According to the rules, the Wealthy Conglomerate players can seize the button.

Of course, since each community can occupy a maximum of 2 sets of buttons, when Han Mengying seizes the buttons from Community 17, their original set of buttons is vacated.

Players from Community 12 naturally swiped their Identity Cards and occupied them.

At this moment, there are 4 sets of buttons, with Community 4 and Community 12 each occupying two sets, Community 17 having none, and unable to seize any.

Han Mengying looked at Fan Zehui: "First, let me apologize; I did mislead you, but I also need to defend myself.

"The strategies I told you were indeed real and correct.

"You ignored the game rules' details yourselves; you can't blame others, and our seizure of the Wealthy Conglomerate identity is completely within the rules.

"Whether you consider it deceit or not is your freedom.

"Now I will continue to tell you the optimal strategy to win this game; you should think it over carefully.

"The strategy is the same as I said before: Our two communities each occupy 2 sets of work buttons, and we invest in each other within the communities, cooperating to enjoy all the profits.

"In each round of this game, the profit has an upper limit: work profit is 12,000 at most, investment profit is 130,000 at most; after our two communities accumulate a certain amount of wealth, we can quickly enjoy the full benefit.

"As for Community 17, just let them fend for themselves.

"Anyway, splitting the cake between two people is always more cost-effective than three, isn't it?

"You'd better consider quickly, the same strategy can also be proposed to Community 17 to implement together."

After speaking, Han Mengying gave Fan Zehui a meaningful smile.

There was anger in Fan Zehui's eyes, after all, being tricked and losing the Wealthy Conglomerate identity is hard to accept for anyone.

But he didn't immediately explode, after all, he still had to bow to reality.

After Community 4 gained the Wealthy Conglomerate identity, they could actually allocate work opportunities at will.

If they want to cooperate with Community 17, then Han Mengying just needs to deliberately leave 2 sets of work buttons for Community 17 to occupy.

Community 12 would at most occupy 2 sets of buttons, Community 17 would occupy the remaining 2, and then Han Mengying could lead the Wealthy Conglomerate players from Community 4 to seize all the buttons from Community 12.

They could even directly ban Community 12 from occupying work buttons through the Management Room.

In this way, it would be Community 12's turn to gain nothing.

Fan Zehui is not representing just himself, he has to consider the other three players as well.

At this moment, Lin Sizhi's voice came through.

"Are you trying to create a prisoner's dilemma among us? But unfortunately, the prerequisite for a prisoner's dilemma is the inability for prisoners to communicate with each other, and clearly, there is no mechanism in this game to block player communication."

Han Mengying turned around with interest, sizing up Lin Sizhi: "Oh? And even if communication is possible, so what? There are only 4 sets of buttons in total.

"With the 8 players from us and Community 12, we are enough to occupy all the buttons, not needing any participation from Community 17, and can still achieve the total wealth goal.

"Mr. Lin, do you have any insights? I'm all ears."

Lin Sizhi did not continue speaking with Han Mengying but looked at Fan Zehui.

"You've already been fooled once, are you going to be fooled a second time?"

Lin Sizhi's question stung Fan Zehui a little, and he didn't speak.

Han Mengying chuckled: "They are no longer the Wealthy Conglomerate; as long as they're willing to always be Commoners, there's nothing much to lose."

Lin Sizhi sighed: "Fan Zehui, think carefully, is there really nothing more for you to lose?

"The visa time you've already earned, can the Wealthy Community take it away?

"Let me tell you, if I were Community 4 right now, here's what I'd do:

"At the beginning, I'd happily earn visa time with you.

"But, once the total wealth can certainly reach 500,000 minutes before the end of the game, I'd start imposing various taxes on the Commoners.

"Work tax, investment tax, inheritance tax, all Commoners' tax rates would be raised.

"Especially 'inheritance tax': In the upcoming game, each player will experience 2-3 deaths. By raising the inheritance tax on Commoners to 100%, it's possible to easily seize most of your wealth.

"In the end, even if the 500,000-minute total wealth goal is achieved, the Wealthy Community will take the absolute lion's share.

"If you dare to resist, then turn around and seek cooperation with Community 17.

"From the game mechanism perspective, this is completely feasible. Do you think Community 4 would do this?"

Fan Zehui was taken aback, falling into deep thought.

Han Mengying wasn't able to refute immediately because she knew what Lin Sizhi said was indeed correct.

No matter whether she and Community 4 plan to do this or not, as long as this possibility is pointed out, after having fooled Community 12 once, it's impossible to gain their trust again.

Han Mengying thought for a moment and said: "Okay, I won't argue against this possibility for now.

"However, Fan Zehui, you should also know that even if we deceive you, you can still get a little leftover in the end.

"You can preserve some wealth through continuous mutual investment as much as possible.

"But if you don't cooperate, even the leftovers won't be yours, as we can turn to cooperate with Community 17 instead.

"Do you think this Mr. Lin is genuinely considering your best interests or is trying to deceive you to seize the opportunity to cooperate with us afterward?"

Lin Sizhi spoke meaningfully: "Fan Zehui, do I look like someone who would snatch leftovers?

"The rules of this game are actually more like 'Fight the Landlord.'

"Two Commoner communities are inherently weaker and must unite to confront the Wealthy Community.

"A two-against-one approach is the optimal solution for this game.

"Fan Zehui, if either of our communities betrays the other to play against the Wealthy, the only result is being consumed completely with no winning chance.

"Our Community 17 is not the type to be short-sighted; how about you?"

Han Mengying's smile faded slightly, yet she shook her head slightly: "It sounds easy, but don't you think your cooperation, purely built on mutual trust, is very fragile?

"Even if your two Commoner communities unite more, it's absolutely impossible to wrest the Wealthy Conglomerate identity from us.

"We still control all the work opportunities and tax collection."

Lin Sizhi nodded: "True, but Commoner players are not without any means of resistance.

"For example, we can choose to lie flat and not cooperate.

"If we don't cooperate, you can occupy at most 2 sets of work buttons, losing half the work profit each round.

"The loss of work profit would greatly delay the time to achieve full investment returns, moreover, investment behavior can only occur once between two players, even in the most ideal state, your 4 people can't fully enjoy the maximum investment returns.

"This means that in 10 rounds of gameplay, you cannot achieve the 500,000 total wealth goal relying solely on one community.

"From the 11th round onwards, if 4 sets of buttons aren't occupied by 8 players, each round, the total wealth will shrink by 20%.

"After being continuously reduced for ten rounds, how much of your saved visa time will remain?"

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