Chapter 233: Inhuman (41) (8 updates + 2 updates) [VIP]
But strictly speaking, it is not stupid for the Second Division to borrow high-interest loans.
They know that they will be trapped, but compared to going bankrupt directly, usury is an acceptable option.
Bai Jinshu looked at a few people who quietly left the celebrating crowd in Division 2. A few minutes later, the business car from Division 2 came back and a few young men jumped out of the car.
These people had the same joy on their faces as the other members. If you ignored the fact that they had just gotten off a business car, no one would be able to tell what they had been doing.
Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes and looked for a few times, then returned to the hotel in silence.
"You saw it too?" Xiao Tang came in quietly from outside and raised his eyebrows slightly at him.
"I saw it." Bai Jinshu nodded.
The Second Division was probably just about to send someone out to make one last attempt to see if they could drag the First Division down with them.
"The second division is probably really out of money..." Several other teammates came over, and Bai Jinshu lowered his voice, "I don't know how the two scammers in the first division did it, but before those gang members lent them money just now, they probably didn't have enough money to cover the next trip."
Now all the competition areas are basically very close to their starting points, which means that the first round of Monopoly has ended, and some blank land has been turned into hotels.
This means that in the next dice rolling phase, there is a certain risk of staying on someone else's land.
According to the rules of Monopoly, you need to pay a toll to stay in someone else's hotel. Now everyone has only walked around once, and everyone's initial hotel level is level one, which means a toll of 200.
The second division has less than 200.
As the saying goes, those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes. Now the Second Division has no money left. Even if it is not banned from action, it cannot buy new land. Instead of gambling on the event grid for the illusory probability of increasing currency, it is better to be straightforward and drag down the division that caused it to be penniless.
Those people were supposed to take a business car directly to the territory of the first competition area, but who knew that the people from the White Tiger Hall suddenly started lending money at high interest rates. The situation took a turn for the better, so the other team members quickly called them back.
The Second Division was not unaware of how terrible usury was, but in this situation, they had no choice but to borrow.
They had less than 200 yuan left, and their hotel was burned down. Their hourly income of 150 yuan was cut, and they even had to spend extra money to repair the hotel.
And because the land is in a special state, they cannot mortgage the land. So if their luck is a little bit bad in the next round and they stop in someone else's square, they will definitely go bankrupt and be eliminated.
Before bankruptcy, usury becomes acceptable.
At least the people in the second division are really grateful to Bai Jinshu.
If it weren't for the emergence of the White Tiger Hall, under the current rules of Monopoly, all they could do was pray that they didn't throw their balls into other people's squares.
"It was a blessing in disguise," Bai Jinshu thought to himself. "Just now everyone's attention was on this church, and no one noticed that a few of them ran away to attack Division 1. If they really hadn't loaned out this usury, Division 2 would have been on its last legs and would have taken Division 1 away in the last wave before dying. We would have lost clues to two S-level ghost stories in one go."
And now, we have retained the second division while also retaining the first division, which is the best result.
But it seems that his strategy needs to be changed.
"Yellow Hair, call in all the guys except those from the White Tiger Hall," Bai Jinshu waved at the yellow hair, "right now."
"Okay." Huangmao nodded and walked out of the church.
After a while, several men with buzz cuts followed him into the church.
"What's wrong, Dad?" The crew cut from Qinglong Hall was very enthusiastic. "We are promoting our special services to outside clients. In addition to providing debt collection and security tasks, we can also charge money to burn down other people's hotels, charge money to fight for others, and do whatever we can without being picky about clients. When the business is done, we will split it 50-50. If they don't have money, they can continue to borrow money from Baihu Hall. We can also bypass the bank by selling dead people's land and directly find buyers for them, helping them mortgage and sell their land at a price lower than the market price!"
This guy has quite a business mind.
It's such a waste of talent to be a gangster.
It would be better if you didn't call him dad.
Bai Jinshu held his forehead with his hand and said, "It's like this. I asked you to tell me that we should not bankrupt the division outside. When it comes to marketing, we should maintain a state where they can neither make a big profit nor a big loss. Do you understand?"
"This... is a bit difficult," the bald man from Suzaku Hall scratched his head, "We don't know how much money they have. We know they have 5,000 now because the White Tiger Hall just borrowed 5,000. If we enter the other dice-rolling rounds later, we won't know how much money they have."
"I have a way to do this," Bai Jinshu did not answer directly, but said, "You just need to make sure they don't get eliminated or become
“Then why not just eliminate them?” The man with a buzz cut in Xuanwu Hall asked curiously, “Isn’t it okay to just survive to the end of this competition? Dad, we’ll give you first place!”
"Don't worry about it, kid. You want us to be first," Xiao Tang said, "Anyway, we can't let Division 2 go bankrupt and withdraw from the competition. Got it?"
“Oh…” The three guys with buzz cuts left in confusion.
Xiao Tang now also understood Ersi's plan.
Previously, he was planning to deceive the Second and Fourth Divisions, and then suddenly appear and resolve their crisis with appropriate operations, making them believe that the Third Division was their reliable ally.
But this method is relatively mild after all.
They didn't expect that the Second Division was going to directly launch a suicide attack on the First Division.
They have no money left. To put it nicely, no matter whether they do this or not, as long as they are unlucky in the next round, they will be eliminated. They are forced into a desperate situation.
In this case, they might as well take revenge before leaving. At least they should make the First Division pay the price for cheating them out of their money.
The reason they dare to do this is because they have lost hope.
But now giving them several thousand in start-up capital means that they have hope of turning things around again. In this case, they will act much more cautiously.
As long as their currency is suppressed to this level which is not enough but not too little for them to risk, they will continue to stay here for the hope of "surviving to the end".
Unlike the entry into the first competition zone, the first competition zone was deceived by a third party other than the contestants. No matter it was the high-salary scam at the beginning or the money recovery scam that they did not see through later, the people who deceived them were actually people other than the contestants. So although their trust in other contestants has been reduced due to the previous hospital storm and hotel fire, it has not yet reached the bottom.
In their minds, the trustworthiness of contestants is even higher than that of third parties, because it is the event grid in Monopoly that sets up the high-paying scam, not someone else.
At the same time, among the contestants, the two thousand yuan mentioned by Bai Jin made them make a very clear distinction between the third division and other divisions in their minds, and compared the feasibility of the third division.
So he easily gained the trust of the First Division.
But the second division is different.
Xiao Tang half leaned on a bench in the church, vaguely observing the man in a windbreaker who was negotiating business with four other men with buzz cuts at the church entrance: "District 2 has no trust in us."
The second division was deceived by people from the first division, and now the trust in contestants is actually lower than that in third parties.
If Bai Jinshu and his team were to pay to solve the problems in the second division now, they would be suspected of having bad intentions.
As a third party other than the contestants, Baihutang is more trustworthy, even if it is a loan shark.
"What should we do next?" Xiao Fei was a little worried. "We still need to trick them into giving us the area. If they don't trust us, how can we trick them out?"
He can now say the word "cheat" very smoothly, and I wonder what the barrage in Xiaofei's live broadcast room will look like right now.
"It doesn't matter," Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes, "Contestants have their own ways of cheating, and loan sharks have their own ways of cheating."
"Announcement," he tapped the back of the chair with his knuckles, "I know you can open a single-player channel, come out."
[Hey, don't make it so obvious.] The announcement came out quickly. [Our boss will want to watch the work video later. What if he finds out that I'm secretly contacting the contestants here?]
"How much kickbacks did you take privately?" Bai Jinshu asked bluntly. "The total extra consumption of the grid we passed before was 4,000, which is 2,000 if it's 50-50. I'll give you 10,000. You tell me the remaining currency amount of the second competition area every round."
[This is not okay.] The announcement is very principled. [If I tell you, I will be violating the rules and I will be fired.]
"You don't have to tell me," Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes, "I'll give you a kickback, just tell those three guys outside."
"At the end of each round, let them privately report the remaining currency amount of the Second Division, and let them control the cash flow of the Second Division between 2,000 and 3,000. Especially for the White Tiger Hall, the interest rate can be adjusted, and the price will be automatically increased or decreased. If they encounter a gold coin grid, they cannot be allowed to make a big profit, and if they suffer a big loss, they cannot be allowed to go bankrupt."
Announcement: [If the leader finds out about this...]
Bai Jin said: "Twenty thousand."
[How can this be called a private transaction?] The announcement was reversed like the wind, and it was convincing. [Everyone in Baihutang is a native. We have an open and aboveboard cooperative relationship! I pay my highest respects to the fathers of the four partners! You sweep me and I sweep you?]
Xiao Tang: ...
"The people in your Monopoly can slide faster than 99.9% of the ghost stories out there," she twitched her lips, "If all the ghost stories were so easy to talk to, I think the exploration process in the Novice Village would be much easier."
[How can this be called a sliding track? This is called money makes the world go round.] The announcement was very frank, [If you give me two hundred thousand, I will even call you daddy.]
"No need," Bai Jinshu said coldly, "We don't need a son."
"The money has been transferred to you," Huang Mao raised his head, "Sister Tang, there is less than a minute left until the next round of dice rolling."
The four competition areas quickly rolled the dice for the next round in turn.
The first and third divisions finally passed their starting points and received an additional two thousand gold coins.
Guan Hongyan and his team were lucky enough as another event grid was opened, and they received news that they had obtained a special card. After activating this card, they could exchange positions with a random team. It was a rare functional gain card in the Monopoly event grid.
Relatively speaking, Division 1 was a bit unlucky. They rolled the dice at their starting point and could not purchase the land or trigger the event.
But for them, this may not be a bad thing.
The starting point of each competition area is only accessible to the contestants of that competition area. If the dice lands at the starting point, it means that the employee of the electronic fraud park who comes to collect debts cannot enter here to collect debts.
They gained a round of precious peace. At the same time, the second park, which they thought was deliberately framed by them, was unable to enter the starting point to attack the contestants of the first zone.
The second division was unlucky as expected. A dice roll went directly into Bai Jinshu's first piece of land, and they had to pay 200 gold coins as toll.
If they hadn't borrowed money from loan sharks just now, the entire region would be eliminated now.
From this point of view, it was Bai Jinshu who saved their lives.
And finally, the third division also rolled its own points.
"We're here," Xiao Tang squatted on the ground and looked, "Is this still a land square?"
Obviously, there is still a blank land in front of them.
Bai Jinshu's four good sons appeared on the roadside with the decoration master on time.
"Dad!" Four big boys with short hair jumped out of the car, "This time, do we want our hotel to be magnificent and wealthy, relaxed and comfortable Mediterranean style, or traditional retro Ming and Qing style, or exquisite and elegant Republic of China style..."
More familiar...
Bai Jinshu's eyelids twitched violently: "Mediterranean style."
"Okay, Dad. I'll get started right away!"
"Won't you lose money by hiring decorators like this?" Xiao Tang couldn't help but ask as he squatted nearby and watched curiously as the decoration team moved in a bunch of decoration machines.
"It's not a loss!" Zhuquetang's buzz cut waved his hand, "How can it be said that spending money on the big guys of the Hammer Gang is a loss!"
Xiao Tang: "Okay..."
Anyway, these four gangs came here on their own, and they also relied on Ersi to achieve a closed industrial loop, so what's wrong with exploiting them a little.
The houses in the holographic game were built very quickly. Everyone in the third zone had gained experience. After deciding on the decoration style, they sat back in the comfortable car and waited for the final hotel to be completed.
But this time it's a little strange.
After more than ten minutes, no one came to knock on the door to tell them that the hotel was completed.
"What's going on?" Xiao Fei was a little confused. "I'll go down and take a look."
"No need, let's get off!" Four men with crew cuts quickly got out of the car to check.
A few more minutes passed, and finally, there was a knocking sound outside the car window.
The one knocking on the window was Xuanwu Tang's buzz cut. His face was filled with confusion and dullness. "Well, it seems like something incredible has been dug out. How about you two come down and take a look, Dad?"
"What did you dig out? A corpse? A dead person? Could there have been a corpse buried here before?" Xiao Tang uttered a string of extremely terrifying words, "Let me take a look."
She jumped out of the car first.
"No, it's not a corpse. No, you could say there is a corpse..." Xuanwu Tang's crew cut was incoherent.
His behavior was so strange that everyone became curious and got off the car to see what had been dug out.
Bai Jinshu stepped off the commercial vehicle and looked in the direction where they were purchasing the land.
What comes into view is a big pit.
A very, very huge pit.
"Is the land we are selling so big?" Xiao Tang wondered.
"No." Bai Jinshu answered quickly, "This place is connected to at least four surrounding plots of land."
The pit was so big that you couldn't see the end of it. Not only had the land they purchased turned into a pit, with only the road next to it still barely standing, but even several unowned vacant lots next to their land that had not been sold before had now turned into pits.
Looking around, this piece of land seemed to have been flattened, and the whole area had dropped by more than several meters.
"What's this?" Huangmao was shocked. "Did the construction team dig the wrong foundation? We didn't buy the land next to it!"
"No..." Zhuquetang's buzz cut came over, his face full of daze, "How about Dad, you guys come and take a look... We dug up some incredible things."
"What?" Xiao Tang was kept in suspense by these people and ran over impatiently.
At the edge of a pit near the road, the decoration team hired by Qinglongtang's crew cut and the remaining two crew cuts were squatting there. In the middle of the crowd was a contractor who looked older.
The contractor was holding a black object in his hand, his hands were shaking: "Oh my god... this seems, it seems to be real!"
"Take another look!" The man from the White Tiger Hall couldn't wait to ask, "Are you sure? Is this thing real?"
"I'm not sure..." The contractor's voice trembled, "But, but this thing is different from the things usually dug out..."
What?
Bai Jinshu frowned and looked over.
There was a black ball stuck in the middle of the group of people.
In other words, the ball is not actually black, but there is too much dirt on it, which turns it black.
At the edge where the contractor was holding it, the part where the stains had been wiped off by the skin of his hands shone with a bit of flesh-colored glaze.
It looked like something ceramic, or perhaps a piece of painted pottery.
"Sister Tang!" The man from Qinglong Hall came over and lowered his voice, "It seems...it seems that we have unearthed cultural relics!"
Everyone: ???
What the hell?
"When digging the foundation, the construction team said they hit something very hard. They wanted to keep digging, but an experienced master said it didn't feel like land and they might have hit something else. So they stopped the machines and dug around to see what was underneath. But they couldn't see anything, but this piece of hard stuff was very big..." Qinglongtang's crew said as he gestured with his hands, "Then they thought maybe they encountered some rock or something else underneath, and maybe this piece wasn't suitable for digging the foundation and building a house, so they had to change the location. So they started looking to the side, trying to find the end of this piece of rock."
Unexpectedly, as we kept digging and searching to the side, we found that the size of this "rock" actually occupied four or five grids.
Just when the people who were looking for the edge of the "rock" finally dug to the end, the people who were digging rocks here also made a new discovery.
"My dear, what is this?" The worker in the front was the first to notice something was wrong.
"This looks like a ceramic fragment with a human face..." someone said with sharp eyes.
As soon as the words "human face ceramic fragments" came out, the surrounding workers looked over curiously. Word spread quickly and work on the construction site was stopped. Everyone wanted to see what it was.
One fragment cannot explain the problem, so the worker dug a little deeper to look for it.
This time, he took out a complete head.
[Ding,] The announcement is refreshed again, [The event grid is refreshed, and a new building type is discovered.]
[This is a special piece of land. As you enter here, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Mausoleum buried deep underground will see the light of day. This event is special and requires the contestants to purchase the land and dig the foundation to trigger it. Please choose between increasing the investment by 3,000 and purchasing the surrounding land to build a museum, or returning the investment of 2,000 to the organizer.]
Everyone: ???
ah?
"I have a question..." Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes under the confused gazes of the crowd, "Is there anything special about this new museum?"
[The museum is a special building type. Ordinary hotels only charge accommodation fees after the participating teams roll the dice to stay, but there is no requirement to stay in the museum. Any participant passing through this grid will be charged a certain fee. ]
"That is to say, if we pay 3,000, we will be the one collecting the tickets for this museum in the future, and the refund will be 2,000, which means the organizer will collect the money?" Xiao Tang also asked.
[Yes,] the announcement affirmed, [contestants please make your choice.]
"That means we have to add another 3,000 and buy the surrounding land. We are not short of money."
"Okay, let's build a museum then," Xiao Tang stood up from the ground and looked at Qinglongtang's crew cut, "Let your decoration team build the museum."
Work resumed on the construction site in full swing.
Everyone in the third zone had not yet recovered from the news of the pie falling from the sky. They stood on the side of the road in a daze for a long time before accepting the fact that they had dug up a tomb while building a hotel.
"So there really are bonus grids in the event grids of your Monopoly..." Huang Mao muttered, "I thought your event grids were all scams?"
This museum event grid is obviously an unfair clause. If everyone who passes by here has to pay for a ticket, then they are guaranteed to collect three tickets in each round, because it is impossible for people from other teams to skip these event grids and appear in front out of thin air.
Add to that the usual visiting fees, then... this is simply a huge income.
"Yeah..." Bai Jinshu twitched his lips, "It turns out that you can really make money through normal channels in Monopoly."
Announcement: [What gave you the illusion that you can only lose money here? ]
"Your organizers!" Xiao Tang said speechlessly, "Every single one of your organizers! The impression I have of your organizers is that they will do anything to defraud money..."
"Wait a minute," she narrowed her eyes warily, "but there will be no hidden or induced consumption this time, right?"
[No, absolutely not!] The announcement swore firmly.
Just then, another guy with a buzz cut appeared in the half-built museum.
“Oh my god,” the man with a buzz cut rolled over and crawled, “Sister Tang! Sister Tang, help me!”
"What's wrong?" Everyone looked at each other and hurried in.
"Inside!" The crew cut looked pale, "While we were building, a living person came out of the mausoleum!"
Bai Jinshu:?
"A living person?" Xiao Tang looked confused. "Where is it? Let me see."
How come this is considered a supernatural event?
"This...this..." Bancun carefully led them to the depths of the museum.
In a building that had not yet been connected to the electrical wires, sat a middle-aged man with a very dignified demeanor.
"He...he also said some strange things." The man with a buzz cut said in a low voice.
A middle-aged man with great dignity: "I am Qin Shi Huang. Now I am resurrected. V me 50,000. When I rebuild the Qin Dynasty, I will make you a general."
Cock: "Sister Tang, look, he's talking again!"
Xiao Tang: ...
Bai Jinshu: ...
"Get out of here," Bai Jinshu silently looked at the announcement, "Who said that this event did not induce consumption or hidden consumption?"
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Monopoly organizer: It's reasonable. You can choose not to v. Where is the misleading?
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