God's Imitator
Chapter 578 - 577: Excessive Time
Ye Lin, Qin Cheng, and Huang Shengjie each acted as representatives and briefly narrated their entire experiences in the game.
Ye Lin’s main viewpoint was Sales, and she also mentioned the general situation of Zones A and B.
Qin Cheng’s main viewpoint was a doctor, primarily introducing Zone D.
As for Huang Shengjie, his main viewpoint was a patient, primarily introducing Zone C.
However, during the introduction, Huang Shengjie still followed Lin Sizhi’s guidance and omitted some content related to Lin Sizhi, such as the reactions of Qian Li and Zhang Yuan upon seeing Lin Sizhi, and Lin Sizhi’s hints and reminders to him.
He only emphasized that Lin Sizhi observed the game situation and shared information in the VIP room.
After hearing the entire game process, everyone was somewhat emotional.
Lu Bingjun had apparently already gathered enough information from Ye Lin, so he did not show much surprise.
However, his admiration for Qin Cheng and Huang Shengjie was evident.
"Your performance as new players in the first game was truly impressive.
"Other players who participated in the game also performed well.
"The outcome of this game was surprisingly good, a lot of gains."
Lu Bingjun seemed very worried before but was now filled with joy.
Ye Lin explained: "Strictly speaking, the main profit comes from dividing the visa time of the Imitator.
"I recorded my profits from the game, roughly 28,400 visa time.
"Which means...
"After killing the Imitator, each player received a share of 37,436 minutes of visa time.
"At first, I couldn’t quite believe it, but after generally verifying with others’ profits, it was indeed correct.
"Quite an exaggerated gain."
Wen Wan showed a shocked expression: "Each person gets 37,000!
"That’s certainly too much!"
Lu Bingjun nodded: "Indeed, too much, it completely exceeds expectations.
"According to our previous experience in the first stage of the game, Imitators vary in strength; generally, stronger ones have remaining visa time ranging from 600,000 to 1,000,000, while weaker ones are similar to smarter players, with 300,000 or more being pretty good.
"But this Imitator’s visa time, after being divided among 40 people, or rather, 39 people, each still gets 37,000.
"Doesn’t this mean his original remaining visa time was almost... 1.46 million?
"No matter how you look at it, that’s an unbelievably exaggerated number..."
Qin Cheng bowed his head in thought for a moment and asked: "I have a question.
"If the Imitator dies in the game, does the visa time that was supposed to be harvested in the game also get divided?"
Lu Bingjun froze for a moment and said: "We haven’t encountered such a case, but... it is possible."
Lin Sizhi nodded assuredly and said: "Yes."
Qin Cheng asked again: "Will other game sessions still have rules like ’Identify the Imitator’?"
Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads: "I don’t know, it didn’t seem to happen in the first stage."
Lin Sizhi thought for a moment: "I guess, since the Imitator did not enter those sessions, there should not be such rules.
"However, other rules should not change significantly."
Qin Cheng quickly calculated on paper: "Then it’s not strange.
"This game was somewhat special.
"It was a game involving ’the whole Community,’ meaning it’s not just the session we experienced.
"There should be three or more games happening simultaneously.
"And the Imitator can gain in these games.
"According to Yao Yuan’s previous introduction, from the first stage perspective, the ways the Imitator gains from the games are not limited to one method; he can gain by killing players or through specific rules.
"In the ’Pain Game,’ players must exchange medical points at a 2:1 ratio, which has a significant price difference. I think this is likely one of the methods for the Imitator to earn visa time.
"Similarly, medical points deducted for identifying the Imitator or for irregular transactions, some of them might be ’commissioned,’ becoming part of the Imitator’s gains.
"In the game, many players were forced to exchange medical points, and some even took on debt.
"These should all be included."
Ye Lin nodded: "Yes, it must be like that.
"Simply put: each Community had 5 players participate in this game, and possibly three or more games were simultaneously occurring.
"The players involved could be nearly a hundred.
"And looking at the game rules, the ’Pain Game’ is a standard zero-sum game; if the losses of all players were spread equally, the numbers would be quite exaggerated.
"After all, many players, once addicted to medication, are forced to exchange medical points at ratios of 2:1 or even 4:1.
"Moreover, this being the first game of the second stage, the Imitator who qualified must not be an ordinary one, originally having considerable visa time.
"However, since the Imitator could only enter one of these games, and killing the Imitator meant all gains were only evenly divided by the players in that game...
"So, we pretty much won the lottery.
"We took the gains exploited from players in other sessions by the Imitator."
Many players showed faces of envy or regret.
Clearly, many regretted not signing up freely; if they’d volunteered and replaced a player, the gains would have been theirs.
Even someone like Zheng Chunhua could earn 60,000 minutes of visa time in the game, so many players felt they could have done the same.
It was Shen Bowen who first raised a question.
"Strange... although killing the Imitator and earning so much visa time is good...
"But wasn’t this Imitator a bit too weak?
"Quite a gap from the initial expectations."
Zhou Wanlin paused: "Too weak? Where weak? Isn’t it because our team was too strong?
"Had nobody found him, all that visa time would have been his alone—1.46 million!
"I’ve never heard of an Imitator earning so much visa time in one game session."
Deng Xiao nodded in agreement: "And consider the game’s premature termination situation.
"If the game hadn’t ended early due to killing the Imitator, the last rounds would have collected even more thoroughly; given this game’s nature, as it progresses, ordinary pain tends to transform massively into special pain, increasing medication demands.
"Never saw such visa time gained in a single session in the first stage."
Shen Bowen pondered for a while: "Well... how to say.
"Just in terms of earning visa time, Xu Yiheng, as the Imitator, was quite formidable.
"But for the special role of the Imitator, having so much visa time means nothing—once exposed nearly equals death.
"Xu Yiheng didn’t do well in hiding himself.
"At least from everyone’s retrospective descriptions, many of his actions seemed careless.
"If he’d done nothing, it might have been safer. As for the losses, it’s just losing tens of thousands of minutes of visa time, really.
"Absolutely no need to take risks."