God's Imitator

Lin Sizhi nodded: "The imitator deliberately hid this rule, so Feng Yuguang was at a loss, not knowing what he should do.

"But as long as you use ’imitator thinking’ to analyze, you can immediately guess the possibility and confirm and verify it through one or two statements.

"So, before the game officially began, I roughly determined two different strategies:

"The first is ’active defense,’ which is to mention those laws that might be disadvantageous to me in my speech and modify them to be harmless to me, in a situation where the opponent is very cautious and almost never makes mistakes.

"In this way, even if the opponent wants to attack, they will have no way to start, eventually ending in a ’no win, no lose’ draw.

"The second is ’passive offense,’ which is when the opponent’s desire to attack is relatively strong and there are obvious flaws, I try not to modify the laws but only use real existing laws for explanation, which makes it seem like I can only defend passively and can’t counterattack, thereby letting the opponent lower their guard.

"After entering the game, I judged from the situation that the success rate of the second strategy is significantly higher, so I executed it that way."

Yao Yuan mulled over these two words, deep in thought: "’Active defense’ and ’passive offense’... Two completely contradictory terms, yet they are quite apt here.

"’Active offense’ and ’passive defense’ do not work in this game.

"If Lawyer Lin actively creates laws unfavorable to Tang Qing, then Tang Qing can simply not submit evidence related to himself, which would obviously be a huge loss for you.

"Or if you always try to find laws to protect yourself only after the evidence is confirmed to be real, flaws will easily appear, and once a mistake is made, it’s all over.

"’Passive offense’ can also be called ’defensive offense,’ like setting a firebreak in advance to prevent the spread of fire.

"This should be the best solution for general players in this game: not necessarily winning but at least ensuring not losing too badly.

"As for ’passive offense,’ the requirements for player quality are too high, so most people probably wouldn’t understand how to play."

Shen Bowen nodded thoughtfully: "I see.

"Actually, I was also thinking before, Lawyer Lin, you pinned your hopes of turning the tables to some extent on that ’Lion King Card,’ so what if Wang Yongxin didn’t give you that Lion King Card or was determined not to cooperate with you?

"But now I understand, if you judged from the start that Wang Yongxin wouldn’t cooperate, then you would have adopted a more positive and proactive defense strategy, i.e., actively modifying or even creating laws beneficial to yourself, giving Tang Qing no room to strike.

"However, the downside of this is that once you succeed, Tang Qing would surely retreat when faced with difficulty. In that case, it would also be hard for you to catch his flaws.

"In the end, it might conclude with the three of you dividing Feng Yuguang’s visa time, yielding lower benefits than the current situation."

Huang Shengjie quickly asked: "Does that mean, Lawyer Lin, you decided to use the ’passive offense’ strategy after the first recess?

"I remember after that, Tang Qing showed a stronger desire to attack.

"As for showing flaws... I can’t quite pinpoint when Tang Qing first showed flaws. Was it after the Gold Card?"

Lin Sizhi took a sip of coffee: "No."

Qin Cheng said helplessly: "Shengjie, just talked to you about ’imitator thinking,’ and you forgot immediately?

"Why can’t you think a step further?"

Huang Shengjie was stunned, momentarily unsure of what this meant.

Yao Yuan explained: "Think carefully, both detectives and wealthy merchants can submit evidence, but what if their evidence overlaps?

"Lawyers and doctors don’t have this problem since their speeches have a clear order and distinguishing knowledge background.

"But once evidence overlaps, the result is disastrous.

"For example, in the first round of the game, Tang Qing brought out a wedding photo. What if Wang Yongxin also submitted a wedding photo?"

Huang Shengjie thought about it: "It wouldn’t matter, these photos weren’t drawn by them; surely after offering keywords, the game auto-generates them.

"It would generate the same appearance.

"Oh... but not right, because they would definitely add keywords to the photos, like a tattoo on a man’s chest, which was surely added voluntarily by Tang Qing.

"If Wang Yongxin also wanted a photo but added other features, the evidence would still conflict.

"If you take two conflicting pieces of evidence to the courtroom, even if one piece is declared fake, it would severely disrupt game dynamics, making the audience exit the immersion and prematurely realize these were created out of thin air rather than found.

"That would be a great failure for the imitator.

The virtual ’evidence room’ serves this purpose: there should be some rule preventing the two from crashing when creating evidence.

"So...

"You can roughly determine the two’s game style and strategy from the evidence they presented in the first round.

"’Photos’ are the best evidence that can be presented in the first round because they can show the specific appearance of both parties to all the audience and mix information through details like tattoos and expressions to guide the audience.

"If two people propose the same evidence, it is most likely judged by time precedence, right?

"So either both wanted to present ’wedding photo’-like evidence, but Tang Qing was quicker; or Wang Yongxin didn’t intend to present such evidence at all from the start.

"No matter the case, Tang Qing is the more aggressive attacker, while Wang Yongxin’s strategy is more defense-oriented.

"...But it wasn’t absolute defense; he planted traps in almost every piece of evidence, combining offense and defense."

Lin Sizhi continued: "So, we can talk about Wang Yongxin’s issue now.

"You might have guessed, he and I have known each other for a long time, we were players from the same community during most of the first stage.

"Of course, we didn’t fully cooperate in the game, and this cooperation wasn’t built solely on previous relationships but also related to game strategies."

Lu Bingjun was silent for a moment and sighed: "Your original community... The intensity is indeed not ordinary."

Before this, Lu Bingjun already knew Lin Sizhi’s original community had pushed the community fund to an outrageous amount, so there were certainly many strong players within that community.

But even knowing this, it’s hard to have a clear perception.

Now Wang Yongxin’s performance in the game filled this gap.

Moreover, that area had an S-Class game early in the first stage; no matter if this imitator came from their community or another, it would undoubtedly raise the gaming level of the entire area.