Lin Sizhi did not look up: "Mathematics-related."
Huang Shengjie was a bit surprised: "Mathematics-related? Isn’t the law major supposed to not require math? So Lawyer Lin, did you teach yourself advanced math?"
Lin Sizhi continued looking while saying: "The law major indeed doesn’t study math, but both legal statistics and judicial auditing do involve some knowledge of statistics and probability.
"The mathematics knowledge I am looking at is quite basic and doesn’t reach the level of advanced math.
"If you want to learn professional knowledge, actually directly consulting Wang Yan is a better approach."
Huang Shengjie nodded: "Hmm... indeed.
"I’d like to ask a question: If I want to improve my gaming skills as much as possible, what type of books should I prioritize? Do you have any recommendations?"
Lin Sizhi pondered for a moment: "I personally suggest that you familiarize yourself with some knowledge about probability."
Huang Shengjie was a bit surprised: "Probability? Why?
"Hmm... there are indeed many allocation games in the Walkway, and they involve a lot of mathematical knowledge. If you play these games well, you can typically earn excess returns.
"I understand this point.
"But... there are many other types of games in the Walkway too, right? Like judgment games, elimination games, selection games, and so on.
"From a death risk perspective, wouldn’t it be more worthwhile to find ways to improve survival rates in judgment games?"
Lin Sizhi slightly shook his head: "Improving survival rates in judgment and elimination games is difficult.
"Because once you are chosen in these types of games, they target your personality weaknesses. For ordinary players, overcoming personality weaknesses is almost impossible.
"As for the very few who can realize and overcome their personality weaknesses, they wouldn’t be troubled by this issue.
"And the advantage of mathematics and probability isn’t just that they’re useful for solving allocation games, but also a significant advantage is ’correcting intuition.’"
Huang Shengjie was startled: "Correcting intuition?"
Lin Sizhi nodded: "Yes, some people rely on intuition, but often, human intuition is very inaccurate.
"And in probability and math, there’s a lot of counter-intuitive knowledge, which can often help you make more rational decisions and even subtly change a person’s way of thinking.
"Of course, this is just my personal opinion."
Huang Shengjie quickly nodded: "Makes sense! Then I’ll go to the library and find some books on probability to read."
He seemed very motivated as he headed to the library.
Zhang Yan couldn’t help but sigh: "Huang Shengjie... is really quite interesting."
He had originally planned to go to the gym, but after breakfast, he needed to digest for a bit, so he slowly drank a cup of coffee by the window, just in time to overhear the conversation between Huang Shengjie and Lin Sizhi.
Lin Sizhi asked: "Which aspect do you mean?"
Zhang Yan explained: "I don’t know exactly how to put it; is it a sense of vitality? A youthful spirit? Or as young people call it, energy?
"In this ghostly place, it’s very easy for a person’s spirit to be worn down.
"The constant threat of possible death, the monotonous life day after day, and in some communities, there’s inevitably intrigue within small circles. All these wear down a person’s will.
"The longer the time, the more apparent it becomes.
"Sometimes I wonder if someone actually could live a long time in this haunted place, would their personality eventually become the same?
"Would they become pragmatic, indifferent, and dull, just as people’s spirits age in the real world, only here it happens many times faster.
"In the Community 16 I was in before, this kind of situation had appeared.
"But Huang Shengjie... he always seems to find new goals and goes for them full of vigor.
"I originally thought it was because he was a new player, just arriving here not long ago, so he could maintain such a mindset. But lately, I’ve come to think that it seems more like a certain trait?"
Lin Sizhi nodded: "Yes, Huang Shengjie indeed feels different, even among new members, this trait is quite prominent."
Zhang Yan sighed: "Hopefully, he can maintain that, whether for himself or for someone like me, who’s almost pickled in the Walkway, it might be a good thing."
He finished the last sip of coffee and got up to head to the gym.
...
Evening.
Lin Sizhi returned to his room, as usual, turned on the computer to check for new messages.
A new game invitation had already come, but before that, Lin Sizhi looked again at the conditions to achieve the ’Awakening Rules.’
[1. Design 1 S-Class or 2 A-Class games. (Achieved)]
[2. Maintain as a good faith faction. (Currently valid)]
[3. Kill 10 players (Achieved), including 1 high-value player (Not achieved), expose the true identity of 1 Imitator (Not achieved).]
[4. Spend an additional 100 million minutes of visa time. (Payable)]
No changes from before.
It couldn’t be helped because the easier conditions were already accomplished at the beginning, and what remained stuck were the two more difficult conditions.
They are respectively killing 1 high-value player and exposing the true identity of 1 Imitator.
Compare these two conditions, it’s hard to say which one is harder.
Exposing the Imitator’s identity largely depends on luck, because as long as the Imitator is cautious and doesn’t expose themselves, it’s difficult to catch them.
The so-called ’exposing’ obviously isn’t just thinking about it mentally, but it must be confirmed through some mechanism, or at least clearly and irrevocably identified in specific circumstances.
For Lin Sizhi, being able to catch an Imitator in the game is, of course, the best situation. If conditions don’t allow, he may also consider exposing the Imitator’s identity in other ways.
As for killing a high-value player, from the current situation, it also seems very challenging.
Take the situation targeting Chen Guangming as an example: there’s a world of difference in just a hair’s breadth.
Players recognized by the Walkway as high-value must be very smart; even in an extremely disadvantageous situation in the game, they will rack their brains to push others out as substitutes.
However, Lin Sizhi is not in a hurry; for him, the awakening rules are just a side mission, and there is no need to set a time limit for himself.
It would be counterproductive to disrupt his original pace just to achieve this goal.
Lin Sizhi then looked at the new game invitation.
[Hello, Lin Sizhi.]
[The theme of the next game is ’Strengthening Visa Time Redistribution’ and ’Community Opposition.’]
[Staying as close as possible to the style and theme of this stage will greatly improve the game’s rating and the likelihood of being selected.]
[This game will still not have a bidding stage, and all Imitators will have fair competition opportunities.]
[But please note: This game allows for the appearance of ’extremely special circumstances of death rules’ or more ’stringent visa time penalty rules.’]