"Director Li, this Shen Zuohu is incredibly arrogant and specifically asked to speak with you."
At the Cloud Flower City Police Department, Li Meng was writing something in his office when he heard his subordinate's report and stopped his work. "Oh? He's awake? I'll go over right now."
In this current era of Doomsday Rules, kidnapping High Mind Power Individuals was a major case, and Li Meng had originally planned to conduct the interrogation personally.
He went to the interrogation room. Shen Zuohu was securely fastened to the interrogation chair. When he saw Li Meng enter, he grinned.
"If it isn't Director Li, we meet again. Over ten years ago you were just a captain, right? Now you've climbed all the way up to director, not bad at all."
"That's right, I should actually thank you. If I hadn't captured your 'Tiger's Roar Gang' back then and earned myself a major merit, I probably wouldn't have been promoted later." Li Meng smiled. "Unlike you, Shen Zuohu. More than ten years have passed, and you haven't made any progress at all."
Upon hearing this, the thick flesh on Shen Zuohu's face twitched, and he stared at Li Meng with a hostile glare.
"You said you wanted to talk to me, so speak." Li Meng asked. "What was the purpose of your kidnapping operation? Where have the victims been transferred? Who is your handler?"
Shen Zuohu's mind stirred, and he said, "Handler? What handler?"
Li Meng said calmly, "Shen Zuohu, you're not young anymore. Don't play the fool like some young punk."
"..."
Shen Zuohu remained silent for a moment, then sneered coldly. "Li Meng, do you really think I'll obediently tell you everything?"
"Well now." Li Meng said with a faint, mocking smile. "Quite the tough guy. But your underlings were much more cooperative. They've all confessed that you were the mastermind behind the kidnapping, and they've also revealed that you killed someone a couple days ago."
Upon hearing this, Shen Zuohu's face turned ashen with rage, his teeth grinding audibly.
"You can't really blame anyone else for this. When things went south, you, as the boss, let your underlings take the fall while you sneaked away through cement pipes to escape... When you show such disloyalty, can you really blame your underlings for turning on you?"
"Shen Zuohu, just come clean. You win some, you lose some. You know you're finished this time. Once you're in here, you're never getting out. You might as well be straightforward about it and confess."
Shen Zuohu stiffened his neck and said viciously, "Li Meng, let me tell you something! I, Shen Zuohu, didn't get caught by you cops! If it weren't for that damn little brat..."
He remembered now - the kid sitting in the back seat of the car was unusually young and wasn't wearing a uniform at all, clearly not a Peace Officer!
This filled him with regret. If he had just dealt with the two Peace Officers guarding the door and directly stolen a car to escape, without bothering with that kid, he might have been safe by now!
Li Meng said, "The 'little brat' you're referring to is a special investigation assistant working with our Police Department. Getting caught by him means getting caught by us."
Shen Zuohu's face darkened. Despite all the dangers and challenges he had faced over his many years in the underworld, whenever he recalled that pure black arm that had choked his neck - completely hairless and poreless - a chill still ran down his spine.
He remembered that before losing consciousness, he had even used his brass knuckles to strike that arm - and his brass knuckles were a Mind Power item! Even hitting it with those had barely done anything.
Whatever had been choking him from behind was definitely not human! But what exactly was it? Some kind of monster?
"Shen Zuohu."
Li Meng's voice brought him back to the present.
"At this point, just honestly reveal your handler. I know you well - now that you're in trouble, you absolutely won't let anyone else off easy either. That's just your nature - harming others without benefiting yourself."
"...Li Meng, you're right. I, Shen Zuohu, am indeed not someone who values loyalty. Even if I die, I'll drag others down with me. But the question is, even if I tell you who the handler is, would you dare to arrest them?"
"Go ahead and say it."
Shen Zuohu said slowly, "The person I dealt with directly was just a small-time lackey, not worth mentioning. But I'm not incompetent either - I secretly investigated and found out who that lackey was really working for. You know who actually wants those High Mind Power Individuals kidnapped? It's..."
He smiled and spoke a name.
"Zhao Jiping."
When Li Meng heard this name, his expression immediately turned serious.
He adjusted his glasses and said in a deep voice, "You're referring to Zhao Jiping, chairman of Hengyun Real Estate."
"That's right, him. The boss of the largest real estate conglomerate in Beixing Country, and also a member of the Development Committee." A mocking smile appeared on Shen Zuohu's face. "Li Meng, do you, as a mere city police director, dare to arrest him?"
...
When there were only three days left in the effective period of the third Doomsday Rule [Fasting Therapy], the Hidden Rule stating that "the quantity of goods in the Ascension Store is limited" was finally discovered.
The first to discover it was an Ascendant in the Suroma Empire.
This Ascendant had originally planned to tough it out through the entire 15-day rule period through sheer willpower, but when there were only three days left, they finally couldn't hold out any longer.
Fearing that their body might suffer irreversible damage or serious long-term effects from extreme starvation, this Ascendant finally opened the Ascension Store and purchased a Food Box.
But the moment the purchase was completed, they clearly saw that beneath the [Basic Food Box · Bronze Tier] product in the store, a line of small text had appeared.
Remaining Quantity: 9999999
This small text indicating limited quantity had definitely not existed before!
Shocked by this discovery, this survivor posted about it online, and soon the news that "Ascension Store products have limited quantities" spread throughout the world via the inter!
Immediately, discussion erupted in countries everywhere, and this news quickly rose to the top of the discussion charts on Beixing Country's social media platforms.
"The boxes are actually limited???"
"It seems the remaining product quantity only appears when inventory drops below ten million!"
"Holy shit! There was actually hidden information like this! What the hell is the Countermeasures Office doing? Why wasn't this written in the white paper!"
"Hey, don't just blindly criticize up there! This kind of information would be hard to figure out! No matter how capable the Countermeasures Office is, they don't have enough Ascension Coin resources to conduct tests like 'emptying out the store'..."
"Quick, go check your terminals! The Food Box inventory is dropping way too fast!"
"Huh??? It's true! I just looked, and there's only 9,967,151 left!"
"We just sold over three hundred thousand in this short time?!?"
"Damn it all! There are this many people hiding their wealth???"
Meanwhile, in Room 306 of Lihua Hotel, Guan Tong also saw the news online.
"I never thought this information would eventually be discovered."
He had known about the limited box quantities since the first day the rule was announced, thanks to the notes in the Hidden Rules.
But worried that it might trigger panic buying and prevent those who genuinely needed life-saving supplies from obtaining them, he had chosen not to publicly disclose this information.
As the rule's effective period drew closer to its end, Guan Tong had started to think this information might never be discovered. But to his surprise, with three days remaining until the rule ended, the box quantities had finally sold down to the threshold level, triggering the limited quantity notification.
He opened the Ascension Store in his Personal Terminal and took a look.
The remaining quantity of [Basic Food Box · Bronze Tier] was now only 8,921,743.
In less than an hour since the news broke, over one million boxes had been sold in an explosive buying spree.
Witnessing this, Guan Tong marveled at the formidable purchasing power of Ascendants worldwide while also thinking to himself, "Good thing I didn't disclose the information back then. Otherwise, they probably would have sold out one or two days before the rule took effect..."
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