God's imitator

Chapter 254 Security Strategy
After careful consideration, Li Renshu said, "Our most urgent task now is to categorize these numerous rules of death and try to come up with a strategy that can avoid multiple rules of death at the same time."

"The last two rules of death are relatively easy to resolve."

"In all subsequent votes for sinners, we will definitely vote according to our true feelings. As for the final community vote, we will try our best to avoid stirring up hatred, express goodwill to reliable communities, and avoid becoming the last community to be voted on."

"The troublesome part is the first two death rules, especially the 'joint liability' death rule."

"Theoretically speaking, if we make enough mistakes in the game, we might even be punished four or five times in a row, and then there will be no way out."

"Therefore we must find ways to avoid these behaviors."

"Even when certain actions need to be taken, it is best for all members to disperse and each person to do only one thing. Just like not putting all your eggs in one basket, we should avoid risks as much as possible."

Fu Chen suggested, "Then let's just do nothing!"
"Judging from the probability of finding shelter, if you only want to protect yourself, five normal shelters are enough."

"If you're really worried, then each person can stay in two regular shelters."

“Once the G1 nine-square grid we are in becomes developable, we are guaranteed to get at least 5 more plots. Combined with the plots we already have, as long as we don’t consider selling them to the audience, it will be more than enough for us to use.”

Li Renshu nodded: "From the perspective of the game rules alone, doing nothing is indeed the optimal solution, since the more you do, the more likely you are to trigger collective punishment."

"There's only one chance to escape death; the margin for error is very low."

Fu Chen thought for a moment and said, "Or perhaps we could try to guess what exactly the crimes of these five criminals are?"
"Judging from the content of this game, the theme of this trial is likely related to 'real estate'."

"If selling substandard shelters is a crime, then is hoarding land without developing it a crime? Is selling shelters at excessively high prices a crime?"

Lee In-sook silently shook her head: "These could all be crimes. We can certainly try to guess, but the final conclusion will likely still be the same:"

"The best thing to do is to do nothing and just protect yourself."

"But what I'm worried about now is whether 'doing nothing' is also a crime?"

Everyone fell into silence.

Obviously, no one can predict the future, so at this point, we can only choose the strategy with the highest relative survival rate.

Cao Haichuan spoke up: "No need to guess anymore. I think I am most likely one of the sinners in this game, and the crime I committed is very likely to be 'standing idly by' or 'turning a blind eye'."

The crowd looked over in surprise. Although they didn't know the details, judging from Cao Haichuan's confident tone, the information seemed to be very reliable.

Fu Chen frowned: "If 'inaction' is really a crime, doesn't that mean we have to do something?"
"Otherwise, once Officer Cao's file is released, no matter how many players are guilty of the same crime, our community will definitely be implicated."

According to the game rules, once a criminal is found guilty, either other players in the same community will be implicated, or players with the same crime will be implicated.

If the other players in Community 17 do nothing, they can't escape no matter what.

Zheng Jie panicked a little: "So, we still have to do things as much as possible? But we definitely can't do bad things, because doing bad things might trigger other crimes."

"Then let's do good deeds?"
"Bidding for as many plots of land as possible, then building normal shelters and selling them at low prices? No, wouldn't selling at low prices be considered 'disrupting market order'? That could be a crime... So, can't we just sell normal shelters at normal prices?"

"But in that case, we'll lose all our gold coins."

"Because in the next 5 rounds of the game, other communities will definitely choose to sell their shelters at high prices to earn viewers' coins. They will have more coins to bid for land. As a result, the financial gap between us will only widen."

Cao Haichuan shook his head: "These methods are all unreliable, because it's uncertain to what extent it qualifies as 'achieving something.' There's a simpler way."

“I will confess directly and use the pardon to avoid death.”

After careful consideration, Lee In-sook nodded: "Indeed, the rules state that the immediate death penalty suffered by a criminal upon confession cannot be offset by a sanctuary."

"But it doesn't say that it can't be offset by other means."

"As long as you confess, there will be no 'collective punishment' situation. This should be the best use of the 'immunity certificate', as it preserves the opportunity for others to avoid death through the shelter."

"In this game, the crimes of the five criminals are definitely not repeated. This is true whether you consider the 'file selection' or the 'game mechanics'."

“If Officer Cao can confirm that his crime is ‘inaction’ or ‘standing idly by,’ we can actually use his confession and ‘get out of jail free’ to create an ‘absolutely safe’ behavior in the game.”

“We build shelters only for ourselves, without taking on more land, hoarding land, selling them at excessively high or low prices, or selling substandard shelters.”

"In this way, we will definitely not be implicated by other criminals."

"From the current situation, this is indeed the best solution we can take."

Fu Chen realized the problem and looked at Cao Haichuan: "However, whether you use a death-exemption certificate or a shelter, all death exemptions can only be effective once."

"What if we encounter other instant death punishments later? We can still use the shelter to avoid death, but you can't."

"Officer Cao, you can also choose not to plead guilty. If you just stand by and do nothing and don't commit any actual crime, it's not necessarily true that more than half of the players will vote 'guilty'."

"As long as it doesn't exceed half, nothing will happen."

Cao Haichuan shook his head: "Don't have any wishful thinking. Don't forget, I'm a policeman."

“I know what I'm doing, so just do as I say.”

He paused slightly, then said, "I hope you can trust me completely and execute my strategy exactly in this game."

"I will do everything I can to ensure that everyone in our community can return safely."

Cao Haichuan was the core leader of the team in the game and had the highest say in the game. Since his attitude was so firm, no one else would raise any other opinions.

Lee In-sook began working on the signs on the plots of land one by one to build the shelter.

At this time, there were a total of 8 plots of land in the 17th community, and Li Renshu decided to build them all into normal shelters with a '90% probability'.

Suddenly, Zheng Jie seemed to have thought of something. He quickly went to Li Renshu's side and said, "I suddenly realized that it seems that the rules can still be studied to find an 'optimal solution,' as long as..."

However, at that moment, everyone heard Zhang Shichao from Community 9 standing in the center of the field, shouting loudly to all the players.

"Could everyone please gather around and listen to what I have to say?"

"There is a way for everyone to survive in this game!"
"As long as we work together, no one will die and everyone will leave this game safely!"

(End of this chapter)