Interrogation Results

"Director Li, this Shen Zuohu is incredibly arrogant. He specifically asked to speak with you."

At the Yunhua City Public Security Bureau, Li Meng, who was writing in his office, stopped his work upon hearing the report from his subordinate. "Oh? He's awake? I'll head over now."

In this current Apocalypse Rules Era, kidnapping individuals with high Mind Power was a major case. Li Meng had already planned to interrogate him personally.

He went to the interrogation room. Shen Zuohu was securely fastened to the interrogation chair. Seeing Li Meng enter, he grinned.

"Isn't this Director Li? We meet again. You were just a captain over ten years ago, and now you're a director. Not bad."

"Yes, and I should thank you for that. If I hadn't caught your 'Tiger Roar Gang' back then and earned a major merit, I wouldn't have been promoted," Li Meng said with a smile. "Unlike you, Shen Zuohu, after more than ten years, you haven't improved at all."

Upon hearing this, Shen Zuohu's facial muscles twitched, and he glared at Li Meng with ill intent.

"You wanted to talk to me, right? Go ahead," Li Meng asked. "What was your purpose in kidnapping them? Where were the victims transferred? Who is your contact?"

Shen Zuohu's heart skipped a beat. "Contact? What contact?"

Li Meng said calmly, "Shen Zuohu, you're not young anymore. Stop playing the act of a naive youngster."

"..."

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

"Oh," Li Meng said with a half-smile, half-scowl. "Still tough, huh? But your subordinates were much more cooperative. They've all confessed that you're the mastermind behind the kidnapping, and they also admitted to the murder you committed a couple of days ago."

Shen Zuohu's face turned ashen, his teeth grinding audibly.

"You can't blame others. As the boss, you let your subordinates take the fall while you secretly crawled through a cement pipe to escape... With such disloyalty, can you really blame your subordinates for betraying you?"

"Shen Zuohu, let's make this quick. You win some, you lose some. You know you're caught this time. Once you're in here, you're never getting out. It's better to be honest and confess."

Shen Zuohu stiffened his neck and said fiercely, "Li Meng, I'll tell you! I, Shen Zuohu, didn't get caught by you cops! If it weren't for that damned brat..."

He remembered now. The kid in the back seat of the car was unusually young, and he wasn't wearing a uniform at all. It was clear he wasn't a police officer!

This filled him with regret. If he had dealt with the two police officers at the door and then stolen a car to escape, ignoring that kid, he might have been safe by now!

Li Meng said, "The 'brat' you're referring to is a special case-solving assistant for our Public Security Bureau. If you were caught by him, it's the same as being caught by us."

Shen Zuohu's face was grim. Even with his years of experience on the streets and having seen all sorts of storms, the memory of the pure black arm that had gripped his neck, devoid of any hair or pores, still sent a chill down his spine.

He remembered using his knuckle duster to smash that arm before he lost consciousness—his knuckle duster was a Mind Power Artifact! It had barely had any effect when he struck it.

Whatever was holding him from behind at that moment was definitely not human! But what exactly was it? A monster?

"Shen Zuohu."

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

"Now that things have come to this, honestly tell me who your contact is. I know you. Now that you're in trouble, you definitely won't let anyone else off the hook. That's your nature of harming others even if it harms yourself."

"...Li Meng, you're right. I, Shen Zuohu, am indeed not a loyal person. Even if I die, I'll take others down with me. But the problem is, even if I tell you who my contact is, do you dare to arrest them?"

"Tell me."

Shen Zuohu slowly said, "My direct contact is a small fry, not worth mentioning. But I'm not useless either. I secretly found out who that small fry was working for. Do you know who is truly behind the kidnapping of those high Mind Power individuals?"

He smiled and spoke a name.

"Zhao Jiping."

Upon hearing the name, Li Meng's expression became instantly serious.

He adjusted his glasses and said sternly, "You mean Zhao Jiping, the Chairman of Hengyun Real Estate?"

"That's right, him. The boss of Beixing Nation's largest real estate company, and also a committee member of the Development Department," Shen Zuohu said with a mocking smile. "Li Meng, do you, a city bureau chief, dare to arrest him?"

The third Apocalypse Rule, [Fasting Therapy], had only three days left until its expiration when the hidden rule about "limited quantities of items in the Ascension Shop" was finally discovered.

The first to discover it was an Ascendant from the Solloma Empire.

This Ascendant had originally planned to endure the 15-day rule period purely through willpower. However, in the final three days, they could no longer hold on.

Fearing irreversible damage to their body from extreme hunger and leaving severe after-effects, the Ascendant opened the Ascension Shop and purchased a Food Box.

But the moment they completed the purchase, they clearly saw a small line of text appear below the item [Basic Food Box · Bronze Grade]:

Remaining Quantity: 9999999

This small text indicating a limited quantity had definitely not existed before!

The survivor, shocked, posted this information online. Soon, the news of "limited quantities of items in the Ascension Shop" spread worldwide through the internet!

Discussions erupted in various countries. On Beixing Nation's social media, this news immediately surged to the top of the trending topics.

"The boxes are actually limited???"

"It seems the remaining quantity display only appears after the stock drops below ten million!"

"Holy crap! There's actually this kind of hidden information! What is the Countermeasures Office doing? Why wasn't it included in the White Paper!"

"Don't spray randomly above. This kind of information is hard to figure out, right? No matter how capable the Countermeasures Office is, they don't have enough Ascension Coins to conduct tests like 'emptying the shop'..."

"Quick, go check your Terminals! The stock of Food Boxes is dropping too fast!"

"Ah??? Really? I just checked, and there are only 9,967,151 left!"

"How did over 300,000 sell in such a short time?!"

"Damn it all! Are there really that many people with coins hiding out there???"

At this moment, Guan Tong, in room 306 of the Limei Hotel, also saw the news online.

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

On the very first day the rules were released, he had learned about the limited supply of boxes through a note in the Hidden Rules.

However, fearing that publicizing it would cause a rush and prevent those with genuine life-saving needs from obtaining them, he had chosen not to disclose the information.

Originally, as the end of the rule enforcement period drew nearer, Guan Tong thought this information might go unnoticed. But unexpectedly, with only three days left until the rules ended, the number of boxes had reached its critical limit, and a limited supply notification appeared.

He opened his Personal Terminal and took a look at the Ascension Shop.

The remaining quantity of [Basic Food Box · Bronze Grade] was only 8,921,743.

In less than an hour since the news broke, over a million boxes had already been sold out.

Seeing this, Guan Tong sighed at the immense purchasing power of Ascendants worldwide, while also thinking to himself, "Fortunately, I didn't disclose the information back then. Otherwise, it probably would have sold out a day or two before the rules took effect..."