God's imitator

Chapter 310 The Question of Heart
If Wang Weidong resets the rules, even if some players trigger the penalty for acting against their conscience, the overall benefit for those who answer the questions will still be positive.

Because of the extra reward of "unity among all".

In that case, Tsai Chih-yuan, as the question setter, would most likely suffer a loss.

Judging from the two room configurations, the 8-person room has fewer people, while the 13-person room has more. If the game continues like this, the 13-person room should be slightly more profitable.

Cai Zhiyuan deliberately left room for maneuver in the first question, which gave Wang Weidong ample room to maneuver.

Assuming Wang Weidong chooses not to set room rules anymore, and Cai Zhiyuan stops sending similar questions, Wang Weidong will lose a lot of visa time in the game and be suspected by other players, but he can still cover it up in the community with some words.

For example, he could say that there are other players from the 15th community in the "13-person room," and each of them may have some dark thoughts. He said that he did this to protect the players in the same community, maintain mutual trust within the community, and prevent the players in the community from being suspicious of each other. He would "judge by actions, not intentions," and so on.

It's much better than having your entire life exposed by those specific issues.

As long as Wang Weidong doesn't set any rules, the question setter will always win and gain a lot of visa time, which is the most profitable option for Cai Zhiyuan.

Therefore, Cai Zhiyuan's question was not directed at the other respondents, but at Wang Weidong.

"Are you willing to betray the interests of all allied players in this game, give me all your visa time, and do everything you can to preserve your status and reputation within the community?"

Community 15 is a community with many visa periods, and from the previous "Shelter Game", we can roughly see Wang Weidong's personality and the community's ecology.

He is a core player in Community 15, but he can't completely dominate the community.

Therefore, Cai Zhiyuan judged that for Wang Weidong, his reputation and status in the community were far more important than the visa time in this game.

……

Xu Zhao sighed silently.

Clearly, Tsai Chih-yuan doesn't need to specify which specific problems are being referred to as "similar problems"; Wang Wei-dong will figure it out himself.

If Xu Zhao were to put himself in Cai Zhiyuan's shoes and think about it from Cai's perspective, he could come up with many different ways to ask the question.

For example, this question simply asks whether one has such an idea.

The next question could be a follow-up: Did you actually do such a thing?

Besides these, there are many other issues involving questioning one's character.

For example, are you a copycat?

Do you want to become a copycat?
Have you never genuinely collaborated with other communities?
When you put forward proposals in the community, did you ever seek personal gain for yourself?
Do you want to establish a dictatorship within the community?

Do you believe that the vulnerable in a community should be eliminated?
Do you feel that powerful figures in your community are threatening your position?
Are you always hoping that some player in your community will die in the game?
Do you have any secrets that you can't tell anyone in the community?

There are many more problems like this.

Although the rules of the game state that the same question cannot be asked repeatedly, these questions are clearly different.

They will expose the player's inner secrets and true thoughts in every way and without any blind spots.

If you are a relatively marginalized player in the community, not particularly intelligent and without any malicious intent, then these questions don't matter at all; just answer truthfully.

In any case, even if there is an investigation afterward, one can be open and honest with oneself, which can actually increase the trust of other players in the community.

But for players who already have something to hide, every single question is a death trap.

Xu Zhao sighed. He now fully understood where Cai Zhiyuan's confidence came from.

This confidence stems from the starkly different community ecosystems and values ​​of the 15th and 17th communities.

Tsai Chih-yuan believes that when players in Community 17 encounter similar problems, they can choose "no" without hesitation.

Therefore, this method will not affect the players in Community 17.

But the players in Community 15 are different. Wang Weidong, who is the host, is especially different; he doesn't want to reveal his true feelings.

The correct answer to this question is: Choose either 'A. Set' or 'B. Don't set' based on your true feelings.

The net gain for the 12 participants in this room is -21000 minutes of visa processing time.

The question setter will receive 21000 minutes of visa time. An additional 30000 minutes of visa time will be deducted.

The question setter will be the "repeater" (or "go-to person") for the next round.

Seeing this result, Xu Zhao was completely certain.

Clearly, the players from communities 17 and 8 who entered this room were deliberately answering insincere questions to give money to Cai Zhiyuan.

Judging from the options provided in this question, if players answer according to their true feelings, then the reward for each player should be positive.

There are too many free men in this room, and free men can evade the punishment of the majority.

The number of avoidance attempts has not yet been exhausted.

The fact that the profit is negative at this point indicates that someone is deliberately giving money to Tsai Chih-yuan to ensure that he can win the title again.

Although Cai Zhiyuan is likely to win again if the players vote, there is still a very small chance that his earnings will fall between -5500 and 5500.

Cai Zhiyuan will not allow such a low-probability event to happen.

So far, Wang Weidong has not set any new room rules.

This means that he has tacitly approved of Cai Zhiyuan's proposal, choosing to sacrifice a significant amount of visa time to ensure that Cai Zhiyuan will not ask such provocative questions again.

This also means that the 13-person room will revert to a chaotic, unregulated jungle.

Players can only rely on their own abilities to answer the questions.

Regardless, as the party that has the questions set, the 17th community, where Cai Zhiyuan is located, will have the greatest advantage.

Soon, a new problem appeared on the screen.

Are you a gamer over 45 years old?

A. Yes

【B. No】

C. I am a player under the age of 10.

Upon seeing this question, Xu Zhao paused for a moment, then sighed silently.

Clearly, this is a "role model problem".

If Wang Weidong doesn't set room rules, all the subsequent problems will be similar.

At first glance, this question seems quite perplexing, and it's unclear why Tsai Chih-yuan would raise such a question.

Xu Zhao entered the room very late, having been keeping an eye on the movements of the players in Community 17, so he quickly understood Cai Zhiyuan's intentions.

The five players from Community 17 entered three different rooms: Zheng Jie entered the '4-player room', Yang Yuting and Dai Yifan entered the '8-player room', and Cai Zhiyuan and Zhou Guifen entered the '13-player room'.

Cai Zhiyuan was the one who set the question, so his question was designed around Zhou Guifen.

He would continuously select characteristics that "Zhou Guifen possesses but other players do not" to create questions.

(End of this chapter)