Li Renshu looked at Wang Yongxin and nodded.

Obviously, their previous conversation, particularly the discussion about Walkway's attitude towards the imitator and players, gave Wang Yongxin some insights.

Fu Chen looked at the game rules, somewhat puzzled, and said, "I have another question.

"Can't male players team up from the beginning and use 'stepping' to threaten female players in return?

"Everyone only has one like and one step per hour, and before the killing rules are clear, the intimidation power of stepping is the same.

"But after four hours, it turns into more likes for females and more steps for males, causing male players to make a full concession."

Wang Yongxin explained, "This is where the game is cleverly, or maliciously, designed.

"The designers forcibly severed all connections between players; strategies cannot be discussed within communities or among the same gender, and can only be communicated through broadcast data.

"The reason male players can't team up as you suggested is because of an essential principle: the 'Happy Oblivion Principle.'

"For example, in real life, you are a person who is carefree and happy, and one day you accidentally bump into a resentful drunkard. Perhaps he bumped into you, but the best choice at that moment is to apologize proactively.

"The game gives every male player a blank check worth 30,000, essentially making male players the 'fortunate ones' in the game, so they naturally tend to step back voluntarily.

"Coupled with the discipline of societal rules, the natural alliance formed by female players due to the 'victim identity' (randomly deducted visa time), and the inability to communicate within the game, makes it almost impossible to implement your strategy.

"Because if you don't give in, others will. As long as some male players yield due to the 'Happy Oblivion Principle,' threatening females with stepping becomes meaningless.

"Just like in reality, males are generally considered to benefit more from marriage. Although I don't agree with this view, it can explain certain phenomena.

"Of course, being stepped on more and having advantages in the latter four hours is another matter."

Jiang He added, "And doing so could easily get you mistakenly killed by Lawyer Lin as the imitator, right?"

Everyone laughed. Although this game was really dangerous, the joy of returning safely made it sweeter.

Li Renshu looked at the previously recorded visa time income, pondered, and slowly nodded, "So, in the end, 31 players shared all the imitator's time.

"No wonder your visa times are all whole numbers.

"But... how much visa time exactly?"

Yang Yuting quickly calculated with pen and paper, "I had no additional income or expenditure throughout the game, only the part randomly deducted by the game's mechanics.

"3 minutes were deducted every hour, so after 6 hours, a total of 18 minutes was deducted, meaning one share of time should be... 24,322.

"Multiply by 31 for the total time: 753,984 minutes."

Everyone fell silent, clearly shocked by this astronomical number.

Zheng Jie noticed something was amiss, "Wait, you didn't spend a single penny in this game? Never split the room fee? Didn't buy food or water?"

Yang Yuting thought for a moment, "In my first four meetings, I only encountered a female player once, Lu Xinyi, and she volunteered to pay the room fee.

"As for the other male players, not only did they take the initiative to pay for the room, but they also brought food and water, leaving me no place to spend money.

"Later, I kept matching with trusted players, so I never encountered a situation where a new player asked to split costs."

Zheng Jie felt like he was hit by lightning, clearly realizing the disparity between people in this game is greater than between humans and dogs.

For a "rich and pretty" player like Yang Yuting, she could win effortlessly without employing any high-level strategies, as long as she showcased normal intelligence.

However, considering that male players received 30,000 upon leaving the game, he felt balanced again.

Yang Yuting sighed as she looked at the total visa time she calculated, "750,000 visa times really is a lot, but unfortunately, shared among 31 players, there's not much left."

Jiang He marveled, "Are imitators really that wealthy? It's an astronomical number I can't even imagine."

Cao Haichuan corrected, "Strictly speaking, this should be the total visa time from all the deceased in the game.

"As long as the imitator is alive, this time is theirs; but if they die, the surviving players in the game share this time."

Jiang He turned to Yang Yuting again, "So the 30,000-minute visa time for mutual likes is gone?"

Yang Yuting nodded, "Yeah, it's probably gone because the game didn't end normally but forced a settlement when the imitator died."

Cai Zhiyuan pondered, "So, there are two different settlement rules.

"If 'game end' is the settlement condition, even if it ends forcibly due to the imitator's death, it will still settle normally, such as 'male players indiscriminately gaining 30,000-minute visa time.'

"But if it's based on 'last meeting' conditions, it cannot settle normally."

Jiang He regretted, "That's such a shame!"

Zheng Jie shook his head, "Not really a shame because 'extra likes and steps deduct money' rule also didn't settle, otherwise I'd be deducted a lot.

"Moreover, the most important thing is to come out alive.

"In that situation, an extra meeting could be life-threatening, let alone insisting on the last meeting."

Li Renshu pondered for a moment, "So, now we've come to a crucial question.

"Could Zhong Yuanyuan be the imitator who designed the 'King's Judgment'?

"Before, Uncle Ding played 'Blood Poker' with Community 1. Therefore, it's possible that players from Community 1 knew Uncle Ding and targeted him."

Cai Zhiyuan quickly did some calculations with pen and paper.

"Visa time can't confirm it.

"There're too many deceased; a slight redistribution of data renders it inaccurate, and we can't calculate Zhong Yuanyuan's original time."

In the beginning, everyone tried to estimate how much visa time the imitator had; if it's more than 250,000, they might be the imitator for 'King's Judgment.'

But clearly, this approach didn't work.

Cao Haichuan rotated a lighter in his palm, "I tend to think that Zhong Yuanyuan and the 'King's Judgment' imitator are not the same person.

"Her killing methods and visa time harvesting techniques are somewhat clumsy.

"Walkway rated the 'Matchmaking Game' very low, while the imitator who designed 'King's Judgment' could achieve an S rating; no matter how much their level dropped, it wouldn't decline to this extent.

"Even if the goal was to simply and brutally harvest time, it should be done more cleverly."

If it can be proved that Zhong Yuanyuan is the imitator who designed the 'King's Judgment,' then her death at this time would reassure many present.

But unfortunately, it didn't seem like it, no matter how you look at it.

Wang Yongxin coughed twice, "It's alright, even if this is just a mediocre imitator, pulling them out from the game was no easy feat, and this experience is worth summarizing.

"More importantly, this imitator showed us a new possibility we hadn't thought of before.

"Could the imitator actually cooperate with players and turn the entire community into a shady business?

"Such blatant violation of game rules, and Walkway actually allows it."

Everyone fell into silence, obviously finding Wang Yongxin's question equally perplexing.

Previously, the vast majority of people understood the relationship between imitators and players as entirely adversarial.

Imitators design games to slaughter players, while players need to survive in the game, then find ways to locate and counter-kill the imitator.

Killing the other party allows you to take over their visa time.

The rules of the community also clearly stated this from the beginning.

[Among all players, there is a type of special danger: 'God's Imitator.' They design games for Walkway and judge the players.]

[When a player dies in Walkway, the corresponding game designer gains all of that player's remaining visa time.]

But the 'Matchmaking Game' case specifically demonstrated the potential for cooperation between imitators and players.

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