God's Imitator-Chapter 500: Prison Cell Gains

A piercing pain came, and Cui Yifeng felt a burning sensation in his left shoulder.

In the original version of ’King’s Judgment,’ Zhang Peng was locked onto a human-shaped target roughly four times the size of a normal person’s front profile.

This means that the nail gun was firing continuously, but there was only a one in four chance of hitting the player. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

However, under the rules of ’Death Surveillance,’ the nail gun would only fire when the Surveillance Puppet captured someone, and once fired, it would definitely hit a part of the body.

Trying to dodge based on reflexes is difficult, almost impossible.

The game lasts a total of 15 minutes, and Cui Yifeng must hold down the button for 10 minutes; if shorter, he will suffer instant death punishment.

Fear can blur a player’s sense of time, and if the time spent hesitating intermittently exceeds 5 minutes, not even a deity could help.

Cui Yifeng took a deep breath, again observing the room’s layout and the Surveillance Puppet’s movement path.

Afterwards, he painfully lifted his left arm, shielding his neck and head as much as possible.

Pressing the button on the table with his right arm.

Because he chose a position at the right corner of the room, most of the time the Surveillance Puppets were moving to his left.

This way, even if shot, it would hit his arm and palm first, not resulting in a fatal blow.

...

Gao Jialiang realized that Cell No. 5 really was the most dangerous, but as Cai Zhiyuan mentioned, there is indeed a high probability that it won’t lead to death.

Of course, the premise is that the players entering this cell, like Cui Yifeng, summon the courage and then use their brains a bit.

"So... Cai Zhiyuan actually arranged what he thinks is the most suitable cell for these players?"

Initially, Gao Jialiang thought Cai Zhiyuan’s arrangements were completely chaotic.

Because by the game’s rules, each cell corresponds to a game, and if a player has experienced that game, entering the corresponding cell would reduce the difficulty.

Therefore, the simplest, most straightforward arrangement is to put players into corresponding cells, ensuring each person enjoys the ’difficulty reduction’ effect.

As for Cai Zhiyuan, he may have experienced multiple games, so he could choose any cell to enter.

Cai Zhiyuan couldn’t be unaware of this, yet he didn’t distribute things this way, starting with assigning Sun De to the first cell, disrupting this order.

At first, Gao Jialiang thought Cai Zhiyuan might be like players calculating wrongly in certain judgment games, failing to remain calm.

But from the current results, it seems that’s not necessarily the case.

Now this arrangement also seems another ’appropriate arrangement.’

—If distributing players according to their respective cell relationships is ’adhering to predetermined fate,’ then it is clear Cai Zhiyuan does not want to do so.

He hates ’predetermined fate.’

"But, why would he choose the cell ’surrendering to fate’ himself?

"This cell corresponds to the ’Tarot Game,’ where Huang Ming is also an experiencer, so he could choose to let Huang Ming enter.

"As for himself, he could choose another cell, right? For example, Cell No. 2, ’All the money is spent,’ regardless of whether he is a Super Authority Player, this is absolutely a safe choice.

"Why not choose it? Is he reluctant to give up visa time? Impossible, someone as strong as him couldn’t care about visa time.

"And Cell No. 6 can be considered the cell with the strongest ’randomness,’ unlike Cell No. 3, which can be specified by the ’Hermit’ to replicate certain specific cell rules, totally random extraction.

"From previous behavior, he clearly loathes ’predetermined fate,’ yet ultimately chooses to surrender his life to fate?

"Isn’t that paradoxical?"

However, after seeing the information displayed on Cell No. 6’s monitor, Gao Jialiang was stunned.

Cai Zhiyuan has already made his choice.

[Choose Option 2: Do nothing, quietly wait for 15 minutes.]

[At the end of this game (after ’Super Authority Player’ has exercised privileges), if the Imitator designing this game hasn’t encountered a death threat, or encounters a death threat but behaves in a manner anticipated by the player, then the player will be unharmed.]

[If the Imitator designing this game behaves outside player anticipation, the player will suffer instant death punishment.]

[Judgment will be completed by Walkway’s mind-reading mechanism; players cannot see the Imitator’s game experience or details.]

"This isn’t right!"

Gao Jialiang’s eyes widened, quickly thinking through the reasons.

"If an ordinary player enters this cell, the only explanation is believing the Imitator designing the game wouldn’t face a death threat, making the cell safe.

"But since the Imitator designed this cell, it implies he’s anticipating death threats himself.

"Would Cai Zhiyuan overlook this point?

"He certainly thought of it, so the only explanation is he’s betting that the Imitator designing the game will certainly behave in a manner he anticipates after facing a death threat?

"Does he know the Imitator’s true identity? Even knows the Imitator will face death threats?

"Or does he confirm the Imitator designing the game entered the game, among us?

"Yet among us, except for Cui Yifeng, none have a death risk, and Cui Yifeng couldn’t possibly be the game’s Imitator."

Gao Jialiang found it difficult to comprehend.

Clearly, there’s some special information known only to Cai Zhiyuan, driving him to make such a choice.

Cai Zhiyuan sat in the room’s wide chair, pondering something unknown.

But Gao Jialiang sensed an inexplicable pressure from him, despite entering the game earlier appearing like an ordinary player without any distinction.

...

In Gao Jialiang’s confusion and disorientation, 15 minutes quickly passed.

All cells unlocked sequentially.

First to emerge was Sun De, who had entered Cell No. 1 initially, appearing utterly exhausted, lying flat on the ground upon exiting.

Yet he persisted, triggering no electric shocks throughout.

[41000 minutes of visa time have been settled for the player.]

As judged at the outset, he was safe in this cell.

Cells No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4 then saw Fu Yujun, Song Xiao, and Huang Ming each emerging.

Fu Yujun and Song Xiao gained no visa time benefit, having instead been deducted all visa time; however, they can bear the debt returning to the Community without any issue.

As Huang Ming answered all questions, gaining corresponding visa time.

The players’ votes are complete, and he received no ’death votes.’

[60000 minutes of visa time have been settled for the player.]

These gains are also substantial, but the game is only safe for players like Huang Ming.

For someone else, they might not ensure garnering less than half ’death votes.’

Cui Yifeng emerged from Cell No. 5, bloodied and supporting himself on the wall as he struggled to walk out.

He appeared in poor condition, carrying at least six or seven steel nails, notably a nail in his left forearm protruding from the other side, looking intensely horrifying.

But overall, there was no life-threatening danger.