The specific candidate for 'Finance' is the key to completing this layout.

If Community 12 chooses on their own, they will undoubtedly select Fan Zehui.

However, Lin Sizhi and Cai Zhiyuan cannot trust Fan Zehui.

In Community 12, the person most favorable and trustworthy to Lin Sizhi is Zhou Guifen.

However, if Cai Zhiyuan directly names Zhou Guifen to take on Finance, the action would seem overly deliberate and easily raise suspicion.

Han Mengying would definitely not agree.

So, Cai Zhiyuan first proposed Lin Sizhi as the Finance of Community 17.

Han Mengying, of course, did not agree and casually appointed the least intelligent Qin Yao from Community 17.

But this also allowed Cai Zhiyuan to reasonably bypass Fan Zehui, appointing Zhou Guifen as the Finance of Community 12.

At that time, Han Mengying was actually facing a 'forced choice'.

Fan Zehui had already been ruled out.

If Han Mengying chose Zhou Rong or He Ming, Cai Zhiyuan would choose Zhou Guifen, just like what had already happened.

And if Han Mengying chose Zhou Guifen, Cai Zhiyuan would pretend to reluctantly accept.

Without knowing the specifics of the scheme, no matter what Han Mengying chose, Zhou Guifen would inevitably become Finance.

Zhou Guifen and Qin Yao worked together, along with Lin Sizhi and Cai Zhiyuan's constant calculations and adjustments, to avoid any obvious anomalies in the wealth ratio and simultaneously gather enough expired investment coupons.

Expired investment coupons worth 100,000 require at least 50 pieces.

The two Finance from Community 12 and Community 17, Zhou Guifen and Qin Yao, were exchanging investment returns while stockpiling expired investment coupons, so the total wealth of these two communities still grew, albeit slower than expected.

Community 4, as the Wealthy Community, increased its wealth much faster than the two Commoner communities, so it frequently exceeded the 50% threshold and had to invest in the two Commoner communities.

If we have to be precise, this point is somewhat abnormal.

But according to Lin Sizhi's plan, Wealthy players can convert investment returns with priority. Han Mengying always believed she was swallowing the lion's share of the investment returns, so it seemed normal for the Wealthy Community's wealth to increase much faster than the Commoner communities.

The growth rate of the Commoner communities' Wealth Value was somewhat slow, but no one could say exactly how much slower it was compared to normal because there was no clear benchmark for comparison.

This feeling of 'wealth growth always surpassing the Commoners' also gave Han Mengying a false sense of security, making her believe the position of the Wealthy was utterly stable.

Now that we think about it, if calculated by the theoretical return ceiling, the total wealth figure in the 10th round was noticeably sluggish.

However, the issue lies in the game's chaotic initial data. Everyone's time for obtaining investment opportunities was different, cross-community investments were frequent, and the distribution of returns for each investment also varied. At times, they couldn't reach the investment ceiling, and occasionally, investment overshooting happened.

The three communities bore significant hostility towards each other and mutually distrusted one another.

Han Mengying couldn't possibly orchestrate the investment plans and return distributions for all communities herself; neither Community 12 nor Community 17 would permit such a situation to occur.

They would, at most, allow Han Mengying to view the digits on everyone's chest Identity Card but never let her know the details of each round's investment strategy.

Conversely, the two Commoner communities also had no right to question the investment plans of the Wealthy Community.

Under such circumstances, the only thing Han Mengying could ascertain was that Community 4 had priority in obtaining investment profits.

The internal investments of the three communities were a black box unknown to outsiders.

This inevitably resulted in some inefficiencies, preventing optimal efficiency and causing discrepancies between actual wealth figures and theoretical values.

Therefore, Han Mengying couldn't precisely perceive the subtle abnormalities in the total wealth value's growth rate.

Besides, there's another crucial point: Cai Zhiyuan had Luo Wei communicate with Han Mengying, which seriously consumed the thinking time of both individuals.

Just as initially, Han Mengying immediately sought to converse with Fan Zehui, consuming Fan Zehui's thinking time.

In an ideal scenario, if Han Mengying and Luo Wei kept a close watch on the total wealth value for calculations, they might have detected anomalies.

But it happened that Han Mengying and Luo Wei were both very intrigued by each other. Han Mengying relentlessly shared the architecture and layout of Community 4 with Luo Wei, discussing each other's ideas in preparation for recruiting.

Luo Wei was also giving serious thought to whether she should switch over to Community 4.

Their minds were preoccupied with this matter, which snuffed out the last possibility of noticing this setup altogether.

As for others...

Their intelligence doesn't qualify them to consider such issues.

Thus, these investment coupons vanished without any trace under Lin Sizhi's orchestrations, playing a decisive role in the subsequent takeover of the management layer.

Of course, even if realizing this layer, Han Mengying still found herself perplexed by certain details.

But clearly, these doubts could only be slowly unraveled by herself.

...

Meanwhile, the 16th round of the game was nearing its end.

The age composition of the players was about to undergo another reshuffle.

The 17th round represents a very unique node because, in this round, the age composition of players would inevitably be 1 Elderly and 3 Prime-aged. In other words, the Wealthy players, regardless of how much wealth they possess, will undoubtedly control the Management Room.

Han Mengying thought Lin Sizhi would likely choose the end of this round to transfer the Wealthy status to Community 17.

However, the broadcast content was entirely unexpected for her.

[A player has proposed an initiative to change the tax rate; all management players please proceed to the Management Room to vote immediately.]

[The proposal has received 2 'Agree' votes, surpassing the majority and coming into immediate effect.]

[The current Wealthy departure tax is adjusted to: 0%]

Immediately afterward, more broadcasts commenced.

[Lin Sizhi chooses 'Departure' to the safe zone and is no longer subject to domestic rules.]

[Cai Zhiyuan chooses 'Departure' to the safe zone and is no longer subject to domestic rules.]

[Qin Yao chooses 'Departure' to the safe zone and is no longer subject to domestic rules.]

[Zhou Guifen chooses 'Departure' to the safe zone and is no longer subject to domestic rules.]

Upon hearing these broadcasts, Sun De, who had been seated on the ground waiting for the game to end, suddenly widened his eyes and abruptly stood up.

During this time, he continued being with other players from Community 4, completely lacking opportunities to interact with players from the other two communities.

But at this moment, there's no need to interact with anyone, as the broadcast already conveyed a clear message to Sun De.

"You can run now."

The departure tax for Wealthy players had always been 100%, so Sun De was unable to depart to the safe zone.

However, at the last moment of Lin Sizhi and the other three leaving, they abolished the departure tax for Wealthy players.

Sun De was then the only Wealthy player with a Wealth Value exceeding 100,000.

He immediately sprinted towards the 'Foreign Area' with all his might.

Han Mengying shouted in shock, "Sun De! Get back here!"

Yet, Sun De ran faster and faster.

[Sun De chooses 'Departure' to the safe zone and is no longer subject to domestic rules.]

This unforeseen event left all other players completely stupefied.

Everyone clearly saw these five individuals exiting the field, passing through that special gate towards the small piece of 'Foreign Area',

which could also be termed the 'safe zone'.

According to the game's rules, their status is now 'Departure', rendering them free from any game rules' constraints.

The prerequisite for Departure is having a wealth exceeding 100,000, which these five individuals undoubtedly met.

But the problem is...

How did they manage to reach a consensus? And why did they decide to do so?

The other players of Community 4 hadn't even yet processed the fact that Sun De fled.

Qi Fan also couldn't comprehend at all, "Hold on, why was it passed with just 2 votes in favor?"

Han Mengying instantly realized, "Because this round of the game featured a special population structure, there were only two people on the management team!

"Lin Sizhi, being a member of the elderly management team himself, with 2 votes surpassing the majority, could implement any proposal!

"He's deliberately triggering the wealth shrinking rule to finish them off completely!!"

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