Chapter 17
Cao Sheng ignored their whispers and continued talking.
This kind of mystification of negative emotions can happen in every human gathering place. Negative emotions are inevitable. This is not a serious mysterious event. It is even a bit like regular descaling in a pool.
Under the threat of CPA, most weirdness and mystery can coexist with humans, but there are always some things that don't care about life.
Some people took advantage of this and, using the power of resentment, began to promote luck-changing rituals among the student community in Lantai City. They also used the luck-changing rituals to purify the resentment to a certain extent.
This also causes those who have performed this ritual to be targeted by unstable and extreme resentment, and thus be wrapped in endless negative emotions and fall into madness.
The CPA team of Lantai City quickly launched an investigation into the incident. After working all night, they were unable to find the person behind the scenes. They could only use the dark web channels of psychics and the investigation in Lantai City to discover that the means used in this incident were related to a cross-regional wandering psychic organization with a three-headed dog as its symbol - Ceoberos.
Once awakened, the psychics will be controlled by the Human Federation. However, there are still some psychics who have not been officially reported for various reasons, and together with the mystery, they become an unstable factor in the entire world. Such psychics are called wandering psychics.
The resentment of Lantai No. 1 Middle School has been gathered and cleared away by Cao Sheng in the old school building. In fact, the old school building was locked to prevent the luck-changing ritual from threatening the students who run around.
The influence of the luck-changing ritual has been erased, but there are still figures stirring in the dark.
Gu Qingming noticed that when Cao Sheng mentioned Ceoberos, Zheng Qiuji's expression seemed to be unable to control the mask of smile for a moment, and the dark hatred and unwillingness almost turned into a physical entity.
But soon, he returned to normal, so quickly that no one noticed except Gu Qingming.
"This is roughly the truth of the world and how things happened. Students, you are now facing an important problem. Uh... except Zheng Qiuji."
Cao Sheng straightened his expression, and halfway through his speech he realized that some of his wording was inaccurate, so he screened out Zheng Qiuji, a young psychic who had already registered with CPA.
"Gu Qingming, Chu Zhongyuan, Luo Dong."
The three people whose names were called stood at attention reflexively.
Cao Sheng paused and said, "You need to think carefully about whether you will choose to join CPA and become an official superpower user, or wash away your superpowers, delete your memories, and return to a quiet and peaceful life?"
For the first time, his expression was terrifyingly serious. Gu Qingming had never imagined that one day Cao Sheng would have such an expression.
CPA will not allow the emergence of wandering people with special abilities. Although the rules are cruel, they are realistic.
Besides...there are countless young people with special abilities in CPA, so age is not a problem.
“This is not a simple choice. You must know that once you become a member of the CPA, you will become a non-emergency refugee and lose your right to emergency refuge when faced with a situation like this.”
"If you have made your choice, we will meet at this place at noon tomorrow."
This kind of choice cannot be decided in a short period of time. Cao Sheng did not say much. He just left Zheng Qiuji behind and asked the other three to go back and think about it carefully.
There was no mathematics class taught by Cao Sheng in the afternoon. Gu Qingming spent the whole afternoon in a daze and spent the whole day like a walking corpse. The other two were also terribly silent. After all, that notebook held the names of people they cared about.
The events that happened in the morning made the students speculate whether Lin Ze and his friends had gone crazy because of the luck-changing ritual, but the teachers quickly stepped in to stop the rumors and solemnly explained that the students' abnormal behavior was just due to hallucinations caused by eating the same batch of mushrooms that were on the market.
According to the public investigation reports of the school and the police, the impact of this incident stopped there, and at most it only cast a layer of mysterious and weird veil over the fortune-changing ceremony.
Unfortunately, the resentment has been eliminated, and the luck-changing ritual is no longer dangerous in any sense no matter how people repeat it in the future. All kinds of rumors will be refuted by the unresponsive reality.
CPA's approach is indeed clear and effective.
After the evening self-study, Gu Qingming returned to Lu Ze's home. He was in a messy mood, threw his schoolbag on the ground and went into the bedroom. As expected, Lu Ze still did not come back. The two consecutive days of busyness reminded Gu Qingming of what Cao Sheng said: CPA was working overtime to investigate the mastermind behind the transfer ceremony.
Perhaps the problems discovered by special departments also require more or less cooperation from the Lantai Municipal Bureau?
Gu Qingming thought that Uncle Lu Ze, who had only had time to send him a 100-300-word message on the chat software, had already accepted the mysterious and unscientific existence of people with special powers and guilds, and was even trying to integrate them into his normal life.
What a difficult question.
Gu Qingming fell on the bed again. He only turned on the desk lamp and stared at the ceiling in the dim light while thinking about life.
The sound of traffic horns on the road outside the window sounded like a discordant rhythm.
Gu Qingming thought of his mother's notes again.
The mother's notes were too vivid, indicating that she and father were probably both psychics from the Psychic Guild.
After knowing clearly the existence of CPA and wandering mutants, Gu Qingming couldn't even control his random thoughts: Was the mudslide that buried his parents really just a simple natural accident?
The increasingly clear premonition seemed to indicate that the truth was just ahead, and it all depended on whether Qingming had the awareness to choose.
One road leads to an unknown world, to the truth about parents' past, to battles and crises.
The other path is peaceful, stable and safe.
But on this path, he will forever lose his right to the truth.
From somewhere, there seemed to be a voice gently asking: Sixteen-year-old boy, what will you choose?
The next day at noon, Gu Qingming arrived at the club meeting room on time with dark circles under his eyes. There, he saw Chu Zhongyuan and Luo Dong, who also had dark circles under their eyes.
The three of them smiled at each other, as if the fear of facing an unknown future was completely melted away in these laughs, no longer a problem.
According to his and Chu Zhongyuan's analysis of the situation, the notebook should be related to people close to them. It can only be said that they made the same decision as expected and would never let themselves regret it.
“Crack—”
There was a faint sound of a door being pushed open, and Cao Sheng walked into the conference room carrying three thick stacks of documents and his tablet, followed by Zheng Qiuji. He raised his eyes and saw Gu Qingming and the other two sitting upright.
"You guys are really...very courageous."
Cao Sheng sighed and gave a gentle and helpless smile.
He knew that the Lantai City branch of the CPA might have three more teenage superpowers.
"Have you made up your mind? You know, there's still time to leave now."
Cao Sheng put his things away, and Zheng Qiuji behind him also walked quickly to the table, put down the book in his arms, and looked so happy that he couldn't hide it.
After all, for a long time there had only been him and another underage person in the CPA branch in Lantai City, and now he finally had a new companion. The feeling of being free from loneliness was more relaxing than anything else.
"It's decided."
Gu Qingming and the other two did not hesitate. They spoke in unison. Faced with the final opportunity, they did not back down but were instead full of determination.
The strange notes are not scary things, but rather treasures left behind by close family members. Following this clue, not to mention Gu Qingming, Chu Zhongyuan and Luo Dong can also realize the relationship between their grandfather, second brother and CPA.
Thousands of possibilities converge here, and now they only need to make one important choice.
"Okay, then you're welcome—"
Cao Sheng, smiling, handed the information in his hand and the CPA association certificates he had prepared last night to the three people.
"Three new students from the Lantai City branch of the CPA Association."
There was a playful tone at the end of his voice, a bit like a red fox that was proud of its success.
"I knew you guys wouldn't give up," he sat down, opened his laptop, and clicked confirm.
He had already prepared the information of Gu Qingming and the other two, and all they needed was confirmation and submission.
From now on, the information of these students will be included in the official database of CPA and become part of the official website of CPA Archives. From now on, they will officially become members of CPA.
"Then we'll be companions from now on!"
Zheng Qiuji smiled very happily.
"Why are you laughing so messily?"
Chu Zhongyuan's expression was distorted, but Zheng Qiuji didn't care.
Because now even Chu Zhongyuan seemed very pleasing to his eyes at this moment. He extended his hand to Gu Qingming and others. After hesitating for a moment, they finally chose to extend their hands.
The four students put their right hands together and looked at each other. At that moment, they seemed to share each other's strength. Even though they were not familiar with each other, their common abilities and uniqueness made it easy for these high school students who were in a period of love of exploration to get closer to each other.
They have a super cool secret that they keep together.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk.”
Cao Sheng looked at this scene and shook his head with relief, but still spoke with his index finger shaking in a provocative manner.
"Don't be too happy to set up group 3378 face to face so early. I will post the URL of CPA's internal system in it. If you want to truly understand this other world hidden under reality, you still have a lot of knowledge to supplement."
"Teacher Cao..."
Zheng Qiuji seemed to realize something, and tried to stop Cao Sheng from continuing speaking with a long tone, pulling the new companions out of the excitement of adventure and the unknown.
“Through a large number of online courses.”
Seeing the dazed expressions of Gu Qingming and the other two, Cao Sheng did not listen to Zheng Qiuji's words, but instead added with malicious intent.
“Oh—”
Chu Zhongyuan took the lead in booing.
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