The forgotten things are coming
For several days in a row, Ji Yunding was thinking about what the so-called "trust" was, but unexpectedly received something she had almost forgotten - the trick props of the rookie competition.
The scoring procedure for the actual combat part and the consideration and distribution of the trickery props were extremely cumbersome. After a month, the scoring settlement for everyone was finally completed.
In the end, Ji Yunding only ranked ninth in total points. However, in the newcomer rankings, Ji Yunding was already first by a large margin. Therefore, generally no one would bring up the ninth place in total points.
Ji Yunding looked at the card in his hand that gave off an ominous aura, and flipped through the instruction manual next to it.
It can print three spells, which is a relatively high degree of freedom. This was originally intended to be developed to popularize self-defense for ordinary people, but it was impossible to achieve mass production, so there is only this sample.
"Talismans and formations..."
Ji Yunding sighed when he thought about learning these two things. Talismans and formations cannot be simply drawn by copying. One must have a deep understanding of the underlying logical structure. Otherwise, it would be useless even if the drawing resembled the original.
In other words, I have to learn something similar to mathematics again.
“No wonder there are requirements for math scores here…” Ji Yunding recalled what happened when he applied for college and shook his head.
Those are things I will have to worry about in my sophomore year. According to the normal academic system, in my first year, I only need to get an overview of the entire industry, receive ideological education, and come into contact with some non-dangerous weirdness to begin to desensitize myself to abnormal creatures.
But it seems that since Ji Yunding's class, the entrance examination has become particularly fierce. What this reflects is probably a grim situation.
However, this has nothing to do with Ji Yunding now. She is on summer vacation and has something to do today.
"Go find your sister."
Arriving at the activity room for Group 15, Ji Yunding poked his head out of the door and looked around, searching for Jiang Chengyue.
The relationship between this side and Group 1 was awkward, so the team members hesitated for a moment, and in the end no one dared to step forward and talk to Ji Yunding, and they just did their own thing.
"Yun Ding?"
The first person to speak was Yang Mingan. She came over holding the head and smiled at Ji Yunding.
"What's the matter?"
"Sister Ming, I'm here to look for someone. Did you see..."
"Chengyue? She's not here today. But speaking of this, do you have time to listen to me?"
Seeing Ji Yunding nodded, Yang Mingan turned around, took her to another room, closed the door, and poured Ji Yunding a cup of tea.
Ji Yunding sat on the sofa and was about to reach out for the tea when he heard Yang Mingan say, "It's hot. Wait a moment."
The two of them waited quietly for five minutes - this was Yang Ming'an's habit, not talking while waiting for the tea to cool down, because once he started talking, the tea might have cooled down by the time he came to his senses.
Ji Yunding knew it and respected it.
After Ji Yunding took a sip of tea, Yang Mingan spoke up and continued, "How much do you know about our strange things?"
"When a human with a strong enough obsession dies, he or she becomes a creature driven by negative energy, with the core desire replacing the body as a material carrier."
"Is this the definition in your textbook? However, this is not what I want to talk about. This is the world in our weird eyes. Look at my eyes."
Yang Ming'an handed his head to Ji Yunding, and Ji Yunding took it without hesitation and looked at Yang Ming'an at close range.
Ji Yunding's face reflected in the seemingly normal irises and pupils was relatively normal, but everything around him was distorted.
The wind blew the curtains, and a ray of sunlight shone through the window. The interior was bright and spacious, filled with warm furnishings in harmonious colors.
However, the world reflected in Yang Mingan's eyes inexplicably makes people feel dark, gloomy, and even a little scary.
Ji Yunding recalled the scene when he came to Group 15 to seek help. When he first met Yang Mingan, she and other monsters were indeed in a somewhat dark and strangely decorated room.
"So, the weird lounge furnishings are different from the normal rooms?"
"Yes. That's what we consider 'normal and comfortable'."
Ji Yunding thought about it and realized that he didn't seem to have this situation. Was it because his body was still human?
"When I first became a monster, the world was no different from when I was alive, but as time went on, the world in my eyes became more and more distorted, and..."
Yang Mingan paused, then reached out to Ji Yunding and took his head back.
“When I see neatly arranged objects, I want to mess them up. When I see integers, I feel uncomfortable. Orderly things make me anxious and give me an unreasonable desire to destroy them.
I noticed that you seem to have a considerable degree of sympathy for us, so I am a little worried that you will be taken advantage of in the future, so I want to remind you. "
"Sister Ming, is it painful to live as a weirdo?"
"I can't really say. At first, when human thinking slowly turned into something weird, I was scared. But now, I can't remember what it was like before. It's only been a few years..."
Yang Mingan raised his head and looked out the window, muttering to himself,
"What should sunlight feel like? What should tea taste like? It's strange that I don't miss it at all."
Ji Yunding was silent for a while, then asked, "Sister Ming, Jiang Chengyue's sister asked me to kill her. Do you know why? Can't a weird person choose to die on his own?"
"Death is slightly mutually exclusive with all core desires, because when you die, you can't do anything. Therefore, it is difficult for weird people to decide to die on their own. Just like people can't hold their breath until they die."
Yang Mingan explained, thought for a moment, and added a few more words.
“Additionally, when we go from human to monstrous, the moment of death becomes embedded in the monstrousness along with our core desires, deepening our fear of death.
If someone dies of illness or natural causes like me, the impact is relatively small, but if the death is extremely painful, it is possible to be immersed in that feeling for a long time.
Therefore, some crazy monsters have lost their minds and cannot communicate normally. You should have encountered something similar. "
Ji Yunding thought about it and felt that the derivative monsters he encountered in the candy house and the little man that appeared on the train in his dream should all belong to this type, so he nodded.
"But besides the pain, it might also be fear."
Yang Mingan thought for a moment and added,
"Are you afraid of hurting someone or something? I was also always afraid that I would kill Xie Yian, but he always said he believed in me."
"believe?"
"It's very confusing, I don't even know if I'll hurt him. I almost wanted to tear his arm off a few times, but he just stared at me."
Trust is blind.
Ji Yunding remembered this sentence, but still found it incomprehensible.
"Chengyue has just joined the team, so I don't know much about her specific situation. But perhaps you can try to convey her sister's pain to her?"
"I've thought about it too. When I was watching the ghost story, I felt that Jiang Daiyue seemed to be in great pain, but what should Jiang Chengyue do afterwards?"
Ji Yunding shook his head, feeling a little annoyed.
"Since Jiang Daiyue didn't hurt her, it means she still wants to protect Jiang Chengyue. Without the weirdness, Jiang Chengyue's other indicators are not up to standard, so she should not be able to stay in the research group."
Things that involve other people are always troublesome, and there are a lot of issues to consider.
"I'm not sure about this. You can ask Xie Yian. I'll call him over for you."
Call over? Just when Ji Yun was wondering whether he could use his cell phone, he saw Xie Yian hurriedly pushing the door open.
"Xiao Ming, where is the fire?"
"Sorry, I lied again. Something happened to this child." Yang Ming'an pointed at Ji Yunding and smiled, "You believed it again."
"Don't always make jokes like this... What if there's a real problem and I'm not here?"
"You'll come."
Ji Yunding raised his hand and interrupted the conversation between the two: "Um, is this telepathy?"
"That's about right." Yang Ming'an replied with a smile, "I'm not his companion monster. But we signed a contract. Anything more specific is a secret."
After listening to Ji Yunding's story, Xie Yian sighed and shook his head: "In this case, she really can't stay. If we make an exception... things will become more troublesome."
Even if we select only one in ten thousand, we can still pick out hundreds of thousands of people in this world, so "making an exception" is such a terrible thing.
"Plus, many people have already requested that the research group create additional idle positions. I think that just adding names to gain luster will eventually get out of control."
“I see.”
Ji Yunding leaned back in annoyance and couldn't help but start talking to himself.
"I wonder if she would be willing to go to the dessert shop... There were too many people there before, and Qing has already started to complain. How about opening another shop? What should I do?"
"If you help people casually, you will get into trouble." Xie Yian heard Ji Yunding say this and said, "Maybe someone will come to bother you in the future. You can't help everyone."
Ji Yunding tilted his head, thought for a while, and felt a little annoyed: "This won't work, and that won't work either..."
It's really troublesome to get involved with other people.
"Okay, now that you told me about this, I'll go talk to her. After all, in addition to people, our group also cares about weird ideas."
Xie Yian sighed again, feeling somewhat helpless.
"It is the responsibility of each team leader to care about the situation of the team members. Don't be like Ji Liuxing and always ignore others."
"What I want to do has nothing to do with what you want to do. Besides, the team leader ignored you because you did it wrong first. If you had brought up the high death rate of the first team to me, I would have done the same thing now."
Ji Yunding raised his hand without any malice and clenched his fist less tightly to express his dissatisfaction.
However, Ji Yunding considered that she really could not use any tough measures, so it would be more appropriate for her to wait for Xie Yian to talk to Jiang Chengyue first, and then take further action after getting the results.
"This matter..." Speaking of this, Yang Ming'an was a little uneasy, but soon calmed down, "It was really scary at the time. I thought your team leader would beat Xie Yi'an to death before he would stop."
"Not really, that guy..."
Xie Yian said half of his words, and seemed to feel a little unwilling to say good things to Ji Liuxing, but in the end he shook his head, just to appease Yang Mingan's emotions.
"He's definitely not that kind of person. Anyway, don't you call each other 'boss' and other childish names in your group?"
"Because I want to be the boss, I always feel uncomfortable calling the team leader the boss."
Ji Yunding answered honestly,
"And our rule is that the one who wins the fight is the boss. I haven't fought with the team leader yet."
"…Is that some kind of delinquent organization over there? Never mind, just keep chatting."
In fact, the gap between the research groups is not small, and they don't fully understand each other. As the saying goes, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. Although it is much better than the previous situation where the noble families fought each other, the ecology of each group is still very different.
After Xie Yian left, Yang Mingan looked at Ji Yunding with some curiosity: "Yunding, do you want to be the team leader?"
“I don’t think so, it’s just…” Ji Yunding scratched his head and thought hard, “I want to become more powerful, so that I can accomplish more things.”
"Is that so? What if there are still problems that cannot be solved?"
"I haven't thought about it yet, but I know that if I stand there and wait for others or follow other people's rules, there is a high probability that nothing good will happen."
Ji Yunding tilted his head and answered while thinking seriously,
"When I celebrated my birthday before, Nono and the seniors in the group discussed the trolley problem - whether to pull the lever and sacrifice one person to save five people. Everyone's answers were very interesting.
The original plan was to find a way to blow up the tram, but considering that there might be people on the tram, everyone started discussing ways to force the tram to stop.
Although it completely bypasses the question that this difficult problem is intended to explore, I think it is an interesting way of thinking. "
"I don't quite understand, but it seems that you are having a great time there. I heard that you have recovered your spirits recently."
"Yeah! I've been causing trouble for everyone lately."
The two chatted for a while and agreed to meet again after Ji Yunding returned from the group mission.
Next, Ji Yunding will face three months of closed training, as well as various physical and mental tests before the complex collective tasks. Since she is a student who has not graduated, she will also have to go through three rounds of risk disclosure and sign many informed consent forms.
Then, halfway through the first semester of her sophomore year, she faced her first official high-risk mission.
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