God's Imitator

In the game, acquiring the necessary 20,000 gold pounds to save someone is not difficult, so as long as the opponent has a normal community ecosystem and hasn’t experienced excessively outrageous internal conflicts, there won’t be any deaths.

It’s merely a loss of 20,000 gold pounds at most.

Of course, the game rule is ’donate all gold pounds,’ so it may be more than 20,000, but players can avoid losses with proper arrangements.

Just let the safest player keep most of the gold pounds, and the other four players only need to carry 10,000 gold pounds each.

During the final settlement phase, redistribute the gold pounds.

No matter how you look at it, this rule is hard to exploit.

Yao Yuan obviously didn’t know the players of Community 23 beforehand, yet successfully persuaded them to switch sides within a short game interval, and even targeted the leader of the community. Such a result is indeed quite dramatic.

Seeing the shocked expressions of the crowd, Yao Yuan found it somewhat laughable.

"Don’t exaggerate in your imaginations. Actually, the success rate of this plan was extremely low, and it wasn’t a good strategy. I was just taking a chance."

Shen Bowen observed his expression slightly: "There’s no need to be overly modest about this kind of thing. Luck is also part of skill."

Yao Yuan shook his head: "It’s not modesty, I’m serious.

"Because the more ingenious a plan seems, the higher the actual failure rate.

"If a plan has five steps and each has an 80% success rate, it seems high, but the actual overall success rate is only 30%.

"This is a simple mathematical problem.

"If possible, I prefer simpler, more direct strategies with fewer steps.

"But in that situation, we were already at a comprehensive disadvantage. Neither regular strategies nor physical stamina showed a winning possibility, so I had to try something from the perspective of community politics.

"This plan actually requires the tacit approval or cooperation of four players on the other side, and Shengjie had to complete a critical step. Any mistake in any part would lead to failure.

"Moreover, it’s built on human nature, making it completely unreliable.

"So, this is not modesty, but a reminder that such strategies are not worth imitating, to prevent misleading your game thoughts later on."

After a slight pause, Yao Yuan continued: "Actually, upon serious review, we made many mistakes in this game, especially in the first phase.

"Back then, I simply chose to enter the infirmary, causing a loophole in the shutter room, and the three players outside the prison couldn’t think of the possibility of obtaining drugs by unsealing raw materials.

"These two mistakes made us fall into a huge disadvantage in the first round of the game.

"The strategy in the third phase could only be seen as mending the fence after the sheep are lost.

"I can only say, we should be thankful for the incredible matchmaking mechanism of the Walkway, in any other community, or if Zhao Heng hadn’t entered this game, we might have ended up losing."

Zhang Yan was clearly interested: "I didn’t expect that Zhao Heng, as the leader of Community 23, had good game skills and strategy, but in the end, died in the community ecosystem he built himself.

"It’s quite bizarre.

"Because in previous games, I rarely saw such situations.

"Even when you narrated halfway through, I couldn’t think of a way to resolve the impasse.

"Because Zhao Heng built his system, which at first glance seemed solid, Wu Xiufang was the newcomer he strongly promoted, and Li Mao was indecisive. As long as these two donated gold pounds, he would not be in any danger.

"But didn’t expect Wu Xiufang would decisively choose betrayal.

"Actually, I’ve heard somewhat before that there exists high-pressure dominance or single-dominant communities in the Walkway, but the situation is completely different:

"We all feel that such communities will inevitably collapse, but contrary to expectation, they haven’t collapsed yet."

Qin Cheng thought for a moment: "Are you talking about Community 12’s situation?

"Chen Guangming seemed to have built a community ecosystem similar to Zhao Heng’s Community 23, but until now, Chen Guangming is still doing well and has not overturned like Zhao Heng."

Zhang Yan nodded: "Yes, I am talking about him.

"The original area’s Community 12 was an edge community with almost no presence, so it was replaced after the second phase.

"But what I don’t understand is, Chen Guangming doesn’t seem very strong, and Community 12’s ecosystem appears problematic, yet Zhao Heng simply died, and he has remained well."

The people exchanged glances but couldn’t provide a definitive answer.

Lu Bingjun said: "We only encountered Chen Guangming once in the ’Pain Game,’ so we’re not too familiar with him or the specifics of Community 12, making it hard to assertively conclude."

Lin Sizhi started to talk: "Actually, I have some understanding of Chen Guangming.

"During the first phase, he and I were in the same area.

"Community 12 was originally a community full of weaklings with almost no community construction and rules, essentially a loose conglomeration.

"Chen Guangming successfully transformed Community 12 into his one-person rule and maintained a good return.

"This seems somewhat similar to Zhao Heng’s behavior, but in reality, they are entirely different players.

"Your points of confusion are precisely Chen Guangming’s greatest advantage.

"First, he has strong political ability.

"Many players, like Zhao Heng, want to concentrate all community powers in their own hands, but the more concentrated the power, the greater the risk of being overthrown. Because bottom-tier players deprived of power won’t always be indifferent and let themselves be slaughtered. Once conditions mature, even the most cowardly players will eventually resist under certain people’s leadership.

"In this context, maintaining power requires strong political ability.

"Differentiation, checks and balances, discovering and eliminating threats are all part of political ability.

"Similarly, a single-dominant community may transform into two completely different forms due to a specific rule detail.

"Even in a community with more weak players, Chen Guangming’s ability to achieve this sufficiently demonstrates his political capabilities.

"Because following the trend and defying the trend require different political energies.

"Secondly, Chen Guangming is a man without a bottom line, yet simultaneously a person without baggage, who never engages in internal conflicts.

"He absolutely won’t have the obsession or mindset to prove he’s stronger than others.

"If he might face danger due to encountering a strong opponent, he would find every possible way to avoid it, rarely letting himself fall into risk.

"In other words, he only plays games he has good chances and high safety probabilities.

"Finally... his luck is good."

Huang Shengjie was momentarily stunned: "Luck?"

Lin Sizhi nodded: "Yes. In fact, during the first phase, purely on paper, there were still three or four players stronger than Chen Guangming.

"However, Chen Guangming rarely encountered these people in dangerous games, and even when he did, he was often not treated as a primary adversary due to other reasons.

"You could say that the state Chen Guangming exhibited prompted the vast majority of players stronger than him to not deliberately target him.

"Though many players might not see such performance as truly strong, there’s indeed an undeniable point: the ability to endure and survive long is itself a very rare skill.

"Especially in the unique environment of the Walkway."