God's Imitator

”Beep—”

A sharp buzzing sound rang out. Jiang He looked around and found that she had arrived in a pure white space.

Unlike previous game venues, this place looked somewhat like the waiting room when first entering the New World. All around were pure white walls, with only a table with option buttons and a screen.

She was the only person in the entire space.

”Where is everyone else?” Not seeing Yang Yuting made Jiang He subconsciously feel somewhat panicked, but soon, several lines of text appeared on the screen, transferring her attention.

[Before the official game begins, here are several simple questions to determine your identity in the official game.]

[These questions have a lie detection mechanism. If you give insincere answers, each insincere answer will deduct 10,000 minutes of visa time.]

[Question 1: Regarding the distribution of childcare responsibilities in a family, which of the following do you think is most reasonable?]

[A: Both parties negotiate, or resolve through social institutions.]

[B: Parents strictly split 1:1 equally.]

[C: Decided based on income levels.]

[D: Primarily borne by the mother.]

On the table were different option buttons. Pressing one would complete the answer.

Seeing this question, Jiang He was instinctively stunned for a moment.

Judging from the game’s name, the game content would definitely be related to the theme of ’childbirth,’ but the appearance of such a question still made Jiang He feel somewhat surprised.

First, because this was more like a survey questionnaire with no absolutely correct answer. Second, because they hadn’t yet entered the formal game segment.

”There’s a lie detection mechanism, which means I can choose to forcibly select an answer I don’t agree with by paying 10,000 minutes of visa time.

”But... when completely uncertain about the subsequent game content, it’s probably best to follow my heart’s thoughts?”

This lie detection mechanism was very similar to ’King’s Judgment’: audience members could delay the occurrence of the ’judge the king’ mechanism by voting insincerely.

But currently, Jiang He had no idea what these multiple-choice questions represented. It said ’used to determine identity in the game,’ but specifically which choice would be determined as the advantageous identity was unpredictable.

So after considering for a moment, Jiang He still believed it wasn’t worth paying visa time for a completely unknown game mechanism. She should answer according to her true intentions.

[Question 2: What do you believe is the main cause of gender imbalance among workplace executives?]

[A: Capability differences or choice preferences.]

[B: Systematic discrimination against women, opportunity monopolization.]

[C: Enterprises’ realistic interest considerations.]

[D: Women severely lack ambition and stress resistance.]

[Question 3: Do you think different judgment standards should be applied to male and female criminals in criminal trials?]

[A: Should be completely consistent.]

[B: Because male crime rates are higher, stricter standards should be applied to male criminals.]

[C: Depends on the specific crime.]

[D: Female criminals can be judged more leniently, but this must correspondingly lower all women’s status in political life.]

[Question 4: What do you believe is the main cause of gender imbalance in the legal system?]

[A: Capability differences or choice preferences.]

[B: Men’s deficiency in empathy and ability.]

[C: Screening mechanisms and legacy issues from reality.]

[D: Systematic discrimination against men, opportunity monopolization.]

[Question 5: Which of the following options do you believe could most greatly increase society’s overall willingness to have children?]

[A: Improvement and fairness of the legal system.]

[B: Fully respecting women’s wishes, thoroughly breaking the patriarchal system.]

[C: Developing the economy, improving redistribution systems.]

[D: Reducing women’s employment opportunities, returning to traditional gender division of labor.]

After answering everything, Jiang He looked at her answers. They were all option B.

Actually, halfway through the selections, she had already discovered the pattern.

The four options for these five questions actually corresponded to four different positions. With the lie detection mechanism in place, after choosing a certain option, one would most likely continue choosing it in subsequent questions.

For example, option A leaned more toward ’absolute neutrality,’ meaning no particular bias toward either gender.

Option B clearly leaned toward the ’female position,’ or the position of feminists.

Option C mainly focused on ’economic issues,’ believing economic problems were the root of everything.

Option D clearly leaned toward the ’male position,’ or the position of male supremacists or egalitarians.

For some players who were relatively extreme on gender issues, it was actually easy to select five completely consistent options but even though this pattern was easy to discover, it was still difficult to truly make up one’s mind to randomly select insincerely.

The lie detection penalty was only one reason. More importantly, no one knew what the specific content of this game was or from which position the God’s Imitator had designed it.

Assuming the God’s Imitator was a relatively traditional male who was extremely disgusted with feminists, then of course one should avoid option B as much as possible. Being deducted visa time would still be worthwhile.

But conversely, what if the God’s Imitator was a feminist? Or what if they had no clear bias and just wanted to verify whether players could maintain their position in the game?

It might also be that neither male nor female supremacy mattered. Only those who flip-flopped to survive would be judged.

In that case, rashly using lies to answer questions might backfire, not only getting visa time deducted but also falling into a disadvantageous position in the game.

With the game mechanism unclear and answering time limited, most players could only answer according to their true inner thoughts.

[Based on your answers, your identity in the game is: ’Chief Judge.’]

[The other three players will serve as ’jurors.’]

[The four of you will jointly form the ’judgment panel’ in the game.]

[Now, please wear the ’judgment badge’ on the table, pick up the ’gavel,’ and patiently wait for the game to begin.]

Seeing this result, Jiang He panicked for a moment because judging from the situation in ’King’s Judgment,’ obtaining an advantageous identity in a judgment game wasn’t necessarily a good thing but thinking about it again, there was no need to assume that obtaining an advantageous identity was definitely bad.

Taking the situation in ’King’s Judgment’ as an example, although the advantageous identity was easily targeted, it also held greater initiative and had more opportunities to win the game.

At least the king in ’King’s Judgment’ had both the ’just’ and ’unjust’ winning routes. Persisting in being ’unjust’ and consistently favoring some prisoners could also clear the game.

Conversely, prisoners as non-advantageous identities, although not easily targeted, often didn’t have their life and death in their own hands.

Since she had already obtained the advantageous identity, regretting was useless. Better to think about how to better utilize the privileges of the advantageous identity and find a more reliable, easier clearance method.

”I need to remember, the advantageous identity definitely also has corresponding clearance methods...”

Jiang He looked and saw that a small platform had risen from the desktop that originally only had option buttons. On it were a ’judgment badge’ and a small ’gavel.’

The judgment badge could be attached to the chest and felt heavy in hand. The gavel was very small, smooth and round, with a good feel.

After Jiang He put on the judgment badge and picked up the gavel, the door opened, and she stepped out.