Fake Husband of the Glamorous CEO-Chapter 355: Initiate nationwide testing, major institutions compete for geniuses
Shantou.
The new city area established around the testing center as the project’s base point.
On this day, hotels near the monitoring station in the new city area were already full of guests.
Even the nearby city hotels had accommodated a simultaneous influx of visitors, reaching a scale of over a million people.
The average room rate of 200 RMB suddenly skyrocketed to 600 yuan, but still, more and more parents with their children continued to check in.
The children they brought with them were all over the age of six, both boys and girls.
They came from both domestic and international locations.
The reason why so many people checked into Shantou City hotels in advance was that today marked the first day the monitoring station opened for business.
What was the business project?
Of course, it was Detecting Spiritual Roots.
Early in the morning, the gigantic venue’s monitoring station reception hall was already teeming with people.
Looking around, it was a sea of heads, and that did not even count the additional crowd wandering outside the venue without an appointment for the first batch.
The crowd inside the venue had already purchased their testing tickets and were now waiting for their number to be called.
Many of the waiting parents and children utilized the downtime to go through the brochures provided by the monitoring station.
These brochures contained instructions on what to heed during testing as well as explanations regarding the results of the Spiritual Root test.
[No Spiritual Root: Can only pursue Martial Arts, unable to practice Qi Condensation]
[Common Spiritual Root: Capable of cultivation, but recommended to develop other supporting professions]
[Medium-Grade Spiritual Root: Considered to have excellent talent, suitable for vigorous cultivation]
[Top-Grade Spiritual Root: Considered a prodigy, suitable for special cultivation]
[Peerless Spiritual Root: Monstrous talent, worthy of cultivation at all costs!]
(Note! Spiritual Roots represent only the natural talent for cultivation, but later cultivation also depends on enlightenment.)
"Mom, if my Spirit Root reaches the mid-grade as described in this book, can we really leave the slums and immigrate to a more developed country?"
A young boy from South America asked his mother.
The father beside him laughed and said, "Of course, Anthony, if you have a mid-grade Spirit Root, today all doors of schools and institutions around the world will open for you, these institutions’ various resources will be provided for you, not to mention securing you a citizenship ID!"
As this family mentioned, many educational institutions’ recruitment offices were present, pacing back and forth with their school placards.
Even giants like Massachusetts, Oxford, Harvard, and Princeton had sent representatives.
In the venue’s hall accommodating tens of thousands of people, there were at least a thousand representatives from educational institutions around the world, all high-ranking recruitment office leaders capable of offering the highest conditions.
They were prepared to scramble over promising talent as soon as it was discovered.
Cultivating a student is expensive, but one must think long-term.
The future is an era where strength reigns supreme, survival of the fittest. If a college can cultivate a powerhouse, they will undoubtedly gain significant influence and speaking power from that powerful student!
After all, the wool comes from the sheep’s back, and not to mention, just from the four major supportive side business plans set up by various colleges for these geniuses, selling Elixirs or manufacturing weapons could bring high returns to the school.
So, quality student sources will be the object of their competition.
"I’ve already gotten to know the director of the testing center through my connections early on. If there is a student with good Spirit Roots from our country later on, they can provide the information to our school internally."
A member of Harvard’s administration smiled confidently.
What he didn’t know was that if he could think of this tactic, so could his competitors.
Master Hou, the direct descendant of the Hou family who had been transferred to manage the monitoring station, couldn’t have imagined that even before they opened for business, a bunch of academic institutions had already started bribing him through the back door.
Originally, the testing results were not to be disclosed to the public, but the amount they offered was simply too much.
After much deliberation, Director Hou Jili eventually decided to accept these additional fees.
Firstly, the principle of confidentiality was in place to consider the personal safety of those being tested, as different testees represented different national camps; if a genius was allowed to grow unchecked, wouldn’t that become a future calamity?
To prevent someone from nipping a genius in the bud, the monitoring station had a rule against publicly disclosing test results.
But Hou Jili felt that disclosing the information to the educational institutions of the testee’s respective countries shouldn’t pose any problem.
After all, these institutions would not dare to sabotage a genius from their own nation because when you detect a result, that information gets registered and entered into the testee’s national system. Should anything untoward happen to the genius, it would attract high levels of attention!
To even prevent such an occurrence, global police and martial artist organizations from different countries had set up a security team on site to ensure that once a genius was discovered, they could immediately arrange for their guarded transportation back home—of course, everything depended on the individual’s Spirit Root Testing qualifications.
"Please form an orderly queue based on ticket numbers as the main reference, those who cut in line will have their tickets voided for the day. We have now exceeded 100 million people in online pre-booking and reservations, and if you miss today’s chance, you’ll have to wait until a month later,"
the announcement rang out.
Everyone was invigorated, holding their tickets, waiting for the testing windows to open.
Considering the future where at least several billion newborns would be added each year and to avoid a supply shortage at the testing windows, Master Hou took the initiative to set up 5,000 testing stations on site. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
At 3 minutes per batch and 5,000 testees, they could test 100,000 people every hour.
Working 24 hours in shifts, they could test 2.4 million people a day without any pressure.
This took into consideration the current global population, which, aside from the elderly who don’t need to test for Spirit Roots for cultivation and a part of the population, still amounted to a market of nearly 6 billion people.
In the future, these 6 billion people would definitely come to Shantou for testing.
Considering the possibility of the queue extending to several years in advance, Master Hou planned to complete the testing of all 6 billion people within 6 years!
Because after 6 years, the children born this year would be able to seamlessly undergo the testing.
By then, they would decide whether to cut down the surplus windows based on the number of new global citizens.
When the testing project officially began, they saw adults and children entering one after another.
The folks from various major institutions outside were anxiously waiting.
People were emerging from the thousands of windows one by one, their faces either calm or desolate.
Personnel from smaller countries had all arrived, each in their waiting area, watching their national database calculators.
All data about their citizens’ post-testing results would be updated in the national databases.
"Soldado, Mid-grade Spiritual Root!" exclaimed an administrator from a small European country with delight and urgently reported to his colleagues, "Window number 3255, hurry, don’t let other European countries get there first!"
In a flash, several guards hastily ran toward that window.
They had no choice; they also wanted to cherish their talent and try to avoid having them poached by stronger nations.
Such hustle was not unusual in the hall.
It was only the first day, and the struggle over the future shape of powers had erupted without smoke of battle.
The various institutions and governments were as busy as dogs.
The Dragon Nation’s security personnel maintaining order on site were also overwhelmed, not having anticipated such a frenzy.
As they observed the large hall bustling with crowds and a constant din, students were being frantically pursued by major institutions offering better terms and conditions.
Watching the bustling market environment outside and listening to the data collected at the financial windows, Hou Jili’s smile was so wide it could have split to his ears.
