God's Imitator-Chapter 501: Super Authority Player

[Visa time of 8000 minutes has been settled for the player.]

The visa time is very limited because only after pressing enough for 10 minutes can you gain additional visa time. Under the threat of the ’Surveillance Puppet,’ pressing for a longer time isn’t worth it as the risks and rewards are completely disproportionate.

So, Cui Yifeng just pressed for an additional minute to ensure compliance; surviving in this game is far more important than earning visa time.

Cai Zhiyuan’s cell number 6 was the last to unlock, but he had no intention of leaving the cell. Instead, he continued to sit in his position.

On the big screen, a new broadcast began playing.

[The ’Super Authority Player’ for this game is: Fu Yujun.]

Gao Jialiang couldn’t help but widen his eyes, feeling extremely surprised.

And Cai Zhiyuan, who had been resting his eyes while awaiting the final result, suddenly opened them wide, showing a completely unexpected expression for the first time.

All the other players were equally puzzled, even Fu Yujun himself found it strange.

"Why is it me?"

Before this, all the players had believed that the ’Super Authority Player’ had to be Cai Zhiyuan, with no other possibility.

But clearly, the imitator who designed this game didn’t think so.

Unlike other players, Cai Zhiyuan’s surprise lasted only briefly.

He almost instantly figured out all the causes and effects, and all the details of this game.

"So... even though you knew everything and predicted I would kill you, you still left me a higher survival chance than the minimum allowed by the Walkway review mechanism in this game?

"You actually left me many choices..."

For the first time, Cai Zhiyuan had a strong premonition.

It seemed everything was suddenly out of his control, wildly rushing toward an unpredictable direction.

Although all the players didn’t understand what was happening, the game had to continue.

[Now, the ’Super Authority Player’ must make two choices:]

[First, pick any still alive in-game player and impose instant death punishment.]

[Second, impose instant death punishment on yourself and send any player confirmed to be alive after the game’s end out of the Walkway, back to the real world.]

Many players couldn’t help swallowing.

Before this, they never thought they could be so close to ’returning to the real world.’

If Fu Yujun chooses suicide, he can send any player among them out of here, back to the real world.

Although this possibility is very slim, it still eternally fuels imagination, like buying a lottery ticket and can’t help but fantasize about the impossible 5 million jackpot.

But soon, this fantasy was mercilessly extinguished.

Fu Yujun looked at Cui Yifeng: "Sorry."

Freshly escaped from cell number 5, drenched in blood, Cui Yifeng froze, unable to say anything, only seeing a black line spreading up his arm.

Under the pain enveloping his body, that fatal small wound was scarcely felt.

He soon fell straight down with a thud, devoid of a sound.

—Fu Yujun chose the player he deemed most deserving of death in this game and imposed instant death punishment without any hesitation.

Gao Jialiang’s heart immediately settled.

"What was I fantasizing about... we’re not related, he wouldn’t commit suicide sending others out..."

Everyone looked toward Cai Zhiyuan.

Cai Zhiyuan’s face showed a complicated expression, seemingly understanding many things in an instant and contemplating more possibilities, even seeing his own ultimate conclusion.

But among these expressions, none was regret.

Rather, he relaxed, slightly leaning back and adjusting to a more comfortable position in his seat.

He looked at Fu Yujun, speaking with a casual tone: "Actually, I had many memorable scenes in Community 17.

"But as time passed, most scenes have faded.

"However, there is one scene I still remember clearly.

"It’s when our community recruited for the first time.

"I explained to Fu Chen why we must recruit a ’young doctor.’

"At that time, I was somewhat disappointed in him.

"Because on the first day in the community when he spoke, I thought he had the potential to become the community’s leader, so I chose him immediately, but politically he was very immature.

"But thinking now...

"Maybe he was always the best candidate for the leader of Community 17."

...

... 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Lin Sizhi looked at the silver revolver in his hand.

Time seemed to have passed long, yet only a few digits changed on the LED display.

Though the revolver has 6 chambers, Lin Sizhi needs to focus on only three scenarios.

Live round in the first shot.

Live round in the last shot.

Live round in the puppet’s pocket.

The situation where there is a live round in chambers two to five can’t be completely ruled out, but the probability should be very low and shouldn’t be factored into the strategy.

Since once considered, it might lead to an endlessly repeating nesting dolls logic, which is meaningless.

According to general reasoning, the opponent knows all the rules and knows Lin Sizhi is the designer of this game, and in the original rules, the optimal solution is shooting oneself in the first shot.

Then the imitator placing a bullet in the first chamber maximizes the success rate to kill Lin Sizhi.

And Lin Sizhi, if realizing this, should shoot the puppet directly in the first shot, thus winning this game.

Because the rules clearly state ’there is only one live round,’ so as long as the first shot fires the live round, subsequent shots are absolutely safe and can fire at oneself freely.

No matter if there is a bullet in the first shot, shooting the puppet is completely inconsequential.

After all, it is just a puppet, not a living person, without moral burden.

With a bullet, directly win the game.

Without a bullet, the mechanism will move once, only causing harm on the third move.

Anyway you look at it, shooting the puppet in the first shot is the optimal solution.

But after a brief thought, Lin Sizhi still turned the gun, aiming at himself.

"You spent 1 million minutes of visa time, reviewed my files, abandoned the chance to design a judgment game targeting my crimes, and ultimately chose my own rules to judge me...

"Mustn’t be to play a luck game with a 50% chance, right?

"You surely think this method guarantees to kill me 100%.

"But under these rules, to physically kill me 100% is impossible.

"So..."

Lin Sizhi pressed the gun to his forehead and fiercely pulled the trigger.

"Click."

The cylinder turned; it was empty.

Lin Sizhi showed little expression, waiting a moment then pulling the trigger four more times.

"Click."

"Click."

"Click."

"Click."

All were blanks.

Each shot could contain the bullet, and Lin Sizhi could die, but with each pull, those possibilities vanished one by one.

After the third shot, the cathode-ray tube TV didn’t present any new rules or information, differing from the original game.

In the original game, there’s a special hint here, but it was removed now.

Clearly the imitator designing this game thought this phase was meaningless for Lin Sizhi, with victory truly decided in the first and last shot.