God's Imitator-Chapter 340: Changing Rooms
Cheng Wen also threw all his chips in and exchanged them for 21,000 minutes of visa time.
The cards he received were a 'Breastplate' and 'Boots'.
Cheng Wen was very happy. This was a very good start.
According to the game rules, to survive the game, you needed to collect at least five different death Death Immunity Cards. Now he already had 2, and had also net earned 20,000 minutes of visa time.
After this, he could also consider using visa time to directly purchase other players' cards and complete a full set.
However, the players gathered at the entrances of other rooms obviously didn't have such good returns.
The most players were gathered at the entrance of the 'Compare Sizes' room, but after receiving dividends, they didn't show happy expressions. Instead, they were somewhat disappointed.
"How is it so little?"
"We played so many games. Shouldn't we have activated a very high upper limit?"
"Ah, forget it. At least it's stable income."
On the other side, there was only one player at the entrance of the 'Equipment Forging' room, and he wasn't very happy either.
Although it wasn't clear exactly how much dividend he obtained, it could be roughly determined from two points.
His expression was very disappointed, and no cards had popped out from below the chip exchange counter.
Obviously, in the first 30 minutes, the returns Lin Sizhi and Cheng Wen obtained from 'Sea Minesweeper' were the best in the entire venue.
After thinking briefly, Cheng Wen quickly figured out the reason.
"It's because of the number of people, and the game mechanism!
"When players obtain room dividends, it's not directly distributed according to the number of chips, but according to the proportion of their own chips to the current total chips.
"And the total amount of chips produced in the room will affect the specific exchange ratio.
"The 'Compare Sizes' room is indeed quite cost-effective, but too many people played. They all earned quite a few chips, so that when dividing the chips, the visa time that chips could be exchanged for significantly shrank.
"The 'Equipment Forging' room is exactly the opposite. Only one player was playing.
"This player obviously mistakenly thought that no matter how many chips he had, he could obtain the room's guaranteed minimum of 30,000 dividends alone, but he overlooked one point: the exchange ratio during game dividends is at most 1:1 and cannot be higher.
"In other words, no matter which room, 100 chips can be exchanged for at most 100 minutes of visa time.
"To fully consume the 30,000 dividends, you need to have at least 30,000 chips from that room in hand.
"Obviously, the 'Equipment Forging' room doesn't have a mechanism to stably produce chips like 'Sea Minesweeper'. The chips produced are very few.
"That's right. If 'Equipment Forging' also had a similar mechanism, then there would definitely be many players going to play. How could there be only one person...
"So in terms of the initial room selection, 'Sea Minesweeper' really was the only optimal solution.
"It can stably produce quite a few chips, and there aren't too many players competing for it."
Cheng Wen couldn't help but increasingly admire Lin Sizhi, who had seen through this at the very beginning.
He hurriedly asked with considerable anticipation, "Brother Lin, so what should we do next?"
Obviously, continuing to play 'Sea Minesweeper' was meaningless, because the stably profitable single player mode could be played at most 10 times.
Two-player mode was a negative-sum game, not very meaningful.
So the two had exchanged all their chips for visa time without keeping any in hand.
Next, it was time to choose to switch to another room.
Lin Sizhi looked at the still deserted 'Room 3: Auction Tycoon', "I'm going to that room."
Cheng Wen was stunned, "Ah? Really?
"That room has 100% transaction tax!
"Even if we can earn visa time in this room, what if we encounter duplicate cards?"
Lin Sizhi didn't explain, but instead asked back, "What's your plan?"
"I..." Cheng Wen was somewhat conflicted.
Lin Sizhi said, "You can do me a favor.
"Go observe the situation in other rooms. Find the strongest few players in this hall who are teaming up, and see their strategies and actions.
"Although this isn't essential intelligence for me, it would still be helpful if you can get it."
Cheng Wen nodded, "Okay! Then I'll go observe, and if I have any findings, I'll come find you."
For Cheng Wen, if possible, he of course wanted to choose to ride coattails the entire time, making exactly the same actions as Lin Sizhi to safely leave the game.
But this obviously wasn't very good.
Putting aside the question of whether it was embarrassing, the key was that Cheng Wen couldn't one-sidedly confirm that Lin Sizhi definitely had good intentions toward him.
Although from various hearsay information, Cheng Wen could roughly determine that Lin Sizhi was strong enough and leaned toward being benevolent, in this kind of game involving life and death, one still needed to be extremely cautious.
Because their intelligence levels differed by several grades, as long as Lin Sizhi was willing, he could easily dig a pit to get Cheng Wen killed.
But if just because of this point he didn't cooperate with Lin Sizhi? Didn't ride coattails? That also seemed unjustified.
Fortunately, Lin Sizhi provided an optimal plan that Cheng Wen could also accept.
Obviously, Lin Sizhi had his own ideas. He seemed to be conducting some special arrangement and therefore needed another person to help him observe the situation in the hall and collect information.
And Cheng Wen could also take this opportunity to understand the rules of other rooms and make contact with other players.
If during this process Cheng Wen found a better cooperation partner, or felt that Lin Sizhi wasn't sincerely cooperating with him, he could also have other fallback options.
So Cheng Wen immediately agreed.
After watching Lin Sizhi enter the 'Auction Tycoon' room, Cheng Wen continued observing the situation in other rooms.
At the same time, he also noticed that a small number of players were beginning to gather at the entrance of the 'Sea Minesweeper' room.
During dividends, the visa time players obtained had no physical form. It would only be given directly to the player's virtual account in this game, which was relatively discreet.
But equipment cards had physical form, and the position where they popped out was in the middle of the chip exchange counter. The action of taking them was very obvious.
Lin Sizhi and Cheng Wen had each received two equipment cards. There would always be players who noticed.
However, for Cheng Wen, this no longer mattered.
He turned and came to the entrance of 'Room 5: Compare Sizes'.
The situation in this room was completely different from 'Sea Minesweeper'. Inside, it appeared quite lively.
There were 11 players in the room, playing enthusiastically.
In other words, half the players in the entire hall were here.
The layout inside the game room was very simple, with six small tables and one large table.
Four of the small tables were against the wall, which should be 'Single Player Mode', and there were two more small tables in the center of the room, each able to accommodate two people.
Currently, all six small tables had players playing.
The only large table could seat seven or eight people, but currently only three players were playing.
Cheng Wen could vaguely feel that the four players playing at the single player mode small tables had a clearly different style from the other players.
They were basically all in a relatively excited state, constantly betting and guessing sizes. Whether they won or lost, they would immediately start the next round.
Naturally, they were happy when they won, but they wouldn't be too upset when they lost either.
The players in battle mode, on the other hand, were much more cautious. Their speed of opening the dice cup was obviously slower, and their expressions when losing chips appeared more dejected.
Not only that, they also frequently looked toward the single player mode small tables, as if anticipating a change of players.
