January 1st of the New Year arrived as scheduled.
The moment the clock struck nine, Fire Thief's voice sounded on time.
However, different people might have heard different messages.
[Congratulations, you have passed the test of The Fourteenth Apocalypse Rule] [The reward has been delivered to the Storage Box] [The Fifteenth Apocalypse Rule will be released in fifteen days]
After hearing Fire Thief's words, Zhang Minglu did not check the reward in the Storage Box. Instead, he stared at the deeply parasitized individuals who had been gathered on the football field.
At that moment, armed soldiers stood along both sides of the field.
The deterrent power of those dark gun barrels spoke for itself.
Behind the soldiers, the research lab's special task force stood ready at all times.
If these parasitized people underwent dangerous monstrous transformations the instant the rule ended, they would have no choice but to purge them.
Fortunately, that did not happen.
[Rule Time has ended] [This Rule Challenge has failed. The Failure Penalty is now in effect] [The Fifteenth Apocalypse Rule will be released in fifteen days]
These messages rang simultaneously in the minds of everyone on the football field.
Strangely, most of them looked calm, as though they had heard nothing.
"Great! No one transformed into monsters!"
From the elevated platform, the quarantine zone director looked over the football field and was overjoyed.
"Could it be that these people were not completely parasitized and actually passed the rule?"
Zhang Minglu immediately rejected that idea. "Impossible."
He knew perfectly well that these people were all deeply parasitized. Many of them had even accepted the spores from the very first day the rule began.
If even they could pass the rule, then who in this world could fail it?
"What are you trying