Forty-nine rules of the end times

Chapter 145 The End of the Half-Moon Chaos

At the Countermeasures Research Center base, Chen Na sat in a room, staring blankly at the ceiling.

A whole day has passed since she was found by the officials and brought here.

During this time, she was questioned twice, about her background, relatives, reasons for joining the mysterious organization, her understanding of the organization, and her contact with the shadow, etc. She told the truth about everything.

Afterwards, the officials told her that everything was alright and that they would bring her mother to meet her later, so she waited expectantly.

"Click."

There was a sound at the door. Chen Na looked over and saw her mother, Wang Yan, enter the room. She was immediately overjoyed.

"mom!"

"Nana!"

Wang Yan immediately ran over and hugged her daughter. Dr. Zhang, who was at the door, saw this and gently closed the door and left temporarily. He didn't come back until about half an hour later.

"Are you two alright?" Dr. Zhang asked with a smile as he entered.

Wang Yan and Chen Na had both calmed down from the joy of their reunion. Wang Yan gratefully grasped Dr. Zhang's hand tightly: "Thank you, thank you for saving my daughter!"

"Please don't be so polite, have a seat," Dr. Zhang said. "Actually, it was your daughter's friend, the website owner, and Shadow who saved her... I think Chen Na has told you all of this, right?"

Wang Yan nodded. In the past half hour, her daughter had told her everything.

"If it weren't for your daughter's great sense of justice in informing the outside world about this evil organization, who knows how many more people would have been harmed by it. You could say your daughter has done a great service."

Upon hearing this, Wang Yan shook her head and said, "What's all this talk about merit? I'll be content as long as the child is alright."

Dr. Zhang asked, "What are your plans for the future?"

"I just plan to go back with my daughter and live a good life. I don't want to think about anything else." Wang Yan held her daughter Chen Na's hand tightly.

Chen Na nodded vigorously: "Yes, I will never leave my mother's side again!"

Upon hearing this, Dr. Zhang looked somewhat embarrassed.

Wang Yan noticed this and her heart skipped a beat. She tentatively asked, "What's wrong, Dr. Zhang? Is there something wrong with my daughter?"

“That’s how it is,” Dr. Zhang explained. “Your daughter is fine. The main issue is that while the base has indeed been destroyed, the founder of the organization has not yet been identified… It cannot be ruled out that this person may harbor vengeful intentions, which would pose a high risk to your personal safety if you and your daughter were to return.”

"Ah, this..."

Wang Yan hadn't initially considered this possibility, but now, hearing Dr. Zhang's words, she became quite worried.

"Dr. Zhang, what should we do? I'm not afraid, but my daughter..."

“I have a suggestion,” Dr. Zhang said. “Your daughter’s abilities are very special and powerful. I am the person in charge of the official Ascended Team’s training program, and I would like to invite your daughter to join the official training program.”

"As for Ms. Wang, if you are willing to stay with us, I can arrange a job for you. This way, you and your daughter can stay together, and your personal safety can be guaranteed."

Upon hearing this, Wang Yan was about to agree immediately, but then looked at Chen Na and asked, "Nana, what do you think?"

Chen Na's face showed a hint of resistance: "Is training starting again? I..."

Dr. Zhang knew that the kind of forced growth training organized by the organization must have left some psychological trauma on children like Chen Na. He said softly, "Chen Na, don't worry, we will not let you receive similar training from that organization."

“Then, then I’m willing to stay with Mom.”

"That's great," Dr. Zhang said with a smile. "I'll go and set up the file right away. Ms. Wang, I'll also take care of your resignation at the Yunhua Public Security Bureau while I'm at it."

"Well, then I'll have to trouble Dr. Zhang."

After Dr. Zhang left, Chen Na said somewhat reluctantly, "Mom, actually I don't want to participate in the training anymore... I feel so tired. I wish I could go to school like before."

"Silly girl." Wang Yan ruffled her daughter's hair. "In this society, where can you go to school? This is at least an officially established base, so everything is quite standardized. If you're tired, just tell your mother. Dr. Zhang seems easy to talk to, so he definitely won't force you to train."

"Um……"

"Oh, right," Wang Yan remembered something, "After everything's settled, I need to call your brother Guan. He's very concerned about you. Also, you need to apologize to your brother Guan for lying to him that time, you know?"

"Yes, I know, I will apologize." Chen Na nodded shyly, feeling guilty when she thought about how she had lied to Guan Tong on the phone.

……

In a hospital room, two people stood in front of the bed.

A young man lay unconscious on the bed, his groin wrapped in thick bandages, his lower body bare. This was Jiang Ming, whose legs had been severed by Guan Tong just moments before the teleportation.

The two people beside the hospital bed were a short-haired young woman in a suit and an elderly woman with gray hair dressed in handmade cloth.

“Commander, his life has been saved,” the young woman said, “but we haven’t yet acquired any medicine or recovery items that can regenerate severed limbs. In addition, we haven’t found any Ascended individuals with similar regenerative abilities yet.”

The commander listened expressionlessly.

The young woman continued, "The destruction of the Yongzhou base has been confirmed to be the work of the Ascended One 'Shadow.' According to internal sources, the reason Shadow discovered the base was because someone inside the base leaked its location. The person who leaked the information was Chen Na, one of the team members."

"Chen Na, is that the little girl with the ability to sense things?" the commander asked slowly. "Yes."

"Such a large base in Yongzhou has been ruined by a child." The commander sighed, "Han Ling, you have disappointed me greatly."

Upon hearing this, a hint of pride flashed in the young woman's eyes. She thought to herself that if the commander had assigned her to manage the Yongzhou base instead of Han Ling, things would certainly have turned out differently.

"However, Han Ling did not say anything she shouldn't have until her death, so she did fulfill her duty."

"...But Commander, it was ultimately her mismanagement that led to the destruction of the Yongzhou base."

The commander said calmly, "It was Shadow that destroyed the Yongzhou base. Don't get the enemy wrong."

The young woman's heart skipped a beat: "Yes!"

"Now we have the video of the shadow, right? Whether it's a disguise or not, go find it. We must find this person. Also, we need to find a way to restore Jiang Ming's legs as soon as possible. His abilities are very useful, and we can't let them be wasted like this."

“I will make the arrangements, please rest assured, Commander.” The young woman paused. “What does the Commander intend to do with the informant Chen Na? According to the latest news, she has been kept at the Countermeasures Research Office base by Zhang Minglu, so it may not be appropriate to make any rash moves against her.”

"Traitors must be punished, of course," the commander said calmly. "Even if she can join the official team, it doesn't mean she can escape. I will make arrangements for her later. You go and get to work."

"Yes."

After the young woman left, the commander looked at the unconscious Jiang Ming and reached out to touch his face.

“Poor child… Your parents sacrificed so tragically to save you. As your grandmother, I will definitely make you the most powerful being in the world…”

……

The Ascended Home website.

In just a few days, a post has gone viral and become incredibly popular.

The post is titled: "A Mysterious Organization's Base in the Yongzhou Mountains Destroyed; Was the Man Behind It the Shadow God?!"

The poster wrote in the main text:
"Let me clarify my source first. I'm just a lowly soldier who recently participated in a special operation, ordered to wipe out a large donor organization located in the Yongzhou Mountains. When I arrived, I found that all the guards in the organization's base had been eliminated, and the thousands of donors who had been victimized had all been released. The one who eliminated so many guards is suspected to be the Shadow God!"

The post was vaguely written, but it attracted a lot of attention because of the hot keywords such as "shadow" and "thousands of donors".

However, most comments were skeptical.

Without photos or videos, people certainly won't easily believe you just by talking.

What truly ignited the discussion was the site administrator's reply to the post.

The reply consisted of just two words: "Yes."

The poster lacked credibility, but the site administrator's credibility was unquestionable. His reply immediately sparked numerous comments.

"Does the stationmaster know the details? Please explain!"

"The Yongzhou Mountains are so close to the capital. What kind of organization dares to cause trouble there..."

"Has the Shadow God really made a move? What exactly is the relationship between the site administrator and the Shadow God?"

"The authorities have indeed been cracking down on the wilderness recently. Our camp was almost wiped out as a gang of thugs... But it's really scary that an organization can produce thousands of supporters."

In a small cabin on Mingdao Mountain, Guan Tong sat in front of the computer, browsing websites.

Since the incident in Yongzhou, he hasn't done anything else but keep challenging himself with projects and trying to get more first place.

Time flies, and tomorrow will be the 15th, the day the eighth rule ends.

Because people figured out how to counter this rule early on, by forming team alliances to protect each other and not allowing others to challenge it, many weaker players successfully defended their first place.

Those who lost the top spot were mostly those who had ascended to the wilderness, as well as those organizations that were forced to provide customized projects.

The latter group was thoroughly purged by the authorities, resulting in the elimination of many of them, who at least dared not show their faces again in the Northern Star Kingdom. The focus on cracking down on these individuals has become a consensus among every citizen.

However, the situation is quite different outside of Northern Star. In some small countries without strong official control, the donor system has flourished, with some even having their own governments establish the largest donor organizations.

However, this system sparked tremendous resistance in the post-apocalyptic era. Especially in the Tulip Federation, a coalition of dozens of warlords, civil war broke out in the middle of the eighth rule.

Many warlords were dissatisfied with all the resources being allocated to the top leader and demanded that their own forces also have their own top leader. This triggered a crackdown by the largest warlord, which ultimately escalated into a civil war.

Some of the people living there posted their observations in the chat area of ​​the Ascended House. Various battles between Ascended, involving both cold and hot weapons, were commonplace, and the brutality of the situation was truly horrifying.

After seeing some of it herself, Guan Tong couldn't help but feel sympathy for the ordinary people there.

However, the world's major powers are currently preoccupied with their own problems in the face of the apocalyptic rules, and no one can act as the world's peacekeeper to mediate or manage the situation.

Amidst this complex situation, the eighth apocalyptic rule, which had been in effect for only half a month but had brought countless chaos, was finally declared to have ended by the Firebringer at 9:00 AM on January 15th.

The rule period has ended.

(End of this chapter)