The specific selection of ’Finance’ was key to completing this scheme.
If Community 12 chose themselves, they would inevitably select Fan Zehui but Lin Sizhi and Cai Zhiyuan couldn’t trust Fan Zehui.
In Community 12, the person with the most favorable impression of Lin Sizhi and most trustworthy was Zhou Guifen.
However, if Cai Zhiyuan directly nominated Zhou Guifen as finance, this behavior would seem overly deliberate and easily arouse suspicion.
Han Mengying would absolutely not agree.
So Cai Zhiyuan first nominated Lin Sizhi to serve as Community 17’s finance.
Han Mengying naturally disagreed and conveniently designated the least intelligent Qin Yao from Community 17 but this also allowed Cai Zhiyuan to more naturally bypass Fan Zehui and designate Zhou Guifen as Community 12’s finance.
The situation Han Mengying faced at the time was actually a ’forced choice.’
Fan Zehui had already been excluded.
If Han Mengying chose Zhou Rong or He Ming, then Cai Zhiyuan would choose Zhou Guifen, just as had actually happened and if Han Mengying chose Zhou Guifen, then Cai Zhiyuan would pretend to reluctantly accept.Without Han Mengying knowing the specific scheme, no matter how she chose, the person who ultimately became finance would definitely be Zhou Guifen.
Zhou Guifen and Qin Yao cooperated with each other, plus Lin Sizhi and Cai Zhiyuan’s constant calculations and adjustments, only then could they avoid obvious abnormalities in wealth ratios while accumulating enough expired investment vouchers.
Expired investment vouchers worth 100,000 required at least 50 vouchers.
The two finance officers of Communities 12 and 17, Zhou Guifen and Qin Yao, were exchanging investment returns while hoarding expired investment vouchers, so these two communities’ total wealth was still growing, just slower than expected.
Community 4, as the Conglomerate community, had much faster wealth growth than the two Civilian communities, so it frequently exceeded 50% ratio and had to invest in the two Civilian communities.
Strictly speaking, this wasn’t quite normal but according to Lin Sizhi’s plan, Conglomerate players could prioritize exchanging investment returns. Han Mengying always felt she was taking the major share of investment returns, so much faster wealth growth than Civilian communities was normal.
Civilian communities’ wealth growth was a bit slow, but exactly how much slower than normal speed, no one could say clearly because there was no clear reference for comparison.
This feeling of ’wealth growth always faster than Civilians’ also gave Han Mengying false security, making her more convinced that the Conglomerate position was extremely stable.
Thinking about it now, if calculated according to theoretical return limits, the total wealth figure in round 10 was obviously too slow but the problem was that this game’s initial data was very chaotic. Everyone qualified for investment at different times, cross-community investment behaviors were frequent, return distribution for each investment varied, sometimes not maximizing investment limits, sometimes investment collisions occurred.
The three communities also had considerable hostility toward each other and didn’t trust each other.
Han Mengying couldn’t personally coordinate all communities’ investment plans and return distribution. Neither Community 12 nor Community 17 would absolutely allow such situations.
They would at most allow Han Mengying to check the numbers on everyone’s chest identity cards, never letting her know specifically how each round’s investments were made.
Of course, conversely, the two Civilian communities had no right to inquire about the Conglomerate community’s investment plans either.
In this situation, Han Mengying could only be certain that Community 4 prioritized obtaining investment returns.
The three communities’ internal investments were black boxes, unknowable to outsiders.
This inevitably caused some losses, unable to achieve optimal efficiency, causing actual wealth figures to deviate from theoretical values.
So Han Mengying couldn’t accurately notice subtle abnormalities in total wealth growth speed.
Besides this, there was another very important point: Cai Zhiyuan having Luo Wei communicate with Han Mengying seriously occupied both their thinking time.
Just like initially, Han Mengying immediately went to communicate with Fan Zehui, occupying Fan Zehui’s thinking time.
Under ideal circumstances, if Han Mengying and Luo Wei constantly monitored total wealth values for calculations, they might have been able to discover abnormalities but Han Mengying and Luo Wei happened to be very interested in each other. Han Mengying constantly told Luo Wei about Community 4’s structure and framework, discussing their ideologies, preparing for recruitment.
Luo Wei was also seriously considering whether she should switch to Community 4.
Their brains were occupied by this matter, so the final possibility of noticing this scheme was completely extinguished.
As for others...
Their intelligence levels weren’t worthy of thinking about such problems.
So these investment vouchers were hidden by Lin Sizhi without anyone knowing, playing a decisive role in the subsequent process of seizing management.
Of course, even thinking of this level, Han Mengying still had some detailed confusion but obviously, she could only slowly figure out these confusions herself.
...
Meanwhile, round 16 was about to end.
Players’ age composition was about to undergo a new round of reshuffling.
Round 17 was a very special node, because in this round players’ age composition would inevitably be 1 ‘Old Age’ and 3 ‘Adult’s, meaning Conglomerate players would inevitably control the management room regardless of wealth.
Han Mengying thought Lin Sizhi should choose to switch Conglomerate identity to Community 17 in this round’s final time.
However, the broadcast content was completely beyond her expectations.
[A player has initiated a proposal to change tax rates. All management players please immediately go to the management room to vote.]
[This proposal has received 2 "Agree" votes, exceeding half, and takes effect immediately.]
[Current Conglomerate departure tax adjusted to: 0%]
Immediately after, more broadcasts began playing.
[Lin Sizhi chooses ’Departure’ to the safe zone, no longer subject to this country’s rule constraints.]
[Cai Zhiyuan chooses ’Departure’ to the safe zone, no longer subject to this country’s rule constraints.]
[Qin Yao chooses ’Departure’ to the safe zone, no longer subject to this country’s rule constraints.]
[Zhou Guifen chooses ’Departure’ to the safe zone, no longer subject to this country’s rule constraints.]
Hearing these broadcasts, Sun De, who had been sitting on the ground waiting for the game to end, suddenly widened his eyes and stood up abruptly.
During this period, he was still with Community 4’s other players and had no opportunity to contact the other two communities’ players at all but at this moment, he didn’t need to contact anyone, because that broadcast had already conveyed a clear message to Sun De.
"You can run away."
Conglomerate players’ departure tax had always been 100%, so Sun De couldn’t depart to the safe zone but at the final moment when Lin Sizhi and the other four left, they canceled the Conglomerate departure tax and Sun De was currently the only Conglomerate player whose wealth exceeded 100,000.
He immediately ran desperately toward the ’Offshore Area.’
Han Mengying shouted in shock, "Sun De! Come back!"
However, Sun De ran faster and faster.
[Sun De chooses ’Departure’ to the safe zone, no longer subject to this country’s rule constraints.]
This turn of events stunned all other players in the venue.
Everyone clearly saw that these five people had left the venue, going through that special gate exit to that small ’Offshore Area.’
It could also be called the ’Safe Zone.’
According to game rules, they were now in ’Departure’ status, no longer subject to any game rule restrictions.
The prerequisite for departure was obtaining over 100,000 wealth, and these five people had definitely qualified but the problem was...
How did they reach consensus? And why did they do this?
Community 4’s other players hadn’t yet recovered from Sun De’s escape either.
Qi Fan also couldn’t understand at all, "Wait, why did 2 agree votes pass?"
Han Mengying instantly understood, "Because this round’s population structure is special, management only has 2 people!
"Lin Sizhi himself as ‘Old Age’ management, 2 votes exceed half and can execute any proposal!
"He deliberately wants to trigger the wealth shrinkage rule to exterminate everyone!!"