God's Imitator-Chapter 489: Special Game

Night.

Lin Sizhi returned to the room, habitually opened the laptop and glanced at it.

Normally, a new game invitation would appear about 3 days after the game ends, allowing two to three days of design time. It’s rare to see consecutive game invitations.

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

But at this moment, there was a new pop-up window.

[Hello, Lin Sizhi.]

[Walkway will update a new rule.]

[Imitators can spend ’1 million minutes of visa time’ to purchase an opportunity to design a ’Special Game’.]

[The Special Game will have the following traits:]

[1. Any player in the New World can be selected as the target and have their player archive reviewed.]

[2. At most one player will bear the risk of death, while other players entering the game can only exist as ’Audience’, capable of influencing the game to some extent and possibly suffering visa time loss, but not directly bearing the risk of death.]

[3. If the review is not passed, the plan will be returned, but it can be modified and submitted an unlimited number of times until the review is passed.]

[4. Once the game is approved, it will not open at a fixed time, and the target player will be forcibly brought into the game, with no notification to other unrelated players.]

[5. Death penalties cannot be avoided using any means or props outside the game (including but not limited to community Immunity Coupons).]

[The decision to design a ’Special Game’ is entirely up to the personal choice of the Imitator.]

[Good luck!]

Lin Sizhi was stunned for a moment, then carefully reviewed the rules again before falling into a brief contemplation.

Although the text suggests that all Imitators can use this rule, it is likely to become a privilege enjoyed only by the top-tier Imitators.

A million minutes of visa time is an astronomical figure.

After all, an Immunity Coupon is only worth 300,000 and often requires a strong community to pool resources together to gather this amount.

Converted, this visa time would be enough for players to live in the New World for over two years.

Considering the frequency and intensity of games currently, this is essentially a vast amount of resources that one wouldn’t worry about running out of; the probability of dying directly in a game is higher than exhausting visa time.

It is challenging for players to accumulate such a large amount of visa time because each game’s gain has a limit, and games like Judgment, Selection, Rewards, and Elimination games rotate in turns.

To avoid the risk of death, players might only participate in one to two games per month.

Furthermore, players do not dare carry that much visa time into a game since encountering a mechanism like the ’Shelter Game’ that deducts money by percentage could result in all their painstakingly accumulated visa time being wiped out.

If left in the Community, it must be saved through the Community Fund, which makes it challenging to ensure other players don’t covet it.

Imitators can quickly reap players’ visa time through games, and being indisputable elites in Walkway, they surely gather visa time much faster.

However, if one is not an S-Class Imitator, having too much visa time can easily expose them.

Perhaps solving this problem for the time being like Wei Yinzhang by having an open role in the community and establishing an irreplaceable function, but it could still harbor risks.

Overall, those Imitators who have designed S-Class games can hide their visa time, and they surely have accumulated a lot, making them more likely to exploit this rule.

Once a player is selected under this rule, they face extreme danger.

Because the designing Imitator can directly review player archives and see the sins marked by Walkway.

Also, rules can be revised and resubmitted unlimited times until approved by Walkway.

The game won’t open at a set time, nor will it notify in advance, meaning the selected target player might enter an entirely unexpected game unprepared and blindsided.

Furthermore, these games cannot be avoided using any immunity props to evade death.

This point seems reasonable as well, given the Imitators have already spent 1 million minutes of visa time for the opportunity. If players could use 300,000 to simply evade death, it would make the Imitator the real loser.

Of course, being selected for such a game doesn’t necessarily mean certain death, as the Imitator must leave enough paths for survival within the game; otherwise, Walkway will not approve it.

But compared to all known game types, this ’Special Game’ is undoubtedly the most dangerous category.

"I wonder, what would my player archive and sins be?"

Lin Sizhi had some simple guesses but ultimately couldn’t determine how Walkway would judge.

...

...

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

Other players gathered in groups of three or two, many discussing tonight’s gathering.

Clearly, for most people, food is a universal topic; very few can remain completely indifferent to it.

By noon, everyone had enthusiastically begun shopping.

Yang Yuting and Qin Yao volunteered to showcase their improved culinary skills, purchasing certain raw materials from the vending machine.

Zheng Jie, Dai Yifan, and Li Jiang all stepped forward to help tidy the kitchen and lend a hand.

Li Renshu suggested that everyone could symbolically wrap some dumplings. Although they could be bought directly from the vending machine, the process was more important.

As for upscale dishes difficult to make, they were directly purchased from the vending machine but would only be served when the gathering was about to commence to maintain the best temperature and taste.

In terms of household chores, Zhou Guifen was undoubtedly the most proficient, but everyone insisted she do nothing, leaving her somewhat unaccustomed.

Shen Xing took her place in the kitchen, busying himself with everyone else.

Cai Zhiyuan and Yang Hui were also in the lobby, but since there wasn’t much for them to do temporarily, they simply chatted while waiting.

Lin Sizhi sat by the floor-to-ceiling window reading a book.

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

"Hmm? Is there anything I can help with?" Lin Sizhi put down the book and asked.

Qin Yao shook her head: "No need, the kitchen tasks are pretty much done. Yuting plans to make some cakes and baked foods, with the raw materials ready. All that’s needed is to bake them, so there’s nothing else for now."

"However..."

Qin Yao hesitated slightly, lowered her voice, and said, "I took advantage of the moment when it was just Yuting and me in the kitchen to subtly ask her something.

"She said she probably wouldn’t join the five-member group.

"Lawyer Lin, for you, this isn’t good news, is it?"

Lin Sizhi looked at her: "Hmm? Why do you say that?"

Clearly, compared to the initial situation, Qin Yao’s political awareness had notably improved.

Though Lin Sizhi hadn’t revealed anything to her, Qin Yao deduced Yuting’s potential entry into the five-member group from the prior community dynamics and possible changes.

Li Renshu’s private conversation with Yang Yuting couldn’t escape everyone’s notice, though she made no special effort to avoid it since it wasn’t a significant secret.

Qin Yao continued to analyze, lowering her voice: "Hmm... Here’s what I think.

"In the current five-member group, if clearly divided, Li Renshu and Cai Zhiyuan seem closer, and you and Yinzhang are closer, right?

"So it’s roughly a 2:2 state where Li Renshu has a bit more control in management, and you have more influence in games. Overall, it’s slightly leaning towards Li Renshu but remains balanced.

"Therefore, the fifth member becomes the ’swing vote.’ Whichever side they join will significantly increase its voice.

"If it’s Yuting, she might lean towards being a neutral party?

"But if it’s Li Jiang, I feel he might have been prompted by Cai Zhiyuan when joining the community, or perhaps they collaborated in the ’Tarot Game.’

"All things considered, if Yang Yuting doesn’t join, and Li Jiang does, it wouldn’t be good news for you and Wei Yinzhang."