God's Imitator

[Room 2: Sea Minesweeper]

[1. Placing Mine Zones]

[Players responsible for ’placing mine zones’ can freely place five different types of mine zones on a 10×10 grid map.]

[Small Mine Zone: 2 horizontally adjacent squares]

[Diagonal Mine Zone: 3 diagonally adjacent squares]

[Square Mine Zone: 4 squares forming a square]

[T-shaped Mine Zone: 4 squares forming a T shape]

[Continuous Mine Zone: 5 horizontally adjacent squares]

[When placing mine zones, they can be rotated 90 degrees but must strictly fit within existing squares.]

[2. Detecting Mine Zones][Players responsible for ’detecting mine zones’ cannot see the specific distribution of mine zones and can click one square at a time to detect.]

[After finding a mine zone, a hint will be provided.]

[The cumulative number of detection attempts will be counted until all mine zones are found.]

[3. Game Modes]

[’Single Player Mode’: The system will randomly place five different types of mine zones. Players need to find the exact positions of all mine zones within 60 detection attempts, or it will be declared a failure.]

[’Battle Mode’: Two players each place mine zones, then take turns searching. The player who finds all of the opponent’s mine zones first wins.]

[4. Game Rewards]

[Players can exchange visa time for chips at a 1:1 ratio, exchanging a maximum of 5,000 chips.]

[In single player mode, 500 chips must be paid each time. If the goal is achieved, 5,000 chips will be earned. (Rake must be deducted)]

[Each player can win the game a maximum of 10 times.]

[In battle mode there is no limit on the number of times. Both sides can agree on the chips each will wager, and the winning side will win the opponent’s chips. (Rake must be deducted)]

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Lin Sizhi carefully finished reading the game rules, then looked at the other players.

Perhaps to avoid being taken for God’s Imitators, the other players also weren’t rushing to enter rooms. One by one, they were all carefully reading the rules outside.

However, the concentration of the crowd was clearly different.

The most players were gathered at the entrances of ’Equipment Forging’ and ’Compare Sizes’.

Obviously, this was because these two rooms directly displayed the rake and transaction tax, and the values were very low, so they attracted players from the start.

’Auction Tycoon’ and ’Chess Endgame’, on the other hand, seemed somewhat deserted.

As for ’Sea Minesweeper’ where Lin Sizhi currently was, some players also came and went checking the rules, but in the end, aside from him, only one chubby guy with glasses remained.

Next to the door of each room, in addition to the rules notice board, there was also a simple chip exchange counter for carrying out corresponding operations such as purchasing or exchanging chips.

But the rules for each room were somewhat different.

Some rooms would unconditionally give away some visa time for free, while some rooms only allowed purchasing.

Moreover, even for buying chips, the prices were different in different rooms. Some were 1:1, some were 1:10. This completely depended on the God’s Imitator’s settings.

But the specific ratios wouldn’t have much impact, because chips from different rooms weren’t interchangeable, and when players obtained visa time, it was calculated proportionally.

After considering, Lin Sizhi prepared to exchange some chips for this room.

But just as he was about to operate, he was stopped by the chubby guy next to him.

”Wait!

”Friend, are you trying to exchange chips for this room? Think twice!

”It’s clearly not worth it!”

Lin Sizhi looked at him and temporarily withdrew his hand, ”Oh? How so?”

The chubby guy enthusiastically explained, ”Haven’t you noticed that hardly any players are lingering at the entrance of this game room?

”Obviously, just through the two items ’rake’ and ’transaction tax’, you can already conduct preliminary screening of these game rooms.

”I won’t reveal the specific reasons, but a very strong player in our community analyzed and came to a quite reliable conclusion: among these game rooms, just mindlessly prioritize the ones with the best benefits.

”Because the game invitation clearly stated that this game will also ’screen God’s Imitators’.

”Of these six rooms, four have 0% rake, and there are two other rooms. One is ’Chess Endgame’ which clearly states 10% rake, and then there’s this ’Sea Minesweeper’, which doesn’t even list the rake value!

”This clearly shows a guilty conscience.

”If the rake was low, why wouldn’t they write it out? It must be that the rake is relatively high, and they’re too embarrassed to write it, hoping to trick whoever they can.

”Look, in single player mode you invest 500 chips to earn 5,000 chips. This looks like a trap. How could the return possibly be this high?

”What if you go in to play and only then discover that the rake is 100%, and all the chips you win get taken away? Wouldn’t that be getting scammed?”

Lin Sizhi nodded, ”That makes sense. So what are you planning?”

The chubby guy hurriedly said, ”My thinking is to first find suitable players and form a small group to jointly adopt group strategies.

”As for choosing game rooms, this is what I’m thinking:

”First, exclude ’Sea Minesweeper’. The rake and transaction tax aren’t listed, so there’s definitely something wrong.

”Then exclude ’Auction Tycoon’. It actually charges 100% transaction tax, crazy!

”There are a total of five types of cards that can be obtained in game rooms, and they can be duplicates. We still need to sell them to other people. If there’s a 100% transaction tax, that means death immunity items produced from this room, even if we sell them, we won’t receive a single penny.

”Who would still go play that?

”’Equipment Forging’ and ’Compare Sizes’ have more people in these two rooms, so the competition should be more intense. The more chips produced, the less visa time each person can share.

”So I think we shouldn’t join in that excitement first. Let’s just choose one between ’Simple Poker’ and ’Chess Endgame’ to play.

”I’m more inclined toward ’Simple Poker’ because it plays faster, the rules are simple, and the rake is relatively low.”

Lin Sizhi nodded repeatedly, ”Hmm, that analysis makes sense.”

Obviously, this chubby guy had deliberately come to camp at the entrance of the ’Sea Minesweeper’ room, waiting for someone with fate.

Because in his view, players who planned to enter an obviously trap-filled room like ’Sea Minesweeper’ were most likely not very good at playing. As long as he showed sincerity and broke down the game rules, he could reach cooperation.

Although such players might be relatively weak and have no ability, cooperating with them was relatively safe, and the risk of being scammed in return was smaller.

Seeing everything developing according to the script he envisioned, the chubby guy was very happy. He extended his hand, ”Then shall we consider this as officially establishing cooperation?

”My name is Cheng Wen, from Community 3.”

Lin Sizhi shook hands with him, ”Lin Sizhi, Community 17.”

Cheng Wen froze, ”Ah?”

His expression instantly became somewhat stiff. Obviously, he hadn’t met Lin Sizhi, but he had also heard this name within the community.

Now thinking about teaching the other person how to play the game, there was an awkwardness that made his toes curl.

Lin Sizhi looked again at the ’Sea Minesweeper’ room, ”Although your strategy also makes a lot of sense, I feel that the ’Sea Minesweeper’ game should also be profitable.

”I still want to enter this game first to take a look.”

Cheng Wen hurriedly changed his tune, ”Of course! I also think this room is actually pretty good.”

Lin Sizhi used 1,000 minutes of visa time to exchange for 1,000 chips, then walked into the room.

Cheng Wen also followed suit and exchanged 1,000 chips, then silently followed behind Lin Sizhi.