God's imitator

Chapter 144 The Game of Rules

According to the rules, the chaebol players can steal the button.

Of course, since each community can occupy a maximum of 2 sets of buttons, when Han Mengying took the 17th community button, their original set of buttons became empty.

Players in the 12th community naturally used their identity cards to claim their spots.

At this point, there are four sets of buttons. The fourth and twelfth communities each occupy two sets, while the seventeenth community has none and cannot claim any.

Han Mengying looked at Fan Zehui: "First of all, I apologize. I did mislead you, but I also want to say a few words in my own defense."

"The strategies I told you are indeed true and correct."

"You yourselves overlooked the details of the game's rules, so you can't blame anyone else. Our taking away the chaebol's identity is also entirely within the scope of the rules."

"Whether you consider it a deception or not is your prerogative."

"Now I will continue to tell you the optimal strategy to win this game, and you can think about it carefully."

"The strategy remains the same as I mentioned before: each of our two communities will occupy two sets of work buttons, invest in each other within the community, and cooperate to reap all the benefits."

"The earnings in each round of this game are capped. The maximum earnings from working are 12000, and the maximum earnings from investing are 130000. Once our two communities accumulate enough wealth, we can quickly reach our maximum earnings."

"As for the 17th community, let them fend for themselves."

"No matter what, it's always more cost-effective for two people to share a cake than for three people to share it, isn't it?"
"You'd better think about it quickly. We can also work with Community 17 to implement the same strategy."

After Han Mengying finished speaking, she gave Fan Zehui a meaningful smile.

Fan Zehui's eyes were filled with anger. After all, being tricked and losing his status as a tycoon was unacceptable to anyone.

But he didn't react immediately, after all, he had to succumb to reality.

After obtaining chaebol status, the fourth community can actually allocate job opportunities at will.

If Han Mengying wants to cooperate with Community 17, she only needs to give up two sets of work buttons for Community 17 to press.

第12社区顶多占住2组按钮，第17社区占住剩下的2组，韩梦莹再带着第4社区的财阀玩家把第12社区的按钮全都抢走。

You can even directly disable the 12th community's work button through the management office.

As a result, the 12th community ended up with nothing.

Fan Zehui wasn't just representing himself; he also had to consider the other three players.

Just then, Lin Sizhi's voice came.

"Are you trying to create a prisoner's dilemma between us? But unfortunately, the premise of the prisoner's dilemma is that prisoners cannot communicate with each other, and there is obviously no way to prevent players from communicating in this game."

Han Mengying turned around with interest and looked Lin Sizhi up and down: "Oh? So what if we can communicate? There are only 4 sets of buttons in total."

"We and the 8 players from Community 12 are enough to take all the buttons, and we don't need the participation of Community 17 at all to achieve the goal of total wealth."

"Mr. Lin, do you have any insightful opinions? I'm all ears."

Lin Sizhi stopped talking to Han Mengying and looked at Fan Zehui instead.

"Having already been fooled once, do you want to be fooled a second time?"

Lin Sizhi's question stung Fan Zehui, and he remained silent.

Han Mengying smiled and said, "They are no longer tycoons. As long as they are willing to remain ordinary people, they have nothing to lose."

Lin Sizhi sighed: "Fan Zehui, think it over carefully, do you really have nothing left to lose?"

"Can the wealthy community take away the visa time you've already gained? Let me tell you, if I were in Community 4 right now, what would I do:"
"In the beginning, I will work with you all to earn visa time."

"However, once I determine that the total wealth can reach 50 minutes before the end of the game, I will start to use various methods to increase taxes on the common people."

"Work tax, investment tax, inheritance tax, tax rates for all ordinary people have all been raised."

"Especially the 'inheritance tax': In the following games, each player will experience 2 to 3 more deaths. As long as the inheritance tax of ordinary people is raised to 100%, it can easily take away most of your wealth."

"In the end, even if the total wealth target of 50 minutes is achieved, the chaebol will take the lion's share."

"If you dare to resist, then turn around and cooperate with the 17th community."

"From a game mechanics perspective, this is entirely feasible. Do you think the 4th Community will do it?"

Fan Zehui paused for a moment, then fell into deep thought.

Han Mengying didn't immediately refute him because she knew that Lin Sizhi was right.

Regardless of whether she and Community 4 actually intend to do this, once they point out this possibility, they will be unable to regain the trust of Community 12, who have already deceived them once.

Han Mengying thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I won't refute this possibility for now."

"But Fan Zehui, you should also know that even if you are deceived by us, you will still get a little bit of leftovers in the end."

"You can retain as much wealth as possible by continuously investing in each other."

"But if you don't cooperate, we can go and cooperate with the 17th Community, and you won't even be able to get this leftover food."

"Do you think this Mr. Lin is genuinely concerned for you, or is he just trying to deceive you and then steal the opportunity to cooperate with us?"

Lin Sizhi said meaningfully, "Fan Zehui, do I look like someone who would steal leftovers?"

"The rules of this game are actually more like 'Dou Dizhu' (a popular Chinese card game)."

"The two communities with ordinary citizens are inherently weak, and they must unite to fight against the chaebol community."

"Two against one is the optimal solution in this game."

"Fan Zehui, if any of our communities abandons the other and plays with the conglomerates, there will only be one outcome: being completely exploited and having no chance of winning."

“We in Community 17 are definitely not short-sighted people, are you?”

Han Mengying's smile faded slightly, but she still shook her head slightly: "You make it sound so easy, but don't you think your cooperation, which is purely based on mutual trust, is very fragile?"
"No matter how much you two ordinary communities unite, you will never be able to snatch the tycoon status from us."

"We still control all the jobs and taxes."

Lin Sizhi nodded: "That's right, but ordinary players are not completely powerless to fight back."

"For example, we can choose to lie down and not cooperate."

"If we don't cooperate, you can only occupy a maximum of 2 sets of work buttons, and you will lose half of the work rewards every round."

"The loss of work income will greatly delay the time to reach the full investment income. Moreover, only one investment can occur between two players. Even in the most ideal situation, the four of you will not be able to reach the maximum investment income."

"This means that in 10 rounds of the game, you cannot achieve the total wealth target of 50 by relying on only one community."

“Starting from the 11th round of the game, if the 4 sets of buttons are not occupied by 8 players, the total wealth in each round will be reduced by 20%.”

"After ten rounds of visa time deductions, how much of the time you've accumulated will be left?"

　I'm begging for your monthly votes at midnight!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)