God's imitator

Chapter 299 Running a Black Market
After a moment's consideration, Qian Li asked, "Would you like to prioritize the '13-person room'?"

The "8-person room" can only accommodate a maximum of 3 free players, and any two communities can cooperate to have 4 free players, which is theoretically more than enough. There is no need to ask the free players of the first community to help reserve a spot.

Therefore, cooperation can only be done in the '13-person room'.

Xu Zhao nodded: "Yes, we will choose the '13-person room'."

After considering it carefully for a moment, Qian Li said, "Okay, but I have two conditions."

"The first condition is that you give us the '4-person room'."

"The second condition is that your own free agents should enter the room last, so that our two free agents from our community can enter first if possible."

"That is, to ensure that the two free people in our community do not lose their status because the room is full of free people."

For the players in Community 1, without a front-row number or a contracted ally, it's impossible for them to take over the '8-person room' and '13-person room'. The two free agents will inevitably end up in someone else's territory.

Since there's no real difference between entering these two rooms, we might as well take this opportunity to get more benefits.

If the number of free agents in the room exceeds the limit, any free agents who enter later will automatically lose their status.

Losing the protection of being a free person would lead to increased losses.

Therefore, Qian Li needs to do her best to ensure that the two free agents in Community 1 retain their identities and avoid becoming ordinary players, which would lead to greater losses.

Xu Zhao considered for a moment: "The second condition is of course no problem. We want you to help reserve a spot, so of course we will let your free agents go first."

"But the first one..."

He frowned slightly, looking somewhat hesitant, as if he was reluctant to give up the '4-person room'.

Although each community can only have one host, Community 15 has partnered with Community 13, so the host of the '4-person room' can also be a player from Community 13.

Qian Li urged, "Hurry up and decide. If you're unwilling, we can also go to the 17th Community to cooperate and use free agents to support their plan."

"Anyway, it doesn't really matter to us where two free people go."

Xu Zhao finally said reluctantly, "Okay."

“We can guarantee that you will have priority access to the ‘4-person room’ and we won’t compete with you for it. However, we can’t guarantee that we won’t be able to get into the 17th community either.”

Qian Li nodded: "Okay, that's enough."

Since there is no contract or other rules to bind them, the two parties can only reach such a verbal agreement.

Xu Zhao hurriedly returned. Clearly, the preparation time was very tight, and he still needed to listen to Wang Weidong explain the subsequent team strategy.

Seeing Xu Zhao walk away, Qian Li lowered her voice and said to Gao Jialiang, "Go find the 17th community."

“Tell them that Community 15 will prioritize ‘13-person rooms’.”

“We can squeeze two free agents into the ‘13-person room,’ but only if the 17th community doesn’t try to take the ‘4-person room,’ and instead allows our people to enter first and occupy three spots.”

Gao Jialiang's eyes lit up: "Trying to negotiate prices from both sides? Good idea."

With little time to spare, Gao Jialiang strode towards Community 17, quickly finished communicating with Cai Zhiyuan, and then swiftly returned.

"They agreed."

"However, they also made a request that our two free agents submit as many suggestions as possible after entering the '13-person room' so that those players cannot get the 'unanimous' reward."

"I verbally agreed."

Qian Li nodded: "Yes, well done."

Obviously, not signing a contract isn't all bad.

Because Community 1 has effectively become a neutral party, it can swing between the two sides at will, and only needs to make verbal promises without actually fulfilling them.

Qian Li had already completed the operation on the control panel of Community 1, selecting two relatively clever players from the three players besides herself and Gao Jialiang to serve as "free agents".

Finally, she added, "Remember, when you make decisions, prioritize the interests of our community. Community 15 definitely hopes you won't cause trouble. Whether you submit suggestions or answers, provide consistent options and try to benefit the question setter as much as possible."

"The 17th community is the opposite. They will definitely have players who end up in the '13-person room' and be forced to become the question setter. They will hope that you will deliberately give minority suggestions to interfere with the judgment of other players and create a negative-sum game among the question setters as much as possible, so that the question setter can gain visa time."

"You can make your own judgment based on the situation in the game."

"If the benefit of unanimous agreement is high, then choose the same answer as much as possible; if the benefit of being in the minority is high, then be in the minority."

"There are a lot of people in the '13-person room,' so you probably won't be the ones setting the questions. As long as you're only taking the questions, you'll have the protection of being a free agent, so you're generally safe and don't need to worry too much."

After giving instructions to the two free agents, Qian Li used the last minute or so to give instructions to the two players who had entered the "4-person room" with her.

"Our strategy in the '4-person room' is very simple."

"Three people will be given priority to enter, leaving one spot. There will always be one unlucky person from other communities who gets in."

"It doesn't matter whether this unlucky guy is a free agent or not, because being a free agent only gives you an advantage when answering questions, but not when you're the one setting the questions."

“We just need to keep giving the same answer to everyone, and we can lock him in the position of ‘examiner’, forcing him to ‘reign’ and continuously squeeze out visa time.”

"Although the game rules strictly prohibit agreeing to give a fixed answer beforehand, there is a very simple way to achieve consensus among all participants."

"Just make good use of the 'Send Suggestion' function."

"I will be the host when the time comes. If you are unsure how to answer, just wait for me to send you suggestions, and the three of us can submit the same answer."

"Of course, if it's a professional question, and one of you knows the answer, you can also send suggestions."

"As long as the answers are consistent, even if there is a loss, it won't be too much."

Gao Jialiang was somewhat worried: "But since this player was the last to enter, he must have been prepared to be the one setting the questions."

"Everyone has some expertise that others don't know. Even if the three of us discuss it together, and we also refer to the answers from unrelated players in the community, we might not be able to answer correctly."

Qian Li shook her head: "It doesn't matter whether you answer correctly or incorrectly."

"Have you forgotten the reward and punishment values ​​I mentioned?"
"Without triggering the penalty for acting against one's conscience, answering incorrectly + majority vote + unanimous agreement results in a net gain of 2000."

"The net profit of the three of us will be 6000, which has met the conditions for the vote to force the question setter to 're-win'."

Gao Jialiang suddenly realized: "Oh, right!"
"But what if we consider the possibility of punishment for acting against one's conscience?"

Qian Li explained, "There are three of us. We can give each other suggestions and discuss which answer to choose. We can't all trigger the punishment against our conscience, can we?"

“We can choose the option of ‘2 people answer sincerely and 1 person answers against their will’, and the benefit of this option will still be positive.”

"The person who sets the questions must continue to be the one to 'win' the exam."

Gao Jialiang nodded: "I see."

Qian Li continued, "Of course, if an unexpected situation really arises—I can't think of what it could be right now—we can prepare an emergency plan."

"If the question setter changes, then we'll just have to bite the bullet and answer the questions."

"There are only 3 people to answer the questions, and we will definitely be two of them, always more than half. So no matter what the situation, we can prevent our question setter from winning the 'continuous round'."

"Although individuals will certainly suffer losses, the overall losses will not be too great."

"We complete the three rounds of questions as quickly as possible, after which the question setter will switch roles again."

"According to the rules of the game, questions that have been asked cannot be asked again, and there must be obvious changes and differences."

"Even if the other party asks an obscure logic question, or some questions that we haven't thought of yet, and we manage to get a free round, we can't use it again afterward."

Overall, we still have a better chance of winning.

(End of this chapter)