Forty-nine rules of the end times

Chapter 293 The Plan to Assassinate the Divine Child

Outside an interrogation room with one-way glass.

The princess looked at Suzuki, who was sitting in a chair in the room being questioned, with an unusually cold expression.

The Director General of the Public Security Bureau stood awkwardly to the side, his body slightly bowed, not daring to look directly into the eyes of the divine child.

"...In short, she didn't know why Shadow let her come back. And she didn't get any valuable information either. Her [Profiling] ability was completely ineffective when used on Shadow in person, probably because the other's mental power limit far exceeded hers..."

"Are you sure she's not lying?" the goddess asked.

“We used lie detectors during the interrogation, so there shouldn’t be any problems. I suspect…”

The director hesitated, unsure whether he should speak.

"Are you trying to say that you let her go because Shadow took pity on you?"

"Well... after all, she doesn't have much combat ability; she's just a support staff member. Even on the battlefield, a 'medic' or similar character would be treated well if captured, right?"

“Wrong. Anyone from the enemy camp, regardless of age or gender, must be killed.” The Divine Child glanced at him. “With your mindset, you’re not suited to managing the Security Bureau. Take a break for a while, and I’ll arrange for someone to take over.”

"……Yes."

It's not surprising that the God Child stripped the Director of the Public Security Bureau of his position with just a single sentence; he wields such immense power.

After the director left, Shenzi spoke up: "Xin."

"Owner."

A voice sounded from beside him, and then a masked man appeared from nothingness, kneeling on one knee before the divine child.

This person actually possesses the ability to become invisible.

"After you've finished questioning them here, take them back to my residence so you can interrogate them again."

"Yes."

"Even if we can't extract any useful information from her, at least one thing is certain... the enemy is indeed the Shadow. Heh." The Divine Child sneered.

“Now North Star can’t pretend they don’t know. They just enacted a law targeting Ascended Ones, and then the shadow of this country came to the member states of the Human Alliance to rob and kill… At the next Human Alliance meeting, let our representatives directly question them. I want to see how North Star will defend itself.”

The divine child had already figured out that even if he couldn't deal with the shadow for the time being, he could still shift the blame elsewhere.

The principles of the Human Union are unity, mutual assistance, and non-aggression. Now that Sakura and North Star are both members of the Human Union, a North Star person coming to Sakura to commit murder provides a convenient pretext to attack the North Star government.

"I'm going back."

"Yes."

The masked man named "Xin" disappeared into the shadows.

……

"According to the commander of that action team, the place where the goddess lived was called the Sakura Residence."

Guan Tong and Shang Yuanzi were currently organizing the information they had gathered from the previous interrogation.

A tablet computer displays a map of the entire city of Ban Chin.

"It is located west of Banzhen and was converted from a former temple of the An Tai State."

Guan Tong located the exact location and zoomed in to view the image.

It was a three-story building made of brown wood, with intricate snake patterns carved on the door, making it look quite eerie even in pictures.

"To be honest, I've been curious about this for a while now," Guan Tong said, looking at the snake pattern on the door and asking Shang Yuanzi.

"In your Sakura Inori mythology, isn't Yamata no Orochi an evil being? Why does this divine child, as your leader, have snake patterns carved on the gate of his mansion? And why did he make you use the surname 'Yamata'?"

Uehara Yuki said, "The snake pattern is the emblem of the Divine Child family. I guess the reason I was given this surname is because of the scales on my body."

"I can understand the former. But the latter... what kind of person would give their subordinate an evil name from mythology?"

"...I don't understand either. He seems to think that I have obtained the bloodline of Yamata no Orochi, but the name of this bloodline is clearly [Orochi].

Yuan Zi had mentioned this before, and Guan Tong nodded.

"Never mind. Judging from the actions of this divine child, perhaps their family is a descendant of the evil serpent—of course, I don't believe there really is a legendary serpent. The surname 'Yamata' is likely just the name of an ancient, vicious murderer or bandit." It's not uncommon for a person's name to be mistakenly attributed to a mythical creature; this has happened in various countries.

Shangyuan Zi looked at the official residence in the picture: "What do you plan to do?"

"The official residence must be protected by a barrier against mental intrusion, making infiltration unlikely."

Guan Tong was able to infiltrate the administration building because it was a crowded and intriguing place. However, in a family-run residence like this, everyone knows each other, and the appearance of a stranger would immediately trigger an alarm.

"We can only launch a frontal assault."

"..."

Although Shang Yuanzi had little contact with Guan Tong, she felt that this didn't seem to be his style.

Indeed, Guan Tong consistently favored utilizing the characteristics of shadows to conduct stealth-based asymmetric warfare. He would secure victory before the enemy even realized what was happening.

This time is different.

He believed that the Divine Child must be on guard against the infiltration, and that a frontal attack at this time would be more likely to catch the enemy off guard.

“I’ll break down the door. Once inside, you can deal with the bystanders. I’ll handle the divine child myself.”

"When are you going to take action?"

"Tomorrow evening."

Shangyuan Zi was slightly surprised: "So fast?"

She had assumed Guan Tong would plan carefully and that the operation would take place a week or even two weeks later. But she never expected him to make his move tomorrow.

"It's something that absolutely needs to be done, and I don't like to procrastinate." Guan Tong looked at her. "Let's rest well today and prepare."

He finished speaking and walked out of the room.

Shangyuan Zi sat down, thinking about what had happened in the past few days, and felt that everything had gone by too fast.

Moreover, she truly admired Shadow's courage.

Even though Sakura's home sank due to the earthquake, and all kinds of advanced equipment, weapons and munitions sank to the bottom of the sea in addition to the relocation of people, and the country's strength plummeted... it still did not collapse in the end, and the national system was still intact.

In this situation, few people would have imagined that Shadow would dare to attack the most powerful person in Sakura Inori, the Divine Child, completely disregarding the consequences...

She felt that even the Divine Child himself might not believe that the Shadow would dare to attack his residence.

She didn't know what the outcome would be. All she knew was that since she had made a promise with Shadow, she had no choice but to see it through to the end.

……

After being alone in the room, Guan Tong thought about the details of tomorrow's operation.

Since it's a direct, forceful attack, we can't afford to conserve our mental energy.

They directly used a small space to break through the barrier defense, and then released a shadow to find the divine child in the shortest possible time.

then……

"Teleport there and finish him off."

Guan Tong believes that the more complex a plan is, the more likely it is to go wrong or fail.

Therefore, his plan couldn't be simpler: once he found the Divine Child, he would immediately use the Teleportation skill to "teleport" there and then use the destructive power of the small space to instantly kill him.

His shadow abilities, and perhaps many of their characteristics, have already been revealed.

However, no information about the "Shadow Domain Small Space" has been released yet.

By expending considerable mental energy, this deadly move, combined with teleportation, can completely kill the enemy in an instant.

"If all goes well, the battle should be over soon. As for the consequences..."

He didn't care much about the possibility of Yingqi pursuing him extensively afterward, or what measures the Beixing authorities would take against him because of this.

If one worries about these things and lets an enemy who wants to kill him go unpunished, then he is going against his true nature and is no longer himself.

(End of this chapter)