Hidden Rule Three
Fasting Therapy...
Looking at the na of the third Doomsday Rule, Guan Tong felt both amused and exasperated.
Not allowing people to eat for half a month was completely aid at starving them to death and causing organ failure—what exactly was being "therapized" here?
This reminded him of the first Sleep Deprivation rule—one prevented sleeping, the other prevented eating.
Guan Tong didn't know which was more difficult from a challenge perspective: not sleeping for three days, or not eating for fifteen days while only drinking water. But judging by the rule penalties, the forr was definitely more terrifying.
"The failure penalty for this Doomsday Rule is the sa as the second rule—also Mind Power decay."
"This ans if soone doesn't intend to complete the challenge, they could completely ignore the rules from day one and eat and drink as they please."
However...
Guan Tong's gaze fell on the rewards.
Besides the fixed Ascension Coins reward increasing by 50, there was also an additional "First Ascendant Challenge Tournant Invitation."
Although the Fire Thief hadn't explained what the challenge tournant's rules or rewards were, there was no doubt this invitation should be very important.
Guan Tong definitely wanted it, but even without this item, to maintain his Mind Power from decaying, he would still strive to complete the challenge.
"Let's see what the Hidden Rule is..."
Just like the previous two tis, Guan Tong opened the rule details from his Personal Terminal and stared at them.
Before long, the rule's color particles restructured and jumped, forming entirely new content.
[Hidden Rule Three: Spend Money to Avoid Disaster]
[Hidden Rule Content: Spend Ascension Coins to purchase Basic Food Boxes, which can assist in completing the challenge by consuming the food items inside]
[Note: The quantity of goods sold in the Ascension Store is limited, and delayed purchases may result in sold-out items]
Looking at the Hidden Rule content, Guan Tong abruptly stood up.
He hadn't expected that the [Basic Food Box] that went on sale in the Ascension Store after the second Doomsday Rule ended could actually be used in this third Doomsday Rule.
But what surprised him even more was that the goods in the Ascension Store were actually limited in quantity!
"I rember those boxes in the store clearly didn't indicate any quantity limits... Could this also be part of the Hidden Rules?"
From a rchant's perspective, this discovery was absolutely crucial.
For an essential commodity, if people don't know it's limited, they don't care about buying early or late since the price won't change.
But if they know it's limited, everyone would worry about missing out if they buy too late, so they would rush to purchase in advance.
Therefore, if the general public doesn't know about the limited quantity, but one person knows, that person could completely stockpile large quantities in advance and hoard for speculation.
When this limited commodity sells out, the person holding large amounts of inventory could undoubtedly make huge profits by reselling.
"Wait, that's not right," Guan Tong thought. "I rember the several boxes listed in the store can't be traded."
He could buy them himself, but couldn't resell to others.
This ant hoarding for high-price reselling was impossible.
But even so, as long as it's limited, there would definitely be situations where many people couldn't buy it.
Although he didn't know exactly how many boxes were limited, Guan Tong clearly understood that if the quantity was very large, the Hidden Rule wouldn't specifically use a note to warn about it.
"Assuming that 'Basic Food Box' is limited to ten million units... As long as the public knows they can survive the rules by eating the All-Effect Survival Tablets obtained from opening the boxes, those ten million boxes would sell out quickly!"
No, I can't wait!
With the situation urgent, Guan Tong imdiately opened the Ascension Store.
He currently had 120 Ascension Coins—100 were circulation coins, and 20 were bound coins.
[Basic Food Box] cost 20 coins each, so with his savings he could buy at most 6.
"No need to buy 6... The white paper ntioned tests showing that one All-Effect Survival Tablet from the box can provide a full day's energy."
Guan Tong pondered.
"The rule requires fasting for 15 days, and water drinking is allowed during the process. Under these conditions, ordinary people wouldn't die from hunger for three to five days, let alone high Mind Power individuals... If supplented with a full day's energy, going without food for the next five days would absolutely be no problem."
"Calculating this way, I only need to buy 3 boxes to definitely survive the rule tifra... To be safe, I'll buy 4."
Guan Tong spent 80 Ascension Coins to purchase 4 [Basic Food Boxes].
He kept 40 Ascension Coins, partly to save money, and partly because since he knew the boxes were limited, he wanted to leave so for others while ensuring his own survival.
If everyone spent all their coins buying boxes, the boxes might quickly sell out. Those without any boxes would likely be unable to pass the challenge.
Although failing this challenge wouldn't result in death, Guan Tong still hoped more people could pass.
After all, facing the irresistible Doomsday Rules and the Fire Thief, all of humanity could be considered a community with shared destiny.
If humans couldn't unite when facing such crises, but instead sched against and hard each other, tricking one another, then this mutual deception would likely lead to everyone's collective demise in the end.
After purchasing, Guan Tong considered whether to publicly disclose the limited box issue. But he ultimately decided against it.
The fact that food boxes could assist with the challenge would soon be discovered by others without him announcing it.
But the information about limited boxes—if he didn't reveal it, very few people would realize it before they sold out.
The problem was, if he publicly disclosed this information online, wouldn't that accelerate people's rush to buy boxes?
If everyone didn't know about the limited quantity, they would buy more cautiously. Or keep their coins first, only entering the Ascension Store to purchase when they beca unbearably hungry.
If they learned about the limited quantity, everyone would buy frantically on the first day of the rules, afraid they might miss out if they bought too late.
So after careful consideration, Guan Tong decided not to disclose this information. He believed doing so would bring more harm than good, and it was better to let things take their natural course.
anwhile online, discussions about the third Doomsday Rule had already created huge waves.
Many people's focus wasn't on the rule itself, but rather on the "First Ascendant Challenge Tournant Invitation" in the challenge rewards.
There were two main points of focus: one was "Ascendant," which appeared to be the Fire Thief's term for humans, specifically those with Mind Power.
Although high Mind Power individuals had previously started calling themselves "Ascendants," with a sense of superiority suggesting they were "evolving faster than others."
Official departnts had been suppressing such voices to avoid conflicts between high and low Mind Power individuals, and didn't make distinctions in terminology.
But now that "Ascendant" appeared in the Doomsday Rules, officials couldn't suppress it even if they wanted to. As soon as the rule was released, massive numbers of people calling themselves "Ascendants" erged online, quickly forming an unstoppable trend.
The second point of focus was the challenge tournant.
People speculated about the tournant's content and purpose, with many believing it might be so kind of opportunity. Nurous posts expressed determination to pass this rule's challenge and obtain the invitation to participate.
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