activa-t Chapter 4315 Admissions and Recruitment
Chapter 4315 Admissions and Recruitment
Chapter 4315 Admissions and Recruitment
"So, where is your progress bar now?" Angell asked.
"It's still at level 0." The Spirit of the City: "However, after the Headmaster arrived, the progress bar increased by half. At this rate, it might enter a new stage soon."
In layman's terms: Level 0 gets 50% experience.
Next, Angell inquired in detail about the appearance and form of the progress bar, and the more he listened, the more he felt it was very... a text bar.
Or rather, this is entirely in the style of Wonderland powers.
So, could the Spirit of the Citadel truly be the Spirit of the Citadel, and not a hidden danger like Sebastian?
But if not, where does the danger of the Fool's City lie?
Angel was convinced that there was a hidden danger here; otherwise, why would the Fairy Realm's authority lock him down? Wasn't it because others couldn't solve the problem and needed him to do so?
But since he was sent in, the power of authority has almost disappeared. Why is that?
Angor couldn't think of anything else for the moment, so he could only refocus his attention on the Spirit of the City.
He pondered for a moment and asked, "How many city gates connect the city of Fools to the suburbs?"
Although the spirit of the city didn't understand why the headmaster suddenly asked the question, it still obediently replied, "There are only six official city gates, but there are more than thirty exits in total, including underground passages leading to the suburbs."
Angell: "There's a gate with a spindle-shaped tower nearby. Which city gate is it?"
"The Gate of Leisurely Thoughts is also known as the East Gate."
Angell: "Walk about a kilometer along the Gate of Yisi towards the outskirts. There are several orange trees growing by the canal. Among them is an orange tree with a slightly crooked trunk. How many oranges are on it?"
The spirit of the city grew increasingly puzzled, but still replied, "Let me count... one hundred and seven."
Angell's expression remained unchanged as he continued, "This tree originally had one hundred and eight oranges, but now one is missing. Do you know where the missing one went?"
The spirit of the city pondered for a long time before saying, "I saw half of it in the lake connected by the canal below, but it was damaged. It may have been gnawed by birds or beasts?"
This time, Angell remained silent.
After a moment, he said softly, "...I ate it."
The spirit of the city fell silent for a moment, the atmosphere remaining subtly awkward. After a few seconds, it abruptly changed the subject, saying, "Does the headmaster like oranges? I'll arrange for workers to pick some right now!"
Angel waved his hand: "I don't like it."
The spirit of the academy was taken aback: "Then why did Headmaster suddenly bring up oranges?"
Angel shrugged noncommittally and sat down at the desk. "You just said you're the spirit of the Citadel, so I wanted to test whether you actually know anything about the changes in the Citadel."
At least for now, it can be confirmed that the answers from the "Spirit of the City" are all correct.
Including those private passages, they were real... Before asking, Angel's original answer did not expect to include the underground passages. When the Spirit of the City answered, he looked from God's perspective and indeed found many exits leading to the suburbs underground.
In addition, it can accurately capture the "dynamic" change of missing oranges, as long as the number of oranges is correct.
This is indeed in line with the perspective that a "spirit of the academic city" should have.
Based on various clues, Angor is now basically certain that the identity of the Spirit of the Citadel is correct.
However, its claim that it assists the principal in managing the academic city requires further verification.
As for how to verify it? Because this is too subjective, it is not easy to find an objective answer. However, the more subjective the question, the more important it is to put knowledge into practice. The slightest mistake can expose the flaws.
Therefore, we can roughly confirm this by observing its behavior over the next period of time.
Upon reflection, Angor himself wondered if he was being overly cautious. However, considering that this was a dungeon specifically given to him by the powers of the Fairy Realm, and that it might have hidden dangers, being cautious was the right thing to do.
“You just said you can get workers to go outside and pick oranges?” Angell asked.
The spirit of the city nodded: "Yes, I couldn't actually command the workers before because the former principal didn't like me being exposed. But since I woke up this time, I have a lot more information in my mind, including commanding these workers... Ah, sorry, I brought up the former principal again."
Angel waved his hand, indicating that he didn't care.
How do you direct the workers?
“Just modify the workers’ operating logic directly,” said the Spirit of the City. “Speaking of which, these workers are very strange. They look like they’re alive, but their actions are entirely based on their internal operating logic. For example, the cleaners take a carriage to and from get off work at fixed times every day and then clean fixed areas… Day after day, without any change, just like robots.”
"Very...naive."
"Because their actions and thinking are so simple, I can easily modify their operating logic so that I can get them to pick oranges."
"However, after the operating logic was modified, he would change from a cleaner to an orange picker every day, so after picking the oranges, it would have to be changed back."
At this point, the Spirit of the City's thoughts began to wander again: "Are all workers like this now? I remember the workers of the past were very complex. Although they worked in the City step by step, there was no way to change their operating logic. I didn't expect that after I slept for so long and then awoke, the workers had all become simpler... I remember..."
Angell: "Stop."
The spirit of the city seemed to have gotten used to being interrupted and obediently shut up.
Angel picked up the pen on the table and twirled it gently between his fingers, a thoughtful look in his eyes.
Judging from what the Spirit of the City says, it seems to be able to modify the operating rules of the city's NPCs, which, to some extent, can be considered a means of managing the city.
If its true responsibility is to help the principal manage the school campus, then having such capabilities is not unusual.
"Besides being able to modify workers' behavioral logic, do you have any other abilities?" Angleton paused. "Or rather, do you have any other authority?"
"Authority?" The spirit of the city pondered for a moment and said, "I can help the headmaster activate God Mode and arrange the city's buildings. Does that count as authority?"
Angell: "Yes, what else?"
"Besides that... I can't think of anything else." The Spirit of the Citadel seemed to have thought of something: "Oh right, if Headmaster needs to relay messages to others, I can help relay them, so Headmaster won't have to do anything!"
Angell: "..."
This isn't really within its jurisdiction, but rather a characteristic of the City's spirit. As the spirit of the city, it can observe the entire city and naturally can relay messages at will. — This is quite similar to Angor's God's-eye view.
"If this doesn't count, then I don't know for now..." Spirit of the Citadel: "Perhaps, once the progress bar reaches a new level, I can unlock other authority?"
Angell nodded; that made sense.
In management simulation games played on holographic tablets, players often encounter situations where they get stuck. For example, they might be unable to purchase certain resources at their current progress level, only becoming able to purchase resources at the corresponding level after unlocking a new progress level.
Therefore, if this is a city management-type dungeon, getting stuck on progress is perfectly normal.
“You just said you could pass on a message for me,” Angell said. “But now it seems there’s no one else in the city except the workers.”
"There aren't many people right now, but the headmaster can recruit." The Spirit of the Academy: "I remember that every year when the Academy recruited, it was always very lively, the whole..."
The Spirit of the Citadel's memories abruptly stopped. Under Angor's puzzled gaze, the Spirit of the Citadel murmured, "I can't remember what this world is called."
Angell then realized that the spirit of the city had meant to say that everyone in the entire XX world would come to register.
But it seems it can't remember the names of the worlds from the past, so it gets stuck.
This actually fits quite well with the characteristics of a gifted people.
Most gifted citizens will lose some of their memories. These memories are either incomplete in nature and have already disappeared when they were "salvaged" to the Dream Crystal Plains, or they are directly blocked by the powers of the Fairy Realm.
Therefore, the partial amnesia of the Spirit of the City is actually a good thing for Angor.
"Sigh, I don't know why, my memories are always fragmented and missing a lot." The Spirit of the City: "I just checked myself, and my spirit is not missing anything."
"Perhaps you slept for too long, and your memories have slowly settled into the depths of your mind," Angell comforted you.
The spirit of the city thought about it and realized it made some sense.
Judging from the fact that only a few soulless workers remain in the school city, it seems that it has been sleeping for a very long time and it is normal that it cannot remember some things.
"Getting back to our previous topic, you said I can hire people? But where am I supposed to hire people?" Angel asked, puzzled.
The spirit of the city thought for a moment: "I don't know, but after I woke up, I had a message in my mind telling me that recruiting people is an essential part of helping the headmaster revitalize the city."
"Perhaps when my progress bar enters a new phase, I'll know the answer."
"However, I remember that the power to recruit people should be in the hands of the principal..."
Angel admitted that the spirit of the city was right. He had just checked the principal's authority again and found that it did indeed include the authority to recruit people, including recruiting students and teachers, and even appointing vice principals and deans, all of which were within Angel's authority.
But there's nobody here. Where should I go?
Could it be that……
Angell lowered his head and looked at the employment contract on the table.
Although he currently has the authority of a level 9 principal, from a career perspective, he is not yet a true principal.
Is it only after signing your name that this recruitment ability is unlocked?
Angel recalled the management game on the holographic tablet. Recruiting employees usually involved constantly using gold coins to refresh cards. Once you found a card with suitable stats and abilities, you could recruit it by clicking on it.
The prerequisite for swiping a card is that you have become the leader of this company/restaurant/sect.
So, thinking about it this way makes sense.
Angell temporarily ignored the spirit of the city and instead picked up the employment contract to read it carefully.
Most of the information in the deed was procedural, with the only key point being: "The deed shall remain in effect until the city of academy returns to normalcy."
This seems to suggest that the main storyline of the current instance is: to get the City back on track.
This aligns with the City Spirit's statement about "assisting the principal in revitalizing the City."
Meanwhile, in management simulation games, making your company stronger and stronger is also an essential part of the main storyline.
So it seems that this instance is a management instance of the academy.
But where are the "hidden dangers"?
Could it be that when we recruit people, we attract the divine thoughts of a demon god like Sebastian?
Angell had a wild idea, but then thought it was unlikely. If there really was a problem, he could just not recruit them.
"Never mind, I'll stop thinking about it for now." Angell uncapped his pen and decided to sign it first.
He was also eager to see what the next main quest would be.
With this in mind, the pen moved swiftly across the paper, and soon, Ingres's name was written after the signature.
After the signature was successfully completed, the paper remained unchanged, but the task information in the text field was updated.
"You have completed the first step of the principal's exclusive task."
"You have activated the principal's exclusive privileges."
"You have taken on the second part of the principal's exclusive task - student recruitment and hiring."
"Mission Objective: Recruit a new student, hire a teacher, and usher the school into a new phase."
"Note 1: This is a series of quests; you can only leave Wonderland by completing all the quests."
Countdown: None
Upon seeing the second task, Angell's face showed an expression of "I knew it."
He said it was a business task.
At this stage, we are only providing guidance step by step.
This time it's about "enrollment and recruitment". Next, we should focus on attracting a large number of students to get the school city running smoothly.
This is the inertia of management-type games!
Now that enrollment is open, where is the card draw interface?
Angell planned to complete the second stage of the task as quickly as possible. So, all he needed to do now was find the "card draw" interface, and like in management games, recruit a student with potential and a teacher with good professional ethics. This round of tasks should then be completed.
He searched through the text field for a long time before finally finding the "Recruitment and Recruitment" option in the permissions section.
Reach out and tap gently.
Two choices are presented: "recruit students" or "hire employees".
Angel first clicked "Recruit".
He thought that different students' cards would appear next, but to his surprise, new options appeared: "Random Admission" and "Designated Admission".
Angell: "?" Where's the card he was expecting? Where's the card draw interface?
With some doubt, he clicked on both options and took a look.
"Random Enrollment: Using the entire area of Zone 1 as the student pool, randomly select beings that meet the basic admission requirements. Those selected will directly obtain admission qualifications and cannot refuse the recruitment."
"Designated Enrollment: The principal can independently designate any student in Area 1 who meets the basic admission criteria and enroll them in the school without their consent. The student cannot refuse the recruitment."
Angell: "Huh?!!"
Is this really a dungeon crawler?
(End of this chapter)