CHAPTER 33: CHAPTER 33: HOW DO YOU VOTE FOR GOD?

"Alright," Mu Qiu said, after being speechless, and gathered all the clues together, "let’s take a bold guess. Right now, the most suspicious ones should be Brother Cheng and Brother Zhu Qi, because in my novel, I did write about an identity setting similar to the movie ’Annihilation’. If the show team has used it subtly, then this should be it. But there’s been one question that I’ve been pondering since the beginning and we’ve overlooked."

Zhu Qi: "What question?"

"The task is to find that God, but what counts as finding out? How can we actually point it out successfully? Is it just by saying a few words here about who it is and then voting, or are there trigger conditions where everyone must return to a certain position to identify effectively?"

"There should be trigger conditions," Su Yan immediately responded, "maybe we need to go back to the beginning, just like re-enacting a scene."

"Then, what kind of conditions?" Li Yang hurriedly asked.

This question stumped everyone, and Mu Qiu couldn’t grasp the thread, nor could she articulate anything.

In her novel, there were indeed many conditions for triggering the final phase, but they were all things like "found a coin in the dumpling," "scored a hundred in a game," "a good citizen failed and was passively identified," which don’t quite fit this episode.

"It should be completing the identity setting," Cheng Zhirang suddenly said.

The others looked at him.

He lowered his head and thought for two seconds, then said, "If it’s just to identify from a God’s perspective, the incomplete identity setting wouldn’t affect anything, so there would be no need for teachers like Liu Bing to appear. Moreover, as Liu Bing previously mentioned, we don’t have complete identity information, and therefore don’t understand our roles well. Throughout the task, playing the role is an integral part, so I think, maybe we need to complete our identity information again, then clarify the significance of this identity."

Everyone fell into deep thought.

After a while, Guan Yu spoke first: "The identity information is indeed being completed step by step, especially after the scene re-enactment, which gave us many identity clues."

Shu Ran glanced at Cheng Zhirang and Su Yan, "Then let’s each take turns to say what identity information we have known and how complete it is?"

Cheng Zhirang nodded: "Sure."

"Our group will go first," Guan Yu raised her hand, "My current identity information, as far as I know, is that of a middle-aged woman, married with children, struggling in a divorce due to her husband’s infidelity, without a job, and has always treated her husband and son as the cornerstone of life, feeling at a loss once she loses them... Roughly a ninety percent completeness."

After she finished, Su Yan remained still, so Shi Yuhuai had to speak as the second person.

"A very common middle-aged man in a marriage family, with a child already in middle school, is the breadwinner of the household, had an affair, and refuses to divorce. The affair partner seems to have disappeared, completeness, eighty percent."

Guan Yu quickly nodded, rubbing her chin with her fingers, showing a contemplative stance, "Right, and we need to explain the affair partner too."

Next was Su Yan, "A high school student in an ordinary family, has a father who cheated, parents facing divorce, with excellent grades and expensive tuition fees. Once the original family falls apart, it means losing the mother who is good to him or losing everything that’s currently glamorous. The father’s affair partner can’t exclude homicide. Identity completeness, sixty percent."

Homicide can’t be excluded...

Li Yang widened his eyes, "Is this a detective series? Can’t be, right?"

Shu Ran shrank back, hiding behind Zhu Qi, "Wasn’t it said the first episode would be very soothing?"

After a summary like this, everyone realized they had overlooked many subtle pieces of information, which, if woven together, might be the closest to the truth.

After Su Yan finished speaking, he looked straight across, "Second group, Brother Cheng, your turn?"

Cheng Zhirang nodded, his voice leisurely and unhurriedly told, still in the first person perspective.

"My girlfriend and I have been in a romantic relationship for seven or eight years, but after marriage, I found out she had an affair. I am reluctant to let go of this relationship and want to mend it, plan to forgive, but she feels extremely sorry for me and wholeheartedly wants to divorce, ending an already unhealthy love. I am unwilling, and probably handled her affair partner by illegal means. Information completeness, eighty-five percent."

"Honestly speaking," Guan Yu couldn’t help but complain, "is there really such a girl in real life?"

Although what she said was a question, her eyes subtly looked at Mu Qiu.

The implication should be—this kind of girl is blind at a young age, how nice.

Mu Qiu was forced to accept the blame coming her way, maintaining a composed face: "Whether there is or not is none of my business, I’m just an amnesiac seventeen-year-old girl."

"......" Though they’re not very familiar yet, it must be said that this was quite shameless.

Having come this far, Mu Qiu became the second spokesperson of the group and spoke of her identity information.

"That’s right, I’m Brother Cheng’s wife who has an affair, but I’ve lost my memory and still want to cooperate with him to revisit old places and rekindle old feelings, to find our original love. Initially, this was such a beautiful trajectory, but the program team wouldn’t let me be, forcing me step by step to recall and tear off my facade of self-deception. Preliminary judgement, my affair partner was annihilated in that explosion by Brother Cheng, identity information completeness, ninety percent."

The third was Lin Banyan: "I am Brother Cheng’s sister, and probably have a former romantic relationship with the sister-in-law’s affair partner. I should have some knowledge about the disappearance of the partner, identity completeness, fifty percent."

The last group.

Li Yang: "I am a rich second generation, the wealthy kind. I married a woman I used to like very much, but she became a career-oriented strong woman, starting to despise me for not being motivated, all my efforts being seen as conveniences brought by the rich second generation label. Oh yes, she also has a brother who drains me."

Zhu Qi: "That’s right, I am the one who drains you...."

Li Yang covered his mouth: "Aren’t you already dead?"

Zhu Qi paused, then collapsed backward with a thud, forced to continue playing dead, eyes resentful.

Shu Ran was the last to speak: "I am someone without a princess’ fate but was married by a rich second generation as if being treated like a princess. But later, I wasn’t content with my lowly origins, thinking if I were also a rich second generation, things wouldn’t be like this now. I unilaterally made the marital relationship precarious and even indulged my brother to flaunt in my husband’s house."

After everyone finished speaking, Li Yang gave a sigh, drawing everyone’s attention to him.

He crouched, under the pink team uniform and white ice sleeves, his arm muscles bulged, fingers posed a two.

"Our group’s focus doesn’t seem to be the same as yours."

"How is it different?"

"Summarizing Brother Cheng’s, it’s about what happens to love after an affair; summarizing Brother Yan’s, it’s about a middle-aged woman being at a loss facing divorce. But ours is about the discontent of a career-oriented strong woman with a rich second generation and the gradual despair of the unacknowledged rich second generation?"

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[Why are these three stories assigned to the three groups of guests, after the first episode, it will be explained through roles like the screenwriter or a verified reviewer. One day, I suddenly thought of these three marriage states, melodrama mixed with helpless reality... Alright, I’ll shut up, you guys have a good watch.]