Lin Sizhi handed over a 1000-minute voucher, "Very good, this is a reward for your cleverness.
"Next, all you have to do is give me a 'Like' when you leave."
Zhao Duo happily accepted the voucher, but was a bit puzzled, "But the query machine only refreshes once an hour, how can you be sure I've given you a 'Like'?
"Are you going to verify it by sending a broadcast? But if you do that, the 'Like' will be consumed."
Lin Sizhi explained, "Of course there's no way to tell, and I won't waste extra energy thinking about those issues.
"As long as I don't receive 3 'Likes' during the three meetings in an hour, it means someone didn't keep their promise.
"In that case, I will no longer send invitations to the three people above, but will re-match with three new players.
"Until one hour, I receive all 3 'Likes', then I will continue to invite these three players in sequence, maintaining this cooperative relationship until the game ends."
Zhao Duo was a little surprised, "Doesn't that mean if the other two don't keep their promise, I'll be dropped too?"
Lin Sizhi nodded, "Yes, you'd better pray that doesn't happen."
Zhao Duo thought for a moment and asked again, "So, will you be inviting me, or will I be inviting you? And what about the time outside of meeting with you?"
Lin Sizhi had clearly already planned it out, "I'll invite you, you just need to decline any other invitations and accept mine immediately upon seeing it.
"Of course, I will generally invite in a fixed order, for example, if you are the third one in this hour, then I will invite you for the third meeting of every subsequent hour.
"As for the other two meetings within the hour, you can arrange them as you please, I won't interfere.
"Oh, right, if we can establish a stable cooperative relationship for more than three times, then I will consider increasing the reward amount.
"I'll raise the price for purchasing 1 'Like' to 2000 minutes."
Zhao Duo swallowed imperceptibly, it was hard for her not to be tempted by this offer.
Although Zhao Duo also knew that if she was lucky, she might be able to squeeze 10,000 minutes of visa time out of some foolish male player, but that was a slim hope after all.
Such fools were not easy to find, many male players, despite holding a 10,000-minute voucher, were just making empty promises and wouldn't give it away easily.
Of course, even if she did find such a fool who gave her the 10,000 minutes without a fuss, the optimal choice afterward wouldn't be to keep the promise, but to run off with the voucher and continue looking for the next fool.
Lin Sizhi's plan seemed much more enticing.
Because this was a strategy with a stable income, although the amount per instance wasn't large, it would accumulate into a very considerable number. Not to mention, the price for a 'Like' could double to 2000 minutes later on.
Zhao Duo could completely use one-third of her subsequent meetings to match with Lin Sizhi for a steady income of visa time, and use the remaining two-thirds of her meetings to execute other strategies.
For example, tricking people.
No matter how she thought about it, this was an offer that was hard to refuse.
Zhao Duo smiled, "Alright, then I wish us a happy collaboration in advance!"
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On the other side, Yang Yuting, who had just finished her third meeting, was checking her current number of 'Likes' and 'Dislikes' in the rest area.
[Community 17 - Yang Yuting]
[Current 'Likes' owned: 2]
[Current 'Dislikes' owned: 2]
[Current 'Likes' received: 3]
[Current 'Dislikes' received: 0]
"All 3 people actually gave me a 'Like'?
"And, someone even wants to give me a visa time voucher...
"This is so hard to choose."
Yang Yuting was a bit caught in a dilemma.
Unlike Zheng Jie, the three meetings she had in the first hour went very smoothly.
The first meeting was with a male player from Community 9, who took the initiative to pay the room usage fee from the start and tried hard to find topics of conversation the whole time, the two of them had a pretty good chat.
But when leaving at the end, Yang Yuting declined the other party's proposal to exchange 'Likes'.
After all, she could only exchange one 'Like' per hour, and Yang Yuting wasn't sure if there would be a more suitable person to give a 'Like' to later.
Of course, she didn't ask the other party for a 'Like' either, but he still claimed to have given her a 'Like' first as a sign of sincerity, and hoped that after Yang Yuting confirmed receiving the 'Like', she would accept his invitation for another meeting and start exchanging 'Likes' from the next meeting.
The second meeting was with a male player from Community 3.
Initially, Yang Yuting was wary because he was from the same community as Lu Xinyi, but this male player was very generous, taking out a 1000-minute visa time voucher right away to give to Yang Yuting unconditionally, which caught her off guard.
The other party said it was compensation for female players having their visa time randomly deducted in the game.
But Yang Yuting quickly clarified that while she did have visa time deducted in this game, it was only 3 minutes per hour, which wasn't much.
Moreover, even if compensation was needed, it shouldn't be taken from other players.
This, in turn, made the other party appreciate her honesty even more, and he proposed that Yang Yuting agree to exchange 'Likes' during the final meeting, so that both of them could get an extra 30,000 minutes of visa time.
After consideration, Yang Yuting still declined and did not accept the voucher.
Although she could have chosen to accept it first and then go back on her word, Yang Yuting ultimately couldn't bring herself to make such a decision.
The other party also found it a pity, but was still very gentlemanly and said that if Yang Yuting changed her mind, she could invite him for a meeting again at any time.
"With me, you will always have the highest priority."
That's what he said.
The man in the third meeting was rather standard, bringing two bottles of mineral water and a plate of snacks, Yang Yuting felt a bit embarrassed and wanted to split the visa time cost with him, but the other party was also very generous and said it wasn't necessary, and proactively pressed [I'll Pay].
Naturally, Yang Yuting couldn't press any other options, the two didn't connect on a particularly deep level, but the chat was still pretty good.
Originally, if any of these three people had lied and not given a 'Like', Yang Yuting would have had no way to tell.
As it turned out, all three of them gave her a 'Like', which instead made it very difficult for Yang Yuting to choose.
Who should she invite for the next meeting?
She was sure that no matter who she invited, they would definitely agree, but it was really hard to choose.
Amidst this dilemma, a new meeting began.
Yang Yuting walked into the meeting room and was taken aback for a moment.
Because sitting across from her was a young, pretty girl with short hair, not someone of the opposite sex.
Moreover, the name on the name tag made Yang Yuting instantly become guarded.
[Community 3 - Lu Xinyi].
Yang Yuting hadn't expected to encounter players from Community 3 twice in four meetings.
But on second thought, it was reasonable.
Although a total of 6 communities were participating in this game, it seemed that players from the same community would not be matched together, and the number of participants from different communities also varied.
If Community 3 had a maximum of 8 participants, then encountering several of its players would be normal.
Seeing Yang Yuting's reaction and community number, Lu Xinyi immediately understood what was going on.
She spread her hands a bit helplessly, "Am I this fated to meet people from Community 17? Ah, now there are no free drinks and snacks to freeload."