Looking at Fang Wencong’s mineral water, Zheng Jie asked, "Buddy, your water doesn’t seem to be for your blind date partner, you’re drinking it yourself?"
Fang Wencong subconsciously moved his mineral water closer to himself, "Oh, this? This bottle is for to drink, but I am indeed considering whether to buy so for the female players I et."
Zheng Jie looked at the mineral water in his own hands, "Do we really have to buy it? Doesn’t that an each eting would cost an extra 50 minutes of visa ti? Add the room fee, that’s 250 total. Over 20 etings, that would be 5,000 minutes of visa ti!"
Zheng Jie was also thirsty and wanted to drink water.
Fang Wencong sighed, "What you’re saying... what else can we do? It’s hard to imagine you’d ask such a question after playing ’Blood Poker.’ In multiplayer gas, you have to actively compete, otherwise your gains will definitely be at the bottom. Everyone’s giving gifts, if you don’t, you can forget about getting any likes, you won’t get any. Although the ga hasn’t said what likes are specifically for, they must be good things, right? "
"Even if they can’t directly exchange for visa ti, they can probably indirectly exchange for it. As long as they can exchange for anything, spending these 50 minutes of visa ti would be worth it. Besides, if you can find a suitable female player and mutually thumbs-up in the final eting, you can get an additional 30,000 minutes of visa ti. You can’t wait until the final eting to try cramming, right? Don’t you need to find suitable candidates early and cultivate so feelings?"
Zheng Jie nodded, "Ah, that’s true. Actually, I know this logic too, I just feel sowhat reluctant."
Fang Wencong shifted to a more comfortable position in his chair, "Being reluctant is useless, these are the ga rules! Speaking of which, I don’t know what the female players you’ve t are like, but the two I t both had terrible tempers. "
"I just asked if we could split the bill and they wanted to give thumbs-downs. It took a lot of coaxing to calm them down, I don’t even know if they gave thumbs-ups in the end. So I’m being more careful, it’s just one ga. No need to argue with won, just give in a bit. We’ll earn more than them in the end anyway."
...
The ten minutes passed quickly, and Zheng Jie still felt like he hadn’t talked enough.
Especially since the two had privately complained about the weird female players they’d each encountered, which felt strangely satisfying.
Zheng Jie said honestly, "Bro, thanks for telling so much, but if we’re exchanging thumbs-ups, I really don’t have any left. I already gave mine to soone else."
Fang Wencong waved dismissively, "No problem. Besides, you shouldn’t exchange thumbs-ups with other n."
Zheng Jie was sowhat puzzled, "If two n trust each other, wouldn’t exchanging thumbs-ups be more reliable?"
Fang Wencong looked sowhat helpless, "It would indeed be more reliable, but what’s the point? In the final eting, n giving each other thumbs-ups doesn’t give extra visa ti! You definitely need to exchange thumbs-ups with female players early and accumulate mutual trust and goodwill. If you exchange all your likes with n, even if you want to exchange with female players in the final round, they won’t trust you."
Zheng Jie had an epiphany, "Ah, that makes sense too. Alright, see you later, bro."
...
Returning to the waiting room, Zheng Jie had just sat down in the rest area when he saw images appear on the big screen.
The talent show activity had begun.
The huge screen was split in half. On one side was a slightly overweight girl who looked sowhat nervous, and on the other side was a disheveled, dark-skinned middle-aged man.
From the scenes around them, they appeared to be in waiting rooms identical to Zheng Jie’s, standing in that empty space with additional lighting.
At this mont, all the lights were on, really giving it the feel of a stage.
The overweight girl’s na appeared on screen: [Community 1 - Zhong Yuanyuan].
"Hello everyone, I, I’ll sing a song for you..."
The overweight girl began singing. Of course, it was unaccompanied singing, and her voice wasn’t particularly beautiful, but her gentle tone still made people feel cheerful.
Zheng Jie listened while continuing to think about the ga rules.
The overweight girl sang for about three minutes, then shyly bowed to the cara and pressed the button to end her performance.
Each player could perform for a maximum of five minutes but could also end early.
The big screen’s audio system switched to the other side, and the disheveled middle-aged man also began his performance.
[Community 8 - Jiao Hongtao].
He didn’t have any special talents either and also chose to sing.
Zheng Jie noticed that next to the chairs in the best viewing position for the big screen, there were also two sets of buttons. Each set had ’Interesting’ and ’Boring,’ corresponding to the two people participating in the talent show on the big screen.
Beside them was a reminder ssage emphasizing again: [No matter how you choose in talent show activities, no existing resources will be consud.]
That ant during each talent show, these two buttons could be pressed freely without any restrictions.
But for the sa person’s performance, you could only choose between ’Interesting’ and ’Boring.’
"Such a cute girl, just slightly overweight, and she didn’t get any likes? This ga is too realistic."
Without thinking much, Zheng Jie directly clicked ’Interesting’ for the overweight girl who had finished her performance.
Because according to the rules, anyone who made it to the talent show stage was at the bottom in terms of likes.
In that case, casually giving a like didn’t matter.
As for this skinny thirty-sothing brother...
His singing was really quite unpleasant. Zheng Jie wanted to mute the big screen, but unfortunately, there was no such option.
Zheng Jie hesitated. Logically, this brother was also a poor person without likes, and giving him a like would just be a casual gesture, but...
While he was hesitating, the big screen’s audio system had already been cut off. Although the image remained, new notification information appeared above.
[Perforr No. 2 has received over 20 ’Boring’ votes, performance forcibly terminated.]
[Perforr No. 1 has received 31 ’Interesting’ votes, earning 3 additional ’Likes.’]
[Perforr No. 2 has received 2 ’Interesting’ votes, earning 0 additional ’Likes.’]
On screen, the overweight girl Zhong Yuanyuan was busy expressing thanks to the audience in front of the screen. Although no sound could be heard, her joy could still be felt through her body language.
The talent show screen on the big screen was cut off and returned to basic ga rule reminders.
Zheng Jie felt sowhat lancholic. Although these two players had both received talent show opportunities, their outcos were worlds apart.
Suddenly, he rembered sothing and got up again to go to the query machine.
An hour had passed, and he could finally check the specific number of likes and dislikes on himself.
[Community 17 - Zheng Jie]
[Current ’Thumbs-ups’ owned: 1]
[Current ’Thumbs-downs’ owned: 2]
[Current ’Likes’ received: 0]
[Current ’Dislikes’ received: 0]
"This..."
Although Zheng Jie had sowhat prepared himself ntally, seeing this result was still very disappointing.
Since it was a new hour, the ga had issued him a new ’thumbs-up’ and ’thumbs-down.’
But the likes and dislikes other players had given him were both zero.
That ant...
Lu Xinyi hadn’t given him a thumbs-up.
"I’m so stupid, what was I even expecting..."
Zheng Jie wanted to slap himself twice. He had actually been fantasizing that soone like Lu Xinyi would keep her promise and exchange a like with him.
Obviously, Lu Xinyi had made a fake motion of pressing the button but hadn’t actually given a thumbs-up.
First, she really pressed the Split button, then during the subsequent chat gradually made Zheng Jie lower his guard, and finally, before leaving, a casual fake motion, a perfectly natural performance, completely fooled this naive guy Zheng Jie.
Previously, Zheng Jie had sowhat held onto false hope, thinking that since Lu Xinyi knew he was a player from Community 17, perhaps she would give Lawyer Lin so face?
In an unclear ga situation, they could mutually thumbs-up to form a good relationship? Was it necessary to deceive people from the start?
Now it seed he was on the second level while Lu Xinyi was on the third level.
For Lu Xinyi, this was probably the easiest like to deceive in the entire ga.
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