God's Imitator

After listening to Lin Sizhi’s analysis, Cheng Wen couldn’t help but suddenly understand.

What he had originally thought wasn’t actually wrong, but he had failed to consider one more layer.

This game clearly stated it had the function of ’screening God’s Imitators’, and many people had also guessed that this screening was most likely completed through ’how much visa time God’s Imitators earned from players’.

Cheng Wen had initially only thought of the first layer.

Because there was competition among God’s Imitators, to earn visa time, they first had to ensure players came to play. Smart God’s Imitators would definitely set the rake and transaction tax very low.

Some extreme God’s Imitators might even completely eliminate the rake and set the transaction tax at 10%, which was already a fairly extreme situation.

But actually, there was a second layer.

This kind of involution had risks. What if everyone set the transaction tax at 10%?

What if they couldn’t snatch players, and the transaction tax amount had also been lowered, and they couldn’t earn enough visa time? Then it would all be over.

Therefore, some God’s Imitators chose a different path.Don’t lower the rake and transaction tax, but let players obtain dividends from the room more stably and easily, or even give players additional benefits.

The game rules also said that God’s Imitators might have additional concessions.

Obviously, the God’s Imitator of ’Sea Minesweeper’ wanted to attract players this way.

Following Lin Sizhi’s method, any player could stably earn chips in the ’Sea Minesweeper’ room.

There were a total of 20 players in the hall. If each person won 10 times, that would be 200 games, and the rake or transaction tax generated during this time wouldn’t be small.

Moreover, according to the game rules, after playing many games, the ’room dividends’ could also be increased.

Additionally, doing it this way had another benefit. If the God’s Imitator who made ’Sea Minesweeper’ encountered their own game, they could immediately use this ’surefire winning method’ to come in and withdraw funds.

However, judging from the current situation, this God’s Imitator had most likely been assigned to another hall.

So Lin Sizhi had picked up a bargain.

Cheng Wen increasingly felt that following Lin Sizhi into this room was absolutely the right choice. He hurriedly quickened his clicking on the screen, trying to catch up to Lin Sizhi’s progress as much as possible.

Soon, the two of them each finished playing 10 games.

Each obtained 30,000 chips from this room.

After Lin Sizhi did a simple count, he put them all in his pocket.

These chips looked similar to regular chips, just slightly larger in size. Besides having different colors, designs, and numbers, the biggest difference was a small rectangular area in the center with the four characters ’Sea Minesweeper’ written on it.

This represented that they were special chips for ’Sea Minesweeper’, and could only be used to play games in this room or exchange for ’room dividends’. They couldn’t be taken to other rooms for use.

Afterward, Lin Sizhi came to the chip exchange counter at the room entrance and waited patiently.

Cheng Wen looked at the time. Unknowingly, 27 minutes had passed. After waiting a bit longer, they could conduct the first ’room dividend’.

The two of them had each played 10 games in the room. Although they clicked the screen as quickly as possible, each game still took over two minutes.

Soon, a broadcast message began playing in the hall.

[In 3 minutes, each room will conduct ’dividends’. Please be prepared, players.]

Previously, there were still players playing games in other rooms. Hearing the broadcast, they hurriedly took action. Many people came to the chip exchange counters at the room entrances in advance to wait.

Cheng Wen also hurriedly checked the detailed rules for room dividends.

[1. Every 30 minutes, game rooms will conduct dividends once.]

[2. The more accumulated games played in a game room, the higher the activated dividends. (Games with longer single game duration will unlock more dividend amounts.)]

[3. Players can obtain the corresponding proportion of dividends according to the ’chips held / total current chips in that room’ ratio.]

[4. Special note: Every 100 chips can only be exchanged for a maximum of 100 minutes of visa time and cannot be exchanged for more.]

[Current room’s dividend amount for this time: 42,000 minutes of visa time.]

[Current room’s chip exchange ratio: ’Chips : Visa time = 100 : 68’]

The dividend rules were still relatively clear, but there were some details worth noting.

Cheng Wen discovered that although the rules said the more games played, the higher the activated dividends, which could possibly range from 30,000 to 150,000, the standards for each room still seemed to have subtle differences.

Some rooms had 2-minute games, while some rooms could conduct a game in 30 seconds, so the former unlocked higher dividend amounts per game.

This was also a rule that conformed to common sense. If there wasn’t this restriction, many God’s Imitators would design games that lasted 10 seconds each, and everything would be in chaos.

Cheng Wen quickly did a calculation in his mind.

Currently, the ’Sea Minesweeper’ room had a total of 62,000 chips. Cheng Wen and Lin Sizhi each had 31,000, and others had no chips.

The room’s dividend amount was 42,000 minutes of visa time, of which 2,000 minutes of visa time was the cost Cheng Wen and Lin Sizhi used to purchase chips, which was also counted into the room dividends.

They had conducted a total of 20 single player mode games in the room. From this number, they could roughly estimate the dividend amount activated by each game.

Cheng Wen thought briefly, ”20 games = 40,000 minutes of dividends. In other words, each game can additionally unlock 2,000 minutes of dividends?

”Wait, not necessarily.

”The game rules say the room’s dividends are at minimum 30,000. It might also be calculated starting from 30,000, with an additional 10,000 activated. In that case, each game could unlock 500 minutes of dividends.”

Cheng Wen wasn’t too sure which specific situation it was, but the latter situation had a significantly higher possibility.

Because the dividends defaulted to 30,000 to 150,000 minutes of visa time, this was clearly written in the game rules.

According to the exchange ratio, Cheng Wen could just split these dividends evenly with Lin Sizhi, meaning each person would obtain 21,000 minutes of visa time.

Of course, according to the rules, Cheng Wen could also choose not to exchange.

In that case, Lin Sizhi could still obtain 21,000 minutes of visa time. Cheng Wen could keep the chips in his hand, and the remaining 21,000 minutes of visa time in the room would continue to accumulate to the next dividend and be calculated again according to ’total chips / total dividends’.

Thinking of this, Cheng Wen felt somewhat embarrassed.

”Sorry, if I hadn’t played, could you have directly obtained the full 30,000 minutes of visa time? I seem to have caused you to lose 10,000...”

If Cheng Wen hadn’t played, although the reduced number of games would cause the game to be unable to increase the dividend upper limit, the minimum value for each room was 30,000 minutes of visa time.

Lin Sizhi happened to have 31,000 chips and could exchange at most at a 1:1 ratio, so he could have obtained this 30,000 alone.

But Cheng Wen also played the game. Although it increased the 30,000 dividend to 40,000, he had earned as many chips as Lin Sizhi and instead took away half.

Lin Sizhi didn’t mind, ”It doesn’t matter. This is just an appetizer. We two are now in a cooperative relationship, aren’t we?”

He chose to throw in all the chips in his hand and exchange them for 21,000 minutes of visa time.

At the same time, with a ”snap”, two thick physical cards popped out from below the chip exchange counter.

Lin Sizhi picked them up to look. These two cards had very simple designs but had different borders and colors. From the embossed pattern in the center of the cards, it could be confirmed that this was a ’Helmet’ and a ’Boots’.

They each had a 20% probability of negating the instant death penalty.