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Chapter 156 Two Rounds of Selection
After the greetings in the live chat, mockery followed immediately.

"You want to join the Security Agency's recruitment drive? Don't you have any self-awareness?"

"Why would they recruit you? Just to see you kneeling and begging for mercy in front of criminals?"

"I bet you a spicy snack that you'll be eliminated."

"Everyone, be polite, or you won't have any fun."

Jiang Siqi's brow twitched at the sight of these blatant taunts, but the thought of her sugar daddy's presence immediately calmed her down, treating them as insignificant background noise.

The procession moved forward slowly, with a constant beeping sound coming from the front.

While interacting with fans, she kept an eye on the screen—the prerequisite for joining the agency was ability, so the initial screening, like previous tests, required standing in a security gate-like device and waiting for a moment. The panel above the gate would then display the score. The baseline was 50, with no upper limit; a score below 50 meant the test taker had an extremely low probability of possessing the necessary skills.

The electronic buzzer of Didi comes from the inspection gate.

Through the large screen, it can be seen that the scores of the applicants are basically above 50, with some reaching over 100. This shows that they are different from people who just come to see if they have any abilities. They generally know that they have the ability and know how to use it.

Last time she took the test, she scored 52 points, just barely passing the cutoff.

As for its detection principle and who built these machines, Jiang Siqi had no idea.

On the other side, Chen Xuan also asked this question.

"How exactly does this thing assess ability?"

"I don't know, this is also the technology provided by the company," Lin Qing said honestly. "The only thing I know is that the early detection technology was quite primitive, and could only roughly determine whether a person has any abilities and how strong those abilities are. So, to know specifically what kind of abilities a Wanderer has, you mainly have to ask around."

Using torture and truth serum as aids is also called interrogation, right?

So Fei Wuniang was indeed well treated after being captured by them, which is why a record of her was left in the database.

"No wonder you wanted to try applying for the job. It turns out they couldn't accurately assess your abilities..."

“That’s right. That’s why I said this is a flaw that the organization finally managed to expose—the employees aren’t criminals who can’t be brought into the light, so at least they can’t openly use coercive means to force the people they recruit to tell the truth.” Lin Qing said while chewing on potato chips, “Of course, the organization isn’t completely incapable of detecting things… After all, this is just a branch, and even the equipment that records the vibrations at the intrusion point should be a replica of the headquarters’ machine.”

In other words, if the enemy becomes suspicious, it is not impossible for them to arrest the person and take them to headquarters for examination.

What about later on?

"It split up later on... We no longer rely on our abilities, but fight using cybernetic bodies," Lin Qing replied.

……

At this point, Jiang Siqi finally reached the front of the line.

"I remember she barely passed last time, right?"

"Come up here quickly and let everyone see if you've improved."

"Could it be that my Dao heart has shattered these past few days, causing me to regress?"

The laughter in the comments section reached its peak at this point.

She took a deep breath and stepped into the testing machine. She waited for over ten seconds, but there was still no response, giving her the illusion that time had stopped, as if several years had passed.

When the beeping finally sounded, a murmur of surprise suddenly arose from the surroundings.

Jiang Siqi couldn't wait to walk through the machine and look back. She found that the number on the screen had reached 178! She wasn't the first person to break 100, but the others who broke 100 were all just over 100, while her number was almost touching 200!
The camera on the chest clearly also captured this scene.

The live chat exploded!
"This machine must be broken!"

"Damn it, she got it. The others aren't good enough; how did a newbie manage to overtake them?"

"Magical Girls are awesome!"

"Wow, that's the skill of my idol! You guys still have time to apologize!"

"This person looks so familiar..." People around her were also looking her up and down. "It feels like we've seen her somewhere before?"

"That variety show that had that incident before, I think she was in it... her name was Sitian, right?" Jiang Siqi pressed her pounding heart and pretended not to hear as she walked towards the next testing table—the gloom from two days ago was swept away, and she felt lighter than ever before.

The second step of the initial screening is very simple: fill out an application form, take a photo, and photocopy your ID card... It's no different from a regular recruitment process.

Jiang Siqi noticed that the form required her to truthfully fill in her abilities, awakening time, and the cost of using them (if any). Just looking at the contents of the form, she felt that it was quite professional.

This was the first time she had ever heard that using abilities came at a price.

She quickly finished filling out the form... Jiang Siqi did not hide anything in the ability section and honestly explained the three abilities. The only lie she made was about the awakening time, writing them as the same batch of awakened abilities as her own fire magic.

Of course, the filling process will not be seen by the live stream viewers.

After submitting her documents, she was led by an employee to a shed to sit and wait. All the people who had passed through the testing gate earlier had also gathered there.

As she entered the shed, everyone's eyes turned to her, their expressions hesitant and unsure what to say. In a sense, they were both competitors and kindred spirits, making the atmosphere quite delicate.

Fortunately, the awkwardness didn't last long. Soon, a handsome young man came over and said, "Sorry to keep you waiting. My name is Wang Baihu. The people whose names I call next have passed the initial screening and can come with me to the next stage."

The first name the other party called out was Jiang Siqi!

At that moment, she was so moved that she almost cried.

She had participated in countless exams and competitions since childhood, always hovering in the middle to lower ranks. Even with her best efforts, she could never surpass those exceptional students. Unexpectedly, at today's recruitment fair held by the government, she became a leader!

Even if this is only the first batch of people to pass the initial screening, and even if the job fair will continue for several more days, she is already satisfied.

The atmosphere in the live stream gradually changed.

More and more people turned to support her, and even if one or two mockers spoke up, they were quickly drowned out by other comments.

The second round of selection was held in the large conference hall inside the talent market building.

The selection method was surprisingly a written test.

"Hello everyone!" A man in a pink suit stood on the stage and greeted everyone warmly. "Let me briefly introduce myself. I am Xiao Kanong, the captain of the Jiangcheng branch of the Weixian Agency! Whether you can pass the test and become a member of the agency is entirely up to me! And what I admire most is honesty, so the core of this written test is to be frank with each other!"

"Help! His taste is so weird!"

"Is the organization any good enough to hire someone like this to be in charge of recruitment?"

"Let him get out of here. That guy from earlier was alright, call him over!"

"support!"

Viewers in the live stream complained.

At this moment, a recruiter raised his hand and asked loudly, "Mr. Xiao, are there any restrictions on this test?"

“No,” Xiao Kanong said with a smile. “You can use your phones to search, find AI, or even communicate with each other! The only requirement, as I just stated, is that you must answer all the questions sincerely. You have 30 minutes, so please answer as soon as possible, otherwise the second group will come in.”

Jiang Siqi also received her exam paper.

Since the other party made no attempt to prevent cheating, she immediately pointed her action camera at the exam paper.

There are ten questions in total, and sharp-eyed viewers have already marked the first one in the comments.

Do you think there's a difference between people with special abilities and ordinary people? If so, which one is more outstanding?

Well, as long as it's not advanced mathematics, that's fine.

Jiang Siqi breathed a sigh of relief. She had only graduated this June, but now it seemed that she had completely forgotten all the knowledge she had learned in college.

"What do you think? Someone knowledgeable, please answer this for me!" she said in a low voice to the camera.

Suddenly, a variety of answers flooded the phone screen.

Jiang Siqi certainly wouldn't copy any audience member's answer; she was just trying to liven things up. As for how to answer the question, she decided to follow the advice of the man in the pink suit—answer from the heart.

(End of this chapter)