God's Imitator-Chapter 492: Hermit Judgment

"What’s going on?

"What’s going on!

"Am I dreaming? I must be dreaming, right?"

Gao Jialiang looked at everything in front of him in disbelief, unable to comprehend what was happening.

He even slapped himself twice to confirm if he was awake.

For ordinary players, they didn’t know the rules of the "Special Game" in advance, so they weren’t mentally prepared at all.

Being pulled into a dangerous judgment game while asleep, players with poor psychological resilience instantly began to collapse.

Cui Yifeng’s breathing was also a bit rapid. He looked around the entire venue, his body starting to tremble uncontrollably.

Sun De glanced around, instinctively leaning slightly toward Cai Zhiyuan.

Clearly, the experiences in the "Wealthy Dynasty" led him to consider Cai Zhiyuan as someone he could rely on a bit in this game.

Fu Yujun appeared the calmest, while Huang Ming looked bewildered, clearly not yet fully understanding the situation, temporarily in a state of mental shutdown.

Cai Zhiyuan had already confirmed that this was the game scene of the "King’s Judgment," only some details had changed.

In the initial area, there was still a long corridor, with each person’s exclusive path featuring a "Farmer’s Walk" mechanism, and at the other end of the corridor was the main game scene, where different prison rooms could be seen.

However, unlike the "King’s Judgment," there wasn’t an area like the second-floor stands for the audience.

The big screen started playing the game rules.

[Hello, players.]

[Now, you will participate in a game called the "Hermit Judgment."]

[Before entering the formal game site, you need to engage in a simple preliminary mini-game to determine your subsequent identity: "Hermit" or "Spectator."]

[As you can see, ahead is a 45-meter-long corridor, divided into three stages: 20 meters, 15 meters, and 10 meters.]

[You must carry a mechanism weighing your body weight and pass through the corridor within the time limit.]

[Each stage has different time limits and rest periods, so please pay close attention to the timer on your path.]

[If you exceed the time limit, the spikes on the mechanism will pierce your body, and exceeding the limit by twice will result in an instant-death penalty.]

[The first player to cross the corridor will become the "Hermit," while other players will become "Spectators."]

[The "Hermit" can decide who enters the prison rooms, while the "Spectators" can only accept passively.]

[However, in this game, there is a "Super Authority Player."]

[This player’s identity is in a "Completely Hidden State," and the person themselves is unaware.]

[If the "Super Authority Player" never enters any prison room, they will incur an instant-death penalty; after entering a prison room, depending on the room, they will face more severe challenges than other players.]

[The game has a total of 6 different prison rooms. When 6 players have entered all the rooms and completed the games, the "Super Authority Player" will recognize their identity and gain the same privileges as the "Super Authority Player" in the "Lifting Game."]

[That is: they must choose one of the following two options.]

[One, choose any still-surviving in-game player to inflict an instant-death penalty.]

[Two, inflict an instant-death penalty on themselves, sending any still-surviving in-game player out of the Walkway and back to the real world.]

[More rules will be disclosed after entering the formal site.]

[This is a test of will and belief; finding ’who I am’ will also unlock the key to clearing the game.]

[The game will officially start in ten minutes, good luck to you all!]

Unlike the original "King’s Judgment," this game didn’t proceed directly to the "Farmer’s Walk" stage after the rules introduction, but instead left a ten-minute period for players to consider the rules and discuss strategy.

But this only amplified some players’ fear.

If it had started directly, players would have had to immediately carry the mechanism forward under survival pressure, without time to consider so much.

And now, the panic began to spread.

Gao Jialiang appeared somewhat collapsing: "How could this happen... This is clearly a judgment-type game. Why didn’t I receive an invitation in advance... Where am I, is this still the Walkway?"

Cui Yifeng from Community 19 also seemed to be in bad shape, but he still tried his best to remain calm.

He looked at Cai Zhiyuan: "Aren’t you going to say something? This current situation is most likely related to you, right?

"Why did you enter the judgment game twice? As far as I know, there’s no precedent for this in the Walkway..."

Everyone’s eyes were fixed on Cai Zhiyuan.

Fu Yujun quickly pondered the meaning behind this sentence: "Are you saying... the ’King’s Judgment’?

"Is Cai Zhiyuan an experiencer of the ’King’s Judgment’?"

Hearing this, the expressions of the other players also became a bit unpleasant.

Although most of these players hadn’t witnessed that game firsthand, they more or less knew or studied the rules of the "King’s Judgment."

Because games that have already taken place in the Walkway, the rules will be updated for all players to view, and the "King’s Judgment," as one of the rarely seen S-Class games, must be the focus of research for most communities.

But these players can see the game rules but can’t see the specific scenes and processes in the game.

If they want to find out more information, they must spend a lot of visa time to look it up, which not every community is willing to do.

The situation of "Second Trial" appearing for the first time, and being related to the "King’s Judgment," caused all the players present to have a very bad premonition.

Sun De instinctively took half a step back, keeping some distance from Cai Zhiyuan.

Song Xiao from Community 15 stared at Cai Zhiyuan and asked: "...Are you truly an experiencer of the ’King’s Judgment’?

"That would mean you are the ’Super Authority Player’ of this game?

"Such a situation as ’Second Trial’ has never occurred before. Since there’s such a special identity, the Imitator must have set you as the ’Super Authority Player,’ right?"

He showed clear hostility towards Cai Zhiyuan.

After all, Community 15 had suffered significant losses in the "Simple Q&A" and "Tarot Game," and Cai Zhiyuan was involved in those.

As a player from Community 15, Song Xiao’s hostility was understandable.

Even worse, Cai Zhiyuan could feel that, apart from Song Xiao, the eyes directed at him from others were more or less affected.

Song Xiao’s speech had an impact.

After the "Lifting Game," many players were already familiar with the rules of the "Super Authority Player."

If you let the "Super Authority Player" survive to the end of the game, you must face a binary choice:

Either kill someone or commit suicide and send someone home.

But players also know that the possibility of the latter is infinitely close to zero, only under extremely special circumstances.

In other words, if you let the "Super Authority Player" survive to the end, he might kill you.

This adds extra risk of death to oneself.

So, don’t think about the ’Super Authority Player committing suicide to send you home’ as a pleasant thing; once you find the ’Super Authority Player,’ killing them directly is the best choice.

Cai Zhiyuan’s expression didn’t change as he looked at Cui Yifeng: "Your reaction speed is quite quick, but unfortunately, being anxious doesn’t help.

"Shouldn’t you be more guilty now? Audience No. 1."