God's Imitator

Li Renshu explained: "Because this game actually simulates the distribution mechanism of the real world.

"The way to gain huge rewards is often accompanied by great risks.

"And in the case of going with the flow, although you can avoid risks, it also greatly reduces the upper limit of rewards.

"In addition, there may be cooperation or deception between players and players, communities and communities.

"If you can find the loopholes or bugs hidden in the rules first, you can instead gain an advantage in the competition with other players.

"Although I didn't get many chips, I don't feel envious of people like Brother Wang and Lawyer Lin who got a lot of chips.

"It's quite reasonable."

Ding Wenqiang's face looked a bit unpleasant: "What's reasonable about it.

"Although it seems like a utopian ideal world, in the end, isn't it still encouraging gamblers, cheats, and speculators?"

Wang Yongxin's mouth twitched slightly, feeling like Ding Wenqiang's three words were insinuating against him, but he held back and said nothing.

Officer Cao shrugged nonchalantly: "That's normal, isn't it? When did the New World claim to be a utopia?

"Thinking this is a utopia where everyone is equal is just wishful thinking.

"On the contrary, the rules of the New World clearly state: not everyone is qualified to survive here for a long time, which is why there is a visa duration, and why there is the judgment of the Walkway.

"If the Walkway really thinks gamblers and cheats are more qualified to survive, it's not surprising. At least from the perspective of Social Darwinism, they indeed fit the definition of stronger individuals.

"Of course, on the other hand, I think there's no need to think too highly or too poorly of the New World and Walkway.

"Even if someone managed to earn hundreds of thousands of visa durations through brainless all-ins in this game, I don't think it's necessarily a good thing for them."

Wang Yongxin looked at him: "What do you mean by that?"

Cao Haichuan played with a lighter: "It's simple, the gambler indeed wins a lot in this game, but if next time, the designers suddenly change their mind and design a game where players have almost no chance of winning, relying only on folding to survive, what would happen to him?"

No one answered because the answer was already obvious.

On the surface, if a person is a gambler, then he does win a lot in this game.

Yet it also plants the seeds for the future.

Just like in reality, those who lose as soon as they gamble can't become real gamblers. Those gamblers are often the ones who keep winning at the beginning.

This kind of success completely destroys their rational thinking ability and leads them to serious path dependency.

So as long as the rules of the next game change slightly, this kind of "successful experience" could harm them.

Cao Haichuan comforted: "So, everyone doesn't need to be too disheartened, the Walkway won't open just this once, we'll surely encounter various other games in the future.

"These games may have completely different rules and logic, may pose life threats, or may earn more visa duration.

"This game was advantageous for you; the next game may be for him, which is very normal.

"In any case, this time everyone is safe, and everyone earned some visa duration, which is already great.

"Even with just ten thousand chips, doesn't that extend the visa duration by a week?

"Studying the rules and preferences of the Walkway's games is to help us better crack these games in the future; as for what's past, let it be the past, no need to be overly concerned."

Everyone nodded.

Although Officer Cao usually seemed carefree, his words at critical moments always gave a solid sense of trust and security.

Fu Chen stood up: "Anyway, everyone worked hard today, since it's already happened, there's no need to dwell on it.

"Let's all go back and have a good rest."

...

...

The next morning, Lin Sizhi got up early.

As usual, he ordered a cup of coffee and a sandwich, and sat down at the long table in the hall to eat slowly.

However, at this point, he noticed the door to the kitchen was ajar, and it seemed like Ding Wenqiang's figure was busy inside.

There was also a faint voice from Su Xiuqin: "Brother Ding, you can't do this..."

But then their voices lowered, and only Su Xiuqin's sigh could be heard.

Not long after, Fu Chen also woke up.

He ordered a bowl of soy milk and a few fried dough sticks and naturally sat next to Lin Sizhi.

The two of them ate silently and didn't say much.

After a while, Su Xiuqin came out of the kitchen, looking anxious as she sat at the long table.

Fu Chen, noticing this keenly, asked, "Aunt Su, what's wrong?"

Su Xiuqin sighed: "I'm fine, it's Brother Ding...ah, he's planning to eat only steamed buns and pickles for every meal from now on. I wanted to persuade him, but... couldn't."

Fu Chen paused for a moment, then his expression turned serious.

The kitchen had a steamer and various utensils, and the community could purchase flour and yeast with visa duration, so making steamed buns wasn't difficult.

The problem was why Ding Wenqiang wanted to do this.

The answer wasn't hard to guess: because Ding Wenqiang had the least visa duration among everyone.

Initially, Ding Wenqiang only had 11 days of visa duration, and in the game of 'Blood Poker', he only earned 15,000 minutes of visa duration.

That's just a bit over ten days.

Though it seemed like quite a lot, no one could guarantee when the Walkway would open next, nor could they guarantee whether Ding Wenqiang could qualify for the next game.

Therefore, although the visa duration spent on three meals a day didn't seem much, like a serving of tomato and scrambled eggs costing 45 minutes of visa time, Ding Wenqiang had to try every means to save.

If it was only a few minutes difference to the next game's opening, that would be really desperate.

Buying flour, steaming a large batch of steamed buns at once, and eating them with a small amount of pickles is currently the most economical dietary method.

Su Xiuqin was of course worried, but even though she was worried, she had to admit it was indeed Ding Wenqiang's best solution currently.

Forgetting about visa duration and eating lavishly, that would be truly crazy.

Fu Chen's expression grew serious: "Yes, Uncle Ding's situation is indeed not optimistic.

"We must find a way to help him.

"Aunt Su, don't worry, we'll discuss this privately later, maybe we can come up with a solution.

"Even if we can't directly gift visa durations, at least we can try to help Uncle Ding with his meal issues."

Su Xiuqin's expression relaxed a bit: "Okay, thank you, Xiaofu, ah, being in a community with such good kids like you and Xiaolin is truly our blessing.

"But… Can there really be a way?"

Apparently, although she felt some mental comfort, she was still unsure.

[Within the community, any direct or indirect transaction behavior regarding 'visa duration' between players is prohibited. Activities like purchasing materials with visa duration and then gifting materials to others as disguised transactions are also not allowed.]

This is the basic rule of the community, clearly informed to everyone on the first day.