God's imitator

Chapter 193 The Necessity of Personally Carrying Out Executions

Tsai Chih-yuan explained, “If we had realized this earlier, we could have created six ‘fertility badges’ in the first trial room. It’s not difficult to do that, unless you choose not to ask the audience for help when answering the questions at the entrance and insist on guessing on your own.”

"The second trial chamber can produce 2 'fertility badges' and 1 'woman badge'."

"The third courtroom can produce one 'Fertility Badge'."

"When you return to the initial location, even in the worst-case scenario where you receive 30 '×' votes for unanimity, you still have a 54% success rate."

"You only need to make one more 'Male Badge'. Even if the probability is only 54%, you can try to force it."

"This mechanism can be considered a kind of allegory. It's an allegory for the very act of 'reproduction' itself."

"If there is no plan to have children, then it doesn't matter at all; it's perfectly acceptable to bear the consequences on one's own."

"But if you have a family planning policy, then it's better to do it as soon as possible; the longer you delay, the more problems you'll encounter."

"Players who are more inclined to create badges as early as possible are more likely to discover this mechanism in the first trial room and adjust their subsequent game strategies accordingly."

"On the contrary, the more people tend to create a birth badge at the last minute, the more they hesitate and are more easily influenced by public opinion and other complex factors, and they have to bear more of the problems of 'advanced maternal age'."

Yang Yuting said with some annoyance, "Yes, how could I not have realized that..."

"I understand, part of the reason lies in the gender allocation between Agency 1 and Agency 2."

"Because Jiang He bound women to Mechanism 1 and men to Mechanism 2, it led to a misallocation of resources."

"There are many female players, but Chen Yumei and I are worried that we won't be able to withstand the weight of Mechanism 1, and Jiang He's stamina is only enough for one attempt at most."

"There are fewer male players, and Li Jiang also felt fear due to the intense pain after using the second mechanism twice in a row."

"We all developed a sense of rejection and resistance towards the relevant authorities, and subconsciously did not want to use them a second time."

"If we reverse the roles and let Li Jiang use Mechanism 1, he's likely to try using it continuously if he has enough energy. In that case, we'd be more likely to discover the mechanism..."

Qin Yao said with some surprise, "So, the 'kill all' suggestion that Attorney Lin gave at the beginning was really the simplest solution to this game?"

"There are three questions in total, and two chances to ask for help. Even if you only answer two questions correctly, if you kill all the criminals, the total amount will be 300,000 yuan for childbirth funds."

"Even if it's just Li Jiang alone, you can choose to have him use the 15000 level for all the time when using the mechanism 1."

"Then you three female players can split up the second mechanism, each taking 3 turns, and you'll still have plenty left over."

"If you can answer all three questions correctly, then there's even more to it; you might even have several chances to avoid any damage."

Lee In-sook nodded: "Yes, actually, we viewers realized it during the game."

"Killing everyone is the simplest and most brutal way to pass the level."

"In addition, you can choose to kill the two people in the first cell and punish the four people in the next cell, or kill the four people in the first cell and acquit the last two people."

“Saving all the answers is not a safe bet, because both ‘innocence’ and ‘punishment’ require spending the reproductive fund. If you only answer 2 questions correctly, the margin for error will be much lower than killing all the answers.”

Yang Yuting was very frustrated: "We never expected that the 'kill all' strategy was suggested by Attorney Lin! This is completely unlike your persona!"

Lin Sizhi shrugged: "I want to emphasize again that this suggestion is only the most feasible way to pass the game from the audience's perspective, and it does not represent my professional ethics or my personal opinion. If I were playing this game myself, I would definitely use other methods."

"Don't let my reputation be ruined because of a suggestion about a game."

Yang Yuting then asked, "How did Attorney Lin come up with this idea as soon as he entered the game?"

Lin Sizhi explained, "It's mainly due to the information gap."

"The audience knows about the 'consistency voting' information, so they can infer the copycat's design ideas based on this hidden rule."

"The birth control device has three different levels, which means there is a way to pass the level by 'reducing the difficulty of the system by having fewer people but using an extra birth control fund'."

“Killing everyone won’t affect the consensus vote and will also grant additional breeding funds, making it a likely stable way to pass the level.”

"Of course, the copycat who designed the game also imposed restrictions on this strategy: he required the jury members to personally carry out the death sentence with a dagger."

Yang Yuting clearly hadn't figured this out either: "Yeah, demanding that we kill people ourselves, what kind of twisted sense of humor is that?"

"Wouldn't it be simpler to change it to a trap or an instant kill?"

Lin Sizhi explained, "This is a simple test, and it will also affect the 'consistency vote' to some extent."

"Making a death sentence is a very serious matter."

“Wrongful executions are certainly unavoidable, but at the very least, the person who makes the first death sentence should look the criminal in the eye and take responsibility for their decision.”

"In some Western literary works, the lord would personally carry out the execution, always looking directly into the eyes of the condemned. This rule would be passed down as a tradition in the lord's family from generation to generation."

"At least for the first execution, I will carry it out myself. This is to ensure that I have the most basic respect for killing."

"If the execution of a death sentence can be completed simply by ticking a few boxes on a piece of paper and pressing a button, then those who have the power to make judgments will quickly lose their sense of reality about killing and will be more likely to make less careful judgments."

"Just like Jiang He's decision to kill the first male criminal who caused death by negligence: if she had known in advance that she would have to do it herself, she probably wouldn't have handed down the death sentence."

Yang Yuting still didn't quite understand: "But why is this related to 'unanimity voting'?"

Lin Sizhi continued, "Because although the concept of 'consistency of judgment' is more stringent than that of 'fairness,' it is not entirely without ambiguity."

"Just like in 'The King's Trial,' the king can change the opinions of some viewers by publicly announcing the crimes of prisoners and associating them with the prison cells;

“A similar mechanism exists in ‘birth trials,’ but it’s not just talk; it’s about taking action.”

"After a death sentence is handed down, the presiding judge's behavior will also affect the audience's impression of her."

"If she dares to carry out the verdict herself and take full responsibility for the consequences of her decisions, then a small segment of the audience may be more supportive of her, which would also help with the 'unanimity vote'."

"Conversely, if she doesn't dare to carry out the judgment herself and instead pushes the responsibility onto someone else, then the crime is compounded, and the double standards in the judgment will be exposed more obviously. Even those who are biased towards her will not be able to deceive themselves into giving biased votes."

"Of course, this mechanism only wins over those swing voters; it doesn't work on viewers who are truly committed."

(End of this chapter)