God's imitator

Chapter 76 A Humble Gift (Seeking First Subscription)
Zheng Jie reflected on his foolishness, but soon realized there were more possibilities.

Lu Xinyi's strategy likely has a follow-up plan:
If either of the remaining two people liked Zheng Jie's post, Zheng Jie wouldn't be able to tell who liked it.

If he mistakenly believes that Lu Xinyi ordered it and sends another meeting invitation, he might be falling into another trap.

Even if the current situation occurs, and Zheng Jie doesn't receive a single like, and Lu Xinyi's fake likes are discovered, there won't be any additional losses.

Based on the current game mechanics, even if Zheng Jie is tricked, he has no way of conveying this message to other players in Community 17.

"Forget it, she's already being lenient by not disliking me. It's my fault for being so stupid."

"Let's wait and see if there are any honest and trustworthy female players we can team up with."

Zheng Jie felt that his brain was simply not suited to playing this kind of scheming game. While he was struggling with this, the meeting room reopened.

……

The woman who entered the meeting room this time was tall and had long blonde hair.

Zheng Jie immediately looked at the other person's name tag: [Community 9 - Zhang Xiaoxia].

"Hello, my name is Zheng Jie. This game is quite tough, have some water."

Zheng Jie himself is not particularly good at socializing or handling situations, so his words were somewhat stiff and not very tactful.

But thinking about it, since I was friendly, smiling, and even offered you a bottle of water, it shouldn't be a big problem.

However, Zhang Xiaoxia frowned, her face full of impatience: "Mineral water? Is this all you're offering?"

Zheng Jie was stunned, completely bewildered by these words.

"No, I was just being nice by giving you a bottle of water, why aren't you satisfied?"

Zhang Xiaoxia sat in the chair, arms crossed, scrutinizing Zheng Jie from head to toe.

"What are you pretending for? What's so great about your little schemes?"

"You are the third boy to give me something, and the one who gave me the most meager gift. Don't you realize that you are not sincere?"

"Let me ask you, in this game, you men do nothing, yet you get 30,000 minutes of visa time when you leave the game."

"Found a female player who liked each other's posts during their last meeting, and there are still 30,000 likes left."

"Sixty thousand? You can earn that easily. Why should I?"
"You sent her a bottle of water just to find a naive girl, to use this cheap gesture to trick her into liking your posts on your last meeting, and to make an extra 30,000 yuan."

"If you had actually done the math, you wouldn't have felt comfortable just giving away a bottle of water, would you?"

Zheng Jie was dumbfounded. He felt that the game was changing too fast and he couldn't keep up at all.

During the first meeting, we split the room cost, but by the fourth meeting, even a bottle of mineral water for 50 minutes of visa processing time was rejected.

"What should I give as a gift?"

Zhang Xiaoxia said with a dark face, "The last guy said he was willing to give me a 1-minute visa time voucher and wanted to exchange likes with me on our last meeting. But I'm only considering it and haven't agreed yet."

Zheng Jie's eyes widened: "Ten thousand minutes?"

Zhang Xiaoxia was a little angry: "What's wrong? You men can earn 30,000 yuan without doing anything, and if you want to earn another 30,000 yuan, you can't even spare 10,000 yuan?"

Zheng Jie felt something was off, but he didn't know how to refute it for a moment.

Zhang Xiaoxia waved her hand: "Alright, stop talking nonsense. There's no point in talking to someone like you."

After saying that, she slapped the "You Pay" button on her phone.

Zheng Jie was even angrier. If it weren't for the previous argument, he wouldn't have minded paying the 200 minutes for the visa interview, but now he had changed his mind.

Press [AA] again.

Since their options didn't match, both of them had 200 minutes of their visa time deducted. Zhang Xiaoxia pointed at Zheng Jie in shock: "You...are you seriously ill? Just wait, I'll definitely give you a piece of my mind!"

Zheng Jie was also angry: "Whatever, we can just smear each other's posts!"

……

Ten minutes later, the two stormed out of the meeting room.

Without a doubt, they both ended up disliking each other.

Zheng Jie was furious. He had only offered the bottle of water out of politeness, and a normal person would have said thank you even if they didn't need it. But the other person was actually showing disdain.

During the meeting, he simply opened the bottle of mineral water and drank it himself.

The game had been going on for over an hour, and I was getting a little thirsty.

The talent show had already started again, and to Zheng Jie's surprise, the number 1 performer this time was a handsome guy, the really handsome kind.

[Community 1 - Gao Jialiang].

He has striking features, with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, a well-groomed hairstyle, and impeccable taste in clothing. He's the kind of person who naturally attracts attention on the street.

The second performer was a kind-looking woman who appeared to be in her forties. However, there seemed to be some water stains on the chest of her clothes, and it was unclear whether she had accidentally spilled water while drinking.

[Community 12 - Zhou Guifen]

The handsome Gao Jialiang performed a song and dance routine, while Aunt Zhou Guifen also sang, albeit in a semi-professional bel canto style.

This time, no one was voted too "boring" and the selection process ended early; they all performed for about three minutes.

Performer #1 received a total of 34 "Interesting" comments and an extra "Like".

Performer #2 received a total of 32 "Interesting" comments and an extra "Like".

The talent show ended with the two expressing their gratitude.

Zheng Jie couldn't help but sigh, "Are they all such hidden talents?"
"Dude, you're so handsome, yet you started your audition before me. Is that reasonable?"

So far, all four players participating in the talent show have chosen to sing.

Because singing is an artistic skill that most people possess, and this rudimentary talent show stage has no accompaniment, simply performing dance might be quite awkward.

Singing a cappella is relatively the easiest way to win favor.

Or, if you really have the ability, you can sing and dance like this handsome guy, which is better than just singing or dancing alone, but it requires more modeling and operation skills.

This guy is really handsome, so handsome that Zheng Jie almost wanted to deliberately make things "boring".

But since he was indeed a good singer and dancer, and there was nothing else to do while waiting for the next meeting, Zheng Jie decided to listen to him.

Based on the selections in this talent show, Zheng Jie could roughly guess some of the selection rules for this game.

Clearly, many players haven't received a single like yet, and some haven't even gotten this handsome guy's like.

This is normal, because each player can only get one like per hour. If the person this handsome guy is matched with has already voted, then he can't give a like even if he wants to.

Since everyone had 0 likes, the game could only be a random draw. Zheng Jie also had 0 likes, but he wasn't selected.

But that's okay, because players who have already participated in the talent show will definitely not be drawn again in the short term. If Zheng Jie is still unlucky and doesn't get any "likes", he will eventually be able to go on stage.

Instead of worrying about why you weren't chosen, you should start thinking about what kind of talent you can perform.

While the talent show was being broadcast, several new radio programs were also frequently shown on the big screen.

(End of this chapter)