Forty-nine rules of the end times

Chapter 36 Interrogation Results
"Director Li, this Shen Zuohu is extremely arrogant; he specifically asked to speak with you."

At the Yunhua City Public Security Bureau, Li Meng, who was writing in his office, stopped what he was doing when he heard his subordinate's report: "Oh? He's awake? I'll be right there."

In this post-apocalyptic era, kidnapping someone with high mental strength is a major case, and Li Meng originally planned to investigate it personally.

He went to the interrogation room. Shen Zuohu was firmly strapped to the interrogation chair. When he saw Li Meng enter, he grinned.

"Isn't this Director Li? It's nice to see you again. More than ten years ago you were just a team leader, right? Now you've become a director. Not bad at all."

"Yes, I should thank you. If I hadn't captured your 'Tiger Roar Gang' back then and made a great contribution, I wouldn't have been promoted later," Li Meng laughed. "Unlike you, Shen Zuohu, more than ten years have passed and you haven't made any progress at all."

Upon hearing this, Shen Zuohu's face twitched, and he stared at Li Meng with hostility.

“Didn’t you say that to me? Go ahead and tell me.” Li Meng asked, “What was the purpose of your kidnapping? Where were the victims moved to? Who is your superior?”

Shen Zuohu's heart skipped a beat, and he said, "Online? What do you mean, online?"

Li Meng said calmly, "Shen Zuohu, you're not young anymore, so stop pretending to be stupid like a young person."

"..."

Shen Zuohu was silent for a moment, then sneered: "Li Meng, do you think I'll obediently tell you?"

"Oh," Li Meng said with a half-smile, "Still being stubborn. But your underlings are much more honest. They all confessed that you were the mastermind behind the kidnapping, and they also confessed to the murder you committed a couple of days ago."

Upon hearing this, Shen Zuohu's face turned ashen, and he gritted his teeth.

"You can't blame anyone else for this. As the boss, you let your underlings take the blame when things go wrong, while you sneak out by crawling through a concrete pipe... You're so disloyal, how can you blame your underlings for turning against you?"

"Shen Zuohu, just be straightforward. You know you've lost this time, and once you're in jail, you'll never get out. You might as well be honest and confess."

Shen Zuohu stiffened his neck and said fiercely, "Li Meng, let me tell you! I, Shen Zuohu, didn't fall into the hands of you cops! If it weren't for that damned little brat..."

He now remembered that the young man sitting in the back seat was unusually young and not wearing a uniform at all, clearly not a sheriff!

This filled him with regret. If he had dealt with the two guards and then stolen a car and left without paying any attention to that kid, he might be safe by now!

Li Meng said, "The 'little rascal' you mentioned is a special crime-solving assistant in our Public Security Bureau. If you fall into his hands, it's the same as falling into our hands."

Shen Zuohu's face was grim. Even though he had been in the underworld for so many years and had seen all sorts of storms, the thought of that pure black arm that had gripped his neck, devoid of any hair or pores, still sent a chill down his spine.

He remembered hitting that arm with his knuckle duster before he lost consciousness—his knuckle duster was a mental power tool! But hitting it didn't do anything.

The thing that was choking him from behind was definitely not human! But what exactly was it? A monster?
"Shen Zuohu".

Li Meng's voice brought him back to the present.

"Now that things have come to this, just honestly confess who your supplier is. I know you; now that you're in trouble, you definitely won't let anyone else get away with it. That's your nature—harming others without benefiting yourself."

“…Li Meng, you’re right. I, Shen Zuohu, am indeed not a man of honor. Even if I die, I’ll drag others down with me. But the problem is, even if I reveal who my superior is, do you dare to arrest them?”

"You said."

Shen Zuohu slowly said, "The person I was dealing with was just a nobody, not worth mentioning. But I'm not one to sit idly by. I secretly found out who that nobody was working for. You know, the real person who's going to kidnap those high-level mental power users is..."

He smiled and said a name.

"Zhao Jiping."

Upon hearing this name, Li Meng's expression suddenly turned serious. He adjusted his glasses and said in a deep voice, "You mean Zhao Jiping, the chairman of Hengyun Real Estate?"

“That’s right, it’s him, the boss of the largest real estate group in Beixing, and also a member of the Development Department.” Shen Zuohu’s face showed a mocking smile. “Li Meng, do you, a city security bureau chief, dare to arrest him?”

……

The third apocalyptic rule, the "fasting therapy," was finally discovered when only three days remained before the hidden rule of "limited quantities of goods in the Ascension Shop" was revealed.

The first to be discovered was an Ascended being in the Solomon Empire.

This ascendant originally intended to simply tough it out for the 15-day rule period, but in the last three days, he couldn't hold on any longer.

Fearing irreversible damage to his body from excessive hunger and the resulting serious long-term effects, the Ascended One still opened the Ascended Shop and bought a food box.

But the moment he finished purchasing, he clearly saw a line of small print appear below the item "Basic Food Box - Bronze Level" in the store.

Quantity remaining: 9999999
This represents a limited number of small characters that never existed before!

The survivor was shocked and posted about it online. Soon, the news of "Limited Quantity of Sublime Store Goods" spread all over the world through the internet!

The news sparked a heated discussion in various countries, and on the social media of the Northern Star Kingdom, it immediately rose to the top of the discussion list.

"The box is a limited edition???"

"It seems that the remaining quantity of goods will only be displayed after the inventory falls below ten million!"

"Holy crap! There's even this kind of hidden information! What's the Countermeasures Office doing? Why wasn't it written into the white paper?!"

"Don't spout nonsense, people above. This kind of information is hard to come up with, right? No matter how powerful the countermeasures department is, they don't have enough Ascension Coins to conduct tests like 'emptying the store'..."

"Go check the terminal right now! The food crate inventory is dropping way too fast!"

"Huh??? Really? I just checked, and there are only 9967151 left!"

"They've sold over 300,000 units in such a short time?!"

"Damn it! There are so many hidden cryptocurrency users???"

Guan Tong, who was in room 306 of the Limei Hotel at that moment, also saw the news online.

"I didn't expect this information to be discovered in the end."

He learned about the limited quantity of boxes as early as the first day the rules were released, by hiding the notes in the rules.

However, fearing that it would trigger a panic buying and prevent those who truly needed the medicine from buying it, he did not choose to make the information public.

As the deadline for the rules to take effect drew closer, Guan Tong thought the information might not be discovered. However, to her surprise, three days before the rules ended, the number of boxes sold reached the critical threshold, triggering a limited-quantity warning.

He opened the Ascension Shop on his personal terminal and took a look.

There are only 8921743 Basic Food Boxes (Bronze Level) remaining.

Less than an hour has passed since the news broke, and more than one million boxes have already been sold.

Seeing this, Guan Tong marveled at the immense purchasing power of the world's ascendants, while also thinking to himself, "Luckily, I didn't disclose the information back then, otherwise it would probably have sold out a day or two before the rules took effect..."

(End of this chapter)