At the moment the game ended, Lin Sizhi realized he had already returned to the community’s main hall.
While Fu Chen began counting heads, the large screen also displayed the settlement data for this game.
[Now announcing Community 17’s final visa time acquisition results in ’Conglomerate Nation’.]
[Player 1 Fu Chen: 61,748]
[Player 2 Jiang He: 132,382]
[Player 3 Li Renshu: 69,854]
[Player 4 Cao Haichuan: 62,466]
[Player 5 Cai Zhiyuan: 113,690]
[Player 6 Wang Yongxin: 142,834]
[Player 7 Qin Yao: 105,062][Player 8 Zhou Guifen: 96,237]
[Player 9 Xu Tong: 134,372]
[Player 10 Zheng Jie: 68,937]
[Player 11 Yang Yuting: 127,283]
[Player 12 Lin Sizhi: 117,645]
[According to community rules, when players obtain visa time exceeding 20,000 minutes, 5% will be contributed to the community welfare fund. The remaining visa time will be credited to each player’s visa.]
Seeing this string of numbers, many people instinctively gasped in amazement.
Although everyone had expectations for their own group’s earnings, seeing that the other groups had also earned so much was still shocking.
Community 17 could be said to have achieved a great victory in this game, accumulating over 1.2 million in total visa time.
Wang Yongxin was clearly very satisfied with his performance in this game. Even before the large screen had finished announcing the results, he had already roughly determined that he was definitely the person who earned the most visa time in all of Community 17.
So he habitually went to the vending machine to get himself a cup of coffee.
"Would anyone like to have coffee together?"
No one responded, and the hall fell into an eerie silence.
Wang Yongxin was somewhat puzzled. While leisurely sipping his coffee, he turned around to look at the others who had returned from the game.
Then he nearly spat it out with a "puff" sound.
"Who is this auntie?
"Where’s Luo Wei? Where did Luo Wei go??"
Now Wang Yongxin understood why everyone had fallen silent after Fu Chen finished counting heads because Lin Sizhi’s group hadn’t brought Luo Wei back!
Instead, they had brought back an auntie they had never seen before.
Zhou Guifen somewhat awkwardly introduced herself, "Hello everyone, I’m Zhou Guifen. I was originally from Community 12."
Zheng Jie, Xu Tong, and Yang Yuting had met her during the ’Blind Date Game’, so they each greeted her now.
"Hello, Auntie Zhou."
But Wang Yongxin clearly couldn’t accept such a result. Such a big Luo Wei, gone in just one game?
"Did you three kick Luo Wei out??" Wang Yongxin looked at Lin Sizhi and Cai Zhiyuan with shock.
Cai Zhiyuan shook his head, "Luo Wei chose to go to Community 4 herself. We had already given her a chance, but she didn’t seize it.
"If you don’t believe me, you can have Qin Yao explain during the post-game review later.
"Or you can spend your own visa time to buy the game records and see if what I’m saying is true or not."
Wang Yongxin’s expression wasn’t very pleasant. His good mood from just finishing the game was instantly half-ruined.
Since Cai Zhiyuan dared to speak so confidently, it was most likely true.
Qin Yao wasn’t someone with deep scheming. She couldn’t possibly lie with a straight face according to Cai Zhiyuan’s instructions. Moreover, individual players’ game experiences could be purchased, making such facts easy to verify but this also meant the problem was more serious:
If Luo Wei didn’t want to leave, and it was Cai Zhiyuan who used some scheming tactics, working together with Lin Sizhi and Qin Yao to kick her out, then this behavior could very likely trigger huge conflicts within Community 17.
After all, before entering the game, everyone had just reached a consensus to never actively kick anyone out. If Cai Zhiyuan dared to do this, he would be going against universal condemnation.
Wang Yongxin could still use this incident to slightly shake the five-person power core.
So Luo Wei being kicked out would have at least some value for Wang Yongxin but now that it was Luo Wei who chose to leave herself, Wang Yongxin couldn’t make any issue out of this point at all, and he had also lost a potential ally.
Which side this newly arrived Auntie Zhou Guifen would stand on was self-evident.
This was simply the worst bad news for Wang Yongxin.
Fu Chen quickly said, "Alright, everyone just returned from the game and worked hard. Let’s eat something and rest a bit.
"In ten minutes, we’ll begin this game’s post-game review."
...
Because there were no casualties, and even all three groups had earned substantial visa time, the atmosphere in the hall was quite lively and wasn’t heavily affected by Luo Wei’s situation.
To put it bluntly, Luo Wei had only been in the community for two days, and she had maintained an aloof attitude toward everyone. Most people hadn’t developed any particularly close feelings toward her.
Moreover, hearing from Cai Zhiyuan that she had actively chosen to leave made people have even less favorable impressions of her.
Soon, ten minutes passed. Everyone sat around the long table and began the post-game review.
Li Renshu looked around at everyone, "Which of our three groups should start the review first?
"How about we go first? After all, we earned the least visa time among the three groups, so we can serve as a conversation starter."
The others nodded, expressing their agreement.
Cao Haichuan, Li Renshu, Fu Chen, and Zheng Jie’s group all had visa time around 70,000, suggesting they had adopted conventional strategies that most players could think of and apply.
Li Renshu briefly explained, "After seeing the game rules, our first reaction was that this game was similar to ’Blood Poker’, where three communities could cooperate and split the earnings equally.
"However, compared to ’Blood Poker’, this game had more complex rules and more variables. To maintain cooperation until the game’s end required strong binding power.
"We defaulted to starting with Civilian status, so we immediately found another Civilian community to form an alliance.
"According to the game rules, Conglomerates have great advantages. If one Civilian community abandons another Civilian community to cooperate with the Conglomerate, then both Civilian communities would definitely be completely devoured.
"The strategy our two Civilian communities adopted was: negotiate with the Conglomerate community to distribute total wealth in a 4:3:3 ratio."
Wang Yongxin frowned, "The Conglomerate community agreed?"
Li Renshu nodded, "Yes, they agreed. But the condition was that no one could cover their identity cards, and our two Civilian communities had to always ensure wealth was evenly distributed among the four people.
"In the two rounds before ‘Old Age’ players died, they had to distribute their assets evenly to the other three players, never allowing excessively large inheritances.
"Because that could lead to Civilians concentrating wealth and threatening the Conglomerate.
"Of course, the Conglomerate would also consciously concentrate assets on ‘Old Age’ and ‘Adult’ players, with ‘Adult’ players receiving the main investment returns, while ‘Old Age’ players mainly inherited assets from the previous ‘Old Age’ player’s death, maintaining their wealth advantage."
Wang Yongxin seemed somewhat puzzled, "This Conglomerate community’s level wasn’t very good. With the Conglomerate having the advantage, they could have tried to push the ratio to 2:1:1.
"If the Conglomerate had been more aggressive, they could have achieved that."
Li Renshu explained, "Yes, but the problem was they weren’t aggressive at all.
"According to the game rules, those who initially received Conglomerate status were most likely the weakest community among the three.
"During negotiations, they didn’t understand extreme pressure tactics at all, nor could they calculate which specific ratios were worthwhile. They just felt that getting 10% more and obtaining stable income without having their Conglomerate status taken away was already pretty good.
"As for the other Civilian community, although they also had ideas about seizing the Conglomerate community’s position, we would monitor each other.
"If either of the two Civilian communities tried any tricks, the other would expose them.
"When pressing work buttons, we forced cross-community pairing for mutual supervision.
"When the Conglomerate might be overthrown, we would also suggest the Conglomerate proactively raise tax rates for adjustment, preventing the other Civilian community from succeeding with sneaky tactics.
"Moreover, Officer Cao also played a crucial role: he was very good at reading others’ micro-expressions and naturally possessed authority, so even if the other side was planning some tricks, they wouldn’t dare execute them without 100% certainty.
"We maintained this relatively fragile balance from beginning to end until the game concluded.
"The theoretical maximum earnings for 20 rounds of this game is over 1.8 million. We got 30%, which is roughly 65,000 per person."
Clearly, Cao Haichuan’s group encountered a two-strong-one-weak situation.
The Conglomerate community was weak, while the two Civilian communities were strong, but there was no obvious strength disparity between the two Civilian communities. As a result, the Conglomerate community dared not side with either party, nor could it control either party.
Although both Civilian communities also had ideas about seizing Conglomerate status, under mutual checks and sabotage, neither could succeed.