Lin Sizhi paused slightly and continued explaining, "For example, Cell 1, with the the of being worked like cattle. Cai Zhiyuan could enter, Uncle Ding could enter, even Zhang Peng or Wang Yongxin could enter.
"No matter who enters, a corresponding explanation can be found.
"If Zhang Peng enters, it’s making the idle person start working. If Wang Yongxin enters, it’s making the big boss who earns money lying down experience the hardships of being worked like cattle.
"Similarly, Cell 2’s hanging from streetlights could hang Wang Yongxin or Gao Zhankui. Capitalists can be hung from streetlights, so why can’t the capitalist’s accomplices be hung too?
"Cell 3, anyone entering makes sense.
"Cell 4’s ’Silence is Golden’ could also have Zhang Peng enter, because Zhang Peng had been constantly instigating Uncle Ding before. Him going to Cell 4 would equally fit the ’Silence is Golden’ the.
"Cell 5’s ’Undeserved Disaster’ and Cell 6’s ’Heaven’s Will’ are like Cell 3, anyone entering could have a reasonable explanation found.
"The King could make relatively free arrangents. As long as while making arrangents, he loudly declares the reasonableness of doing so, there would always be so audience mbers who agree, and the justice score wouldn’t drop too much.
"Of course, the prerequisite is that the King has so eloquence.
"Moreover, even if the chanism for judging the King is triggered early, it’s not a big problem. Suppose Wang Yongxin is King. Even if he obviously favors Uncle Ding and Cai Zhiyuan, as long as these two don’t vote for execution, he’s safe."
Fu Chen fell into thought, "Hmm... seems right too."
Lin Sizhi continued, "Back to the previous topic. If Wang Yongxin were King, he might also enter a cell himself. Of course, this possibility is low, and he would only enter Cell 3.
"The King would earn a lot of visa ti in this ga, and Wang Yongxin himself has plenty of visa ti. If it’s just entering Cell 3 to deduct a little, he wouldn’t mind too much.
"As for Zhang Peng and Gao Zhankui, I don’t know much about these two, so it’s hard to make specific guesses.
"But from the ga chanism perspective, pure villains in this ga wouldn’t necessarily die.
"Suppose the King imdiately only throws two prisoners into cells, then tortures one of them to death for audience tips. The justice score would definitely quickly reach zero, triggering judgnt.
"But as long as the prisoner favored by the King doesn’t vote for execution, the King is safe.
"And there’s only one vote to judge the King. Once this vote passes, the King can do whatever he wants.
"Of course, the actual situation is much more complex than this. I’m just making a hypothesis within the ga chanism."
Cao Haichuan nodded, "Yes, so compared to these four people, what is Uncle Ding’s biggest disadvantage in this ga?
"I think it’s two words: conflicted.
"Uncle Ding is the most conflicted person among these five.
"So at different periods in this ga, he adopted many different standards.
"This led to him neither getting the highest justice score nor being hated by all the prisoners."
Cao Haichuan exhaled a puff of smoke and continued:
"Of course, if Uncle Ding could have known about the justice voting, everything might have been different. But unfortunately, the ga chanism’s limitations ant he had no chance to know."
Fu Chen frowned, "I wanted to say before, deliberately concealing the justice voting from the King is indeed sowhat unfair."
Lin Sizhi shook his head, "I actually think this chanism is very reasonable.
"Because the King is inherently the stronger party, almost holding absolute initiative on the field. If he knew the justice voting existed, he could unhesitatingly correct his behavior and remain invincible.
"The Gallery and God’s Imitators wouldn’t allow this situation to occur.
"Moreover, the justice voting chanism, like ’Farr’s Walk,’ has specific implications.
"In reality, every subject of the King also conducts justice voting for the King in their hearts, and the King never knows exactly how many points he has left.
"Just like that poem says: The water that capsizes boats is the people’s tears, but the ruler doesn’t know until the flood cos.
"The King never knows when judgnt will descend upon him, or even whether such judgnt is actually in progress. By the ti he sees the judgnt, everything is already too late.
"Moreover, what really determines the King’s life or death isn’t the audience, but the prisoners.
"Just like in reality, after subjects lose trust in the King, what ultimately decides whether the King will be pushed to the guillotine is often not the subjects, but the prisoners and slaves who have been persecuted most by the King.
"In short, precisely because this series of ga chanisms is very realistic and clever, it intensified Uncle Ding’s characteristics.
"The reason Uncle Ding was sowhat conflicted is because he had been holding back anger. He always felt this world was unfair and hated this unfairness.
"This itself isn’t problematic, but when he beca a beneficiary of this unfairness, he was more likely to make so extre decisions.
"Because he would think that using unfairness to repay unfairness is true fairness.
"Just like he questioned in the ga, ’Why should I?’
"Even with 18,000 minutes of visa ti, he refused to pay.
"This wasn’t entirely due to stinginess, but also his obsession with fairness driving him to make such irrational behavior."
Fu Chen looked thoughtful, "So the more soone cares about fairness, the more likely they are to fall into Cell 3’s trap...
"Then, did this ga’s designer guess Uncle Ding’s personality based on his occupation and profile, or... had he seen or known Uncle Ding before?
"What was his purpose in scheming to kill Uncle Ding?
"Personal vendetta? Or visa ti?"
Lin Sizhi thought for a mont, "If it’s harvesting visa ti, that makes complete sense too.
"Because this ga has an extre possibility: Uncle Ding kills all four prisoners, and at this point the justice score reaches zero, triggering the chanism for judging the King, defaulting to four execution votes.
"In that case, it would achieve a total annihilation ending. Whether it’s the visa ti the audience tipped Uncle Ding, or the remaining visa ti of Uncle Ding and the four prisoners, it would all be harvested.
"That would be a very staggering number."
Fu Chen was silent for a mont, then asked, "By the way, which community did Uncle Ding play ’Blood Poker’ with before? I rember it was Community 1?"
Lin Sizhi said nothing more, and all three fell silent.
Cao Haichuan extinguished his cigarette butt, "The reasoning has gone far enough. Without finding more evidence, continuing to think deeper might be counterproductive.
"Besides, these are all pure speculation. We might just be fighting with thin air.
"What if this designer really didn’t think so much? What if these really are all coincidences? That possibility isn’t impossible either.
"Just consider what I said nonsense.
"It’s getting late, let’s go back and rest."
...
Lin Sizhi returned to his room, washed up, and opened his computer.
No new ssages.
This ant that at least within the next three days, the Gallery shouldn’t open again.
He opened the ’King’s Judgnt’ ga rules again to review.
This was the second S-rated ga to appear in the Gallery, while previously even ’Blood Poker,’ which was the only one selected among all God’s Imitator proposals, was only A-rated.
Originally Lin Sizhi speculated that perhaps the Gallery gave each God’s Imitator different profiles. Without knowing Zhang Peng and Gao Zhankui’s cris, he hadn’t designed the most fitting ga.
While the God’s Imitator who designed ’King’s Judgnt’ had Zhang Peng and Gao Zhankui in the three revealed profiles, so designed a more harsh ga.
But judging from the ’King’s Judgnt’ situation, this God’s Imitator also didn’t seem particularly certain about what Zhang Peng and Gao Zhankui’s cris actually were.
’Silence is Golden’ seed to be guessed from Gao Zhankui’s station manager identity, since this position would find it hard not to instigate delivery workers. ’Undeserved Disaster’ was more like a catch-all, any mistake could fit in.
Zhang Peng and Gao Zhankui’s cris weren’t particularly serious. Even knowing them in advance and improving his design, Lin Sizhi might not have been selected.
So Lin Sizhi ultimately still needed to figure out this key question: why did the Gallery finally choose ’King’s Judgnt’ instead of the ga he designed?
From the ga content perspective, Lin Sizhi’s designed ga ’Life and Death Straight Line’ also considered thes like algorithmic exploitation and also guessed that these five people were very likely involved in the sa case.
So the core difference shouldn’t be here.
Lin Sizhi thought of two possibilities.
The first possibility was that his designed ga wasn’t dangerous enough. Although called ’Life and Death Straight Line,’ this ga actually had a very low death probability.
This was because Lin Sizhi sincerely believed that Ding Wenqiang, Cai Zhiyuan, and Wang Yongxin’s cris didn’t warrant death and shouldn’t face judgnt gas with such high death probability.
The forcibly designed ga only barely matched their cris, so naturally could only be a low death rate ga.
The ’King’s Judgnt’ designer’s biggest advantage over Lin Sizhi was that he wasn’t constrained by these five players’ specific cris and didn’t care at all whether this ga would result in very tragic casualties.
According to ’King’s Judgnt’ rules, situations like "all five annihilated" or "only one person surviving" were possible.
The second possibility was that his designed ga lacked sufficient targeting.
Because it was a multiplayer ga, Lin Sizhi didn’t target any specific player in the ga chanism like he had previously targeted Wei Xinjian.
Looking at ’King’s Judgnt’ in contrast, besides having extrely strong targeting of Ding Wenqiang, the design of several cells was also very clever in catering to the Gallery:
At first glance they perfectly matched everyone’s cris, but careful consideration revealed there was actually great ambiguous space, not an absolute one-to-one correspondence.
This could also be seen as so kind of better "test-taking technique."
Lin Sizhi wasn’t quite sure which specific reason it was. Of course, it might be both.
He looked at the King’s Judgnt related rules, falling into contemplation.
"Perhaps for the Gallery, from the beginning it didn’t care whether the ga’s punishnt severity strictly matched the criminals’ cris.
"Ding Wenqiang had already received appropriate punishnt from the law, and Cai Zhiyuan had no legal errors whatsoever.
"But the Gallery still pulled them into cruel judgnt gas.
"According to the rules’ description, the Gallery’s significance is ’purging and judgnt,’ that is, purging waste and judging sinners.
"The Gallery’s so-called sinners don’t simply refer to legal criminals, but are closer to the concept of ’original sin,’ related to human nature’s weaknesses.
"Judgnt gas can not only judge players’ existing cris but can also use entrapnt to trigger players’ original sins in human nature and impose tragic punishnts.
"Under these circumstances, the Gallery would still give high evaluations.
"In gas, those who can’t see through ga rules, have original sins triggered, can’t break through human nature’s weaknesses, would all be considered by the Gallery as unworthy of surviving in the New World.
"For players, they must achieve any one of these three points to possibly survive judgnt gas.
"For the Gallery, as long as God’s Imitators’ submitted gas satisfy any one of these three conditions, they might pass review. Satisfying all three might earn an S rating.
"As for whether players die or not, whether it’s unjust or not, whether it’s fair or not, whether the designer has selfish motives... none of these are within the Gallery’s consideration."
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