God's Imitator

The next second, Cai Zhiyuan realized he had returned to the game hall.

On the big screen, the earnings situation for this game also appeared.

[Now announcing Community 17’s final visa time obtained in ’Simple Q&A’.]

[No. 4 Dai Yifan: 141360]

[No. 5 Cai Zhiyuan: 141360]

[No. 8 Zhou Guifen: 141360]

[No. 10 Zheng Jie: 141360]

[No. 11 Yang Yuting: 141360]

[According to community rules, visa time obtained by players will be contributed to the Community Security Fund using a ’progressive tax rate’. Remaining visa time will be credited to each player’s visa.]

According to the new rules submitted last time, the progressive tax rate was 5% for the portion between 20,000 and 40,000, 10% for the portion between 40,000 and 60,000, and 15% for the portion above 60,000.So from these earnings, each player would be forced to contribute 15204 minutes of visa time to the Community Security Fund.

The five players’ earnings were consistent because they had signed a contract with Community 8, and all earnings were the result of redistribution.

Players who hadn’t entered the game were all waiting in the hall.

This game was led by Cai Zhiyuan and Yang Yuting. Neither of them had previous leadership experience, so most players were still somewhat worried.

After seeing the earnings on the big screen, Li Renshu was somewhat surprised, ”So high!”

Wang Yongxin was also very astonished.

Although they still didn’t know what specifically happened in the game, judging from the earnings numbers, this average earnings had already exceeded the previous two distribution-type games.

In ’Blood Poker’, the three groups’ average earnings were 30,000, 60,000, and 120,000 respectively. Only Wang Yongxin and Lin Sizhi were special cases, exceeding 200,000.

In ’Conglomerate Nation’, the three groups’ average earnings were 60,000, 100,000, and 130,000 respectively.

But this time, the earnings were an average of 140,000 per person for the five players. This had even reached the highest single-person earnings from the previous ’Conglomerate Nation’.

Wei Yinzhang was also somewhat surprised, ”Looks like a great victory.”

Yang Yuting, Zhou Guifen, Zheng Jie, and Dai Yifan all had smiles on their faces. Obviously, they were also very satisfied with this harvest.

Li Renshu said to Cai Zhiyuan, ”You’ve worked hard. Do you need to rest for a bit?”

Cai Zhiyuan shook his head, ”I’m fine, I shouldn’t need to.”

Li Renshu looked at everyone, ”Then let’s all rest a little. We’ll start the review in half an hour.”

...

This time it was a distribution-type game with no casualties, and everyone’s earnings were very high, so the atmosphere in the hall was also very lively.

Everyone was happy.

Li Renshu brought up the game rules for ’Simple Q&A’ on the big screen. At the same time, everyone also saw the game’s rating.

Wang Yongxin frowned slightly, saying with some worry, ”The third S-rank game...

”Could this indicate that the God’s Imitators in the New World are also constantly growing? They’re learning from previous existing games, and their design abilities are also improving.”

Li Renshu added, ”Yes, and it’s the first non-judgment game to receive an S rating.

”Perhaps it’s because it triggered some kind of heart-piercing mechanism similar to judgment games?”

Since the other players didn’t yet know what specifically happened in the game, they couldn’t immediately give a conclusion but this did pique everyone’s curiosity.

Li Renshu looked at the five who had participated in the game and asked, ”Who will explain?”

Cai Zhiyuan looked toward Zheng Jie, ”You speak first, mainly about the first stage and the ’4-person room’ situation.

”Then Yang Yuting and I will explain the other two rooms’ situations.”

Zheng Jie nodded, quite encouraged, ”Alright!”

In this game, he had also independently entered the ’4-person room’ and earned a large amount of visa time from Community 1 players.

Although from the results it seemed almost anyone could have done it, and the earnings could only be considered a bonus, for Zheng Jie it still counted as significant progress.

Soon, the three of them supplemented each other and finished explaining the entire game process.

Yang Yuting said quite frankly, ”So actually, the four of us were all carried this time. I didn’t play too big of a role either.

”Not only did we have to measure various reward and penalty values in the first stage, but in the second stage we also had to consider the different situations in each room, distribute number cards, and determine the order of players entering rooms. These conditions were simply too demanding.

”The preparation time for the second stage was very short, only 15 minutes. Any oversight at all could have produced very serious consequences.

”Community 1 failed to measure values in the first stage, causing their entire tactical arrangement to be wrong.”

She looked toward Cai Zhiyuan, ”I still can’t quite understand how you figured out so many things in such a short time?”

Although Cai Zhiyuan had indeed performed well in the community’s review sessions before, prior to this, his performance within games really wasn’t particularly outstanding.

So it was normal for everyone to feel surprised.

Cai Zhiyuan looked at everyone, ”Why are you all looking at me with that expression again? Have you forgotten what my actual job is?

”I’ll emphasize again, I write algorithms.

”This game, for me, was completely within my professional domain.

”Because after reading the second stage rules, I immediately realized that this game was designed with the ’Byzantine Fault Tolerance Algorithm’ as its core.

”So I didn’t need to deduce the specific situations in the three rooms at all. I just had to simply apply the formula to immediately think of the optimal strategy.”

Zheng Jie was stunned. He had heard a term he’d never heard before.

”Byzantine Fault Tolerance Algorithm? What is... that thing?”

Cai Zhiyuan explained, ”The first thing I told you after entering the second stage was that we shouldn’t take the ’4-person room’ host position, because that was a trap.

”The reason is very simple. The 4-person room, with 1 questioner, necessarily has 3 answerers. And among them, there’s one free agent.

”The free agent can be seen as the malicious node in the ’Byzantine Fault Tolerance Algorithm’. Such a structure cannot meet the basic requirements of the fault tolerance algorithm, so it won’t work.

”In other words, the free agent can do whatever they want in this room.

”As for the content of this algorithm, it’s also very simple. You can understand it this way: in a decentralized distributed structure, the number of malicious nodes must be less than one-third, otherwise ’Byzantine Fault Tolerance’ cannot be achieved and a consistent answer cannot be given.”

Everyone’s expressions were still confused.

Zheng Jie coughed lightly twice, ”Brother Cai, I think it’s necessary to start by explaining this... whatever ’Byzantine Algorithm’ is.”

Cai Zhiyuan thought for a moment, ”Alright, let me explain briefly.

”Simply put, the Byzantine Fault Tolerance Algorithm is also called the Byzantine Generals Problem.

”Suppose there’s now a very solid castle. To capture this castle, many different armies need to attack together.

”If these armies cannot reach consensus and only some armies attack, then the battle will inevitably fail.

”So, the generals of these armies agree with each other that before attacking, everyone will communicate. Each army will send out messengers to other armies to transmit information: attack or retreat.

”If more than half the generals decide to attack, then the next day everyone will agree to attack together. If more than half the generals decide to retreat, then the next day everyone will agree to retreat together.

”This seems like a plan without too many problems, right?”

Everyone nodded.

Cai Zhiyuan continued, ”But now the problem is that there may be traitors among these generals.”