God's Imitator-Chapter 482: Unexpected Personnel Changes

The next second, Lin Sizhi realized he had returned to the community hall.

This game session had been quite long, but even so, the players of Community 17 were still waiting in the hall.

Due to the existence of the "First Player Identity Card," the players remaining in the community could also receive the basic game rules information synchronously, so they were still very concerned.

However, the main concern was not the occurrence of death cases.

According to the game rules, the entire team of the last-ranked main community will die, and the second to last main community will lose one player; such possibilities are not high.

Even if they are second to last, they can use an Immunity Coupon to save the potentially doomed player.

What everyone was most worried about, instead, was significant personnel changes.

This was because after players enter the Exit Area, leaving is determined by their individual Wealth Value. If the strong players in Community 17 did not make proper arrangements in the game, players like Zhou Guifen, Shen Xing, and Dai Yifan could easily be squeezed out by players from other communities.

So, upon seeing everyone return, Li Renshu was the first to confirm the list.

She first saw that Zhou Guifen, Shen Xing, and Dai Yifan were there, which made her breathe a sigh of relief.

This indicated that, in the game, the strong members of the community had made the corresponding arrangements, transferring enough Wealth Coupons to these weaker members needing care, ensuring they could return to Community 17 normally.

But then, Li Renshu realized something was amiss.

Because among the 8 returning players, including Shen Xing, there were 3 players from other communities.

This meant that only 5 out of the original group of 6 that entered had actually returned.

"Brother Wang is missing?

"Where is Brother Wang?" Yang Yuting quickly noticed this too and said in shock.

Zhou Guifen, who had been holding Shen Xing’s hand, immersed in the joy of their reunion, also belatedly said, "Huh? Is Boss Wang not here?"

Everyone looked at the three players from other communities and realized that they were actually all acquaintances.

Shen Xing from Community 5.

Li Jiang from Community 13.

Yang Hui from Community 8.

Most people had no objections to these three players joining the community because, judging from their previous game performances, they didn’t seem to be players with obvious malice, nor would they impact or destroy the power structure and ecological environment of Community 17.

However, what everyone could not accept was that Wang Yongxin had not returned to Community 17.

No one spoke for a moment, and the atmosphere suddenly fell into silence.

Many people were shocked by this sudden change and didn’t know what to say.

Li Renshu was obviously finding it hard to accept, but after considering for a moment, she clapped her hands: "Alright, I know you probably have a lot of questions, but this game session was very long, and the players inside went through a lot.

"Although there might have been unforeseen personnel changes, the game’s special rules might have humanly uncontrollable elements.

"We’ve interacted with these three players in previous games, and I consider them to meet the standards of ’new members.’

"So, given the situation, let’s first accept this outcome and welcome the three new members."

After speaking, Li Renshu led the applause, and other players followed suit, making the community hall lively again, even if just briefly.

Shen Xing, Yang Hui, and Li Jiang expressed their gratitude to everyone and introduced themselves briefly.

Li Renshu continued, "This game session was long, and everyone worked hard. Let’s take a short break first.

"After dinner, we’ll conduct a review of this game session. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"Is there anyone willing to volunteer to help these three new members get familiar with the community environment?"

There was no need to consider Shen Xing; she would certainly be shown around by Zhou Guifen, as they likely had much to discuss as a mother and daughter.

Yang Yuting was the first to claim Yang Hui, while Cai Zhiyuan volunteered to guide Li Jiang.

After these arrangements were made, everyone looked somewhat complexly at the screen in the hall.

[Now announcing the final visa time results of Community 17 in the "Tarot Game."]

[No. 1 Shen Xing: 58112]

[No. 2 Wei Yinzhang: 58577]

[No. 4 Dai Yifan: 57125]

[No. 5 Cai Zhiyuan: 59631]

[No. 6 Yang Hui: 57984]

[No. 8 Zhou Guifen: 56494]

[No. 9 Li Jiang: 56823]

[No. 12 Lin Sizhi: 61639]

[According to community rules, the visa time obtained by players will be integrated into the community’s insurance fund using a ’progressive tax rate.’ The remaining visa time will be added to each player’s visa.]

Due to the personnel changes, the player numbers had also changed.

The previous positions of numbers 1 and 9 were vacant, and Wang Yongxin was number 6, now replaced by the three new players.

From the numbers, the overall gains seemed quite average, with not much difference.

This is because, from a game-rules perspective, the primary task of strong players is to ensure the smooth exit of fellow community players rather than securing the highest personal gains.

The specific Wealth Value is hard to account for, as the Wealth Coupons obtained by each were different, and when converted into visa time, they would be affected by community ranking and faction successes or failures.

But it can be roughly calculated that a total of 7 players died in the game, and their total visa time was doubled and distributed to the surviving players.

The players of Community 17 were on the ’receiving end,’ so their gains were higher.

Players like Huang Ming, who weren’t very strong or transferred Wealth to others in the latter stages, probably only gained around 10,000 to 20,000, or even less.

Overall, this game session’s collective gains weren’t high, but that might not be a bad thing.

Because obtaining high gains is straightforward, the controlling players of the game can make slight adjustments and wipe out one or two Edge Communities, easily doubling the total gains.

Fortunately, that possibility did not occur.

Although there were still many questions, the overly long game session did indeed exhaust most people.

Everyone dispersed.

The three new players, respectively, became acquainted with the community environment under the guidance of Zhou Guifen, Yang Yuting, and Cai Zhiyuan, and moved into their respective rooms.

...

After dinner.

All players sat around a long table, ready to begin the review of this game session.

However, this game session’s review was evidently more challenging than any previous sessions.

Due to the special matchmaking mechanism, most players could not see the overall picture of the game and could only talk about matches directly related to themselves.

Li Renshu, after careful consideration, first asked Wei Yinzhang to narrate the entire game’s process from his experience as the main perspective.

Afterward, she considered making supplementary observations from other perspectives.

Wei Yinzhang took over the conversation: "Then I’ll start by talking about my experience in the game.

"It’s somewhat embarrassing to say, but I adopted primarily a defensive strategy, so I didn’t have any remarkable performances in the matches."

Li Renshu shook her head: "No, the rules you established were key to Shen Xing and Aunt Zhou reuniting, and you also took on significant risks."

Feeling the grateful glances from Zhou Guifen and Shen Xing directed at him, Wei Yinzhang nodded to them: "It’s okay, it was worth it."

In this review and recounting process, players who didn’t participate in the game gradually began to understand the whole sequence of events.