Wang Weidong looked again at the current land plots he owned.

Community 15 currently owns 14 plots. Their strategy is to use 5 plots to build regular shelters and the remaining 9 plots to build inferior shelters.

The regular shelters, of course, are for their own use.

The remaining 9 inferior shelters, 5 are priced at 16 Gold Coins, and 4 are priced at 18 Gold Coins.

Wang Weidong realized that after Community 12 obtained the "Privileged Community," it is highly likely that he would be unable to outbid the subsequent land plots.

At this point, selling shelters at a low price and forcibly auctioning land brings no benefit to Community 15.

Instead, it would be better to sell the current shelters at the highest possible price and have all communities earn money from the audience together.

This is why he had Feng Bo take some risk to communicate with other communities, aiming to raise the price of shelters as much as possible to gain maximum profit.

So far, 4 shelters priced at 16 Gold Coins have been sold, but there has been no movement on the remaining ones.

Over at Community 12, they should also be priced at 16 Gold Coins, though it's unclear how many have been sold.

The big screen displays the latest transaction prices, but if multiple shelters sell for the same price, it seems they won't repeat the display.

Only when there is a change in price is a new broadcast announced.

...

At this moment, Round 7 of the game began.

The second sinner's list appeared on the big screen.

[Zhang Shichao, male, 28 years old.]

[As a well-known blogger, he promoted rising housing prices online and in real life, inciting netizens and real-life friends to purchase property.]

[Judgment result: Unjudged.]

[In the game, the equivalent wrongdoing to the sinner's crime is: 'Inciting other community players to buy or sell shelters at prices above 15 Gold Coins'.]

[You have 10 seconds to choose 'Confess' or 'Appeal'.]

[During the sinner's judgment, shelter transactions will be prohibited.]

Upon hearing this broadcast, the players of Community 15 looked at Wang Weidong with surprise, finding his guess was indeed correct.

This also meant that Feng Bo did commit the equivalent crime, but even if Zhang Shichao was judged 'guilty', it didn't matter, as only the players of Community 9 would be implicated.

Zhang Shichao's expression obviously froze for a moment. Although he had mentally prepared himself in advance, he still felt his heart race and cold sweat flow.

Of course, he also did not choose to confess.

Compared to the past chaos in Community 7, the other players in Community 9 appeared much calmer, and they didn't urge Zhang Shichao to confess.

Because Zhang Shichao had good relations within Community 9 and was considered a relatively core player, more importantly, other players couldn't force him to confess.

[The sinner chooses 'Appeal', and will have 1 minute to state his case.]

The big screen showed a frontal close-up of Zhang Shichao, and at the same time, everything he said could be heard by all players through the broadcast.

"I do not recognize this as a crime!

"For the past twenty years, housing prices have been rising continuously! Some people worked hard, but didn't buy a house; some were lazy but relied on their parents to buy houses, but the result is that the former lost everything while the latter achieved financial freedom!

"In such a situation, was I wrong to advise others to buy houses? Should I have told them not to buy houses and watch as prices rise and become unaffordable?

"I just gave suggestions based on my observations of this world, but ultimately, the decision was still theirs to make.

"If a crime must be determined, it should be those who cause housing prices to rise who are guilty, those who speculate and rent houses are guilty, by no means should I, someone forced to acknowledge reality, be guilty!"

Clearly, compared to Jin Cheng's testimony earlier, Zhang Shichao's testimony showed some improvement.

This is because he had already seriously contemplated his crime and made prepared statements in advance.

But players still had to stay true to their inner answers.

Soon, the voters completed their voting.

[Voting result: Guilty.]

[In the game, the equivalent wrongdoing to the sinner's crime is: 'Inciting other community players to buy or sell shelters at prices above 15 Gold Coins'.]

Zhang Shichao sighed, as the tiny bit of hope he held onto was shattered.

Of course, compared to Jin Cheng's crime, Zhang Shichao's crime was more minor, so not too many should have voted 'guilty'.

But as long as it surpasses half, the result is still guilty.

This game's judgment mechanism is far harsher than expected.

Wang Weidong looked towards the direction of Community 9, a slight smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

The development of the plot was exactly as he expected.

Although two players from Community 15 also committed the same act, it was far from reaching 5 people, so they wouldn't be implicated.

However, as the broadcast continued to appear on the big screen, Wang Weidong was stunned.

[More than 5 players committed the same crime, therefore, the players who committed the same crime will be implicated.]

[The above players will face instant death punishment in 10 seconds.]

Wang Weidong looked in shock at the A4 Nine-Box Grid occupied by his community and the D7 Nine-Box Grid occupied by Community 9.

A total of 6 plot signs shattered, and the green light strips turned off after shelters were built, indicating shelter destruction and abandonment.

This meant 6 players were implicated, and their shelters were completely destroyed and abandoned.

These 6 were 90% probability shelters, they functioned normally, and no one got unlucky with the 10% probability.

Among them, 4 shelters in Community 9 were destroyed.

In Community 15, the shelters built by two players who went to lobby in Community 7 and Community 12 were destroyed.

Although no one died, Feng Bo's face turned very grim.

Because his immunity opportunity was consumed, this was an unexpected outcome.

Feng Bo couldn't accept this result: "Why? What's going on?

"How did the number of players with the same crime reach 5?"

Wang Weidong furrowed his brows and quickly figured out: "Community 9 deliberately arranged three players to commit this crime to reach the number! Adding you two, the players with the crime reached 5!

"But... when exactly?

"They clearly hadn't taken any actions! Could it be that Community 17..."

...

Li Renshu went to find Zhang Shichao, precisely to remind him of this situation.

Zhang Shichao had already guessed his crime, and if nothing was done, the other four players in Community 9 would be implicated.

However, if three players proactively committed this kind of crime, 'players with the same crime' would be implicated.

So, under Li Renshu's suggestion, three players in Community 9 proactively committed the same crime, attempting to incite Li Renshu to buy or sell shelters at high prices.

This strategy was devised by Cao Haichuan, but it still needed Li Renshu to execute it.

In this way, the number of players committing the same crime reached 5.

Although Community 9 still had 3 players implicated, at least 1 player retained their shelter.

This means that if Community 9 later executes some dangerous strategy, it can be carried out by this player because he still has one immunity opportunity.

There remains a great deal of strategic freedom in the gameplay.

And Community 15, which should have been intact, was also weakened.

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