Lin Sizhi, while checking the facilities on the field, said, "Most likely, yes."

Cai Zhiyuan paused for a moment, "Should we consider helping them? It depends on whether we want a foolish community to be the Wealthy Conglomerate, or a smart one."

Lin Sizhi shook his head, "If we help now, Community 12 will just be more wary. With the intelligence they've displayed, they might not understand our goodwill.

"Even if we help them out of kindness, we might not get much in return.

"Changing the Wealthy Conglomerate isn't necessarily bad. Compared to fools, I prefer playing games with bad people.

"After all, bad people's actions are more predictable."

Cai Zhiyuan stopped speaking, essentially agreeing with Lin Sizhi's view.

Qin Yao, listening, was confused, "Huh? Has the topic progressed this fast?

"How did you determine the intelligence and morality of the two communities? And why are we talking about changing the Wealthy Conglomerate?

"Did I lose my memory? Did I miss something?"

Cai Zhiyuan glanced at Lin Sizhi, seeing the latter still intrigued by the machines on the field and apparently not planning to explain, Cai took on the role of explainer.

"It's simple, the time before the game officially starts should be used to think about the rules and discuss optimal strategies with community players.

"Once the game starts, it will run for 20 continuous rounds, and discussing game strategies during this time will consume normal game time.

"It's very likely that a slow step will result in more slow steps.

"So Lawyer Lin talking about the game rules with them openly is actually a candid approach.

"On the surface, Community 4's actions of inviting Community 12 to check the tax rate adjustment machines seem that way, but that's not the real purpose.

"Because at the beginning of the game, there's no need to adjust tax rates at all.

"Community 4 is using this opportunity to separate Community 12 from us, waste Community 12's internal time to study rules, and try to instill wrong game strategies to establish a precedent.

"If Community 12 were a bit smarter, they'd know that this proposal is a malicious test.

"Agreeing to it would label them as 'fools', leading to more rudimentary scams later in the game."

Qin Yao was a bit surprised, "So this Han Mengying from Community 4 is really smart too!"

Cai Zhiyuan shook his head, "Well, not particularly smart.

"It's a high-reward but also high-risk decision. Once discovered, it would lead to high alert from the others.

"If our community were the Wealthy Conglomerate and Community 4 used this strategy against us, they would have already lost half the game at the start."

Lin Sizhi added, "But since the game rules clearly state that the community with the least visa time is prioritized to be the Wealthy Conglomerate,

"testing Community 12 as fools is overall a strategy where the benefits outweigh the risks."

Qin Yao nodded in realization, "Hmm… I get it now.

"But how is Community 4 planning to trick Community 12? Currently, it seems the Wealthy Conglomerate player's advantage is too great.

"To completely gain the upper hand in the game, they need to utilize the Management Room's functions to replace the Wealthy Family.

"But the Wealthy Family's composition can always ensure there's an 'elderly' and a 'middle-aged' member, and by leveraging the initial wealth advantage, they can ensure there are always 3 votes, while the other two 'middle-aged' players can have at most 2 votes.

"This means the Wealthy Community can completely control the Management Room.

"Fan Zehui probably thought of this too, which is why he's confident in negotiating cooperation with Community 4, right?"

Cai Zhiyuan was a bit surprised, "You actually thought of that? That's quite impressive."

Then, he looked at Lin Sizhi, shaking his head, "As for what kind of scheme Community 4 will set up, it's still unclear.

"I'm just considering the intelligence difference between the parties, thinking there's such a possibility.

"If Community 12 remains steady as the Wealthy Conglomerate, then we would certainly need to change strategies too."

...

Inside the Management Room.

The four of them briefly checked the specific operation method of the machine.

Before entering the Management Room, one needs to swipe their Identity Card, and only players selected as the management in the current round can enter.

The machine allows changing the Wealthy Community as well as adjusting the four types of tax rates for both the Wealthy Conglomerate and Commoners.

Currently, all tax rates are '0%'.

Next to the machine, there are rule explanations related to 'modifying tax rates'.

[Any management player can make adjustments to the current settings after swiping their Identity Card and press the confirm button to 'submit the proposal'.]

[Other management players can swipe their Identity Card and click 'approve' or 'reject' to vote on the current proposal.]

[When 'approve' votes exceed half, the tax rate adjustment is completed. At this time, the panel will be locked, and a public announcement will be broadcast in the common area, taking immediate effect.]

[When 'reject' votes exceed half, the proposal will be denied, and the player cannot submit a new proposal in this round.]

[However, other management players can still propose other schemes, and the denied player can still vote 'approve' or 'reject'.]

Although the rules aren't complicated, Han Mengying still earnestly gave an explanation, and hypothesized different scenarios such as when to levy more wage tax or investment tax.

Fan Zehui and Zhou Rong nodded frequently.

At this moment, there were just over four minutes left before the game officially started.

Han Mengying felt the timing was about right and began to get to the main point.

She looked at Luo Wei, "Could this friend from Community 17 please step aside for a moment? I want to discuss the game's strategy with Mr. Fan.

"Of course, if you prefer to stay here, that's fine; we can change places."

Luo Wei glanced at Fan Zehui, and clearly, Fan Zehui had the same attitude.

Currently, both Community 4 and Community 12 harbor some distrust towards people from Community 17.

Luo Wei realized that staying here wouldn't make a difference, as the others would still move to another place to chat, and her actions would only create more hostility.

So, following Cai Zhiyuan's previous advice, she wisely stepped out.

Han Mengying then turned to Fan Zehui and Zhou Rong:

"Before we discuss specific strategies, I want to first commend your wisdom.

"Not cooperating with Community 17 is definitely the right choice.

"If a player is both smart and well-meaning, then they are the best partners.

"But if a player is excessively smart, even smarter than everyone else, then distinguishing their goodwill becomes a meaningless effort."

Fan Zehui didn't answer directly, "The game is about to start. Tell us your strategy."

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