"Beep—"
A sharp buzzing sound rang out, and Cai Zhiyuan suddenly ca back to his senses, realizing he had already arrived at the ga venue.
Before he had ti to examine the specific situation around him, he first felt that his face seed to have so special chanism that prevented him from making any sounds.
Cai Zhiyuan tried reaching up to touch it and discovered it was a special ring-shaped chanism that extended all the way to the back of his head.
Besides this, his body was also restrained to a chair and couldn't move. Only his two hands could move freely.
However, this ti the seat wasn't a cold iron chair. The material was soft leather, so sitting for a long ti wouldn't feel uncomfortable.
Cai Zhiyuan looked around and found this was a room that wasn't particularly spacious. On the wall was a huge number: '4'.
Apart from him, there were four other players.
In front of each of the five people was a special operable device, a special touchscreen similar in size to a computer monitor. It was specially angled for easy operation, and there were so barriers around it to prevent others from seeing.
At the sa ti, these five people sat in a circle, with 5 screens in the central position, each facing one of the players. They could see them clearly just by looking up.
The five players currently couldn't speak and could only look at each other.
However, everyone had na tags hanging on their chests with their specific community and nas written on them, so they could identify each other.
Cai Zhiyuan looked at everyone's chest tags one by one.
[Community 1, Gao Jialiang]
[Community 8, Yang Hui]
[Community 13, Kong Yuxin]
[Community 15, Xu Zhao]
Among them, Yang Hui and Kong Yuxin were two female players. The male to female ratio in the room was 3:2.
There were no other players from Community 17.
This was not very good news. In a situation where they couldn't communicate with each other, Cai Zhiyuan had no way to look after other players from the sa community.
He could only hope that after the second phase of the ga began, the rules would change and give players from the sa community space to communicate.
"Our community has a total of 5 players participating, and there are also 5 players in this room.
"Besides this, the number '4' on the wall should represent room number four.
"That ans this ga has a total of 25 players participating, and the players from each community have all been assigned to different rooms.
"The other four players in this room are also all from different communities. They might have heard of each other before, but the possibility of being very familiar with each other is low."
Thinking of this, images appeared on the large screen and began introducing the ga rules.
Everyone looked up and watched carefully.
[Good morning, players. Welco to 'Simple Q&A'.]
[This ga has a total of 25 players participating from 5 communities, including 14 female players and 11 male players.]
[The ga will be conducted in two phases.]
[In the first phase, the 5 players from the sa community will play the ga in 5 different rooms.]
[In the second phase, players will be ranked according to their performance in the first phase, and rooms will be reassigned with updated ga rules.]
[The following are the basic rules for the first phase of the ga:]
[The first phase will consist of a total of five rounds of gas. In each round, a specific 'multiple choice question' will appear on the large screen.]
[Each question will have three different options: A, B, and C, with one and only one correct answer.]
[After seeing the question, each player will have 10 minutes to think and give an answer.]
[During the thinking period, players have two channels to obtain references.]
[1. Uninvolved Player Votes]
[The question will be simultaneously displayed on the hall screens of 'communities not participating in this ga'. The 'uninvolved players' in these communities will have 3 minutes to answer freely.]
[After 3 minutes, the different percentages for the three options when 'uninvolved players' answered this question will be announced as a reference for answering.]
[2. Player Representative Suggestions]
[In the five rounds of gas in the first phase, one player will be selected as the 'player representative' each round.]
[After the question is announced, the 'player representative' will have 1 minute of free speech ti to explain the question and provide suggestions for other players.]
[After 10 minutes, the correct answer to the question will be revealed.]
[Players will receive rewards or punishnts according to 'hidden rules'.]
[There are three different factors that will affect the specific values of individual rewards or punishnts. Players are asked to explore the details themselves.]
[In addition, if all players in the room answer with completely identical options, they will receive an extra reward.]
[When the overall earnings of players are positive, the question setter will pay; when the overall earnings are negative, the deficit portion will also beco the question setter's inco.]
[The five questions in the first phase are fixed questions, so the God's Imitator who designed this ga will serve as the 'question setter' by default. After entering the second phase, the 'question setter' will be assud by players.]
[At the end of each round of the ga, there will be 5 minutes of free speech ti for collective discussion.]
[Any violence or rule violations are strictly prohibited in this ga. Violators will suffer imdiate death penalty.]
[Please explore more rules during the ga.]
[The ga will officially begin in 5 minutes. Please prepare!]
The rules on the large screen continued to display, helping players better understand the rules.
Although the rules weren't particularly complex, since the thinking ti was only 5 minutes, everyone still hurried to think.
Cai Zhiyuan quickly searched for the key points in the rules.
"The basic gaplay is to answer a multiple choice question, which is why the ga is called 'Simple Q&A'. Although there are other players' answers as references, these references may not necessarily be correct answers.
"The specific reward and punishnt rules are hidden, and there are three different factors that will cause effects.
"What exactly those three are needs to be guessed by oneself.
"That ans players must think from the God's Imitator's perspective and consider what three types of reward or punishnt rules would be reasonable to set for these options.
"Whether the answer is right or wrong should be one factor.
"If there's a lie detection chanism, then answering against one's conscience or not should also be one factor.
"Whether answers are repeated, the number of people choosing the sa answer, whether one has misled other players to change their answers, whether one consecutively chooses the sa option, these are also all possibilities.
"I need to select the three most likely possibilities from these options as much as possible and decide on my strategy."
After quickly thinking through the rules, Cai Zhiyuan looked at the other four players.
Currently, no one could speak. So were still staring at the large screen thinking about the rules, while others were sizing up each other's identity tags.
Cai Zhiyuan quickly went through the situations of these communities in his mind.
"Community 1 once ran a scam operation in the 'Blind Date Ga'. Gao Jialiang was that handso guy at the ti.
"Yang Hui from Community 8 participated in the 'Fortune Ga'. She's an actuary and has cooperated with our community before.
"Community 13, we encountered them before in the 'Birth Judgnt'.
"Community 15 is the community where Wang Weidong from 'Shelter Ga' was from, but this player nad Xu Zhao didn't participate before.
"The other rooms should also all have players from these four communities, just don't know specifically who.
"Apart from Community 8 having so weak cooperative foundation, the other communities can all be considered enemies.
"Our Community 17 clearly advocates cooperation and mutual benefit, yet unknowingly, have we instead beco the contrarians of the New World?"
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