Chen Guangming spoke, looking at Wang Weidong: "How many shelters have you already sold?"

Wang Weidong thought for a moment and answered honestly: "Four."

Chen Guangming nodded: "We sold five, because in the last round of the game, our two communities were eager to reclaim funds, making these audience members the lucky ones.

"But that also means there are still 21 audience members holding the delusion that 'the price of shelters will drop.'

"What we need to do is destroy their illusion, forcing them to buy shelters at the highest price. This will be a very considerable profit.

"You also don't need to worry about being implicated because as long as during voting, half of the players choose to cast insincere votes, that's enough.

"Our Community 12 cannot vote insincerely for ourselves.

"However, the number of people in your three communities combined can certainly exceed the majority."

Zhang Shichao hesitated.

Because insincere votes cannot be used for the Sinners of their own community, these three communities indeed had not used insincere votes yet.

Next, there are three Sinners, from Community 12, Community 15, and Community 17 respectively.

Zhang Shichao originally considered whether to use the insincere vote for Community 17, but in previous exchanges, Li Renshu had already clearly stated that their insincere votes were arranged for other purposes and would not be exchanged.

In that case, Zhang Shichao saw no need to reserve the insincere vote for Community 17, preferring instead to strive for more personal gain.

Chen Guangming's proposal was indeed quite appealing.

After considering for a moment, Wang Weidong nodded: "No problem, I agree to this plan."

He had actually given up competing with Community 12 and was only thinking about how to sell the existing shelters at a high price.

So Chen Guangming's words resonated deeply with him.

Although Wang Weidong could not be certain if Chen Guangming's statement was true or false, regardless of whether the crime was inflating the price of shelters, he should choose to raise prices.

If there was no such crime, then raising prices would not incur any punishment, and certainly, the shelters should be sold at high prices to earn Gold Coins from the Audience;

If there was such a crime, then no matter who the crime belonged to, as long as enough people committed the crime, everyone would vote insincerely.

Because this is not only saving the Sinners, but also saving themselves.

Of course, to avoid risk, Wang Weidong would not handle this personally but would delegate it to other players within the community who still had a chance of immunity to do it.

But whatever the case, raising the price of shelters and extracting as many Gold Coins from the Audience as possible aligns with the interests of all Inner Court Players at this moment.

The key is not in committing no crime at all but in having an appropriate method of evasion after the crime becomes clear.

Zhang Shichao also nodded: "Alright, I agree too."

Jin Cheng asked: "So what exactly should we do? What price should we list with?"

Chen Guangming explained: "It's simple, there are still 21 audience members without a shelter, we just need to divide these 21 audience members among ourselves.

"According to the number of plots, we can roughly distribute like this:

"Our Community 12 will list nine shelters; Community 15 will list six shelters; Community 9 and Community 7 will each list three shelters.

"This roughly aligns with the proportion of plots we currently own.

"We all sell at the same price.

"Now it's the seventh round, we list at 23 Gold Coins.

"Then with each round, we increase by 1 Gold Coin. By the tenth round, we will increase to 26 Gold Coins.

"At the same time, we can separately send players to other communities to supervise each other.

"Of course, this cooperation might break down because after all, if you insist on listing more shelters or at lower prices, I can't stop you.

"But you need to understand, if that actually happens, everyone's profits will only be harmed.

"After all, these 21 audience members are a non-renewable resource. Once they buy a shelter, they definitely won't buy a second one."

Chen Guangming's plan was evidently well thought out, aligning with the shared interests of these communities.

Although they could choose to list at a lower price first, each shelter might earn 8~10 Gold Coins less.

Moreover, other communities would follow by listing at a lower price.

In such a scenario, prices would spiral downward further, making profits even less than in the current situation.

The other three exchanged looks and finally nodded individually.

"Deal."

...

After returning to their respective resting areas, these communities sent players to each other's communities for mutual supervision.

Then, they revised all the listing prices.

Strictly in line with the previous agreement to list shelters, they were all inferior shelters at a uniform price of 23 Gold Coins.

Although they couldn't see the expressions of the Audience, they could roughly guess.

Nine audience members had previously bought shelters at the price of 16 Gold Coins, initially seeming like fools, but now they should be extremely grateful.

Because there were no longer 16 Gold Coin shelters; they all turned into 23 Gold Coin shelters.

After listing, up until the end of the seventh round of the game, there was no deal.

Evidently, the Audience absolutely couldn't accept such prices.

But whether they accepted or not, nobody cared.

...

The eighth round of the game began.

The large screen displayed the name of the third Sinner.

[Cao Haichuan, male, 39 years old.]

[While serving as a policeman, he merely conducted a simple mediation and did nothing further when a farmer, deceived in a housing purchase, had a dispute with the developer and called the police.]

[Judgment result: Not tried.]

[In the game, actions considered as committing a similar crime include: 'Failing to attempt to stop other players from committing other crimes and not committing other crimes oneself.']

[You have ten seconds to choose between 'Guilty' or 'Appeal.']

Everyone was somewhat surprised, looking toward the direction of Community 17.

Evidently, this crime was very similar to Zhang Shichao's, leaving a large room for ambiguity.

Judging solely from the case itself, this kind of dispute is indeed difficult for an ordinary policeman to handle; mediation seems to be all that could be done.

However, many have higher expectations of law enforcement officers.

Therefore, being 'Guilty' or 'Not Guilty' depends solely on the players' inner thoughts and can be influenced by subjective factors.

The determination of similar crimes is also quite harsh.

In simple terms, it's about 'inaction.'

Whether it's preventing other players from committing crimes or committing another crime themselves, neither would be considered 'inaction.'

But the conditions for this judgment are extremely challenging to predict, and many communities inevitably had this kind of player.

Many players' hearts were in their throats.

Almost all players believed that Cao Haichuan would most likely choose to appeal, but how many would vote 'Not Guilty' was unknown.

However, Cao Haichuan quickly made a decision.

[The Sinner chose 'Guilty' and will face instant death penalty in ten seconds.]

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