God's Imitator

Lin Sizhi interrupted his thoughts: "Don’t try to think about too many things at once, it will only make your mind completely confused.

"Often, conflicts haven’t really arisen in this world; you just haven’t found the correct entry point.

"Focus on one thing, then correct the underlying structure based on external feedback, and after confirming its accuracy, proceed with deductions.

"Presumptively believing in certain ’common sense,’ and then rashly deducing is like building a tower on an unstable foundation, there’s a high probability of reaching erroneous conclusions.

"Let me ask you: before the review of this game, did you anticipate what Qin Cheng would specifically do? Or to lower the standard a bit, did you predict that Qin Cheng would dare to identify Lu Bingjun?"

Huang Shengjie shook his head: "No, absolutely not."

Lin Sizhi retorted: "Since you too didn’t expect it, then why do you think Lu Bingjun and Yao Yuan would be able to predict it?

"Lu Bingjun’s political ability is just at the level of an ordinary person.

"Yao Yuan’s political ability is stronger, but even he said he doesn’t consider himself a top political player.

"In my opinion, Yao Yuan is not being modest; he has a clear perception of himself.

"But judging from Qin Cheng’s current performance, he is a top political player.

"He seized the only opportunity and thus made Lu Bingjun and Yao Yuan appear like clowns.

"But if he hadn’t seized it?

"Perhaps, later on, you’d only see Yao Yuan sweeping it all.

Despite many thoughts still swirling in Huang Shengjie’s mind, Lin Sizhi’s words forced him to temporarily set aside these thoughts and reconsider the issue from scratch.

"Focus on one thing... ’Seize the only opportunity.’

"Make corrections based on external feedback.

"Qin Cheng is far smarter than me, so my judgment is ’the opportunity is not ripe,’ and this might not necessarily be the correct judgment.

"Qin Cheng shouldn’t have overlooked this point, so if his decision conflicts with mine, it indicates he has other considerations.

"So, in Qin Cheng’s view, the opportunity is ripe.

"Or rather, even if not ripe, it’s already the only chance."

Lin Sizhi didn’t speak, just signaled Huang Shengjie to continue.

Huang Shengjie reviewed the previous situation again: "From my perspective, Lu Bingjun is still the community leader, still embraced by most community members, so identifying him would be equal to seeking death.

"Continue lurking within the community, slowly draw in neutral players and opposition players, slowly let Lu Bingjun’s power base undermine.

"Meanwhile, strive to perform well both within the game and the community, enhancing your own prestige.

"Wait for some point in the future, once it grows and declines, the opportunity ripens, that will be the best time to identify Lu Bingjun.

"However... this would certainly miss opportunity.

"Because while Qin Cheng is striving to enhance his prestige and trying to draw in players, Lu Bingjun can also use this time to further integrate the community.

"And as the community leader, Lu Bingjun is definitely faster than Qin Cheng.

"Qin Cheng will only fall further behind, never catching up.

"Moreover, once Qin Cheng attempts this, he will certainly be alerted by Lu Bingjun and Yao Yuan, and very likely be snuffed out early on.

"Because Yao Yuan is an Imitator, once he truly realizes the threat of Qin Cheng, he will surely come up with a targeted fatal game.

"So actually, Qin Cheng’s time is limited."

Lin Sizhi nodded and added: "This is the problem of the ’window period.’

"’Wait and see’ isn’t necessarily the right choice, it depends on what specific trend both sides’ strengths are rising and falling."

Huang Shengjie furrowed his brow, continuing to analyze:

"I have never understood why Lu Bingjun and Yao Yuan have to kill Deng Xiao and Wen Wan?

"No matter what, keeping two iron ballots, they wouldn’t lose this vote.

"But what if Qin Cheng, like me, didn’t dare to identify them?

"Perhaps everything would be completely different.

"What Lu Bingjun wants is a high degree of integration of Community 2, including forcibly pressing Ye Lin to bow, dismantling the Ye Lin-centered opposition, firmly controlling the Neutral Faction.

𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

"However, the positions of influence in the community are limited, at most 5 or 6 people, 5 being optimal.

"Because according to the situation in the previous ’Endorsed Game,’ conflicts within may lead to a tie vote in even numbers, making control more difficult.

"Moreover, the more people, the ratio of Lu Bingjun+Yao Yuan, this duo gets diluted, affecting control.

"So for Lu Bingjun, it’s certainly better to control the management within 5 people.

"Lawyer Lin your strength is unquestionable, must occupy 1 position;

"Qin Cheng, seen by Lu Bingjun as a close and one of his own, is also a special profession, thus he must occupy 1 position;

"The final position can only be left to Ye Lin.

"Because in Lu Bingjun’s view, the benefits of recruiting Ye Lin far outweigh the benefits of killing Ye Lin.

"Firstly, Lu Bingjun has been creating the illusion that the ’Imitator is controlled by Ye Lin,’ in order to disengage relationship. If Ye Lin also died, he and Yao Yuan would become the prime suspects.

"Secondly, Ye Lin is the core of the opposition old players; recruiting her holds strong symbolic meaning, making it easier to control other opposing players.

"Lastly, Ye Lin can indeed be recruited, having recognized the current situation, she indeed chose to bow and soften.

"In this structure, leaving Deng Xiao and Wen Wan becomes a problem entirely.

"Wen Wan appears to be in the Neutral Faction, but now it seems, in fact, she is Lu Bingjun’s hidden diehard supporter, their relationship is much closer than seen.

"Serving all the way as diehards for Lu Bingjun, in the end unable to enter the core management, they will definitely become imbalanced and create variables.

"They may possess some critical information, once leaked, consequences would be unimaginable.

"Forcibly boosting someone into management is difficult to convince the public.

"My first reaction hearing about Wen Wan also entering management was refusing, other people should react the same.

"Moreover, killing Deng Xiao and Wen Wan is actually done relatively covertly.

"If not for Qin Cheng breaking through, most people still wouldn’t think towards Lu Bingjun and Yao Yuan.

"So...

"Supposing Qin Cheng is truly loyal because of Lu Bingjun’s promotion, doing nothing, the subsequent development would be this:

"Community’s five-member management group established, interests redistributed.

"Ye Lin concedes, gaining a position within the five-member group, no reason to resist any longer.

"For a long period, Lu Bingjun wouldn’t need to kill again.

"So the community would restore peace and stability, able to continue developing, and all benefits from the development would credit Lu Bingjun and Yao Yuan’s rebuilt community ecosystem.

"Original community infighting would be blamed on Wei Changfeng.

"Lu Bingjun turned into the great hero saving the community.

"The original opposition and neutral factions would gradually transform into Lu Bingjun’s diehard supporters; they’d be fully accustomed with the established fact of Lu Bingjun as community leader.

"While Qin Cheng is just one-fifth of management under this system, at most being able to gain a small share of prestige from the community&rsquos benefit.

"So, the more dragged out, the less chances there are for winning, given this system was built by Lu Bingjun.

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"Moreover, even though Qin Cheng holds another interpretation of ’Repentance Poker,’ and handles methods to identify Lu Bingjun and Yao Yuan, over time, these things’ lethality would grow weaker.

"Because after the community remains peaceful for a long period, everyone would lose their sense of crisis, and digging up old grievances would more likely trigger aversion.

"Must in the short term after Wen Wan’s death, during the community’s recent consolidation, at the most vulnerable period, these materials must be thrown out to create enormous disturbances within the community, and use the public’s panic mindset to make a decisive blow.

"Therefore strictly speaking... this really isn’t a mature timing, but genuinely mature timing doesn’t truly exist.

"If Qin Cheng wants to topple Lu Bingjun, now is the only chance."