Chapter 1722: Merit-Based Admission, Unification Process

After chatting briefly with Niya, Xia Duo tacitly stopped the conversation, took out his notebook, and began to continue researching the design of the follow-up systems for the Floating City, while Niya also took out that Everspring Barrier Book and began reading it quietly in front of the Projection Window.

As dusk approached, Xia Duo suddenly felt something; the Tower Spirit of the No. 1 Spire had provided him with feedback. The recruitment work in both places had been fully completed, and the summarized data had all been stored in the Ziliaoku and entered into the Tower Spirit.

Querying the specific data revealed that a total of 472 age-appropriate youths from Savile Territory participated in the Tower of Time assessment this year, with 445 meeting the standards, while the total number of participants from Daxia Territory was 378, with 370 meeting the standards.

But the admission quota for both places was only 300 people!

The situation in Savile Territory was easy to handle; just select the top 300 based on merit, but for Daxia Territory, one needed to consider the ratio of new territory residents to existing ones.

Before today, Xia Duo had planned to give the new territory residents at least one hundred spots, even admitting them if they did not meet the assessment standards, but after looking at the summary data in the Personnel Department, he realized that the new territory residents might not need his special care.

Now, looking at all the data fed back from the No. 1 Spire's Tower Spirit, there were 153 age-appropriate youths among the new territory residents who participated in the assessment, all of whom met the standards, and more than half of them ranked in the upper-middle tier.

Now, the question he had to consider was not whether to take care of the new territory residents, but whether to select based on merit.

If he selected based on merit, the number of new territory residents would certainly exceed one hundred; if he still admitted them according to the previous quota of one hundred, some obviously more excellent new territory residents would be excluded.

However, this problem did not stump Xia Duo.

Originally, he had set a quota of one hundred for the new territory residents because he thought the number of those meeting the standards might be less than one hundred and was prepared to provide care up to one hundred; now that there were more than one hundred, he would just select based on merit.

In principle, Xia Duo did not favor either side; he had only thought of taking care of them to help the new territory residents better integrate into the Territory.

Now, this situation showed that these people could integrate into the Territory smoothly without special care, so he could just treat them like ordinary territory residents.

……

After issuing the order, Xia Duo did not need to continue paying attention; the intelligent Tower Spirit would formulate a specific admission list based on his ideas and then convey it to the relevant personnel in the Personnel Department to handle.

Next, Xia Duo inquired about the current status of the No. 1 Spire. This time, the form of the Tower Spirit's feedback was different from just now; it was no longer Subconscious Information, but feedback in the form of continuous visual information.

What Xia Duo saw in his normal field of vision was the scene of the study on the top floor of the Tower of Time, but after the Tower Spirit's feedback, a light blue, nearly transparent square light screen seemed to appear before him.

On it, dark blue handwritten fonts displayed status information about the No. 1 Spire line by line—

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【Energy】: 【Arcane Furnace】-No fuel, 【Element Pool·Comprehensive】-99% (Energy Circulation in progress)

【Supplies】: Several

【Personnel】: Tower of Time Sequence (expandable), Progress Society Sequence (expandable)

【Facilities】: Hall, Arcane Garden, Public Level (expandable, omitted below), Energy Center, Library, Apprentice Dormitory, Independent Research Lab, Control Center, Traction Anchoring Core

【Maintenance】: 99% (No maintenance required)

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Although this light screen appeared to be suspended at a distance of about half an arm's length in front of his body, only Xia Duo himself could see it, and even if he turned to other directions, this light screen would still follow in real-time.

Of course, although this light screen was seen through the eyes, it would not be displayed on the surface of the eyes; Xia Duo had confirmed this with Niya many times.

In fact, this so-called visual signal was essentially still Subconscious Information; it was a simulated visual transmission signal, completely different from the "Sophon retinal imaging" in a science fiction novel Xia Duo had seen before he transmigrated.

Perhaps it was closer to the "data panel" effect in some fantasy novels.

It was just that this crude panel of Xia Duo's only had the effect of displaying information, and it was only displayed for himself to see, because this information was fed back to him by the Tower Spirit.

For others to see it, unless Xia Duo used Spellcasting to create a new Magic Image, or others also had a Tower Spirit, and the two Tower Spirits could communicate with each other.

For the former, whether there was a Tower Spirit or not did not affect the display of information; the key was the summary of this information. If the Spellcaster did it themselves, it would be too troublesome, and the so-called display would not have much meaning. Before the Spellcaster displayed it personally, they could completely have subordinates pass an extra copy of the information to others.

Only the latter, communication between Tower Spirits—and high-speed, efficient communication at that—was worth researching.

This was different from the brain-computer interface Xia Duo was preparing to attempt. The composition of the brain-computer interface connected the Tower Spirit to the same Spellcaster, and by using 【Suggestion】, one could build precise, efficient, and high-speed Subconscious Information communication.

But for another person, that would be troublesome. Unless both sides could parse the subconscious and then jointly create a relatively fair communication protocol, otherwise, it would easily turn into one-sided brainwashing.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo temporarily dismissed the idea of researching Tower Spirit communication; after all, this research could not see the possibility of Application in the short term.

Not to mention anything else, just the problem of Spirit Quality was very difficult to solve.

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Late at night, the Sleep Ceremony had long since ended in Daxia Territory, and most of the territory residents had returned to their homes, preparing to rest, but the revelry was still ongoing in Savile Territory.

Although Niya had not gone over, she was still paying attention to the situation there through the Projection Window in the study. Seeing this, Xia Duo could not help but shake his head inwardly:

"Rest early. Bishop Anbulier is keeping an eye on things over there, what are you worried about? Hasn't it been like this every year?"

"Perhaps you are right."

Niya turned her head and looked at Xia Duo earnestly, "I also feel that the evening activities could end earlier. Festivals do need celebration, but unbridled revelry is still a bit too much."

"Take it slow. Savile Territory is not like Daxia Territory; the inertia of tradition is still very strong."

"Mm." Niya nodded, expressing agreement with Xia Duo's words, "At an appropriate time, I will also establish a Security Office in Savile Territory. By next Midsummer Festival, I want to refer to Daxia Territory and let the Security Office be responsible for organizing the Midsummer celebration, regulating the celebratory activities step by step."

"That's simple. I'll have Jibu take a group of people to help in Sain Town. He was originally from the town, so going over to help won't leave him clueless. It's just that for Town Mayor Saier—"

"I will talk to Uncle Saier, and also Commander Keyaan. Establishing a Security Office is good for the Territory; I believe they will not object!"

At this moment, Niya's face was full of earnestness, and her eyes flashed with a firm light.

Seeing this, Xia Duo said no more. It was better to let Niya handle the situation in Savile Territory. Although the two places were destined to become a whole, for the time being, the prerequisites in all aspects were not yet met.