Lu Ning's choice was the same as always.
"Obligation, I want to know first what exactly it takes to join this organization."
"You have to understand that things after a turning point are often more important than before...so this will invisibly increase the status of welfare in your heart." Li Mingdeng reminded.
"I can weigh things up."
"Well, first of all, join Rosicrucian. As I said before, you will become our backbone. This does not only refer to the aspect of combat effectiveness. If you need it, through the recognition and recommendation of some members, You will get a management and operation position like mine. In other words, members of Rosicrucian must always maintain their own qualifications confirmed by the organization, including world knowledge, tactics, scene experience, force, and distribution center organization categories. Each member must regularly accept Qualification check to confirm that our legion can still be called a 'legion' even when alone."
Lu Ning nodded.
"Of course there are also a large number of non-service members in Rosicrucian, and you have the right to choose. The second obligation that everyone must fulfill is to turn in points after each scene. For the second level, soul healing will be deducted, and any points exceeding 3,000 points will be deducted. For the part, we will charge 7% of the points of the Silver Star Club and 9% of the points of the Rosicrucian Club as membership fees."
"Taxation?" Lu Ning easily understood the meaning of this entry.
"If you think of our organization as a country, you can think of it this way. At the third level, this ratio will increase to 11% of Silver Star members and 15% of Rosicrucians."
"Will the high-end continue to improve and the gap widen?"
"Yes, although the ratio sounds high, in terms of second-level income, even if you complete each scene with full marks and no soul pollution, the points you need to pay after completing each scene are only 630."
This once expensive amount is no longer considered a sky-high price in Lu Ning's eyes now, and it cannot even cure 1% of soul pollution.
"Why?"
"If you can understand it as tax, then it is easy to understand this." Li Mingdeng laughed, "The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. For high-end tourists, points are no longer important after all the tests of survival. Now, people in the first level will worry about the registration fee of 5,000, but even a newcomer who has just reached the fifth level still has the savings to challenge the return scene more than five times. This is the difference."
"Then I can ask you what you need to pay for the fifth level..."
"Fifth-level Rosicrucian members need to pay 32%. As for the core organization, I don't know much about it. I can only say that nearly half of the points will be charged to the organization's public account. In addition, there is no Silver Star in the fifth-level members.”
"Because everyone who can reach that level has been promoted." Lu Ning followed up quickly this time.
"That's right."
“Will everyone accept such a high ratio?”
"This was formulated by the founders of the fourth and fifth levels. Just like you now, if you don't accept it, you can choose not to join our organization." Li Mingdeng smiled, "This kind of thing is not worth wasting so much time. I think you are more concerned about the third obligation - orders."
That's right, putting everything aside, Lu Ning is concerned about whether his development will be hindered by the core of an organization.
"When you join the Legion of Rosicrucian, you will get the first right to choose. We know very well that the rules of the distribution center will make it impossible to fight a war even like an ancient war, so large-scale militarized unified training is here There is no practicality at all. Instead, there is a personalized development path. Believe me, Lu Ning, I have seen more than a hundred people with questions like yours, and there are three legions specially prepared for this type of people. They are the Hornets, Sea Serpents and Pteranodons, simply put, they are elite assassin team units, special combat lone action units, and all-round adaptive decapitation units.”
After hearing this, Lu Ning realized that she didn't know enough about many things.
She has never had a detailed understanding of how a large-scale orderly organization operates. The power pyramid-type organizational structure constructed based on her imagination is actually rare in distribution centers. Even if she only got a glimpse of it from Li Mingdeng's words, she suddenly realized what a behemoth the Silver Star Society, Rosicrucian, and the entire core organization were.
"I won't reveal too much now. All the orders you receive will come from one to three dispatch officers directly under you, and they have strict hierarchies. There will never be two dispatch officers of the same level becoming yours. This is the case with superiors. You only need to strictly follow the order of hierarchy priority. Once an order is questioned, you also have an appeal channel belonging to your legion. This channel will ensure that the appeal information is directly delivered to someone in the fifth-level core organization. in the hands of a member. But remember, just as dispatch orders are not too frequent, your opportunities for appeal are not infinite."
"The cycle is about..."
"The average dispatch cycle is about once every six months in the distribution center." Li Mingdeng immediately gave a detailed answer, "And in one year at the distribution center, second-level members have three appeal opportunities, which is enough."
"Understood, next... benefits, I think this is what you want to say most, right?" Lu Ning smiled.
Li Mingdeng nodded proudly: "We have the best environment among all large organizations."
"After second-level members join Rosicrucian, they will receive two months of combat tactics training, two months of pan-world knowledge cultivation, and two months of special skills training opportunities. You can apply to the organization at any time, and you can even Time splitting is also possible. All training funds are paid by the organization, which corresponds to the first obligation, ensuring that every member has the welfare conditions provided by the literacy required by the organization."
Lu Ning, who had participated in extremely expensive training, certainly knew what the price was. In comparison, the points paid by Level 2 every time he passed the scene could be said to be an instant repayment.
"Second, Rosicrucian members will obtain the same level of authority in the organization's archives, and there are more than 10 billion detailed records of scenes below the second level. Although the distribution center will never reuse scenes that have appeared, the past data still has Very high reference value. At the same time, you can also apply three times for direct guidance from a first-level member higher than yourself, and you can choose the other party, but if you choose a member who is too hot, you may have to queue up." Li Mingdeng said Here, I remembered something interesting, "Several members of the core organization almost changed this rule because of this."
Lu Ning also laughed.
"And third, action subsidy. In response to some special command requirements, compensation will be given accordingly. Since points cannot be transferred directly, the organization will provide some material compensation. There is a list of about a hundred pages, waiting for you to join. See. In addition, I won’t tell you in detail about basic benefits such as free psychological counseling, comrade application, promotion planning, promotion team formation, development suggestions, and death compensation. I can give you an explanation. "
"I can only say that even if I understand the meaning of the turning point, I am moved now." Lu Ning took the instruction booklet from Li Mingdeng's hand, and her previous worries disappeared.
"Then I have lived up to my responsibility of sitting here." Li Mingdeng poured Lu Ning new tea.
"I thought this was a place where everyone was a lone traveler on a road home."
"That's true." Li Mingdeng nodded, "But when humans gather together and given a certain amount of time, they will form a civilization, and even this place is no exception."
"Your civilization is leaping a little too fast."
"That's because you are babies born in this new civilization, and the people who built it all walked through the ruins left by the previous era." Li Mingdeng stood up and drank all the tea in the cup. " When you grow up, you may be interested in learning about the past, but for now you should focus on your own path. If you agree to join, there is a certification form for you on the title page of the instruction booklet. Take that to the information center to sign Confirm and you will become a member of Rosicrucian.”
"Don't I need to see you again?"
"We belong to different departments. If we leave here today, we will only be friends from now on." Li Mingdeng smiled.
"One last question, are you a third-level person?" Lu Ning also stood up.
"yes."
"What's the scene like there?"
Li Mingdeng was silent.
"I can't think of a reason why a member of the Third Order would want to stay in the Second Order to do this."
"dusk."
"What?"
"That is the most beautiful dusk scene before everything falls into the abyss."
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Lu Ning returned to her residence, filled with smoke, and for a moment she really felt like she was home. Shu Xingruo and Fujii Xueyin were cooking food that smelled comforting while talking and laughing, but Ning Yeyi was still in the scene and had not returned.
"Lu Ning?" Shu Xingruo brought a casserole to the yard and happened to see Lu Ning entering the door.
"Ah... long time no see."
The sense of time dislocation made Lu Ning a little hesitant. Less than a month had passed for her in the scene, but it seemed like half a year had passed, while here it was only seven days, and Fujii Yukine was just about to leave tomorrow.
"Just in time, we can send Xueyin to the information center tomorrow and see how her mission goes." Shu Xingruo greeted the room with a smile. Soon, Fujii Yukine also walked outside the house carrying two plates of pastries.
"It's the happiest thing to see you come back safely." She was still a little reserved, but her smile was still so warm, "Eat something, we specially made some fresh things."
The two of them coincidentally did not ask Lu Ning what happened in the scene.
While eating, Lu Ning couldn't help but ask this question.
"Aren't you curious about what I went through?"
"I can tell." Shu Xingruo said.
"I can feel it." These are the words of Fujii Yukine.
Lu Ning choked.
"We have known each other for a long time, Lu Ning. You are more relaxed here and will not deliberately control your expression." Shu Xingruo explained, "Although it doesn't look like much on the outside, I can feel that you feel a little more... …a sense of vicissitudes of life, or introversion.”
"What does that feel like?"
"Generally speaking, it makes people feel very different from when they left. It's not like someone coming back after a long trip, but like... someone who has returned to ordinary life after experiencing some accident or major historical event. The First Order actually feels the same way, but the difference is not too big." Fujii Yukine said, "So if you are willing to talk, we will listen, but if you don't ask, we'd better not ask."
These two people really take care of other people's emotions.
"It's not that serious. It's just that things were too dense and the death was too sudden." Lu Ning stared at the hot pot in the middle of the table. Blue flames were dancing in the traditional alcohol stove, much like someone who was dancing. A reliable companion without losing anything.
"We will lose more." Fujii Yukine said.
"Yeah." Lu Ning nodded.
"As long as we keep getting to know people, we will always encounter situations like this. Lu Ning, I lost my best friend and the only fellow countryman I know in this world." Shu Xingruo gently rotated the white porcelain cup in his hand, "When you realize that no one will ever walk back with you on that road again, that terrible loneliness will almost drive you crazy. I really can't imagine how you can live in this state in the first place. Come down."
"Rely on missing me."
"Time will wear away the memory, and everything will no longer be the same as it was before. Even when the person you miss can't remember it, what can you rely on?" Shu Xingruo sighed, "I may have just realized this. We still have friends like you, but sooner or later we will drift further apart.”
"Then... just rely on growth." Lu Ning raised her head, looked at the bright Milky Way and the gorgeous aurora in the sky, and slowly leaned back on the chair.
"growing up?"
"In this scene, I took on the identity of a person. That person is a complete evil person, the kind of person who doesn't respect life and takes pleasure in causing pain indiscriminately."
Lu Ning recalled the time when she boarded the train and completely separated from Lu Ying.
"You are not someone who will cry when I push you, so I am not interested in you. It's just that sometimes you always worry about some meaningless things."
Seeing the completely different expression on his face was a new experience for Lu Ning.
Lu Ying glanced at the train.
"It seems your journey is going to continue? Then become stronger."
"Becoming stronger? What do you want to say? Everything I win is yours."
"Except for experience." Lu Ying crossed her arms and looked unhappy, "Did you know? The first person I bullied was a little bully who used to bully the whole class because of his physical strength."
"So you want to say you did the right thing?"
"Hahaha! I want to tell you - I don't bully others because I am strong, but I am strong because I bully others. I like that you are willing to show your fangs to enemies who are obviously stronger than you. That’s why I’m here to give you a reminder.”
"I don't want this kind of like."
"What does that have to do with you?" Lu Ying turned around and waved her arm casually, "Farewell, Lu Ning. If you don't plan to become a strong man, then prepare to die. When someone like you dies, at least one of you Isn’t it quite romantic to treat the world as a tomb?”
