God's imitator

Chapter 97 The Principle of the Happy Person's Avoidance

Li Renshu glanced at Wang Yongxin and nodded.

Clearly, their previous conversation, especially their discussion about the arcade's attitude towards copycats and players, gave Wang Yongxin some inspiration.

Looking at the game rules, Fu Chen said with some confusion, "I have another question."

"Why couldn't the male players have teamed up from the beginning and used 'stepping' to threaten the female players in return?"

"Everyone is only allowed one like and one dislike per hour. Before understanding the rules of killing, the deterrent effect of dislikes is the same."

"But four hours later, the situation changed to women getting more likes and men getting more dislikes, with male players making all the concessions."

Wang Yongxin explained: "This is where the game's design is ingenious, or rather, malicious."

"The designers forcibly severed all connections between players, making it impossible for communities or same-sex players to discuss countermeasures; they could only communicate through broadcast data."

"The reason why male players cannot unite as you said is because of a very important principle: the 'happy-player avoidance principle'."

"For example, in real life you are a person who has no worries about food and clothing and lives a happy life. One day you accidentally bump into a drunk man who is full of resentment on the street. Maybe he bumped into you, but the best choice at this time is for you to take the initiative to apologize."

"This game gives all male players a blank check of 3, which actually makes male players the relatively 'happiest' in the game, so they will spontaneously tend to actively avoid it."

"Add to that the existing social rules, the natural alliance formed by female players due to their 'victim status' (randomly deducting visa time), and the inability to communicate with each other within the game, and the fact that your strategy is almost impossible to implement."

"If you don't give it, plenty of others will. As long as some male players give in out of the 'principle of avoiding the happy,' then threatening the woman to downvote is meaningless."

"Just like in reality, men are generally considered to benefit more from marriage. Although I don't agree with this view, it can explain certain phenomena."

"Of course, having an advantage in the last four hours after being downvoted is another matter entirely."

Jiang He added, "And if we do that, wouldn't it be very easy for Attorney Lin to mistakenly kill us as a copycat?"

Everyone laughed. Although the game was indeed dangerous, the joy of returning safely made it all the sweeter.

Looking at the previously recorded visa time income, Lee In-sook nodded slowly and thoughtfully: "So, in the end, the 31 players shared all of the copycat's time equally."

"No wonder your visa dates are all exactly one or two minutes long."

"However... exactly how long is the visa processing time?"

Yang Yuting quickly calculated with pen and paper: "I have no extra expenses or income throughout this game, only the part randomly deducted by the game mechanism."

“每1小时扣除3分钟，6小时应该是一共扣了18分钟，所以一份的时间应该是……24322。

Multiply by 31 to get the total time: 753984 minutes.

Everyone fell silent, clearly shocked by the astronomical figure.

Zheng Jie realized something was wrong: "Wait, you haven't spent a single penny in this game? You haven't even split the room fee once? You haven't bought any food or water either?"

Yang Yuting thought for a moment: "I only met a female player once in the previous four meetings, and that was Lu Xinyi. She took the initiative to pay for the room."

"As for the other male players, they not only pay for the room themselves, but also bring food and water. I have nowhere to spend my money."

"Later, I always matched with trusted players, so I never encountered new players asking me to split the cost."

Zheng Jie was struck dumb; clearly, the gap between people in this game was greater than the gap between people and dogs.

Players like Yang Yuting, who have a "rich, beautiful, and successful" image, can easily win even without employing sophisticated strategies, as long as they demonstrate normal human intelligence.

However, considering that 3 male players had left the game, he felt better.

Yang Yuting glanced at the total visa time she had calculated and sighed, "75 visa time is indeed a lot, but unfortunately, it's not much left after being divided among 31 players."

Jiang He exclaimed, "Are all copycats this rich? It's an astronomical figure that I can't even imagine."

Cao Haichuan corrected, "Strictly speaking, this should be the sum of the visa times of all the deceased in the game."

"If the copycat is alive, these visa times belong to her; but if she dies, these visa times will be divided equally among the surviving players in the game."

Jiang He then looked at Yang Yuting: "So, the 3 minutes of visa time for liking each other's posts at the end are gone?" Yang Yuting nodded: "Yes, they should be gone. It's probably because the game didn't end normally, but was a forced settlement after the copycat died."

Cai Zhiyuan said thoughtfully, "In other words, there will be two different settlement rules."

"If the settlement condition is 'game over,' then a forced end due to the death of a copycat will also result in a normal settlement. For example, the rule that 'male players indiscriminately receive 3 minutes of visa time.'"

"However, if the condition is 'the last meeting', then the settlement cannot be completed normally."

Jiang He said regretfully, "That's such a pity!"

Zheng Jie shook his head: "It's not a pity, because the 'deduction for extra likes and dislikes' was not settled, otherwise I would have been deducted a lot."

"Moreover, the most important thing is to get out alive."

"Given the circumstances, even one more meeting could have been life-threatening, let alone holding on until the final meeting."

Lee In-sook pondered for a moment: "So, now we've come to a very crucial issue."

"Could Zhong Yuanyuan be the copycat who designed the 'King's Trial'?"

“Uncle Ding previously participated in ‘Blood Poker’ with Community 1. Therefore, the possibility that players from Community 1 know Uncle Ding and are targeting him cannot be ruled out.”

Cai Zhiyuan picked up a pen and paper and quickly did some calculations.

"The visa processing time is uncertain."

"There are too many dead people. If we spread the data evenly, it will no longer be accurate, and we can't calculate Zhong Yuanyuan's original time."

At first, people tried to guess how many days the copycat had on his visa. If it was more than 25, he might be a copycat of "King's Trial".

But it's clear that this approach won't work.

Cao Haichuan twirled a lighter in his palm: "I tend to think that Zhong Yuanyuan and the copycat of 'The King's Trial' are not the same person."

"Her methods of murder and harvesting visa time were rather clumsy."

"The arcade gave 'Blind Date Game' a very low rating, while the copycat who designed 'King's Trial' got an S rating. No matter how much the level has dropped, it shouldn't have dropped to this level."

"Even if the goal is simply to harvest time in a crude and ruthless way, it should be done in a more sophisticated way."

If it can be proven that Zhong Yuanyuan was the copycat who designed the "King's Trial," then her death would reassure many people present.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it no matter how you look at it.

Wang Yongxin coughed twice: "It's okay. Even if this is just a not-so-skilled copycat, it's still not easy to catch her out of the game. This experience is worth summarizing."

"More importantly, this copycat shows us a completely new possibility that we never thought of before."

"How can copycats collaborate with players to turn the entire community into a black market?"
"The arcade actually condoned this blatant violation of the rules of the game."

Everyone fell silent. Clearly, Wang Yongxin's question was equally perplexing to the others.

Prior to this, most people understood the relationship between imitators and players as one of complete antagonism.

The copycat designs a game to kill players, and the players need to survive in the game and then find a way to find and kill the copycat.

Killing the other party will allow you to seize their visa processing time.

The community rules were clearly written from the very beginning.

[Among all the players, there lurks a special group of dangerous individuals: 'Imitators of God.' They design games for the arcade and carry out trials for the players.]

When a player dies in the arcade, the game's designers will receive all of that player's remaining visa time.

However, the specific case of "dating games" clearly demonstrates the possibility of collaboration between copycats and players.

(End of this chapter)