God's imitator

Chapter 274 Another Solution

Clearly, the "copycat perspective" allowed Wei Yinzhang to see the deeper intentions behind this game.

The "Shelter Game" is not just about killing; more importantly, it aims to completely destroy mutual trust between communities through this high-pressure environment.

Although there are still collaborations within the community in the game, these collaborations are all between people with the same identity.

For example, the cooperation between the 12th and 15th communities, or the cooperation between the 17th and 9th communities, is based on the identity of "insider players," and such cooperation is not stable at all.

The key is whether the three special identities of "hidden player", "insider player" and "spectator" can cooperate based on "the same belief".

Only when these three special identities cooperate can players truly gain confidence.

Just like how Community 17 eventually sold the shelter to the audience at a normal price.

If, as Wang Yongxin said, the 17th Community also chose to extract as many coins as possible from the audience for its own benefit, then it means that no cooperation was reached among the three special identities.

What copycats want to prove is that true cooperation and mutual trust cannot be achieved between communities. All players are just pawns manipulated by the rules, and will only play the game strictly according to the guidance of the rules, even when it involves life and death.

To prove that copycats are wrong, one must break the rules within the game.

Everyone fell silent; the outcome of the game was far worse than it appeared on the surface.

Wang Yongxin was silent for a moment, then shrugged: "But there's nothing we can do about it, right?"

"Under such unfair rules, we can only focus on the immediate future."

"This game was a result of the arcade taking sides, so we can only let this copycat win once first, and then other copycats will turn the tide."

Wei Yinzhang paused for a moment, then added, "We can't just rely on copycats for this kind of thing; the players' attitudes are equally important."

Fu Chen thought for a moment: "I actually wanted to ask before, but I was pressed for time in the game, so I didn't have time to ask."

"What if we told other communities during the rehearsal period to also vote against their conscience?"
"Are there more possibilities for cooperation?"

Wang Yongxin shook his head: "That definitely won't work."

"Because they will never be grateful, and may even hate you more."

"Because you surpass them in both wisdom and morality."

"It is not a wise choice to gamble on these people having a change of heart by playing your last 'lose-lose' card."

Li Renshu looked at Lin Sizhi: "Attorney Lin, if you had been there at the time, could you have come up with a better solution?"

Everyone else also looked at Lin Sizhi.

There are three core players in the game within the community, and everyone already knows how Cao Haichuan and Wang Yongxin will solve the problem.

It's hard to say which of these two approaches is better or worse; they are simply different choices made under different values, and no one else could come up with a better solution.

While Wei Yinzhang did analyze a lot, most of his analysis was from the perspective of copycats, and he did not provide a better solution.

If anyone in the 17th community could come up with the optimal solution, it would probably be Lin Sizhi.

After considering it, Lin Sizhi said, "There is a solution, but it cannot be guaranteed to be 100% successful. There is a certain risk involved, so I dare not say that I would definitely use this method if I were present."

"Simply put, the death penalty mechanism for lie detectors is not implemented at any time, but only once before the game ends."

"We can also try to use this mechanism in reverse to constrain or even control the behavior of other players."

"We could consider using gold coins to look up Chen Peng's detailed profile and publish it after the preliminary voting ends."

Everyone was somewhat surprised: "Huh?" After careful consideration, Lee In-sook said, "But if we do that, won't we immediately draw all the hatred from the start?"
"All the players inside the arena, as well as the hidden players, will see us as enemies."

"Officer Cao had also thought of this, so he chose to keep it as his trump card until the very end."

“Our idea at the time was that maybe we could persuade the 7th and 9th communities to vote for the 15th community in the final vote, so that Officer Cao could also survive.”

Wang Yongxin also disagreed with this statement: "This is not just a matter of attracting hatred."

“Hidden players have no chance of escaping death. Once the details of the first case are revealed and it is confirmed that all players will suffer an additional instant death penalty due to the lie detector mechanism at the end of the game, then the hidden players will be doomed.”

"In this situation, they would inevitably go completely insane."

"They will not only target our 17th community, but will also choose to kill all the players they can kill, to take them down with them."

"Therefore, they will most likely announce Officer Cao's crimes in the sixth round."

Lin Sizhi nodded: "Yes, but that's exactly what I want."

"Because we knew about Officer Cao's crimes in advance, and we also knew that 'inaction' could implicate almost all players in the early stages of the game, we were able to adopt this strategy."

"The idea is to drive hidden players crazy by killing them, forcing them to reveal their crimes in round 6."

"At this point, the other players in the inner circle must vote 'not guilty' for us."

"Because if you vote 'guilty,' almost all the players inside the game will be implicated."

"If you add the instant death penalty of lie detectors on top of that, they're all doomed."

"Because Chen Peng's detailed file has been released, they can no longer be 'perfect judges,' so it doesn't matter whether they vote for him guilty or innocent in the future."

"Going against your conscience once is still going against your conscience, and going against your conscience all the time is still going against your conscience."

"In this way, crimes committed in our community are exposed but acquitted, and it is also established that 'inaction' becomes an absolutely safe course of action."

"We just need to do nothing."

"For the other votes, players can simply vote 'innocent' and then all lie down and do nothing."

"When the game ends, they can vote however they want in the final vote. Anyway, we all have one more chance to escape death."

Qin Yao raised her hand and asked, "What if the hidden player doesn't reveal Officer Cao's crimes first?"

Lin Sizhi continued to explain: "It will be a little troublesome if the hidden player does not reveal Officer Cao's crimes in the 6th round of the game."

"We need to break down each community separately and use the conflict between core players and ordinary players in the community to restrict their behavior."

"This requires adapting to the situation at the time."

"Because core players want to do things, they have to use ordinary players to carry them out. To put it bluntly, it's about 'deceiving' them and making ordinary players take the risks for them."

"Just like Wang Weidong and Chen Guangming, they both treated players in the same community as cannon fodder, ordering them to do this and that, and ultimately making them the scapegoats so that they could survive."

"But the premise for them to do this is that ordinary players believe they still have a safe haven and a margin for error, so they will do things that seem to be 'low risk and high reward' driven by gold coins."

"But if the lie detection mechanism is made clear from the beginning, and ordinary players realize that they have no room for error in this game and will die if they are implicated in any crime, they are very likely to stop accepting the command of Wang Weidong and Chen Guangming."

"Of course, to do this, we have to take the risks ourselves."

(End of this chapter)