God's Imitator

Zhou Wanlin specifically reminded Geng Yuxia to conduct completely random checks instead of carrying them out in a fixed order, meaning not to check like 1, 3, 5, 7.

So Geng Yuxia honestly complied, selecting materials number 2, 7, and 8.

She didn’t find any contraband.

This made Geng Yuxia feel slightly disappointed because she suspected that there must be one or two items of contraband among them; she was just unlucky.

But conducting ’over-scrutiny’ for a few potential contraband items is not cost-effective behavior, so Geng Yuxia did not take further action.

The cart containing 10 materials was automatically sent to the temporary storage area, and the male player from Community 23 limped away from the Review Room.

Geng Yuxia felt a bit complicated, it seemed the game’s screening mechanism was indeed absurd, screening out all the weak ones in the community.

She initially thought that Community 2’s situation was already bad, but didn’t expect the opposite party’s situation to be even worse.

Anyway, in the initial round of rookie pecking order, Community 2 should have the advantage.

Before this male player left, Geng Yuxia took one last look at his name badge.

[Community 23 - Peng Xinyuan].

...

When He Qinyun pushed the materials back to the cell, Yao Yuan had already come out of the medical room.

"How was it?" He Qinyun asked.

Yao Yuan shook his head: "No contraband was thrown in throughout the process, so there wasn’t much gain.

"However, a male player named Li Mao from Community 23 also entered the medical room.

"I tried to chat with him and gathered some information about Community 23.

"Community 23 is an extremely high-pressure and centralized community, this might be our breakthrough to win the game.

"Of course, the authenticity of this information still needs further verification."

Yao Yuan glanced at the countdown in the cell, the time for the first round of game was about to finish.

Next comes 30 minutes of ’Production and Rest Time’, devices outside the prison will stop running, but production within the prison can continue as usual.

Before this, Yao Yuan and He Qinyun had repeatedly confirmed how to use the machine.

The machine automatically converts materials into products, producing quickly, even considering a large quantity of materials being transported in secretly, there wouldn’t be any backlog.

Products are automatically sold, and the bill outlet next to the machine automatically dispenses Gold Pounds.

The sale price of non-contraband products is 1200 Gold Pounds, contraband products sell for 3600 Gold Pounds.

He Qinyun pushed the cart into a specific area, the outermost packaging added for the steam train was removed, revealing the original packaging labeled ’Food Category’ or ’Miscellaneous Category’, and slowly transported to the machine via the conveyor belt.

Upon the removal of packaging, He Qinyun confirmed that among the 27 materials, successfully mixed in 4 contraband items labeled ’Miscellaneous Category’.

Until the second round of the game begins, the type of contraband will not change.

"Looks like the outside progress is pretty good, this material quantity should be quite a lot, right?

"The opposing side will likely be quite aggressive in the first round of scrutiny, transporting four contraband items in this situation is pretty good.

"Once we get this batch of Gold Pounds, we can ’break out’ of prison.

"Should we send someone to support them outside?"

Yao Yuan shook his head: "No rush, we can think about it during rest time.

"Two people staying in the cell can cooperate, receiving contraband from two channels simultaneously.

"I can only enter the medical room once, next time it’ll be your turn.

"Moreover, 10,000 Gold Pounds equals 20,000 minutes of visa time, this is not a small amount, we can’t spend it too recklessly."

He Qinyun nodded, saying nothing more.

But after a moment of thought, Yao Yuan said, "However, there is something that I’ve always found a bit strange.

"It’s about the location of Li Mao’s injury."

He Qinyun paused: "Where?"

Yao Yuan pointed to the inside of his left arm: "This place.

"We should have both intentionally injured ourselves to enter the medical room, but using this spot to bump into the machine’s corner is not very convenient, right?"

...

After leaving the review room, Zhou Wanlin returned to the control panel of the mini train with cheerful little steps, she was in a good mood.

The choices made by the opposing examiner were largely within her expectations, so this time was fairly smooth.

Although one contraband item was detected, the remaining four contraband items were successfully sent in without being discovered.

This was undoubtedly the result of Zhou Wanlin using a special strategy.

Aside from what Geng Yuxia could think of, there were actually some derived strategies.

For instance, the order of checking materials.

There is an important rule:

[Throughout the process, loading and unloading will be strictly according to the ’cargo box numbers from small to large’. The order during loading is completely consistent with the order during scrutiny.]

Assuming Zhou Wanlin sets materials of ’Food Category’, ’Medicine Category’, and ’Miscellaneous Category’ in a ratio of 1:2:3, the equipment will strictly follow this order and ratio.

Which means 1 item from ’Food Category’, 2 items from ’Medicine Category’, 3 items from ’Miscellaneous Category’, then 1 item from ’Food Category’... and so on until all 28 materials are loaded.

If Zhou Wanlin didn’t manually adjust the position, then these materials will pass the security machine in this order.

The examiner can make predictions based on this, guessing the general ratio, and conduct multiple checks at ’key positions’.

Wu Xiufang, the examiner from Community 23, conducted 10 checks in total, clearly trying to capture this pattern.

She first passed the first three materials, and then pressed ’Check’ three times in quick succession.

This was because Wu Xiufang judged that Zhou Wanlin likely wouldn’t dare to transport all contrabands, but adopt a specific pattern and lower the proportion of contraband.

Therefore, whether the ratio is 2:1:1, 2:2:1, 3:2:1, or similar, this scrutiny approach could catch it.

After three checks failed, Wu Xiufang guessed there were two possibilities: either the proportion of contraband is very low, or Zhou Wanlin deliberately concentrated the contraband at the end.

So Wu Xiufang chose to conduct checks in the middle, and performed three consecutive checks at the end.

But Zhou Wanlin obviously anticipated this potentiality, she only inserted five contraband items and manually adjusted their positions, putting one at the front and randomly dispersing others in the middle.

Thus allowing four contraband items to luckily escape Wu Xiufang’s checks, with only one being detected.

The reason Zhou Wanlin instructed Geng Yuxia to conduct totally random checks and avoid checking in a fixed order was also due to concerns that a specific sequence might just happen to miss all contraband.

...

Finally, the first round of the game ended.

Zhou Wanlin noticed the control panel of the mini train was completely locked, with a message on it.

[Rest and Production Time, all equipment outside the prison has stopped operation.]

Meanwhile, her work badge slightly vibrated, showing a line of notification.

[Worker players, please stop all game activities, or else a violation will be triggered.]