Novel Bin Chapter 116 - An Encounter By Chance
Chapter 116: Chapter 116- An Encounter By Chance
The sound of the national anthem being sung early in the morning prompted Ren Suo to close the window hurriedly. However, the teacher’s dormitories were situated not far from the flag-raising ground. Consequently, the noise produced by the students walking and the high-pitched voice of the speaker completely disrupted Ren Suo’s sleep.
It was May 10, the first day of the opening of all Practitioner Institutions around the nation. Ren Suo also formally entered a working state.
He leaned over, wanting to continue to sleep, but his head came into contact with an ice-cold area on his left hand.
He lifted his left hand to see a black metal wristband, glistening in its full beauty under the sunlight.
Subsequently, the wristband would serve as a replacement for his wallet, entrance pass, key, GPS and other functions. For example, it integrated most functions of the mobile phone, so that the faculty and students of the Heavenly Institution of Lianjiang would be able to enjoy a high-tech living environment of the next generation.
The Heavenly Institution of Lianjiang was divided into four areas: the teaching building, the Practice area, the accommodations, and the combat training area. However, the combat training area had yet to open, and generally, the students would only be in these four areas.
At present, there were five education levels of students enrolled and no third-year senior high students, naturally because it was already the month of May and the college entrance examination was less than a month away.
As for the talents amongst the third-year senior high students, it depended on the future policies of the nation.
Since the start of school, the Heavenly Institution of Lianjiang had conducted fully closed teaching, where students were not allowed to leave the school campus without permission.
There were supermarkets, large cafeterias, libraries, and internet cafes in the living area of the school. The facilities were similar to that of regular universities and students were allowed to make purchases. However, students were only able to make purchases in the school using the points in the wristbands.
They were also allowed to make online purchases by copying the product information into the wristband program when they shopped online. They would then write down the name and quantity of the products they wanted to purchase, and the purchases would be made by other specialized personnel. Points corresponding to the price of the online purchases would then be deducted from their wristbands. All online shopping products were distributed on Sundays.
Did that sound slightly like the bizarre setups in certain novels and comics?
But all of that was done for practical reasons—all enrolled students did not have to pay tuition fees as part of their compulsory education.
The points in their wristbands were not tradable with one another either, and the number of points they received each month was related to their performance.
There was no collective punishment system in place, and the points earned by each class would be differentiated according to their performance. In the future, however, interclass competitions would be held, which would then be linked to group results.
A student with poor academic performance and poor Practice results would receive fewer points. Hence, students would have to continue to work hard, unless they had other connections, or would otherwise have to apply for withdrawal.
At the school, the influence of external power and wealth was suppressed to the minimum, and it would not affect the students.
The only way for students to live well in school and have sufficient money to use was to be motivated and work hard.
Moreover, with communal living, it was more convenient to manage as well as to cultivate a sense of collective pride, and national education in such a closed environment could also be more effective.
That was what the nation hoped to achieve.
For Ren Suo, however, the biggest significance of the wristband was that he would now have to be on standby for 24 hours.
While he had ample free time and usually did not need to be on duty at the school hospital as an “emergency resuscitation medic”, he had to rush to the rescue immediately, even if he was in the shower, if any emergency happened.
The wristband had the ability to detect the wearer’s life status. If the wearer suddenly fell into a critical state, Ren Suo’s wristband would automatically sound. It would even plan the shortest route for him to reach the patient most quickly.
Ren Suo was usually not busy, but in the future, upon the opening of the combat training area, he would have to watch at the sidelines while the students were training.
But that was a worry for the future. After all, the Practitioner Institution was still in the initial stages of establishment, and the combat training area was only built for future use. According to Zhao Huo’s teaching plan, it would only be half a year later when the students would begin to acquire their own combat techniques.
After all, the students still had to keep with cultural lessons, while gradually being in contact with Reiki to form a strong foundation. Naturally, unlike civil servants, they would not be put through rushed and superficial training.
It was up to the nation to arrange for real-life combat training to be conducted, in order to reduce the likelihood of injuries and deaths. After all, not all Practitioner Institutions had such an “emergency resuscitation doctor” like Ren Suo, so… there was still a long way to go, although the job was important.
Xuan Nation was also still in the early experimental stages with regard to the rejuvenation of Reiki; it was a new concept to any power.
Ren Suo got out of bed and went to the dining hall for a hearty breakfast. Like the students, he also paid for his meal with the points in his wristband, but the points were fixed every month and would not change.
Those points were purely given benefits and had nothing to do with his salary. They were akin to the nation covering their food and clothing expenses. Even if Ren Suo finished spending all of the given points, he could continue to overdraw the points—but that would be equivalent to deducting money from his monthly salary, until all of his salary was deducted.
The dining hall provided by the school was very good. It had three floors, and the higher the level, the higher the class the food options were. With the points Ren Suo had in his wristband, he could still afford to eat every meal on the third floor.
In the dining room, Ren Suo also saw a girl having breakfast not far away.
She ate very slowly, chewing the food slowly in her mouth. She was short and thin, with short hair and a beauty mole on the lower-left corner of her eyes. She looked special.
She was a training instructor like Zhao Huo. Ren Suo vaguely remembered that her surname was Dong, but he could not remember her name.
He could remember her last name only because it was relatively rare for people to have the surname Dong.
The girl was not a holder of a key, and Ren Suo was not a willful idiot, so there was no reason for him to be close to her. Ren Suo quickly finished his meal and went back home to continue playing the game.
In the “All-Devouring Soul”, the red fox had remained in London for three full days. The red fox either played with cats while absorbing Reiki from antiques all day, as if living the life of a saint.
Although the abilities of the red fox were powerful, they did not make humans completely lose their minds—the abilities could not be used on humans who lost their minds.
Compared with floor tiles and lamp holders, the antiques contained more Reiki, but could be absorbed faster. Hence, the red fox would hug the antiques for more than ten hours and then return them. It looked like the red fox was “appreciating” the antique, and there was no material loss.
That was why those young, handsome lads and middle-aged uncles, who had their judgment completely clouded by their raging hormones, were willing to risk everything to search for antiques, in exchange for happy laughter from their “goddess”.
Several antique collectors also followed them back, wondering what goddess could make those handsome lads lose their cool.
When they saw the red fox, they also turned into seals acquiring an SSR, and then proceeded to invite the red fox to their antique preservation room to appreciate them.
Over the past few days, Red Fox had also undergone 13 evolutions. With more evolutions, the evolution requirement increased, and now, the evolution points of red fox would barely increase if it was not absorbing Reiki from antiques.
It was only then when Ren Suo started to understand the correct strategy to conquer the game.
In fact, he should start absorbing Reiki of various old objects, then slowly progress on to jade objects, art, and then further progress to antique art. Finally, he would then progress to absorbing Reiki from Reiki Treasures…
Ren Suo suspected that the number of evolutions rewarded from activating the Reiki Treasures was probably constant, so if he obtained it at a lower level, he would only use up his maximum potential in advance.
That was because the upper limit of the strength of evolutionary abilities would become higher and higher, just like the experience points in the game.
Now that the red fox had been raised to a sufficiently high level, returning to smaller targets would naturally not have much effect, unless the quantity was sufficiently large.
However, Ren Suo did not regret it too much either. After all, it was not possible for him to activate all 12 Reiki Treasures in the present save file. As long as he reaped the rewards from the activation of the 12 Reiki Treasures, it was not a big problem skipping the other smaller targets.
The red fox played in London for another day, and finally, there was news from the pangolin’s side.
Lao Zhao said, “We have already found another country who is willing to pay the price you need to ignite the Reiki source in their country.”
“Our internal departments have confirmed that with the country’s land area and population size, there should be Reiki sources in the country.”
“Of course, as this country is not far from Xuan Nation, igniting their Reiki source will also be an extremely good observation opportunity for Xuan Nation.”
“However, they have one request. Or perhaps, I should say that his request is the same as that which all the other nations that we spoke to mentioned,” Lao Zhao said.
The pangolin asked, “What is, the request?”
Lao Zhao said, “They wish to witness the envoy from the Heavenly Palace, and it would be even better if… the envoy from the Heavenly Palace would appear in a grand and pompous manner!”