God's Imitator

After serious consideration, Li Renshu said, ”Our top priority now is to categorize these numerous death rules and try our best to think of a strategy that can simultaneously avoid multiple death rules.

”The last two death rules are relatively easier to solve.

”For all future criminal votes, we definitely need to vote according to our true inner thoughts. And for the final community vote, we should minimize attracting hatred as much as possible, express goodwill toward reliable communities, and avoid becoming the community that gets voted out in the end.

”The troublesome ones are the first two death rules, especially the ’joint implication’ death rule.

”Theoretically speaking, if we make enough wrong actions in the game, we might even be jointly implicated four to five times. Then there would be no way out at all.

”So we must find ways to avoid these behaviors.

”Even if we need to do certain specific actions, it’s best for all members to spread out, with each person only doing one thing. Just like eggs can’t be put in the same basket, we need to avoid risks as much as possible.”

Fu Chen proposed, ”Then let’s just not do anything at all!

”From the shelter probabilities, if we only want self-preservation, 5 normal shelters are actually enough.

”If we’re really worried, then each person gets two normal shelters.”Once our G1 nine-square grid becomes developable, at minimum we can still obtain at least 5 plots. Adding the previous plots, as long as we don’t consider selling to the audience, it’s completely sufficient for our own use.”

Li Renshu nodded, ”Just from the game rules perspective, doing nothing is indeed the optimal solution. After all, the more you do, the more likely you are to trigger joint implication.

”Death immunity only works once. The margin for error is very low.”

Fu Chen thought for a moment and said, ”Or we can try to guess what exactly these five criminals’ crimes are?

”From this game’s content, this judgment theme is very likely related to ’real estate.’

”If selling inferior shelters is a crime, then does hoarding land without developing count as a crime? Does selling shelters at excessively high prices count as a crime?”

Li Renshu silently shook her head, ”These might all be crimes. We can indeed try to guess, but the conclusion we reach in the end will very likely still be the same:

”It’s best to do nothing, only self-preserve.

”But what I’m worried about now is, could ’doing nothing’ also be a crime?”

Everyone fell into silence.

Clearly, no one could foresee the future. At this time, they could only choose a strategy with relatively the highest survival rate.

Cao Haichuan spoke up, ”No need to guess. I think I’m very likely one of the criminals in this game, and the crime I committed is very likely ’standing by idly’ or ’watching without intervening.’”

Everyone looked over somewhat surprised. Although they didn’t know the details, from Cao Haichuan’s determined tone, this information should still be very reliable.

Fu Chen frowned, ”If ’inaction’ really is also a crime, doesn’t that mean we must do something?

”Otherwise, once Officer Cao’s file is announced, no matter how many players have similar crimes, our community will definitely be jointly implicated.”

According to game rules, after a criminal was judged guilty, either ’players from the same community’ would be jointly implicated, or ’players with similar crimes’ would be jointly implicated.

If other players from Community 17 did nothing, then no matter which situation, they couldn’t escape.

Zheng Jie panicked a bit, ”That is to say, we still need to do things as much as possible? But definitely can’t do bad things, because doing bad things might trigger other crimes.

”Then we do good things?

”Bid on as many plots as possible, then build normal shelters and sell them at low prices? No, could low prices be ’disrupting market order’? That might also be one of the crimes... Then we sell normal shelters at normal prices. That should work, right?

”But in that case, we’d probably lose all our gold coins.

”Because in the remaining 5 rounds of the game, there will definitely be other communities choosing to sell shelters at high prices to earn audience members’ gold coins. They’ll have more gold coins to bid on plots. Under this ebb and flow, the financial gap between us will only get bigger and bigger.”

Cao Haichuan shook his head, ”These methods are also not secure, because it’s uncertain to what degree it counts as ’taking action.’

”There’s a simpler method.

”I’ll directly confess and use a get-out-of-death-free card to avoid death.”

After serious consideration, Li Renshu nodded, ”Indeed, the rules say that when criminals confess, the instant death punishment they suffer cannot be offset by shelters.

”But it didn’t say it can’t be offset by other methods.

”As long as I confess, there won’t be any ’joint implication’ situations. This should be the best use of the get-out-of-death-free card. It can preserve opportunities for others to use shelters to avoid death.

”In this game, the crimes of the five criminals definitely don’t overlap. Whether considering from the ’file selection’ perspective or the ’game mechanism’ perspective, this is so.

”If Officer Cao can confirm his crime is ’inaction’ or ’standing by idly,’ we can instead use his confession combined with the get-out-of-death-free card to create an ’absolutely safe’ behavior in the game.

”We only build shelters for ourselves, don’t over-occupy, don’t hoard land, don’t sell at excessively high or low prices, don’t sell inferior shelters.

”This way, we definitely won’t be ’jointly implicated’ by other criminals.

”From the current situation, this is indeed the optimal solution we can take.”

Fu Chen realized the problem. He looked at Cao Haichuan, ”But regardless of whether using a get-out-of-death-free card or using shelters, all death immunities can only take effect once.

”What if we encounter other instant death punishments later? We can still use shelters to avoid death, but you won’t be able to.

”Officer Cao, you can also choose not to confess. If it’s just standing by idly without committing any actual crime, not necessarily more than half the players will vote ’guilty.’

”As long as it doesn’t exceed half, nothing will happen.”

Cao Haichuan shook his head, ”Don’t have that kind of wishful thinking. Don’t forget, I’m a police officer.

”I know what I’m doing. Just do as I say.”

He paused slightly, then said, ”I hope you can completely trust me and completely execute my strategy in this game.

”I’ll use every method to ensure everyone in our community returns safely to the community as much as possible.”

Cao Haichuan was already the leading core within the game, having the highest authority in the game. Since his attitude was already so resolute, of course others wouldn’t raise other opinions.

Li Renshu began operating on the plot signs in sequence to build shelters.

At this time, Community 17 had a total of 8 plots. Li Renshu decided to build them all into normal shelters with ’90% probability.’

Suddenly, Zheng Jie seemed to think of something. He hurried to Li Renshu’s side, ”I suddenly realized, these rules still seem to have an ’optimal solution’ that can be figured out, as long as...”

However, at this moment, everyone heard Zhang Shichao from Community 9 standing in the center of the venue, shouting loudly to all players.

”Can everyone gather over here to listen to me first?

”There’s a method for everyone to survive in this game!

”As long as we can cooperate fully, no one will die. We can leave this game safely!”