God's Imitator-Chapter 487: An Unconventional Possibility

After considering, Cai Zhiyuan said, "The following is just a possibility, not a recommendation, nor does it represent my thoughts.

"Perhaps allowing ’outsiders’ into the five-member group is also a possibility.

"I certainly understand that, from a conventional standpoint, this is a basic political error.

"But given our community’s current situation, it might not be completely unworkable."

Cai Zhiyuan paused slightly and continued to explain, "The disadvantages of doing this are surely very clear to everyone, so I won’t elaborate.

"However, there are actually corresponding benefits to doing so.

"In the long run, our community’s ’indigenous people’ will surely gradually decrease, this is inevitable.

"According to community rules, selecting members will result in increasingly longer cooldown times, so the only way to quickly replenish community members is to recruit from other communities or even merge with them.

"From the outcome perspective, our community will eventually, like other communities, inevitably transform from an ’Indigenous Community’ into an ’Immigrant Community’.

"Balancing the relationship between indigenous people and immigrants is also a headache for us.

"Currently, Li Jiang and Yang Hui certainly won’t have too much unauthorized idealization about community power, even if their interests are compromised in the short term, they won’t have too many complaints.

"After all, they understand they are currently in a position dependent on others, and it always takes time to integrate. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

"But as immigrants gradually increase, a new core formed by ’external immigrants’ will inevitably appear.

"Actually, the most critical role of the ’five-member group’ is not to manage the community. There aren’t many affairs to handle within the community anyway; for these specific matters, one or two people could handle them.

"The truly essential role of the ’five-member group’ is to prevent the formation of a second core within the community, which would cause irreversible severe damage to the community’s ecosystem.

"When the core of the opposition within the community and our contradictions gradually become irreconcilable, we should try to absorb them as much as possible.

"This way, during the formation and threat emergence of a new opposition, although the community will experience some growing pains, stability and security can be maintained.

"If the core of the opposition within the community doesn’t have sharp contradictions with us for the time being, maintaining the status quo is a better option.

"This is a dynamic process.

"To put it more bluntly, among Yang Yuting, Li Jiang, and Yang Hui, who becomes the core of the opposition is what we most hope to see, and who becomes the core of the opposition is what we find most difficult to accept?

"From this perspective, including the ’most difficult to accept’ person can also be an option."

Lin Sizhi laughed, "So, our community also has to start considering the ’value of united fronts’?"

Cai Zhiyuan sighed, "This is also unavoidable; although inevitably uncomfortable things exist, the choices are often dilemmas.

"Of course, I think these choices don’t have a right or wrong; choosing either one will entail corresponding consequences.

"It just depends on which part we value more."

Li Renshu seriously contemplated for a moment, "If we have to choose one from the two ’outsiders’ Li Jiang and Yang Hui, then it must be Li Jiang.

"Because in terms of gameplay style, although Yang Hui also undertakes some leadership roles, many times, she can exist as an auxiliary position.

"And although Li Jiang might be slightly inferior to Yang Hui strategically, his initiative is strong, especially his impressive performance in the ’Fertility Judgment’.

"It can be said that Li Jiang may not be strong in strategy and scheming, but in ’taking responsibility’ and ’actively working’, he stands out.

"Assuming our community’s ’outsiders’ keep increasing and ’indigenous people’ hold the five-member group, if ’outsiders’ gather around Li Jiang, the situation could indeed be uncontrollable.

"Although currently, indigenous people overwhelmingly maintain dominance eventually sowing some hidden dangers.

"We will sooner or later have to accept the reality of ’an outsider entering the core’."

She looked at Wei Yinzhang, "Yinzhang, your situation with Aunt Zhou is special because you’ve integrated into the community so well, you’re not included in this."

Wei Yinzhang nodded, "Hmm, no need to explain much about this; I understand."

Here, the ’indigenous people’ discussed by Li Renshu and Cai Zhiyuan mainly refer to Li Jiang and Yang Hui, and subsequently, all other players coming to Community 17 from different communities.

Wei Yinzhang and Zhou Guifen’s situation is relatively unique; on the one hand, their connections to their original community are weak, they already have defined ecological niches after entering the community, plus they arrived at a time when community personnel changes weren’t frequent, which facilitated their successful integration.

Their situation can almost be considered as ’indigenous people’.

However, obviously, Li Jiang and Yang Hui are different cases, and subsequent players joining the community will likely continue the trend of Li Jiang and Yang Hui.

Examples like Wei Yinzhang and Zhou Guifen will probably no longer appear.

Based on basic political logic, it’s certainly necessary for Yang Yuting to enter the core.

This somewhat resembles ’seniority-driven’, but if this isn’t done, it equates to ’abolishing the old for the young’, causing confusion in community member selection logic.

Some might wonder, why shouldn’t Yang Yuting enter the five-member core, but instead an outsider should? What do we long-standing, hardworking members who contributed to the community count as?

But from the community’s overall perspective, perhaps there’s another explanation.

With Yang Yuting present, others in the ’opposition’ won’t have unauthorized aspirations, even if unfairly treated, they would always rank behind Yang Yuting.

If a new ’outsider’ emerges and forms a preliminary force, then Yang Yuting and Li Jiang entering the core becomes an entirely different scenario.

If Yang Yuting is in the core, then ’outsiders’ would consider themselves having no chance in Community 17, as the five-member core will always favor indigenous people, naturally leading them towards Li Jiang or others, gradually gathering.

But if Li Jiang joins the core, ’outsiders’ won’t be able to do anything.

Because the core of the opposition is Yang Yuting, even if subjected to unfair treatment, Yang Yuting herself hasn’t commented, so how can others complain?

Attempting to rally for mischief would ultimately face resistance from Yang Yuting.

And Li Jiang’s presence in the core serves as a flag, or a picture, showcasing Community 17’s acceptance and inclusivity towards outsiders.

There are corresponding benefits instead.

Of course, the key lies in how to have Yang Yuting harbor no grievances in not joining the five-member group, while accurately occupying the ’opposition core’ position and how to marginalize Li Jiang after his inclusion without being too overt.

In summary, letting Yang Yuting join is the straightforward and natural move but might introduce potential risks in the future.

Having Li Jiang join is contrary to norms and complicated, but if done well, it could more firmly stabilize the community’s ecosystem.

Wei Yinzhang leaned back into his chair and sighed, "I really envy others who don’t have to deal with these troublesome matters."