.

For Zheng Jie, this game was incredibly difficult; he couldn't play it at all.

Because Zheng Jie didn't get many likes, he still managed to get on a talent show.

He used all his skills to sing his best song, and barely managed to get 12 "interesting" comments and one precious "like".

This is already pretty good.

Because many male players were given enough "boring" comments within two minutes of going on stage, and then their games were forcibly cut off.

So far, among the male players participating in the talent show, only that handsome guy has successfully received 3 likes.

However, that kind of playstyle is too dependent on modeling, and the conditions are very demanding.

Besides, some contestants don't even go on stage. Zheng Jie has seen two or three times where the stage is empty after a talent show starts. Obviously, for those male players who know they have no talent and are not good-looking, going on stage would only be humiliating. Since they can't earn likes, why bother embarrassing themselves?
In situations like this, the comments are usually quickly tagged as "boring" and then forcibly cut off.

Meanwhile, a new round of talent shows was also taking place on the big screen.

A girl crying appears on the left side of the screen.

【Community 9 - Xue Qi】

She doesn't have any particularly striking features; she's neither particularly pretty nor ugly. Judging from the order in which she appeared on the talent show, she probably won't get many likes.

"I'm sorry everyone, I don't have any special talents or anything to perform, but could you please give me two minutes to finish speaking?"
"I don't know what happened, maybe I'm just unlucky, but after entering this game, the system determined that I would have to have more than 1000 minutes of visa time deducted every hour. I've already had nearly 4000 minutes of visa time deducted from me..."

"I don't know what to do. Could you guys please give me a free like? Thank you!"

Zheng Jie was stunned. Could he really have been penalized so much?
The game rules do state that all female players will have a certain amount of visa time randomly deducted from their game time, but Zheng Jie previously thought it would be a very small number.

Unexpectedly, this girl was so unlucky that she was charged an extra 1000 yuan in just one hour.

real or fake?

Zheng Jie was slightly suspicious, but then he thought that there was no cost to clicking "interesting" or "boring" here, so why not click it?
He still clicked "Interesting," even though using "Interesting" to describe his current mood was a bit absurd.

As for the second performer who competed against her, he was a male player from the 8th community who sang quite well. Although he was not forcibly cut off and was able to finish his song, the number of likes he received was obviously incomparable to that of the other two.

Zheng Jie also rated it "interesting".

Performer #1 has received a total of 31 "interesting" comments and has earned an extra like.

Performer #2 has received a total of 15 "interesting" comments and has earned an extra like.

"Thank you! Thank you everyone!"

Although there was no sound on the big screen, Zheng Jie could still easily guess what Xue Qi was saying by reading her lips.

Seeing this result, Zheng Jie felt both regretful and speechless.

What happened to the promised talent performance?

Getting 3 likes by playing the victim makes everyone else singing seriously seem like clowns!
If I had known she would get so many likes, I wouldn't have clicked.

But then I thought, not clicking "interesting" probably wouldn't affect the final result. Oh well, that's how it is.

Zheng Jie stood in front of the small screen at the entrance of the meeting room corridor, considering whether to extend an invitation to Zhou Rong, the only person who had liked his post.

However, at that moment, new information appeared on the big screen.

[The game now enters its second phase, with a total time limit of 4 hours.]

The following rules will be added in Phase Two:

[1. Accusation and Murder]

The control panel in the meeting room will now have two new function buttons activated: 'Inform' and 'Murder'.

[After pressing 'Report', if your number of likes is higher than the other party's, you can consume 2 'likes' to complete the report.]

[A player who is reported three times will suffer instant death in 10 seconds.]

[After pressing 'Murder,' if your score is higher than the opponent's, you can consume 5 'stomps' to complete the murder.]

The murdered player will suffer instant death after 10 seconds.

[After killing another player using any rule in the game, you will receive 1/10 of that player's remaining visa time as a personal reward.]

When multiple players participate in a player's death, the rewards will be shared equally.

2. Data Query

All data retrieved by consuming 'likes' can now also be retrieved by consuming 'dislikes'.

【3. Matching Rules】

From now on, meeting invitations from players of the same gender will be prohibited. Players will still have a certain probability of being matched with players of the same gender, but this will only be possible through the system's random matchmaking system.

4. Additional Penalties

[After the final meeting, if the player has any unused "likes" or "dislikes," each will incur an additional 1 minutes of visa time deduction.]

(End of this chapter)