God's imitator

Chapter 470 Wishful thinking and obsession

In another game room.

↑The Lovers sat in the 'Sage's' seat. A moment later, the door opposite them was pushed open, and ↑The Wheel of Fortune walked in.

↑The Lover raised his hand, gesturing for the other person to sit in the 'Thief's' seat: "You accepted my invitation."

"This still surprised me a little."

According to the game rules, after the free matchmaking phase in the second stage, players on the same team can send each other game invitations.

However, you need to click on the tab at the top to switch, but this tab is not obvious, and the default display still shows the cards of the opposing faction.

In the first phase, players from the same faction cannot be matched together, so '↑Lover' naturally did not play against '↑Wheel of Fortune'.

At this moment, she took the initiative to extend an invitation in the guise of a 'sage,' and the other party quickly accepted.

So this was the first time the two had entered a 1v1 match in the game.

↑Wheel of Fortune glanced at the notice board beside him.

This is the set of rules of the "↓Emperor", which is also the "Digital Prisoner" rule.

Each wooden box contains 1 to 22 wealth vouchers with a face value of 100, while the rest are wealth vouchers with a face value of 1000.

The thief player chooses a number 'a' and opens seven wooden boxes to find it; then the sage player designates a number 'b', and the thief continues to open seven wooden boxes to find it.

They succeeded twice, stealing all the wealth vouchers from the wooden boxes.

They succeeded only once, stealing seven wooden boxes.

Even if you fail every time, you can still steal 5 wooden boxes.

↑The Wheel of Fortune looked at ↑The Lovers: "You shouldn't be surprised, nor should you be testing me like this."

"You should know very well that I will accept the invitation."

"Because this match is irrelevant to both of us."

↑The Lover was silent for a moment: "You're right, I really shouldn't have made such a pointless test."

"After playing against weaker players for a long time, I feel like I'm getting weaker too. I always win with simple strategies, but when I encounter real strong players, I can't adapt to the level at all."

"However, you've got one thing wrong."

"This match was actually very important to me."

"I still have some wishful thinking that I can beat you in a one-on-one match."

"So, even though the outcome of this game is already decided, I still want to give it a try and see if I can win."

Even if it's just a trivial little matter.

↑Wheel of Fortune glanced at the signboard again: "In that case, are you still going to play by other people's rules?"

"I thought you would use your own rules."

The "lover" paused for a moment: "For me, winning is more important."

↑Wheel of Fortune nodded: "Then, let the game begin."

...The reason why '↑Lover' Han Mengying extended an invitation to '↑Wheel of Fate' Lin Sizhi was because she knew very well that the outcome of the game was already predetermined.

In fact, many less skilled players may subconsciously misunderstand the game rules simply by looking at their literal meaning.

The first stage is a forced matchmaking phase, where players are forced to be matched with the opposing faction and take turns serving as the 'Sage', 'Thief', and 'Spectator'.

The second stage is the free matchmaking phase, where you can freely match with any player.

Therefore, most players would consider the first stage to be a tutorial mode, mainly used to adapt to the basic rules of the game, think about their own unique sage rules, show themselves to other players, let players in the community recognize their identity, and prepare for the second stage.

The second phase involves confirming the identities of players within the same community, formulating group strategies, and engaging in both conflict and cooperation between communities and factions, constantly clashing and ultimately reaching a conclusion.

But that's not actually the case at all.

If a community only begins to develop and implement group strategies after entering the second phase, it will be too late.

Because those strong individuals had already accomplished these things in the first stage.

In the second phase, the "true factions" divided by "interests" have been established and stabilized. All players within a faction will enter a specific matchmaking mode to transfer wealth vouchers with maximum efficiency and will absolutely not accept invitations from outsiders.

Therefore, the second stage is actually "garbage time".

Even if a player has the best group strategy, it is no longer effective.

Han Mengying had already completed all her plans and strategies in the first stage, so she was able to calmly extend an invitation to Lin Sizhi to complete this one-on-one match after entering the second stage.

When Lin Sizhi first entered the room, Han Mengying's words, "I was surprised that you accepted the invitation," were actually a test.

She still subconsciously wanted to try and trick him, to see if Lin Sizhi had realized this, and whether he had completed the layout and arrangement of the group strategy in the first half of the game.

But clearly, this wishful thinking only made her feel more disadvantaged.

—When you rely on the negligence of the strong with wishful thinking, you are actually exposing your own weakness.

However, by the end of the first phase, both sides' strategies had already been finalized, and there was practically no room for further improvement.

Han Mengying temporarily stopped thinking about these things and focused her attention on the current game.

……

Lin Sizhi said unhurriedly, "The prototype of this game is the '100 Prisoners Problem'."

“一个邪恶的典狱长抓了100个囚徒，他们的编号是从1到100。而在另外的100个盒子中，分别放着1到100编号的纸条。

"But the box numbers and the note numbers are completely scrambled."

"The evil warden set a rule that each prisoner would have 50 chances to open any 50 boxes."

"However, they can only survive if all 100 prisoners find the slip of paper with their own number within 50 attempts."

"If even one prisoner is not found, all 100 prisoners will be executed."

"If we calculate it according to probability, if we randomly select a number from 100 boxes, with 50 chances, the probability of each prisoner succeeding is only 1/2, and the probability of everyone succeeding is 1/2 to the power of 100, which is a number so low that it can be ignored."

"But what's interesting about the '100 Prisoners Problem' is that by implementing a specific strategy, the survival rate of these prisoners can reach over 30%."

"The strategy is that each prisoner first finds the box corresponding to his number, opens it, and then looks for the box corresponding to the note in the box. This continues until he opens a box and finds the note corresponding to his number."

(End of this chapter)