God's imitator

Chapter 153 Expired Investment Coupons

The game continues, reaching round 16.

[Current total wealth: 1285000 minutes of visa time].

Since there's no need to consider allocation ratios, ordinary players get all the work rewards and most of the investment returns. Although they didn't reach the theoretically perfect limit, they were pretty close.

Total wealth is growing very rapidly.

In addition, the visa time of over 10 yuan that Qin Yao, Cai Zhiyuan, and Zhou Guifen "conjured" from an unknown place has long been included in their total wealth.

Although the total wealth is growing, the assets of Han Mengying and Qi Fan, the two players who control the majority of the wealth in the conglomerate, have been completely wiped out.

Because the management office has imposed a 100% inheritance tax on the chaebol players, even if they transfer some of their assets through investment, they cannot transfer too much.

The other two players, due to the unique age structure of their conglomerates, were still alive and thus retained their original wealth.

One of them is Sun De, who is now "elderly" and has more than 11 visa days remaining. He entered the management team in the 13th and 14th rounds and received the estate tax when Han Mengying died.

The other player is a "middle-aged" player with over 4 days remaining on their visa.

This "middle-aged" player is the fourth person in the conglomerate community besides Han Mengying, Qi Fan, and Sun De, and is the most unique in terms of age structure: he has no peers.

Initially, this special identity belonged to Fan Zehui, but after the change of the chaebol family, it was transferred to him.

He had just completed his rebirth when Qin Yao and others seized control of the management team at the start of the 11th round, leaving his legacy to Han Mengying.

Therefore, starting from the 11th round, the commoner paid all the taxes levied on the tycoons, and his wealth value remained at 0.

This situation took a turn for the better in the 15th round: because he had no peers, he would inevitably enter the management team once he reached middle age or old age, so he successfully reaped Qi Fan's inheritance tax.

At this time, there was only one middle-aged player and one elderly player, Lin Sizhi, in the management team, so he got half, about 4.

As for Sun De, he was only just entering old age, so he had not yet been taxed on his estate.

Although other ordinary players also wanted to take away his visa time, unfortunately, it was impossible under this game mechanism; they could only wait for him to die.

Of course, there is also a special rule in this game, which is leaving the country.

Once your wealth exceeds 10, you can choose to leave the country and are no longer subject to any of the rules of the game.

But Lin Sizhi certainly wouldn't let Sun De take advantage of such a loophole, so he had long ago increased the departure tax of the tycoon players to 100%.

Therefore, Sun De was unable to leave the country and could do nothing but wait.

The composition of wealth for ordinary players is much more complex.

Cai Zhiyuan, Qin Yao, and Zhou Guifen were the direct beneficiaries of the strategy. By the 10th round, they had already accumulated more than 8 visa hours and had been in management for a long time, so they also received a lot of tax revenue.

The three of them also consciously transferred wealth to Lin Sizhi through investments and other means.

Furthermore, these four individuals forcefully seized the majority of the profits from work and investments.

Not only do the four players invest in each other, but they also require other ordinary players to invest in them and share the profits equally.

Therefore, at this time, these four people have the highest wealth, ranging from 19 to 23.

As for the other four ordinary players, Fan Zehui, Zhou Rong, Luo Wei, and He Ming, each of them has a wealth value of around 5 visa time.

They didn't dare to complain. Lin Sizhi wasn't going to pursue their previous betrayal, which was already a great favor. How could they possibly try to steal the profits?

Although everyone is an ordinary citizen, no one dares to challenge Lin Sizhi's authority within the rules of the game, because no one dares to gamble on whether Lin Sizhi has any other tricks up his sleeve.

If Lin Sizhi chooses to change his identity as a financial magnate or cooperate with the 4th Community, they won't even be able to keep this little bit of wealth.

Moreover, Lin Sizhi also promised these four people that the investment returns from the last four rounds would be fully enjoyed by them, which is a considerable sum of money.

Now, the final four rounds of the game are about to begin, and Fan Zehui and others are hoping to maximize their investment returns across these four rounds.

……

As for Han Mengying, she had given up hope, but she was still unwilling to give up and recalled all the rules in her mind, comparing them one by one, and racking her brains.

She still wanted to know how the 10 yuan that appeared out of nowhere came about. In fact, she had already vaguely realized that it could only be a problem with the 'expired investment vouchers'.

Even with this in mind, there are still too many doubts surrounding the entire plan.

Finally, Han Mengying figured out most of the details, as well as the most crucial part of the plan.

"Making Zhou Guifen the accountant... was also part of this plan!"

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This plan has to start with the rules of investment.

Players must reap the rewards of their investment after two rounds of gameplay; otherwise, they will suffer serious losses.

Therefore, almost all players will frequently check the time of each investment voucher and collect their investment returns at the appropriate time.

We will also try our best to avoid clashing with other players' investment schedules.

Occasionally, I'll find expired coupons, and it always hurts so much that I feel heartbroken.

The only way to get back 2000 is at the start of the next round.

However, this rule also contains a word trap.

The investment voucher will become a "redeem voucher" after it expires, and can only be used to redeem 2000 minutes of visa time.

Because this voucher has become a redemption voucher, and visa time is obtained through redemption, it is not an investment return and is not subject to investment rules.

It can exceed the investment return limit for each round of the game, has no limit on the number of exchanges, and, more importantly, is not subject to the 'investment tax'.

During the fourth round of the game, the three communities reached a preliminary agreement on the distribution ratio of the total wealth.

From that time onwards, Lin Sizhi and Cai Zhiyuan had already begun to lay out and plan.

Simply put, it involves squeezing as much visa time as possible from reliable players, buying investment vouchers, and letting them expire.

These expired investment certificates were all hidden away, with the intention of recalling them all at once at the right time and taking over management.

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However, when Han Mengying thought of this, she didn't suddenly understand; instead, she had even more doubts.

"Hiding investment bonds seems like a good strategy, but the problem is, won't doing so cause various anomalies in the data?"

"Total wealth will decrease, and the wealth ratio among the three communities will become unbalanced."

"For every investment voucher hidden, 1000 minutes of visa processing time will be lost."

"If only the 17th community holds investment bonds in Tibet, then the total wealth of the 17th community will always be lower than that of the 12th community."

"But this kind of abnormal situation has never occurred before. The total wealth of Community 17 and Community 12 has always been about the same."

"Then there is only one explanation: the 12th community was also hiding together, which is why the wealth distribution between the two civilian communities was not unbalanced."

"The problem is that, judging from everyone's reactions, Fan Zehui, Zhou Rong, He Ming, and Luo Wei are clearly unaware of this plan."

"If this plan is leaked, it will fail completely. Lin Sizhi will definitely not tell all the civilians, but only a few trustworthy people."

“Cai Zhiyuan, Qin Yao, and... Zhou Guifen!”

"So... Zhou Guifen was involved in this plan from the very beginning?"
"The premise that Zhou Guifen could hide so many vouchers without being discovered by Fan Zehui was that she became the 'finance officer'."

"So... Cai Zhiyuan's offer to make Lin Sizhi the accountant was actually a ploy to elect Zhou Guifen?"

Han Mengying had no idea that it was also a trap.

This also means that Lin Sizhi and Cai Zhiyuan started their planning even earlier than the fourth round.

(End of this chapter)