God's Imitator-Chapter 402: Extorting Funds

Seeing this punishment, both Liu Jie and Shen Xing's faces showed worried expressions.

Whether it was the electric chair full of mechanisms or the vague rule descriptions, both inspired fear.

Fu Chen consoled them, "It's okay. With the five of us sharing, there won't be any danger.

"As long as we get through 2 minutes, if anyone feels they can't hold on anymore, everyone press the 'Give Up' button together."

Soon, everyone took their seats one after another.

"Click" sounds kept ringing out as the mechanisms on the electric chairs locked everyone firmly in place.

"Bzzzz..."

A subtle electric current sound started and continuously intensified.

Fu Chen felt his entire body becoming somewhat numb. Although this sensation was becoming increasingly clear, it was still within an acceptable range.

...

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

Time passed minute by minute, and everyone gradually felt relieved.

Obviously, this punishment room still followed the previous rules. The more people there were, the lower the difficulty.

If only Jiao Hai had entered as a single player, enduring two minutes of electric shock alone would likely be very dangerous. But with five players sharing together, the difficulty suddenly dropped.

Jiao Hongtao himself had just undergone electric shock. He knew that feeling was not pleasant.

So seeing this scene, especially with Fu Chen and the other players actively entering the room to help, he was still somewhat moved.

Jiao Hongtao let out a long breath. Jiao Hai being able to smoothly pass the exclusive punishment meant that from now on, as long as he passed the 'track in the picture' challenge, he would be safe and sound.

But looking again at the current state of the outer field players, Jiao Hongtao felt somewhat ironic.

These children in the inner field were cooperating more and more smoothly, with the number of people entering the room gradually increasing.

While these parents in the outer field had gone from cooperation to division.

Jiao Hongtao came before Fu Yujun and lowered his head, saying, "Thank you."

Fu Yujun shook his head, "You don't need to thank me. That was all Fu Chen's own decision."

Jiao Hongtao continued, "I also want to join you. Let's cooperate, the three of us! All my votes from now on will go against Wu Xiaomei."

Fu Yujun was silent for a moment, "You're the 'Sharer' for this round. You should first think carefully about what specific content to share.

"As for cooperation...

"Due to strategic reasons, we can't deeply cooperate with you, but we can cooperate to a limited extent."

Jiao Hongtao felt somewhat disappointed, but he was too embarrassed to ask more and could only nod.

Afterward, as the 'Sharer' for this round of the game, after considering for a moment, he faced everyone and began his statement.

"Speaking of my son Xiaohai, I often feel powerless.

"I've changed jobs several times. Many times, because work was too busy, I didn't have much time to accompany him.

"Sometimes I'm very disappointed in him, very angry. But what can I do?

"Who told him he's my son."

Jiao Hongtao waited silently for a moment. If the system considered that what he shared wasn't enough, he would need to continue supplementing.

But after waiting a moment, the system prompt sounded.

[‘Sharer’ has completed sharing according to game rules. Reward obtained:]

["The driver took a hammer and tapped it himself. Sometimes it got better, and sometimes it broke even more thoroughly."]

Everyone didn't say anything more. They just came to their respective consoles and completed the voting.

[Wu Xiaomei: 26 votes]

[Peng Hong: 22 votes]

[Jiao Hongtao: 40 votes]

[Zhou Guifen: 70 votes]

[Liu Mingxin: 22 votes]

[Fu Yujun: 0 votes] 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

[Before the next round of the game begins, if the current voting pattern is maintained, Zhou Guifen and Jiao Hongtao will be blocked.]

Seeing this voting pattern, Jiao Hongtao was stunned.

Although he couldn't see the specific voting records, he could still make rough inferences based on the previous voting pattern. It was precisely because of this that Jiao Hongtao felt very surprised.

Logically speaking, the content he shared didn't have any major flaws.

"Feeling powerless about one's child," "sometimes work is busy with no time to accompany them," "often angry and disappointed but ultimately they're one's own child," thoughts like these would be had by the vast majority of parents.

Even in cases like Zhou Guifen and Fu Yujun, they wouldn't necessarily directly express opposition.

Previously, the 4 votes Wu Xiaomei gave Jiao Hongtao were "borrowed." In this round of the game, Wu Xiaomei chose to fulfill the contract and took back 4 votes from Jiao Hongtao.

But even so, Jiao Hongtao still received an extra 30 votes, which meant at least 3 players spontaneously voted for him.

As for Jiao Hongtao, his own votes naturally went to Wu Xiaomei.

The sum of Zhou Guifen and Fu Yujun's vote counts hadn't changed. Obviously, the reason only Zhou Guifen was blocked in the previous round was because Zhou Guifen transferred all of Fu Yujun's votes to herself.

Peng Hong and Liu Mingxin each gained 10 more votes. They also had no reason to vote for each other.

This way, the answer became very clear.

Wu Xiaomei, Peng Hong, and Liu Mingxin, these three people had reached a consensus and voted all 30 votes for Jiao Hongtao.

This way, Jiao Hongtao had 40 votes and undoubtedly became the second blocked player.

As for Zhou Guifen and Fu Yujun, one of them would inevitably be blocked throughout.

Wu Xiaomei, Peng Hong, and Liu Mingxin used this method to ensure their own safety.

Jiao Hongtao's brow twitched violently as anger surged up.

Previously, he had somewhat of a lucky mentality, thinking Wu Xiaomei and the other two wouldn't do things so absolutely. Wouldn't voting for Fu Yujun be the same?

But obviously, that kind of thinking was foolish.

"I should have known to persuade Fu Yujun and Zhou Guifen to concentrate votes together against Wu Xiaomei!

"That way, she'd still have 6 more votes than me.

"Wait, that still wouldn't work. Wu Xiaomei could still continue using funds to sell votes to Peng Hong and Liu Mingxin, and I don't have that much funding. I still couldn't compete with her..."

Jiao Hongtao realized that when Wu Xiaomei initially "borrowed votes" from him, although she paid the price of 5,000 in funds, she actually won over Peng Hong and Liu Mingxin to form a small group, completely excluding him.

He had become the player in the worst situation among the six players.

Just then, Fu Yujun came before Jiao Hongtao and said without any reservation, "I can sign a contract with you to take away 18 opposition votes."

...

Wu Xiaomei, Peng Hong, and Liu Mingxin also clearly heard what Fu Yujun said. They were all stunned.

Immediately after, Fu Yujun looked at them, "I can also buy 'opposition votes' from your hands, but I'll only buy them one by one.

"As for specifically whose hands I'll buy from first, that depends on who gives more funds."

Liu Mingxin was stunned. She almost blurted out, "Aren't you afraid of being blocked yourself?"

Obviously, after Liu Mingxin and Peng Hong very tacitly cooperated with Wu Xiaomei, they originally thought they had victory in their grasp.

Because Zhou Guifen and Jiao Hongtao had already been confirmed to be blocked, the other players would be safe.

But obviously, there was another possibility.

Fu Yujun of course wasn't afraid of being blocked, because he had already determined that he would be blocked this round.

Before this round of the game ended, Fu Yujun would transfer all the opposition votes from Zhou Guifen to himself through a contract, allowing Zhou Guifen to lift the blockade.

So actually, he was now in a state of "when you have many lice, you don't itch anymore."

No matter how many opposition votes Jiao Hongtao specifically had, Fu Yujun would choose to receive them down to the remaining 22 votes.

This way, aside from Wu Xiaomei having 26 opposition votes, Peng Hong, Jiao Hongtao, and Liu Mingxin would all have 22 opposition votes.

Wu Xiaomei had the most funds. She definitely wouldn't accept being blocked herself, so she would transfer funds to Fu Yujun, transfer away opposition votes, and let her vote count drop below 22, escaping the blockade.

But this way, Peng Hong, Jiao Hongtao, and Liu Mingxin would have tied votes and would be blocked again.

What Fu Yujun was doing at this moment was actually 'auctioning the privilege of not being blocked.' Highest bidder wins.

And this strategy happened to be one that other players couldn't execute.

Because there was a prerequisite condition. It had to be two mutually trusting players who took turns absorbing all the opposition votes, ensuring one of them absolutely wouldn't be blocked.

Otherwise, if blocked for two to three consecutive rounds, unable to transfer any funds, the inner field players would be doomed to die.