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Chapter 120: Going to War, Gu Lishi and Xu Shu (Second update, 5k, completed per day, please subscribe)
"Melanie, isn't this the current president of the Astronomy Society?"

When Xu Shu saw this name, he felt annoyed.

Why is it you again!

You can't give me anything now, so don't make so many promises, damn it.

However, the Astronomy Society is still quite impressive...

They were the ones who offered the reward for Lu Bingwei's 50 points, so it was only natural for them to pay for it.

However, there was no reminder that the Astronomy Association would offer a bounty for the Demon Chosen that was killed this time. According to the above records, the reason for the extra contribution points was that "the existence of the Demon Chosen is a great threat to humans, and the Array encourages this behavior and gives extra contribution points."

In other words, this reward was given by Liezhenzi and paid by the Astronomy Association. It can be seen that their status is still very high and they can be called Liezhenzi's number one henchman.

"But why didn't the Array give me the contribution directly? Is it because of some rules that prevent it from giving me points without any reason? So it can only distribute the contribution through its subordinate organization, the Astronomical Society, which currently has the highest level of authority?"

"It can't be that I'm too lazy to post because there are too few. After all, every little bit I get from killing monsters is added."

Xu Shu hesitated for a moment and clicked [Approve.]

Now that things have come to this, there is nothing that can be done. Even if I have some complaints about the Astronomical Society, I can't just go against money.

After a while, the private message lit up:
"What's going on with you? I've been trying to send it all day and it still hasn't gotten through. This has never happened to me before." - Melanie, a fourth-level Dongxuan Zhenjun.

"Hello, boss. I am very wise! Actually, I can't afford the mirror of reality and illusion~" - Gu Pan.

Xu Shu did not dare to act rashly and immediately explained the whole story.

This person is a top-notch master of level 4, one of the best in the entire human race.

Moreover, the other party is the president of the Astronomy Society. He has submitted his certification information and admission certificate to the Astronomy Society. It is estimated that his true identity cannot be hidden from them. Of course, there is no need to hide it now. He is already a transcendent with a pure background.

"… As for this matter, I am also drunk. Then just owe it to me first. You have good talent. Don't slack off. Work hard and you will have a chance to be on the human list. In addition, the Qingyun list will be updated tomorrow. You will be ranked 404th, which is outside the top 20. You can get contribution points every week." - Melanie.

Xu Shu's eyes suddenly lit up: "Can that be deposited directly into the account?"

"No... I'm the one who sent it, so I owe you all of it."

"Okay, boss." Xu Shu really had no one to talk to about his grievances.

"I'll keep the friend position for you. Please let me know when you can trade. If you are short of contribution points, you can go directly to the Judgment Department to coordinate. They have someone to help you with publicity, team building, and pioneering at the border."

“Also, you can voluntarily form a pioneer team online. Take care of yourself. The future of mankind ultimately depends on young people like you.” -Melanie.

"Okay, I understand. Thank you, boss." - Gu Pan.

【Hint: Melanie sent you a picture】

Xu Shu:?
"...Do you all like posting photos of yourselves so much?"

Xu Shu was stunned.

He just felt that this Master Dongxuan was decisive in his actions and clear in his speech, and must be a rare wise man.

But the picture he received immediately made him confused.

But soon, Xu Shu realized that he had misunderstood.

This is not a selfie of Melanie.

When I opened it, it was a photo taken of her upgraded network interface, similar to a screenshot.

The above information is as follows:
【A letter of authorization for the issuance of array rewards】

[Upgraded ID: 0-08-1314 (Gu Pan, first-level warrior) has outstanding military exploits, killed the chosen demon, and has made contributions to the human race. He is awarded 100 contribution points as an encouragement. After testing, the second-level authority organization Astronomy Association will issue it on his behalf (If the information is leaked to someone other than himself, the XX qualification will be revoked in accordance with Article XX of the XXXX Regulations)]

——The part with X was covered up by paint, but Xu Shu could tell at a glance that the content that was erased must be the "Human Safety Protection Regulations". He didn't know which article it was, but it was definitely not the third article.

"Strange, why did you send me this screenshot?"

Seeing that the photo sent was not a selfie of the female Taoist priest, Xu Shu looked happy but felt a little disappointed in his heart.

But after a little thought, he roughly understood the reason.

"She took the photo to show me to tell me that although she knew some of my information, there were restrictions. As the president of the Astronomy Association, she would not and could not disclose my information."

"This is to comfort me, the newbie, so that I won't be too nervous and scared."

Authority is authority, and having rights is naturally limited.

This makes sense.

"Haha, although this president seems to be very arrogant, he is actually a considerate and wonderful person."

"As expected of Master Dongxuan, he is indeed very thoughtful and can see through people's hearts."

Xu Shu returned to the interface, lay on the bed, closed his eyes and thought deeply for a while.

At this point, the issue of his adoptive father has been resolved and he no longer has too many worries or pressures.

If it were an ordinary person, with family members by his side, he might have become lazy.

But Xu Shu would not do that. Especially after what happened yesterday, he turned his disdain on the evaluation that the safe zone was "absolutely safe".

Damn absolute safety.

Of course, Xu Shu also knew that the Demon Chosen by God must have something special. It was able to be discovered by the Star Tower for such a long time after hurting people, which really lived up to Liezhenzi's evaluation of it as "a great threat to the human race."

The existence of such a traitor is a huge threat to the residents in the safe zone, including Xu Shu himself.

Any chosen one he met was at the maximum level of the first stage of flawless rank. Fortunately, his strength was barely enough yesterday, so he didn’t die like those grassroots policemen in the police station.

However, if there is one, there will be another. Who knows if there will be more of these secret cultists lurking in your safe zone?
I was lucky this time and encountered a first-level one. I didn't die and I was able to protect my family.

What if I unfortunately encounter a second level next time? What about the third level? Or even the fourth or fifth level?

What to do then?
Do I have to pin my hopes on “it’s better not to encounter it”, or on the Star Tower that has already arrived late once?

Xu Shu doesn't have so much trust in the Star Tower now. He labels the Star Tower as "arriving but late" - it will definitely come, but it is hard to say whether it will come to rescue people or to collect corpses.

History taught Xu Shu two lessons.

First, there is only one time and countless times of cheating.

Second, if you don’t think about the future, you will have immediate worries!
Therefore, the top priority at the moment is to quickly improve one's own strength.

Xu Shu opened the Taichu Volume.

[The sun sets in the west, all things are extinguished, welcome back to the Taichu Volume, Master]

[Number of times remaining to open today: 0/3]

[Item column: Rotten butcher knife (ordinary), desperate mandarin duck severing its own meridians (epic) *5, Xuan Zhang·Sleeping Arhat (flawless), Xuan Zhang·Bloodline (epic) *2, Physician's Mark (epic)]

These are all the things Xu Shu currently has that can be included in the Taichu Scroll's prop column.

Anything else?

He pulled out a small, well-wrapped cloth bag from his pocket, and when he opened it, he saw a small lace pantyhose - the remaining material of the seductive flower puppet.

Inside was a handful of minions left by the Black Widow, and a purple level 18 curse crystal.

I also kept a thousand dollars in cash as a backup.

"Huh~ After more than a decade of hard work, we are now back to where we were before liberation."

"By the way, Aunt Yueming gave me 200 million yuan, and I'm still short of 600 yuan. I'll have to ask Gu Pan for it later, but I'll be a pauper again... If it doesn't work, I can blackmail her a little bit. After all, she's a wealthy woman."

Xu Shu, who had no idea that the rich woman had turned into a poor woman, laughed at herself.

But being poor doesn’t mean you’re really poor.

On the one hand, as a supernatural being, he has the ability to make money very quickly. For example, the erosion crystals obtained from the previous batch of ruins would be worth millions if they were not fed to the curse.

Secondly, he actually still has a lot of "accounts receivable" that are owed to him by the Tianwen Society.

I counted them and there were still quite a few.

Lu Bingwei's bounty is 50 contribution points, and picking up the head of the Demon God's Chosen One will give 100 points. In addition, Melanie said that next Monday, which is tomorrow, there will be a 20-point weekly reward for the Qingyun Ranking.

All together, there are 170 contribution points.

Of course, the premise of all this is to first turn your [Contribution 8] into [Contribution 20]

Originally, Xu Shu had made up his mind to go out of the wasteland directly tomorrow. Even if he only killed one monster a day, he would be able to save up time until 12 o'clock.

However, Melanie just reminded him that the authorities have an obligation to guide newcomers like him, so now there is naturally a safer and more convenient way.

"I am already a transcendent recognized by the Astronomical Society. Tomorrow I can go directly to the Judgment Department and ask them to help me form a pioneering team. They already have a lot of manpower to call upon, which is much more reliable than me calling on people slowly."

"Haha, this is the advantage of having a clean identity and having the support of an organization. In this end times, the right time and right place are not in my favor, and I can only rely on the people." "Besides, as long as I don't go too far from the border, I have the Taichu Volume, so I can rest assured."

That night, Xu Shu slept well at home, which was a rare occasion.

The next morning, mother Li Guoying got up and went to work.

She was used to being busy and didn't want to just stay at home and wait for death just because her son became a superhuman.

The slightly different thing was that this time before leaving, he left a carefully prepared breakfast for Xu Shu.

A bowl of meat porridge, two fried eggs, and a bottle of milk. In the past, it was usually ordinary rice porridge with some pickled mustard.

“This is the treatment~”

Reluctantly touching the Taichu Scroll and looking at the [Number of times opened today 3/3] on it, Xu Shu happily finished his breakfast, then left a note briefly informing the public of the situation and went out.

Today’s mission: Go out of town and fight in the wild!
While waiting for the elevator, I saw several men in suits standing at the door of our next-door neighbor, Hu Xinrui's house, as if they were waiting for someone inside to open the door.

Seeing Xu Shu leaving, these people turned around and nodded to him very politely. A group of people looked at him and saluted him.

Xu Shu frowned.

He looked familiar. I remembered that he was from the company of Hu Xinrui's financial sponsor?
I don't really understand why these people came when she was at school.

However, Xu Shu was not interested in knowing.

We will be strangers from now on.

So he ignored the other person, didn't bother to say hello, walked straight into the elevator and left on his own.

Before the elevator door closed, Hu Xinrui's mother opened the door and welcomed them in with a flattering smile on her face.

"Tsk~"

Haha, people’s hearts are still very ancient…

Xu Shu also knew that if he told them about his extraordinary identity, there was a great possibility that the entire Hu family would want to kneel down and lick his boots.

But is it necessary?

…………

The sky suddenly brightens and everything seems to be clean.

It was drizzling in the sky.

However, the sun still rose as usual and shone brightly. Soon, it tore off Xiaoyu's underwear, who had been crying all night, and the sky became clear.

Security Zone, Judgment Department.

Nowadays, almost all words related to "war" are under the jurisdiction of the Judgment Department.

Executors and inquisitors are just relatively high-level positions.

The basic level layout is mainly composed of three armed forces according to different directions of responsibility:

One is the police station in the city, which is mainly responsible for managing people; the other is the garrison responsible for the city’s defense. Although the monsters cannot get in, they will not take it lightly and will stare at the monsters on the walls and in the sea of ​​strange mountains every night.

The third one is naturally responsible for the patrol team on the wasteland outside the wall.

The basic structure of these three armed forces is 12 people, including 1 extraordinary person and 11 ordinary soldiers.

Obviously, the 12 in this world is everywhere.

In the area between the grassroots and the upper levels, there is a relatively wide group of people - the pioneer team.

The composition of the pioneer team is quite complex. It is not just people from the Judgment Department. Or it can be said that 90% of them are not from there.

There are often pioneering teams recruiting people on the upgrading network. It is led by the Judgment Department, which initiates pioneering team missions and requests assistance from the extraordinary people in the city.

In this world, there are actually no so-called "wild extraordinary people". Strictly speaking, all extraordinary people are subordinates of the Astronomical Society - after all, without the upgrade drive, they can never become extraordinary.

However, extraordinary powers belong to oneself after all. Once one becomes extraordinary, it is impossible to control it with the same iron-blooded methods as those used to control mortals, and it will only backfire.

The Astronomical Society also adheres to the concept of the formation, mainly promoting the "human alliance struggle", and does not forcibly manage the extraordinary people. Anyway, if the extraordinary people want to contribute and improve their strength, hunting monsters is the only way, and there is no need for any coercive measures.
As the saying goes, when the nest is overturned, how can the eggs remain intact?

From an 'objective' perspective, almost every one of us is a warrior fighting for all humanity.

Every extraordinary person makes more or less contribution to the continuation of the race.

Therefore, extraordinary people are relatively free - the premise is of course that you have enough potential.

If they were just "low-level" transcendents with white curses and a maximum level of 12, these people would naturally be strictly managed and included in garrisons, patrol teams, etc.

The saying that weakness is the original sin is not just talk, but permeates every aspect.

Even if they are extraordinary beings, those at the white level can only be superior to ordinary people.

If they go to the external battlefield, they will be cannon fodder seeking death, and can only do odd jobs like cleaning up the wasteland.

Only those extraordinary beings with green or higher grade curse marks have enough potential and are 100% able to reach the second level, forming the absolute backbone of the Human Extraordinary Alliance - in doomsday, humans can only take the elite route, and human wave tactics cannot be implemented, because no matter how many people there are, there can never be as many monsters.

On November 11th of the eighteenth year of the new calendar, Xu Shu, a level 24 rookie, stepped into the door of the Judgment Department for the first time.

He openly handed over the symbol of his extraordinary identity and told the purpose of his visit. Then he was led by the clerks to their back door to hand over to the staff inside.

Outside the back door of the Judgment Department, which is actually facing the Star Tower, there is a square of medium size.

People who fly in from other areas can see this square as soon as they go out.

There was a large banner on the side with inspiring words such as "Eternal glory for mankind!", "Fire passionately, deep behind enemy lines!", "Drive them out, leave no one behind!", etc.

People here give this place a nickname: Pioneer Team Square.

As for the Star Tower, everyone is covered with their heads and faces and do not know each other's identity information, so it is generally called a private club - a club for private face-to-face transactions.

Area D8B3 is not a frontline area and the number of people is not that large.

It was quite early at this moment, so there were only about a dozen groups of people in the huge square, gathered on clearly separated open-air stone chairs.

There were seven or eight people, or as few as three or four. Just like in the Star Tower, they all opened the interface of the upgraded network and operated it.
Next to each group of people, there is usually a young female police officer, but there are also a few men, who all hold a folder in their hands and stand by like waiters.

At this time, the group of young female police officers on standby at the service desk saw Xu Shu being brought in. After speaking to the clerk at the front desk, one of them, a sweet-looking female police officer who was less than 20 years old, came over and asked politely and reservedly:

"Hello, sir. Are you planning to go out of the border and explore the wilderness? Xiaolin can help you."

These young clerical police officers are what Melanie called the people from the Judgment Department who helped to form the pioneering team.

They are all very capable people, each of them has strong ability to get things done.

If Xu Shu had been successfully admitted to university, he would have had the opportunity to become a part of this.

Not only the Department of Adjudication, but also the peripheral civil service establishments in other parts of the Administration Bureau are all supplied by talents from the universities in the city - of course, these are only relatively ordinary ones. For students who are truly ambitious, their goal is of course to enter the Astronomical Society.

As the saying goes, after learning both literary and martial arts, one can become an emperor. And the real emperor of this era is, of course, an extraordinary person!
Back then, I couldn’t get into college, so I could only do some cheap labor, and I wasn’t even qualified to be looked at by these people;
But now that they have returned from the wasteland, their identities have been cleared, and they have risen rapidly. They have become people that they want adults to please them one by one, and they are even willing to do anything to them as long as they are willing to pay a small price.

Thinking of this, Xu Shu couldn't help but laugh.

In this doomsday crisis, if you have strength, you will have status.

Xu Shu stood there for a while, watching for a moment: "How can you help me?"

When Xiaolin, a civilian police officer, heard this, she knew he was a newcomer, but she did not dare to slack off and asked in a soft voice: "Sir, what should I call you? What is your occupation? Xiaolin can help you find a suitable team based on your occupation and needs."

What's your name?

Now that my identity has been cleared, if I form a team here, I certainly cannot hide my real name on my ID card, and there is no need to hide it anymore.

Since we are going to form a team, one of the [real name] and [nickname] must be revealed to our teammates.

Or remain anonymous? If you remain anonymous, you will naturally be suspected by your teammates, which is not advisable.

As for the nickname Taichu, he wanted to keep it secret, as it would be of great use.

So, if you don’t want people to guess that you have a nickname and thus reveal your true identity, why not let your current real name become your nickname in the eyes of others?

This seems to work... As for the Astronomy Society, they will probably think that the nickname I chose is Xu Shu, hehe...

After thinking for a moment, Xu Shu said, "Xu Shu, a first-level warrior, nicknamed... Gu Pan. You can call me Gu Lishi."

As soon as the words came out, the whole place fell silent.

Everyone looked over at once, whispering, and then there were some difficult to understand words, such as "iron-clad bull, crouching steel rhinoceros", "this boy has murderous intent in his eyes", and many women whispered to each other, "So he is the huge muscular man Gu Pan~".

For a moment, people in the square began to talk, and the air was full of joy.

(End of this chapter)