Die, go and come back
The Newcomer Competition, as the name suggests, is a competition among newcomers who have joined the research group for less than one year. It is usually held in May under the supervision of all research groups in a fair, just and open manner.
The competition aims to evaluate the development potential of each research group through the situation of newcomers and adjust some resource allocation. Therefore, the research groups will actively prepare.
Objectively, research groups can be encouraged to recruit new people, while reducing the situation where research groups ignore or exclude new people, so that new people can get more resources to go through their growth period.
In addition, for newcomers, the top ten people will receive a trickery item that the competition organizing committee assesses as suitable for them.
On the other hand, internal competitions are also conducive to enhancing the understanding between different research groups, and avoiding the situation like the predecessor of the research group, the House of Tricksters, where there were many factions fighting each other, or even factions fighting against dissidents.
Even if we put all that aside, the core members of the research team are mostly people who have been dealing with ghost stories since childhood. In a nutshell, they like to fight.
Since before the reorganization and entry into the WTO, these people have liked to exchange skills and beat each other. In one group, the largest proportion is made up of people in the industry, and this situation is particularly obvious.
Showing mercy is the most insulting behavior. Beating your opponent until he is bleeding is the way to respect his efforts.
Of course, behind them is the medical team who is carrying the heavy burden.
There is a severe shortage of investigators now. The old members of the research team all have tasks to do, and they certainly can't just fight for no reason. But for the newcomers who are not yet front-line combat forces, it's okay.
For the research group, this was a large-scale event that attracted much attention.
However, this year's rookie competition was a bit problematic for Ji Yunding.
"What should we do with this child?" Lin Shu pointed at Ji Yunding, who was sitting on the sofa and trying hard to learn how to use his spiritual energy from his textbook. "It's fine if Zheng Nuo doesn't participate, after all, the development direction is different, but isn't it a pity that she doesn't participate?"
"The imbalance in one subject is too serious. According to the competition system, the scores of other subjects will be very bad." Ji Changsheng leaned against the wall and shook his head. "If you don't rank like this, you have to be in the top ten to get individual rewards."
The rookie competition includes the main compulsory basic courses - physical ability, spiritual power, talismans, formations and actual combat.
Ji Yunding was still a freshman and had only learned some basic knowledge at most. He had almost no understanding of psychic power, spells, and formations.
Generally speaking, research groups rarely recruit freshmen, let alone a group one - most of the people in a group one are promoted from subordinate groups, or they are weirdos that Ji Liuxing picked up from somewhere, and they don't even recruit newcomers.
Therefore, this was the first time for the group to have the opportunity to join in on this fun, and quite a few people were interested in it.
"I say, you don't have to bring classmate Ji Yunding to my office every day to discuss this matter." Ji Liuxing looked up and glanced at her, feeling somewhat helpless. "Besides, the person who brings her here every time is different. Whoever is on duty will come?"
"Because the seniors who are not on duty cannot come." Ji Yunding took the time to raise his hand and answer in between reading the textbook.
"Thank you, Ji Yunding, for the helpful reminder." Ji Liuxing sighed, "I know what you want to ask, but the rookie competition is linked to the allocation of research group resources. If we give her a separate track, there will be problems."
"Why don't we just not need these resources?" Lin Shu spread his hands, looking nonchalant. "We don't need one group."
"It's not such a simple question. Let me give you the most intuitive one - if someone asks to open other messy independent tracks in the future, what position will our group use to stop them?"
"Ah? Come and fight if you don't agree... No way." Lin Shu knocked his head, a little annoyed, "It's so annoying. It would be convenient if everyone outside followed the rules of Group 1. Boss, can you temporarily lead us to rule the world in the next few days?"
"You just make unreasonable demands." Ji Liuxing was too lazy to refute this, and continued to look down at the documents, "Student Ji Yunding, you don't have to worry about this, just test your physical ability and actual combat. Like Lin Shu said, our group doesn't lack these resources."
Every year during the rookie competition, the research team specializing in formations will receive a large sum of money to draw a life-sustaining formation to prevent the death of contestants. This is a rare opportunity to gain practical experience safely.
"Even if I get first place in the actual competition, I have no chance of entering the top ten?" Ji Yunding tilted his head and asked.
“Practical combat does account for the largest proportion, but in addition to physical ability, you must have at least one high score.”
Ji Liuxing turned the document over, did some calculations, and then stood it up to show the others in the office.
"Actual combat accounts for 40%, and the remaining four basic abilities each account for 15%. For others, actual combat is the decisive factor, but for you, the other four items are too serious a drag, after all, you haven't even learned the basics of spells and formations.
After the physical training, your physical ability will probably be 10 points. In previous years, it took about 60 points to get into the top 10. Assuming that you can get first place in actual combat, you still need at least 10 points in one item. "
"Team leader, don't we need to hand this file somewhere else?"
Ji Yunding expressed concern about this.
Ji Liuxing was silent for a moment, handed the document he had just written on to Lin Shu for her to look at, then started the printer and prepared to print out a new document.
"Ten points... It takes a lot of time to learn formations and spells, so I can only use spiritual power." Lin Shu looked at it and scratched his head, "But this depends on talent... How is Ji Yunding's affinity?"
"She has a very high affinity. The Ghost-controlling Team came to snatch someone away from her before." Ji Liuxing added casually.
Affinity and psychic talent are generally inversely proportional. Hearing this, the other members present were a little discouraged.
Wei Qianqiu had been observing in the corner without saying anything. He watched the faint blue light on Ji Yunding's hand go out in an instant, and couldn't help but say, "It seems that she can't use psychic energy."
"ah?"
Lin Shu looked closer with a look of shock, as if he had heard that Ji Yun would definitely not be able to walk.
"You don't know how to use psychic powers? What if you get hurt?"
Psychic energy, as life energy, can be used to heal wounds in addition to dealing with strange things.
Generally speaking, one's own psychic power has the best healing effect on oneself, but it cannot be said that other people's psychic power has no effect at all, it's just that the loss rate is relatively high.
Therefore, unless the situation is urgent, the medical team will generally only use psychic powers to treat the person to the point where they are no longer in danger of death, and then use ordinary treatment methods or let the injured person heal themselves.
“…bandage it?” Ji Yunding’s tone was a little uncertain. “But I usually just leave it alone. It will heal on its own after a while.”
Sometimes, people from aristocratic families and people from the civilized world may feel that each other is a little wild.
Now Lin Shu became excited again, and tried to teach Ji Yunding how to use spiritual energy, but Ji Yunding always felt that he was not getting the point.
Ji Changsheng watched for a while and couldn't help but persuade her: "Don't embarrass her. Have you forgotten that it usually takes us a year to comprehend spiritual power when we first learn it?"
Enlightenment - As the name suggests, people from the family of tricksters receive education on mysterious powers and begin to explore the laws governing the mysterious powers of themselves and the outside world.
The perception of spiritual energy is an important part of enlightenment. Ji Yunding's textbook summarizes that there are roughly three ways to perceive spiritual energy.
First, concentrate your attention and constantly imagine that your life is gathered in your palm until a large amount of spiritual energy is manifested. This process takes a different amount of time from person to person, but it is the most step-by-step and reliable method.
Second, when on the verge of death, rely on the will to survive to awaken spiritual power.
Third, random events - it could be falling, touching an unfamiliar cat, or staring at an ant in the corner for two hours, and so on.
The opportunity for people to explore themselves may not be a natural outcome or a big storm, it may just be an ordinary little thing, which is not difficult to understand.
Listening to other people’s insights may be helpful, but they are generally limited, and ultimately you still have to rely on your own feelings.
"Oh, right, there's also the step of enlightenment." Lin Shu sighed, "Boss, aren't you very quick at enlightenment? Can you teach me your method?"
"Sure, but my method won't work." Ji Liuxing raised his hand and drew in the air without any pattern. "Just like this, it will be fine. It took me a long time to understand it."
Ji Yunding raised his hand in confusion and gestured like Ji Liuxing had just done, but he didn't understand at all.
"No, don't do the same as me." Ji Liuxing shook his head, "You have to use the method that you think is right, so that you can realize your spiritual power."
So isn't this a complete lack of demonstration?
When Ji Yunding was thinking whether this thing was originally abstract, he heard Lin Shu say: "Isn't this saying nothing?"
"It's no use saying it all." Ji Liuxing was a little distressed, "It's not that I don't want to teach, I just don't know how to express it. Anyway, as long as you can express a large amount of spiritual energy, it doesn't matter what method you use."
Ji Yunding nodded and thought of a solution.
"Today, I want to comprehend spiritual energy."
I don't know if the oath ability can work in this kind of thing.
After whispering this, Ji Yunding raised his hand and waved, but found that nothing happened.
It’s so difficult. There really is no such way to skip class.
In fact, Ji Yunding didn't even feel that she had used her oath ability - after all, she didn't have a strong enough desire to drive her ability.
Then there is only one way left.
"It hurts to die once."
Ji Yunding took out a dagger and muttered a complaint.
“Hey, that’s not necessary!” Lin Shu was startled and quickly snatched Ji Yunding’s dagger. “We don’t really want you to win…really! We just want to watch the fun, that’s not necessary!”
Wei Qianqiu hurried over, opened his mouth, and finally squeezed out only two words: "No."
Everyone here knew very well how painful it was to be near death, except Ji Changsheng, who suffered from analgesia, and had no reaction.
Ji Liuxing breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the two men stopped Ji Yunding, but he also felt a little headache.
This child is too stubborn. If she makes up her mind, he is not sure if anyone here can persuade her.
"Student Ji Yunding, this kind of competition is not worth risking your life for..."
The trickery items are indeed good, but a set can provide more resources, so it's just so-so in comparison.
"I know, but don't I have the psychic healing permission from the medical team? I won't die." Ji Yunding tilted his head, a little confused, not understanding why they reacted so strongly. "Body training is also painful, and it won't kill me - how is it different from what I'm going to do?"
There is a straight line from behavior to purpose. Ji Yunding doesn't think he has any problem, but several people here don't know what to say.
Wei Qianqiu looked at Ji Yunding, slightly dazed.
She began to believe that Ji Yunding could really become the strongest.
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