In the small single room, Liu Zhi, Bai Juntang, and Xia Zhaoxue sat facing each other.
Liu Zhi frowned and looked at the girl in front of him,
Xia Zhaoxue looked stubborn.
"I should have made it clear to you what I needed to say before, right?" Liu Zhi seemed unhappy, rubbing his temples with his index fingers, and a circle of panda eyes appeared on his eye sockets.
I don’t know how long I stayed up late.
"Your abilities cannot be used unlimitedly, and neither can anyone. You can use your abilities to a limited extent to strengthen yourself, but don't have too much contact with your 'self-ability'."
"For now, no one can understand the process of Laplace's demonization. Every time you use your ability, it means you are one step closer to demonization."
"It's good to have the spirit of dedication to the country, but many times not causing trouble to the organization is equivalent to helping. If you really want to help, you should first learn the mysteries that can be used with pure ingenuity."
"As long as there are no shortage of extraordinarys in our Jinmen team and the number of personnel is not exceeded, no one will force you to join the official team. Now you just need to quietly be your reserve team member and wait for the call from the headquarters, okay?
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As he spoke, Liu Zhi couldn't help but feel a little angry in his tone.
Then he immediately suppressed it.
My head hurts more and more.
I obviously do it for their own good, so why don't I understand?
Liu Zhi thought with a depressed look.
He felt that he explained it clearly.
When I regained some sense, my heart felt stagnant again.
Even simple things like this start to make me angry.
Has the demonization deepened again...
Bai Juntang seemed to notice his discomfort and stood up to pour him a glass of water.
Liu Zhi nodded towards her, took out a small blue bottle about the length of his thumb from his arms, unscrewed the cap and drank, then poured water into his mouth, and finally put the small empty bottle into his arms.
Xia Zhaoxue still looked at him calmly.
"What is this medicine?"
"You will also receive it in the future."
Liu Zhi's voice was much calmer than the previous minute, seeming a little cold.
“Applying the sanity drug: Calm down.”
"After you officially awaken your ability, you will conduct a demonization check once a week. Depending on the value, you will get different amounts of medicine. Remember to drink it on time in the future."
Xia Zhaoxue frowned: "Since we have to drink this kind of thing after awakening our abilities, why are you still urging us to awaken our abilities?"
Liu Zhi glanced at her and said calmly: "It's not that you won't be able to demonize before you awaken your ability, but the spiritual function level is too low and the demonization reaction is not obvious and cannot be detected."
"And as long as the inspiration is awakened, even if no one intervenes, the awakened ones will complete their ability awakening within an irregular period of three months to six months, so there is no point in hindering them."
"The reason why I ask you to awaken your abilities as soon as possible is to better protect the newcomers."
"For an awakened person, the safest period is not before awakening his ability, but the first period after awakening his ability."
"According to the data, the degree of demonization is below 5%."
Although Xia Zhaoxue didn't quite understand, she still suppressed her temper and listened hard.
According to Liu Zhi, after each awakened person acquires abilities, he will begin to evolve towards a hypothetical existence called the 'Laplace Demon'.
Laplace's demon is a scientific hypothesis proposed by French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1814.
This monster knows the exact position and momentum of every atom in the universe and can use Newton's laws to show the entire process of cosmic events, the past and the future.
According to Liu Zhi, the Laplace Demon in their mouth is just a false name used to describe the omniscience that the awakened person may obtain after being completely demonized.
This process is simply called "demonization" by them.
Normally, demonization starts after awakening the ability. If the ability is not awakened, the demonization degree may be greatly increased when encountering a 'half-demon' with a higher degree of demonization.
Because of this, the two awakened people in front of them both have an extremely contradictory attitude towards 'ability'.
‘Ability’ represents ‘self’.
But after awakening the 'ability', you cannot squander it as you like, but must exercise maximum restraint. Each additional use of your ability represents a step forward on the road to demonization.
Xia Zhaoxue didn't quite understand why the demonization of Laplace made the two people in front of her become so talkative. However, when she continued to ask, Liu Zhi refused her request to learn more about the demon of Laplace due to permission reasons.
Xia Zhaoxue hesitated for a while: "In other words, unless something happens to one of you two, can we reserve players come on as substitutes?"
Liu Zhi shook his head: "Not necessarily, most of the time it requires direct adjustment from the headquarters. You just need to live with peace of mind, work hard to control yourself not to use your abilities, and then wait for the progress of scientific research."
"Of course, if it's an emergency, there's nothing we can do."
Xia Zhaoxue was still a little unwilling to give up. After asking several questions back and forth several times, she finally gave up the idea of joining the official team in advance.
After she left, Bai Juntang leaned against the wall and asked Liu Zhi with a smile: "Captain, you said that among the pension reserve team members we forcibly recruited according to that routine process, there is really a little stubborn donkey."
Liu Zhi looked back at her: "Why, are you envious?"
Bai Juntang smiled and shook his head: "How is it possible? The pension is much less than the official salary."
Liu Zhi slumped on the armchair: "Yes, you have to pay for it with your life."
Bai Juntang was still cheerful: "It's good. The house we live in now and the car we drive are something I couldn't even imagine before."
"A first- and second-stage chick like us can be cultivated by just recruiting a few senior care residents with qualified backgrounds..."
"Okay."
Liu Zhi suddenly interrupted her and said in a calm voice: "Your [heart item] is 'cheerful', right? You should also be careful to suppress your optimistic emotions."
Bai Juntang paused and suddenly fell silent.
What a robot-like day.
Liu Zhi turned around silently.
The atmosphere between the two was a bit strange.
The pension reserve team members that Bai Juntang just mentioned are ordinary reserve team members who are brought in regardless of personnel quality or means.
Most of these preparatory members, let alone participating in battles, did not even have to go to work after awakening their abilities, and received subsidies from the state to live out their retirement days in advance.
So when Liu Zhi and Bai Juntang recruited people like Han Baiyi, they also recruited them from the original pension households.
As for picking and choosing, that is absolutely impossible.
Because absorbing all the known awakened people is a fatal task issued by the country
In this case, let alone tricks and deception, even intimidation and coercion are among the methods that can be adopted.
The main reason why the country absorbs them is to collect big data, maintain the stability of the general environment, and increase the number of its own people and the number of enemies.
As for using some civilians with different experiences, unknown character, and different moral standards as cannon fodder?
Impossible.
The country has never thought of relying on individualized ordinary people to solve social problems.
Unless all the people in state agencies are dead.
This can be seen from the fact that Liu Zhi has been in office for more than two years, and there is only one awakened person under his team, Bai Juntang.
Moreover, due to the influence of Laplace's demonization, even team members who have undergone formal training may not be reliable, let alone ordinary people trained in a short period of time.
Bai Juntang didn't say much after hearing Liu Zhi's words, but just looked at him deeply.
"Captain, are you almost reaching the first limit?"