God's imitator

Chapter 260 The Benefits of Security

"Okay, I'll put up signs for all the shelters at 16 gold coins right now."

"Hopefully enough viewers will buy it..."

Fan Zehui quickly completed the listing, but according to the game rules, even if the audience had already bid for the shelter, the gold coins would not be settled until the free trading phase of the next round of the game.

Chen Guangming continued to say to Fan Zehui, "I know that as a new member, it is difficult for me to have absolute say, so I must perform well enough in this game so that you can get enough benefits."

"After that, I only need two shelters with a 50% probability. The other shelters can be freely allocated among the four of you."

"I can assure you of two things:
"First, my crime is price gouging, but I have ways to make this crime ineffective and not punish you as well."

"Secondly, at the appropriate time, I will join forces with other communities to raise the price, ensuring that we sell the shelter at the highest possible price and make a profit."

“I am taking on more risks than you are taking, so you must trust me.”

Fan Zehui nodded: "Of course."

A shelter with a 50% chance of survival is more susceptible to luck when it comes to avoiding death. Even if you prepare two shelters, there is still a 25% chance of dying, which is far less worthwhile than the 90% chance of survival with a normal shelter.

Chen Guangming's behavior demonstrates his willingness to take as many risks as possible.

The other four players, including Fan Zehui, can hold and list more low-quality shelters. With three low-quality shelters, their chance of survival increases to 87.5%, and with four low-quality shelters, it increases to 93.75%, which is obviously safer.

Moreover, when a substandard shelter is sold, the viewers' gold coins will go to the seller first, which means that Chen Guangming is willing to give them the lion's share of the gold coin revenue.

But at that moment, another player hesitated and said, "But... wouldn't owning multiple shelters at the same time be a crime?"

Upon hearing this, Fan Zehui's face showed a hesitant expression.

Chen Guangming, however, didn't seem to care: "Of course, it could be a crime."

"If you are afraid of this risk, you can have me sell them all."

“But in that case, I would have to distribute all the gold coin profits, and I would have to take at least 80% of them.”

It's fair to take on as much risk as you get rewarded.

Fan Zehui and the other players looked at each other.

Clearly, this is a simple trade-off.

Occupying too many shelters may indeed be a crime, but if you want to earn gold coins, this behavior is unavoidable.

Having more shelters also has its advantages, because they are all shelters with a 50% probability of being built, and keeping only two may not be enough to reliably offset the instant death penalty.

In addition, according to Chen Guangming, the more a behavior can extract coins from the audience, the more likely it is to gain support from the game mechanics.

Therefore, even if "occupying too many shelters" is a crime, it will likely be made public later, by which time they may have already sold the shelters they occupied.

Thinking of this, Fan Zehui nodded: "You're right. If you're at a disadvantage and leave it to fate, and you're at an advantage but still hesitate and worry, then when will you ever win?"

"I'll take the risk!"

After hesitating for a moment, the other three players also decided to join.

Like Fan Zehui, they had lost too many times in the game because they were hesitant and afraid to take risks. They didn't even earn much visa time in allocation games.

This time, they decided to seize the opportunity.

Rather than die in the community because your visa expires, it's better to make a big profit in one go.

Chen Guangming continued, "If we can gain enough benefits from this game, then when we return to the community, you must give me a lot of say and completely follow my command in the following games."

Clearly, Chen Guangming's actions weren't purely out of goodwill, but rather a desire for influence. He wanted to use these actions to gain the support of Fan Zehui and others, and then, as a new player, naturally become a core player and even the leader of the 12th community.

Fan Zehui and the others nodded: "No problem, that's only natural."

“Our community has always lacked a leader. As long as you can help us get our visas approved, we’ll do whatever you say!”

……

Meanwhile, the players in Community 7 were all sitting there listlessly, no longer discussing strategies.

They had a heated argument earlier, but now they had lost their fighting spirit.

Upon seeing Lee In-sook arrive, Kim Seong looked up and said, "It's no use for us to need a shelter now. You can keep it yourselves."

Lee In-sook paused for a moment and said, "I know you are in a difficult situation right now, but it's not time to completely lose hope yet."

"Although there is no longer any chance of escaping death, your community's crimes have been made public, and there will be no more punishment that directly implicates the entire community. There is still hope of leaving the game safely."

"My advice is that you should now minimize all your actions to reduce the probability of being implicated in 'similar crimes'."

"Our previous cooperation remains valid: during the 'final vote,' as long as the three of us unite to vote for other communities, there will be no problem."

Jin Cheng nodded absentmindedly: "Okay, I understand."

Lee In-sook said nothing more and turned to leave.

She could only try her best to stimulate Jin Cheng's will to survive and use some security strategies to ensure that both sides continued to cooperate on the issue of the "final vote," but there was really nothing else she could do.

……

Not long after, a player from Community 15 also arrived at the A1 3x3 grid rest area where Community 7 was located.

"Hello, I am Feng Bo from the 15th community."

“We, the 15th community, would like to establish a partnership with you.”

Jin Cheng looked up at Feng Bo, his eyes revealing distrust.

Clearly, she didn't have a good impression of the players in Community 15, especially their leader, Wang Weidong.

Moreover, Jin Cheng has already reached a preliminary cooperation with Community 17. Although the purchase of the shelter did not succeed, Community 17 is much more benevolent to her than Community 15.

Feng Bo sighed: "I apologize on behalf of Wang Weidong, but that's how the game is played, and we just did what most communities would do."

"There are no eternal friends or eternal enemies, only eternal interests, aren't they?"
"I have come here with sincerity, and I hope you will listen to what I have to say before making a decision."

Jin Cheng lowered his head and considered for a moment before asking, "How do you plan to cooperate?"

Feng Bo said quite frankly, "Although our two communities are in different situations now, we have a common goal: to earn as many coins as possible from the audience."

"Take our community for example, we are mentally prepared: everyone has withdrawn all their gold coins and will try to earn as many as possible."

"Even if our community is reduced to just one person, he can still take all the gold coins from everyone and all the gold coins he has earned back with him."

"Of course, if they all die, then there's nothing to say, we'll accept it."

"It is precisely because of this spirit that our Community 15 has become the community with the most total visa processing time."

At this point, Feng Bo leaned down slightly and said earnestly, "It is indeed a pity that you have lost a comrade, but if you don't bring back the visa information, wouldn't his death have been in vain?"

(End of this chapter)