So I went straight to my room, away from any outside interference, to concentrate.
But, how can I create a plan that is detailed enough, but understandable by more than 20 people when I only have 10 minutes of preparation time.
If I take each person into account, my plan will be too long and incomprehensible.
So I have two choices:
The first one: Create a common plan for all and each person adapts according to his preferences and desires.
The second: Everyone does as they wish.
I don't really need to think about it for 10 minutes to understand which one seems to be the best.
In the first one, of course nothing will be perfect, but at least each person has the same basis on which to adapt afterwards.
And in the second one, it's the opposite, nobody will know what to do, which will result in some people having a fairly good training while others will have spent 6 months, doing nothing and wasting their time.
It is undeniable that the first plan seems to be the best, it just remains to know how to shape it.
[ 08/07/499 17 h 00 ]
'Knock Knock'
Alia - "Yù, are you ready? Everyone's waiting for you."
Me - "Yeah, I'm on my way."
It was when I joined her in the hallway that I realized that 20 people in one room made an incredible noise.
Alia - "Are you stressed?"
Me - "I've had better. But this will do, my plan should go off without a hitch."
Alia - "Yes, I have no doubt about it."
When we both arrived in the room that served as a living room.
The room gave me the impression that it was much smaller than usual.
I don't think it was due to the number of people in the room, but more due to the stress and apprehension that made the room feel really small.
Alia - "Here we go, you do the honors."
Me - "Well, I hope you all got to know each other a little bit in the short time you were given, because now and for the next 6 months you won't have enough time for this kind of childishness."
Shanlen - "OHH, hello, the atmosphere."
Me - "Ah, and especially in the future when I'm speaking, I'd like you to avoid making that kind of remark out loud."
Fortunately, I believe that the message went through rather well since nobody reacted after hearing that.
Me - "Anyway, before anything else, I have some information to give you about this war.
To begin with, I'm going to talk about the chip we have in our arm and all the restrictions they impose on us and I'm going to teach you, for the most part, that some of these rules are circumventable, primarily the one about instant death in case of aggression."
As expected when I told them all the specifics, some people didn't know anything and others seem to know everything.
Angelo - "Wait a second Yùichi. How can you know all this in only 7 days, and I imagine that you still have other subjects on which you are going to teach us things, right?"
Me - "I figured you would have questions like that. Well, to answer yours, I'll start by telling you that to know all this. I would never have managed to have so much information on my own. Of course I had managed to deduce some of it, like the one about the contract under certain conditions, but I would never have guessed the fact that some people could have several chips infiltrated in them. Although this information, as I told you before, is not 100% reliable. And then, yes I still have many revelations to make to you."
Well, after I've briefed them all on this chip and its drawbacks, it's time to move on to the new rules about war.
Me - "Speaking of revealing, this time I'm going to talk about the war and the potential new rules that are going to be put in place. After a long discussion with several people here, we have come up with a number of potential new rules equal to 5.
The first one, which seems pretty obvious: The 8 Great Patriarchs will participate in this war."
Nomiko - "How can you be sure?"
Me - "As I told you, all of my talk is based solely on guesswork and assumptions. So none of this is verifiable. But if I were to give you the reason for this rule, who would go and create a war going on all over the world without participating in it. It would be like starting a business, but self-policing as soon as it starts. It's totally ridiculous."
Nomiko - "Yes, but if they didn't say they were participating, then they had a good reason for not doing so."
Shanlen - "Exactly, so that idiots like you will fall for it and be convinced that they will spend the rest of their lives with their toes in the air on the banks of the Teto River."
Me - "Please Shanlen, don't provoke everyone, it would be nice. But in a way he's right, if you take away his useless insults, what he says is totally true. They didn't reveal it to make you think they won't."
Nomiko - "I'm willing to conceive that, but how do you manage to deduce it?"
Me - "I don't know any more than you do, for my part, this reasoning came naturally."
Shanlen - "Reverse psychology."
Nomiko - "How?"
Kana - "I think I know this. It seems to me that it's asking someone to do the opposite of what you think you want, so you get what you really want. Right?"
Shanlen - "In effect, yes. Basically, they want you to believe that they're not going to participate in this war so that you'll believe it and then they'll tell you that they will."
Nomiko - "Yes, but in this case, this reverse psychology doesn't make sense, because it's going to be a failure."
Shanlen - "If you think about it that way, of course, it'll all fail.
Me - "Now I understand. They want us to believe that they won't be there, so that we'll think there's a small chance of winning, and then at the last minute they'll come along and say the opposite, so that they can change people's minds and make all the people who weren't expecting it fall into despair.
Shanlen - "Exactly, that's the main purpose of reverse psychology when you miss it on purpose."
Selstine - "I think I understood everything Mr. Yùichi just said, but why would you want to plunge so many people into despair?"
Shanlen - "I'm sorry, but I'm not a psychic, so I can't answer that.
Me - "Anyway, that's a little digression. I will now tell you about the second potential rule that will be developed.
It may seem very hard to realize, but considering their technologies I think that when the war starts we will all be scattered all over the world. I don't have any idea yet how they're going to do it, but given the chip they've got in us and the map in our heads, I think doing this is well within their realm of possibilities.
Surprisingly, I was expecting several questions about this revelation, but hey, I'm not going to complain, the less they ask the less I have to talk.
Me - "This time the third one, you may think it's totally impossible is unfeasible, but I can bring you irrefutable proof that it's going to be announced in their second announcements."