God's Imitator

Time is limited, Zhou Wanlin spoke quickly, and it was the first time Huang Shengjie heard her speak at such a pace.

"Don’t rush, although the rules are complicated this time, I think we can lighten the burden as much as possible by splitting responsibilities."

"Each person studies only a part of the rules, which makes it much simpler."

"We have only three people, and there are exactly three roles in this game."

"Dispatcher, reviewer, inspector."

"The dispatcher transports goods via steam train, the reviewer examines the opponent’s goods, and the inspector freely moves around the area and adapts to random situations."

"Since the roles are completely fixed, we might as well divide the tasks first, and then slowly research our respective parts once the game officially starts."

Huang Shengjie was a bit surprised, and he quickly nodded: "I agree."

Zhou Wanlin’s real-life profession is an administrative supervisor, which seems to give her certain experience and insights in arranging work plans, perhaps an unexpected advantage in this game.

Zhou Wanlin looked at Geng Yuxia: "First, we need to determine the reviewer’s identity."

"Because the rules state that after each round starts, the reviewer must reach the Review Room within 10 minutes and can only leave once the round ends.

"Moreover, you have to cross the bridge, so the walking time must be accounted for."

"Aunt, can you take charge of this task?"

Geng Yuxia seemed a bit lost: "But, I haven’t thought about how to do it specifically yet?"

Zhou Wanlin shook her head: "Auntie, don’t think about those complex strategies now. Regardless of what the contraband is or how the opponent delivers it, just randomly choose about 1/3 of the materials and review them with security inspection equipment."

"But it has to be a random selection, not a fixed order."

"If no contraband is found, that’s fine. But if it’s detected and many raw materials are left, then do a ’full review.’

"This should be the simplest and most stable strategy initially."

"Just stay in the Review Room, and if things change later, either I or Huang Shengjie will come to find you."

Geng Yuxia nodded: "Okay."

She immediately set off, crossing the bridge to the Review Room on the other side of the area.

Zhou Wanlin looked at Huang Shengjie and continued: "Shengjie, do you have any thoughts on the goods transport rules?"

"If not, then I’ll be the dispatcher, and you can be the inspector. How does that sound?"

"Although I still don’t understand what the inspector specifically does, I think this should be a role that requires physical endurance."

"You just need to keep an eye on the opponent’s inspector, and there shouldn’t be much of a problem."

"What do you think?"

Huang Shengjie considered for a moment before saying: "I think the main task of the inspector should be manually transporting raw materials, especially contraband.

"In other words, ’smuggling.’

"Of course, it also involves stopping the opponent’s inspector from smuggling as much as possible."

Zhou Wanlin raised an eyebrow: "Oh? Really? The rules don’t seem to specify that."

Huang Shengjie explained: "Sister Wanlin, look, although the rules don’t explicitly say so, they do list several ’minor violations.’

"This itself is a hint."

"While carrying contraband, you can’t be touched by an opposing player;

"Once a player stands in the ’safe zone,’ the second player can’t enter;

"These are ’minor violations.’ Breaking them won’t lead to immediate fatal punishment but just records the number of violations."

"In other words, as long as you control the number of violations, these actions can be done and are very lucrative."

"The rules also mention transporting goods by micro-train as a ’regular channel,’ which doesn’t require any touch.

"There must be irregular channels, that is, ’manual transport.’

"Sister Wanlin, look, the map shows that the main building of the prison actually has six windows, three on the left and three on the right."

"These windows must have a use, either people can come out or things can go in."

"I think the latter is more likely."

"If raw materials can be pushed through the window’s gap, it would bypass the opposing community’s review."

"Of course, there’s risk involved:

"During the smuggling process while carrying contraband, the opponent community’s inspector can stop me; just chasing me down and touching me counts as a violation."

"At that point, I could choose to first hide in the ’safe zone.’

"Overall, whether attacking or defending, you have to run fast, so yes, it’s a task requiring physical endurance."

Zhou Wanlin nodded in realization: "Right, indeed. But, whether attacking or defending, you can only choose one, right?

"The rules say that carrying contraband and being touched by an opposing player counts as a violation, but what if both players carrying contraband touch each other?"

"From the rules on the surface, this should mean both sides violate, right?"

Huang Shengjie thought for a moment: "Yeah, it should mean both sides record a violation, essentially mutual self-destruction.

"If one side manages to drop the contraband before being touched, it shouldn’t count."

Zhou Wanlin thought for a moment: "But contraband dropped on the ground might be picked up by the other side."

Huang Shengjie nodded in agreement: "So I think, with contraband, either don’t carry any or carry as much as possible.

"Once the game officially starts, I’ll try to gauge the exact weight of the raw materials before deciding."

Zhou Wanlin nodded in agreement: "Hmm, that should be fine."

Huang Shengjie looked again at the micro-train at the entrance of the raw material warehouse.

"Sister Wanlin, do you have any leads on transporting goods?"

Zhou Wanlin nodded: "I feel like I’ve seen a similar puzzle problem before. I’m not sure if I can optimize it, but I’ll do my best to arrange it."

Huang Shengjie nodded: "Okay, let’s settle it this way. I’ll be the inspector, and you will dispatch the goods.

"I’ll use gold pounds to help you buy some raw materials since it seems I don’t need money as the inspector.

"If you need more raw materials later, buy them with your own gold pounds."

...

Soon, the countdown for preparation time ended, and the broadcast clearly echoed throughout the area.

[Round one begins.]

[In this round of the game, ’grocery-type’ raw materials are selected as ’contraband.’]

Huang Shengjie felt the vibration from the badge on his chest.

He picked up the badge and looked at it, discovering two lines of information displayed on the screen on the back.

"This means the badge can provide some kind of hint to prevent players from missing important information."

Huang Shengjie hurriedly swiped the badge at the shelf, inserted gold pounds into the cash inlet to purchase raw materials.

Meanwhile, Zhou Wanlin had already arrived in advance at the steam train’s console to set up the loading and unloading program.

Raw materials from the shelves were continuously transported via the conveyor belt.

Huang Shengjie found a raw material labeled ’grocery-type’ and grabbed it by its handle.

Although it was only the size of a brick, the weight in hand felt very heavy, like holding a high-density metal, with the handle pressing painfully against his fingers.

"So heavy?!"

Huang Shengjie was a bit taken aback; this weight was indeed completely beyond his expectations.