Cai Zhiyuan explained, "If you could have realized this earlier, you could have produced 6 'Fertility Badges' in the first Judgement Room, which isn't difficult unless you choose not to seek audience assistance and insist on guessing by yourselves.

"In the second Judgement Room, you can produce 2 'Fertility Badges' and 1 'Female Badge.'

"In the third Judgement Room, you can produce 1 'Fertility Badge.'

"By the time you return to the initial location, even in the worst-case scenario where you received 30 '×' in consistency voting, you still have a 54% success rate.

"You only need to make one more 'Male Badge,' even if the probability is only 54%, you could attempt to forcibly create it.

"This mechanism is also a kind of metaphor. A metaphor about the matter of 'fertility' itself.

"If there is no fertility plan, it doesn't matter at all because you bear the consequences anyway.

"But if there is a fertility plan, then the sooner the better; the more you delay, the more problems there will be.

"The more inclined players are to create badges as soon as possible, the more likely they are to discover this mechanism in the first Judgement Room and adjust their game strategy afterwards.

"On the contrary, the more inclined players are to make Fertility Badges at the last minute, the more they hesitate and are easily influenced by social opinion and various complex factors, forcing them to endure more 'late childbearing' issues."

Yang Yuting said with some regret, "Yeah, how did we not realize this...

"I understand now, part of the reason lies in the gender distribution of Mechanism 1 and Mechanism 2.

"Because Jiang He bound Mechanism 1 to females and Mechanism 2 to males, it resulted in a mismatch of resources.

"There are more female players, but Chen Yumei and I were both worried about not being able to handle the heavy load of Mechanism 1, and Jiang He could only manage it once with her strength at most.

"On the male players' side, there were fewer of them. After using Mechanism 2 twice, Li Jiang was also terrified due to the severe pain.

"We all developed an aversion and resistance to the corresponding mechanism, subconsciously not wanting to use it a second time.

"If we instead let Li Jiang use Mechanism 1, being physically fit, he might have attempted to use it consecutively. In that case, we would have been more likely to discover this mechanism..."

Qin Yao said with some surprise, "In that case, was the initial 'kill them all' suggestion given by Lawyer Lin actually the simplest solution to this game?

"There are 3 questions in total, with two chances to seek help. Even if we only get 2 correct answers, by killing all the prisoners, we can get a total of 300,000 Fertility Fund.

"Even if it's just Li Jiang alone, he could choose to use the 15,000 option when using Mechanism 1 every time.

"Then the three female players can take turns using Mechanism 2, each 3 times, which would still leave a lot of surplus.

"And if we can get all three questions right, then there's even a chance for several completely safe attempts."

Li Renshu nodded: "Yes, actually, we, the audience, already realized this during the game.

"The 'kill them all' approach is the simplest and most straightforward way to clear the game.

"Aside from that, you can also choose to kill the two people in the first cell and punish all four in the subsequent ones, or kill the first four, and judge the last two as innocent.

"Going for total rescue is not very reliable because 'innocence' and 'punishment' both cost the Fertility Fund. If you only get 2 questions right, the margin for error is much lower than with the 'kill them all' method."

Yang Yuting felt defeated: "How did we completely miss that Lawyer Lin actually suggested the 'kill them all' approach! It doesn't fit your character at all!"

Lin Sizhi shrugged: "I must emphasize again, this suggestion was merely presented from an audience's perspective as the most feasible way to pass the game, and does not represent my professional ethics or personal true viewpoint.

"If I were playing this game myself, I would certainly use other methods.

"Don't let a game suggestion damage my reputation."

Yang Yuting asked again, "But how did Lawyer Lin think of this right as the game started?"

Lin Sizhi explained: "Mainly because of the information gap.

"The audience knows relevant information about 'consistency voting,' so they can deduce the imitator's design of the game based on this hidden rule.

"The Fertility Torture Device is set up with three different levels of severity, allowing a path through the game that involves fewer people but lowers the mechanism's difficulty by expending additional Fertility Fund.

"'Killing them all' wouldn't affect consistency voting, and it would yield extra Fertility Fund. It's most likely a stable path through the game.

"Of course, the imitator who designed this game also imposed restrictions on this strategy: They required the Judicial Council members to act personally, using a dagger to carry out execution decisions."

Yang Yuting still couldn't understand this issue: "Yeah, requiring us to personally carry out executions, what's the twisted pleasure in that?

"Wouldn't it be simpler to let a mechanism or instant death do it?"

Lin Sizhi explained: "It's considered a simple test, and to some extent, it influences 'consistency voting.'

"Making a decision for execution is a very serious matter.

"Mistakes are unavoidable, but at least the person making the first execution decision should stare into the eyes of the prisoner and take responsibility for their decision.

"In some Western literary works, the lord personally carries out executions and always meets the condemned prisoner's gaze. This rule is passed down from generation to generation within the lord's family.

"The first execution should be personally executed, to ensure a basic sense of reverence for the act of killing.

"If it were merely a matter of checking some boxes on a piece of paper or pressing a button to perform the execution, those with judgment power would quickly lose the reality of killing and be more likely to make less prudent judgments.

"Like how Jiang He decided to kill the first male prisoner who caused a wrongful death: if she had known she would have to do it herself, she likely wouldn't have made the execution decision."

Yang Yuting still didn't quite understand: "But why is this related to 'consistency voting'?"

Lin Sizhi continued, "Because 'Judgment Consistency' is more rigorous than the concept of 'Justice,' but it's not completely devoid of ambiguity.

"Just like in the 'King's Judgment,' where the King can change some of the audiences' perceptions by publicly announcing a prisoner's crime and associating it with the prison cell;

The 'Fertility Judgment' also has a similar mechanism, it's just that you have to do it yourself, not just talk about it.

"After making an execution decision, the Chief Judge's behavior will also affect the audience's impression of her.

"If she dares to carry out the decision personally and take responsibility for all its consequences, then a small portion of the audience might think more highly of her, which helps with 'consistency voting.'

"Conversely, if she doesn't dare to execute personally and shifts the responsibility to someone else, it becomes an added guilt. The double standard at the time of judgment becomes more apparent, and even her most biased supporters can't deceive themselves into voting favorably.

"Of course, this mechanism ultimately just tries to win over undecided votes, it doesn't affect those audiences with resolute convictions."

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