God's Imitator-Chapter 404: Obstruction

At the same time, the outer court players were also watching the situation on the big screen.

Seeing Jiaohai’s behavior, Jiao Hongtao couldn’t help but show an expression of extreme disappointment.

Among the six outer court players, except for Chen Ran who initially accepted the punishment alone, the other four players demonstrated relatively good mutual trust and cooperation.

But only Jiaohai not only enjoyed the benefits and safely got through the most dangerous punishment with the help of others, but also blatantly refused to fulfill his promises.

This really made Jiao Hongtao lose face.

However, considering the state of complete cooperation breakdown among the outer court players, this kind of thing didn’t really matter anymore.

It was Peng Hong’s turn to be the ’Sharer’ this round.

"Actually, I’m an uneducated rough person. I don’t know if this counts as hoping my son becomes a dragon.

"I think it shouldn’t be. I just want my son to live a better life.

"I was too bitter in the first half of my life, even though I’ve now earned some filthy money, I don’t want my son to be like me.

"So I sent him to study abroad, to gold-plate him, and let him see more of the outside world.

"Some say my son isn’t cut out for study, and spending so much money is useless, that my nouveau riche money will eventually be squandered by him.

"But I didn’t actually think that much. I just want my son to have a different life than mine."

He paused slightly and looked at Fu Yujun: "I know, not every cent of my money is clean, but my son is a good kid.

"So, can you help my son?"

[The ’Sharer’ completed the sharing according to game rules and received the reward:] 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

["Sometimes, the car suddenly won’t listen, stalls, the brakes fail, or acceleration doesn’t respond."]

Liu Mingxin was stunned for a moment; it was obvious that Peng Hong had also changed his strategy.

The performance of the inner court players started to affect the outer court.

From the current situation, Peng Hong’s situation was actually not good.

Because his level of funding wasn’t advantageous enough, even though Peng Xinyuan got a relatively good car pen, the progress didn’t open up a gap with other inner court players.

And in the last round of the game, Peng Hong was actually isolated and helpless when he was blocked.

Because currently, among the outer court players, except Fu Yujun and Zhou Guifen, the other four players have to keep giving up their funds to avoid being blocked.

While Peng Hong didn’t really have an advantage in this regard.

Yet he managed to change his strategy.

Among the inner court players, Peng Xinyuan was the earliest to actively cooperate with Fu Chen and has been cooperating ever since.

Peng Hong knew very well that at this time in the outer court, Fu Yujun and Zhou Guifen, because of complete mutual trust, had fully grasped the initiative, and they could entirely block any one of the four remaining players by collecting opposing votes.

So, during the ’Sharing’ period, it didn’t matter how many opposed his shared point of view or how many opposing votes he received, as long as Fu Yujun could give him a break, he wouldn’t be blocked and could still normally transfer funds to Peng Xinyuan.

If they don’t block Peng Hong, then who else could be blocked?

It can only be one of Wu Xiaomei, Liu Mingxin, or Jiao Hongtao.

Soon, everyone completed the voting.

[Wu Xiaomei: 49 votes]

[Peng Hong: 32 votes]

[Jiao Hongtao: 39 votes]

[Zhou Guifen: 0 votes]

[Liu Mingxin: 19 votes]

[Fu Yujun: 101 votes]

[Before the start of the next game, if the current vote pattern is maintained, Fu Yujun, Wu Xiaomei, and Jiao Hongtao will be blocked.]

Clearly, this vote pattern doesn’t have any meaning because Zhou Guifen will definitely transfer all opposing votes away from Fu Yujun again, ensuring he can transfer funds to Fu Chen in this round.

Then choose one player from the remaining three to block and try to obtain as much funding from them as possible.

Jiao Hongtao and Peng Hong looked nervously at Fu Yujun, realizing clearly that if Zhou Guifen continued to distribute some opposing votes from Wu Xiaomei, they would still have to use funds to prevent being blocked.

However, Wu Xiaomei said, "It doesn’t matter, Ranran has already passed the third map, she’s safe.

"So, if you want to keep blocking me, feel free."

She leaned against the control panel in relief, as if temporarily unloading a burden.

The two players who were blocked were already determined, so there would be no more trading of opposing votes.

The players silently awaited the start of the fifth round of the game.

In the broadcast, more announcements followed.

[Audience No. 1 bets on Chen Ran with 5,000 minutes of visa time.]

[Audience No. 7 bets on Peng Xinyuan with 5,000 minutes of visa time.]

[Audience No. 4 bets on Chen Ran with 10,000 minutes of visa time.]

[Audience No. 9 bets on Fu Chen with 3,000 minutes of visa time.]

...

According to the game rules, the audience must complete all their bets before the end of the fourth round.

Therefore, those who still retained betting amounts could only choose to bet everything at this time.

Some bet on players who seemed to have the greatest chance of survival, while others bet on players who might make a comeback in the last two rounds.

There were still many who bet on Chen Ran, after all, she had completed the third map and her exclusive punishment, ensuring her survival in the game.

But betting on Chen Ran at this point yielded no profit, as such bets were merely to avoid the harshest penalties and not have all visa time deducted.

Quickly, with the start of the fifth round of the game, the betting broadcast also stopped appearing.

...

In the fifth round of the game, Wu Xiaomei and Zhou Guifen were locked and couldn’t transfer funds.

But the situation for the two was different, because in the final round of the game, Fu Yujun would also transfer all Zhou Guifen’s opposing votes to let her get out of the block.

Zhou Guifen could still transfer all previously accumulated funds to Shen Xing to ensure she completed the third map.

While Wu Xiaomei’s opposing votes would only increase more, as no one would assist in transferring them.

Yet Wu Xiaomei was indifferent about this, choosing to input all her funds into the ’Modification Workshop,’ to modify this equipment.

According to the game rules, both audience and outer court players could directly use funds to modify equipment; post-modification, the funds required for using equipment would continually decrease.

The more modifications, the more fund reductions.

After each collecting funds and modifying their car pens, the six inner court players once again took on the ’Racing Track in the Painting’ challenge.

Chen Ran did not receive any funds, but she silently tried to challenge the fourth map, even though the chance of success was slim.

In this round, Peng Xinyuan and Fu Chen were unblocked, received massive funding, modified their car pens, and successfully passed the third map.

Even though Fu Chen had a harder time than Peng Xinyuan, he managed to get through on his last chance.

The two of them high-fived excitedly.

Shen Xing couldn’t get funds in this round, she tried but couldn’t pass the third map.

Liu Jie was somewhat restless; though she wasn’t blocked, the funds she obtained were always relatively low. Moreover, she had previously used the modification workshop to modify her car pens a few times, but after noticing severe growing cracks on them, she turned to the repair shop and gas station for external communication, giving up on the workshop route.

This led to a less smoothly modified car pen, ultimately failing her third map completion.

Jiaohai faced a similar situation, barely a step away from passing the third map, but his patience was the worst among all inner court players, often failing at the last minute.

Worse yet, he suddenly realized that the cracks on his car pen had become quite severe.

"Can’t use the modification workshop anymore, the repair shop doesn’t seem reliable either.

"The gas station should be fine; I haven’t really used it yet.

"Who’s been sending me funds? I have to find a way to notify them."

Jiaohai thought for a moment, quickly stood up, and headed to the ’Modification Workshop’ equipment, intending to communicate to the fund-supplying player like Liu Jie had before.

However, at this moment, Peng Xinyuan stepped in front of him.

Being taller than Jiaohai by half a head and broader in shape, Peng Xinyuan blocked him completely.

Jiaohai was about to make an ’×’ gesture when he was suddenly dumbfounded by the situation.

"What are you doing?"

Peng Xinyuan looked at him: "I’m just wandering around with nothing to do, can’t I?

"Which rule states I can’t walk around?"