In the first few days after Rule Thirteen was announced, people were careless. Out of habit, lies and rule violations occurred frequently all over the world.
Even within Beixing Nation, despite the Official Department updating the White Paper shortly after the rule was announced, quite a few people still failed.
Moreover, almost every day online, people could see many once-close relationships fall apart because someone could not resist asking about the other person's private matters.
It was hard to say what those people were thinking. Perhaps they believed knowing the answers to those questions was more important than the relationship itself.
Fortunately, people quickly grew accustomed to it. After all, after living in this era for so long, many people had developed some degree of mental issues.
For example, after the [Five Senses Elimination] rule ended, many people appeared to have recovered on the surface, but in reality, even the slightest sign that something was wrong could trigger a stress response in their bodies.
For instance, many people developed claustrophobia after that rule.
More severe cases could not even sleep in darkness. They could only doze off with the lights on, often waking in fright and never managing a full night's sleep.
With so many people in abnormal mental states, nothing that happened was particularly surprising.
However, after discussing the matter over the past few days, people had arrived at what they considered the optimal solution for obtaining Double Reward.
That optimal solution was to establish a True Word Contract on the final day of the rule, or even within its final minute.
Based on the currently available public information, there was no requirement for a True Word Contract to remain active for any specific period before Double Reward could be obtained after Rule End.
That left room to exploit