God's Imitator

Lin Sizhi got up as usual, came to the hall, and found everyone sitting in silence.

”Morning.”

Lin Sizhi went to the vending machine as usual to buy breakfast, then sat down in an empty seat at the long table.

Zheng Jie couldn’t wait any longer and was the first to speak, ”Lawyer Lin, you’re finally awake! Such a huge thing happened and you could still sleep in for so long!

”We had a brief discussion and our preliminary conclusion is... Cai Zhiyuan was the God’s Imitator of ’King’s Judgment.’

”But I really can’t understand why.

”Why would the Gallery allow a God’s Imitator to design their own judgment game? Moreover, Cai Zhiyuan almost died in that game. Was it worth risking his life to help the Gallery meet its quota?”

Obviously, during the two-plus hours before Lin Sizhi woke up, everyone had engaged in some discussion and reasoning and reached a preliminary conclusion.

But this conclusion was also a key point of confusion for everyone.

Many people had never suspected Cai Zhiyuan from beginning to end, precisely because ”he is the God’s Imitator of King’s Judgment” was logically difficult to explain.Lin Sizhi took a sip of coffee and asked back, ”Did he really almost die in the game?

”Think about it carefully again.

”’Running Oneself Ragged’ was actually an absolutely safe prison cell, because the punishment for repeated games was ’gradually escalating electric shock intensity.’

”However, the force required to push the crossbar and the intensity of the electric shock were actually in a hidden state and not specified.

”The game rules only said ’cannot stop,’ but pushing very slowly was also fine.

”So even if the electric shock intensity increased very high under multiple game scenarios, as long as one could continuously push the crossbar, it would definitely be safe.”

Qin Yao asked, ”But in the previous ’Farmer’s Walk’ segment, Cai Zhiyuan had it the worst. He was stabbed twice for going overtime, and if he exceeded twice the time limit, he would suffer immediate death penalty.

”Could he have deliberately fallen behind? That doesn’t make sense, does it?”

Lin Sizhi shook his head, ”It’s not quite about deliberately falling behind, but he certainly must have held back some strength.

”In the third segment, the time was compressed to 29 seconds by Ding Wenqiang, and when Cai Zhiyuan finally reached the finish line, he actually had about 20 seconds of margin left.

”Being stabbed only looked bloody and a bit frightening. These external injuries weren’t actually serious and were far from life-threatening.

”However, this arrangement could effectively clear the suspicion on him and ensure he could definitely enter the absolutely safe Prison Cell 1.”

Qin Yao was thoughtful, ”According to what was said when reviewing the game at the time...

”Actually, after the ’Farmer’s Walk’ segment, Uncle Ding felt somewhat guilty toward Cai Zhiyuan and Wang Yongxin.

”So when Cai Zhiyuan, covered in blood, actively proposed entering Prison Cell 1, he would almost 100% agree. Is that right?

”But I still don’t quite understand why he had to go around such a big circle.

”He’s a God’s Imitator. Couldn’t he just make a very simple judgment game for himself?”

Lin Sizhi shook his head, ”This is the blind spot created by not thinking with a God’s Imitator’s mindset.

”Suppose now we go back to the evening when the Gallery sent the ’King’s Judgment’ game invitation.

”You are Cai Zhiyuan and discover you are also a sinner being judged.

”At this point, you actually have three different choices.

”First, do nothing.

”Second, design a simple judgment game that would be very easy for you to pass.

”Third, design ’King’s Judgment.’”

Everyone bowed their heads and thought for a while.

Wei Yinzhang explained, ”Actually, standing in Cai Zhiyuan’s position, to ensure his own safety, he could only choose the third option.

”First, doing nothing definitely wouldn’t work, because there are many God’s Imitators.

”If you do nothing, other God’s Imitators will design targeted judgment games. In that case, it would be equivalent to leaving it to fate, and the probability of death would be extremely high.

”Second, designing a simple, easy-to-pass judgment game seems like a natural choice at first glance.

”But the problem is that the Gallery has a review mechanism. Among several different judgment games, it will choose the plan with the highest score and highest difficulty.

”Just designing a simple, easy-to-pass plan would most likely result in the same outcome as the first choice: putting your fate in the hands of other God’s Imitators.”

Yang Yuting thought of a new problem, ”Wait, something seems off.

”That was our first judgment game, right?

”How could Cai Zhiyuan be certain that the more difficult game would be selected?

”Before that, we had only experienced ’Blood Poker,’ but that game wasn’t very difficult. After all, it was a distribution-type game.”

Wei Yinzhang shook his head, ”This is simple logical reasoning.

”Assume the Gallery might choose the ’simple plan’ or might choose the ’difficult plan,’ with a 50% probability for each. Then there are basically these situations:

”First, you gave a simple plan, others gave difficult plans, the Gallery chose the simple plan. This is naturally everyone’s happy;

”Second, you gave a simple plan, but the Gallery chose the difficult plan. This is the worst situation, you’re forced into a high-risk game designed by others;

”Third, you gave a difficult plan, others gave simple plans, the Gallery chose the simple plan. This is still acceptable;

”Fourth, you gave a difficult plan and the Gallery chose the difficult plan, but you’re in a game you designed yourself, so you can completely leave yourself a backdoor.

”So after comprehensive analysis, even under the premise that ’the Gallery has a 50% probability of choosing the simple plan,’ the optimal choice is still ’give a difficult plan.’

”Moreover, reasoning by common sense, the Gallery couldn’t possibly let an overly simple plan pass review. Everyone was brought to the New World, not to vacation and relax.

”I think this shouldn’t be hard for Cai Zhiyuan to figure out.

”Designing a dangerous judgment game for yourself seems somewhat unreasonable, but conversely, it’s the safest choice under the Gallery’s rule system.”

Lin Sizhi added, ”Actually, I also received a game invitation that time.

”I did design judgment games without life-threatening danger for the three players in our community, but ultimately they weren’t selected.

”If Cai Zhiyuan had made the same choice as me, he would only have gotten the same result.”

Surprise appeared on many people’s faces.

Although information had appeared on the big screen, it hadn’t actually definitively confirmed Lin Sizhi was a God’s Imitator.

If Lin Sizhi really wanted to continue covering it up, there were still ways to do so.

For example, using the explanation of ”another God’s Imitator simultaneously targeting two people.”

Even if other players had accumulated enough suspicion, as long as Lin Sizhi was willing, others wouldn’t dare to actually expose him and could only continue maintaining the status quo.

But he chose to show his cards.

However, for the other players, this was somewhat of a relief.

Being forced to cooperate with a strong person in acting was indeed a rather painful thing.