Forty-nine rules of the end times

Chapter 28 Sudden danger

The third day after the third apocalyptic rule takes effect.

Guan Tong sat at her desk, feeling her body's level of hunger.

"I'm very hungry, but not to the point where I can't hold on any longer."

Perhaps due to his higher mental strength limit, Guan Tong noticed that his ability to perceive his body was stronger than before.

If we quantify hunger, the danger level is 90, and he feels he's currently around 70, so he can hold on for a while longer.

But others can't.

Especially those who are older and have lower mental capacity, they basically start posting frantically on the internet as the second day is about to end.

"I can't take it anymore, I'm so hungry I'm dizzy, it seems I have to give up the challenge!"

"Let me tell you a lesson learned the hard way: energy drinks don't count as water! I only took one sip and the challenge failed!!!"

"Upstairs... are you a caveman? This was already explained on the very first day the rules were released..."

"Why can't I trade these damn food crates?! My sister has coins, but she bought crates that I can't use. This is outrageous!"

"I can manage, but I'm afraid my organs will fail after fifteen days. What will I do then?"

"If you're worried about getting sick, go to the hospital. Healthcare is now free for everyone."

"Yes, in order to preserve more population, the government is now offering almost everything that can be given away for free. As for things that can't be given away for free, we can't buy them either; they only accept gold transactions."

"Persistence is victory! Never give up!!!"

"Guys, let me show you my homemade secret recipe burger, it's so delicious. [Super Honey Mega Hammer.jpg]"

"Suspend the account of the person upstairs who posted the hamburger picture!! Immediately!!!"

Faced with this environment, people don't have much else to do besides chatting online to vent their frustrations.

Guan Tong had things to do. When her mental energy recovered, she would write on the "Wordless Book." When she finished, she would entertain herself and live a relatively peaceful life.

By the evening of the fourth day, he was starting to feel unwell.

It wasn't that I was starving, but rather that my mental energy was recovering at a slower rate.

After searching online, Guan Tong discovered that others had already noticed this problem. The worse the physical condition, the slower the recovery of mental energy. In a near-death situation, recovery may even stop completely.

Being hungry is fine, but slow recovery of mental energy is a problem! This would seriously affect his "coinage plan".

Immediately, he took out a [Basic Food Box] from the terminal's storage box, opened it, and obtained a multivitamin tablet.

He opened his mouth and swallowed it. He could feel the pill rapidly breaking down in his body, supplying energy to his entire body.

In less than a few seconds, Guan Tong felt fully recharged, and the feeling of being so hungry that she was dizzy had completely disappeared.

"Products from the terminal are really good," Guan Tong thought to himself. Once he has a lot of coins, he'll definitely stop eating meals and just take one of these every day—convenient and healthy.

After fully recovering, Guan Tong was about to continue working when she suddenly heard the doorbell ring.

"Ding dong, ding dong."

Ok?
Guan Tong's heart skipped a beat. Who would come looking for him?
He walked to the door and looked out through the peephole. He saw two young men in their twenties, wearing baseball caps and white sheriff uniforms, standing at his door.

Guan Tong was completely unfamiliar with these two people; they were definitely not people she knew.

He neither opened the door nor spoke.

After waiting for a moment, one of the two men knocked on the door and shouted, "Please open the door. We are from the Public Security Bureau and are here to conduct an investigation."

Guan Tong frowned upon hearing this.

That's ridiculous. What kind of sheriff would come to your door in the middle of the night to conduct an investigation?

He still didn't speak.

After a while, another young man banged on the door.

Bang! Bang! "Sheriff's inspection! Open the door! We know someone's home; we saw the lights on in the rooms from the outside!"

Lights on!

Guan Tong was startled and looked towards the study window.

He actually overlooked this point!

Because the curtains in his study are a bit thin and let light through, so when the lights are on at night, people downstairs can see through them.

After the first apocalyptic rule was implemented, more than a quarter of the population was drastically reduced. It's easy to imagine that in Guan Tong's neighborhood, while nine out of ten houses were empty, there weren't many living people left.

In this way, the lights in his house at night would be very conspicuous, letting people outside know that someone is still alive in the house.

Now that people outside know she's home, Guan Tong will no longer remain silent.

He picked up his phone, quickly dialed the police station, and said to the door, "Even if you are sheriffs, you can't just come into my house and search it. Do you have any search warrants?"

Upon hearing Guan Tong's voice, one of the two people outside the door immediately replied, "Of course we have the documents, open the door and I'll show them to you!"

"I've now dialed the police department to verify your identities. Please provide your sheriff's identification number."

"what?!"

"If you don't open the door, we're going to break it down and search the place!"

Guan Tong spoke loudly on speakerphone, "Hello, is this the police station? Someone is impersonating a police officer and has come to my house. Please send someone over immediately. The address is..."

"Grass!"

"You wait, kid, let's go!"

The two people at the door heard Guan Tong inside the house actually making a phone call to the police station. They each cursed and then quickly ran down the stairs and away.

After reporting the information to the operator at the Public Security Bureau, Guan Tong put down his phone, his brows furrowing deeply.

What's going on with these two people?

Robber? But the government provides many things for free these days, so what's there to rob?

Want to rob gold? But Guan Tong's neighborhood is just an ordinary neighborhood, not a rich area. How many families can afford to store gold there?

Snatching Ascension Coins? That's even more impossible; these can't be traded...

Or perhaps these two young men were driven to the brink of madness by the rules of the apocalypse and were tempted to commit random crimes?

Such situations do occur, but they mostly occur during the period of the first rule.

After the first rule was implemented, random crime was significantly curbed under strong official crackdown.

Guan Tong frowned, a strong sense of unease creeping into his heart.

This stemmed from his inability to understand the motives of the two young men.

It also stemmed from his address being exposed, making him a target.

"It was my oversight that I didn't notice the curtains were not blocking out the light at night... Now the house is uninhabitable, and I need to find another place to stay as soon as possible!"

Just now, a young man ran off and said, "You just wait." This could be just a boast to save face, but it could also be that he really meant it.

Guan Tong felt that if this were to happen for real, she might get blocked the next time she went out to buy food.

This is not a good thing, because he doesn't have much fighting power yet.

His "shadow" has no physical form; it might be useful for scaring people, but it's not effective in a real fight...

Buzz!
My phone vibrated; it was a call from the police department.

"Hello, we have dispatched two sheriffs, numbered A1221 and C3306 respectively."

Guan Tong provided the information: "As soon as I called the police station, those two people ran away, but they probably didn't go far. They were wearing police officer uniforms and baseball caps, and they were both under thirty years old."

(End of this chapter)