[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-god-s-imitator":3,"chapter-god-s-imitator-god-s-imitator-chapter-209":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","God's Imitator",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1794649,2392,"Chapter 209: The Suggestion in the Box","god-s-imitator-chapter-209",209,"\u003Cp>’Rabbit’ Han Mengying regretfully took back the card she had already placed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not bad. You understand to calculate the remaining cards in both hands. Not too stupid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your ’Fool Deck’ still has two rocks and one scissors remaining. Continuing to play cards is not a wise move.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Gray Wolf’ He Xiaojun felt somewhat deflated and said nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Rabbit’ Han Mengying nodded, \"In other words, you really do have a ’Fool Deck’, right? Thank you for the intelligence.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Gray Wolf’ He Xiaojun was stunned. He immediately felt somewhat annoyed. Obviously, the opponent originally wasn’t certain what his deck was, but his silent acknowledgment let the opponent confirm it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Xiaojun felt very frustrated. This clearly looked like a fair game, a luck-based game, yet he was still being beaten without any ability to fight back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neither side spoke again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 5 minutes passed quickly. After both sides destroyed their remaining cards, they exited the battle room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the first stage, one battle occurred every 5 minutes, with 5-minute rests after three battles, totaling 9 battles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The time was quite compact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, the deck Han Mengying obtained was a ’Sage Deck’, meaning 3 ‘Sage Cards’ (Paper), 1 Fool Card (Rock), 1 Thief Card (Scissors).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Han Mengying first played ’Thief Card (Scissors)’, winning against the opponent’s ’Sage Card (Paper)’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then played ’Sage Card (Paper)’, tying with the opponent’s ’Sage Card (Paper)’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally played ’Fool Card (Rock)’, winning against the opponent’s ’Thief Card (Scissors)’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterward, neither side continued playing and chose to each destroy their cards and leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After three battles, there was a 5-minute rest period.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One-third of the first stage’s total rounds had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Gray Wolf’ He Xiaojun counted his remaining chips. Only 7000 left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn, what’s going on! Isn’t this a game with positive expected returns?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the process of battling the previous three players, He Xiaojun conducted a total of 6 small rounds, 2 small rounds with each player.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The final result was more losses than wins. He only won 1 small round total but lost 5 small rounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was clearly a positive-sum game, yet He Xiaojun’s chips had lost 3000. This was simply unacceptable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What puzzled him most was the second round.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clearly held a ’Sage Deck’ and confidently placed a ’Sage Card (Paper)’, yet the opponent precisely played a ’Thief Card (Scissors)’, directly causing his mentality to somewhat explode.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why exactly?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Could all the players I’ve encountered know mind-reading?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Xiaojun realized he couldn’t continue like this, because to safely leave this game, he needed to earn at least an additional 20,000 or even 25,000 chips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the first three battles, the probability of losing was too high. This was very abnormal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant his understanding of this game was completely wrong. Continuing to play would only result in more losses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to find a way to make changes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although this game was called ’Fool’s Game’, the God’s Imitator who designed the game also said this game only welcomed ’wise fools’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the win rate was already abnormally low, yet still forcing himself to play, this couldn’t be considered wise by any measure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But what should I do? I can’t think of any strategy at all!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rest time was only 5 minutes. He Xiaojun was anxiously spinning in circles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Obviously, this game also had certain ’information gaps’ and ’tricks’, but ordinary players in such a fast-paced game process found it difficult to figure out exactly where the problem was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, He Xiaojun saw the conspicuous red box on the coffee table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The countdown still had over 40 minutes remaining. This meant it would only automatically open when reaching the second stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait, why is it a wooden box?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If they didn’t want players to open it, wouldn’t making it an iron box work?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Moreover, after damage the chips will disappear. This looks like a penalty rule, but there’s nothing else on the coffee table. No one would clumsily knock it off, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After the countdown ends there will be chips equal to 10% of visa time, but I don’t have much visa time to begin with. I don’t have to wait!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Opening it now, doesn’t that mean I can see what game advice the God’s Imitator gave before other players?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Xiaojun suddenly realized this box seemed to be encouraging fool players to open it early.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the less remaining visa time a player had, the less reward they would get from waiting for the countdown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Assuming a player had 200,000 visa time, waiting for the box to open naturally could get 20,000 chips. Moreover, the more visa time a player had, the smarter they were, naturally not needing to urgently see what the specific game advice was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Conversely, if a player only had 20,000 visa time, waiting for the box to open naturally could only get 2000 chips, not very significant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For them, the game advice was more important, and the earlier they obtained the advice the better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Xiaojun currently had no clue at all and desperately needed this advice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time was running short. He gritted his teeth, made up his mind, picked up the wooden box and threw it on the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This box was quite sturdy. He Xiaojun didn’t dare use too much force, so he didn’t smash it in one go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could only pick it up and throw it again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Xiaojun fumbled through the fragments and indeed found a small note.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The so-called ’game advice’ was just simple 8 characters, though there was also a line of small print annotation below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Abandon thinking, play cards randomly.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’(This advice mainly applies to the first stage.)’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked like an absurd suggestion, a bit like an April Fool’s joke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This... what kind of strategy is this!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Xiaojun was stunned. He even felt the God’s Imitator who designed this game was toying with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Haven’t I always been playing cards randomly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait, no, I don’t seem to be playing cards randomly...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Xiaojun was originally a bit dazed from losing consecutively, his brain in chaos, momentarily falling into a misunderstanding but the information on this note actually awakened him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought he had been casually selecting from five cards before, but actually not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, when battling ’Rabbit’, he played ’Fool Card (Rock)’ without much thought. This wasn’t a randomly chosen result, but rather he subconsciously wanted to keep the single scissors and paper to have more choices afterward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Rabbit’ precisely predicted this point, which is why she played paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, if He Xiaojun truly played cards randomly, he should take one rock, scissors, and paper each in his hand, randomly shuffle them, then play.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That way, the probability of losing, winning, and tying would each be 1\u002F3.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Should I accept this advice?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no time left. He Xiaojun picked up the new deck and entered the battle room again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He ultimately decided to accept this advice, abandon thinking, and play in as purely random a way as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, he didn’t have many other choices at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>",1176,"2026-06-09T04:22:33.919Z",1,"novelbin.me","3fcabadec380065aa7a90e42f2d41f3cf86d5b0361801a51d77a11fffb90afcb","god-s-imitator-chapter-210","god-s-imitator-chapter-208",597,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fgod-s-imitator-cover.jpg"]