God's Imitator-Chapter 475: Good News or Bad News (Extra)

Han Mengying asked, "So far, approximately how many ’blood packs’ do we have?"

In their division of labor, Han Mengying and the players from Community 4 were primarily creating prisoners’ dilemmas and gathering secrets in the Edge Community, while the players from Community 15 were mainly responsible for using these secrets to ’collect blood packs’.

They needed to execute separately to appear as different factions, creating more confusion for the players in the Edge Community.

Thus, Wang Weidong had more specific numbers.

He pointed at different wooden boxes on the table.

First was Box 5 ’Pope’, corresponding to Community 5 where Shen Xing was located.

"This is the most optimistic scenario; we acquired 4 ’blood packs’.

"Due to luck, the players in this community matched very early in the first phase of the game, confirming each other’s identities rather quickly, but at the same time, their first ’blood pack’ was also the quickest to betray.

"They directly sold a large amount of community secrets and the results of strategy discussions to us, leading to a systemic collapse very quickly."

Then, Wang Weidong pointed to Box 8 ’Strength’.

"The cohesion of this community was decent, but the core players’ abilities were limited, and because of luck, their integration was too slow.

"We ended up with 2 ’blood packs’."

Wang Weidong then pointed to Box 13 ’Death’: "There was internal strife in this community, which has now completely split."

"We ended up with 3 ’blood packs’."

He finally pointed to Box 14 ’Temperance’: "The situation in this community surprised me the most; logically, they should also be relatively weak in the Edge Community, and the timing of the first traitor’s appearance wasn’t late.

"But ultimately, we only got one ’blood pack’, which was the initial traitor.

"Adding it all up, ten."

Han Mengying nodded; this was a very optimistic number.

Because the Main Community is unlikely to voluntarily become a ’blood pack’ and transfer wealth coupons to another Main Community, that would be suicidal.

Therefore, how many ’blood packs’ they could snatch from the 20 players in the 4 Edge Communities would directly determine the final wealth coupon earnings.

Han Mengying and Wang Weidong held ten of these 20 players, which seemed like just half at first glance, but wasn’t so simple.

Because the remaining ten players had different circumstances.

Some players were quite resistant to ’becoming a blood pack’ and didn’t want to send more wealth coupons; some players needed to concentrate their wealth coupons to enter the Exit Area to ensure the safety of players from the same Community.

So, most of these remaining ten players couldn’t be squeezed for much. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

There are indeed many strong players in Community 17 and Community 3, but no matter how strong a player is, they can’t conjure people or wealth coupons out of thin air.

There are only so many players, and once they enter the free matching phase, these ’blood packs’ and the corresponding transfusing players in Community 4 and Community 15 will no longer accept outside invitations, maintaining this situation until the game’s end.

In this case, Community 4 and Community 15 can rest easy.

Between the remaining Community 17 and Community 3, one community is bound to end up at the bottom and suffer the penalty of all members dying of anxiety, and in terms of strength, Community 17 is stronger no matter how you look at it.

Thus, when Han Mengying attempted to dig out ’the Emperor’s’ name, she judged that ’Community 3 will suffer complete annihilation’.

Although the strength displayed by Community 3 seems impressive, strength and weakness are relative concepts, and against the might of Community 17’s full force, they have no chance of winning.

It seems like everything is progressing as planned.

Wang Weidong leaned back in his chair, letting out a long breath.

This game’s rules imposed harsh constraints on ’layout’ factors, amplifying the differences in players’ abilities in this respect.

For players like Wang Weidong, the content in the first half of the game was also considered ’arduous’.

"However...

"If I must say, I am still a bit concerned about one thing.

"Could these two communities really only achieve this much?"

Wang Weidong glanced at Box 17 ’Star’ and Box 3 ’Empress’.

Han Mengying pondered for a moment: "’The Emperor’ is considering the olive branch I extended.

"’The Hermit’ should also have attempted to woo the players from the Edge Community, and his influence must have contributed to the division of this box."

Han Mengying pointed to Box 13 ’Death’.

"So, we can’t say they did nothing.

"In this game, being a little slow means being much slower because once a ’blood pack’ in any Edge Community is completely under our control, they can’t be dug out by them again.

"The result is what we see now."

Wang Weidong nodded: "Yes."

What Han Mengying said made sense; although Community 17 and Community 3 seem strong, in this game, being a bit faster means being much faster, with no tug-of-war but decisively winning or losing.

You can’t think you can’t win once you have the advantage, can you?

Then, why play?

There’s an inherent conflict between both sides, with no possibility of cooperation.

Now, for Wang Weidong and Han Mengying, continuing to execute the strategy until the game’s end is the only choice.

"I’ll point out the corresponding blood packs to you, and we’ll confirm once more."

Wang Weidong started pointing to the wooden boxes on the table in a specific order.

The first box he pointed to represents a ’Community’, and the second represents a player wearing a specific mask.

There are ten ’blood packs’ in total, so Community 4 and Community 15 can each get 5.

These ’blood packs’ will always match with the corresponding players, and wealth coupons will be transported at a certain rate, ensuring that Community 4 and Community 15 become the top two in total gains.

At the game’s end, there will be no losses.

The game’s duration is nearing its end, and Han Mengying doesn’t need to spend much time memorizing this information, as her Community 4 participated fully in the ’traitor hunting’ process, allowing for a lot of cross-verification of information.

If Wang Weidong deliberately provided incorrect information, she could detect it immediately.

After this confirmation, as long as nothing unexpected happens, they won’t send invitations to match each other in the same game anymore.

Because subsequent matches will all be fixed one-on-one with ’blood packs’ to continuously gain benefits.

When Han Mengying and Wang Weidong match, they can only split wealth coupons, which is actually a loss.

Of course, in the early stages of implementing this strategy, during the first few rounds, there might be a bit of confusion since the communication cost for players is high and it takes time to form stable one-on-one relationships quickly.

But since most players in this faction received a list that was complete or partial, they can send out numerous invitations at the same time, allowing both sides to accept matches at their discretion.

When Wang Weidong and Han Mengying matched, the other players in Community 4 and Community 15 were also matching each other, so starting from the next game, they could directly look for ’blood packs’ and enter the ’transfusion’ mode.

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Returning to the rest room, Han Mengying looked again at the screen beside the ’Door of the Sage’ and the ’Thief’s Gate’.

A ’blood pack’ had proactively sent her an invitation.

Once Han Mengying clicked agree, the match would be locked, and no further invitations would pop up.

She extended her hand but then stopped again, choosing to withdraw after some consideration.

The interval between the two games was short, and if voluntary matching couldn’t be completed during this period, they would have to rely on random matching or become an audience.

But just at the last moment, Han Mengying felt her heart sink.

’The Hanged Man’ sent her a game invitation.

’The Hanged Man’ was Qi Fan from Community 4, one of her core members in executing the strategy.

However, according to the original plan, Qi Fan should have already found a ’blood pack’ and entered a fixed matching mode; he shouldn’t be sending her a game invitation.

Han Mengying deliberately didn’t accept any ’blood pack’ invitations immediately because she was waiting, fearing any unexpected occurrences.

And now, her concerns were confirmed.

This was good news, but also a tremendously bad one.

She immediately accepted the invitation.