Jiang Ling did not reveal her choice to Yu Nuanxin immediately, but she submitted an application to join one of the clubs she recommended to her, the "Online Game Club", a week after enrollment, and completed the accommodation procedures in the school's accommodation area.
"Online Game Club" is just an abbreviation of its real name. Jiang Ling was unable to find it on the campus forum based on the information provided by Yu Nuanxin at first. After inquiring from many sources, he learned about its current actual situation.
In reality—contrary to Jiang Ling's expectations—its full name was "Wenyunyou Research Society - Lihuayuan Branch," and it was essentially a non-profit organization affiliated with a large entertainment and media group. Its primary function was to provide the public with information, technology, and venues related to gaming and entertainment, while also undertaking some publicity and promotion work.
The "Online Game Club" doesn't have a fixed address. Its offline office is a loft-sized office, usually staffed by two senior students responsible for registering members and organizing their files. Most members, including the club's administrators, are housed in their own "base" on campus. In other words, the club's activities are primarily online, with no real connection to the real world.
It's worth mentioning that the requirements for joining the company are indeed not very high. The guy who registered her asked her a bunch of incomprehensible and incomprehensible questions about various games - she couldn't answer any of them, but considering that she was a member of the opposite sex, Jiang Ling still passed the assessment smoothly.
After joining the club, her student computer added a new social media app, which contained most of the club's information. It gave the impression of a self-contained community, perhaps explaining why the outside world knew so little about them. She learned from it that the founder of the Game Research Club was a powerful gamer who had been active thousands of years ago. Although online gaming hadn't yet experienced explosive growth back then, that player completely transformed the gaming ecosystem within the mothership. She found the players' descriptions of the founder confusing and contradictory, and after reading through them, she could only conclude that "this person was no ordinary person," so she didn't delve into the matter further—after all, she was older and had seen a lot...
Well, actually it was the message sent by Ruan Danxin that diverted her attention.
"Are you there, onee-san? "
【Not here, gun.】
"If you're here, remember to come by the shrine. Xiaobai and I have something important to discuss. It's about the final exam. ?( 'ω' )? 】
So Jiang Ling was tricked by them into going to the shrine, and then, in front of her horrified eyes, the Son of God invited her as a guest of honor, and with a wave of his hand in front of the shrine's high-ranking officials, named her a "guest elder."
"What on earth do you want to do?" Jiang Ling dragged the white-haired kid outside the social affairs office and questioned him with a dark face.
"I'm dying and want to leave you a memory." She replied with a smile.
"What? Don't make such jokes!" Jiang Ling said, pinching her soft face.
"I'm not kidding." Ruan Danxin suddenly became serious. "We Awakened have long lifespans, but they're not infinite. The average lifespan of an Awakened person is less than 350 years old. I was resurrected four hundred years ago, and now I'm almost five hundred years old. How can anyone be so much ahead of the average?"
"You are not a human being." Jiang Ling said.
"You see, you understand me. I can't be friends with others because they all die too young. Just pretend you don't know me for a while, and come spend more time with me and Xiaobai in the future." Ruan Danxin hugged Jiang Ling's calf and continued in a softer voice, "Especially Xiaobai. Her genetic prototype is the forest wolf. You know, the theoretical lifespan of a wolf is much shorter than that of a human. So, she's almost two thousand years old now." She paused, "Remember my pterosaur? The one with the scar above its left eye? I originally sent it to hibernate, but unfortunately it died of old age after less than three thousand years. Its specimen is kept in the Natural History Museum in the No. 3 simulated gravity section. You can go and see it when you have time..."
"Okay, okay! Let go first!" Jiang Ling didn't know what she was doing - she almost swung her legs to make a sonic boom but still couldn't get Ruan Danxin down, so she had to agree verbally first.
"It's a deal!"
Then, time passed quickly in her peaceful and regular life, and in the blink of an eye, it was the final exams four months later. Next came the exciting entrance exams, the anxious calculation of the entrance point weighting, and the dark and cruel evaluation of the entrance exams - right?
On May 19th, while the other humanoids in the class were anxiously awaiting the release of their final grades, Jiang Ling sat in the shrine's guest room and took a sip of the sweet green tea handed to her by a service robot.
In front of her sat a group of senior shrine officials in their best attire.
They were going to discuss the festival in the next few days today, and Jiang Ling was only here to serve as a mascot.
She was still thinking about what happened in the morning, when she received a strange amount of points. The "Nuclear Warhead Maintenance Fee + 2930" that popped up on the student terminal left her puzzled, but at least the points balance was replenished to 10,000.
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