God's Imitator-Chapter 400: A Scam Without Prior Agreement

Wu Xiaomei quickly returned to her console and soon sent the contract to Jiao Hongtao.

The contract content was very simple: Wu Xiaomei would give Jiao Hongtao 4 ‘opposition votes’ plus 5,000 points in funds. Before the next round of the game began, Jiao Hongtao would return these 4 ‘opposition votes’ to Wu Xiaomei. If either party violated this, they would have to compensate the other party 10,000 points in funds.

Jiao Hongtao glanced at the time. This round of the game would end very soon.

In this game, funds were much more precious than visa time.

Although outer field players could obtain funds from the audience, the audience also played favorites and would only transfer funds to players who had hope of winning.

5,000 points was definitely not a small amount.

If Jiao Hongtao refused, Wu Xiaomei would definitely go find other people. After all, among those with only 10 ‘opposition votes’ now, there were still Peng Hong and Liu Mingxin. As long as either of them agreed, this good opportunity wouldn't fall to Jiao Hongtao.

Moreover, who would become the sharer in the next round of the game was still uncertain, and the direction of votes couldn't be controlled either, since this depended on how many people truly opposed what the 'Sharer' said.

If he wanted to earn these 5,000 points in funds, the one or two minutes before this round of the game ended would be the last opportunity.

Jiao Hongtao stared at Wu Xiaomei for a while. After confirming that she temporarily had no intention of going to find Peng Hong and Liu Mingxin, he finally made up his mind.

"If she dares to deceive me, then afterward I'll vote all my ‘opposition votes’ against her!"

There wasn't much time left. Jiao Hongtao still chose to accept the contract.

Having received 5,000 points in funds, this was quite precious for both him and Jiao Hai.

After waiting a bit longer, the broadcast sounded.

[The third round of the game begins.]

[Players blocked in this round are: Jiao Hongtao, Zhou Guifen.]

[The above two players will be unable to transfer funds.]

...

Jiao Hongtao was stunned. He hurriedly looked at his own console. It was indeed 14 votes, no mistake.

But this also meant that Wu Xiaomei and Fu Yujun originally had 20 opposition votes, but now both were below 14 votes.

"But Wu Xiaomei should have 16 votes. Before the previous round of the game ended, she had clearly only talked with me about buying votes. I even specifically watched, she didn't go talk with Peng Hong or Liu Mingxin at all?

"Who did Fu Yujun find to split away so many opposition votes? It could only be Zhou Guifen, but Zhou Guifen was already struggling to protect herself. Even if she split away opposition votes from Fu Yujun and earned funds, there's simply no way to transfer them?

"What's going on, what exactly is going on?"

Jiao Hongtao looked at Peng Hong and Liu Mingxin full of doubt, and these two people both tactfully avoided his gaze.

Suddenly, Jiao Hongtao figured it out.

"These three people indeed didn't communicate, but very tacitly joined forces to deceive me!"

Wu Xiaomei indeed didn't go find Peng Hong and Liu Mingxin for face-to-face talks. If she had gone to talk, Jiao Hongtao would definitely have been on guard.

In reality, when Wu Xiaomei was drafting the contract with Jiao Hongtao, she simultaneously also drafted contracts with Peng Hong and Liu Mingxin on the console and sent them over.

The contract content should have been to transfer two ‘opposition votes’ to each of them, and additionally gifted quite a bit of funds.

After Peng Hong and Liu Mingxin received the contracts, they immediately realized this was a scam, a scam targeting only Jiao Hongtao.

Without any prior communication, they chose to actively cooperate with Wu Xiaomei.

When all the players signed contracts before, they had first verbally communicated the contract content, then sent the contract to sign. So Jiao Hongtao subconsciously believed that the time before the previous round of the game ended was very short. Wu Xiaomei only talked with him about the contract and shouldn't have had time to set up a scam together with other players.

But obviously, as long as the funds provided in the contract were enough, even without any private communication, a transaction could be reached.

Jiao Hongtao glared at Wu Xiaomei furiously. He had already decided that no matter what happened afterward, he would prioritize voting all his opposition votes against Wu Xiaomei.

Wu Xiaomei didn't defend herself. She only said, "Brother Jiao, I will fulfill the contract and take back these four opposition votes. I'm sorry, but I must win this game."

Peng Hong and Liu Mingxin also didn't speak. They just continued looking at the situation of the inner field players on the big screen.

Jiao Hongtao's expression was somewhat gloomy. He realized that now the six outer field players had actually formed two three-person small groups. He wasn't just deceived by Wu Xiaomei, but was also essentially kicked out of the original four-person small group.

Wu Xiaomei, Peng Hong, and Liu Mingxin, these three players, happened to correspond with the three inner field players who successfully passed the 'track in the picture' in the first round of the game.

Jiao Hongtao looked toward Fu Yujun and Zhou Guifen.

"It's okay, the situation isn't that bad yet. I'm just blocked for one round, but next round I'll definitely be able to escape the blockade.

"According to the contract I signed with Wu Xiaomei, she either takes back 4 votes or compensates me 10,000 points in funds. No matter what, in this round, she definitely distributed a large amount of funds.

"She gave me 5,000, and the funds given to Peng Hong and Liu Mingxin must be at least 3,000 each, adding up to at least 11,000.

"Having lost so much in funds, the funds she can transfer each round afterward will be severely reduced, and Chen Ran's game progress will definitely stagnate.

"When it's three against three, we won't necessarily be at a disadvantage..."

However, just then, consecutive broadcasts sounded.

[Spectator 4 has transferred 5,000 points of funds to Wu Xiaomei and expressed ‘Approval.']

[Spectator 7 has transferred 10,000 points of funds to Wu Xiaomei and expressed ‘Approval.']

[Spectator 20 has bet 10,000 minutes of visa time on Chen Ran.]

[Spectator 18 has bet 5,000 minutes of visa time on Peng Xinyuan.]

[Spectator 11 has transferred 5,000 points of funds to Peng Hong and expressed ‘Approval.']

[Spectator 9 has transferred 5,000 points of funds to Fu Yujun and expressed ‘Approval.']

...

Another string of broadcast messages, among which there were many messages of funds being transferred to Wu Xiaomei, and also many messages of betting or transferring funds to Peng Hong and Peng Xinyuan.

Jiao Hongtao was stunned. Obviously, things weren't as simple as he had thought.

Wu Xiaomei indeed paid out a lot of funds, and the reason she dared to do so was because a large number of spectators had already bet on her.

These spectators who had already bet hadn't previously transferred all their funds to Wu Xiaomei in one go. After all, they still needed to observe the situation.

And now, seeing Wu Xiaomei's funds had consumed a large amount, these spectators who had already paid significant sunk costs naturally could only continue to transfer more funds to Wu Xiaomei.

Moreover, many spectators had also noticed that Wu Xiaomei had actually become a three-person group with Peng Hong and Liu Mingxin.

Therefore, Peng Xinyuan, who had obtained a better car and also performed well in the game, naturally also had a great chance of completing the game.

Previously, some players still had remaining betting quotas, so they naturally bet on Peng Xinyuan as a matter of course.

They weren't necessarily trying to earn more visa time through betting. They might also be trying to ensure they at least bet correctly on one player successfully completing the game, to avoid suffering the punishment of having all their visa time deducted.

Of course, these funds being transferred to Wu Xiaomei at this time would actually only be counted in the next round. That is to say, the funds Wu Xiaomei could transfer to Chen Ran in this round were still not much.

But as long as she got through this round, Wu Xiaomei would be able to reestablish her advantage.

Aside from the blocked Jiao Hongtao and Zhou Guifen, the other inner field players also immediately completed the transfer of funds.

...

[Chen Ran has received 8,717 in funds.]

[Peng Xinyuan has received 14,283 in funds.]

[Jiao Hai failed to obtain funds.] 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

[Shen Xing failed to obtain funds.]

[Liu Jie has received 9,033 in funds.]

[Fu Chen has received 13,583 in funds.]

[All the above funds have additional usage conditions. Please confirm before using.]