Everyone lowered their heads and fell into deep thought.

What Wei Yinzhang said was not difficult to understand.

Although players would resent the Imitator as long as a death case occurred in the game, the degree of resentment varied depending on the specific situation.

If the Imitator directly limited the plot opening and archive release order from the level of game rules, it would be like they were trying to predetermine the outcome of the game.

All the resulting hatred would naturally focus on the Imitator who designed the Shelter Game.

And even if this hatred towards the Imitator expanded, it would only extend to other Imitators.

However, if Hidden Players were to decide everything, a large portion of the hatred would be shouldered by the Hidden Players.

And when this hatred expanded, it would spread to other communities.

The Imitator is using this method to shift the conflict.

Yang Yuting pondered: "But isn't such a situation also not absolute?

"The Imitator set extreme and cruel inter-harm rules, forcing players to kill each other within the rules. No matter how you look at it, the greatest blame is still on the Imitator.

"Most communities should be able to realize this point when reviewing the situation, right?"

Wei Yinzhang shook his head: "Not necessarily.

"There is still a 'degree' problem involved.

"That is to say, depending on the different game mechanisms, the degree of hatred players have for the 'Imitator' or 'other players' will vary.

"The harsher the game rules, the higher the hatred value towards the Imitator; conversely, the more lenient the game rules, the lower the hatred value towards the Imitator.

"But this change is not from one extreme to another. Instead, it dynamically changes and adjusts.

"You can think about it this way:

"If the Imitator left no way out in the game, then players would certainly only hate the Imitator, not other players;

"But what if the Imitator left a 10% chance of survival, and other players blocked this chance?

"Similarly, what if the Imitator left 20%, 30%, or 40% chance of survival?

"Although this probability is still not high, it objectively exists. At this point, players will naturally transfer some of their hatred from the Imitator to other players."

Xu Tong pondered: "But isn't the Shelter Game supposed to be a game with very few chances of survival?"

Wei Yinzhang considered for a moment and gently shook his head: "If you insist on saying that, although there are many death rules in this game and it is very dangerous, the death rate is not necessarily high if players work together.

"If Hidden Players are willing to give up some benefits and do not deliberately favor certain communities when purchasing plots and announcing Sinners' archives, allowing all Inner Court Players to equally share the risk of death, then the survival rate of all players will increase.

"It's just that the Gold Coins obtained from purchasing plots would be slightly less.

"In this way, Inner Court Players would not choose to fight Hidden Players to the death, and the risk of death for Hidden Players could also be reduced.

"Likewise, Inner Court Players could choose not to exploit the Audience by extreme means. If they sold a normal shelter for around 15 Gold Coins, the Audience could completely accept it.

"When you think about it, the mutual harm among Hidden Players, Inner Court Players, and the Audience, including the mutual harm between core and marginal players within a community, has reasons in game mechanics, but a large part is also due to players' greed.

"Suppose now we want to cooperate with players from another community, knowing that:

"Players from this community will only cooperate when the game mechanics fully support cooperation; any inducement towards betrayal in the game mechanics will lead to non-cooperation.

"In this situation, would we still cooperate with players from this community?

"Faced with similar coercion, bribes, and death threats, some communities give up instantly, while others may persist for a long time before giving up.

"Although the outcome is the same giving up, the duration of resistance can explain many issues.

"The Imitator in the Shelter Game wants to tell all players: cooperation and trust between communities are impossible, and as soon as the game rules tighten slightly, as soon as there's a non-vital benefit to tempt, other communities will betray instantly.

"To prove the Imitator wrong, one must firmly uphold one's values and resolutely resist the rules under tightened conditions.

"Unfortunately, from the situation in the Shelter Game, only our community achieved this point.

"And the behavior players exhibited in this game will affect the participants' judgment of the entire current Walkway ecosystem.

"The scale of this game is unprecedented, with 5 communities acting as Inner Court Players, 1 community as Hidden Players, and 30 members as the Audience.

"This means that this game involves at least 10 communities.

"I believe Officer Cao's method, though it increased the game's death rate, to some extent cracked the Imitator's 'heart-wrenching plot'.

"He told all players that regardless of changes in game rules, at least our Community 17 would still strive to maintain fairness and justice.

"If our Community 17 chose to cooperate with Community 12 and Community 15, dividing the Audience's Gold Coins, even if fewer players died normally during the game, surviving players would not feel fortunate.

"Because mutual trust between communities would have been thoroughly destroyed and irreparable.

Wei Yinzhang continued: "Moreover, this game is also damaging trust within the community.

"The 'Gold Coins' setting reshuffles the remaining visa time for all players, making the Gold Coins of the weak and strong have the same value.

"So for the Leaders of weaker communities, calculating against their own community's players yields the same benefits and is much easier.

"Just like Community 12 and Community 15.

"Their core players survived and returned with all the Gold Coins earned in the game, gaining considerable rewards.

"However, both Wang Weidong and Chen Guangming, intentionally or unintentionally, made other marginal players bear more risks in the game, leading to their deaths.

"Once they return to the community or enter the next game, will players from the same community still trust them?

"This will also have a huge impact on the community's ecosystem.

"Once trust is broken, many core players in the community may choose to use pressure and enforce strict orders to constrain members' behavior."

Wei Yinzhang paused slightly before concluding: "So, this game is not just about killing but also about destroying the heart.

"The events in the game can't be simply covered by saying 'it's the Imitator's fault'.

"From now on, each community will likely begin investigating the Imitators within their community, intensifying the conflict between players and Imitators.

"But the conflicts between communities and within communities will also significantly intensify.

"The result of this game may completely change some people's beliefs, leading them from 'cooperation' to 'confrontation', from 'trust' to 'suspicion'."

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