This time I chose Paladin.

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 job roles in the new world are complex, and many jobs have similar functions. However, sometimes these jobs differ in terms of energy attributes, manifestations, etc., and thus they are given different names. For example, there are actually quite a few jobs with stealth abilities, but whether there are conditions for stealth, what those conditions are, whether one can move while stealthed, how long one can move while stealthed, whether one can move continuously, whether one can stealth continuously, and whether attacking or being attacked while stealthed will forcibly reveal one's identity—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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　　I am fed up with the content being deleted and changed...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)