God's imitator

Chapter 158 Group Three's Profits

The moment the game ended, Lin Sizhi realized that she had returned to the community lobby.

As Fu Chen began counting the number of players, the game's settlement data appeared on the big screen.

[The final visa processing times for Community 17 in "The Empire of Tycoons" are now being announced.]

[No. 1 Fu Chen: 61748]

[Jiang He No. 2: 132382]

[No. 3, Lee In-sook: 69854]

[Cao Haichuan, No. 4: 62466]

[No. 5 Cai Zhiyuan: 113690]

[Wang Yongxin, No. 6: 142834]

[Qin Yao #7: 105062]

[Zhou Guifen, No. 8: 96237]

[Xu Tong, No. 9: 134372]

[Zheng Jie, No. 10: 68937]

[Yang Yuting, No. 11: 127283]

[Lin Sizhi, No. 12: 117645]

According to community rules, 5% of a player's visa validity period exceeding 2 minutes will be contributed to the community support fund. Remaining visa validity will be counted towards each player's visa.

Upon seeing this series of numbers, many people instinctively gasped in surprise.

Although everyone had expectations for their own group's earnings, it was still quite shocking to see that other groups were also earning so much.

Community 17 achieved a resounding victory in this game, accumulating over 120 million visa hours.

Wang Yongxin was clearly very satisfied with his performance in the game. Before the announcement on the big screen was even finished, he had already roughly determined that he must be the person who earned the most visa time in the entire 17th community.

So, as was his habit, he went to the vending machine and got a cup of coffee.

Anyone want to grab a coffee together?

No one responded, and an eerie silence fell over the hall.

Wang Yongxin was somewhat surprised. He slowly sipped his coffee and turned to look at the others who had returned from the game.

Then he almost spat it out with a "poof".

Who is this auntie?

"Where's Luo Wei? Where is Luo Wei??"

Now Wang Yongxin understands why everyone fell silent after Fu Chen counted the number of people.

Because Lin Sizhi's group didn't bring Luo Wei back!

Instead, she brought back an aunt she had never met before.

Zhou Guifen introduced herself somewhat awkwardly: "Hello everyone, my name is Zhou Guifen, and I was originally from the 12th community."

Zheng Jie, Xu Tong, and Yang Yuting had met her before because they had participated in the "dating game," and they greeted each other.

Hello, Aunt Zhou.

But Wang Yongxin clearly couldn't accept this outcome. Such a great girl like Luo Wei, gone in just one game?
"You three dumped Luo Wei??" Wang Yongxin looked at Lin Sizhi and Cai Zhiyuan in shock.

Cai Zhiyuan shook his head: "Luo Wei chose to go to the 4th Community herself. We have already given her a chance, but she did not seize it."

"If you don't believe me, then Qin Yao can explain it during the debriefing later."

"Or you can spend your visa time to buy game records and see if what I said is true."

Wang Yongxin's expression was not good; his good mood, which had just come out of the game, was instantly ruined.

Since Tsai Chih-yuan dares to speak so confidently, it is highly likely to be true.

Qin Yao wasn't a cunning person, so it was impossible for her to lie without batting an eye as Cai Zhiyuan requested. Besides, the fact that she could buy individual players' game experience was easy to verify.

But this also means the problem is more serious:

If Luo Wei didn't want to leave, and Cai Zhiyuan used some underhanded tactics to kick her out along with Lin Sizhi and Qin Yao, then this action could very likely cause huge conflicts within the 17th Community.

After all, everyone had just reached a consensus not to kick anyone out before entering the game, so Cai Zhiyuan's actions were a blatant act of defiance. Wang Yongxin could also use this incident to slightly shake the power of this five-person core group.

So, Luo Wei's dismissal had some value for Wang Yongxin.

But now that Luo Wei is leaving on her own, Wang Yongxin has no way to make an issue of this, and he has also lost a potential candidate.

It goes without saying which side this new aunt, Zhou Guifen, will take.

This was the worst possible news for Wang Yongxin.

Fu Chen quickly said, "Alright, everyone has just come back from the game, you must be tired. Have something to eat and rest for a bit."

"In ten minutes, we will begin the recap of this game."

……

Because there were no casualties and all three groups received ample visa time, the atmosphere in the hall was very lively, and they were not severely affected by Luo Wei's incident.

To put it bluntly, Luo Wei has only been in the community for two days, and she doesn't seem to know people very well, so most people don't feel particularly close to her yet.

Moreover, after hearing from Cai Zhiyuan that she was voluntarily leaving, she was even less likely to have a good impression.

Soon, ten minutes passed, and everyone sat around the long table to review the game.

Lee In-sook looked around at everyone: "Which of our three groups should start the debriefing first?"
"Why don't we go first? After all, we're the group that earns the least visa time among the three groups. Consider this a starting point."

The others nodded in agreement.

The group consisting of Cao Haichuan, Li Renshu, Fu Chen, and Zheng Jie all had visa processing times of around 7, which suggests they used a standard strategy that most players could think of and apply.

Lee In-sook briefly explained: "After seeing the game rules, our first reaction was that this game is similar to 'Blood Poker,' with a way for the three communities to cooperate and share the profits equally."

"However, compared to 'Blood Poker,' this game has more complex rules and more variables, and a stronger sense of cooperating is required to stay together until the end of the game."

"We started the game as civilians by default, so we immediately formed an alliance with another civilian community."

"According to the rules of the game, the conglomerates have a great advantage. If one ordinary community abandons another and cooperates with the conglomerates, then both ordinary communities will definitely be devoured."

"The strategy adopted by our two working-class communities is to negotiate with the tycoon communities to distribute the total wealth in a 4:3:3 ratio."

Wang Yongxin frowned: "The financial community agreed?"

Lee In-sook nodded: "Yes, they agreed. But the condition is that no one can cover their identity tags, and our two civilian communities must always ensure that the wealth is equally distributed among the four people."

"In the two rounds before the elderly player dies, the property must be divided equally among the other three players, and no excessive amount of inheritance should be created."

"Because that could lead to ordinary people concentrating their wealth, posing a threat to the tycoons."

"Of course, conglomerates will also consciously concentrate their wealth on elderly and middle-aged players, with the middle-aged players reaping the main investment returns, while the elderly players mainly inherit the estate left by the previous elderly player upon their death, thus maintaining their wealth advantage."

Wang Yongxin looked slightly puzzled: "The level of this conglomerate community isn't very good. Given that the conglomerates have the advantage, we could try to reduce the ratio to 2:1:1."

"If the conglomerates are powerful enough, it's possible to do it."

Lee In-sook explained, "Yes, but the problem is that they are not assertive."

"According to the rules of the game, the one who initially obtains the identity of a conglomerate is most likely the weakest of the three communities."

"During negotiations, they don't understand the techniques of applying maximum pressure at all, nor do they calculate what percentage is worthwhile. They just feel that it would be good enough if they could get an extra 1% and obtain a stable income without losing their chaebol status."

"As for the other civilian community, although they also have ideas about taking over the tycoon community, we will keep an eye on each other."

"If either of the two civilian communities tries to pull any tricks, the other will expose them."

"When pressing the work button, we forcibly divided into pairs across communities to supervise each other."

"When the chaebols are at risk of being taken over, we will also advise them to proactively raise tax rates to prevent another ordinary community from successfully stealing their thunder."

"Moreover, Officer Cao also played a crucial role: he was very good at reading the other party's micro-expressions and had a natural air of authority, so even if the other party was planning some small actions, they dared not use them unless they were 100% sure of success."

"We maintained a fragile balance from beginning to end until the game was over."

"The theoretical maximum profit for this game after 20 rounds is over 1.8 million. If we take 30%, that's about 65000 per person."

Clearly, Cao Haichuan's group is facing a situation where there are two strong teams and one weak team.

The chaebol community is weak, while the two commoner communities are strong. However, there is no clear power imbalance between the two commoner communities, so the chaebol community dares not side with either side and is unable to control either side.

Although both ordinary communities also harbored ambitions to seize the status of the conglomerates, they were unable to succeed due to mutual checks and balances and sabotage.

(End of this chapter)