God's Imitator

Lin Sizhi sat on the sofa in the room, looking at the current player list of the second community, lost in thought.

Lu Bingjun said he would try his best to ensure Lin Sizhi, Yao Yuan, Qin Cheng, and Wen Wan become the management in the game, forming a "Five-member Group" with himself, controlling most of the affairs.

At first glance, these words don’t seem to provide particularly valuable information; more like pure fantasy.

But actually, it contains quite a bit of content.

If Lu Bingjun’s words were sincere, then from this list, you can see his true die-hard supporters and his understanding of the division of power structure within the community.

Originally, Deng Xiao might have been on this list, but Deng Xiao is dead after all.

Yao Yuan has always played a role similar to a strategist and is the player Lu Bingjun trusts and relies on the most. Being on this list is natural.

Among outsiders, Lu Bingjun chose to win over Lin Sizhi and Qin Cheng, sharing power with them.

The original structure of the second community was nine old players and five new players, so, it is necessary to choose at least one person from the new players to join the management and share power; otherwise, the new players will automatically band together, inevitably causing the community to split.

Originally, Lu Bingjun was clearly more inclined toward Qin Cheng, but now he also realizes he cannot ignore the presence of Lin Sizhi.

In the circumstances where neither of these two players can be abandoned, including them in the management becomes a forced choice.

Judging from previous meeting situations, Geng Yuxia, He Qinyun, and Zheng Chunhua are more inclined toward Ye Lin, which, according to Lu Bingjun, are targets that need suppression.

Zhou Wanlin is a person with little sense of presence.

So, the "Five-member Group" envisioned by Lu Bingjun is actually an eventual management team once the second community enters a stable state.

This way, new players banding together can be avoided, while turning it around to use the new players without much foundation to suppress the old players on Ye Lin’s side.

However, one thing is noteworthy: Wen Wan is also on this list.

From the current situation in the community, Wen Wan is not a strong enough player.

In politics and games, she hasn’t shown any particularly outstanding ability temporarily.

The only somewhat noticeable place is her role as the community’s "steward," mainly responsible for chores like community dining.

However, clearly, such tasks can be performed well casually by anyone, and this job seems more like Lu Bingjun forcibly appointing her, to give her some sense of presence.

Is she a connected person, or is there another arrangement?

Or was this position originally reserved for Deng Xiao, and after Deng’s death, Lu Bingjun was forced to pass it on to Wen Wan based on seniority?

Among the remaining old players, do they all truly support Ye Lin, without any two-faced persons or undercover agents placed in advance by Lu Bingjun?

These questions are evidently not something that can be figured out in just a few days, after all, Lin Sizhi is merely a new player in this community, needing to gather a lot of information little by little.

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The afternoon of the next day.

Everyone gathered again in the hall.

Lu Bingjun glanced around at everyone: "Today, we still need to finalize the recruitment of new members.

"Currently, two recruitment methods are available.

"We may consider directly limiting gender, age, and profession, selecting a new player to join the community;

"Or we may consider, during the next game, poaching a player from another community.

"I think the two methods essentially don’t differ much, since the gap between players is too vast, even when filtering based on specific standards, satisfaction isn’t guaranteed.

"Ultimately, no matter how we choose, it hinges on luck.

"Although this matter is of grave importance, everyone’s opinion must still be respected, and we must discuss and decide collectively.

"Yao Yuan, tell everyone about the plan you’ve considered, then everyone can speak in turn to see if there are any better supplements."

Yao Yuan nodded: "Okay, Brother Lu.

"Currently, the professional composition of our community is rather healthy, and diversity is also fairly good.

"In terms of special professions, we have doctors, lawyers, teachers, mechanical engineers;

"Viewed by wealth composition, from individual entrepreneurs to salary earners to the affluent class are all complete;

"The age structure and gender structure are also quite reasonable.

"So, there is no particularly urgent profession that needs to be supplemented, just having a male player is sufficient.

"The directions I can think of are roughly these:

"The first is a civil servant."

Wen Wan was a bit surprised: "Civil servants? Isn’t there perhaps no need?

"The community is such a small place, seemingly not much complex public affairs need dedicated handling. Regarding submitting proposals and the like, we have plenty of people to do it.

"Not to mention Brother Lu, who has been doing well and is a senior executive of a company, with ample experience in this aspect.

"Even excluding Brother Lu, Yao Yuan, you were originally a small supervisor in the company, Qinyun is a product manager, Sister Wanlin is an administrative manager, all of you can handle these affairs, is there a need to recruit a civil servant?"

Yao Yuan explained: "Being able to do and being excellent at doing are slightly different.

"Sure, in the community, anyone pulled out could complete fundamental work like drafting and submitting proposals, which seem technically straightforward.

"However, political ability is also a special skill, when solving an issue within the community, two people might give seemingly identical yet fundamentally different proposals, and the implementation of differing proposals might profoundly impact the community ecology.

"Although currently, Brother Lu is doing well, yet is somewhat stretched.

"If someone could share this workload, it would not only prevent mistakes but also allow Brother Lu to focus more on the game.

"As for myself, I am quite aware of my shortcomings in this aspect.

"My political ability is only decent among average people, far from top-notch.

"If the screening target is set as civil servant, we might find players with high political sensitivity, providing more assistance in decision-making for community internal construction."

Wen Wan nodded with partial understanding, saying nothing further.

Yao Yuan paused briefly, then continued: "The second considered direction is professions highly related to mathematics, like actuaries, mathematicians, algorithm engineers.

"Although there are many players with a science background in our community, like Uncle Zheng and Shen Bowen, but after all, skills are specialized, and truly at particularly detailed areas, the situation of cross-field challenges inevitably arises.

"Players skilled at calculation often perform better in allocation games, garnering more gains for us.

"The third considered direction is players with physical advantages like police officers, soldiers, athletes, or similar.

"This was also Deng Xiao’s original role in our community.

"Although from the current situation, physically demanding games are scarcely present, and games involving force are nearly nonexistent, from the perspective of maintaining community diversity, such roles are indispensable.

"Of course, I’ve considered other varied professions, but considering our community’s current state, I believe these three are most worth considering first."