Chapter 1: Conscription_2

The original body had bought various kinds of lottery tickets for more than ten years and had never won once,

yet he managed to hit the one in a hundred thousand chance of being enlisted through mandatory conscription...

Returning home.

Lin Yuan found his parents at home, and even his younger sister, who rarely sat in her seat, was there.

Looking at the cake in front of her, she drooled, yet she didn't dare to reach out.

"Xiaoyuan....."

Mother Lu Qiong stood up, her gaze toward Lin Yuan filled with unspoken words.

Father Lin Shoucheng sat there with a frown, seemingly lost in thought.

It was clear that the news of Lin Yuan being drafted into the mandatory conscription had reached home.

Even compared to Lin Yuan, his parents had known this piece of news earlier.

"There is still some room to maneuver around this conscription issue,"

"Tomorrow I will go to your uncle's place and ask him to intervene."

Father Lin Shoucheng said.

The uncle he mentioned was a distant relative.

Currently employed at a certain research institute, he had quite a few connections.

"There's no need,"

Lin Yuan shook his head.

The mandatory conscription policy was issued by the government.

It's not to mention a mere employee of some unknown research institute,

even the Canglan Star Governor would have to pay a huge price to make any changes.

Of course,

if Lin Yuan truly had any connection with the Governor,

his name wouldn't appear on the conscription list at all.

Before the list was released, it was possible to avoid being listed by spending money and utilizing connections.

But once the list was finalized, it became difficult to be removed from it.

"I'm a bit tired,"

"I'm heading back to my room."

After eating a bit, Lin Yuan got up and went back to his room.

"How to get rid of the mandatory conscription ..."

Lin Yuan lay on his soft bed, still holding onto the faintest hope.

"Connect to the Goddess of Wisdom."

After a moment of contemplation, Lin Yuan sat up.

The Goddess of Wisdom was one of the three great goddesses of the Cosmic Human Alliance.

She was the core intelligent processing system of the entire civilization, overseeing the operation of the whole, responsible for all affairs of every citizen of human civilization, monitoring any abnormal behaviors strictly to ensure they comply with the civil charter.

In the span of more than two million years of the Starry Sea Era, human civilization was able to sweep through many different species largely due to the contributions of the three goddesses.

If it weren't for the three goddesses' absolutely selfless processing methods, the human civilization of the universe would probably have perished in internal strife long ago; how could it possibly have grown to its current grand, brilliant, and resplendent civilization?

Humans have emotions, they can have cognitive biases towards things, can be influenced by emotions into making wrong decisions, but the three goddesses do not.

The stance of the three goddesses is always aligned with human civilization as a whole, without any private intentions, capable of being perpetually just.

The Goddess of Wisdom that Lin Yuan connected to was naturally not the main consciousness of the actual Goddess of Wisdom.

It was but an insignificant sub-consciousness derived from her, a benefit that every citizen possessed.

"Cosmic first-class citizen Lin Yuan, please state your question."

An electronic synthesized voice rang in Lin Yuan's ears through the omnipresent network.

"I want to know, what are the conditions for exemption from mandatory conscription?"

Lin Yuan organized his language and asked.

"Mandatory conscription stems from Article 156 of the constitution, designed to maintain the stability of human civilization and for warfare, all human citizens are obliged to comply with conscription."

"The following three conditions allow for exemption from mandatory conscription:"

"One: Evolvers, being those on the path of evolution, are the hope of human civilization and have the privilege to refuse mandatory conscription policies."

Evolvers... Lin Yuan looked complex.

During the long Starry Sea Era, evolvers were no secret.

There were many ways to become an evolver,

Mainly divided into unique evolvers, and common evolvers.

Unique evolvers are easy to understand; they cannot be popularized, nor replicated.

For instance, some evolutionary families with genetic inheritance belonged to this category.

There were some individuals who had undergone an unrepeatable special process, mutated, and obtained extraordinary powers.

These too belonged to unique evolvers.

As for common evolvers... these were humans who undertook a stable path of evolution.

For example, gene warriors, who took expensive genetic potions and stepped onto the path of evolution.

And spiritual masters, who through brutal training and torture,

combined with specific cultivation methods, created killing machines and so on.

Any stable evolution path was exceedingly precious,

the valuable knowledge discovered by countless ancestors and predecessors throughout their lives.

"I should just be an ordinary person..."

Lin Yuan sighed.

Being ordinary meant there was no chance with unique evolvers.

To become an evolver, Lin Yuan could only consider stable evolutionary paths.

But such was not something that could be achieved overnight; although certain evolution paths like gene warriors could be accelerated,

this was based on expensive genetic potions and other treasures,

In the Human Alliance of the universe, genetic potions were strictly controlled products.

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Ordinary people have no means or qualifications to purchase it.

Even if one took a step back and placed the gene potion in front of Lin Yuan, he still couldn't afford it.

As Lin Yuan pondered over this,

the cold, indifferent electronic synthesized voice rang out once again.

"Second, Cosmic Fourth Level citizens, have an exemption privilege every ten years that can offset the mandatory conscription."

"Fourth Level citizen..."

The corners of Lin Yuan's mouth twitched slightly.

In the first year of the Starry Sea Era, Human Civilization established the public citizen hierarchy system.

Citizens were divided into twelve levels, and the higher the level of the citizen, the greater the privileges they possessed.

And the method to raise one's citizen level was to contribute to Human Civilization.

This was supervised by the three Goddesses, ensuring absolute fairness.

Thus...

raising one's citizen level was exceptionally difficult.

Nearly 99% of citizens, from birth to death, were only First Level citizens.

Of course, accompanying this were the many benefits of higher-level citizens.

Starting from Fourth Level citizens, one would possess an exemption privilege every ten years.

This could pardon citizens below the rank of serious offenders from their sentences.

Mandatory conscription was included in this as well.

However,

with the current connections of the Lin Family, where could one meet a Fourth Level citizen?

Bear in mind, the current population of Canglan Star is fifty billion permanent residents.

Those who have reached the Fourth Level are only one.

That is the Canglan Star Governor.

The major figure who controlled the life and death of billions of citizens.

"What about the third option?"

Lin Yuan couldn't help but ask.

"Third, contribute to Human Civilization and be promoted to Second Level citizen, then you can avoid mandatory conscription."

The electronic synthesized voice came once again.

But it made Lin Yuan fall silent once again.

Even without being an Evolver, a Second Level citizen's status is not lower than most Evolvers.

The privileges that Evolvers have, a Second Level citizen naturally possesses as well.

However...

This was even harder than becoming an Evolver.

At least Lin Yuan knew how to become an Evolver, even if he couldn't achieve it.

But to be promoted to a Second Level citizen, one would need to make contributions that could be recognized by the Goddess of Wisdom, something completely elusive.

"What specific acts can be considered contributions?"

Lin Yuan tentatively asked.

"Providing a brand new evolution path will earn a huge contribution."

The electronic synthesized voice responded.

Lin Yuan vaguely realized...

The Goddess of Wisdom placed great emphasis on brand new evolution paths.

Otherwise, she wouldn't offer a huge contribution as a reward.

"Think of other methods."

Lin Yuan massaged his temples, considering the three conditions provided by the Goddess of Wisdom.

None was achievable for Lin Yuan at the moment.

Especially the last one, providing a brand new evolution path?

If Lin Yuan had that, he would have already been promoted to a Second Level citizen, why would he be waiting for mandatory conscription?

Unknowingly, midnight had arrived.

And Lin Yuan gradually fell into a deep sleep.

Suddenly,

at that moment,

a strange pulling force drew Lin Yuan's consciousness towards his mind.

Deep within his mind, a magnificent, towering Gate of Light appeared.

The door was filled with a pale blue light screen.

It rippled constantly like water waves.

"What is this?"

Lin Yuan was shocked.

He then awoke from his sleep.

"It's not a dream."

After waking up, Lin Yuan could still sense the Gate of Light deep within his mind.

At the same time,

lines of illusory text flashed before Lin Yuan's eyes.

[Name: Lin Yuan]

[Identity: Holder of the Myriad Realms Gate]

[Realm: None]

[Talent: None]

[Divine Skills: None]

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