God's imitator

Chapter 479 An Earlier Plan (Bonus Chapter)
Wang Weidong was stunned for a moment.

These words, spoken by Lin Sizhi wearing the "↑Wheel of Fate" mask, inexplicably carried a touch of metaphysics.

However, players of Wang Weidong's caliber wouldn't believe in metaphysics.

Lin Sizhi explained, "The choice of '↓Wheel of Fortune' was indeed influenced by me to some extent. His attitude towards you and the community, as well as the promises made by '↑Priestess' in private, should also have played a role."

"But what really made him decide was the community's ecosystem and the rules of the game."

"Once our four main communities enter this game, under the constraints of the game rules, everyone will tend to push the final outcome of the game toward a certain specific ending."

"That is, 'a certain trend'."

"It can also be said that it is the 'true fate' of all players in this 'Tarot game'."

When fortune smiles, heaven and earth lend their strength; when fortune turns, even heroes are powerless.

"The Wheel of Fortune understood this, so he ultimately chose to submit to fate."

Other players might not be able to understand Lin Sizhi's words at all.

But Wang Weidong was a smart man, so he quickly understood.

The so-called "fate" sounds like something mysterious and esoteric, but what Lin Sizhi is talking about in this game is actually a visible trend.

In terms of the rules of the game, the four main communities will inevitably face three different outcomes.

Both communities are safe and sound.

A community voted to execute one person.

The entire community is doomed.

From a rules-based perspective, a community where everyone is eliminated is undoubtedly the weakest community in terms of overall strength.

In this game, the weakest team is undoubtedly the 4th community.

However, a community that votes to execute one person is not necessarily the second weakest community, but rather the community with the most severe internal strife.

In terms of overall strength, Community 15 should be stronger than Community 3.

However, from the perspective of internal strife, the 15th community is the most serious among the four main communities.

Therefore, "fate" will lead to the final outcome of "all members of the 4th community dying immediately and the 15th community voting to execute one person".

The so-called "fate" is more like the collective choice of the core nodes on a network.

For Xu Zhao, there were actually two different choices.

If you choose the path of "all members of the 4th community die instantly, and the 15th community votes to execute one person", the difficulty of the game will drop sharply and the uncertainty will be greatly reduced.

Conversely, what would happen if we didn't choose this path?
The game will descend into extreme chaos.

Back when Lin Sizhi and Xu Zhao first met, Lin Sizhi had already pointed out some possibilities of the game.

Xu Zhao knew very well that a player of Lin Sizhi's caliber would not be unaware of a strategy like "finding blood packs" in the peripheral communities.

If Xu Zhao doesn't choose this path, then there's only one outcome: the 17th and 3rd communities will unite, and the 15th and 4th communities will unite, with each side scrambling for blood packs from the peripheral communities, or they'll engage in a bloodbath through random matching of the strongest members within each community...

But Xu Zhao clearly didn't want things to come to this.

Because the 4th community is too weak, the final result will still be that the 15th community and the 4th community will lose.

Worse still, this could lead to an even more desperate possibility: all players in Community 15 could be instantly killed. Because in such a "health pack grabbing" battle, since all communities are playing with their cards on the table, how many health packs can be grabbed will likely depend on luck rather than skill.

The 15th community may not be able to compete with the 4th community.

For Xu Zhao, if he did not choose to betray Wang Weidong and cooperate with Lin Sizhi, he would have no choice but to fight to the death, with a high risk of death.

However, if he cooperates with Lin Sizhi, he can be sure of his safety: as long as the 4th community is at the bottom, only one person will die in the 15th community, and it will definitely not be him.

In fact, if someone has to die in the 15th community, it will definitely be a choice between Wang Weidong and Jiang Chenyan, because these two will unconditionally choose each other, and other players have no reason to propose a third option.

In terms of the ecosystem of Community 15, the two irreconcilable core conflicts in the game have had a more destructive effect on the community than a positive one.

But for Xu Zhao, the only option was to kill Wang Weidong.

Because Xu Zhao's secret cooperation with Lin Sizhi is a betrayal to the community, and Wang Weidong, as the de facto ruler of the 15th community, cannot be his accomplice.

Only Jiang Chenyan would become Xu Zhao's accomplice, cooperate with him, and try every means to cover for him after returning to the community.

Even after Jiang Chenyan becomes the new leader of the 15th community, he will cede more benefits to Xu Zhao in the short term in order to consolidate his power.

The term "accomplice" itself implies a strong bond of shared interests.

Wang Weidong had previously managed to quell the potential problems caused by the "simple Q&A" in the community, but it was Xu Zhao who helped him resolve these problems.

If Xu Zhao were to betray them, exaggerating or fabricating some secrets would be enough to cause the other players in Community 15 to defect.

Therefore, Lin Sizhi did indeed uncover Xu Zhao's secret and did use some rhetoric to influence him, but for Xu Zhao, the final deciding factor was still his judgment of the situation within the game.

After realizing this, Wang Weidong suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness.

Because he realized that he seemed to have truly fallen into the net of fate, and was powerless to break free.

His so-called schemes and plans only made the web tighten, and his fate was already sealed at the very beginning of the game.

"But there's still one thing I don't quite understand."

"For this plan to succeed, there is a prerequisite: 'Wheel of Fate' and 'Priestess' must become the core executors of the entire plan, that is, the middle layer, so that those 'blood packs' can be cut off."

"How can you be so sure that it will definitely be those two who become the middle layer?"

“I actually have other options, such as the other three players in our community, or... the players on the ‘↑Lover’ side.”

"Is it simply because you think '↓Wheel of Fortune' is my right-hand man and '↑Priestess' is the second strongest player in our community that you made this prediction?"

Lin Sizhi shook her head slightly: "Of course, there are factors involved in prediction."

"You are unlikely to allow the '↑Lover' community to carry out the corresponding work, because you are more suspicious and more assertive."

"As for why you ultimately chose '↓Wheel of Fortune' and '↑Priestess,' there was certainly a little bit of my influence on it."

"Simply put, in my plan, I've arranged some specific roles for '↓Wheel of Fortune' so that he and '↑Priestess' can stand out more quickly and be discovered and chosen by you."

"Of course, this is on the premise that when I obtain information about your community from him, I also reveal some of my own information to him."

Wang Weidong was stunned; this was something he hadn't expected at all.

Xu Zhao's choice of "↓Wheel of Fortune" as his mask is part of Lin Sizhi's strategy.

(End of this chapter)