God's imitator

Chapter 354 Selling the Right to Use the Game Console
He Xiaojun's luck is not good. So far, he has accumulated 4 cards, 3 of which are helmets.

However, judging from the previous situation, it doesn't matter, because you can just go to the "Equipment Forging" room and spend a small amount of chips to change the type of item.

Although multiple forgings require additional chips, players can prioritize using cards that haven't been forged yet, so it's not something to worry about too much.

What worries He Xiaojun even more is the issue of profit sharing from the rooms.

"Could it be that the profits from this room have almost been distributed already?"

"When the next dividend is distributed, there will likely be a large number of players holding chips in this room who will receive dividends, which will result in very low returns."

He Xiaojun glanced at the current situation of "Auction Tycoon," where there were already many players in the game room.

As the game progressed, the players' distribution changed once again.

At this time, the "Equipment Forging" room remained full for a long time. Among them, four players, led by Chen Guangming, seemed to have discovered a way to obtain stable income and kept hammering away at equipment.

The other two game stations were occupied by a constant flow of players.

However, it is clear that these mobile players, due to insufficient practice time, cannot obtain stable income like Chen Guangming and others.

Therefore, it wasn't worthwhile for them to continue playing in this room, so they would quickly leave after forging the cards they wanted, while the players in the room continued to move around.

Meanwhile, the number of players in the "Auction Tycoon" room is gradually increasing, and more and more players, like He Xiaojun, have discovered a way to obtain stable income from this room.

The players in these two rooms combined make up more than half of the entire lobby.

The other players remained scattered in the other rooms.

There have always been different players playing the single-player mode of "Minesweeper," and there are also about 3 to 4 players playing the single-player mode of "Simple Poker" to generate fixed income.

Surprisingly, the initially lively "bigger or smaller" game has become deserted again, and the single-player mode, which offers stable rewards, is now only played by one player.

Clearly, at this stage of the game, the dividends in many game rooms have dried up, and players will naturally leave.

Meanwhile, the game rooms where copycats offer extra discounts are starting to attract more and more players.

……

He Xiaojun returned to the auction terminal in the hall to check the current product list.

Sure enough, there were more items hanging up, but there were basically no more get-out-of-jail-free cards, only chips in each room.

The value of these chips has also changed significantly.

In the "Big or Small" room, chips are the least valuable. The ratio of chips to visa time has fallen below 1000:100, and many chips are listed on auction houses but no one is interested.

The situation is slightly better for "Simple Poker," where the exchange rate between chips and visa time has reached around 500:100, but there are still not many people buying it.

These chips are destined to rot in the players' hands and can no longer be used to gain any profit.

The chips in the "Minesweeper at Sea" and "Chess Endgame" rooms are reasonably valuable, with an exchange rate of around 200:100, but there aren't many listed, so the trading volume is probably low.

However, since there is no longer a stable way to generate income, even though these two rooms used to be frequented by players, they have now become deserted, and the production and trading volume of chips have plummeted.

Only the "Equipment Forging" room's chips remain strong, with an exchange rate of around 120:100.

The items that were previously listed for 1000 chips with a price of around 1499 are still available, but it's unlikely anyone will buy them.

Players can exchange an unlimited number of chips at a 1:1 ratio at the chip exchange station. To sell chips at the auction terminal, players must offer a discount; a 120:100 ratio is quite astonishing. If some players actually hold a large number of chips in this room, they can still sell them off in large quantities through the auction terminal in the last hour.

As for the "Auction Tycoon," there are currently no chips for this room on the auction terminal because this room has a 100% transaction tax. Even if you list chips to sell, you won't get any visa time.

"The stakes in the 'Equipment Forging' room are really that high?"

He Xiaojun even felt a little regretful, wishing he had stayed in this room from the beginning.

However, this wasn't a major problem, since he had already made a considerable amount of money from the "Auction Tycoon" room.

As long as you can convert five different invulnerability cards through "equipment forging", you are unlikely to become a player with the lowest returns.

However, when He Xiaojun arrived at the "Equipment Forging" room to forge the card again and to forge the helmet-patterned Immortality Card into other parts, an unexpected situation occurred.

He discovered that there were no spare game consoles in the room!

Of the original six workstations in the room, four were permanently occupied, but two game consoles remained vacant, which was just enough as players came to forge their crafts one after another.

But now, all six game consoles are occupied, and none of the players seem to have any intention of leaving.

Meanwhile, the players occupying those two empty game consoles were clearly not yet able to obtain stable income, but they just refused to leave.

There were many other players in the room, like He Xiaojun, who wanted to exchange their cards for the invulnerability card, and the room was becoming increasingly agitated.

"Hey! What are you doing? Why are you hogging the game console when you can't even generate a stable income?"

Some people were already shouting impatiently, but the players occupying the two game consoles ignored them.

Just then, Chen Guangming came to the front of the crowd and clapped his hands.

"Alright, I completely understand everyone's desire to change the card types using the game console, but from now on, the rules of the game have changed."

"You can use these game consoles, but they will no longer be free."

As for the specifics of how to do it...

"If any players want to use the gaming console, let me know, and I'll go with you to the auction terminal to find items priced at 1000 chips for 1499 minutes of visa time."

“Once you purchase this item and I confirm that I have received your visa, I will allow you to use the game console.”

"Alright, game time is limited, and the number of times you can forge cards is also limited, so everyone should think about it quickly."

These words caused an uproar among the players in the room.

He Xiaojun was also shocked. Could this game really be played like this?
What is this? Is this a disguised way of selling the right to use a game console?
But is it really feasible?

Soon, a player questioned: "What nonsense are you talking about? There are no restrictions on the use of the game console in this game room. You can occupy it indefinitely."

"How can you be sure that after the usage rights are sold, the player who bought them will obediently leave?"

Chen Guangming smiled indifferently: "You don't need to worry about that. Of course I have my own way of doing it."

"By the way, one more thing: the 1499 minutes of visa time is just the initial discounted price. The price will continue to rise afterward, so if you really want to use the game console, you'd better make a decision as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)