The next second, everyone returned to Community 17's game hall.

Other players were all waiting anxiously. At this time, seeing everyone return, they hurried over.

On the big screen, the profit situation from this game also appeared.

[Now announcing Community 17's final visa time obtained in the 'Shelter Game.']

[No. 1 Fu Chen: 15827]

[No. 3 Li Renshu: 16728]

[No. 4 Cao Haichuan: Deported]

[No. 8 Zhou Guifen: 15722]

[No. 10 Zheng Jie: 17759]

[According to community rules, when players obtain visa time greater than 20,000 minutes, 5% will be included in the community security fund. Remaining visa time will be credited to each player's visa.]

Li Renshu placed the shattered bracelet on the long table, "This is Officer Cao's bracelet."

Everyone fell into silence. Actually, they had already made some psychological preparations beforehand.

Because when Li Renshu decided to use the get-out-of-death-free card, the big screen inside the community also briefly showed scenes from within the game.

After using it, the footage was cut off again.

Using the get-out-of-death-free card on Cao Haichuan, no one would raise objections.

Before entering this game, everyone already knew this was an elimination-type game and might be very dangerous. And from the footage when the get-out-of-death-free card was used, the situation at that time was also very urgent.

Being able to return safely from the game with only one death was already fortunate.

Of course, as a core figure within the game and also an indispensable important player in the community, Cao Haichuan's death would inevitably bring immeasurable far-reaching impacts to Community 17.

Everyone fell into silence. The vast majority of people in the community should have had good feelings toward Cao Haichuan.

Although he seemed somewhat careless and unkempt, he always made people feel very reliable. In the community, he was like a stabilizing figure.

Yang Yuting asked with somewhat low emotions, "Did this game have instant death punishment twice?"

Players in the community saw with their own eyes that Cao Haichuan consumed the get-out-of-death-free card to offset instant death punishment once, but didn't return from the game. Naturally, they thought of this.

Li Renshu nodded, "Yes. Everyone rest first. We'll conduct a review this afternoon."

...

In the afternoon, everyone sat around the long table. Their moods were still very heavy.

Li Renshu first called up the detailed game rules on the big screen and recounted the entire game process.

Wei Yinzhang said thoughtfully, "That is to say, the final profits were actually the result after reshuffling everyone's visa time through gold coins.

"Because our community's players had remaining visa time higher than the average of field players, we were naturally at a disadvantage in this game.

"Even though we obtained quite a few gold coins by killing hidden players at the end, we still didn't have much profit."

As a God's Imitator, Wei Yinzhang was more sensitive to game rules and profit issues.

The big screen had also previously displayed everyone's obtained visa time. They were roughly similar but all had odd amounts, and none exceeded 20,000.

Lower than the average profits of most games.

But from the game content perspective, when Community 17 left the game, each player actually brought out about forty-some gold coins.

This was because after all players from three communities died, the gold coins were divided among other surviving field players and the audience.

Community 11 was the 'hidden community.' They could originally obtain the profits from field players bidding on plots, approximately 360 gold coins.

And players from Community 7 and Community 9 also respectively sold 3 shelters at high prices. Remaining gold coins were roughly between 150 and 200.

Seven surviving field players, plus 30 audience members, jointly divided these gold coins.

So each person actually obtained an additional 19 gold coins.

Gold coins in the game were calculated according to the average visa time of all players, so 19 gold coins should be equivalent to about two-thirds of a typical player's total visa time.

But the problem was that during the game, players from Community 17 had exchanged all their gold coins.

For communities with more remaining visa time, once gold coins were exchanged, it equaled a loss.

So although they obtained over ten extra gold coins when leaving the game, visa time compared to when just entering the game hadn't changed much. It only increased by over ten thousand, still not reaching the 20,000 profit line where the community included funds in the low-income security fund.

Xu Tong frowned tightly, feeling indignant for the players, "This game's rules are too excessive!

"I thought the God's Imitator must be among the hidden players. But they weren't?

"With such a high mortality rate, the God's Imitator could still not enter the game? Almost without paying anything, they could harvest so much visa time."

After serious consideration, Wei Yinzhang shook her head, "No, actually if you calculate carefully, the visa time the God's Imitator actually obtained from this game wouldn't be much.

"Because the wealth in this game mostly flowed among 'hidden players,' 'field players,' and 'audience.'

"Gold coins field players spent bidding on plots all went to hidden players.

"And gold coins field players scraped from the audience by selling shelters at high prices were either all brought back to communities by survivors from the same community, or were evenly divided among field players and audience.

"After hidden players died, their gold coins and the gold coins from plot bidding income were also evenly divided.

"So what the God's Imitator could actually earn was only 'the unprotected portion of visa time forcibly deducted from the audience.'

"Suppose an audience member spent 16 gold coins to purchase an inferior shelter. Ten were free gold coins. They actually spent 30% of their visa time. But the inferior shelter could only protect 50% of original visa time. Then this 20% difference disappeared into thin air. That should have become the God's Imitator's profits."

Zheng Jie recalled the situation in the game slightly, "But it seems fewer than 10 audience members purchased shelters for 16 gold coins. At that time, Community 12 and Community 15 were eager to recoup funds.

"Most audience members spent around 23 to 26 gold coins."

Wei Yinzhang nodded, "Yes, if purchasing inferior shelters at prices above 20 gold coins, the God's Imitator actually had no profits.

"Because all the gold coins transferred to field players and were taken away."

Xu Tong felt very confused, "Does this mean the God's Imitator who designed this game actually didn't earn much visa time from it? So the Gallery allowed them not to enter the game.

"Considering the gold coin design again, does this game's God's Imitator also have 'wealth redistribution' ideas like Yinzhang?"

Li Renshu shook her head, "No, of course not.

"Although at first glance, the 'Shelter Game,' like 'The Fool's Game,' both have 'evenly dividing visa time' designs that gave players with less visa time certain advantages, they actually achieved completely opposite effects.

"The designs related to gold coins in the 'Shelter Game' were actually to stimulate communities with less visa time to use gold coins without any scruples, accelerating gold coin circulation, making the 'audience,' 'field players,' and 'hidden players' within the game more quickly enter a mutually harmful involution mode."

She looked at Wang Yongxin, "Brother Wang, what's your view on this game?"