God's Imitator Chapter 582 - 581: Impact on the Community

"What... what’s going on?"

Huang Shengjie was a bit confused. He instinctively looked at the veteran players in the community, only to find Deng Xiao’s expression just as surprised as his.

Lu Bingjun furrowed his brows slightly: "Hmm... it’s a situation that hasn’t occurred in the first phase.

"Items from the ga appearing in the community?"

For the veteran players who had participated in the first phase, this situation was clearly abnormal.

Previously, the only way new products appeared in the community’s market was when the community fund reached a certain amount, unlocking new entries.

Moreover, the newly unlocked items were basically special tools like Immunity Coupons or First Player Identity Cards, which were clearly related to the community collective.

But this ti, the situation was different.

The unlocking of these two drugs was obviously directly related to the ’Pain Ga’, and throughout the entire first phase of the ga, there seed to be no instance of ’ga items entering the community’.

Lin Sizhi reminded them: "The ga rules previously ntioned that ’certain rules of this ga might impact the community.’

"This must be referring to that."

Huang Shengjie paused for a mont: "Ah? Really?"

Qin Cheng nodded: "Yes."

He read the prompt on the product detail page carefully again: "In the Pain Ga, the top two most used special drugs will be included in the community rchandise.

"Moreover, the price will be set according to the average transaction price of players trading these two types of drugs in the ga.

"That ans... if most players had managed to persevere, only using C-type and M-type drugs, then the drugs refreshed in the community now should be C-type and M-type.

"The lower the average transaction price of the drugs in the ga, the lower their price in the community will be.

"In the ideal scenario, C-type and M-type drugs could beco affordable dications to address the pain issues troubling players in the community."

Huang Shengjie frowned deeply but then felt a sense of relief: "It’s fortunate that the ga ended prematurely!

"Otherwise, the further the ga went, the higher the average transaction price of these two drugs would beco.

"It would have been troubleso then."

Deng Xiao dismissively said: "We can choose not to buy."

The statent was made with a sense of inevitability, but it left everyone silent.

Lu Bingjun pondered for a mont: "Let’s all return to the long table and sit down. This is a serious matter that we need to discuss carefully."

The group that had already dispersed returned to sit by the table again.

Lu Bingjun looked at Qin Cheng: "Dr. Qin, you’re the expert here. Why don’t you share your opinion first."

Qin Cheng couldn’t give an imdiate response, but after so quiet thought, he quickly sorted out his thoughts.

"This might be worse news than we anticipated.

"According to the current rules, so players in the community will regularly experience pain.

"Looking at the effects of these drugs, the hierarchy seems to be:

"Special drugs in the ’Pain Ga’ > Basic drugs in the ’Pain Ga’ > Basic drugs in the community.

"Community drugs can slightly mitigate pain, but compared to ga drugs, they are hardly effective.

"If there are C-type or M-type drugs available, we might consider purchasing and using them directly. According to ga experience, these two drugs appear to be safer.

"As long as they are not overused, their resistance and addiction potential should be controllable.

"But O-type and F-type drugs are different, as their dangers have already been demonstrated in the ga.

"So...

"My suggestion is that it’s best not to use them.

"I know that’s hard to achieve, but it’s the only recomndation I can make."

Qin Cheng’s advice was clear, but everyone exchanged varied looks with each other.

Clearly, so advice seems right but is difficult to adhere to in practice.

Everyone was well aware of what was to co.

The intense pain in the community would continue; originally, all players could only endure it and at most take a basic painkiller from the community to slightly lessen it.

If there were no other drugs, they’d just have to bear it.

But now, everyone knew that O-type and F-type drugs could directly eliminate all pain, with effects far exceeding that of regular dications.

Under such pain, how many people can resist not taking them?

Maybe once or twice they can, but what about a week or two, or even a month or two?

Players could buy these drugs at any vending machine, even in their own rooms.

Players with even slightly less firm willpower could fall, taking one would inevitably lead to a second, then dosages would increase as the drug’s effectiveness waned, leading to addiction.

As had happened more than once in the ’Pain Ga.’

If a player secretly bought these two types of drugs in their own room, it would be impossible to detect, as vending machines do not have a transaction record inquiry function.

Qin Cheng continued, "Another point worth noting.

"These two drugs have a ’restock’ rule.

"This ans any player who participates in the ga can choose to ’restock,’ replenishing drugs after using so of their visa ti.

’Restocking’ only costs half price, and when other players buy drugs, the price difference becos the ’restocking’ player’s profit.

"In other words... it’s like reselling drugs and making a profit.

"Given the current chanism, if soone indeed chooses to ’restock,’ it’s hard to detect."

Deng Xiao thought for a mont: "Didn’t you say after participating in the ga, they could ’restock’?

"If we notice the quantity of these two drugs increasing, we should start by checking the participants of the last ga.

"Or, if we investigate thoroughly, couldn’t we find anomalies in visa ti?"

Lu Bingjun shook his head: "The rule only states that players who participated in the ga gain ’restock’ privileges, but it doesn’t ntion a ti limit.

"It’s very possible that there’s no ti limit.

"That ans players could retain this privilege and choose to restock two or three gas later, minimizing suspicion.

"As for checking visa ti, it’s basically useless.

"The rules say that visa ti consud for ’restocking’ or earned through this channel is by default hidden.

"I suspect the likelihood is this: A player’s real visa ti is 50,000. They ’restock’ so drugs, the actual visa ti is 40,000, but inquiries will still show 50,000.

"Or after selling these drugs and earning 60,000, it would still show 50,000.

"If that’s indeed the case, then even if checked, no obvious issues would be found.

"Perhaps only in so extre, stringent situations will sothing be exposed, but..."

Lu Bingjun didn’t continue, but the aning was clear.

The so-called extre stringent situations would be, for example, forcing a player with 50,000 visa ti to donate 50,000 or more to the community fund.

If they can’t donate 50,000, it shows there’s hidden expenditures already used for ’inventory.’

Or if they’ve donated 50,000 and the ti runs out yet they’re still safe, it suggests hidden ti exists.

But clearly, if the community decided to do this to a player, it would practically an treating them as confird prisoners or sinners, akin to depriving them of visa ti or life.

In the current normal community ecology, the vast majority of players wouldn’t dare go this far.