God's imitator

Chapter 180 Reproductive Instruments
Upon hearing this, all four of them frowned slightly.

This sounds harder than I imagined.

Ten fertility badges are equivalent to ten male badges and ten female badges, for a total of 20.

Moreover, the rules state that using the mechanism only has a "certain probability" of obtaining the badge, without specifying the exact probability.

Is it reasonable that the lower the probability, the more times each person needs to use the mechanism?

Furthermore, using these facilities requires a fertility fund, but the game hasn't yet explained where that fund comes from.

From a game mechanics perspective, players must earn enough breeding funds to use the mechanism 20 times, otherwise "creating 10 breeding badges" is an absolutely impossible goal.

Once the game officially begins, the door in front of you will open, leading to three different 'trial chambers'.

In each courtroom, there are two criminals awaiting trial.

[Among the jury, two players were forcibly selected by the game to participate. You did not commit any serious crimes; you merely posted numerous controversial statements online that incited hatred. Therefore, you will not be the primary targets of the trial.]

But most of the convicts in these courtrooms are truly criminals.

Before entering each courtroom, you must answer a specific question. A correct answer will reward you with 12 points in the reproductive fund. An incorrect answer will result in no reward.

[Upon entering the trial chamber, the criminal's crimes will be automatically read aloud.]

The presiding judge must engage in thorough discussion with the jurors and ultimately deliver the verdict by striking the gavel on the bench.

Based on the specific crimes committed by the offenders and their actual legal judgments, you can make three different choices to impose "additional sentences" on the original results:

【'Innocence,' 'Punishment,' and 'Death Penalty'.】

[To obtain a posthumous acquittal, an additional 1 points of the reproductive fund are required.]

[If you wish to pursue 'disciplinary action', an additional 1000 points of the reproductive fund will be required.]

[If a death sentence is sought: An additional 1 points of reproductive fund will be awarded.]

Furthermore, if the offender is later found 'not guilty' or 'disciplined,' they will be released and join you in completing the rest of the game.

[At the end of the game, if there are any remaining 'Fertility Funds,' each point can be converted into '10 minutes of visa time,' up to a maximum of 300,000 minutes of visa time. The proceeds will be divided equally among all surviving players in the arena.]

These are all the rules for this game. For more rules, please explore the game yourself.

The game will officially begin in 10 minutes. Good luck!

The group digested the specific rules of the game for a while.

Although there is a lot of content, it can be summarized into two main steps.

The first step is to go to the various courtrooms to try criminals who have committed serious crimes, and to earn or spend the reproductive fund.

Those criminals whose crimes don't warrant the death penalty could be considered for acquittal or reduced sentences, saving them so they could finish the game together. But those who are utterly heinous should be sentenced to death in exchange for a reproductive fund.

What use are the sinners who are saved?

The second step is for everyone to share the usage of these two machines and create 10 fertility badges to ensure that the death penalty mechanism of "barbarian population invasion" is not triggered.

If there's a surplus in the fertility fund, everyone can share it; if there isn't, that's okay too. Just being able to return safely from the trial game is something to celebrate.

……

Li Jiang had arrived in front of the two different mechanical torture devices and was carefully observing them. "You see, these two mechanical torture devices need to be used in accordance with gender."

The other three came over to take a look, and sure enough, there were detailed instructions for use next to the two mechanical torture devices.

The usage fee for the "birth control device" comes in three different amounts: 1 yuan (birth fund), 15000 yuan (birth fund), and 2 yuan (birth fund).

When 1 is invested in the childbirth fund, these two mechanical torture devices will operate according to standard mode:

[Mechanism 1: Players will endure heavy pressure for 2 minutes, with a 5% chance of sustaining needle pricks on non-vital areas of the body.]

[Mechanism 2: Electrodes will be attached to the player's entire body, causing 2 minutes of excruciating pain, with a 1% chance of death.]

[When 15000 is invested in the fertility fund, the duration of stress and electric shock, as well as the probability of injury and death, will be reduced to half of their original levels.]

There will be no harm in investing 2 in the childbirth fund.

One of the rules is highlighted:
Before the game officially begins, the presiding judge must bind Mechanism 1 and Mechanism 2 to a specific gender for use, and this binding cannot be changed once completed.

[If the timeout expires, the device will be randomly bound.]

Yang Yuting thought for a moment: "It means that we can bind mechanism 1 to a male user and mechanism 2 to a female user."

"After binding, female players will not be able to use mechanism 1, and vice versa."

Li Jiang sighed silently: "Although I am the only male present, I am the only one who can do this job in the first stage of the operation."

Yang Yuting nodded thoughtfully: "It seems so. These two mechanical instruments of torture seem to correspond to the different roles that men and women play in the process of childbirth."

"The characteristics of mechanism 2 are particularly obvious: the excruciating pain and the 1% mortality rate are clearly an allusion to women's childbirth."

Jiang He frowned slightly, disagreeing with this viewpoint.

"It's fine that Mechanism 2 is related to childbirth, but what about Mechanism 1? Men don't need to have children. What does enduring heavy pressure and the 5% probability of needle pricks imply?"

Li Jiang stated matter-of-factly, "Of course, it represents the family responsibilities and economic pressures that men bear during the process of childbirth."

Jiang He countered, "The heavy pressure part is barely relevant, but what does a 5% risk of injury mean? How can it be so much higher than the mortality rate during childbirth?"

Li Jiang wasn't stumped by the question: "You've come to the right person. This means 'work-related injury'."

"I've checked the data, and the female mortality rate due to childbirth is about 16 per 100,000. Even if we estimate based on the maximum of 300 million women of childbearing age, there are four to five thousand deaths every year."

"In reality, it is impossible for all women of childbearing age to give birth every year, so the actual number of deaths is at most one or two thousand."

"The number of men who die from work-related injuries each year is about 10, accounting for about 90% of all work-related injuries."

Jiang He was taken aback: "Don't women get workplace injuries?"

Li Jiang nodded: "Of course there are. As I said, men account for 90% of the total number of deaths due to work-related injuries, and the remaining 10% are women."

"It is estimated that the number of women who die from work-related injuries and childbirth will not exceed 2, while the number of men who die from work-related injuries alone is 10."

"The probabilities of these two machines are 5% and 1% respectively, which roughly matches up. However, according to real data, the 5% for Machine 1 should not be the probability of injury, but the probability of death."

"It can only be said that the copycats who designed this game were still lenient towards men compared to the cruel real world."

(End of this chapter)