God's imitator

Chapter 189 Manufacturing Badges

Inside the audience lounge.

[Please vote on the jury's conduct in the third courtroom.]

[Voting Results: ××××××××××]

Clearly, Jiang He's explanation had no effect whatsoever.

This vote wasn't a "fairness vote," but a "consistency vote." If it were a fairness vote, there might be a tiny chance that a small minority would vote with a checkmark.

However, there is no other possibility for a unanimous vote.

……

After choosing the punishment option, 1000 points were deducted from the maternity fund.

The third cell also contains birth control devices, one of each of the two mechanisms.

The female taxi driver we just rescued is named Zhao Dong. She volunteered to use the first-aid kit.

Zhao Dong's physical condition was clearly better than Jiang He's, and he was also lucky enough to avoid injury, so he completed the task smoothly.

On the other side, Li Jiang also had Fei Xiong complete a second mechanism.

[Remaining Fertility Fund: 156000]

[Fertility Badge: 3]

[Male Badges: 0]

[Women's Badge: 2]

……

All three cells had been cleared, and the group continued forward, passing through a long, circular corridor, and sure enough, they returned to the place where the game rules had been read out at the beginning.

Only the birth control agency here has no limit on the number of times it can be used.

All the doors leading to other places closed automatically.

Jiang He glanced at the countdown; there were still a little over 30 minutes left.

"Alright, it seems we'll have to stay here and manufacture all the 'fertility badges'."

"However, the current situation is still relatively optimistic. We already have three 'fertility badges', and we have enough remaining fertility funds and plenty of time."

"We take turns using mechanism 1, which allows us to get plenty of rest."

Zhao Dong, the female driver she had rescued earlier, volunteered again, saying, "I can come back after resting for a bit."

"If my physical strength allows, I can use the mechanism 1 twice more."

Even among women, there are differences in physical strength.

Jiang He considered for a moment: "Next, we will use mechanism 1 7 more times. I will use it twice more, and Sister Zhao will use it twice more. As for the rest of you, Yu Ting, Chen Yu Mei, and Chen Xin, can you each use it once?"

Jiang He felt that this distribution was fair.

Bai Yanyan had already used the mechanism 1 once before. Although she had rested for a while, she was unsure if her strength had recovered, so using it again would still be somewhat risky.

Jiang He will take two turns herself, Zhao Dong, who has the advantage in physical strength, will take two turns, and the other three will each take one turn. This seems to be the most reasonable solution at present.

As for Agency 2, there are only two men in total, so Jiang He doesn't care how they divide the tasks.

Yang Yuting asked, "Wait a minute, should we consider investing some extra funds in the maternity fund to reduce the harm to the organization?"

“目前我们还剩15万6000，制造7枚生育徽章的话，还需要7枚男性徽章和5枚女性徽章。

"That means there will be 36000 in maternity fund left. We can consider changing some of the government services to the 15000 or 20000 level for use."

Jiang He thought for a moment and said, "Let's use the 1 level first. After all, the instructions on this device say that it has a 'certain probability of being manufactured.' If we are unlucky and fail to manufacture it on one occasion, it will be troublesome."

Everyone nodded, approving of the plan.

……

Screams could be heard intermittently from inside the enclosed space.

Those resting below often encouraged and cheered on the person being tortured.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Finally, all the players completed their assigned tasks as planned. Li Jiang finished a little earlier, since they had accumulated two extra 'Female Badges', but due to the intense pain, the two of them also found it very difficult and needed a long rest to recover.

Everyone was in a sorry state.

Yang Yuting looked down and saw two puncture wounds on her left calf and right forearm. Although the wounds were not very deep, they were still bleeding and very painful.

All she wants now is to get back to her community as soon as possible to receive treatment.

As for the other female players, they were all injured.

"Okay...that should be enough..."

Jiang He had used the mechanism 1 three times in this game, and was now completely exhausted with at least five wounds on her body. Although these wounds were not very deep, they still left her sitting on the ground, unable to move.

But just then, Li Jiang's shocked voice rang out: "Why isn't it enough?"

Everyone quickly looked at the data display board.

Logically, you should already have 10 'fertility badges' by now.

However, the displayed data shows: 7 "fertility badges" and 3 extra "female badges".

Jiang He felt a sinking feeling in her heart; the situation she feared most had come to pass.

The notice board next to the birthing instruments clearly stated at the beginning that both of these mechanisms only have a "certain probability" of generating badges, and are not guaranteed to generate them 100%.

However, badges were successfully generated in previous uses, so everyone assumed the probability was high and didn't pay much attention.

But now, the missing three 'male badges' have made everyone's situation even worse.

All the female players were injured, though none of them were seriously, but they were all almost completely exhausted.

Even worse, time.

With less than 10 minutes left in the game, there wasn't much time left for them to rest.

Jiang He tried to stand up, but her legs wouldn't obey her commands.

She could only look at the female driver: "Sister Zhao, I'll have to trouble you to use it one more time... You use it first, I'll use it a second time after I've rested..."

“We also have a maternity fund. If we hurry, we can make it in 10 minutes.”

Zhao Dong nodded: "Okay."

She could only barely manage to stand up and once again stand under the pressure of mechanism 1.

Time ticked by, and the arena remained completely silent.

Fortunately, Zhao Dong persevered in the end, even though he was completely exhausted.

Everyone quickly looked at the data display board.

A male badge was successfully created, and the 8th fertility badge was automatically synthesized.

This means that we are still missing two male badges.

Jiang He struggled to her feet: "There's still a chance!"

She barely made it to the first station and used the 10,000 gear again.

Although I could use the 15000 level, I decided to save the easier option for last, considering that the next time might be even more difficult.

However, a situation that left everyone utterly hopeless occurred: after Jiang He had exhausted all her efforts to complete the first mechanism again, the maternity fund was deducted by 10,000 as normal, but the number of 'Maternity Badges' remained at 8, and the number of 'Male Badges' remained at 0, without any change.

Everyone gave up.

Because the fertility fund only has 16000 left, and it is missing two 'male badges', it is impossible to raise the rest no matter what.

"How could this happen..." Everyone was dejected.

Yang Yuting silently did the calculations.

"The probability of this machine producing male badges must be very low now, otherwise such a serious deviation would not have occurred."

"We used it nine times, but only produced five male badges. Based on this probability, even with an additional ten or twenty thousand in fertility funds, it still wouldn't be enough..."

"The previous probabilities were all normal."

"In other words, there is indeed some kind of 'fairness' mechanism in this game that has lowered the probability of creating 'male badges'..."

(End of this chapter)