Han Mengying also walked over. She stared at Sun De with a grim face and said gravely, "Sun De, if you come back right now, we might still consider bringing you back..."

But before she could finish, Sun De interrupted her.

This person, who had always been treated as a puppet and a waste, looked at Han Mengying with a smirk and said earnestly, "Do you know something? I've always wanted to tell you, you're just an old and ugly freak."

Han Mengying's face instantly turned ashen, and she struggled to contain her anger: "Sun De! Don't let me meet you in any future games, or I'll definitely kill you!"

But unfortunately, this threat seemed more like bluster.

On the other side, players from Community 12 had also run over.

Zhou Rong was completely panicked, tears shimmering in her eyes.

"Aunt Zhou! How could you leave us!

"Mr. Lin, you've already earned so much visa time, we're all commoners. Is there really a need to be so heartless?

"This doesn't give you any extra benefit at all!

"At least let Aunt Zhou go back so we can meet the goal of 500,000, okay?

"Please!"

Hearing Zhou Rong's pleadings, Zhou Guifen sighed and silently turned her face away.

Fan Zehui also ran over, pounding the glass fence: "Aunt Zhou! You knew about the plan of Community 17 all along, why didn't you warn me?

"If we had known earlier that we could turn things around, we wouldn't have..."

Zhou Guifen silently shook her head: "When you were about to press the button, didn't I try to warn you?"

Lin Sizhi stepped forward and stood in front of everyone.

"I also regret the outcome.

"But just as I told Luo Wei: when did you get the mistaken impression that I would be so forgiving as to pardon traitors?

"Clearly, your Community 12 hasn't established an effective punishment mechanism for traitors. Many people openly defy the community's collective decisions without fear of being held accountable when they return.

"Since that's the case, let me, on behalf of your community's management, give you a lesson.

"A traitor, regardless of the reason, should suffer the harshest punishment.

"If we let any of you go this time, the next time we cooperate with the other communities, they might betray us without any hesitation. Do you think I would allow that to happen?

"We need to show everyone through this game:

"In the game, you can choose not to cooperate with Community 17 and solve problems on your own. But if you decide to cooperate and then betray, you will face the game's harshest penalties.

"Reflect well, and be cautious next time."

Zhou Rong was already completely broken, wiping away tears, she said: "But losing so much visa time, we likely won't have another chance!"

Lin Sizhi turned to look at her and gently said, "Oh, is that so?

"Then be more careful in your next life."

...

In the final four rounds of the game, the seven players abandoned in the game field exhibited two completely different states.

The three wealthy conglomerate players on Han Mengying's side had basically given up resisting.

They had taken control of the Management Room, but all Han Mengying did was set all the taxes to zero and did not levy taxes on the commoners.

After that, she sat down against the glass room of the Management Room, waiting for the game to end.

As for Qi Fan, he was still unwilling and was contemplating strategies.

"Now that I think about it, should we have hoarded investment coupons in the 11th round? Although the losses would still be significant, at least we could use some coupons before the 20th round settlement to avoid some taxes and wealth depreciation.

"Moreover, since we control the management, shouldn't we do something else?

"We could also maximize taxes on the commoners and earn some investment returns..."

Han Mengying shook her head: "It's meaningless.

"I really couldn't figure out the specifics of Community 17's coupon hoarding strategy in the quickest time. By the time I realized, it was already a bit late.

"But even if I had realized it sooner, it wouldn't have saved much from the losses.

"After the 12th round ends, my wealth value of over 150,000 will be wiped out by inheritance tax. In the remaining two rounds, I can only make one investment action towards each of you three, hoarding at most six coupons.

"If we invest in other commoners, they will definitely refuse our investment outright and won't cooperate with our coupon hoarding plan.

"You have two more rounds to live than I do, but your initial funds are too small, and you won't receive much additional funding.

"Even with Sun De's defection aside, between the two of us, no matter how much we struggle, we can only hoard a dozen coupons at most, worth two or three thousand.

"It's not of great significance.

"Now that we control the Management Room, we can certainly raise the commoner's tax rate, but in the 17th and 18th rounds, only one wealthy conglomerate player died, and in the 19th and 20th rounds, because the game will settle, no one will die.

"Inheritance tax would naturally become redundant.

"As for work tax and investment tax, if we raise them, the commoners would certainly cease any economic activities, which would harm others and not benefit us — it's meaningless.

"When the total Wealth Value is incapable of reaching 500,000, all our futile struggles will just turn into a joke to Community 17, the more elaborate our struggles, the more amusing they find it.

"If you want to cooperate with those people to earn visa time and minimize losses, go ahead. Struggling a bit might indeed result in a fewer thousands of visa time deductions.

"But I don't lack those visa time quotas, nor do I want to be laughed at like a clown."

Qi Fan silently sighed and could only sit down next to Han Mengying, giving up together.

The three from Community 4 didn't lack those few thousand visa time quotas.

Their expected earnings were tens of thousands, now turned into a deficit of 50,000, a gap big enough to drain any will they had left.

At this moment, Luo Wei hurriedly ran over.

"Don't be too despondent yet, I've just carefully calculated. Even if the current total wealth is only around 260,000, we can still concentrate this wealth to send two people to Departure!"

Qi Fan paused for a moment: "Oh? Did you consider the wealth depreciation issue? Did you account for the inability to transfer wealth through inheritance in the last four rounds?"

Luo Wei quickly nodded: "Of course, how could I make that kind of mistake! I've considered all the details!

"Actually, just by relying on investments, we can concentrate wealth.

"This game only restricts two people to one investment per round, but it doesn't limit simultaneous investments in multiple people or being invested in by multiple people.

"Lin Sizhi and the others used this method to rapidly concentrate wealth earlier.

"We have a total of seven people; we can definitely choose two to concentrate wealth.

"As long as the investment returns and being invested returns are all concentrated on these two, by the 19th and 20th rounds, aiming to let each achieve the maximum investment return limit, we can definitely ensure two people have 100,000 Wealth Value to Depart.

"This is the optimal solution for our seven people!"

Evidently, after coming up with this plan, Luo Wei temporarily broke free from the previous doldrums and found a final self-rescue solution.

However, Han Mengying showed no sign of happiness.

"Your plan is good, but it's impossible to accomplish."

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