Zheng Jie thought for a moment: "In this way, it means that both the risk and the reward are increased.

"If the Hidden Players reveal the crimes of our community in the sixth round, then we will win directly, and everyone will survive; but if the Hidden Players reveal our crimes later, there will be greater risks."

Wang Yongxin, after serious consideration, said: "But relatively speaking, I think it is more likely that the Hidden Players will reveal Officer Cao's crimes in the sixth round.

"Actually, if the Hidden Players can give it full consideration and thoroughly simulate the various scenarios that might occur, they will realize that revealing the crimes of our community later will make us more troubled.

"But the issue remains: Lawyer Lin's strategy is effectively utilizing the brief window period to exceedingly compress the thinking time of the Hidden Players, so they are more likely to make instinctive reactions.

"Let's conduct a simple review from the perspective of the Hidden Players:

"First, from Walkway's screening rules, generally, the less intelligent and more extreme-minded a community is, the more likely they are to obtain a Hidden identity.

"From the actual performance of Community 11, they indeed did not exhibit much wisdom, relying on their advantageous identity to solely exploit Gold Coins, leaving no contingency plan for an 'all or nothing' situation for the Inner Court Players.

"Therefore, these Hidden Players are very unlikely able to consider every angle of an issue.

"Upon entering the second stage, they must immediately know they can decide the sequence of revealing the crime files.

"Then they would naturally reach a preliminary conclusion: targeting a specific Inner Court community means prioritizing revealing that community's files.

"During the preparation phase before the start of the second stage, Chen Peng's file was revealed, the voting was completed, and then Lawyer Lin spent 30 Gold Coins to expose the truth.

"At this time, the Hidden Players would realize that by the end of the game, they were as good as dead.

"At this point, they must quickly decide whose file to reveal in the sixth round.

"Due to the short thinking period and their internal despair and chaos, two kinds of thinking are more likely to dominate their minds:

"The first is an intense hatred towards our community, and due to the reasoning of 'target a community and reveal its files,' they reveal our community's crimes directly;

"The second is wanting to drag down all Inner Court Players with them and implicate as many players as possible, therefore directly revealing our crimes is still the logical choice.

"Because of the very limited thinking time, the probability of them making this decision remains high."

Li Renshu, after serious consideration, said: "But in this way, it's equivalent to eliminating all Hidden Players indiscriminately at the start of the second stage, leaving them no chance."

Lin Sizhi nodded: "Yes, I admit that it might seem a bit cruel, but the order of open land in the first stage already reflects the attitude of these Hidden Players.

"Especially since the fifth round game directly designated Community 12 as the Privileged Community, which already decided the future direction of the game.

"So, they can't be said to be entirely innocent either."

Everyone fell into silence.

This is a solution, but its implementation conditions are indeed harsh.

One must realize the trap of the Sinners' files during the pre-game rehearsal and be aware of the existence of the Hidden Players, seizing the brief window period to decide to eliminate them before the start of the sixth round.

Moreover, such a plan could lead to unexpected events, requiring strong on-site adaptability to handle the aftermath.

Otherwise, a single misstep could lead to severe consequences.

Yang Yuting was a bit shocked: "Indeed, this is a solution.

"But wouldn't this also fall into the Imitator's 'destroying trust' trap?

"Killing all the Hidden Players just because of a disagreement and using death to coerce all Inner Court Players, wouldn't this ruin the mutual trust among the communities?"

Lin Sizhi shook his head: "Actually, it's not that bad.

"Because from this method, not only one community benefits.

"The 'Audience' is also a beneficiary.

"First, once other communities realize there is no immunity chance, their behavior of inflating prices and exploiting the Audience's Gold Coins would be somewhat restrained.

"Having an immunity chance and not having one creates completely different human behavioral logics.

"Secondly, the number of plots inside far exceeds the number of Inner Court Players and the Audience.

"There are a total of 81 plots while there are only 30 people in the Audience; each having one shelter is sufficient.

"The inflation was due to the Inner Court Players uniting to restrict supply, artificially creating scarcity.

"As long as we release a few low-priced shelters each round, we can disrupt the actions of other communities.

"It doesn't matter whether they hate us or not, as the final vote is likely to be in our favor.

"Also, the Gold Coins from Hidden Players and from claiming the land will be equally distributed, so the Audience and Inner Court Players can receive some compensation before leaving.

"From the perspective of 'destroying trust,' 'cross-position community cooperation' is better than 'same-position community cooperation.'"

Wei Yinzhang nodded: "Yes, indeed."

'Same-position community cooperation', like the cooperation between Community 12 and Community 15, involves both as 'Inner Court Players' with shared benefits, so they collaborate to drain the Audience's Gold Coins.

This is also a form of cooperation, but it can't escape the Imitator's destruction of trust either.

Such cooperation is built on the game mechanics, and once the game mechanics no longer support it, cooperation will cease to be.

Only 'cross-position cooperation' can escape the Imitator's destruction of trust and maintain cooperation across communities.

For example, cooperation between 'Inner Court Players' and the 'Audience'.

The interests of Inner Court Players conflict with the Audience, but if a community chooses to uphold the benefits of the Audience, it exceeds the limitations of the game mechanics.

The next time, even without the game mechanics' support, the two communities might still forcefully achieve cooperation, finding an optimal solution acceptable to both.

This would mean the Imitator's attempts to use the mechanics to guide players to cooperate or harm each other would fail.

Zheng Jie felt regretful: "Ah, too bad we're too stupid, we did not think of this method."

Yang Yuting was also somewhat down: "I don't know if Officer Cao thought of this solution."

Cai Zhiyuan, after a moment of silence, said: "I think, even if Officer Cao thought of this possibility, he might not really consider using it.

"After all, people are different."

Everyone nodded in agreement with this statement.

Clearly, whether a strategy can be executed depends not only on whether the player can think of it in a short period but also on the player's character and behavioral habits.

Cao Haichuan most often chooses delayed action, solving problems with a balance approach, rarely taking major risks with proactive strategies, and seldom employing bluffs.

Moreover, as a policeman, it's hard to decisively kill Hidden Players without discrimination from the start.

Even if these Hidden Players showed certain tendencies during the first stage of the land claiming process.

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