Forty-nine rules of the end times

Chapter 267 A Plan to Achieve Three Things at Once
Early morning, before the sun has risen.

Guan Tong came out of the dormitory assigned to him by the college, locked the door, and hung the key on the doorknob.

He didn't stay in this dormitory very often over the past few months, mostly moving back to his own shelter, so the interior remained almost unchanged and didn't require any extra cleaning.

After leaving the dormitory building, he walked along the road to the college gate in the quiet of the early morning. The guards at the college security office saw him and said, "Teacher Guan, are you leaving today?"

After Shi Jingyi returned, the news that Guan Tong would leave the academy had already spread, and the security personnel naturally knew about it as well.

Moreover, they felt somewhat embarrassed in front of Guan Tong. The soldier apologized, saying, "I'm sorry, Teacher Guan, you're about to leave, and we still haven't been able to catch the criminal."

The "culprit" he was referring to was the Sisya assassin who threw the bear's head into Guan Tong's dormitory.

After that incident, the security department had been investigating. However, since Guan Tong had dealt with the three assassins herself, the security department naturally couldn't find them and assumed they had escaped.

"It's nothing," Guan Tong said. "I'm perfectly fine now, which means those people were just trying to scare me."

The soldier nodded: "That's for the best. Take care, Teacher Guan."

"Thanks, bye."

Guan Tong walked out of the academy and turned to look at the place where she had stayed for more than three months.

He had no real affection for the college itself, and his relationships with the other teachers and dean were merely superficial. However, he was quite satisfied with most of the students.

Before he had any contact with them, he thought that the students in the college might all have a certain arrogance. They felt that they met the requirements and entered the college, making them the most valuable group of people, and that people outside couldn't compare to them.

However, after interacting with them, he found that most students were quite humble and rarely had any sense of superiority.

Even in the previous "Shen Yun case," only a minority of students participated in the protests. Most maintained a neutral stance, believing that Shen Yun was indeed at fault for killing multiple people, and that his sentencing was not excessive.

"Xiaotian and his classmates have already been assigned to various government departments. Next year, when the next graduating class is assigned, there should be even more 'academics' in those government departments..."

Guan Tong didn't know if this was good or bad, but that wasn't something he needed to consider right now.

He looked away and strode forward.

Before long, they disappeared into the street.

……

Outside Pinglu City, below the canyon.

Guan Tong appeared silently in the shelter and released some daily necessities stored in her storage ring.

He sat on the bed and let out a long sigh: "Now I don't have to run back and forth anymore."

He used to stay in the college dormitory every few days. Although he had the ability to teleport and it didn't take much effort to travel back and forth, he still found it troublesome on a psychological level.

Now that he has officially left the academy, he can finally stay safely in the shelter.

"Meow."

Hearing the noise inside, Coal Ball ran in from outside and barked at Guan Tong.

As its size changed, its call was no longer as cute as before, but became a deep, buzzing sound that sounded powerful.

Guan Tong looked at Coal Ball, whose height had reached her thigh, and rubbed its face: "Coal Ball, if I told someone you're a cat now, they'd definitely think I'm crazy, right?"

The current Coal Ball is more like a mutated cheetah than a cat, with a fiercer personality, and only behaves obediently in front of him.

Guan Tong played with it for a while, then let it play on its own while he planned his next move.

"Who should we go to collect the debt from first?"

What Guan Tong told Shi Jingyi earlier was true. After leaving the academy, he would go and collect his debts from his enemies, so that he could return to the "unburdened" state he had when he was at Mingdao Mountain.

However, he did not have a clear goal regarding who should come first and who should come last.

Guan Tong turned on the computer and first read the small hard drive that Shi Jingyi had given him, which contained some text data.

He glanced through them and found that they were all Shi Jingyi's latest cultivation insights, which had not been mentioned in the previous online course videos.

"I'll have to study this carefully later..."

Guan Tong didn't immediately focus on studying; instead, she saved all the materials first.

He then logged onto the website of the Ascended Persons' Home.

His website is now running smoothly, with each section quite mature. Clicking on any section, whether it's intelligence or commissions, reveals many Ascendants posting and accepting commissions. And in the casual chat section, it has practically become the world's largest online community for Ascendants to exchange ideas.

As soon as any news breaks, someone posts it here, keeping the number of visitors consistently high.

Guan Tong opened the backend, selected an account, and checked its recent activity records.

He discovered that the account became active every now and then, and the content was mostly related to intelligence and commissions.

The account's most recent activity occurred two days ago when it posted a request for assistance, stating that it urgently needed Ascension Coins and wanted to sell several high-value items at a low price as soon as possible.

Guan Tong follows this account because it's the same account that posted the "Shadow Attack on Prince Rado's Convoy" exposé.

He didn't deal with the account at the time because he wanted to wait until he had time to find the device's location based on the account and then settle accounts later.

Perhaps because he didn't take any action, the user of this account thought it was fine and didn't change the account afterward, continuing to use it to be active on the website.

Guan Tong checked all the posts made by this account and quickly discovered a pattern.

That is, the commissions posted by this account mostly use the keyword "selling at a low price", and there is usually no follow-up communication in the posts.

It looks like fishing.

Guan Tong checked the location of the device that logged into the account, and it was located south of the border of the Northern Star Kingdom, in the former An Dai State region.

However, due to the demise of the Antai State, this land was allocated to the Sakura Kingdom by the Federation of Peoples before the earthquake regulations were implemented. The Sakura people who were originally relocated from the island now live there.

Guan Tong currently has two guesses.

First, the person or group behind this account has always been in Antai State. Furthermore, they may know the truth about the attack on Prince Rato's convoy, or they may even have been the ones who carried it out, but are now trying to smear the account by implicating someone else to evade international investigation.

Now that Yingqi Kingdom has moved there, this group of people haven't left yet; they may have already established a base there.

The second guess is related to those "selling at low prices" posts.

These posts are likely phishing posts, designed to obtain Ascendant Coins through deception or intimidation—they may indeed have high-value items, but they would never sell them at a low price, and those items themselves may not even belong to them.

"The fate of Prince Rado, the prince of this fallen kingdom, remains unknown. If this group attacked Rado, then the Ascension Coins and items he possessed should all be in their hands..."

Guan Tong pondered for a moment, then his gaze sharpened.

He made up his mind to start by taking action against the person behind the account.

The reason is simple—it's close by.

In comparison, whether he went to Sisia to find Yelena's brother or to the Tulip Federation to find Lucifer, the journey was quite long.

Especially with that bastard Lucifer, it's completely uncertain whether he's even back in the Tulip Federation. If Guan Tong rushes over there rashly, she might end up making a wasted trip without finding him, which would be a waste of time.

By targeting Sakuragi Country first to collect debts, they might be able to achieve three goals at once.

One solution is to address the issue of the user behind this account.

Secondly, it was to eliminate the forces that had sent people to bomb him in the past.

Third...

Guan Tong thought for a moment and then clicked on the "baqizi" account.

This account was last active a month ago, which is a long time ago. I wonder if something happened to it.

Last time she messaged Guan Tong, she said she was being held under house arrest by the Yingqi authorities and hoped Guan Tong could help her find the parents who abandoned her back then.

At that time, Guan Tong agreed to help because the latter had given him the Qimo Star fragment directly on Lieming Island, saving him a lot of trouble.

However, his response to her at the time was not to find someone, but to rescue her and then let her go find her parents herself.

Therefore, rescuing Orochi from house arrest is the "third" of this three-pronged approach.

However, this matter is not so simple and needs to be investigated first.

Finding out which faction sent the people to bomb him was also a troublesome and somewhat dangerous task.

Therefore, Guan Tong believes that his planned trip to Yingqi will probably take a lot of time... He may spend 1-2 apocalyptic rules within Yingqi.

(End of this chapter)