God's imitator

Chapter 194 Li Jiang's Voting

Zheng Jie suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "Hey, I've thought of a possibility."

"Since this game can be completed by simply voting out one person, can we do that?"
"There's no need to complete the birth mission in the first place. Just save the most heinous criminal among all the criminals, and after the barbarian invasion is triggered, the four judges vote him out, and you'll successfully complete the game."

"Then the four of them made a profit of 300,000 yuan from their visa time, each earning more than 70,000 yuan."

Yang Yuting was a little confused: "But isn't this a bit too much of a God's-eye view?"

Cai Zhiyuan shook his head: "This method won't work."

"It's perfect in theory, but there are too many variables in actual operation."

"Because the voting order in this game was carefully designed by the copycat, you see."

He pointed again to the details of the rules on the big screen.

"The final vote was conducted in the following order:"
"First, there are two assistants."

"Secondly, there are two players who are forced into the game."

"The last group of criminals to be released are the ones who are released."

"If an extra criminal is released, he will be the last to be tried."

"Take this game as an example. Suppose our community adopts this strategy, then Community 13 has many opportunities in the game to secretly hint to the criminals to vote out two players from Community 17 together."

"In this situation, the criminal's vote becomes a crucial swing vote; whichever side he sides on becomes the majority."

"Of course, if the criminal and the players from the 13th community vote out two people from the 17th community, he will definitely be voted out by the players from the 13th community in the end as well."

"But in any case, it is unwise to leave a criminal who has committed a serious crime and is cunning to the end and rely on the trust between two unfamiliar communities."

“Any deviation in any link, or even just a random lapse in judgment by the criminal, could lead to tragic consequences.”

Zheng Jie thought for a moment: "What if we keep an eye on each other and don't allow anyone to approach the criminal in private?"

Cai Zhiyuan shook his head: "That's no use. Criminals won't just sit and wait to die; they'll probably figure it out themselves."

"Furthermore, what if the other community gets desperate and plays its cards openly against you? What can you do to restrain their behavior if they blatantly tell the criminals that they want to vote you all out to the death?"

Zheng Jie nodded in realization. Indeed, this method was very unreliable.

The prerequisite for completing this plan is that the two communities have sufficient mutual trust. But if there is such mutual trust, wouldn't it be better for everyone to just enjoy the game?
Why go to the last step and pin your hopes on a completely unreliable death vote when you can get through by creating a birth badge?

Cai Zhiyuan continued, "In fact, Li Jiang killed Fei Xiong in the end because of the vote."

"Li Jiang ultimately chose to vote Chen Xin to death, so his act of saving Chen Xin was definitely not out of a sense of justice."

"On the surface, if Fei Xiong and Chen Xin are chosen to enter the final vote, Fei Xiong is male and Chen Xin is female, so the probability of Fei Xiong voting against Li Jiang is lower."

"But if someone really thinks that way, then they've been influenced by gender narratives. Who says that men would never throw 'death' at another man?"
“Fei Xiong is a serial killer who has gone mad. He might just throw everyone to their deaths. Li Jiang has even made him use torture instruments several times. How could he possibly show mercy to Li Jiang?”

"Therefore, Li Jiang will definitely not allow Fei Xiong to vote alive."

"On the other hand, Chen Xin, although a female player, was saved by Li Jiang. The person who directly caused her to lose the game was Jiang He, who served as the presiding judge."

"Given the choice between Li Jiang and Jiang He, Chen Xin will most likely choose Li Jiang and vote for Jiang He."

"As for why Li Jiang, Chen Yumei, and Zhao Dong ultimately voted to kill Chen Xin?"

"Because the visa time reward in this game is shared equally among all surviving players, if one more person dies, one less person gets to share the money."

"After Li Jiang and Chen Yumei confirmed that they were safe, they would naturally choose to try to kill Chen Xin and Zhao Dong, the two criminals who were the last to be tried."

"At this point, if Zhao Dong votes to 'resurrect' Chen Xin, and Chen Xin survives with three votes, then when Zhao Dong is put on trial, Chen Xin will most likely vote her to die so that she can get a bigger share of the money."

"Conversely, if Zhao Dong votes Chen Xin to 'die,' when it's her turn to be tried, only four people will vote. If Yang Yuting votes her to 'live,' she will definitely survive."

"Therefore, Zhao Dong could not entrust his life to Chen Xin's goodwill, and his only choice was to send Chen Xin to his death."

"This is somewhat like a logic problem of 'pirates dividing gold coins,' where criminals don't actually have many choices."

Yang Yuting nodded in realization: "I see... I was thinking that since Li Jiang was chosen by Chen Yumei as an assistant to enter the trial game, he should be a relatively strong player in the 13th community."

"However, throughout the game, he did not show any particularly proactive behavior."

"So that's where the strategy was."

Cai Zhiyuan said, "I don't think Li Jiang is the kind of player who has a strong ability to break through the situation. He tends to adopt a more conservative strategy."

"Given that Jiang He is the presiding judge and has a lot of opinions about him, his suggestions are unlikely to be adopted, so it's better to let things take their course. There are ways to play the game even if you're in a weak position."

"The 'Presiding Judge' is an advantageous position, but it also means that if the game is lost, the 'Presiding Judge' will bear the greatest responsibility. Once the vote begins, the 'Presiding Judge' is the most vulnerable to elimination."

"Li Jiang doesn't necessarily need to ensure victory in the game. He just needs to make sure that he and Chen Yumei can appropriately increase their favorability and reduce their presence so that they won't be voted out first in the end."

Yang Yuting grabbed her hair in a state of near collapse, completely losing her composure: "So, in other words, Jiang He really did make a lot of mistakes in this game, and precisely walked down the only dead end that the copycat had planned..."

"But there's one thing I still don't understand. Although choosing between Mechanism 1 and Mechanism 2 is pretty much the same, why did she insist on having a woman tied up with Mechanism 1?"

Everyone fell into silence.

Clearly, to explain this issue clearly, we cannot just start with the game mechanics; we also need to analyze Jiang He as a person.

However, most of the people present did not know her very well, so they could not make a particularly accurate analysis.

Lee In-sook chimed in, "Perfect timing, I should also explain the issue of the immunity certificate."

"When everyone decided to entrust me with the 'immunity certificate,' I did promise that its use would not discriminate between the strong and the weak; whoever faced the risk of death first would be granted the certificate."

"However, I have not broken my political commitments."

"Because as I said, there are situations where we won't save them, mainly three types:"
"The first is that it undermines the stability and unity of the community."

"The second is acting unilaterally in the game and ignoring team strategies."

"Thirdly, he committed clear acts of betrayal in the game."

“I may not be able to think of all the other situations, but if there are situations with roughly the same destructive power as these three, it is also possible that I will not save them.”

"Of course, if it is another bad behavior that is far less harmful than these three, I will most likely still choose to save it and leave the final decision to the two players who have the veto power."

Fu Chen hesitated for a moment: "You mean Jiang He acted unilaterally in the game and did not follow our 'kill all' strategy?"
"But at the time, the people in the room couldn't tell which specific strategy was given by our community."

"Or perhaps, she didn't accept Yang Yuting's suggestion?"

"But there was no clear decision-making priority between her and Yang Yuting."

"If it were Attorney Lin and Jiang He entering the game, and she didn't listen to Attorney Lin's advice, we could say that she wasn't following the team strategy. But Yang Yuting's advice doesn't carry that much weight, does it?"
"We cannot think about this from God's perspective."

"Jiang He is facing a highly targeted trial game. It is highly likely that she will fall into a trap. If we decide not to save her because of this, what about other people who also encounter targeted trial games and fall into traps? Should we not save them either?"

"Of course, judging from everyone's attitude, perhaps everyone agrees with this result, but I still hope that these standards can be made clearer."

Lee In-sook shook her head: "No, my choice not to save her wasn't entirely because of the second reason, but also because of the first."

"I believe that Jiang He's existence will undermine the stability and unity of the community, and her ideological tendencies are dangerous. Or rather, she has actually already been making some similar attempts."

"I made this decision based on both of these factors."

Fu Chen was taken aback: "Disrupting the stability and unity of the community? What makes you say that?"

Upon hearing this, Wang Yongxin's eyebrows twitched, and his expression became slightly unnatural.

If Lee In-sook considers any private grouping outside the five-person group as "undermining community stability and unity," then his behavior clearly does as well.

Could it be that Li Renshu wouldn't help him when he was in danger?
However, what Li Renshu said next reassured Wang Yongxin quite a bit.

Lee In-sook continued to explain: "Please don't misunderstand, I'm not saying that the community doesn't allow private group protests or dissenting voices."

“We all have an equal vote, so expressing our opposition or voting as a group to influence community proposals are our due rights.”

"What I mean by undermining community stability and unity mainly refers to values ​​and ideologies whose destructive and divisive effects far outweigh their positive ones."

“For example, I think Jiang He has a very obvious tendency toward gender narratives, and she has been trying to make attempts around this tendency.”

Xu Tong was puzzled: "Wait, is there such a thing?"

"Jiang He has hardly ever participated in discussions of community proposals before, right?"

"Gender narrative, you mean she has feminist ideas? But that's not a crime that deserves death, is it? If we have to say, don't we all have it to some extent?"

"Whether it's feminism or male rights, as long as it doesn't harm others, it should be everyone's freedom, right?"

Lee In-sook nodded: "Yes, on this point, I acknowledge that everyone's thoughts are free."

"Whether it's feminism or male chauvinism, it doesn't matter what you believe in as long as it doesn't affect others."

"Just like Brother Wang believes that capital is supreme, while some people hate the rich, these are two opposing values. But as long as it does not seriously infringe on the interests of other members of the community and can be reconciled, then the community should remain neutral on this issue."

“But Jiang He has recently been frequently trying to influence the community’s political activities through gender narratives. You may not feel it very obviously, but as someone involved, I can feel it very clearly.”

(End of this chapter)