Chen Guangming was not surprised by this outcome: "I said it, since your community is the most noble and suffers the least in this game, then of course it's only fair that you bear the final sudden death penalty."

Cao Haichuan sighed: "Alright, since you want fairness, then fairness you shall have."

He gave Zhang Shichao one last look: "Sorry."

Zhang Shichao didn't understand why he said that, but felt a very bad premonition in his heart.

Cao Haichuan went to the console and inserted 30 Gold Coins.

Then, new information appeared on the big screen.

[A player has chosen to query and broadcast the sinner's detailed file.]

[Chen Peng, male, 47 years old.]

[Occupation: Construction Worker]

[Originally rented in a suburban rented house, but due to a rent increase, he was persuaded by friends to buy a special offer top-floor unit of a certain building through loans and borrowing.]

[After moving in, he found severe quality issues making it uninhabitable.]

[After unsuccessful negotiations, he killed the salesperson who sold him the problematic property.]

Unlike the previous simple text information, this time the big screen showed real footage, including the sinner's living conditions, work status, and a series of scenes like kneeling and calling the police during negotiations, allowing almost all players watching to empathize and immerse themselves in the sinner's first-person perspective.

Especially as he worked on the construction site under the scorching sun, sweating profusely, but ultimately powerless in the face of the house's quality issues, creating a strong sense of contrast.

All players were stunned upon seeing this information.

At the same time, they instantly understood why Cao Haichuan couldn't provide proof before.

Because without disclosing specific case details, no other players would absolutely believe it. But once the case details were disclosed, everything would change and become irreversible.

Wang Weidong was also stunned because he thought of the rules in the game.

[Before the game ends, the system will conduct a "lie detection" on all Inner Court Players. If a player's true thoughts at that moment are completely consistent with their previous voting results, they will be marked as a "Perfect Judge."]

[If the number of "Perfect Judges" is less than 10, then all players except the "Perfect Judges" and "Audience" will trigger an additional sudden death penalty.]

The game's lie detection mechanism does not detect during voting.

It detects at the end of the game.

This means that if at the end of the game, a player changes their view of a previous vote, for example, initially thinking "Guilty" and now thinking "Innocent," it will also trigger the lie detection mechanism.

Only completely consistent players will be marked as "Perfect Judges."

Clearly, as a murderer, Chen Peng's crime is undeniable and leaves no room for ambiguity.

So when the initial brief version of the sinner's file appeared, the vast majority of Inner Court Players didn't even think and voted "Guilty."

This was indeed their true thought, as without understanding the specific details, they couldn't indiscriminately vote innocent for a murderer.

But after seeing the detailed file and real footage, their thoughts instinctively changed somewhat.

According to the game rules, when players believe the sinner is "driven to desperation" or "understandable," they should vote "Innocent."

Chen Peng was an honest man driven to a dead end.

He spent half his life's savings to buy a house, but due to the salesman's deliberate concealment ended up with an uninhabitable house, unable to resolve it despite trying every method, ultimately breaking down emotionally and choosing a desperate path.

This fits the concept of "driven to desperation."

The concepts of "Guilty" and "Innocent" in Walkway are different from the law, and similar standards had been executed in previous judgment games.

Some sinners' actions may not break the law but might still be found guilty; the reverse is also true.

As long as players have participated in other judgment games or understood their rules, they know this well.

Walkway's lie detection mechanism precisely captures players' instinctive reactions, with very few able to resist this instinct.

Worse, the Inner Court Players' behavior in the game inevitably reflects their behavior in reality, further catalyzing these emotions.

This means, at the end of the game, they'll suffer an extra sudden death penalty, and unless they are among the few still able to protect themselves, no player can be saved.

...

Fan Zehui instantly became somewhat emotionally unstable, incredulously questioning: "Are you crazy!

"This way, you're going to get the players from your community killed too!

"You could have chosen not to reveal the truth and avoided triggering the punishment! Even if we picked your community in the final vote, so what? You were doomed anyway, but others from Community 17 still have shelters and can survive!

"But now, by revealing the truth, aren't the other players in Community 17 going to suffer two consecutive sudden death penalties?"

Cao Haichuan shook his head: "No, they won't. Because we voted 'against conscience' from the very start.

"Because I thought of this case, I was the police officer handling the dispute at that time."

Everyone was stunned.

They then remembered, at the beginning of the second stage 'rehearsal,' the voting time seemed much longer than every subsequent vote.

Originally they hadn't paid attention, but now looking back, it must have been because Community 17 internally discussed and used an 'against conscience' vote.

Li Renshu refused Zhang Shichao's suggestion of using an against conscience vote together because, at that time, players in Community 17 simply didn't have any more of those votes.

And this 'against conscience' vote ensured the players from Community 17 would inevitably become "Perfect Judges," not suffer the additional sudden death penalty due to the lie detection mechanism.

Clearly, the so-called 'rehearsal' at the start of the second stage wasn't to familiarize players with the game's rules but laid a huge trap that could catch all players.

If nobody pointed it out, then the trap wouldn't take effect.

But once someone did, there's no going back.

Cao Haichuan continued: "I did this for another reason.

"In this game, apart from our 5 communities and 30 audiences, there are other players.

"Although the rules do not mention them, and there is no trace of their existence, I am very certain that they exist.

"Other players must have noticed as well, including Chen Guangming.

"However, you all tacitly chose not to say it.

"Or maybe you didn't guess, but received specific information. Thus, you couldn't say and were forced to keep it secret.

"Regardless, these "Hidden Players" have always existed in the game.

"Whether it's the sequence of Nine-Box Grid development or the sequence of sinners' judgments, they are the ones who decide.

"The Gold Coins paid for bidding plots should have gone into their pockets too."

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