God's Imitator Chapter 564: Powerless Accusation

Previously, Huang Shengjie had also experienced sothing like phantom pain: obviously the pain had been completely suppressed, yet it still felt as if there was so faint, elusive ache lingering.

But if he carefully distinguished it, he could still tell the difference.

Huang Shengjie originally thought this was phantom pain again, but after feeling it out in detail, he realized the pain really hadn’t disappeared completely; it still vaguely existed, though very mild.

Ti was limited, and the ti left for Huang Shengjie to make a choice was running out.

Because the pain only lasted 1 minute, if it wasn’t fully suppressed within that one minute, the rule of "curing the special pain after three consecutive rounds of complete analgesia" would fail to trigger.

That could very likely lead to catastrophic consequences.

Huang Shengjie had no choice. After a brief mont of thought, he still could only pour out another O-type pill and shove it into his mouth while the pain was still in effect.

This ti, the pain finally vanished completely.

Huang Shengjie let out a long breath. Although he had taken two O-type pills in a row, at least he had achieved complete analgesia this round; endure two more rounds and it would be cured.

But right after that, as the system’s pain duration ended, that "withdrawal pain" like ants crawling all over his body reappeared.

And it was even more intense than before.

"Fuck, is this shit never going to end..."

Feeling a bit irritable, Huang Shengjie tightened his grip on the pill bottle. He really wanted to swallow another O-type pill, but in the end he forced himself to hold back.

At the sa ti, he also realized his situation was getting worse and worse.

The "withdrawal pain" triggered by the side effects of this drug would also gradually intensify.

Continuing to take O-type pills could indeed erase this pain, but it would also very likely an that the interval to the next wave of withdrawal pain would grow shorter, and its intensity stronger.

"Right now I already need two O-type pills to completely suppress the pain. If I keep taking them without Temperance, maybe very soon it’ll beco three pills, four pills to fully kill the pain.

"If it keeps increasing like this, it’s basically a bottomless pit.

"If Qian Li decides to raise the price and gouge , the dical Points I’ll have to pay later might turn into so astronomical figure I can’t possibly afford.

"Endure it, yeah, endure it...

"I can only take pills when I’m suffering special pain from the ga rules."

But even though reason told him he had to endure, actually doing it was still very hard.

This wasn’t much about willpower; no matter how strong a person’s will is, they fundantally can’t fight against physiological instinct.

Just then, the broadcast sounded.

After hearing the contents of the broadcast, Huang Shengjie was first a little surprised, then wildly ecstatic.

[A player has chosen to consu all remaining visa ti to identify the Imitator.]

...

Although at the very beginning of the ga, the thod for "identifying the Imitator" had been clearly written in the rules, up to this point no player had ever used it, and many had even forgotten this rule existed.

Because after getting a basic understanding of the ga chanics, the vast majority of players could see that this was close to impossible.

The 40 players were divided into four different Zones, and even within the sa Zone they might not necessarily et.

Each player could only et the players adjacent to them.

Patients could et the most players, but even then it was only 6 people.

There were "Monitor" and "Call" functions, but the conditions for using them were quite harsh.

Trying to find the Imitator under these circumstances, the odds were vanishingly small.

Yet at this mont, the appearance of this broadcast still fired Huang Shengjie up.

Because the ga was already close to a dead end; in this last hour or so, things would only get worse and worse.

And now there was only one way left to break the stalemate: find and kill the Imitator.

"No matter what, this player gave up all his dical Points to identify the Imitator; he must have found so concrete evidence, right?

"As long as more than 20 players put in 2000 points each for ’identification’, the system can verify and execute the Imitator.

"And the payoff for killing the Imitator will definitely far exceed that figure."

Clenching his teeth against the withdrawal pain, Huang Shengjie listened intently.

...

[Because this is the first attempt to identify the Imitator in this ga, the rules for "identifying the Imitator" will once again be emphasized to all players.]

[The initial identification window is 1 minute. Other players can at any ti swipe their dical Card on any device in any room to vote, choosing "Verify" or "Do Not Verify".]

[Choosing "Verify" will automatically deduct 2000 dical Points.]

[For every 5 players who choose "Verify", the identification window will be extended by 1 minute, up to a maximum of 5 minutes.]

[Once a total of 20 players choose "Verify", the system will automatically verify the Imitator’s identity.]

[If the verification is accurate, the Imitator will receive the death penalty.]

[If the verification is inaccurate, the dical Points already deducted will not be refunded.]

[Identification begins.]

The relevant rules had been broadcast at the very start of the ga, and the function pages of various machines also showed the detailed rules, but many players hadn’t paid much attention, so the system emphasized them again.

Soon, a voice ca through.

The so-called identification ca with no corresponding video, and even the voice itself had been specially processed.

Other players could swipe their dical Card on any device, deduct 2000 dical Points, and vote to "Verify".

The initial identification window was only 1 minute; only if enough other players voted would the ti be extended accordingly.

Even through the special processing, the voice in the broadcast still faintly carried a kind of desperate, all-or-nothing determination.

"I want to identify Sales Chen Guangming as the Imitator in this ga!

"From the very beginning, he practically knew every ga chanic inside out, he even understood the exact effects and details of these drugs!

"He used this to manipulate the Auditors in Zone C and Zone D, flooding both Zones with special highly addictive drugs!

"If he wasn’t in possession of so special inside information, how could Zone C have been overrun without any serious resistance? How could Zone D have been taken from the inside by the patients?

"His real job is Sales; he has absolutely no relevant professional background. There’s no way he could have distinguished the differences between these drugs in such a short ti!

"So please, everyone, believe —check Chen Guangming!

"In this ga, many players have fallen for people like him, just like I did. Addicted to drugs, with their dical Points and even their visa ti almost completely cheated away!

"Only by identifying and killing the Imitator can we safely get out of this ga—"

However, before he could finish, the broadcast was cut off.

The one-minute window had already passed.

The player’s speech had been a bit incoherent and broken, which actually wasted quite a bit of ti, making that one minute feel especially short under these conditions.

Fewer than 5 players had cast a "Verify" vote for him, so the ti wasn’t extended, let alone triggering the "verification" ga chanic.

Whether or not Chen Guangming was the Imitator, he would erge unscathed.