This time I chose Paladin

"So it's a bird!" the other party exclaimed, "Sure enough, the bloodline of the strongest should be the flying feathers that soar into the sky!"

"..." Nie Weiyang remained silent with a calm expression.

—No, there's no such thing as soaring in the sky. The night heron is a water bird. There are so many memes about it on the internet that it's even called the Chinese garden cockroach...

But no matter what, he still looked at the information filled out on his personal profile: [Bloodline: Night Heron]: The strongest man in the new world, the No. 1 human, the Paladin Nie Weiyang, became a Night Heron!

While the information was being recorded in front, whispers could be heard from the crowd in the back: "So it's a bird..." "He doesn't have ear feathers, could he actually have wings..." "Wow, so strong? He can fly?" "A flying paladin? Can he cast the Holy Slash while flying?" "What is the Holy Slash?" "What? Holy Slash? Nie Weiyang can cast the Holy Slash while flying?"

From "it's a bird," to "a flying paladin," to "throwing the Holy Slash while flying," the rumors spread so quickly that even Nie Weiyang was speechless. He couldn't help but adjust his sunglasses and look away, feeling as if he had made a rather inappropriate decision.

...Holy Slash has never felt so much like hand sanitizer. He feels bad for those Paladin players in D&D.

Will anyone ask him later if the white feathers on his head are the breeding feathers of a night heron?

……

By the time the messenger ran back with a group of people, the rumor about Nie Weiyang had spread to the point that "Nie Weiyang killed the first BOSS by flying in the sky with the Holy Slash!" - even though he didn't have a skill with that name.

He simply took back his ID and walked quickly into this familiar yet unfamiliar city, among a group of people wearing military uniforms, tactical equipment or 'gaming' equipment.

"We can have fewer small talk." Nie Weiyang spoke first before anyone around him spoke to welcome him.

Perhaps it was because he was surrounded by too many strangers in a short period of time, or perhaps it was the thought of returning to the sect, but he felt subtly anxious, but he still maintained the most basic courtesy.

The man who was clearly the leader of the group was slightly startled, then smiled and said, "Okay." The group went to a nearby military camp, entered a soundproofed room, and sat down at a conference table.

"First," Nie Weiyang took out a thick paper bag and placed it on the table, "This is the work record before Langcheng's journey to Blood Moon. Langcheng's Captain Xiang is currently unable to report in person, so he asked me to pass on the documents."

This was something Xiang Feng gave him a day before he left Langcheng, asking him to pass it on to Gushi.

"Secondly, I'll get straight to the point," Nie Weiyang raised his head. "Three things—pre-civilized cities, pre-civilized refuges, and the return of the sect. How much information do you know?"

Fortunately, the node of emotional transformation is just recently (

Chapter 91 Let's Talk About Something

"We have discovered three former civilized cities, but currently, apart from a small number of personnel who can move around stealthily, no one can stay in the cities at night."

The person who answered the question was Liang Zhenduan, the highest military commander in the early days of Gushi. He was a man in his fifties. Nie Weiyang knew him, but not much. He had died about two years later in his previous life—from overwork.

This matter has now become clear. The dark circles under his eyes are so heavy that when Nie Weiyang looks at him, he feels that he is the real giant panda bloodline...

"Stealth skills can be found in research institutes, training grounds, vending machines, shelters with stealth-related challenges, and bosses of similar types," Nie Weiyang said. "Also," he shook his collar, showing the group his badge, "if you have the opportunity to obtain a badge starting with CSSS, you must do your best to get it. Combined with security weapons, you can be considered a 'friendly unit' by some former civilization agencies, provided you don't reveal your alien ancestry or have legitimate reasons for bloodline transformation."

The dozen or so people at the conference table stared at each other with wide eyes as they digested this information. Most of them hadn't played games much, so naturally, they rarely had the "just meet the conditions!" mindset of a video game.

Although I have learned a lot of new things in the past few months, it still took me a few seconds to digest this information suddenly.

But these people are, after all, outstanding individuals who can manage a group of millions of people and prevent it from collapsing. Naturally, their learning and comprehension abilities are much stronger than those of most people.

At this moment, the first person to react didn't dwell on anything, nor did he pay too much attention to the information about the previous civilization behind these words. Instead, he asked, "Legitimate reason, what is the reason?"

"Make it up." Nie Weiyang said. He didn't think it was a difficult task, so he spoke briefly.

"It's enough to fool their mainframe database, or simply make them stop paying attention. Pre-civilizations don't have true artificial intelligence, and they can't truly subjectively judge the truthfulness of your intentions.

"But remember, your own reasons shouldn't conflict with each other, and it would be even better if different people's reasons could corroborate each other."

"I see." Everyone at the conference table breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.

Strategic fraud, I know, it’s my old trade.

It's much easier to fool a machine than to fool a person.

"So, what are the research institute and training ground?" someone else asked.

This was a smiling old lady who looked to be in her seventies or eighties. While asking, she took the teapot brought by a young man next to her and wanted to pour a cup of tea for Nie Weiyang.

Nie Weiyang was startled, his face pale as a statue. He quickly stood up, took the teapot, poured himself a cup, and also poured a cup for the other person.

This made the old lady smile even more happily. She took the teacup and put the teapot in front of the others who were staring at her eagerly, letting them pour the tea themselves.

"These two nouns placed here may have some other meaning, right?" she asked in a slow and soft voice.

"Of course not," Nie Weiyang said, taking a sip of his hot tea. "This is a 'special function building,' a privilege reserved for 'garrison forces.' And to become a garrison force, one needs a 'garrison force certificate.'"

The garrison force is like the so-called "guild" in some games, but it is a gang that "has jurisdiction over a certain area."

In the New World, 'player' organizations can be divided into 'exploration groups', 'mutual aid societies', 'professional associations', 'bloodline families' and 'garrison forces', and above these, there are 'united communities' formed by multiple organizations.

Among them, 'Exploration Groups' and 'Mutual Aid Societies' are the most numerous, open to anyone. 'Bloodline Families' and 'Professional Associations' rely on bloodline and profession as credentials. 'Government Powers' are the least numerous. After all, even setting aside the most difficult to obtain proof of a garrison power, gaining jurisdiction over a region is no easy task.

"How to obtain these certificates... I don't know." Nie Weiyang said.

In fact, he knew, but he couldn't know everything.

He simply suggested that the authorities obtain the certificate of garrison power as soon as possible, build special function buildings, and at least train some skills for their own people first, such as crime detection, information reconnaissance, and higher-level identification techniques. At the same time, they should train scholars, no matter which branch they are from, and keep them when they come across them.

Scholars are rare, and advancement is even more challenging. While he might seem to have met many scholars, that's simply because all those qualified to be scholars are, without exception, intelligent. And intelligent people always have a higher chance of survival in times of crisis.

"As long as they accumulate knowledge and start to innovate, scholars can help other professions create new skills or even design brand new career branches in these special-function buildings," said Nie Weiyang.

This is a great truth.

The positioning of various professions in the new world is complex, and many professions have similar functions, but sometimes there are some differences in energy attributes, forms of expression, etc. between these professions, so they will get another name.

For example, there are actually quite a few professions that have stealth abilities, but whether there are conditions for stealth, what the specific requirements are, whether one can move while stealthed, how long one can move, whether one can move continuously, whether one can sneak continuously, and whether attacking or being hit while stealthed will force one to reveal oneself, these are all "differences".

All of the above-mentioned 'differences' are some real professional stealth skill characteristics.

Even stealth is an ordinary professional skill that has nothing to do with the core energy attribute, so it can naturally be learned through skill books - it is completely feasible to let professions that originally did not have this skill learn stealth. In more than ten years, this skill will be possessed by almost everyone among high-level combat forces.

It’s just that similar skills learned through skill books have more restrictions and are not as good as the original skills of the profession.

This highlights the importance of scholars - almost every branch of the scholar profession can, through research and training, reduce the side effects and restrictions of non-native skills for other professions, and even help other professions design and create new skills.

Although scholars' functions of "analysis, improvement, and innovation" are quite limited, their impact is even greater. This is because innovation is based on an understanding of all things that exist, and it creates infinite possibilities that can be explored by humans.

This group of scholars was one of the reasons why Zhongzhou was able to develop in the previous life.

Although it hasn't developed enough to be deterrent, some things still dare to do something with the support of the forces behind them...

Nie Weiyang thought of the various cults and the return sects hidden behind them.

He got a headache just thinking about these things, a headache that had nothing to do with knowledge.

The young man rubbed his brows. His fingers were blocked by his sunglasses, making it difficult for him to move, but he seemed not to notice and put his hands down.

Afterwards, Nie Weiyang told the Gushi officials about the C3510 city, but simplified the battle process and did not mention how he interacted with the host.

The other party took the information very seriously and thanked him for the reminder - not just for this meeting.

"Because of the information you submitted a few days ago, we have brought some interesting things." Liang Zhenduan said, "I think you also discovered it on the way here..."

Nie Weiyang raised his brows, adjusted his sitting posture, and leaned forward slightly.

"Infantry fighting vehicle?" he asked.

"More than that." Liang Zhenduan replied, "You can go and see it for yourself later. By the way..."

He knocked on the table, the door to the conference room opened, and a man in blue work clothes walked in, holding in his hands... a shield?

It was a beautiful, silver-white, round shield. Unlike Nie Weiyang's usual iron shield, its surface was covered in a jagged, interlaced pattern of sharp, triangular tetrahedrons. Its edges were inlaid with a ring of sharp blue crystals, roughly divided into three sections, polished to a razor's edge. In the center of the shield was a blue crystal with an edge, a faint glow emanating from it.

"The best shield in the Gushi official collection is the one we obtained during the Blood Moon Ascending." Liang Zhenduan picked up the shield with both hands. It was so heavy that it was a bit of an effort for the man with big dark circles under his eyes. "It has a built-in flash spell... Hmm..."

Nie Weiyang couldn't help but stand up and catch the shield with both hands.

Liang Zhenduan let go of his hand and watched with admiration as Nie Weiyang put away the simple iron shield behind him, and turned the shield back and forth to measure the weight and feel.

"This is a small gift from Gushi to thank you." He said with a smile, "The conditions are not good right now, so this is all I can find.

"Do you have any other needs? Just ask. As long as we can do it, we will do it."

I couldn't help but smile at Ye Lu for a long time.

It was originally planned that this was where Old Nie would begin his transition from anthropomorphism to a return to being human. Langcheng would allow him to rekindle his original aspirations, regain his vitality and initiative, while Gushi would allow him to rekindle his sense of being human. However, because it was released earlier than expected, it didn't align with the original aspirations. Sorry (bowed my head)

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Chapter 92 Some Pleasant Things

The best shield in Lang City is only an iron shield. After all, there are not many combat resources in the rainy season, and the weapons that explode are of various types. Defensive weapons such as shields are among them and their weight is not high.

As for making your own...

Yes, but it's difficult and the materials are limited. Although materials can be obtained by disassembling useless equipment, in the New World, disassembling equipment will cause loss. The specific loss depends on the level and ability of the disassembler.

When decomposing equipment of a lower level than their own, craftsmen who can control the loss to less than 20% are considered strong. The most important source of materials for humans is still mineral resources.

But in this kind of world, mines?

Not to mention that there are almost no artificial mine tunnels left, even for natural mine tunnels, that kind of semi-closed, complex and dark environment, it is considered a success if people enter and do not get kicked out.

In short, that iron shield was a good shield in a sense, but it was completely incomparable to the shield in front of it called [Zhenhui].

Gushi has a large population and a vast territory, and its resources are many times richer than Langcheng. Even they only produced such a top-notch shield. It can be imagined that this thing is really rare.

"I'm very satisfied with this and don't have any other requests for now," Nie Weiyang said, a genuine smile appearing on his face.

Giving away information was something he'd wanted to do, and he hadn't thought about any reward when he did it. But now, he was holding the perfectly weighted shield, looking at the sharp blue crystal shield blade and the structure on the shield.

If it were him, he definitely wouldn't want his weapon to come into close contact with this kind of shield, nor would he want himself to come into close contact with it... With this design, even if the shield's attributes weren't high, it would still be more durable than some overly simple ordinary shields. Furthermore, it also had a flash spell—

To be honest, Nie Weiyang really likes the feeling of throwing a flash bomb at someone's face. Anyway, he is wearing sunglasses and the flash cannot hit him.

Now he can not only throw flashbangs, but also hit the enemy's face with his shield even harder!

After thanking him, Nie Weiyang gave some basic information about the shelter, and...

"The people of the pre-civilization called themselves Homo sapiens. They resembled us in appearance and body structure, but for at least a long time, their mental power could be released directly from their bodies and interfere with matter, making their social culture very different from ours." Nie Weiyang said, "In the Sanctuary dungeon, this trait will be reflected in the 'Mind Appearance' category: Mind Appearance is the power of the spirit."

Therefore, Nie Weiyang could actually confirm that the 'Mind Prism Fragment', or rather, the 'Mind Prism', was a creation of a previous civilization. However, he was still unclear about the connection between the 'Mind Crystal' and the 'Netherworld Crystal' that it transformed into, and the previous civilization.

This information must be shared, because in reality, the 'Hope Space Station' and its incarnation 'One' also exist. Moreover, Nie Weiyang has some suspicions that the real Hope Space Station may have a larger population...

The human body is a powerful mental restraint and barrier, with only the eyes being a weaker barrier. An average person's mental attributes are almost impossible to leave the body before 500 points, and at best they can only search other people's short-term memories by being close to them.

Nie Weiyang currently possesses no skills related to mental attacks. Besides attribute confrontations and memory searches, he can only use telekinesis to drag light objects or leverage mental confrontations initiated by others. At least for now, he can't initiate mental confrontations. However, if someone initiates a mental confrontation, the timing and outcome of the confrontation are no longer determined by the initiator.

This shows how terrifying the talents of the humans in the 4701 Shelter instance are... They are almost born with the ability to interfere with real matter on a small scale with their willpower alone!