God's imitator

Chapter 312 Profit
The next second, Cai Zhiyuan realized that he had returned to the game lobby.

The game's earnings were also displayed on the big screen.

[The final visa processing times for Community 17 are now being released based on the "Simple Q&A" responses.]

【Dai Yifan, No. 4: 141360】

[No. 5 Cai Zhiyuan: 141360]

[Zhou Guifen, No. 8: 141360]

[Zheng Jie, No. 10: 141360]

[Yang Yuting, No. 11: 141360]

According to community rules, the visa time obtained by players will be included in the community support fund using a progressive tax rate. Remaining visa time will be counted towards each player's visa eligibility.

按照上次提交的新规则，累进税率是2万~4万的部分缴纳5%，4万到6万的部分缴纳10%，6万以上的部分缴纳15%。

Therefore, for this reward, each player will be required to contribute 15204 minutes of visa time to the community protection fund.

The five players received the same amount of profit because they had a contract with Community 8, and all profits were redistributed as a result.

Players who haven't entered the game are waiting in the lobby.

This game was led by Cai Zhiyuan and Yang Yuting, neither of whom had any experience leading a team before, so most of the players were a little worried.

Upon seeing the earnings displayed on the big screen, Lee In-sook exclaimed in surprise, "So high!"

Wang Yongxin was also surprised.

Although the specifics of what happened in the game are still unknown, judging from the figures, the average returns this time have already surpassed those of the previous two distribution-type games.

In "Blood Poker", the average winnings of the three groups were 3, 6 and 12 respectively, with only Wang Yongxin and Lin Sizhi being exceptions, exceeding 20;
In "The Kingdom of the Conglomerates", the average income of the three groups is 6, 10 and 13 respectively.

This time, the five players each earned 14, which even reached the highest single-player earnings previously achieved in "The Kingdom of Tycoons".

Wei Yinzhang was also somewhat surprised: "It looks like a great victory."

Yang Yuting, Zhou Guifen, Zheng Jie, and Dai Yifan all had smiles on their faces, clearly very satisfied with their results.

Li Renshu said to Cai Zhiyuan, "You've worked hard. Do you need to rest for a bit?"

Cai Zhiyuan shook his head: "I'm fine, I probably don't need to."

Lee In-sook looked at everyone and said, "Everyone, take a short break. We'll start our debriefing in half an hour."

……

This was a distribution-based game, and there were no casualties. Everyone's rewards were high, so the atmosphere in the lobby was very lively.

Everyone is happy.

Lee In-sook displayed the rules of the "Simple Quiz" game on the big screen, and at the same time, everyone saw the game's rating.

Wang Yongxin frowned slightly and said with some worry, "The third S-level game..."

"Does this mean that copycats in the new world are also constantly improving? By continuously learning from existing games, their design capabilities are also improving."

Lee In-sook added, "Yes, and it's the first non-judgment-type game to receive an S rating."

"Perhaps it triggered some kind of moral judgment mechanism, similar to a trial game?"

Since other players are unaware of what exactly happened in the game, they cannot draw conclusions immediately.

But this has certainly piqued everyone's curiosity.

Lee In-sook looked at the five people who had participated in the game and asked, "Who among you will explain?"

Cai Zhiyuan looked at Zheng Jie: "You go first, mainly about the first phase and the situation of the '4-person room'."

"Then Yang Yuting and I will explain the situation in the other two rooms." Zheng Jie nodded, quite encouraged: "Okay!"

In this game, he also managed to enter the "4-player room" on his own and earn a lot of visa time from the players in Community 1.

Although the result was so easy that it was almost a piece of cake, and the profit was just a bonus, it was still a significant step forward for Zheng Jie.

Soon, the three of them supplemented each other's accounts and finished explaining the entire process of the game.

Yang Yuting said quite frankly, "So, actually, the four of us were just carried along this time, and I didn't play a very big role."

"Not only does the first phase require measuring various reward and punishment values, but the second phase also requires considering the different situations in each room, allocating number cards, and determining the order in which players enter the room. These conditions are far too demanding."

"The preparation time for the second stage is very short, only 15 minutes. Any oversight could have very serious consequences."

"The reason why Community 1 made a mistake in tactical planning was because it missed measuring values ​​in the first phase."

She looked at Cai Zhiyuan and said, "I still can't quite understand how you managed to figure out so many things in such a short time?"

Although Cai Zhiyuan did perform well in the community's post-game review session, his performance in the game before that was not particularly outstanding.

So it's normal that people are surprised.

Cai Zhiyuan looked at everyone and said, "Why are you all looking at me like that again? Have you forgotten what my job is?"
"Let me emphasize again, I write algorithms."

"This game is a perfect match for my major."

"Because after reading the rules of the second phase, I immediately realized that the game was designed around the 'Byzantine fault tolerance algorithm'."

"So I don't need to deduce the specific situation of the three rooms at all. I can immediately think of the optimal strategy by simply applying the formula."

Zheng Jie was stunned; he heard a term he had never heard before.

"Byzantine fault tolerance algorithm? What is that...?"

Cai Zhiyuan explained, “I told you as soon as we entered the second phase that we should not take the host of the ‘4-person room’ because that’s a trap.”

"The reason is simple: in a four-person room, with one person setting the questions, there must be three people answering the questions. And among them, there is one free agent."

"Free agents can be seen as malicious nodes in the 'Byzantine fault tolerance algorithm.' Such a structure cannot meet the basic requirements of the fault tolerance algorithm, so it is not feasible."

In other words, a free person can do whatever they want in this room.

"As for the content of this algorithm, it is very simple. It can be understood as follows: In a decentralized distributed structure, the number of malicious nodes must be less than one-third, otherwise 'Byzantine fault tolerance' cannot be achieved and a consistent answer cannot be given."

The expressions on everyone's faces remained blank.

Zheng Jie coughed twice: "Brother Cai, I think it's necessary to start with a popular science explanation of this so-called 'Byzantine algorithm'."

Cai Zhiyuan thought for a moment and said, "Okay, then I'll explain it simply."

Simply put, the Byzantine fault-tolerant algorithm is also known as the Byzantine Generals Problem.

"Suppose there is a very strong castle. To take it down, you would need many different armies to launch an attack together."

"If these armies cannot reach a consensus and only a portion of them attack, then the battle will inevitably fail."

"Therefore, the generals of these armies agreed to communicate with each other before attacking, and each army sent messengers to convey the message to the other armies: attack or retreat."

"If more than half of the generals decide to attack, then everyone agrees to attack together the next day; if more than half of the generals decide to retreat, then everyone agrees to retreat together the next day."

"This seems like a pretty good solution, right?"

Everyone nodded.

Cai Zhiyuan continued, "But the problem now is that there might be traitors among these generals."

(End of this chapter)