Qin Yao felt a bit sorry for the people from Community 12: "So Community 12 should have been watching who in Community 4 was pressing the buttons!"

Cai Zhiyuan shook his head: "At the time, Fan Zehui subconsciously still saw us as the main enemy. He was worried that if we were divided into only one group of buttons, we might deliberately retaliate and try to make small moves to overturn the situation, so he kept wavering between their third group and our fourth group of buttons.

"Seeing that there was a person standing in front of each button, he subconsciously assumed that Community 4 was also distributing the benefits in the 2000+2000+1000+1000 manner."

Qin Yao frowned slightly and raised a new question: "But even if he didn't notice these small moves, as long as he realized through the text trap that 'Civilian players might earn 3000 Wealth Value per round of the game', he could directly give Zhou Rong an additional work opportunity to avoid this problem."

Cai Zhiyuan didn't find it strange:

"Fan Zehui wanted to let all four people gain investment qualification as soon as possible and quickly maximize the investment income limit by investing in each other.

"Basically, they just needed to secure the management level with the minimum Wealth Value, while distributing the rest to other players as much as possible.

"This strategy isn't necessarily wrong. It indeed maximizes benefits while ensuring the management rights were retained.

"But they mistakenly believed that the 10,000-minute visa time would allow Zhou Rong to steadily become part of the senior management, which was a fatal oversight.

"This game has too many rules, and the thinking time is very short. As long as they didn't realize this text trap immediately and devise a strategy, subsequent actions would definitely be overshadowed by other rules, causing them to be ignored.

"Community 12 managed to become a Wealthy Conglomerate because they had the least visa time, naturally being the weakest, which aligns with their intelligence level."

Lin Sizhi, who hadn't spoken yet, explained at this moment: "The precondition for this plan to work was indeed based on the stupidity of Community 12, but its actual execution was not easy either.

"Community 4 did a lot of preparation work, and their actions were very discreet."

Luo Wei was somewhat surprised: "Besides these small moves, was there other preparation work?"

Lin Sizhi nodded and continued: "The most challenging part of implementing this strategy wasn't realizing the text trap or designing these confusing small actions, but snatching the 'window of opportunity.'

"This strategy actually has a very short window of opportunity, which is only during the first 3 minutes, at most 5 minutes, of the preparation phase before the game starts.

"Han Mengying must calculate immediately upon seeing the text trap that she can reach 11,000 Wealth Value after two rounds, and then deduce from the current age structure that Zhou Rong would take over after two rounds. Then she identifies the target for deception: Ensuring Zhou Rong only has 10,000 Wealth Value.

"Afterward, she must make contact with Community 12 at the fastest speed, disrupting their study of the rules while also instilling the wrong concept of 'starting the investment cycle quickly' into Fan Zehui.

"The purpose of this notion is not only to mislead Fan Zehui into distributing the wealth evenly but more importantly, to completely occupy his thinking time.

"As soon as Fan Zehui began to ponder how to allocate Wealth to maximize everyone's visa time to 10,000 and specifically in which round to eat up all investment returns, the calculation amount reached his limit. His brain was completely occupied, leaving room for those small actions.

"Once Han Mengying takes more than 5 minutes to formulate this strategy and lets Fan Zehui think for himself about the rules, the window of opportunity will be missed. Subsequently, instilling the wrong concept is likely to fail.

"So, this is actually a race for thinking time between Han Mengying and Fan Zehui.

"As we said earlier, once the game starts, it doesn't stop. With each 10-minute round being very tight, players like Fan Zehui, who aren't intelligent to begin with, will make one mistake and continue to make more.

"While Fan Zehui was preoccupied with 'how to distribute the Wealth to maximize investment returns,' he also needed to consider other rules, study strategies, and allocate their buttons, not having enough energy to notice Community 4's small actions while already being more wary of us."

Qin Yao suddenly understood: "Oh! No wonder Han Mengying went to find Community 12 a little later than you, Lawyer Lin, she already had a strategy in mind by then?"

Cai Zhiyuan nodded slightly: "In that case, this plan was indeed not as simple as it seemed.

"Its benefits are excessively huge, so the Imitator who designed this game also placed a limit on this strategy, only allowing a very short window of opportunity, which tests the player's quick wit.

"After hearing the game rules, with each passing minute, the success rate of this strategy rapidly decreases. The strategy deployment must be completed in the shortest time, or it will be permanently missed."

Luo Wei, frowning, thought of a new issue.

"So ... Lawyer Lin, you saw all this clearly from the beginning?

"Why didn't you stop it? Or, we could try to use this method to seize the Wealthy Conglomerate identity, right?

"We didn't do anything and let the smarter Community 4 become the Wealthy Conglomerate, wouldn't that make the situation more difficult for us as Commoners?"

Apparently, Community 4 used this loophole method to seize the Wealthy Conglomerate identity, and they would surely not make the same mistake again.

This method of seizing the Wealthy Conglomerate identity can only be used once throughout the entire game, and even if Community 17 knew about it, they couldn't use it again.

Lin Sizhi looked at Qin Yao: "Yes, why didn't we use it?"

Qin Yao pointed at herself: "You're asking me?

"Ah ... let me think ... it's because ... we couldn't implement this strategy at all?

"The prerequisite for this operation is to occupy two groups of buttons, but Community 12 completely distrusts us, so they won't give us two groups of buttons."

Cai Zhiyuan nodded: "Yes, we never had the possibility of becoming the Wealthy Conglomerate in the first place, so there's no need to struggle.

"As for whether Community 4 or Community 12 being the Wealthy Conglomerate is more beneficial to our situation, it's hard to say.

"I've already discussed this with Lawyer Lin.

"Lawyer Lin prefers to let the bad guys be the main enemy, because after all, the behavior pattern of the bad guys is relatively predictable."

Luo Wei was still frowning. She didn't quite agree with such an explanation.

She knew, of course, that implementing this strategy required occupying two groups of buttons, but she believed they should make every effort to strive for two groups of buttons.

Because this opportunity is too precious, once successful, it would establish a significant advantage, even making the subsequent game lose suspense.

Even if the conditions for implementation weren't mature, they should try as much as possible, right? At any rate, the outcome wouldn't get worse.

Or simply expose Community 4's conspiracy. In any case, they shouldn't let a smarter community become the Wealthy Conglomerate.

Luo Wei realized that in terms of game philosophy, she had significant differences with these two male players.

But she didn't say much because she was just a newcomer, and her voice in the team was likely even less than Qin Yao's.

...

The third round of the game had already started, and Fan Zehui looked distraught.

Meanwhile, Zhou Rong, Zhou Guifen, and He Ming were also very downcast.

They initially had a perfect start, as long as this round of investment was completed smoothly, they could ensure they remained steadily in the position of the Wealthy Conglomerate, with the game having little change thereafter.

But a slight oversight caused them to fall from heaven to earth.

This huge gap was difficult for ordinary people to accept.

Of course, the good news was that the investments from the first round had already paid off at this time.

Fan Zehui went to exchange the investment coupons and obtained investment returns.

On the Community 17 side, just as Cai Zhiyuan was about to press the 'work' button, Han Mengying and another player from Community 4 appeared and swiped their Identity Cards over these two buttons, taking away the work and earning opportunities.

"Sorry, we requisitioned this work opportunity."

Han Mengying, with a smile on her face, didn't show any sign of apology.

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