Lin Sizhi handed over a 1000-minute voucher: "Very good, this is a reward for your cleverness.

"Next, all you have to do is give me a thumbs-up when you leave the venue."

Zhao Duo happily accepted the voucher, but was somewhat puzzled: "But the checking machine refreshes only once an hour; how can you be sure I gave you a thumbs-up?

"Are you going to use a broadcast to verify? But in that case, the like would be used up."

Lin Sizhi explained: "Of course, there's no way to distinguish, and I won't waste extra effort thinking about those issues.

"As long as in three meetings within an hour, I haven't received 3 likes, it means someone didn't keep their promise.

"In that case, I will no longer invite the above three people, and instead, match with three new players.

"Until the hour when I receive all 3 likes, then I will continuously invite these three players in sequence and maintain this cooperative relationship until the game ends."

Zhao Duo was a bit surprised: "So does that mean if the other two people don't stick to the agreement, I'll also be eliminated?"

Lin Sizhi nodded: "Yes, you'd better pray that doesn't happen."

Zhao Duo thought for a moment and then asked: "So at that time, will you be the one inviting me or will I invite you? During times outside of meeting with you?"

Lin Sizhi clearly had already planned everything out: "I'll invite you; once you see my invitation, you just need to decline others and agree immediately.

"Of course, I usually follow a fixed order for invitations. For example, if you are the third in the hour, I will invite you in the third meeting of each subsequent hour.

"As for the other two meetings within the hour, you can arrange them as you wish. I won't interfere.

"Oh, by the way, if we can establish a stable cooperative relationship for more than three times, I'll consider increasing the rewards.

"Raising the price for each like to 2000 minutes."

Zhao Duo quietly swallowed. It was hard not to be tempted by this condition.

Although Zhao Duo also knew that if she was lucky, she might be able to squeeze ten thousand minutes of visa time from some foolish male player, but that hope was slim.

Such fools are hard to find; many male players, even with a ten-thousand-minute voucher, rarely give it away freely.

Of course, even if she did find such a fool who handed over ten thousand minutes straightforwardly, the optimal choice afterward would not be to keep the promise but to take the voucher and run, looking for the next fool.

Lin Sizhi's proposal seemed much more attractive.

Because it is a strategy for stable earnings, while the amount each time is not large, the accumulation could be considerable. Moreover, the price for each like could be doubled to 2000 minutes later.

Zhao Duo could easily spend a third of the upcoming meetings matching with Lin Sizhi, stably earning visa time, and use the remaining two-thirds for other schemes.

For instance, deceit.

No matter how you think about it, it's an irresistible proposal.

Zhao Duo smiled: "Alright, then let's wish for a pleasant cooperation in advance!"

...

...

On the other hand, Yang Yuting, who just finished her third meeting, was checking the current number of 'Likes' and 'Dislikes' in the rest area.

[Community 17 - Yang Yuting]

[Current 'Likes' Owned: 2]

[Current 'Dislikes' Owned: 2]

[Current 'Likes' Received: 3]

[Current 'Dislikes' Received: 0]

"Three people actually gave me likes?

"Moreover, someone wants to exchange a visa time voucher with me...

"This is a difficult choice."

Yang Yuting found herself in a bit of a dilemma.

Unlike Zheng Jie, the three meetings she had in the first hour went very smoothly.

The first meeting was with a male player from Community 9, who voluntarily chose to pay the room usage fee at the start and actively engaged in conversation. They had a decent chat.

But at the end, Yang Yuting declined the other's proposal to exchange likes.

After all, you can only exchange one like per hour, and Yang Yuting wasn't sure if there would be a more suitable person to like later.

Of course, she didn't ask for a like from the other side either, but the person claimed to have given her a like as a gesture of sincerity, hoping Yang Yuting would accept his invitation for another meeting after confirming the like and start exchanging likes from the next time.

The second meeting was with a male player from Community 3.

Yang Yuting was initially wary because he was from the same community as Lu Xinyi, but this male player was very generous, offering a 1000-minute visa time voucher to Yang Yuting unconditionally, which caught her off guard.

He said it was compensation for female players being randomly deducted visa time in the game.

But Yang Yuting quickly clarified that she would indeed be deducted visa time in this game, but only 3 minutes per hour, which isn't much.

Moreover, even if compensation was needed, it shouldn't be taken from other players.

This actually made the other person appreciate her honesty more and proposed that Yang Yuting agree to exchange likes in their final meeting so both could earn an additional 30,000 minutes of visa time.

After considering it, Yang Yuting still declined and did not accept the voucher.

Although she could choose to accept it first and then backtrack, Yang Yuting ultimately couldn't bring herself to make that decision.

The other party felt it was a pity, but still very gentlemanly said that if Yang Yuting changed her mind, she could invite him for a meeting anytime.

"You are always the highest priority for me."

He said this.

The third person she met was an ordinary guy who brought two bottles of mineral water and a snack. Yang Yuting felt a bit embarrassed and wanted to split the visa time cost, but the other was very generous and pressed "I'll pay."

Naturally, Yang Yuting couldn't select any other options. Their conversation wasn't particularly inspiring but was decent.

If any of the three people lied about giving a like, Yang Yuting actually wouldn't be able to tell.

However, all three did give likes, which made Yang Yuting's choice difficult.

Who should she invite for the next meeting?

She knew that no matter whom she invited, they would definitely agree, but choosing was difficult.

As she was tangled in her thoughts, a new meeting began.

Yang Yuting walked into the meeting room and paused.

Because sitting opposite her was a young, pretty, short-haired girl, not the opposite sex.

Moreover, the name on the badge made Yang Yuting instantly cautious.

[Community 3 - Lu Xinyi].

Yang Yuting also didn't expect to meet players from Community 3 twice in four meetings.

But on second thought, it made sense.

Though there were 6 communities participating in this game, players from the same community didn't seem to match up, and the number of participants from different communities varied.

If Community 3 had the highest participation of 8 people, then running into multiple players from it was normal.

Lu Xinyi saw Yang Yuting's reaction and community number and immediately understood the situation.

She shrugged helplessly: "Am I really destined to meet people from Community 17? Ah, no free drinks and snacks this time."

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