Qin Cheng continued: "As teachers, what might be the difference between county teachers and university professors?
"What I can think of is that county teachers are relatively more responsible, while university professors might be in a free-range state.
"However... if it’s just free-range, it shouldn’t be enough to make them directly related to the roles in this game.
"Perhaps professors aren’t limited to undergraduate studies? It might even be Gong Zheng’s professor during his master’s or doctoral studies? In that case, if Gong Zheng comes from a science background, he might be caught by a mentor to do projects, becoming exploited.
"If that’s the case, Gong Zheng’s desire to commit suicide might be inextricably linked to his mentor’s exploitation.
"The player portraying the professor could be the ’Special Player.’
"Two seemingly homogeneous identities on the surface, but one good, one bad, that’s enough to make a distinction.
"Later we can focus on what the player portraying the professor will perform as a breakthrough when we have no clue."
minutes of preparation time seemed long, but after really discussing it, we realized it’s still not enough.
Soon, there were only 5 minutes left in the preparation time.
Lin Sizhi and Huang Shengjie had already selected the ’VIP Audience’ on the small screen. To ensure nothing goes wrong, Qin Cheng took another look.
The 6 communities participating in this game are Community 2, Community 5, Community 10, Community 11, Community 12, and Community 17.
Each community can select one ’VIP Audience’ for the other 4 communities.
As the game officially starts, the player with the most votes in the community will become ’VIP Audience’ and head to the VIP seat for performance, which can also be understood as being ’confined.’
Qin Cheng glanced at the personnel list and roughly recalled the information about these communities.
"We encountered Community 5 in the previous game, but at that time, they didn’t have any particularly impressive performance, and they were all wearing masks, so it was impossible to identify who particularly is their game core.
"Community 10, we’ve never dealt with.
"These two communities can only be randomly selected based on looks, right? Lawyer Lin, you should have chosen names that seemed strong? Hmm, if it were me, I would do the same.
"Community 11 is where Bai Zilan and Xu Guangxin are located; Bai Zilan is an actor, Lawyer Lin, you chose Xu Guangxin as the VIP Audience.
"Hmm, Xu Guangxin in ’One Word Breaks the Prison’ made a memorable impression, and the fact that he could be pardoned and reaccepted by the community shows he is a critical figure in Community 11, likely the game core.
"Blocking him is the sensible choice.
"Community 17’s Hu Yingxu is also a formidable player, playing an actor again.
"Wait, what’s up with Community 12? Why is Chen Guangming in the audience seat?"
After seeing this list, apart from information about strangers that cannot be determined, other choices were in line with Lin Sizhi and Huang Shengjie’s ideas.
What surprised him was that Chen Guangming from Community 12 turned out to be an audience.
Huang Shengjie was a bit confused: "Why, why can’t Chen Guangming be an audience? He’s leading the team to participate in the game to earn visa time; it’s normal, right?"
Qin Cheng shook his head: "No, what I mean is, why wasn’t he selected as an actor?
"In the selection criteria for actors, one role is ’Real Estate Agent or Sales,’ which perfectly aligns with his actual profession, right?
"When choosing communities, Community 12 was selected, and yet it’s others from the same community chosen as actors..."
Before getting an answer, Qin Cheng quickly realized it himself.
"Ah, that’s it... Chen Guangming found himself a stand-in.
"After learning about the existence of role-playing games, he considered the risk of being selected as an actor.
"And his solution is... through the community to recruit another player of the same profession and gender as himself, that is, to find another real estate agent or sales.
"So even if the role-playing game screens for his profession this way, he only has a 50% chance of being selected.
"This time, it seems like he got lucky."
Lin Sizhi said approvingly: "A very clever approach."
Huang Shengjie was a bit shocked: "That’s possible? We’ve discussed it in the community before, that Chen Guangming is hard to kill; his survival instinct is indeed strong..."
Soon, the 30-minute preparation time ended.
[The performance is about to begin, please leave the actor’s dressing room and proceed to the audience seat.]
[The player from the current community, ’Lin Sizhi,’ has been selected as ’VIP Audience,’ please proceed to the VIP seat alone.]
Huang Shengjie was a bit disappointed: "I knew it..."
Clearly, for other communities, Lin Sizhi as an audience is evidently the player most in need of restriction, being selected as VIP Audience was a high-probability event.
Zhou Wanlin was a bit relieved: "Luckily, Qin Cheng and Lawyer Lin came in together; if only one person came in, the consequences would be unimaginable..."
Lin Sizhi said: "It’s okay; you don’t need to be nervous, just perform normally."
Qin Cheng nodded.
...
Everyone left the actor’s dressing room and returned to the official game site.
Qin Cheng, Huang Shengjie, and Zhou Wanlin headed to Community 2’s position on the first floor, while Lin Sizhi alone went to the VIP seat on the second floor.
The audience seats on the first floor also looked luxurious; groups of three seats, a round coffee table in the middle with pen and paper for records and a simple control panel for voting operations.
Three single sofas surrounding the coffee table form a fan shape relatively far from the stage.
And the side close to the stage was empty, with no seats.
This is also to ensure everyone has a good viewing experience.
The seats are arranged by number, with two rows in total; Community 2 is at the top left, Community 17 at the bottom right.
The distance between community audiences is quite far, with a small notice board beside the coffee table.
[After the performance starts, it is strictly forbidden to leave the seat, communicate with other community audiences, or make loud noises. For violations, the community score will be ’deducted’ according to the severity of the situation.]
It means that even if players realized the truth, they could share it only with the audience from the same community without attempting to directly inform other community players at the venue.
The only option is to return to the lounge later and share information through the special rule of ’communication.’
As all the audiences were seated, the performance officially started.
The current game round was clearly written on the theater-like curtain.
[Act One, Scene One]
[Teacher - Zheng Chunhua]
According to the game rules, each of the 6 actors must perform 3 times, so the game ends at [Act Three, Scene Six].
Zhou Wanlin was somewhat worried: "Uncle Zheng is the first to take the stage? Wouldn’t this... be a bit passive?
"Other actors should also be able to see his performance, right? That means they can adjust their performance content based on Uncle Zheng’s performance.
"Isn’t this the advantage of speaking later?"
Qin Cheng thought for a moment: "This game is different from a debate; being first also has its perks.
"At least the credibility of the performance can be significantly enhanced.
"Let’s trust Uncle Zheng."