Forty-nine rules of the end times

Chapter 118 Base and Commission

Liu Yuqiang gazed at the distant mountains and fields, feeling melancholy.

Today marks exactly one month since he left the capital, Yong'an.

Because his elder sister had access to information through internal channels, he learned about the impending wartime management even before the official live-streamed press conference.
After the eldest sister informed them of the news, she ordered the members of the Green Plum Society to evacuate the city and head to the secret base outside the city that she had created.

Although it was his elder sister's order, Liu Yuqiang knew that even if his elder sister hadn't forced him, he wouldn't have stayed in the city to live in the shelter.

However, choosing to come outside the city meant giving up everything he had built up in the past. The vast majority of his surviving employees chose to stay, either moving into or waiting to move into the shelter. Only a few of his closest confidants came with him.

This "green plum base" is the place that the eldest sister mentioned later at that green plum gathering.

This is a base built inside a mountain, covering a vast area and equipped with complete facilities.

Liu Yuqiang suspects that this place may have been a "doomsday command post" prepared for nuclear war, but for some reason it was taken over by his older sister and extensively modified.

The renovation added many functional areas, such as the Ascended Prison. In the early stages of the rule release, all the Ascended captured from various cities were imprisoned there.

After arriving at the base, Liu Yuqiang and other members of the Qingmei Association were assigned jobs and positions according to their specialties.

Liu Yuqiang was assigned to the logistics management department as its head, and his daily work involved coordinating and distributing various supplies. In return, he would receive Ascension Coins and some items as "salary" on a regular basis.

This kind of life was not what Liu Yuqiang expected, nor was it what most members of the Qingmei Club expected. But since they had boarded this ship, they had no choice.

Moreover, they needed the elder sister's resources to save their lives more than she needed them. It was obvious to everyone that the Fire Stealers' rules had always favored the young and middle-aged.

These people, whose average age is over fifty, will inevitably be eliminated by the fire thieves if they don't band together and use the eldest sister's influence to seize resources from other ascendants.

This is something they absolutely do not want to accept.

(minister.)
At this moment, a subordinate came over and reported to him using text on a tablet.

(This collection operation is about to begin; the higher-ups are requesting a list of the necessary supplies.)
Liu Yuqiang nodded and transmitted the list to his subordinates.

This plum base has a large number of people, and its daily consumption of supplies is enormous.

After the country took over wartime administration, all factories capable of producing supplies across the country were taken over by the government. In addition, since documents were required to enter and leave the city, transporting supplies outside the city became extremely difficult.

For this reason, his older sister had previously instructed him to regularly compile a list of supplies that were likely to be in short supply, and she would send people to collect them.

Liu Yuqiang knew very well that "collecting" meant raiding the camps of other outdoor gangs. Even if he didn't get much at once, every little bit counted.

The subordinate who received the list quickly handed it to a short-haired woman.

The short-haired woman entered a room.

There were five people in the room, all wearing the same uniform with a black plum blossom pattern.

One person was sitting on the sofa watching TV, another was in a corner listening to music with headphones, one was fiddling with building blocks, another was playing with a scimitar, and a little girl was daydreaming.

As soon as the short-haired woman entered, all five of them looked over.

The woman used a device to convert text into speech and say, "The mission has arrived. This is your first mission since you formed a team."

"..."

The five people stood up and approached.

The woman took out a list of supplies: "The mission is simple. Search for the supplies listed in the A1-A9 area marked on the map. Once you find them, you don't need to bring them back. Just eliminate the threat and send the coordinates back to the base. The base will send logistics personnel to retrieve them."

The young man wearing headphones typed a message on his phone and showed it to the short-haired woman: (What does "eliminating the threat" mean?)

The electronic voice replied flatly, "Literal meaning."

Gu Fei grabbed the list and readily expressed his acceptance of the task.

The others did not object and all walked towards the door.

When it was the last girl's turn, the short-haired woman patted her on the shoulder and said in an electronic voice, "You don't need to do anything when you encounter a threatening target. You just need to assist a few teammates and let them know the exact number and location of the enemy."

The girl nodded slightly, her face somewhat pale.

The short-haired woman paused for a moment, then said, "After this rule is implemented, I will apply to the commander-in-chief to allow you to see your mother."

Upon hearing this, a glimmer of light finally appeared in Chen Na's eyes.

……

boom!
Guan Tong fired a series of No. 2 single-shots, taking down another Sound Hunter.

[Gained 350 Ascension Coins]

Did you not drop the call secret scroll again...?

Guan Tong was somewhat disappointed when she saw the notification.

So far, he has killed more than five Sound Hunters.

However, the secret scrolls only dropped on the first and fourth attempts; the first attempt yielded 3 scrolls, while the fourth attempt yielded only 1 scroll.

This shows that the drop rate for this item is really low; the first time was just lucky.

But disappointment aside, it's definitely worth it.

Guan Tong sold the fourth communication scroll for 25,000, bringing his total value to nearly 60,000 Shenghua coins! This was a number he could never have imagined as a lone wolf before.

However, unlike before, other people besides him have started selling secret call files on the market. This is not surprising.

Leaving aside various organizations, at least the official departments of several countries with relatively strong national power have the capability to eliminate the Sound Hunters. The reason they couldn't do so initially was simply because they hadn't fully understood the Sound Hunters' modus operandi.

Once the research is completed, eliminating it will not be difficult for the authorities; at most, it will only consume some resources.

However, compared to the vast untapped market, the number of encrypted call files currently in circulation is still insufficient, and the supply is still less than the demand.

After all, a single encrypted document only allows for 10 minutes of communication, so 10 documents would only last for a little over an hour. For some special individuals, 100 of these documents wouldn't be too many.

Even if others start producing them due to the low drop rate, each item can still sell for over 2.

Guan Tong continued to grind monsters.

After several optimizations, he no longer needs to spend a lot of mental energy to summon the giant axe warrior. He can simply use the undead to attract the sound hunters and then use the Silver Hunter's No. 2 slugs, about twenty of which are enough to eliminate them.

If you were to use the No. 3 round, it would take about ten rounds. This is because the Sound Hunter is too small, and the full force of a large blast radius cannot be applied to it, resulting in a weakening effect.

This consumption is actually quite high, but since Guan Tong had previously used the Holy Grail buff to store up a lot of bullets, they can now come in handy.

At this moment, he would never feel bad about the bullets, because if he ran out of bullets, he could generate more with his mental power and slowly store them up. But such opportunities to farm monsters and sell coins are rare.

He continued grinding until evening, eliminating ten more Sound Hunters, but only managed to get two Communication Scrolls, leaving him quite frustrated.

As soon as it got dark, he stopped farming and went back to the cabin to check his remaining bullets.

Currently, Silver Hunter only has 10 No. 2 rounds left, which he deliberately saved. He has about 200 No. 3 rounds left, and he hasn't used the No. 1, No. 4, and No. 5 rounds much because he doesn't really need them.

Shotguns, smoke grenades, and electromagnetic pulses are ineffective against the Sound Hunter; only the No. 2 slug and the No. 3 high-explosive grenade can cause effective damage.

Guan Tong thought to herself, "200 rounds of No. 3 ammo, if I aim carefully, I can eliminate more than a dozen Sound Hunters. After that, I'll start generating bullets with my mental power."

He originally planned to use a large amount of his reserved mental energy to farm it, but the extremely low drop rate of the subsequent communication scrolls made him abandon this plan.

If you get a card every time, using your reserved mental energy is worthwhile. But if you only get one card after eliminating several enemies on average, then it's not worth it.

He had stockpiled mental energy to save his life in emergencies when facing multiple enemies. He certainly wouldn't use this trump card lightly unless it yielded several times the return.

While prices were still high, Guan Tong sold two newly acquired secret scrolls on the market for 28,000 yuan each, earning another 56,000 yuan.

This brought his total Shenghua coins to 120637, exceeding 120,000, which was a complete overnight fortune compared to before the rules were implemented.

Thinking back to how much effort he put into getting 10 coins using the "Wordless Book," Guan Tong found it somewhat amusing... though it was also related to his low mental strength at the time.

If we did that now, we would definitely get a lot more bound coins—but we probably won't do that anymore.

Guan Tong was well aware that every page of the "Wordless Book" was now crucial, and when he was able to put pen to paper on the fifth page in the future, he would definitely write something that would bring him real improvement.

Currently, the Shadow on the first page, the Silver Hunter on the second page, the Reserved Mental Power on the third page, and the Omnipotent Refuge on the fourth page... each plays an irreplaceable role in his growth. Without any one of them, he would not have the strength he has now.

Therefore, by the fifth page, he needs to think carefully and materialize a tool or ability that can continuously improve himself.

Upon opening the Ascended House website, he saw many people discussing the secret call scrolls sold on the market, and many others hoping that the person he wanted to eliminate would share their secrets.

Guan Tong didn't really think there was any secret. In short, it was: attack the Sound Hunter at the same time as the Sound Hunter launches its attack.

However, two conditions need to be met to eliminate it.

One possibility is that someone needs to make a sound to attract the sound hunters. Guan Tong can summon undead to make sounds in place of humans to attract them, but most other Ascended should not have such a tool.

This means that if they want to attempt to attack the Ascended, someone else needs to speak up. But who would risk their life just to let you test an attack?

Secondly, the attack power must be large enough.

The Sound Hunter isn't large, but its defense is astonishing; it can't be killed with weak attacks. If you only manage to injure it, it will quickly teleport away, rendering your previous attacks useless.

Therefore, meeting these two conditions is not easy, and Guan Tong didn't immediately make it public because she was somewhat worried. If it were made public, someone would definitely force others to speak up to attract sound hunters so that she could try to eliminate them.

He knew that some groups or organizations had already started doing this, but it was always better to have fewer.

Then he saw a post in the "Entrustment" section that had received quite a few replies.

Does anyone know how to get their hands on the "talk-proof masks" issued by the shelter? I'd like to buy a batch; I can trade them for Ascendant Coins or other supplies.

The poster claimed to be the leader of a camp in the wild and said that he had heard that the shelter had distributed officially designed and made "talk-proof masks" and wanted to get a batch for the people in his camp.

"This mask is really good. I'm from the shelter, and when I put it on, I can't even speak. My tongue is fixed in place by small splints that look like silicone."

"These masks are only being distributed free of charge to people in shelters and city gathering points? Not to those outside the city?"

"We'll definitely prioritize those inside the city. The people in the gathering points and shelters are all registered, so it's easier to distribute them. People outside the city aren't registered, so we can't even determine the number to distribute to them..."

"Isn't this the same as government-run smuggling? Someone could probably make a fortune by dumping a batch outside the city!"

"Those with guts can give it a try, but if you get caught, you're probably in for a bad time."

"How do we collect them? The people in the shelters can't get out, so we can only collect them from the people at the gathering points. But transporting them out of the city is a real problem."

"I said the content you're discussing is dangerous. Aren't you afraid the authorities will trace it back to your website and arrest you?"

"Don't worry! We trust the security of the website owner's site!"

　I was a bit lax over the weekend, so my update schedule was a bit inconsistent. I'm very sorry!
　　However, the number of updates will not be small; it will still be three chapters a day, each containing 10,000 words. The second chapter today will still be released at 9 PM as usual, and the third chapter may be a little later but will still be posted.

　　Tomorrow, the workday will resume its fixed hours!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)