God's Imitator

The hall fell into silence for a moment.

Wang Yongxin spoke first, ”I think this judgment is fine.”

After serious consideration, Qin Yao also nodded, ”I also think it’s fine.”

As for the others, it was hard to say whether they were satisfied with this decision or not, but at least no one openly opposed it.

So there was no need to actually vote.

This result was naturally within Li Renshu’s expectations.

A mature politician wouldn’t initiate a vote unfavorable to themselves unless they were completely certain of the voting outcome.

For Wang Yongxin, expressing support was the only choice he could make right now.

Interestingly, Wang Yongxin did a simple deduction and discovered that this incident actually had three different possibilities:

Fu Chen controls the death immunity token and decides to save someone.Li Renshu controls the death immunity token and decides to save someone.

Li Renshu controls the death immunity token and decides not to save someone.

Among these three possibilities, if Wang Yongxin had to choose himself, the second would be the most optimistic situation.

If Fu Chen saved her, Wang Yongxin would definitely have to use his veto power, but that would be equivalent to him being the villain. Considering his own gender and limited political prestige, it would be difficult to provide as proper an explanation as Li Renshu’s, which would further damage his already limited popularity.

If Li Renshu saved her, that would be best for Wang Yongxin.

Because he could use this opportunity to question Li Renshu’s ”standards for using the death immunity token,” create some rifts within the five-person group, and expand his own voice, causing certain players to further distance themselves from Li Renshu and lean toward him.

But obviously, Li Renshu wouldn’t make such a low-level mistake, ultimately leading to a result that for Wang Yongxin was neither good nor bad.

Regarding this result, Wang Yongxin could only accept and support it.

Entrusting this token to different people for management each had advantages and disadvantages. There was no perfect choice.

This also made Wang Yongxin feel somewhat dramatic: at the time, his proposal was for Fu Chen to manage the death immunity token. If it really had been Fu Chen managing it, then there was a high probability he would have used it for Jiang He.

As for whether it would be vetoed, that was another matter, but at least there wouldn’t be a situation where it wasn’t used at all.

It was Jiang He who clearly expressed support for Li Renshu, but conversely, it was Li Renshu who decided not to use it for her.

It was somewhat sigh-inducing.

Cai Zhiyuan realized this topic could end, so he pointed at the large screen again.

”Actually, speaking of this, everyone can better understand the decisions Jiang He made in the game.

”When choosing an assistant, the reason she insisted on not bringing Aunt Zhou but bringing Yang Yuting was mainly based on two considerations.

”First, she viewed this game as an opportunity to prove herself, so she decided to leave this opportunity to Yang Yuting, whom she believed had a closer ideology.

”Second, she may indeed have learned some knowledge related to reproduction due to her work, but obviously, the knowledge she learned and the knowledge tested in the game were misaligned.”

Yang Yuting was shocked, ”Wait, what do you mean closer ideology!”

Cai Zhiyuan explained, ”Because Aunt Zhou is older, it’s impossible for her to share the same ideology.

”In Jiang He’s eyes, the ranking of closeness between her and the other female players in the community was probably like this: Li Renshu, you, Xu Tong, Qin Yao, Aunt Zhou.

”You and Jiang He are similar in age, so she naturally believed you held the same views as her and naturally stood on her side.

”She just overlooked one thing: family environment.

”Your original family was too wealthy, so you’re more similar to Qin Yao. You’re both beneficiaries of the old system’s gender division of labor, so in terms of ideological tendencies, you two have great differences from Jiang He.

”This difference is determined by economic foundation and life experience.

”Simply put: the poorer the original family, the more likely women are to be harmed under the original gender division of labor, and they will naturally have stronger feminist tendencies. Conversely, the wealthier the original family, the more likely women are to benefit under the original gender division of labor, thus developing resistance to feminism.

”Frankly speaking, gender conflicts are sharper at the lower levels and more moderate at the upper levels. Essentially, it’s gender-based mutual harm caused by insufficient resources at the lower levels.

”So when Jiang He saw your answers to those initial 5 questions, she must have been very surprised.”

Yang Yuting was speechless for a moment. She understood a bit why Jiang He had been overly enthusiastic toward her.

Obviously both sides had somewhat misunderstood each other.

Yang Yuting thought for a moment, then asked again, ”Then what you said about Jiang He having done some research on reproduction issues, but the knowledge she learned and the knowledge tested in the game being misaligned, what does that mean?

”I think the three questions tested in the game were all very basic questions, right?

”Right, Aunt Zhou?”

Zhou Guifen nodded, ”I think they’re quite basic.

”You don’t even necessarily need childcare experience. Buy a childcare reference book and you can find answers to all these questions.”

Cai Zhiyuan explained, ”So I said this is actually a kind of knowledge structure misalignment.

”Jiang He’s profession is editor, which inevitably involves some hot topics, which certainly include gender issues and reproduction issues.

”But when discussing these topics in newspapers, magazines, or new media, they generally don’t involve specific ’practical operation’ aspects.

”For example, when we discuss fertility rate topics online, who would discuss specifically how many scoops of formula to mix for newborns? Everyone subconsciously ignores it.

”But in actual reproduction issues, these details are crucial.

”It can also be said that whether they’re policymakers or people discussing these topics, what they’re actually discussing isn’t the topic itself, but just using this topic to freely express other views they want to express.

”This game precisely captured this point, accurately distinguishing between people who ’think they understand reproduction’ and people who ’truly understand reproduction’.

”Those people who repeatedly mention reproduction topics but don’t even understand basic common sense in the actual nurturing process are actually just using reproduction issues to profit themselves, whether male or female.

”Of course, I must honestly say I don’t know these questions either, but I also don’t care about this topic.

”Obviously in the view of the God’s Imitator who designed this game, compared to people who genuinely don’t know or understand, those who claim to know but don’t actually grasp the details are more worthy targets of judgment.”

Yang Yuting sighed quietly, ”Okay, let’s stop this topic here. I don’t really want to discuss it anymore.”

She somewhat helplessly realized that Jiang He’s situation seemed consistent inside and outside the game.

In the game, Jiang He presumptuously treated all female players as ”her people.” In the community, she similarly presumptuously treated Li Renshu as ”her person.”

In the end, it was the ”her people” inside the game who voted to kill her, and the ”her person” outside the game who decided not to use the token to save her.

Were they really her people?

Not necessarily.

The female players in the game considered whether Jiang He could lead them to successfully clear the game, or rather, clear the game in the simplest and most reliable way.

In the community, Li Renshu considered the community’s stability, giving corresponding status only after players made sufficiently large contributions.

This was the first priority. They didn’t care whether this person was specifically male or female.

Just like Community 3 and Community 4, Lu Xinyi and Han Mengying could become the core of their communities not because of their gender, but because of their actual abilities.

After thinking for a long time, Zheng Jie raised a new question, ”Then ultimately, this judgment game isn’t fair either.

”Chen Yumei and Jiang He committed the same crime, but the one who hid deeper survived instead?

”Moreover, those criminals who were tied up had all received legal judgments. But if the judgment team members decided to kill them in exchange for reproduction funds, they had absolutely no power to fight back and could only wait for death.

”That’s also not quite reasonable, right?”

Everyone said in unison, ”Don’t consider fairness issues in judgment games.”

Zheng Jie was stunned. Obviously, this was a conclusion everyone had reached when discussing ”King’s Judgment,” and he wasn’t in the community yet at that time.

Wang Yongxin sighed, ”Actually strictly speaking, all judgment games that have appeared so far, all of them, are unfair.

”Games involving fewer people might be relatively better, but they’re still unfair.

”And the more people involved in a judgment game, the less it has to do with fairness.

”So don’t have any special filter for judgment games just because you see the word ’judgment.’ The judgment in your concept and the judgment the Gallery considers are very likely two completely different things.

”In King’s Judgment, did the crimes of Zhang Peng, Gao Zhankui, myself, and Cai Zhiyuan reach the point where we had to die?

”But if the King really wanted to kill us, we had no negotiating space either.

”Of course, on the surface, we could obtain the King identity through ’Farmer’s Walk,’ or lighter punishment by persuading the King, seemingly providing a tiny bit of surface-level negotiating space, slightly better than the criminals in ’Childbirth Judgment’ who were locked up and couldn’t even speak.

”But is there any essential difference?

”There isn’t.

”All other judgment games are the same. They’ve never been fair.

”We can only say that on this point, all God’s Imitators share the same understanding.”