God's imitator

Chapter 128 The Will of the Corridor

Lee In-sook sighed and continued:

"To be honest, although I always spoke to Aunt Su politely and courteously, I always regarded her as a vulnerable person or even a burden in the community who needed to be cared for, and I never considered that she also had value in the community."

"The games in the arcade are all-encompassing, and any kind of person can play an irreplaceable role in a specific situation."

"It seems that this is precisely the message the gallery is conveying to us:"
"In the real world, the existence of the weak is necessary. If a country or a society arrogantly eliminates the weak in large numbers, then social order will inevitably collapse."

"The same is true in the new world; the weak, or those who seem foolish, will also have value in certain specific circumstances."

“We did put forward some proposals to help the vulnerable, but I often ask myself, did I really do my best in dealing with Aunt Su’s problem?”

"During the debriefing of the King's Trial, Aunt Su's demands on Brother Wang and Attorney Lin were indeed a bit excessive, and I was somewhat angry as well. As a result, other people in the community also began to distance themselves from her."

"But now that I think about it, is anyone truly perfect? ​​Who doesn't have their moments of stubbornness and delusion?"

"Uncle Ding and Aunt Su died first, not because they deserved to die, but because their stubbornness was exposed first."

"We also have our stubborn streak, so when the game of judgment against us comes, perhaps we need someone like Uncle Ding or Aunt Su to help us break through it?"

"If I had realized this earlier and learned more about Aunt Su, perhaps I wouldn't have treated her as a mere burden in this game, and the outcome of the game might have been different."

"Just like in the real world, the elderly are a group that hardly creates value, but as a civilized society, we should still try our best to let them spend their later years in peace through pensions, retirement benefits and other means."

"This is a sign of progress in civilized society."

"Perhaps it's the same here?"

Cai Zhiyuan paused for a moment: "No, no, no, this could absolutely not be the message conveyed by the corridor."

"Although I thought that Aunt Su could have played a bigger role in this game during the review, that was only when discussing the solution to the game."

"At this point, I must also remind you:"

"This game may just be an exception, and we cannot use it as a basis to decide the future development direction of the community."

"The corridor has no will; it is more like some kind of cruel natural law."

"If one mistakenly receives false goodwill, it could have serious consequences."

Cao Haichuan shook his head: "No, on this point, I agree with Ren Shu's idea."

"The corridor has a will."

Cao Haichuan exhaled a puff of smoke and explained:
"Of course, judging from the current situation, the corridor may only have a vague will, and even its scoring criteria may be clearly malicious."

"But the copycats who carry out the requirements of the arcade have a clear will, and although these wills are different, they will eventually come together."

Cai Zhiyuan thought for a moment: "Even so, we cannot say for sure that this collective will necessarily contain clear goodwill."

"How can you assume there are more well-intentioned copycats?"

"The copycat profits by killing the player, so what motivation would he have to help the player pass the trial game smoothly?"
“I even think that it will be impossible for a lenient trial game like the ‘money game’ to appear again in the future.”

Cao Haichuan countered, "Is it really impossible?"
"Most communities now recognize the importance of high-IQ players, and in the process of recruiting new members, they will inevitably tend to recruit more and more high-IQ players."

"After round after round of this life-or-death game, players with high IQs have a higher survival rate and accumulate more visa time."

"So, suppose you're the copycat, facing an increasing number of highly intelligent players, your usual tricks are likely to be easily seen through. What would you do then?"

Cai Zhiyuan remained silent for a long time before slowly stating the only possibility: "Design a game where stupid people can pass the level by instinct, but smart people will die."

Cao Haichuan nodded approvingly: "Yes, just like the 'Money Game'."

"If we say that 'King's Judgment' is specifically designed for people like Uncle Ding, then 'Wealth Game' is the opposite, targeting smart people more."

"Players like Wang Yongxin and Tian Fan have a high chance of winning in games that require thinking, taking risks, and prioritizing profit, but when they enter this game, they are not as instinctive as ordinary people."

“The constant deductions in employee salaries will inevitably lead them to choose the option of continuous layoffs.”

"Of course, the copycat of 'The Money Game' clearly went easy on him. If he had made the game more stringent and removed a few of the rules that exempted him from death, he could have easily achieved a total annihilation."

"But will other inspired copycats be so forgiving?"

"If more and more copycats learn the 'money game' approach, it could become a targeted selection process for ordinary people or even stupid people, while smart people would have an extremely high mortality rate."

"I believe that the arcade likely has this kind of 'dynamic balance' mechanism, which will never allow a certain type of player to always stand at the top of the ecosystem."

"If some communities mistakenly believe that highly intelligent players will always have the advantage in the life-or-death games of the arcade, then they may suddenly face annihilation one day."

Cai Zhiyuan lowered his head and pondered for a long time, but in the end he shook his head.

“I admit that this possibility does exist.”

"However, we also need to consider one issue:"
"The arcade will replenish players, and there will always be fools. Even if all communities filter players according to the age or profession of 'smart people,' there will always be communities that cannot find satisfactory players."

"With a constant influx of fools, intelligent people will always be a minority in proportion."

"It's still much easier for copycats to design games to kill stupid people than to kill smart people."

"Because smart people can also learn and research. For example, Ren Shu and Fu Chen might fall for a trick like the 'Money Game' the first time they enter, but they will be subconsciously on guard the second time they enter."

"Smart people can learn the survival strategies of fools, but conversely, fools can never learn from smart people."

"Moreover, not every copycat can be a genius. Many copycats, even if they wanted to learn the 'money-making game,' simply couldn't design it."

Cao Haichuan exhaled a puff of smoke: "Okay, what you said makes sense."

"It's impossible to determine who's right and who's wrong right now, but we did discuss a very crucial point:"

"The will of the gallery depends on the combined efforts of all the copycats."

"If the copycat who is inclined to be kind wins, then the trial game will become more lenient, and even approach the severity of punishment under the law in reality."

"If the imitator who leans towards evil wins, then the trial game will become harsh, and even the most trivial crime could result in a death penalty."

"Perhaps this game is just a kind-hearted copycat testing the rules of the arcade."

"Our strategy in the community is to take care of the weak, or only the strong, which is itself a gamble on the 'war on copycats':"

"If we bet right, the game in the arcade will be adapted to the shape of our community, and the survival rate will be greatly improved."

"If you bet on the wrong thing, even if you gather the elites of a community, you'll still be wiped out by a specific game genre."

(End of this chapter)