Forty-nine rules of the end times

Chapter 138 A Powerful Blow and Important News

On January 5th, one-third of the time had passed since Rule 1 was implemented.

Liu Yuqiang, who is in charge of logistics at the Qingmei Base, received the latest instructions from manager Han Ling, requiring him to recall the "material collection team" outside the base as soon as possible.

The order came quickly and urgently. Liu Yuqiang immediately made arrangements while also thinking about the reasons behind it.

Previously, the base had been sending people out to acquire more supplies.

But the sudden evacuation of everyone without warning must be because something happened.

Sitting in his office, Liu Yuqiang wondered, "Could it be related to the donor system that's been gaining more and more attention online lately?"

Unlike Gu Fei, Chen Na, Jiang Ming, and others, he, as a former member of the Qingmei Association and now the head of the logistics department of the Qingmei base, is qualified to use the network within the base.

This is related to the fact that he had already boarded the pirate ship long ago. Both the highest-ranking commander and Han Ling, the base manager, knew very well that if Liu Yuqiang leaked secrets, it would also harm himself and those related to him.

Liu Yuqiang himself has always understood that there is no turning back for him.

However, an incident that occurred within the base still chilled him to the bone.

That was the disappearance of Yu Feiwei.

Although he didn't like Fei Wei, finding him selfish, cold-blooded, and utterly disrespectful of human life, he knew that Fei Wei was loyal to the Green Plum Society and even to his elder sister.

Furthermore, he held significant financial power within the base, controlling the allocation of millions of Ascension Coins. Logically, given his high position, he shouldn't have been easily caught.

However, Yu Feiwei has not appeared in public since the day before yesterday, and his position has been handed over to someone else.

Although Han Ling didn't say it directly, Liu Yuqiang knew that Yu Feiwei was probably no longer alive.

He speculated that it was related to intelligence regarding these rules.

Yu Feiwei had always wanted to raise his single-digit mental strength cap, and this was an excellent opportunity. He could simply have the resource beings imprisoned at the lowest level create some challenges for him to meet his needs.

Liu Yuqiang thought that given Yu Feiwei's personality, she would definitely submit an application to her eldest sister as soon as she heard the news, but the result would probably be disappointing.

Although he had only met the eldest sister once or twice, Liu Yuqiang could sense that she was a seemingly kind and approachable person, but was actually very cold at heart.

Moreover, ever since he personally witnessed the thousands of people imprisoned in the lowest level of the base's prison, he knew that in terms of disregard for human life, Yu Feiwei was nothing compared to his older sister.

"The exposure of the donor system this time is also a threat to this base... Could it be that the eldest sister obtained some official inside information, which is why she urgently ordered the recall of the personnel dispatched abroad to keep a low profile?"

As a business tycoon, Liu Yuqiang was meticulous and quickly guessed the truth.

Meanwhile, after making the decision, the authorities quickly launched an operation codenamed "Wildstorm".

The aim is for the action force to act like a storm, swiftly, ruthlessly, and extensively destroying targets.

After the country entered a state of war, although a large number of people were needed to maintain order at the beginning, the situation in major cities has now stabilized over time.

As a result, a large number of armed squads can be transferred out to carry out missions.

This time, the authorities were determined to dismantle the groups that operated the provider system in the wild. To this end, they dispatched hundreds of armed squads to sweep around the project sites based on the intelligence gathered.

Alongside the armed squad were several official teams and reserve members of the official teams, totaling nearly a hundred people, which was also a very large force.

And this time the authorities are serious; it's not a small-scale operation. Military airfields across the country are all on standby, ready to call in air support at any time should an armed squad encounter a powerful hostile organization in the field.

With an operation of this scale, some achievements were quickly made.

The post on the House of Ascended website about the project to create statistics on donors has been updated continuously for several days.

The donors kept coming in, saying that their organization had been forced to be destroyed, and that they and the other donors in the organization had gained their freedom.

Those who destroyed the organization were "fully armed combat personnel." Although these people did not directly reveal their identities, the power they represented was self-evident.

So even though the authorities tried to keep it a secret, the news spread quickly: the North Star Kingdom government began to secretly deploy soldiers to crack down on the Wilderness Supporter organization.

After this news spread, the general public naturally showed their full support, because it truly protected their interests.

Meanwhile, some organizations that had established donor systems were gripped by fear.

These organizations initially believed that the authorities wouldn't interfere in matters in the wild, which emboldened them to act with impunity. Now, it seems things have changed.

In order to save their lives, these organizations had to immediately hide, evacuate, and even abandon the projects they had already won, just to avoid being captured by the authorities.

But they were too naive. With the official investigative and combat capabilities, finding them would be a piece of cake given some leads. The process of annihilating them after finding them would be even easier than finding the people themselves.

Even when encountering large organizations with a significant number of members and some powerful individuals, the armed squad cannot easily defeat them and will directly call for remote support.

Once the coordinates are provided, the organization's strongholds are quickly subjected to fighter jet bombing, or even multiple missile strikes.

Under this devastating storm, donor organizations of all sizes were wiped out at an alarming rate, with an average of double digits disappearing every day.

Although Guan Tong was traveling around and challenging herself to be number one in many projects during this period, she was still able to understand the official's steady and ruthless actions through posts on the website.

Seeing the government's strong crackdown on the support system, he would naturally be very supportive. On the contrary, if the government were to remain indifferent, he would find it strange and puzzling, as this would not be the usual practice of the Northern Star Kingdom.

Then he saw a newly posted thread.

"Can someone help my friend? She seems to be imprisoned in some kind of welfare organization as well."

Guan Tong clicked to view.

"My friend is being held in a very secure base and is not allowed to access the internet. Because my friend and I are friends on the terminal, she contacted me telepathically using the [Call Secret Scroll] and asked me to help her say it."

My friend said her base might be holding many people, but she didn't know its exact location, only that it was in a mountain. All she could offer were some customized challenge programs for her, the names of which were…

Guan Tong's pupils contracted upon seeing the challenge's name. He immediately chose to hide the post temporarily and then sent a private message to the user with the nickname "Qingjin" from the backend.

Station manager: "Hello, what's your friend's name?"

Qingjin seemed to have just posted the message and was online, so she quickly replied.

Qingjin: "Is this the station manager? Why did you send me a private message?"

Station manager: "Would you mind if I could answer my earlier question to know the specifics?"

Qingjin: "It's convenient. My friend's name is Chen Na. She's a 12 or 3-year-old girl."

It really is Chen Na!
Guan Tong had previously seen the challenge project mentioned in the post, "Perceiving the Changes in the Number of People in a Closed Environment Within a 500-Meter Radius at the Activity Field in Nanlin Village," and felt that it was somewhat tailor-made for Chen Na.

Because of her [Perception Domain] ability, she would easily take first place in this kind of challenge. Furthermore, since she has indeed joined a mysterious organization, if that organization intends to cultivate her, it's possible they might use her as one of their benefactors.

Guan Tong had only guessed, but she never expected it to actually be her!
Qingjin: "Excuse me, admin, why are you asking for my friend's name? Are you trying to help me?"

Guan Tong looked at the private message that had been sent to her, but did not reply immediately. Instead, she wondered whether she should notify Wang Yan, since that was her daughter.

But after consideration, she decided against it for the time being. Now that Wang Yan has joined the Public Security Bureau, if she were told, she would most likely seek help from the Public Security Bureau, hoping to mobilize official forces to rescue her daughter—if a large-scale operation were to be launched, it might put Chen Na in danger.

This is also why Guan Tong chose to hide the post. If someone from that organization saw this post, they would know that Chen Na was secretly using the [Secret Call Scroll] to contact the outside world for help, and her fate would be predictable—she would most likely be silenced.

Station manager: "Do you know Chen Na's personal terminal serial number?"

Qingjin: "I'm sorry, stationmaster... I gave her my identification number when we were at the hospital, and she added me. So I don't know what her identification number is."

At the hospital... it seems this Qingjin is a friend Chen Na met while accompanying her mother to the doctor...

Guan Tong thought for a moment and continued sending messages.

Station Master: "Can you use the [Call Password] to contact her again and ask her to tell you?"

Qingjin: "...Sorry, stationmaster, I...I've already used up all ten of my [Secret Call Scrolls]..."

Guan Tong was stunned when she saw the message. Only a little over a month had passed since the seventh rule was implemented, and the ten bound scrolls had already been used up so quickly.

I guess they were all used during the rule period...

Guan Tong thought for a moment and then typed.

Station Master: "Here's what I'll do: I'll give you a tradable 'Secret Call Scroll,' which you can use to contact Chen Na."

Qingjin: "What?! But, stationmaster, the price for this item must be very high!"

It is indeed very expensive, especially after the seventh rule ended and there was no source of acquisition. The price of one, which was originally around 3, has now soared to as high as 8 or 9 on the market.

However, Guan Tong still had a few tradable ones left. He didn't sell them all at the time because he wanted to keep them, thinking he might need them in the future, so he wouldn't have to buy them later.

Now, in order to contact Chen Na, producing a document is nothing. In particular, Guan Tong really wants to find out what kind of organization took Chen Na away, that they even have selection and assessment processes, and that they can enter and leave a big city like Yunhua during wartime management. They are definitely not an ordinary wilderness violence organization.

Station Master: "Send me your number, and I'll trade it to you. Then use it to contact Chen Na, remember her number, tell her about your communication with me, and then send it to me via private message."

Qingjin: "Okay, stationmaster."

Qingjin quickly sent her digital ID, and Guan Tong added her as a friend, trading her a [Secret Call Scroll].

He wasn't worried that Qingjin would block and resell the entire package after obtaining it. It wasn't that he trusted this person that much, but rather that he didn't believe a person of sound mind would cheat the administrator of the website "Home of Ascendants," especially when the serial number was exposed.

About twenty minutes later, Qingjin sent a message.

Qingjin: "Stationmaster, I used the secret document you gave me to contact Chen Na and tell her about this. She gave me the number, and I'll send it to you now."

Station manager: "Okay."

After Qingjin sent Chen Na's number, she sent another message: "The station manager went to so much trouble to contact my friend, is there some connection between them? I hope the station manager can rescue my friend..."

Station manager: "We will do our best."

Guan Tong looked at Chen Na's number, opened the terminal, and selected to add her as a friend.

The addition was completed quickly. He took out a bound version of the "Call Scroll" that he had purchased from the Shenghua Store. He hadn't used any of the 10 scrolls he bought back then.

However, Guan Tong hesitated for a moment before using it.

He knew that when he used this thing to communicate telepathically, the voice that would be heard in the other person's mind would also be his own current voice.

If he used it directly like that, Chen Na would immediately recognize him as Guan Tong upon hearing his voice, thus knowing that he was the station manager of the Ascended Ones' Home. This was because Qing Jin must have already told Chen Na during the call that the station manager would add her as a friend after obtaining her ID number.

Guan Tong wasn't worried that Chen Na would leak the information on her own initiative, but she was still a young girl and might accidentally or be tricked into revealing it by others, which would cause a lot of trouble.

After thinking it over, Guan Tong took out the [Passerby Transformation Device] and used it. The next moment, he transformed into another form.

Looking at his smooth hands, Guan Tong had a bad feeling. He took out his phone and took a picture... Sure enough, he had transformed into a young woman this time.

"……Fine."

When Guan Tong spoke, it was a woman's voice.

He chose to use the "secret call record," targeting his only friend at the moment, Chen Na.

　Day 20 of my daily 10,000-point challenge. Thank you for your support!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)