God's imitator

Chapter 349 Observing the Situation

At the same time, Cheng Wen was experiencing the games in each room while carefully observing the players' movements, as Lin Sizhi had previously instructed.

He noticed that more and more players were starting to try their luck in rooms that were deserted.

Minesweeper seems to be gaining popularity, with a constant stream of players joining the single-player mode.

Clearly, more and more players are discovering the tricks to "minesweeper at sea" and are starting to participate enthusiastically.

But Cheng Wen knew very well that the benefits these people would receive would definitely be much less than what he and Lin Sizhi received.

Because Lin Sizhi and Cheng Wen actually activated an additional 1 yuan bonus, plus the basic 3 yuan, each of them received 2 yuan.

If the four players activate the 20,000 bonus quota, each player will receive 5000.

In the "Chess Endgame" game, two players were also playing against each other. Although the game has a rake system and it's not worth playing multiple times, some players still wanted to try to earn the guaranteed 3 bonus.

The "Equipment Forging" area gradually became lively, with players entering and leaving one after another. However, about three or four players chose to stay and kept hammering away.

It's clear that these players are trying to familiarize themselves with this game mode through training. If they can consistently achieve an S rank, the rewards from this game will be quite substantial.

As for the "Auction Tycoon," there are now two other players besides Lin Sizhi.

But their expressions were all different.

Lin Sizhi wasn't anxious at all; he was just leisurely looking at the information on the game console, and no one knew what he was thinking.

The other two players were visibly more anxious. They were also looking at the game console, seemingly waiting for something, but they couldn't really be patient and kept looking around to observe the dynamics of other game rooms.

Based on the movements of all the players, Cheng Wen had noticed that a group had begun to organize itself in the lobby.

This group should consist of around 12 players.

Among them, 8 players were the ones who had secured the single-player modes of "Compare Size" and "Simple Poker" at this time. They seemed to have monopolized this part of the profits by taking turns with the three groups of people.

Meanwhile, the other three or four players were busy tinkering in the "Equipment Forging" area. They would occasionally gather to chat while observing the situation in other game rooms.

The player in the lead wore gold-rimmed glasses, and Cheng Wen had never seen him before and didn't know his name.

"Is it about time we went to report to Brother Lin?"

Cheng Wen felt he had gathered enough information.

He still couldn't come up with any good strategies, and since small groups had already formed among the players, those who insisted on not forming groups would definitely suffer losses.

Apart from a very few exceptionally strong players, all other players need to find a group to join as soon as possible.

For Cheng Wen, if he had to choose, he would naturally feel more at ease choosing Lin Sizhi.

……

At this moment, He Xiaojun glanced at the profit sharing from "Big or Small" and quickly returned to the "Auction Tycoon" room, constantly refreshing the items.

But the longer I waited, the more anxious I became.

After waiting for about ten minutes, he finally saw a special interface pop up on the game console.

[The item has been sold. Please claim your earnings from 'He Xiaojun of Community 14'.]

He Xiaojun found that the game tables in this room were quite well-organized, because they were different from those in the lobby. There were fewer than 20 tables, and they were not in a one-to-one correspondence with the players.

Therefore, when players perform actions here, the game console will add an identity verification step. He Xiaojun quickly swiped his wristband, and the game console displayed the proceeds from this transaction: 6100 chips.

He was taken aback for a moment: "How come there are whole numbers and odd numbers?"

The item sold was an "auction voucher: calligraphy and painting". The original price was 1000 chips, but He Xiaojun listed it for 2000. However, he actually received 6100 chips.

Net profit of 5100 chips.

As for the other auction ticket, "Calligraphy," it failed to sell.

Who bought this prop?

Who are the other players in this room?

It's highly unlikely, because these items are listed there by default and have no actual use.

The chips in this room are different from those in the "Big or Small" game. Because the total number of chips is very limited, there are many visa times that can be exchanged, which can basically be regarded as a 1:1 exchange.

Other players have no reason to use their valuable chips to buy these meaningless items.

Therefore, it is highly likely that the purchase was made automatically by the system.

In other words, there is also a way to obtain stable income in this room, which is to buy these items from the game table and list them at a higher price.

In addition, the longer players use the game console in this room during the sale of items, that is, the longer they "keep an eye on the auction items", the more chips they can earn as a reward.

"I waited for about 10 minutes and received an extra 6100 chips, which means I received an extra 100 chips every 10 seconds."

"This return is not bad."

"It's just that people were deterred by the 100% transaction tax, so initially not many people came to this room."

He Xiaojun subconsciously glanced at the chip exchange table at the entrance of the game room. Unfortunately, the dividend period had just passed, so he couldn't immediately exchange all the chips in his hand for visa time.

"Strange, that person should have had quite a few bargaining chips before, so he should be able to change his visa time now, right?"
"But it seems he didn't exchange many, and he clearly kept a lot of chips in his hand."

He Xiaojun glanced at the player who was already in the room. Since he had been in the room so early, he must have discovered the mechanism earlier than him.

"Strange, wouldn't doing this result in a net loss? Why keep so many chips in hand?"

"Because other players will eventually discover the fixed way to obtain chips in this room, as the number of players increases, everyone will obtain more and more chips steadily."

"However, the growth rate of dividends is far behind the growth rate of shares."

"This means that the 'chip inflation' we saw before will occur."

"The earlier players redeem their chips, the longer their visa period will be."

"So, it seems unwise for this player to save the chips for later redemption."

"It's best to keep a small portion of your capital for making money, and instead convert the majority of your capital into visa time to secure your gains."

"Unless... he believes that the room's value is greater than the visa time in the coming period, but that's unlikely."

He Xiaojun couldn't figure out the secret for a moment.

But he could guess that these players who decided to hold onto their chips in a particular room for a long time must have already developed some specific plans around the rules of those rooms.

(End of this chapter)