Chapter 837 -836: The Answer to the Question
Qin Cheng used the last call time to complete the acceptance of the player from Community 10.
Although both parties cannot meet, since the number of players entering the game from Community 2 is sufficient and both parties verbally confirmed their agreement, then the poaching operation can be completed.
The game continues.
The intermission of the third act is over, and settlement information started to appear on the big screen.
[Performance ended, entering settlement phase.]
[Scores from each community will be summarized separately.]
[1. Basic Scores:]
[Scores for actors from each community:]
[Community 2 Zheng Chunhua: 54 points, 52 points, 51 points]
[Community 5 Zhang Lijuan: 41 points, 48 points, 49 points]
[Community 10 Fu Yujun: 52 points, 51 points, 52 points]
[Community 11 Bai Zilan: 52 points, 47 points, 49 points]
[Community 12 Li Kan: 51 points, 46 points, 57 points]
[Community 17 Hu Yingxu: 49 points, 45 points, 52 points]
[Questions and correct answers from each community are as follows:]
[Community 2 Question: Did Gong Zheng’s middle school teacher notice any anomaly in the father-son relationship of Gong Zheng?]
[Correct answer: No.]
[Community 5 Question: At the latest known time point, that is after Gong Zheng started working, did Zhang Lijuan, as a mother, love Gong Zheng?]
[Correct answer: Yes.]
[Community 10 Question: Did the professor played by Fu Yujun, in the process of scolding Gong Zheng, intentionally suppress him or exploit the situation?]
[Correct answer: No.]
[Community 11 Question: Do you think, after marriage, was Gong Zheng’s lover really willing to lower their quality of life for Gong Zheng?]
[Correct answer: Yes.]
[Community 12 Question: Was there any fault on the mediator’s part during the entire incident?]
[Correct answer: No.]
[Community 17 Question: In the ideal situation, could Gong Zheng’s supervisor avoid problems with Gong Zheng’s house through compliant operations?]
[Correct answer: No.]
…
The speed at which this information appeared was very slow, seemingly to ensure that all players had enough time to think about the answers to each question.
After all, according to the game rules, at least six players will die in this game: the entire member of the sixth-ranked community will suffer an instant death penalty, and the actors of the fifth-ranked community will suffer an instant death penalty.
The imitator seems to want to ensure that before they die, they at least have enough time to think through the course of events and die with clarity.
Zhou Wanlin could also finally take this time to raise her questions.
“You said the truth is ‘the brother stole the younger brother’s identity to enter college’?
“But… how did you reach this conclusion specifically?
“You can’t determine this just through the actors’ performance, right?
“No, that’s not accurate because in hindsight, the actors’ performances did indeed have some doubts, such as why there was such a big difference between high school Gong Zheng and post-college Gong Zheng, and specifically what exactly caused his house purchasing qualification to be canceled…
“But just based on these doubts, how can you confirm the ‘brother stole the younger brother’s identity to enter college’ issue?
“It can’t be inferred clearly, right?”
Qin Cheng glanced at Huang Shengjie: “Shengjie, you guessed it too, right? You say it first.”
Huang Shengjie explained: “I judged it through the loopholes in the storyline!
“Gong Zheng decided to commit suicide; he must have suffered a very significant blow in his life.
“But here is a blind spot, that Gong Zheng himself may not be innocent, he may also be the one responsible for all this.
“Moreover, I think that since the imitator designed such a game, they must believe that the final truth is hidden very deeply.
“If it was just ‘social oppression’ or ‘family issues,’ these scripts would not have much to shine about.
“Moreover, this level of mystery couldn’t possibly incite high-intensity confrontation around the scripts among the communities. A ‘special player’ would be hard to hide, and other communities would find it hard to not guess it.
“So, the final truth must be very bizarre and unexpected.
“The first doubt in the plot is, Gong Zheng showed completely different situations in high school and university: silent and studious in high school, while lively and adept at scheming in university, and surprisingly became very unserious about his studies.
“Community 10 instinctively thought that this was because after going to university, Gong Zheng saw the colorful world and hence his thoughts and personality changed greatly.
“This is indeed possible, but the problem is, such a change often requires a long period of time to occur.
“For example, realizing the problem at the beginning of the first year and gradually participating in school and social activities, consciously training their eloquence and social skills, to successfully transform by the third or fourth year.
“But the problem is, the time for Gong Zheng to undergo such a change was really too short.
“Although Uncle Zheng’s setting book only saw Gong Zheng during junior high, the key high-school-stage experience was entirely hidden, but according to conventional reasoning, it is almost impossible for Gong Zheng to undergo this change in high school.
“Because in our country, high schools are generally more pressure-oriented and focus more on studies than junior high, providing almost no soil for Gong Zheng to undergo such a change.
“This is the first doubt.
“The second doubt concerns Gong Zheng’s parents.
“In Uncle Zheng’s setting book, it clearly writes that Gong Zheng’s parents are farmers. But the scene Zhang Lijuan is in doesn’t look like a rural self-built house, but rather like an ordinary old-style apartment building.
“This doesn’t seem like a farmer’s family.
“I initially thought it was due to time changes, and later Gong Zheng moved his parents to commercial housing in the county town, but now it seems there’s another hidden agenda.
“A noticeable difference in Zhang Lijuan’s performance between the first act and the second and third acts is the costume.
“In the first act, she did everything possible to dress like a peasant woman, but in the second and third acts, she was more like a woman from a small town.
“Why would she make such a change? The only reason is, her score in the first act was too low, making her realize that this was a very wrong strategy, so she made a change.
“That is to say, the image in the first act doesn’t truly represent Gong Zheng’s mother’s real image.
“Was the costume in the first act a mistake? That’s also unlikely because such a mistake is too elementary. Even if Zhang Lijuan did nothing and just performed in the clothes from the community, there was a high probability that it would fit the role better and score higher.
“So it can only be explained as intentional.
“Hence, Zhang Lijuan is undoubtedly a ‘special player,’ and she wants to use this special performance to make it as unlikely as possible for other audiences to be aware of the ‘Gong Zheng’s mother identity’ issue.
“Moreover, judging from Zhang Lijuan’s performance, Gong Zheng’s mother is very domineering, from work to buying a house to getting married, almost every step is arranged by the mother.
“Such a domineering mother, when Gong Zheng needs a guardian to appear in the county middle school, how could she not personally go, but let Gong Zheng’s father go instead?
“And it wasn’t just once or twice, it was every time, she didn’t go.
“This is also very strange.
“If it was just Gong Zheng himself showing a significant change before and after college, that can be said to be a personality change, but the parent information being different as well…
“It looks even more like Gong Zheng was completely swapped with someone else.”
Zhou Wanlin nodded in realization: “I see.
“Impersonating someone to enter college is indeed something that has happened in the past.
“But the question is… how can you be sure it was the brother who impersonated the younger brother?
“And not the younger brother impersonating the brother, or someone else altogether?”