"What?"

Fan Zehui also realized something was wrong, and he hurried to Zhou Rong's side to check her identity card.

[Community 12 - Zhou Rong]

[Identity: Wealthy Conglomerate]

[Age: 60 (Elderly)]

[Wealth: 10,000 minutes of visa time]

The 'Management' tag was indeed gone.

A bad premonition surfaced in Fan Zehui's heart.

He hurriedly looked at the other players, only to see Han Mengying smiling and waving at him, then heading towards the management room.

Fan Zehui quickly turned to Zhou Guifen: "Aunt Zhou, hurry and vote against this!"

Zhou Guifen's initial identity was 'Youth', and she had now become 'Middle-aged', with the 'Management' tag on her identity card, so she could also vote.

Zhou Guifen hurried towards the management room.

Fan Zehui started looking for another 'Middle-aged' player.

Cai Zhiyuan had already changed from 'Youth' to 'Middle-aged' and had gained an additional 4000 from job earnings in the previous two rounds, so his identity card also had the 'Management' tag.

However, Cai Zhiyuan shook his head: "It's useless, Community 4 already has 3 votes, the proposal will definitely be passed."

Fan Zehui felt the world spinning around him.

Indeed, before he could figure out what was going on, a new announcement appeared on the big screen.

[A player has initiated a proposal to replace the Wealthy Community, all management players please proceed to the management room to vote immediately.]

[The proposal has received 3 'Agree' votes, more than half, effective immediately.]

[Community 4 replaces Community 12 as the new 'Wealthy Family'.]

[To maintain the original population structure, from the next round, the age attributes of some players will change as follows:

[In Community 4, 'Middle-aged' players who have not entered the management will automatically become 'Infant' players.]

[In Community 12, one 'Infant' player will automatically become a 'Middle-aged' player, but cannot enter management before the next population structure change.]

Though it was said for management players to vote, clearly if the number of votes exceeded half, whether the other management players voted did not affect the result.

Along with changing the Wealthy Congregate identity, the game also planned to adjust the age structure in the next round.

In simple terms, to ensure the original age structure of 12 people did not change, the 'Wealthy Family's' age structure was changed to 1 elderly, 1 middle-aged, 1 young, and 1 infant.

"Why... why..."

Fan Zehui clearly hadn't figured out what was happening, the sudden shock left his mind blank, and he lost the ability to think in the short term.

"It must be because Han Mengying's wealth exceeded Zhou Rong's, so under the condition where only one 'Elderly' player could enter management, she took away the 'Management' identity...

"But I clearly gave all the inheritance to Zhou Rong!

"Those four people press the button, Han Mengying could get a maximum of 2000 per round, how could she exceed Zhou Rong?"

...

Qin Yao was also surprised by this result.

"Community 4 actually took the Wealthy Congregate identity! And it's only the third round of the game!

"From the outcome, it seems Han Mengying's wealth exceeded Zhou Rong's, but why?

"Could it be that Fan Zehui didn't give the inheritance to Zhou Rong, but to someone else?

"That can't be it, a problem even I could think of, he couldn't have overlooked.

"Fan Zehui should have deliberately left Zhou Rong 5000 inheritance, just to ensure Zhou Rong's wealth exceeded other players of the same age, especially Han Mengying.

"Zhou Rong initially had 5000, and after Fan Zehui's investment, the remaining inheritance was 5000, totaling 10,000.

"With the same wealth value, the Wealthy Conglomerate gets selected first, so Han Mengying needed to get 11,000.

"Han Mengying initially had 5000, Community 4's two groups of buttons were pressed by four people, she got 4000 in two rounds, totaling 9000, it doesn't seem enough at all, right?"

Lin Sizhi and Cai Zhiyuan didn't speak, remaining noncommittal.

Luo Wei frowned in deep thought: "The problem must lie in that word trap in the job rules.

"But when did Community 4 use this word trap? I didn't notice it."

Qin Yao quickly started recalling the rules: "What word trap?"

Luo Wei explained: "The rules stated: [A player cannot occupy the same group of buttons, nor can they simultaneously occupy multiple 'job' buttons or multiple 'income' buttons.]

"But there's one exception not restricted: a single player occupies one 'job' button and one 'income' button from different groups.

"At the time, I thought, why does this rule look so bloated?

"It could easily be simplified to [A player can occupy only 1 button], which would effectively block all loopholes.

"This is the kind of loophole left in the rules, and Han Mengying used this method to gain 3000 minutes of visa time each round.

"This allowed her to overtake Zhou Rong after two rounds of the game."

Qin Yao was stunned: "What? But if that's the case, there wouldn't be enough players to occupy the buttons, wouldn't that trigger wealth shrinkage?"

Luo Wei checked the rules again: "No, the wealth shrinkage is a rule that becomes effective after 10 rounds of the game.

"I guess the imitator who designed this game considered the first 10 rounds to be a 'wealth growth period', encouraging players to earn more money; while the latter 10 rounds are the 'confrontation period', where this 'no cooperation causes wealth shrinkage' rule comes into play.

"So it's possible to exploit this loophole during the first 10 rounds.

"I initially felt vaguely that something was off with this rule, but when Community 4 pressed the button, everything seemed normal, with four people pressing the buttons, so I didn't notice when they used this word loophole..."

Cai Zhiyuan explained: "Han Mengying utilized the machine's characteristic of 'no obvious alert'.

"She first gathered the players from Community 4, pretending to distribute internally and explain strategies, but in reality, secretly swiped her identity card on the first group's 'income' button, then went to the second group's 'job' button as usual to swipe the identity card and wait.

"This button was simply designed and wouldn't show precisely who swiped the identity card.

"Once everyone was spread out, another player from Community 4 stood before the first group's 'income' button and made a conspicuous action as if swiping an identity card.

"But when a commoner player repeatedly swipes an identity card, they cannot seize the job opportunity, so the actual position was still occupied by Han Mengying.

"Due to the button's special mechanism, the player who presses the 'job' button needs to press the corresponding 'income' button a second time, so after pressing the 'job' button, Han Mengying joined the others to the corresponding income button.

"This behavior didn't appear problematic at all.

"Then, the player standing before the first 'income' button pressed it along with the others, and the player on the 'job' button did the same.

"Since both of them were incorrect players, even if the button was pressed, it wouldn't be effective.

"But this action was done simultaneously with others, and they pretended to check their identity cards naturally, so it wouldn't seem odd even if some buttons weren't pressed.

"The income button had no special light effects and no sound alert.

"The only place for confirmation was the two small green lights on the device, visible only to someone using the button.

"Fan Zehui saw that eight people pressed the buttons in sequence with perfectly synchronized movements, so he didn't notice anything wrong and went to focus on investment matters.

"At that moment, Han Mengying pretended the four chatted and discreetly pressed the first group's income buttons in the correct sequence under someone else's cover."

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