Chapter 14: Reward for Defective Product Reviewers (T-type)
[Identity verification successful. Welcome home.]
The incredibly lifelike human voice, coupled with the 111 access control system, left Chu Jue somewhat dazed.
"...Change this shameful voice pack, Yun Qiandu."
A voice with the same tone as the access control call came from behind, and a woman whose figure was comparable to Chu Jue's appeared before everyone.
Her strong, capable, and dashing appearance contrasted sharply with her helpless facial expression.
Yun Qiandu chuckled twice: "Oh, this makes it seem so much more intimate... Okay, okay, I'll go change it right away..."
Her honest appearance seemed familiar, and it wasn't hard to guess the identity of the woman in front of her.
Welcome everyone.
After scolding Yun Qiandu, the woman nodded to the group and introduced herself, "I am Ying Yi."
Based on the combat records previously transmitted by Yun Qiandu, Ying Yi had a general understanding of Chu Jue's style of doing things, and immediately extended an invitation upon meeting him:
"Chu Jue, are you interested in joining our organization?"
"Me?" Chu Jue thought seriously for a few seconds and honestly replied, "I don't have any plans at the moment."
She just wanted to finish the main quest as soon as possible and go home.
Her speedrunning of the main quest will cause her to provoke some spiritual beings. Whether her actions involve the organization or the organization restricts her, it will not benefit her.
“Okay.” Ying Yi replied just as readily. “If your plans change in the future, I hope you will consider coming here.”
Yes, it will.
While the two were talking, Jiang Tianjiao had already lay down on the sofa, blending into the room, her eyes filled with satisfaction: "This is great, I love it here."
Jiang Jingshu smiled at her and said, "Tianjiao, welcome to the team."
Fang Zhiyi wagged her tail and muttered to Chu Jue in a low voice, "It's just a little small." It wasn't that she was deliberately nitpicking; it was also the first time the second-generation spirit had seen a normal human living area.
The furnishings were simple, consisting of a sofa and work desk in the reception area, and a height-adjustable chair.
The smart interactive console I set up isn't the latest version; this basic version should have been iterated over a long time ago... Okay, okay, it's not actually that small.
Before she came, she thought it was at least as big as the Spirit Realm. It seems that human organizations are not as powerful as they described.
They're not even as good as dogs.
But how should I put it, it smells pretty good.
Fang Zhiyi didn't get any approval from Chu Jue's eyes, so she wagged her tail and decided not to talk to her anymore.
Yun Qiandu called out in front of the personal terminal, "Tianjiao, come and enter your identity information quickly."
"good!"
Big Yellow, barking, followed her.
"Everything happened so fast. I never thought I would have my own home in the future." Jiang Tianjiao still felt a little unreal after going through the whole process.
Jiang Jingshu and Yun Qiandu both smiled and didn't say anything, they just hugged her.
This scene reminded Chu Jue of the times after each battle when the mech pilots would rush up and hug her.
The Third Princess's emotions weren't as outwardly expressed as the mecha pilot's; she would simply exchange a punch with him in a nonchalant manner.
Chu Jue could tell from her micro-expressions that her tense worry only relaxed the moment she saw him.
I miss them a little.
The Merit System came online at some point, sensed Chu Jue's emotions, and sent her a crying emoji.
Merit System: [TT]
She missed them too.
Merit System: [5555]
Chu Juezheng found her sobbing somewhat amusing, then suddenly stopped staring at the previous message.
She asked the merit system in her mind: "[Can you send English letters now?]"
Merit System: [o?]
Merit System: [!]
Chu Jue: ...
So she didn't even realize it herself.
Chu Jue couldn't help but laugh: "When you typed 'TT,' didn't you ever wonder why it sent successfully?"
Merit System: [wobuzhid]
It's like she's saying... I don't know?
However, the last "dao" was not successfully typed.
Chu Jue: [Is there a limit to the number of letters you can send?]
Merit System: [555555, √]
Chu Jue noticed that she had become much more "intelligent" now. Previously, the number of symbols and numbers was limited, but now the limitations seemed to be decreasing.
In fact, even with only symbols and numbers, she can still communicate with the merit system, but it's not very convenient.
It seems that the "restrictions" imposed on the two of them after they came into this world are gradually being lifted.
Is it because the main quest is progressing well at this stage? As the main quests are unlocked, she is able to communicate with the designer more and more?
Chu Jue made unfounded guesses, but his mood improved considerably.
She said, "Everything is getting better."
Although he had already decided in his heart that the system was the designer, Chu Jue still confirmed it again during this smooth exchange: 【Designer? 】
The system seemed to be deep in thought, unlike its previous vague period response, it instead happily typed a checkmark.
After confirming that the message was sent successfully, the "Merit System" immediately sent a series of checkmarks.
As Chu Jue looked at the screen full of matching pairs and 55555, this familiar sense of conversation made her feel relaxed, which was a rare treat.
It seems the other person has used up their letter quota, because I haven't seen her use any more letters since then.
Chu Jue wanted to ask more questions about the empire, hoping the designer could answer them using symbols.
Chu Jue: [How's it going over there?]
She wasn't sure if using words related to "empire" would trigger an unrecoverable limitation for the designer, so she simply didn't mention the word.
The merit system flashed: [√, ×]
It's good, but also a little bad.
Chu Juen understood what the designer wanted to express. She touched the initial coin in her pocket, thought for a moment, and then put it back.
This answer meant that she didn't need to worry about the mecha pilot or the Third Princess.
"And you? Are you alright?" Chu Jue asked.
Merit System: 【^^√】
Although the designer could only send text messages, Chu Jue automatically replaced her original voice with hers.
A cold, mechanical female voice, accompanied by a smiling emoji, said to her: I'm fine, don't worry.
Chu Jue didn't need her to rack her brains for a question; he proactively replied, "I'm fine too, don't worry."
The two communicated for a while using digital symbols, and finally, as the Merit System sent out 886 as if it had run out of power, Chu Jue also decided to end the conversation.
"Wait," Chu Jue called out to the designer.
Merit System: [?]
What's up?
Chu Jue: [Could you add a note function? For example, I can give you a nickname here, like "Designer".]
The merit system froze for a moment, and just when Chu Jue thought the function was no longer working, he saw that the chat page had changed its name.
Designer: [?]
Designer: [。]
He then logged off.
Chu Jue was a step slow in telling her 886.
The designer explained the current situation to her through the question she had just asked: she could not communicate directly with the Empire, but she could sense a signal from the mech pilots.
Once Chu Jue's mental damage is repaired, perhaps a new attempt can be made.
She squeezed the spirit stones in her pocket; now her "savings" were almost all she had left.
The quantum computer next to the spirit stone might also be of use, and Chu Jue planned to study the private details of that corpse.
She successfully opened the computer, but the page was still stuck on the state before the previous owner's death.
Chu Jue noticed that the other party sent several messages before dying, such as "Those women seem to have made a comeback" and "How are they still alive?" He thought to himself that this might be referring to a group of people waiting for someone.
It seems the male corpse knew Yun Qiandu or Jiang Jingshu?
Chu Jue shared the screen information with Yun Qiandu, who was surprised by this little incident and asked, "Huh? He knows me?"
Many personal privacy settings that require iris scanning are no longer accessible. Chu Jue can only browse some unlocked features, including internal notification groups whose cache has not yet been cleared.
Yun Qiandu stared at those messy usernames for a while:
"This is probably one of the organizations that had a grudge against us before. I can't tell which one is which. Their names are too similar."
Hearing this, Chu Jue suddenly felt a desire to join: "You actually have so many enemies?"
"Sigh, it's just that our group is doing too well and has taken away their share of the pie." Yun Qiandu was still pretending to sigh, but she keenly sensed a hint of interest in Chu Jue's gaze and took the opportunity to start promoting their organization.
"The three major organizations only look glamorous on the surface; they will be successfully eliminated by us sooner or later. Our group has a very promising future."
"The three major organizations?"
Yun Qiandu found it amusing when he talked about this:
"There are actually only two organizations that can control the discourse, but recently the Lunar Eclipse Group has emerged out of nowhere, forcefully claiming that it will become one of the three major organizations on par with the 'War Axe' and 'Co-prosperity' organizations. This name was used online to mock them, but in the end, they actually managed to get some attention."
"The first two have deep connections with the central area. Although they often gossip behind the scenes, they appear to be on good terms on the surface."
"If any other organization emerges in the Spirit Transformation Zone that threatens their position, these two will join forces to oust this new organization."
"Recently, the rise of the Lunar Eclipse Group has caused a lot of internal strife. Unfortunately, those scandalous stories were deleted too quickly, and I didn't even have time to read them before they were wiped out by the internet cleanup campaign."
"If I keep refreshing, all I'll see is that stupid male group leader's post promoting violent aesthetics..."
Yun Qiandu took a sip of his carbonated drink and continued.
"By the way, when they were marketing themselves, they claimed to be an all-male organization with purer spiritual power, trying to say that no other organization had such a strong 'yin-yang' vibe. As a result, the top comments called them the 'All-Male Pure Spirit Group,' and the male group leader got so angry that he deleted the comments."
"The Prosperity Group seized the opportunity to attack the Eclipse Group for allegedly discriminating against female spiritual practitioners, claiming that female spiritual practitioners are 'just as capable as men.' But in reality, the female-to-male ratio within their own group is at most three to seven..."
Yun Qiandu sighed: "It's just a contest of who's worse, and they've actually managed to find a winner."
Chu Jue found it strange: "A defective product judging humanity?"
"Defective product?"
“Yes. I heard you say that men are better at cultivating spiritual energy.” Chu Jue’s tone was calm, though he was somewhat confused but did not show it. “However, the spiritual energy they cultivate is very weak, and can be considered a defective product.”
"Hahaha!" Yun Qiandu laughed heartily. "You're right, that's all their nonsense. Who actually believes it?"
"So that's not how it is?" Jiang Tianjiao, who had systematically studied this material, was somewhat surprised. "That's how our teacher taught it..."
"No, that's not true. Spiritual energy doesn't discriminate against any species, so why would it favor any particular gender? Don't listen to those male teachers babbling about this. Be careful not to get brainwashed if you listen too much."
Yun Qiandu pursed her lips. She had once believed in these things, but after getting to know more and more women in the group, she became increasingly skeptical of this claim.
Even when they actually fought, those men didn't seem to have the upper hand.
Chu Jue blinked. It seemed that although it was "supposedly" true, it was not.
No wonder she didn't find any trace of favoritism in male spiritualists.
Unlike mental power, which is influenced by genes, training, and state of consciousness, mental power has a unique "preferential" effect on women from a physiological perspective.
However, judging from the bizarre "teaching" methods and peculiar staffing, defective products have become the mainstream.
That's really strange.
Yun Qiandu began to conduct "anti-brainwashing education" on Jiang Tianjiao, while Chu Jue simply searched for spiritual energy-related information on the Star Network.
Various exaggerated headlines come into view, with keywords such as "A beginner's guide to spiritual cultivation that no one is allowed to be unaware of" and "The organization says I am the 13th person to practice spiritual cultivation like this today" being countless.
When I clicked in, there wasn't a single useful item.
The platform detected that she had searched for information related to spiritual cultivation, so it started recommending things like "recruiting new members for xx organization" to her homepage.
Chu Jue clicked in and glanced at it. The recruitment conditions did not state that it was limited to men, but according to the valid information provided by Yun Qiandu and others, the final result was that men were given priority in joining the group.
She found the "all-male, pure" post that Yun Qiandu had mentioned, and sure enough, the comment section had become a gathering place for people to critique flawed products, just as she had said.
All these arguments were based on the premise that "men are born with better physical constitutions," which made her frown.
Perhaps because she had been browsing for too long, the system then pushed some more posts to her, such as "Seeking contact information for the person in charge of xx organization", "As a boy, I think girls have it very hard too", "First-level spirit seeker seeking marriage, male, 1.83 meters tall", and "Can my son be a child model?"
Chu Jue: ...
It seems this account is pretty much useless.
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"Public opinion monitoring complete."
Yun Qiandu took the opportunity to do some work while slacking off. She stretched comfortably, and her neat team uniform gained a few more creases as she moved.
Chu Jue stopped browsing junk messages and realized in a daze that he had wasted so much time.
Those meaningless pieces of information slid through her mind, leaving nothing behind.
This feeling is absolutely terrifying.
Unaware that he had rescued Chu Jue, Yun Qiandu reported to Ying Yi with a relaxed expression.
"I added a few more related search terms to ride the wave of popularity and learn their marketing methods to create momentum."
"Yes, we should also pay attention to the forum's activity." Ying Yi nodded. "Recently, a popular bounty post has appeared on the forum. Let's see if we can contact the person in charge to remind them or recruit them."
"Forum?" Chu Jue naturally joined the conversation, noting down the key information about the forum. "What type of bounty?"
"Yes. It's a wanted poster issued by the Lunar Eclipse Group. They say the murderer killed someone to steal treasure and murdered them for money. They also took away the spirit puppet of one of their group members."
Yun Qiandu chimed in with his own complaints:
"It's the same old routine again. They didn't even change the script. The boy who cried wolf pretended to lose something. How come other people's props don't get lost, but theirs get lost every day? With that broken puppet, does he really think everyone is thinking about stealing from his house every day?"
...That sounds familiar.
Ying Yi: "This time it might be true. Ever since the spirit puppet was revealed, many people have speculated that the spirit puppet of the Lunar Eclipse Group is the inheritance."
"Inheritance?" Chu Jue encountered a new term that puzzled her. She found herself always feeling completely ignorant when faced with these terms.
Just as she was about to search on the StarNet, Ying Yi thoughtfully provided the answer for her:
“Divine artifacts are called ‘inheritances.’ Those who obtain them can experience a surge in spiritual power and may even influence those with whom they have a high enough level of intimacy, especially relatives.”
Both organizations have openly used the title "Holding the Legacy" to recruit people, as having a legacy symbolizes status to some extent.
"Although non-core members have no access to the inheritance, there are always people who think they will become the core one."
"The Lunar Eclipse Group also rose to fame from obscurity by revealing that it possessed a legacy. Recently, after someone discovered a spirit puppet on a core member of the Lunar Eclipse Group, there has been speculation that the spirit puppet is the legacy of the Lunar Eclipse Group."
"I see." No wonder she had never seen so much "spiritual power" except for that puppet.
She is now very interested in the three major organizations, especially the Lunar Eclipse Group.
If the room is full of pure spiritual beings, wouldn't that mean she can gain a lot of spiritual power?
If we happen to kill a member who possesses a spirit puppet, it would be an incredibly worthwhile deal.
Chu Jue had this idea ever since he unlocked the function of replenishing essence with spirit.
Cultivating in the Spirit Realm or replenishing with spirit stones is ultimately a lengthy process, and the fact that she has only made a few hundred progress points so far suggests that she should take the initiative.
The news from the "three major organizations" sounded like a gift of experience delivered to her doorstep; all she needed now was a map to navigate to it.
Chu Jue said knowingly, "I killed him."
Ying Yi: ...
It was so sudden, yet it also seemed somewhat unexpected.
The murderer, as if nothing had happened, asked curiously, "How many spirit puppets does the Lunar Eclipse Group have?"
Ying Yi: "I don't know. If the spirit puppet is truly a legacy, it should be quite rare."
Yun Qiandu asked with admiration, "That's amazing, Sister Chu. So, is the Spirit Puppet the legendary inheritance?"
"I don't know." Recalling the pile of fragments, Chu Jue's expression was sincere. "Kill a few more to confirm."
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