Chapter 1: Soaring...Half of soaring?
"Look, look, look, that girl with the ponytail is Ge Bai. She is the highest among all the spiritual consciousness development tests today. I have reliable sources. This year, about 10% of the city's spiritual consciousness development, including her, there are only 7 people. .”
"9.9%! What kind of monster is this? I heard that she is still an orphan. I am only 2.5%. My father is afraid that he will beat me to death."
"She must have broken through 10% before the high school entrance examination. I'm so envious."
Gebai had just completed his spiritual consciousness development test, and the test instrument clearly showed 9.9%, which shocked everyone present.
According to the Basic Law of the Interstellar Federation, all teenagers aged 15-16 need to take a unified spiritual development test before taking the high school entrance examination.
This is also the earliest time that existing technology can test the development of spiritual consciousness.
This year, more than 110,000 students have been tested in 15 districts of Beijing and Hong Kong, and Ge Bai is undoubtedly the best among them.
As for the meditation method for developing spiritual consciousness, the Interstellar Federation made it available to the public 172 years ago and is part of nine-year compulsory education for teenagers.
Thanks to this, Gebai, who grew up in a social welfare institution, had the opportunity to develop spiritual consciousness through his own efforts.
"Hey, don't be too happy. Maybe when the affinity value of spiritual creatures is tested for the second time, she doesn't have the affinity attribute of pet beasts. So it's useless no matter how high the spiritual awareness is developed."
"How is it possible? Have you ever seen a person who independently developed 10% spiritual consciousness without the affinity attribute of pet animals!"
Gebai removed the connection cable of the test instrument and walked out to himself. There were envious and exclamatory voices and jealous sarcastic remarks around her, but she didn't take it seriously.
It is already 11 o'clock in the morning, and it is her turn to be on duty today. She has to go back to the Blue Star Welfare Institute to help Teacher Xiaolu make lunch.
This year is already the sixteenth year since Gobai came to this world.
In his previous life, after working continuously for more than 30 hours, Gebai died suddenly in a cubicle in an office building.
When she regained consciousness, she became a swaddled baby at the entrance of Blue Star Welfare Home.
He thought he could easily live again with the memory of his previous life, but he found that this world was completely different from the earth!
221 years ago, under the influence of galactic beta rays from the ancient blue star, animals and plants around the world began to mutate, and the intelligence and physical strength of animals and plants skyrocketed.
Some extraordinary species also evolved incredible skills and became highly aggressive towards cities and villages. For a time, human society fell into chaos.
After more than 20 years of resistance and research, Chinese scientists took the lead in exploring the path of a beast master to stably control spiritual beasts, and made it public to the whole society.
Spiritual consciousness can be developed through meditation. For every 5% improvement in spiritual consciousness development, one can contract with a spiritual beast, making it a pet beast and bringing the pet beast into the spiritual consciousness space.
Through the cultivation and education of pet beasts, the evolution of pet beasts is promoted and they grow into war beasts.
Relying on beast masters and war beasts, humans have gradually quelled the disasters caused by global changes, and have gradually expanded into the interstellar space. Currently, they have occupied and developed 5 planets that can support human life.
After more than a hundred years of development, beast masters are not only the main force of the interstellar team, but have also become indispensable in all aspects of modern social life.
Construction, logistics, etc. Without the help of pet animals, humans would simply be unable to move forward.
But not everyone can become a beast master.
Contracting with a spirit beast requires two initial conditions. One is that the development of spiritual consciousness reaches 5%. Most ordinary people will only develop their spiritual consciousness to 15%-18% throughout their lives.
There are also a small number of people who, no matter how hard they try, cannot develop their spiritual consciousness beyond 5%.
In addition, contracted spirit beasts also need to have pet animal affinity attributes. Researchers divide affinity attributes into six levels: extremely low, not up to standard, up to standard, good, excellent, and extremely high.
Only those who meet the standard can make a contract with a spirit beast, otherwise the spirit beast will be extremely resistant, causing the contract to fail.
According to statistics, the number of people with animal affinity attributes and above barely accounts for half of the total population.
Fortunately, 72 years ago, the Interstellar Federation Spiritual Plant Research Center made a huge breakthrough and found some spiritual plants that can contract with humans.
When the development level of spiritual consciousness reaches 2%, you can contract with a spiritual planter and become a spiritual planter.
Most of the contractable spiritual plants are fruit trees and grains, which provide assistance to pet beasts.
Although the current degree of compatibility between spiritual plants and humans and the degree of human cultivation of spiritual plants are far inferior to those of the beast control system, it has also given many people the opportunity to improve their lives.
Coincidentally, most people who do not have affinity with pet animals have affinity with spiritual plants.
Gobai was not too worried about the self-affinity property test at this time.
Indeed, as the passerby just said, the more developed a person's independent spiritual consciousness is, the higher the chance of having a high pet animal affinity attribute.
In this era, being able to contract a pet beast and become a beast master is everyone's pursuit.
As for the spiritual planter, those are far worse choices than the beast master.
After walking out of the test building, Gebai passed by the falcon parking spot and looked at the tall and handsome falcons standing neatly in the planned parking area on the roadside.
The pilots wearing helmets and uniforms gathered around the peregrine falcons to solicit customers, and from time to time they would comb their feathers. The big bird, which was much taller than a human, would lower its head to get intimate. Rub the driver.
"Little girl, today 'Eagle Drop' is giving away exclusive coupons for students, and you can get a half-price discount on our Eagle Drop." The driver looked at Ge Bai like a student and hurriedly stepped forward to recruit him.
This peregrine falcon with brown background and black feathers also flapped its wings in cooperation and raised its head high, showing Gebai a toned side neck profile.
Gebai felt itchy when he saw it, and thought to himself: "Why don't I choose a large bird for my first pet animal contract? It's so handsome."
After thinking about it, Gebai touched his pocket and shook his head firmly.
Taking the Peregrine Falcon back to the Blue Star Welfare Home requires 12 Union Coins, even if you have a half-price coupon. Taking the bus back only costs 1 Union Coin.
The alliance's floating electric bus is actually not slow. Now I can take the bus back home and help Teacher Xiaolu cook without delay.
"Abi, Abi." As soon as Ge Bai walked to the door of Blue Star Welfare Home, he saw Comilla lying on the eucalyptus tree in the home, waving her right paw at him.
Ge Bai quickly quickened his pace, walked under the eucalyptus tree, opened his arms, "Bibi, are you waiting for me?"
The chubby gray-haired comilla, which was only as tall as an adult's thigh, slowly climbed down from the tree trunk. Halfway through the climb, Gobai couldn't wait any longer and pulled him into his arms.
Comila didn't resist, she hugged Gebai's neck and rested her head on Gebai's shoulder, shouting Abiabi.
"Eat less eucalyptus leaves. If you eat too much, you will become stupid easily!"
"Abby! Abby!"
"It's delicious, but you should eat less. I'll bring you the dream fruit when I come back in the evening. It's not as delicious as eucalyptus leaves."
"Abby."
This comilla named Bibi is Teacher Xiaolu’s pet beast. Although its evolution level is only level 2, which is far from the standard of a war beast, it has a gentle nature and can take good care of the little furry animals in the orphanage.
Gebai and Bibi almost grew up together.
Holding Comilla in his arms, Gebai walked straight to the kitchen, where Teacher Xiaolu and two other aunts were busy.
"Back in vain?"
"Are the test results good?"
Gebai greeted the aunts with a smile, went to sit down next to Teacher Xiaolu, and helped her pick vegetables. Everyone was even happier after hearing the results of Gebai's spiritual consciousness development test.
"Stop working so hard, go and have a rest. I have to go to the institute in the afternoon to test the affinity attribute." Teacher Xiaolu was only in his early 30s, not tall, and looked particularly gentle.
She is the daughter of the old director of the Blue Star Welfare Home. The old director passed away a few years ago, and it was she who single-handedly supported the Blue Star Welfare Home.
"It's okay, it's not like taking a break will increase your affinity attribute." Gebai shook his head and kept moving his hands.
She could still clearly remember 16 years ago, when the teenage teacher Xiaolu carried her in as a baby from the door.
At that time, Teacher Xiaolu was in a hurry making milk powder, but she still raised her little by little, like a mother and a sister.
Teacher Xiaolu didn’t insist. He shook the water on his hand and tapped Gebai’s forehead, “You are the only one who has the most sense.”
"Are Wu Dami and Liu Hao back? What are their test results?"
"I came back an hour earlier than you. Rice is 5.7% and Haohao is 6.2%. At this time, the two of them should be in the activity room checking the homework of the little guys."
There are only three of them among the third grade students in Blue Star Welfare Home this year. Hearing this result, Ge Bai paused his hand movements, but did not make a sound.
Teacher Xiaolu understood what she wanted to ask and said gently: "They just told me that they have already thought about it. After testing the affinity attribute in the afternoon, it doesn't matter whether it is affinity with the spirit beast or the affinity with the spirit plant."
"I won't go to high school full-time. I will apply for a loan tomorrow, choose a contract partner, submit a resume, find a job, and go to night school. I will be able to support myself. They are all good kids."
This is the cruelty of this era.
There are only 9 years of federal compulsory education, and the high school stage is divided into full-time high school and part-time night school.
Every junior high school student faces major life choices.
Although in theory, as long as you can contract with spiritual beasts and spiritual plants, you are eligible to enroll in full-time high school.
However, not every family can afford the high high school tuition and the cost of purchasing and cultivating spiritual animals and plants.
Therefore, many children from poor family backgrounds, as well as orphans in orphanages like Ge Bai and others, mostly choose the work-study model.
Purchase a spirit beast through a loan, work during the day to repay the loan, squeeze out the money from your teeth to buy the medicine for cultivating the spirit beast, and go to an on-the-job night school at night.
It's just that in this way, the cultivation of spiritual beasts is naturally much slower. Let alone evolving into war beasts, life is very difficult, and they may be inactive throughout their lives.
Although the purchase and cultivation of spiritual plants is cheaper than spiritual beasts, because the current growth limit of spiritual planters is too low, they basically have no ability to fight independently.
Most can only become senior horticulturists, or else become raw material suppliers for the Spiritual Beast Pharmacy Company.
Even if the best spiritual planters have the opportunity to enter the interstellar team, they can only play logistical support and auxiliary roles, so full-time high schools have extremely strict enrollment requirements for spiritual planters.
This has led to the fact that most of the spiritual planters you can see in high schools and universities are leisurely young people from rich families or second-generation officials.
Gebai didn't want to live another life and still be a social animal. Even in her previous life, she was a high-end social animal with an annual income of one million.
From beginning to end, her only way out was to be a top student.
Basic top students are required to develop 10% of their spiritual knowledge and make a contract with a spiritual animal, and can be exempted from high school tuition.
In addition, Shenglan High School and Beijing-Hong Kong No. 1 Middle School, two provincial key high schools, have also opened independent recruitment channels for outstanding students.
The special recruitment adopts a pet battle mode. The five winners in the end are not only exempted from high school tuition, but the school also provides high scholarships, which is more than enough to cover the cost of purchasing ordinary pets.
The number one seed player selected by Beijing and Hong Kong for the Star League match last year was a special admissions student from Shenglan High School. I heard that he also came from a poor background.
So since Gebai learned the meditation method, she practiced it day and night. At this time last year, she felt that the development of her spiritual consciousness had reached a bottleneck, and there was no way to improve it again.
It's just that I can't test it and I don't know what level I am at. I just found out today that it's stuck at 9.9%.
Have you never heard that teenagers under the age of 16 will get stuck in developing their spiritual consciousness? Ah, generally people over the age of 50 will reach the limit of spiritual awareness development.
Gebai was a little uneasy, wondering if it was because his soul and body were not compatible.
She secretly prayed: "I hope everything goes well with the affinity test."
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15:30 pm, Beijing-Hong Kong Research Institute Affinity Property Testing Center.
"Name: Gobai"
"Spiritual consciousness development level: 9.9%"
"Beast Affinity Attribute: Not up to standard"
"Spiritual plant affinity attribute: extremely high"
"Career plan: It is recommended to contract with a spiritual planter and become a spiritual planter."
The clear mechanical female voice reached Gobai's ears, exploding like thunder.
The surrounding testers were all whispering when they looked at this data.
"This is the first time I've seen someone with such a high level of spiritual development but no pet animal affinity."
"What a shame."
"But her spiritual plant affinity is 'extremely high', which is rare."
"What's the use? No matter how high you are, you're just a spiritual planter."
Ge Bai gritted his teeth and forced himself to step down from the testing equipment.
She knew that this thief had no intention of letting her go smoothly.
Others' rebirths were smooth sailing, and the system was close to them. Not to mention the beginning of my life as an orphan. After nearly 16 years of hard work, I didn't even see a glitch in the system.
I originally gave up and was planning to carve out a path on my own, but in the end I dug such a big hole in the road!
Gebai was about to collapse. She didn't know why she had practiced meditation so hard all these years.
You know, she has almost chosen the pet beast, and has planned the early training plan over and over again. She is very familiar with what medicine has what effect, what price, and what kind of potion it is.
She was even ready for the special move battle. She had watched countless videos of pet beast battles, and had rehearsed the scenes of commanding pet beasts to battle countless times in her mind.
Now, it's all useless. She really doesn't know what she should do in the future, raise a fruit tree as a social animal?
Returning to the Blue Star Welfare Home in a daze, Teacher Xiaolu was standing at the entrance of the hospital holding Bibi. Ge Bai forced himself to smile at Teacher Xiaolu.
She didn't know that her pale face, stiff muscles, and forced smile were really ugly.
Teacher Xiaolu looked at Gebai like this and understood everything. He didn't need to ask any more questions, but he felt particularly distressed.
She put down Bibi and stepped forward to hug the little girl.
Bibi also felt Gebai's sadness, crawled to her side, and hugged her legs tightly.
"Go back to your room and rest for a while. It will be fine. Everything will be fine."
Teacher Xiaolu’s comfort seemed particularly weak.
Ge Bai nodded, rubbed his face hard on Teacher Xiaolu's shoulder, with red eyes, lowered his head and rushed back to the girls' dormitory.
Teacher Xiaolu looked at Gebai's back and let out a long sigh.
For a little girl who works so hard, this blow is really too big for her.
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Midnight, the girls dormitory of Blue Star Welfare Institute.
Gebai covered himself in the quilt, rarely meditating, and just opened his eyes in a daze.
She had long forgotten what day it was and had no expectation of anything.
But sometimes, surprises come unexpectedly.
zero point.
"Ding, Shennong 2.7 system awakens."
A crisp electronic sound sounded in Gobai's head.
She sat up suddenly.
The moonlight was bright outside the window, the children on the beds all around were sleeping soundly, and the clock on the wall pointed to zero o'clock.
At this moment, she remembered that today, at this moment, she was sixteen years old.
(End of chapter)