God's Imitator

As one of the core members of Community 2, Ye Lin was quite quick to grasp the game’s rules.

Although Huang Shengjie hadn’t fully figured things out yet, the best choice at that moment was to seize the last few minutes before the game started to have a preliminary discussion with Ye Lin.

After all, as the Audience, they collectively held two opportunities to assist the Sinners, and had to align their game strategies immediately.

Ye Lin seemed to have a rather clear idea: "I’m considering whether to immediately send a message to Wen Wan, advising her to ’plead guilty early’.

This slightly surprised Huang Shengjie because he hadn’t thought of that yet.

However, Huang Shengjie had a good understanding and had seriously considered the rule details, so he quickly grasped the trick.

"Sister Ye Lin, are you suggesting...

"Because the ’Second Judgment’ uses the same vote pattern as the ’First Judgment’, the earlier one pleads guilty, and the more proactive the confession, the lighter the crime appears in the Audience’s subjective judgment?

"Optimistically speaking, if one can be directly judged as innocent during the ’First Judgment’, everyone wins; even if not, as long as there are fewer ’Guilty Votes’, then fewer ’Sympathy Votes’ will be needed during the ’Second Judgment’.

"In either case, it will reduce the difficulty of the game."

Ye Lin nodded: "Yes, that’s exactly what I mean."

The reason Huang Shengjie quickly realized this was because the ’Judgment Rules’ of this game were somewhat strange.

In other games, it’s often straight to voting after exposing the Sinner’s crimes, and if guilty votes are over half, it’s an immediate death, making the process very simple.

But in this game, the judgment is divided into two.

Upon ’Crime Exposure’, the Sinner immediately undergoes the ’First Judgment’, and even if there isn’t an Immunity Coupon, one can use the ’Advance Immunity Coupon’ to escape death.

In other words, no Sinner will die at this step.

But before the game ends, there’s the ’Second Judgment’, which does not involve a new vote but directly reuses the ’First Judgment’ vote pattern.

Sinner players can strive for ’Sympathy Votes’ to offset the number of ’Guilty Votes’ and change the judgment result.

It’s only when there aren’t enough ’Sympathy Votes’ that the Sinner player is certainly doomed.

Thus, ’actively choosing the best time to expose the crime and ensure an optimal first judgment vote pattern’ becomes a natural game strategy.

From past gaming experiences, if the Sinner’s crime is relatively minor, the earlier the exposure, the better.

This is because judgment games often set traps based on the Sinner’s crimes, and as the game progresses, the Sinner’s true nature tends to be revealed, the ’Guilty Votes’ are bound to increase.

And at the start of the game, if a Sinner can proactively plead guilty, they are, to a certain extent, in control of the narrative of their crime, potentially beautifying their actions using the Spring and Autumn Annals Style to gain a better vote pattern.

Ye Lin continued to add: "Of course, this method isn’t foolproof, there are still concerns.

"Firstly, Wen Wan’s own crime can’t be too severe, or it becomes a ’self-inflicted trap’.

"Secondly, one must cautiously consider the possibility of ’successfully hiding the crime number throughout the game’, if that can be achieved, then there’s no need to expose one’s crime.

"But I judge, it’s highly probable this number cannot be hidden.

"Deciding to hide out of a fluke mind, once the crime is ’exposed at the wrong time’, it can lead to a worse situation.

"Additionally, the rules clearly state: The first player to expose their crime can become the Director of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and lead the production phase.

This is obviously a ’privileged identity’.

"Although the privileged identity likely contains another pitfall, it often has a greater degree of freedom and authority to better control one’s destiny.

"While falling into a trap yourself with a privileged identity is bad, letting the wrong person get the privileged identity and fall into a trap could be worse."

After quickly considering, Huang Shengjie said: "I think, let Wen Wan decide for herself based on her crime.

"We can only send five words; we can’t fully explain it to her. Using ’Broadcast’ would convey this information to everyone, and that certainly won’t work.

"Let Wen Wan judge based on her crime.

"Hide if the crime is heavy, confess early if it’s light."

Ye Lin thought for a moment: "Send it now?"

Huang Shengjie nodded in agreement: "Yes, send it immediately.

"Because this suggestion will be sent to Wen Wan’s rest room, once the game officially starts, she’ll have to wait until she returns to the rest room to see it.

"Moreover, she may not understand our meaning right away, it requires some thinking.

"Delaying might have worse effects.

"Also, we have one more broadcast opportunity.

"Use ’suggestion’ to gain the initiative, use ’broadcast’ as a backup, I think it’s viable."

With not much time left, Ye Lin quickly made up her mind, approached the console, and swiftly input four words: ’Light crime confess early’.

According to game rules, a suggestion can have a maximum of 5 words, but each word costs 2000 minutes of visa time.

For Ye Lin, these four words were sufficient to convey her intent; adding another word wouldn’t provide much more information.

After a brief consideration, Ye Lin pressed the ’send’ button.

...

Meanwhile, in the rest room, Wen Wan was earnestly contemplating the game rules.

"In summary, there are just two core gameplay mechanics, right?

"One is ’Guess the Number’, and the other is ’Produce Medicine’.

"But the detailed rules for producing medicine will only be visible once the game officially starts, so the key is Guess the Number.

"Guessing others’ numbers can expose their crimes; protecting my number so others can’t guess it will keep me from judgment.

"So, how exactly do I guess?

"I can see that Liang Guicheng’s crime number is ’XX67’, and I can see Zeng Yiming’s crime: providing customers with unwashed plates.

"That is to say, we can roughly estimate these numbers’ ranges from the crimes? Then keep attempting to fill in the numbers.

"If the number guessed is correct, it would be confirmed; if it’s wrong, it should eliminate one wrong answer, right?

"But each digit can be from 0 to 9, which are 10 numbers in total, yet only 5 guesses are allowed, which is quite challenging.

"Perhaps sharing information is possible?

"Since I can get two pieces of information, ’the last two digits of Liang Guicheng’ and ’Zeng Yiming’s crime’, surely others can get 2 pieces of information too.

"Piecing it together can significantly reduce the number of guesses needed.

"Assuming others share Liang Guicheng’s crime with me, perhaps the approximate range of his number’s first digit can be determined; thus, the required attempts will then be fewer...

"Conversely, to ensure my safety, I need to find players who know my crime, establish a good relationship with them, and ensure they don’t reveal it to others."