Forty-nine rules of the end times

Chapter 65 The Reserve of Mental Power
"Mr. Liu, please get in the car."

At the entrance of Jule Company building, a well-dressed young driver opened the back door of the car and smiled at Liu Yuqiang.

Liu Yuqiang frowned as he looked at the long car with its completely blacked-out windows parked in front of him.

The young driver seemed to sense Liu Yuqiang's dissatisfaction and said with a smile, "This is our boss's requirement. Every attendee must travel to the meeting place in this kind of vehicle. We hope Mr. Liu understands."

"understood."

Liu Yuqiang knew that "Big Sister" was always mysterious and cautious, and now that she was going to hold an internal offline gathering of the Green Plum Society, she would definitely be even more careful.

After he got into the back seat, the driver closed the door.

Just as Liu Yuqiang had expected, both side windows were covered with special window film, and a partition was installed between the front and rear seats. This way, people sitting in the back couldn't see outside and had no idea where the car was going.

While this is essentially no different from putting a black plastic bag over someone's head, and using a plastic bag is simpler and more convenient, this isn't kidnapping; it's a meeting of members, and the business owners' dignity should be considered.

As the vehicle started, Liu Yuqiang, unable to see anything, simply leaned back against the soft seat and closed his eyes to rest, while also wondering in his mind the purpose of his elder sister organizing this gathering.

Before the rules of the apocalypse, the members of the Green Plum Society mainly exchanged and shared business resources and connections with each other, thereby helping each other to occupy leading or even dominant positions in various business fields.

But in this apocalyptic era, business has given way to survival. So what will become of these business tycoons? Will they have to struggle like ordinary people? The psychological gap is simply too great.

The eldest sister had mentioned in the group chat that the gathering was to discuss the future plans of the Green Plum Club, so Liu Yuqiang was really looking forward to it.

However, the fact that the eldest sister did not inform the members of the meeting location but instead sent someone to pick them up by car, and that the vehicle used to pick them up was specially designed to be enclosed, shows that the eldest sister does not have complete trust in the members, which makes Liu Yuqiang somewhat uncomfortable.

He took his phone out of his pocket, but it showed no signal.

Is there a signal jamming device in the car?
Liu Yuqiang put his phone back in his pocket, but his brows furrowed even deeper.

……

Guan Tong sat on the floor mat she had laid out in the storage room, looking at the three words "mental power" on the third page of the "Wordless Book." Instead of immediately channeling her mental power into it, she silently recited the words.

"Raise the upper limit of mental power, raise the upper limit of mental power."

Just like when he wrote "gun" on the second page and silently said "I want a shotgun, not a long spear," he did this so that the "wordless book" could materialize the result he truly wanted.

Although this method is somewhat mystical and its effectiveness is unknown, it might not hurt to try it.

After silently repeating the command several times to ensure there were no other thoughts, Guan Tong poured all of her remaining 100 points of mental energy into the book pages.

The next moment, a situation similar to that when writing about "Ascension Coin" occurred.

The three characters "Mind Power" on the page quickly detached from the page, twisted and deformed, and transformed into a data stream.

Then the data stream crashed into Guan Tong's forehead, then floated out again, transforming back into text and landing on the page.

"Did it succeed? Or did it fail?"

Guan Tong was unsure, so she immediately opened her personal terminal to check the panel.

Name: Guan Tong

Nickname: Shadow

Title: Lawkeeper

[Psychic Power: 0 (126) (10)]

[Ascended Coins: 30]

[Overall Bioinformatics Evaluation: Excellent] "...What's going on?"

Guan Tong looked at the mental power data on the panel. He knew that the "126" in the first set of brackets represented the upper limit. The "(10)" in the second set of brackets was new; what did it represent?
He thought for a moment, then picked up the "Silver Hunter" beside him and tried to create a No. 2 bullet that required 10 points of mental energy.

On the electronic screen to the left of the gun handle, the remaining quantity of No. 2 bullets immediately increased by 1.

Guan Tong also noticed that the mental power data on his panel had changed to "0 (126) (0)".

"I see. The materialization of the words on the pages did not increase the upper limit of mental power, but it was converted into some storable mental power!"

This discovery greatly surprised Guan Tong. Although only 10 points of mental power were converted and stored after injecting 100 points, from another perspective, this could be considered as indirectly increasing his mental power limit.

When you have free time, convert storage more often. Even if it takes 10 points to store 1 point, the 126 limit can store 12 points!
This is similar to storing bullets for Silver Hunters. You store them when you don't need them, and when you do need them, they can be unleashed instantly, giving you several times the combat power you usually have!

"That's right! As long as there are enough reserves, I can exert the same combat power as many people at crucial moments."

Guan Tong thought to himself, especially since his "shadow" was powerful, but its drawback was that it consumed too much energy.

When the shadow exists in physical form, it consumes approximately 1 point of mental energy for almost every second it exists. With his current maximum of 126 points, the shadow can only exist in physical form for a little over two minutes at most.

If dealing with a single target, two minutes might be enough to determine the winner. But if facing multiple enemies, two minutes is far from sufficient.

If the pre-stored mental energy can be used as a "backup energy" at this time, the duration of the shadow can be greatly extended, thereby enhancing Guan Tong's endurance in combat.

So although Guan Tong's subjective intention in this transformation was to increase the upper limit of his mental power, and the result appeared to be a failure, he was still quite satisfied with the actual effect.

“今天是7月24号，距离第五条规则发布还有一周时间。目前我的心灵力自然恢复速度大概在5分钟1点，每天24小时自然恢复总量大概在280点左右……

Unlike the 'Ascension Coin', the words on the pages did not disappear after this transformation. In other words, it's more like a shadow, which can be directly transformed by injecting mental energy, rather than having to rewrite the words every time it's transformed.

"Don't aim for the highest conversion rate; as long as you can accumulate 20 points of mental energy each day, you'll have 140 points in a week."

Guan Tong was slightly excited.

After a week, at full strength, he has about 126 mental energy, plus about 140 reserve mental energy, for a total of more than 260 usable mental energy!

These full-supply shadows can make it exist in physical form for nearly five minutes, greatly increasing its endurance in combat; if used to generate bullets for Silver Hunters, they can generate 26 No. 2 bullets or 8 No. 3 bullets!

Remembering the terrifying power of the No. 3 high-explosive shell, a single shot was enough to destroy a small target. If eight shells were generated at once and then fired all at once... Guan Tong didn't think any enemy at this stage could withstand that, unless the enemy had some special equipment.

Thinking of special items, Guan Tong would also open the market on her personal terminal to check out the various items available during her rest and while waiting for her mental energy to recover.

Of course, he was just looking and not buying; he only had 30 coins left, but he couldn't afford to buy anything.

Even if you can't afford it, it doesn't stop you from looking at it. Take a look and learn more, so that if you happen to encounter it in real life in the future, you'll know what it is.

Several times, he would refresh the page and find an item with a good effect and a reasonable price, only to have it bought by someone else before he could even finish looking at it. After this happened a few times in a row, he realized that many people were constantly watching the market and buying up items.

However, as the saying goes, snakes have their paths, and rats have theirs.

Those organizations and groups can rapidly strengthen individuals through resource concentration, and Guan Tong has his own methods as well.

He felt that with his ability to see the hidden rules and the wordless book, he might not necessarily develop slower than those others.

Of course, he also thought that he had unique advantages, and if he could also get a lot of resources from a powerful organization, the combined effect would make his development incredibly fast—but that was just wishful thinking.

Perhaps due to his personality, Guan Tong always harbored a faint sense of insecurity and was unwilling to rely on others. Therefore, he preferred to take things slowly rather than easily join an unfamiliar group.

Guan Tong quickly composed herself and focused on the present: "I'd better not think too much. I'll just spend the next week quietly saving up my mental energy and then stay in top condition to welcome the release of the fifth apocalyptic rule."

(End of this chapter)