Life Dungeon Game

"You need to understand that if you enter the ruins through the Research Institute's quota, you must bring the Research Institute's exploration equipment and share intelligence with the Research Institute."

Zhang Anxia looked at He Ao, but instead of saying whether he agreed or disagreed, he reminded him.

This attitude itself implies tacit agreement.

"Is what I obtained mine?"

He Ao asked directly.

“Of course,” Zhang Anxia smiled, “the research institute won’t search you. They only need intelligence, but all of this is contingent on you surviving.”

“Hmm,” Zhang Anxia paused for a moment, then took out two forms, “There’s another prerequisite: you have to join the research institute.”

He Ao focused his attention on the two forms: one was the "Personal Information Form for Researchers of the Zhongtu Folk Abnormal Human Research Institute (Xidu Branch)" and the other was the "Personal Information Form for Specially Appointed Researchers of the Zhongtu Folk Abnormal Human Research Institute (Xidu Branch)".

He Ao had seen the detailed documents on the selection of the research institute's ruins that Liu Nan had compiled on his way here, which were sent over around 3 a.m.

This includes the selection criteria.

The research institute's personnel are divided into two types: researchers, who are responsible for conducting research, and sometimes they are also being researched.

Another type is the specially appointed researcher. Although it is called a specially appointed researcher, it is actually just a nominal position. Specially appointed researchers do not accept tasks assigned by the research institute, do not go to work, and of course do not receive any money. However, they can access the research institute's intranet to a certain extent and can accept employment tasks issued by the research institute on the intranet.

The research institute uses this to recruit extraordinary individuals who possess high talent or strength but do not wish to be constrained.

Most of the time, specially appointed researchers are not counted as staff members of the research institute. Only in some cases that require full selection, such as the selection of personnel for relics, are specially appointed researchers included in the selection process.

In fact, many extraordinary individuals are willing to become special researchers precisely because they can enter the ruins.

However, becoming a specially appointed researcher does not automatically qualify one to participate in the selection process. In addition to the status of a specially appointed researcher, a letter of recommendation from the head of the local research institute is also required to participate in the selection for the site.

Of course, obtaining this recommendation letter isn't difficult; it just requires regular practice.

Accepting tasks and abiding by the law are all that's needed to easily obtain them.

Through this recommendation letter mechanism, the research institute has, to some extent, ensured the activity level of its specially appointed researchers and regulated their behavior.

In terms of his own needs, He Ao still prefers the identity of a specially appointed researcher. It is more free and proactive, and he can also enjoy some intelligence to a certain extent. He can do what he wants and not do what he doesn't want to do. This identity is actually the same as his job as a bounty hunter to catch fugitives.

He Ao glanced at Zhang Anxia and reached out to take the form for the specially appointed researcher.

Seeing that He Ao directly took the form for the specially appointed researcher without asking any questions, Zhang Anxia knew that He Ao had already learned about the differences between the two types of researchers. However, he still gave a brief explanation and then said at the end...

"Specially appointed researchers do not receive a salary."

He still hoped that He Ao could officially join the research institute.

"It's okay, you can earn more money in your spare time."

He Ao began filling out the form, without mentioning the letter of recommendation, nor did Zhang Anxia.

When Zhang Anxia did not stop He Ao from choosing a specially appointed researcher, He Ao was almost certain that Zhang would write him a letter of recommendation.

After filling out the form, Zhang Anxia picked it up and glanced at it. Then he took out a file folder and put the form inside. "Let's go, let's test your talent."

"Ok?"

He Ao was taken aback.

Then he followed Zhang Anxia out of the office and into an elevator next door.

The elevator only has ten floor buttons to choose from, from -2 to 8, and there is a fingerprint reader next to the buttons.

Zhang Anxia pressed his finger on the fingerprint scanner. The elevator screen flashed and displayed the words "-3 floor". Immediately afterward, the elevator began to descend rapidly.

At the same time, Zhang Anxia took out his phone and sent a message.

After a short wait, the elevator doors slowly opened.

The first thing that caught He Ao's eye was a clean and tidy corridor. At the elevator entrance, a woman in a blue dress was waiting quietly. She was the same woman He Ao had seen in the ruins of the kindergarten before.

“Ni Yu, you’ve met her before,” Zhang Anxia introduced to He Ao.

Then he pointed to He Ao and introduced him to the woman in the blue dress, "He Ao"

"Hello."

"Hello."

He Ao politely shook hands with Ni Yu.

Then Ni Yu turned to Zhang Anxia and said, "The talent testing room is now open."

"Let's go."

Zhang Anxia looked at He Ao and smiled.

He looked around the long corridor. There were many small doors on both sides of the corridor, most of which were closed. They were labeled with names such as [Archives Room], [Specimen Storage Room], [Library], etc.

Zhang Anxia watched him look at the rooms and explained softly, "Most of the time we work in the building upstairs. These rooms downstairs are mainly for storing documents or special items. People can't work in this kind of environment for long periods of time."

As the three were walking forward, the door to the library next door slowly opened, and a pretty girl with messy hair came out carrying a thick stack of books. She bumped into the three of them as soon as she opened the door.

“Xiao Liu,” Ni Yu whispered to Zhang Anxia, ​​“she came over late last night and asked to use the library.”

He Ao looked at Liu Nan. The girl's originally smooth long hair was now slightly standing up like a cat with its fur standing on end. Her beautiful eyes were half-closed and surrounded by thick dark circles.

Liu Nan hadn't expected to run into He Ao here. Her head was spinning and she was completely confused. It took her a while to finally manage to say, "So early?"

He glanced at his phone; he had received a new file a few minutes earlier containing information about the selection opponents he might encounter.

It was sent by Liu Nan.

At this moment, Liu Nan also came to her senses. She glanced at Zhang Anxia and Ni Yu and quickly said, "Brother Zhang, Sister Ni, I'll go up first."

Then he ran towards the elevator without looking back.

He Ao was left completely bewildered.

hum-

He Ao's phone vibrated; it displayed a cheering emoji.

He turned around to look at the girl behind him, but she was holding her books and waiting for the elevator as if nothing had happened.

He Ao chuckled, casually typed "[OK]" and sent it.

Zhang Anxia glanced at the two of them, smiled, and continued walking forward with He Ao.

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Chapter 140 Mercenaries (Please subscribe, add to your favorites, and vote with monthly tickets)

The talent testing room was a small, silver room. At the entrance was a small table with some forms printed on it and a pen holder filled with many pens.

Behind the table was a thick, silver wall. The wall had no door and was a single, seamless piece, as if it had been cast directly.

He stared at the wall, the material of which resembled the silver test tube containing his black sphere.

He Ao remembered the material Liu Zhengyun had mentioned before: mithril.

This entire wall appears to be made of mithril.

It looks like it's worth a lot of money.

"All the extraordinary individuals in the entire Western Capital and most of the southwestern part of the Central Plains completed their talent tests here."

Zhang Anxia walked proudly to the silver wall and gently pressed against the side wall.

click -

With a slight rattling sound, a circular crack the size of an eye appeared in the silver wall, and then a silver circular pillar sprang out from the crack.

Zhang Anxia took out the silver pillar.

The entire wall remains impenetrable, and there appears to be a layer of silver metal at the innermost layer.

“He Ao,” Zhang Anxia waved for He Ao to stand beside him, “In a moment, look into this hole, either your left or right eye, and then close your other eye.”

"Will my talent then be displayed there?"

He asked with suspicion, actually testing whether his talent would be made public after it was tested.

“No,” Zhang Anxia shook his head. “Only you will know exactly what your talent is. Others won’t be able to see it. You can choose to tell us or not.”

Zhang Anxia's words are still credible.

He Ao slowly walked to the small hole. He was also very curious whether this thing could detect his talent. Was the talent mentioned in the real world the same thing as the talent sequence in the dungeon world?

Another question is whether the system can be detected.

He Ao nervously put his eyes in front of the small hole.

"Are you ready?"

Zhang Anxia asked from the side.

"Ah."

He Ao responded.

Zhang Anxia pressed a button.

In that instant, the metal blocking He Ao's view was suddenly pulled aside, and what first came into He Ao's view was a thick glass wall mixed with dense silver particles. These glass walls were piled up layer upon layer, all the way to the deepest part.

He Ao's gaze followed the glass walls inwards, reaching the deepest part of the glass walls.

There, a gray crystal, about the size of a thumb and resembling a fragment of some kind of object, floated silently in the air.

hum-

The moment He saw the crystal, he felt a resounding bell ring in his mind.

In that instant, He Ao seemed to 'see' 'himself'.

He 'saw' himself from a higher perspective; his beating heart, undulating blood vessels, skin, and internal organs 'simultaneously' appeared in his field of vision.

A strange purple energy appeared in He Ao's brain, and almost simultaneously, He Ao received information about this purple energy.

[Hyperthymesia], Grade D.

Immediately afterwards, He Ao felt

There was another force surging within his body, an invisible and intangible force that flowed through his blood and internal organs.