God's Imitator-Chapter 417: Game Core Election

Zheng Jie was a bit surprised, "Huh? Discuss it now?"

"We only have 10 people left, shouldn’t we recruit two new players to make it twelve before making a decision?"

Li Renshu shook her head, "I don’t think it’s necessary. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

"New players don’t understand our community’s ecology and specific situation, nor have they truly collaborated with the ’game core’ candidate players in the game, so their votes surely wouldn’t be comprehensive or objective enough.

"Including these two votes might lead to erroneous interference with the results.

"But if we recruit them and don’t let the two new players vote, it would clearly be unreasonable, and we haven’t confirmed the specific recruitment plan yet either.

"So, we might as well decide the game core before recruiting.

"What does everyone think?"

Wang Yongxin nodded first, "Yes, I agree."

Other players either nodded or stayed silent.

Obviously, the community players didn’t reach a unanimous opinion on this issue, but overall, more players supported Li Renshu.

’One person, one vote in the community’ is the most fundamental rule of the community, and it’s a rule recognized by all players; ’Deprivation of voting rights’ should never happen.

But the situation is somewhat special at this moment.

Among the 10 players present, most of them didn’t want the two new players to come in and disrupt this voting result with random votes.

Li Renshu continued, "Our current game core is Lawyer Lin and Brother Wang. As for the third core, the original plan was to choose from Cai Zhiyuan, Yang Yuting, and Wei Yinzhang.

"Yinzhang clearly stated from the beginning that if a suitable person couldn’t be found, she might consider temporarily taking the role. However, from the current perspective, Cai Zhiyuan and Yang Yuting have both performed well, so Yinzhang won’t participate in this vote, is that okay?"

Wei Yinzhang nodded, "Hmm, that’s best."

Actually, even if she participated normally, nobody would probably vote for her, as she didn’t enter any of the three games.

But the procedure still needs to be followed.

Li Renshu continued, "So this time, the main choice is between Cai Zhiyuan and Yang Yuting.

"Primarily based on their performances in the three games following the ’Shelter Game’, namely ’Simple Q&A’, ’Self-Selected Game’, and ’Lifting Game’.

"To ensure fairness as much as possible, here’s what I’m thinking:

"Firstly, as the host, I won’t make any biased comments.

"Secondly, each player will have 5 minutes to give a speech summarizing their performance and canvass for votes.

"Finally, everyone will have a free discussion, but I will steer the topics as much as possible, limiting speaking time to avoid repetitive content.

"If a topic drags on too long, I’ll interrupt and steer toward a new topic.

"After the discussion ends, everyone will take two days to consider, and then we’ll formally confirm the third game core through voting.

"Then, we’ll formally adjust the ’game recruitment’ and its related permissions in the proposal.

"What does everyone think?"

Everyone nodded collectively; the process seemed quite formal and posed no major issues.

Of course, as the host, Li Renshu might steer the conversation at times, but this issue can’t be avoided; as long as there’s a host, it exists.

By comparison, most players fairly recognize Li Renshu’s justice degree.

But Cai Zhiyuan thought for a moment and suggested, "I prefer to cancel the free discussion segment for everyone.

"The intention is not to restrict everyone’s freedom of speech, but rather because open discussions might preemptively influence some players.

"Yang Yuting and I have exhibited enough, whether in previous game performances or in upcoming canvassing, which should suffice for everyone to make a judgment.

"But if an open discussion occurs, even if supporting players of both sides alternate discussions, it can vastly influence undecided players due to differences in wording, rhetoric, or expressions.

Zheng Jie paused, "But wouldn’t people still discuss privately?"

Cai Zhiyuan nodded, "Yes, but private discussions don’t matter.

"Even if some players want to sway indecisive players, it’s one-on-one in private, unlike open scenarios impacting everyone, hence the influence is relatively smaller.

"Moreover, both sides can canvass votes privately, so it’s still fair."

Li Renshu thought for a moment, "Both open and private discussions have corresponding issues, no perfect solution exists, so let’s follow the stakeholders’ opinions.

"Yuting, what do you think? If you agree, we’ll proceed with this method."

Yang Yuting looked at Cai Zhiyuan, "Yes, I agree; I also think private discussions suffice."

Li Renshu nodded, "Okay, then we won’t set up a free discussion segment this time."

This point slightly surprised some players as such situations were relatively rare before.

However, Cai Zhiyuan’s suggestion does hold certain reason.

Many people glanced at Wang Yongxin instinctively.

In open discussions, Wang Yongxin would surely stand decisively on Yang Yuting’s side, and as one of the current game cores, his words carry weight.

Lin Sizhi probably wouldn’t express a clear stance, and Li Renshu, as the host, can’t directly support Cai Zhiyuan openly for fairness’s sake.

Thus, Cai Zhiyuan seemed prone to disadvantage here, making his intent to cancel the open discussion segment perfectly understandable.

Wang Yongxin also felt somewhat regrettable because some words fit well in an open forum, but not in a private setting.

If he blatantly approached other players privately to canvass votes for Yang Yuting, it’d seem too deliberate and obvious.

Therefore, Cai Zhiyuan’s method effectively curtails his influence.

But since it was agreed upon by everyone, Wang Yongxin couldn’t insist further.

Li Renshu looked at Cai Zhiyuan and Yang Yuting, "Who wants to go first?"

Cai Zhiyuan looked at Yang Yuting, "Ladies first?"

Yang Yuting shook her head, "No, you go ahead. I haven’t quite thought out my wording yet."

Cai Zhiyuan didn’t insist further, "Okay, I’ll go first, my content is quite simple.

"My performances in ’Simple Q&A’ and ’Self-Selected Game’, I believe everyone has witnessed, and it’s enough to show that I possess abilities not inferior to the other game cores.

"Especially in terms of accumulating visa time.

"Even if everyone doesn’t select me as the game core, I’ll still strive to help everyone earn more visa time in similar games, since it concerns the collective interest of all of us."