"Alright, I'll list all the shelters at 16 gold coins each now.

"Let's hope enough audience members buy them..."

Fan Zehui quickly completed the listing, but according to the game's rules, even if the audience buys the shelters, the gold coins can only be settled in the free trading phase of the next game round.

Chen Guangming continued, "I understand that as a new member, it's hard for me to have absolute authority, so I must perform well enough in this game to get you enough profits.

"For the subsequent shelters, I only want two that have a 50% chance of safety, you four can freely allocate the rest.

"I can guarantee you two things:

"First, my crime is price gouging, but I have a way to make this crime ineffective and not implicate you.

"Second, at the right time, I will join forces with other communities to raise prices, ensuring we sell shelters at the highest price for profit.

"I'm taking on more risks than you, so you must trust me."

Fan Zehui nodded, "Of course."

A 50% chance shelter is more susceptible to luck during reprieves, even having two still leaves a 25% chance of death, which is far less cost-effective than a usual 90% chance shelter.

Chen Guangming's willingness represents his readiness to take on as much risk as possible.

Meanwhile, the other four players like Fan Zehui can hold and list more inferior shelters, and with three such shelters, the reprieve chance increases to 87.5%, and four increases it to 93.75%, which is evidently safer.

Moreover, when the inferior shelters are sold, the audience's gold coins will be allocated to the seller first, meaning Chen Guangming is willing to let them have the bulk of the gold income.

But at this moment, another player hesitantly said, "But... owning multiple shelters at the same time, could that also be a crime?"

Upon hearing this, Fan Zehui also showed a hesitant expression.

Chen Guangming, however, seemed unfazed, "Of course, it might be a crime.

"If you're afraid of this risk, you can let me sell them all.

"But in that case, all the gold proceeds would be distributed by me, and I would take at least 80%."

Taking on as many risks as needed is only fair when receiving a proportionate return.

Fan Zehui and the other players looked at each other.

Clearly, this is a simple trade-off issue.

'Owning too many shelters' indeed might be a crime, but if you want to earn gold coins, this behavior is unavoidable.

Holding more shelters also has its benefits, as they are building 50% chance shelters, and just retaining two may not effectively offset the instantaneous death penalty.

Furthermore, according to Chen Guangming, the more you can squeeze gold coins from the audience, the more likely it is to get support from the game mechanics.

So, even if 'owning too many shelters' turns out to be a crime, it is likely to be announced later, by which time they might have already sold their owned shelters.

Thinking of this, Fan Zehui nodded, "You're right, letting fate decide when disadvantaged, yet being hesitant when in an advantageous position, when can we ever win?

"I'll take that risk!"

After hesitating, the other three players decided to join as well.

Like Fan Zehui, they had previously always lost too many times in the game due to hesitation and fear of risks, and even in allocation-type games, they barely earned any visa time.

This time, they decided to seize the opportunity.

Better to gain big once than to die in the community when visa time runs out.

Chen Guangming continued, "If we can gain enough profits from this game, then back in the community, you must grant me enough authority and completely follow my lead in future games."

Clearly, Chen Guangming's actions are not out of pure goodwill but for authority.

He intends to use this conduct to win the support of Fan Zehui and others, and naturally, to become a core player, if not the leader, in Community 12 as a new player.

Fan Zehui and others nodded, "No problem, that's only natural.

"Our community has always lacked a backbone, as long as you can lead us to earn visa time, we'll follow your lead in everything!"

...

Meanwhile, in Community 7, the players were all sitting despondently without discussing any strategy.

They had previously engaged in a fierce argument but had now lost their morale.

Seeing Li Renshu approaching, Jin Cheng looked up and said, "There's no use getting shelters for us now, you might as well keep them for yourselves."

Li Renshu remained silent for a moment and said, "I understand your situation is very difficult right now, but it's not completely hopeless.

"Although there is no longer a reprieve opportunity, your community's crime has been announced, and there will be no further penalties implicating the whole community directly, so there's hope to leave the game safely.

"My suggestion is that you now try to reduce all actions to lower the likelihood of being implicated by similar crimes.

"Our previous cooperation still stands: in the 'final vote' phase, as long as our three communities group together to vote against the other communities, we'll be fine."

Jin Cheng nodded absent-mindedly, "Alright, I got it."

Li Renshu said nothing more and turned to leave.

She could only try to stimulate Jin Cheng's will to survive, ensuring continued cooperation on the 'final vote' issue through some safe strategies, but beyond that, indeed, there was little she could do.

...

Soon after, a player from Community 15 also came to the A1 Nine-Box Grid rest area where Community 7 was located.

"Hello, I'm Feng Bo from Community 15.

"Our Community 15 wants to establish a collaboration with you."

Jin Cheng looked up at Feng Bo, her eyes showing distrust.

Clearly, she didn't have a good impression of Community 15's players, especially their leader Wang Weidong.

Moreover, Jin Cheng had already reached a preliminary collaboration with Community 17, and though the shelter deal didn't succeed, Community 17 was much more amicable than Community 15 to her.

Feng Bo sighed, "I apologize on behalf of Wang Weidong, but those are the game rules, and we've only done what most communities would.

"There are no eternal friends, nor eternal enemies, only eternal interests, right?

"I come with sincerity, hoping you'll listen to what I have to say before making a decision."

Jin Cheng considered for a moment with her head down and asked, "How do you intend to cooperate?"

Feng Bo spoke quite frankly, "Although our two communities are in different situations now, we share a common goal: to earn as many gold coins from the audience as possible.

"Take our community for instance, we are prepared: everyone has already withdrawn all their gold coins and will strive to earn more.

"Even if our community is reduced to one person, that person can bring back all the coins and any additional coins earned.

"Of course, if we all die, there's nothing much to say, we'll accept it.

"It's with this spirit that our Community 15 has become the community with the most visa time."

At this point, Feng Bo leaned slightly forward and said earnestly, "You've lost a companion, which is indeed regrettable, but if you don't bring back the visa time, didn't he die in vain?"

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