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Chapter 191. The Social Formation of Talent

After listening to Zhang Qiuyue's entire story, Jiang Jianxin first noticed the police station she mentioned.

As the apocalypse approached, she was also taken to a police station, where the police showed her a talent ranking list.

Previously, I only felt that all these actions were deliberate, like a part of a scheme by a wise strategist.

Looking back now, Jiang Jianxin has come to realize something even deeper.

—The pre-apocalyptic police station of the Great Rong Republic clearly had close ties with the television station, and the entire military might even be its henchmen.

At the time, she was just a naive college student, unaware of the undercurrents swirling beneath the murky waters.

After struggling in the world of talent for more than half a year, Jiang Jianxin finally saw the truth of the situation.

The War Alliance not only fully utilizes the Peace Forum but also mandates account registration for its members. This unusual move undoubtedly reveals its close ties with the television station.

The turning point in Zhang Qiuyue's fate, in the final analysis, was nothing more than that phone call to the police station.

It was this phone call that brought her to the attention of the television station, and she was eventually secretly transferred to the War Alliance, which desperately needed manpower, as fresh blood, thus beginning a dramatic change in her life.

As a colossal entity standing atop the pinnacle of light, television stations have long since penetrated into every crevice of life.

In the years leading up to the apocalypse, all supernatural forces were isolated from ordinary society, except for the television station, which was closely intertwined with the secular military system—this abnormal symbiotic relationship precisely demonstrates the organization's terrifying nature.

It's like an invisible shadow, silently looming over the heads of every gifted individual.

Since entering the apocalypse, Jiang Jianxin has not seen what the television station looks like, but its oppressive atmosphere is pervasive, making her feel suffocated once again.

Jiang Jianxin frowned slightly, no longer thinking about this overly prominent force, and instead asked Zhang Qiuyue some lighthearted questions:

"How are you doing at the Binhai Talent Academy? Are your classmates relatively friendly to you?"

Jiang Jianxin couldn't help but feel a bit curious when he first met an ordinary person from the Talent Society.

Speaking of her classmates at Binhai Talent Academy, Zhang Qiuyue couldn't help but smile. It was a smile of genuine joy and sweetness, as if she were recalling a beautiful past:

"To be honest, I prefer a society based on talent to the ordinary society I lived in before."

"Oh?"

Jiang Jianxin looked at her.

“Sir, you grew up in a privileged society and may not know the situation in ordinary society.”

Zhang Qiuyue didn't know Jiang Jianxin's past, only that she was very strong, so she subconsciously assumed that Jiang Jianxin was a local from the Talent Realm. At this moment, she smiled wryly and said to Jiang Jianxin:
“There is always gender discrimination in ordinary society. For example, my father called me a good-for-nothing every day... But isn’t that an insulting prejudice in itself?”

Jiang Jianxin nodded silently, listening to Zhang Qiuyue continue:

"But the society of talent has no such prejudice. Here, strength is paramount. No one cares whether you are male or female. They only care about your faction and rank. And there are no restrictions. It is really free."

Zhang Qiuyue recalled the time when she first entered Binhai Talent Academy, and everything that happened during that period was enough to overturn her worldview.

At that time, she entered the school as an ordinary person. After the academy sent someone to give her a brief introduction to the world of talents, she was assigned to Class 3 of Deception, but her special status was not emphasized to her classmates. Zhang Qiuyue originally thought that she would be discriminated against on the first day, but to her surprise, during the self-introductions, all 32 deceptionists in the class introduced themselves, representing three factions, six sequences, and 72 genders—a whole class of deceptionists who knew each other well, yet not a single person said that they were a deceptionist.

When she honestly finished recounting her ordinary life story, she received enthusiastic applause from the whole class.

The professional fraud teacher from the criminal underworld looked at her with sparkling eyes, like looking at a sect's prized disciple—everyone else was making up stories about being from a different order, but she was unique in saying that she was an ordinary person.

And so, Zhang Qiuyue began her studies in Class 3 of Fraud, completely bewildered.

Binhai Talent Academy requires a midterm physical test. Zhang Qiuyue originally thought that the test would be divided into male and female based on gender, but she did not expect that they would divide the test into war and fraud based on faction sequence.

Once the signal gun is fired, the male and female con artists run together, competing to see who has the fastest route and the strongest abilities.

The war faction doesn't run; their physical fitness test is through direct combat.

Zhang Qiuyue had watched the men and women fight in the ring, their blows ruthless and brutal, with no room for leniency towards the opposite sex, only a thirst for victory.

Most importantly, they didn't see anything wrong with men and women fighting each other.

High-level wars will crush low-level wars one after another. After a physical test, they will give the victors various titles with "King" or "Emperor" in them, but they will not specifically indicate the gender in front of them.

The air here is completely free; no one dictates what girls should do or boys should do—only people talk about what war should do and what chaos should do.

The population is divided into three categories based on their faction, and these categories are gender-equal, with the strength of talent and the effectiveness of the pathways determining their ranking.

Zhang Qiuyue lives in an ordinary society and is seeing what a society where meritocracy is the first time she has witnessed it.

The people living here are dissatisfied with the factional biases and discrimination based on means in society, feeling that the chaotic world always favors the prodigies of the warring faction.

However, Zhang Qiuyue discovered that everything here was fair except for the difference in strength.

Nowhere else has reshaped her worldview in just four years like the Seaside Talent Academy.

She realized that women can do a lot, and that men and women should have equal opportunities.

Zhang Qiuyue used to be quiet and didn't like to talk, because she knew that if she was too naughty, people would say she was a crazy girl who would never get married.

But the female warriors here, so energetic and resilient like monkeys, simply asked her with a puzzled look:

"Isn't it only when the weak marries the strong that it's considered a marriage?"

None of the members of the war faction at Binhai Talent Academy were weak. They couldn't understand the plight of ordinary girls and only felt that Zhang Qiuyue was full of strange ideas.

This was the first time Zhang Qiuyue had ever met such a group of girls who lived in the same world but were so different because of their different social environments—they were proud, bright, and shone brightly in their own camp.

The history of the gifted is willing to write legends for them, and no one will deliberately obscure their brilliance.

Here you'll find female strategists who plan meticulously and leave no stone unturned, as well as female rulers who raise their banners to conquer new territories.

All the gifted individuals took this for granted, as if the world was always like this—there was no distinction between genders, everything should be a law of the jungle, and the strong should be respected.