Jin Cheng frowned: "Don't think you can deceive me with those words, there are two issues here:

"First, no matter what you suggest we do, such actions could trigger collective punishment. We can no longer be protected by the shelter, and we know the difference between life and money.

"Second, even if we sell the shelter to the audience, how much visa time can we actually earn? We only have the 5 plots we just bought, earning 5 Gold Coins per plot at most, those 20 or so Gold Coins aren't worth the risk."

Feng Bo shook his head: "No, both of your points are completely wrong.

"You only need to do one thing: sell the substandard shelter at a price higher than 15 Gold Coins. You don't have the pressure to quickly recoup funds, so I think you can even list at 18 or 20 Gold Coins. With time, you can sell them.

"This action is absolutely safe right now, because a crime that's already been judged won't be judged again.

"Your 5 plots were acquired at zero cost. Building substandard shelters will only cost 2 Gold Coins each, and if you sell them at 18 Gold Coins, the 5 shelters will net 80 Gold Coins.

"That's approximately the total visa time for three players.

"Still think it's too little?"

Hearing the specific numbers, the three players from Community 7 were visibly tempted.

These Gold Coins would be 'calculated by average,' meaning 30 Gold Coins approximately equal a regular player's total visa time.

This is definitely not a small amount for Community 7, which already has limited visa time.

Jin Cheng frowned slightly: "If it's just us selling substandard shelters, what kind of cooperation is that? Why did you come all this way to kindly remind us?"

Feng Bo explained: "This is cooperation; we don't want any community to sell shelters at a low price, as it would harm our profits.

"Because there are only 30 audience members, and statistically, each player is likely to buy only one shelter and then stop spending entirely.

"If you sell low, it does no good for you, even worse for us, and only benefits a lucky few among the audience.

"These audience members who enter the game need do nothing, bear no risk of death, have 10 free Gold Coins, and can spend an additional 25% of their visa time to gather 15 Gold Coins to buy a normal shelter and carry off the rest of their visa time.

"Why should it be so?

"Each of us bears the risk of death; shouldn't we earn more?

"At least make each audience member surrender half their visa time to us, isn't that reasonable?"

Jin Cheng and the other two players exchanged glances, nodding slightly.

One player asked: "But how can you be sure that the substandard shelters will definitely sell for 18 or even 20 Gold Coins?

"We are five communities, and each holds plots. Community 12 has the most plots.

"If they decide to sell at a low price, our high-priced shelters certainly won't sell; we won't earn a single Gold Coin.

"And what if the audience sees the price as too high and refuses to buy?"

Feng Bo shook his head: "Rest assured, we've already sent people to communicate with Community 12.

"Even if we didn't communicate, Community 12 definitely wouldn't sell cheap.

"As for the audience, there's nothing to worry about.

"Think about it carefully, do the audience even have a say in whether they buy or not? Do they have a choice?

"I won't explain further; think about it yourselves."

With that, Feng Bo turned and left, heading back to Community 15.

Upon hearing this, the players from Community 7 visibly wavered, with a spark in their eyes.

For them at this moment, the word 'safe' alone was no longer enough to sway them.

Since, in this game, there's no absolutely safe strategy.

On the contrary, 'safety' combined with 'immense profit' is more enticing.

After expending their one chance of survival, their mindset shifted somewhat.

Like gamblers who've lost most of their chips, with the last remaining, they don't think of leaving to cut losses, but of staking it all to turn the tables.

Jin Cheng, after contemplating for a long time, nodded: "He's right.

"Almost no community would choose to sell shelters at a low price."

Previously, Jin Cheng thought that there were 5 communities in the Inner Court, and they competed against each other, so some would sell shelters at lower prices.

Because selling shelters cheaply would let them recoup Gold Coins faster to bid for more plots.

And since the Inner Court players didn't need many shelters, there was no need to hoard that many.

As more plots open up, with more shelters available, since the total number of plots exceeds the players, the supply exceeds demand, and prices would lower.

So Jin Cheng instinctively assumed that shelter prices wouldn't be high.

But after Feng Bo's words, she reconsidered and realized that's not how it is.

The price of shelters doesn't depend on shelter costs because the audience has no choice.

They must buy a shelter; otherwise, their entire visa time would be deducted at the end of the game.

Every audience member has 30 Gold Coins, 10 free and 20 exchangeable, so from a rational standpoint, how many Gold Coins are they willing to spend at most to buy a shelter in the most extreme case?

The answer is 29 Gold Coins.

Because if they don't buy a shelter, they lose everything. Spending 29 Gold Coins leaves them with at least 5% of their visa time.

Of course, this is a very extreme case, assuming 'absolute rationality.'

In reality, the audience isn't absolutely rational, and the 5 Inner Communities can't really team up to raise substandard shelters to 29 Gold Coins.

But they could very possibly raise it to 20 Gold Coins.

20 Gold Coins are a special number; for every player, it means giving up half their visa time.

Thus, purchasing a substandard shelter still leaves them with half their visa time.

Some communities might list a relatively low price to recoup funds, but no matter how low, substandard shelters won't drop below 15 Gold Coins.

Because earning less puts them at a disadvantage in future plot bidding.

Just then, a new broadcast came over the big screen.

[The latest listed transaction price for a shelter is: 16 Gold Coins.]

Hearing this news, all players looked towards the big screen.

Jin Cheng of Community 7 made a decisive choice, starting to build substandard shelters on the plots previously bought.

Before, they hesitated about whether to build normal or substandard shelters, and how much to list them for.

Now, they were completely certain.

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