God's Imitator

Cai Zhiyuan looked at Fu Chen, ”We have to participate in judgment games. A young doctor would have advantages in physical fitness.

”No matter how skilled a doctor is, first he needs to live long enough to contribute to the community.”

Fu Chen hesitated, ”Really? Then we could also choose a middle-aged doctor, like around 40 years old?

”Young people don’t necessarily have good physical fitness, and middle-aged people don’t necessarily have poor physical fitness.

”Besides, although people with good stamina have certain advantages in games, this isn’t absolute. Often the experience and wisdom of older people might be more important.”

Li Renshu interrupted their discussion, ”Okay, I think we can end the doctor discussion here. As for specifically wanting a young or older doctor, there’s still plenty of time for everyone to consider slowly.

”In any case, it’ll be decided by vote in the end.

”Are there any other suggestions?”

Yang Yuting thought for a moment, ”Perhaps it doesn’t have to be a doctor. It could also be a nurse?

”Compared to doctors, wouldn’t nurses be better at basic medical procedures like caring for the injured?”Many doctors might only be responsible for prescribing medicine. Procedures like bandaging and first aid might be rusty for them, not necessarily better than nurses.

”And I think gender doesn’t need to be restricted either. If we just want medical personnel, it shouldn’t matter whether it’s male or female.

”According to community rules, we can make requirements, but these requirements might not all be satisfied. The community also selects from a group of new players who most closely match our requirements.

”So wouldn’t the more vague our requirements are, the wider the community’s screening range becomes, making the main screening conditions easier to satisfy?

”For example, if we only want ’medical personnel with good emergency medical skills,’ compared to saying ’young male doctor,’ wouldn’t we be able to select new members with stronger specialized abilities?”

Fu Chen nodded, ”Mm, that makes sense too.”

Cai Zhiyuan looked at him somewhat helplessly, ”No, it must be male.”

Wang Yongxin nodded, ”I agree, it must be male. The community’s male-to-female ratio must be 6:6.”

Jiang He was rather unconvinced, ”What’s the point of this? We’re not a one-on-one dating show.

”Or do you think women are definitely inferior to men?”

Cai Zhiyuan was somewhat speechless and explained, ”We want to ensure the community’s diversity as much as possible. Gender, age, occupation, all dimensions should be differentiated as much as possible.

”Because we’re not sure what kind of life-and-death games we’ll encounter in the future. The more we maintain group diversity, the more we can pool our wisdom and efforts.

”The more homogeneous we are, the easier it is to fall into group pitfalls.”

Li Renshu looked at the others again, ”Any other suggestions? Qin Yao, you can think of another type.”

Qin Yao pointed at herself, somewhat surprised, ”Ah? Me? I agree with doctor.”

Li Renshu pressed, ”Besides chef, doctor, and nurse, think about whether there are others.”

Qin Yao was somewhat stumped. She frowned and thought for a moment before saying, ”Then how about special forces?

”Although we already have Officer Cao, having more people who can fight can’t be bad.

”So far most games prohibit violence, but what if there’s a game later that allows violence?

”The Gallery’s rules are varied, anything is possible. If that situation really occurs, we could win effortlessly.”

Everyone discussed for a while longer. Each argument had merit, making it difficult to form a unified opinion for now.

Li Renshu lightly tapped the table, ”Alright, we’ve fully understood everyone’s opinions.

”Everyone go back and think about it more, you can also discuss privately.

”Tonight, we’ll have another meeting for formal proposals and voting.”

After discussing for so long, everyone was somewhat tired and left the long table to go do their own activities.

Cai Zhiyuan lightly tugged at Fu Chen under the table and made a gesture, ”Come.”

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Cai Zhiyuan brought Fu Chen to the third floor, found a secluded room, looked around to make sure no one was there, then locked the door.

Fu Chen was somewhat surprised, ”What’s wrong? Why so secretive?”

He felt that during the previous discussion, Cai Zhiyuan seemed somewhat unhappy, but he didn’t understand why Cai Zhiyuan was unhappy.

Cai Zhiyuan sat down on the sofa and said somewhat helplessly, ”Fu Chen, you’re now the de facto organizer and leader of our community.

”So before you speak, could you think a bit more?

”Don’t you have any political awareness at all?

”You couldn’t think that every time you just call everyone together, let each person speak freely, you take notes, everyone votes, and then the problem is solved? Your work as organizer and leader is complete?”

Fu Chen frowned slightly, ”Isn’t it?

”Our community has 12 people. We need to work together, so of course we should consider everyone’s opinions as much as possible.

”Even if I’m the organizer, I can’t be dictatorial, right?

”I don’t want to do that, and besides, I don’t have that ability.”

Cai Zhiyuan seemed to have the helplessness of talking past each other. He thought somewhat irritably, then said, ”Okay, I never told you these things before because I thought you should have such basic political literacy, like 1+1=2, as self-evident common sense.

”But now I increasingly realize that many people don’t have this common sense.

”Fine, let’s not go that far. Back to today’s problem.

”Why do I require it must be a young male doctor? It’s not at all because of physical fitness reasons. That’s just an excuse for others to hear.

”The real reason is that an older male doctor would be detrimental to community stability.”

Fu Chen was somewhat shocked. This sounded fantastical to him, ”An older male doctor is detrimental to community stability? How so?”

Cai Zhiyuan sighed, ”Listen carefully, Fu Chen. I’ll only tell you these things once.

”If you can understand, then understand. If you can’t, think about it several times.

”If you don’t agree, that’s fine too, but you must think clearly that each person’s small action might cause earth-shaking changes in this community.

”Let me ask you first. According to community rules, any proposal, note, any proposal, will pass and be executed with more than 7 votes.

”The community can be seen as a small society. What would be its most stable and safest structure?”

Fu Chen thought for a moment, ”Of course it would be 12 people working as one, pooling wisdom and efforts, working toward the same goal.”

Cai Zhiyuan asked back, ”Is that possible?

”Are we 12 people a hive mind? Don’t we have conflicts of interest and differences in views?

”What if conflicts arise between two people? You might say mediation. What if mediation fails? Do we just give up helplessly?

”The stability of any system can’t be considered during good times, only during bad times.

”Because during good times, everyone gets along well, all harmonious, managing like playing house is simple.

”But during bad times, all contradictions will explode.

”To maintain the bottom line, we must establish a management system that can maintain stability as much as possible even in the extremely adverse situation where everyone opposes everyone.

”If you let 12 people have twelve equal shares of voice, the final result will be that no one can accomplish anything.

”It’s like running a company. Someone must become the major shareholder with absolute voting rights. If you divide power equally, that company will definitely go bankrupt, without exception.”