Detection and Smiley Doll
After talking to the counselor and filling out the scholarship application form, Ji Yunding went to the teaching building to attend the entrance ceremony.
Ji Yunding certainly knew that this university would be different, but even the entrance ceremony was completely beyond her expectations.
On the podium table was a rag doll with long hair, button eyes, and a weird smile sewn on its mouth. Looking closely, the smile seemed to change slightly from time to time.
"...65 points." The person in charge of the assessment was a young man. He looked uninterested and quickly wrote down the information on a piece of paper while muttering, "His affinity for weirdness is slightly stronger than that of ordinary people. I suggest you assign him to group three."
When the person on the stage heard this, he took his hands away from the doll's head with the weird smile as if he had been pardoned.
The next person to come on stage was Red Hair. He just put his hand on the doll's head, but found that the weird smile on the doll's mouth quickly collapsed and looked straight at him.
At the same time, the temperature in the classroom seemed to drop a bit. Red Hair shivered and instinctively wanted to withdraw his hand, but found that his hand was entangled in the doll's hair without knowing when.
Ji Yunding had just finished reading the instructions that had just been issued, and roughly understood the scoring rules. The average person's affinity with the weird was roughly 50 to 60 points. If the affinity was high, the weird would show an inertia tendency towards minor violations.
Of course, this does not mean that high affinity means complete safety, it just means there are more opportunities to find and verify the rules.
"46 points. Recommended to be divided into five groups." The young man still did not react to this result, but continued to read out the list: "Next, Ji Yunding."
Ji Yunding walked onto the stage and made eye contact with the ugly rag doll with messy hair. For some reason, he saw a hint of grievance in the crooked button eyes.
Is this thing alive or dead?
But no matter what, Ji Yunding still touched the doll's head, smoothed its hair, and said softly: "Thank you for your hard work."
Here we have to mention a problem with Ji Yunding - her brain is a little off when it comes to establishing cognition. This is not surprising, considering that she spent most of her childhood locked up in a storage room.
To be specific, her thinking is different from that of ordinary people. To put it bluntly, she is missing something in her brain.
The slightly low temperature had warmed up. The doll regained its weird smile, and even the corners of its mouth widened, as if its ears were about to burst.
"Don't you hate me? Thank you." Ji Yunding thanked him seriously, "Then, as long as you don't hurt me, I won't hate you either."
This conversation was bizarre. At least everyone present was sure that neither of the two parties in the conversation was a normal human being.
The young man who had been keeping his head down to record the information raised his head at this moment, somewhat surprised. But he lowered his head again and said, "Her behavior just happened to violate the appeasement rules, and it is impossible to determine her true affinity."
When the young man spoke, the experts beside him listened quietly. He put his watch aside, stood up and walked to Ji Yunding: "But anyway, this is a very promising newcomer. Nice to meet you. My name is Xie Yian. Let me get straight to the point. I hope you can consider joining my research group."
Ji Yunding looked at him and tilted his head: "But I don't even know what a research group is."
"In fact, there have been people fighting against monsters since ancient times, but they have only been organized in recent years. The ideas and methods of dealing with monsters of various factions are very different. Forcing them to work together will only kill everyone. Therefore, different factions were divided into research groups after being incorporated."
Xie Yian scratched his head and patiently explained: "For example, my research group prefers to recruit people with extremely high affinity. There are also some radicals who like to recruit people with low affinity and use more violent confrontational methods to deal with weirdness."
Under Ji Yunding's gaze, Xie Yian was stunned for a moment, then realized that he had missed the point, and added: "In addition to the salary issued by the state, each research group has independent funding. In addition, the risk task quota is the same as that of ordinary graduates, but the survival rate of those who join the research group is generally higher. After all, each group has some unique theoretical tricks."
Ji Yunding thought about it, but she couldn't think of any reason to refuse, but she felt something was wrong. While she was thinking about it, she felt that the back of her hand next to the doll seemed to be itchy.
Soon, Ji Yunding realized that Wawa was secretly drawing a cross on the back of her hand with her hair, and she became anxious.
To join or not to join. So, what does Ji Yunding think?
"Excuse me, can you sell me this doll as a souvenir?" She pulled her hand back naturally, and then pretended to be embarrassed: "Sorry, I'm just a little curious."
Actually, Ji Yunding has no money now. However, he has to ask first to get the result.
Xie Yian thought for a moment and shook his head: "No, although it is only an F-level item, it is also registered. However..."
He paused for a moment. Ji Yunding just looked at him, waiting for him to speak first. She didn't really want to look particularly sincere, especially when the person's true identity was still unclear.
Besides, she really had no money.
"If you can cooperate with one of my tasks, it will be yours. Don't worry, it's just a further test of your affinity."
Perhaps this was not a wise decision, but Ji Yunding still nodded and agreed.
The ugly doll didn't move, as if it was really just a doll with a scary and uncomfortable face.
After class, Ji Yunding walked out of the classroom, turned a few corners to find an empty corner, and began to discuss with the rag doll.
"I've read the description of the weirdness level. Although you can only scare people, it seems that the mental state of the people in this school is not very good. You stay in my bag for a while."
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Of course, F-level monsters have no language ability, but Ji Yunding still inexplicably read confusion and gratitude from its button eyes and strange expression.
"You reminded me not to agree because you don't like it there either. You think it's not good." Ji Yunding muttered to the doll, "You help me once, and I will help you once."
After Ji Yunding finished speaking, he fixed the doll's hair and slightly adjusted the movements to make it look a little more normal.
In fact, Ji Yunding's decision had little to do with this doll. She hadn't planned to sell her future just because someone else said so. She needed to spend time doing her homework anyway.
She didn't agree, but she didn't refuse directly either - although Wawa's dissuasion was not malicious, it was hard to say whether it was correct.
The only thing it needs to repay is its good intention of wishing her the best. Everything else remains to be seen.
Fortunately, the cost of rescuing it was not expensive, and it was not even a loss to Ji Yunding. Anyway, she always wanted to learn more about what the so-called "research group" was before making a decision.
The only problem is that it does look a bit scary. But when we get to the dormitory, we can just put it at the head of the bed. Then we can draw the curtains and everyone will be safe.
By the way, bed curtains are also distributed by the school. Ji Yunding only has 100 yuan lent by a friend, so it is impossible to allocate part of it to replace the bed curtains.
As for fear... Ji Yunding didn't think there was anything to be afraid of. In her world, there was only kindness and malice. Kindness needed to be reciprocated, and malice needed to be guarded against.
As mentioned before, Ji Yunding is a person with a missing brain. Her lack of group consciousness makes it impossible for her to form a group impression of people. In other words, in her cognition, race, gender or appearance have only physiological differences - now perhaps we have to add "weird".
In her eyes, there are only independent individuals without innate labels. Whatever the individual's behavior is, that's what she sees. Not a bit more, not a bit less.
When she comes into contact with the weird, this problem of hers becomes particularly obvious. It must be said that treating the weird in this way has gone beyond the noble category of "looking at people without tinted glasses". If we must give an evaluation from the perspective of ordinary people, perhaps "weird" is indeed more appropriate.
In order to pretend to be a normal person, she learned to observe and summarize the so-called "stereotypes". In the process, Ji Yunding unknowingly developed a perception and insight ability far beyond that of ordinary people.
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【Smiley Doll】
Strange Type: Item
Weirdness level: F (no ability to hurt people)
1. The doll usually smiles. If it makes any other expression, it means it doesn't like you.
2. You can make it happy by helping it comb its hair or buying it clothes.
3. It is very weak. If you get tangled in its hair, you can threaten it with scissors.
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For a non-dangerous and fully explained anomaly like this, the final rule card usually only has the nature, appeasement rules and restraint rules written on it, and does not specifically mark its origin and story.
The so-called "pacification rules" are, as the name implies, methods to calm the anger of the monsters. The "restraint rules" are also easy to understand, that is, methods to make the monsters fearful or terrified.
Ji Yunding placed the doll on the bedside, then nodded: "It's just right, I don't have money to buy a doll. It's a great help."
The doll's swaying hair suggests that if it were a higher-level, free-moving monster, it would point at itself and ask - me? Are you sure?
Ji Yunding didn't care what it thought. He just sat cross-legged on the bed and began to sort out the situation.
It can't speak or write, and can only communicate with Ji Yunding using simple symbols, and it doesn't seem to have high intelligence. Ji Yunding tried to understand the situation of the research group by asking questions, but it seemed that it couldn't fully understand.
This is difficult.
Ji Yunding scratched his head and was about to ask further questions when he was interrupted by the sudden sound of the door opening.
In any case, it is better not to let others think that you are a freak in this kind of school. Therefore, Ji Yunding opened half of the bed curtain, jumped off the bed and greeted her roommate with a smile, but she did not expect that the roommate who she was not familiar with brought her a big news.
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