Cai Zhiyuan explained: "'You are performing a role' and 'You are just performing a role' express completely different meanings.

"If it's 'You are just performing a role,' then it suggests that one should not be overly absorbed in the role.

"Whereas 'You are performing a role' does not have this implication.

"I believe this phrase emphasizes the 'role-playing' itself, suggesting 'you should perform the role you ideally want to become,' encouraging players to achieve 'perfect performance.'

After the group had digested this a bit, Cai Zhiyuan continued:

"What is perfect performance?

"From the standpoint of an ordinary worker, what should a good CEO be like?

"They must meet the basic requirements of a real-world CEO, managing the company well and avoiding bankruptcy during an economic winter while also surpassing the common unscrupulous boss by understanding subordinates and taking on social responsibilities.

"That is perfect performance.

"If, as a worker, you are dissatisfied with the boss's actions of salary cuts and layoffs, and after becoming a boss yourself, you make the exact same choices, then that's not perfect performance at all; it's just poor imitation.

"This is the same as in the 'King's Judgment': after the role switch, can you still maintain the fairness you originally believed in? This is a critical issue to think through in the judgment game.

"As for the second hint, you realized it eventually; it's the decoration in the corridor.

"The number of unemployed people in the decoration is directly related to the number of layoffs in both companies.

"The Imitator who designed this game worried that you wouldn't realize the role of virtual employees, so they concretized 'unemployed employees,' vividly displaying their miserable life through the corridor.

"You should have realized this earlier."

At this moment, Lin Sizhi, who had been pondering the rules, asked: "Analyzing it this way, the focus of the game isn't actually market research?

"Even without any understanding of market research, it doesn't affect the game's completion.

"As long as both companies win one round each, they can both secure a stable income of 50,000."

Qin Yao agreed: "Yes, so what's the point of market research then?"

Cai Zhiyuan considered for a moment and replied:

"While it is indeed optimal for the two companies to cooperate, and this time there was indeed no betrayal, it's not absolute.

"Because the company that goes bankrupt later will definitely win, such cooperation is unstable. Reaching an agreement and adhering to it is also part of the test.

"If one party tears up the agreement, the game's direction could become completely different.

"If mutual trust cannot be achieved, then market research is still needed to determine the winner.

"Moreover, I think these market research questions are also a kind of hint.

"Did you notice that the market research questions are highly related to economics and people's livelihoods and involve very grounded data in reality?

"Many questions require you to directly estimate prices, numbers, or the profits of grassroots workers.

"This itself is a hint: economics, markets, livelihoods, ultimately boil down to people.

"The market is supported by individual people; the economy is revitalized by individual people.

"So, to end the economic winter, it must also relate to specific people.

"You are the players and do not belong to this game, so who are the 'specific people' in this game? It can only be those virtual employees you overlooked.

"From the name, 'Wealth Game' has two meanings.

"One is to expand sources of wealth, whether by completing market research or cooperating with the other company to share profits equally, both are considered successes;

"The other is to run the company properly, control costs, and find the correct way to lay off staff.

"But the correct way to lay off staff is definitely not to simply cut all employees at once."

Wang Yongxin reminded: "But in this game, most of the rules related to virtual employees are hidden rules, including the specific mechanism of virtual employee reporting data."

Cai Zhiyuan nodded: "Indeed, they are hidden rules. But as long as you stand from the perspective of a worker, or from the position of 'most beneficial to society,' even if you don't conduct any tests, you can achieve the best solution in the game through instinctive adjustments of employee structures."

Everyone looked towards the big screen.

At this point, they saw all the rules in the game, including those hidden rules.

[Rules for employee-initiated data reports:]

[1. During market research activities, virtual employees may report data, ranging from 0 to 6 entries.]

[2. The number of data reported by employees is positively related to the number of employees and the total salary of employees. When the number of employees reaches 30, the probability defaults to the highest.]

[3. Data pop-up windows will preferentially appear on high-salary employees.]

[4. When there is a lack of high-salary employees in the company, low-salary employees who have worked for more than three months will play an equivalent role.]

Li Renshu thoughtfully said: "So, the best solution should be:

"Fire all the high-salary employees, replace them all with low-salary employees from the market, and fill up 30 positions.

"Then reduce everyone's salary by 30% and maintain it that way."

Xu Tong was somewhat disapproving: "But shouldn't high-salary employees be more capable? How can low-salary employees have equivalent roles in just three months?"

Cai Zhiyuan countered: "Then what are your senior executives doing?

"Isn't it one of the senior executives' jobs to train low-salary employees and fully harness their abilities?"

Wang Yongxin also disagreed: "Wait a minute, if the high-salary employees are laid off, aren't you worried that their post-layoff situation will be dire? Isn't there a need to consider social responsibility at this time?"

Cai Zhiyuan explained: "If the goal is to survive the economic winter, which group, high-salary employees or low-salary employees, has stronger risk resistance after losing their job?

"If considering it from a worker's perspective, should layoffs prioritize cutting grassroots workers with monthly salaries of 3,000 or high-salary executives with monthly incomes of a million?

"Which offers greater help for social stability: hiring one executive with a monthly income of a million or 300 workers with monthly salaries of 3,000?

"Of course, in reality, many executives are very competent and indispensable to a company. But in this game, the players are the real executives."

Xu Tong's expression grew more disheartened.

In the game, due to the persistent inability to reach consensus, Xu Tong ultimately couldn't verify the exact relationship between employees and the frequency of data reports.

They only roughly confirmed that the higher the total salary, the more data there is.

And now seeing the rules, they realized that each rule could indeed find a correspondence in reality.

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