"That's how things are."
"You should prepare after you go back."
The dean of students, dressed in a black uniform, crossed his hands and glanced at the thin young man in front of him, a hint of sympathy flashing in his eyes.
"I've been included in the conscription quota?"
Lin Yuan's expression froze for a moment.
He had only recently transmigrated and hadn't had time to adapt.
Then he received this shocking news.
Actually, for ordinary students like Lin Yuan,
conscription wasn't a bad thing.
The government had always been generous with its military spending.
Even conscripts received decent treatment.
But that was during peacetime.
Now, news of alien invasion had come from the border star systems.
Many speculated that the purpose of this conscription was to serve as frontline reserves.
In the two million six hundred thousandth year of the Star Sea Calendar, the Cosmic Human Alliance undertook a fervent interstellar expansion, occupying one star system and galaxy after another, inevitably coming into contact with other races and civilizations.
Resources were limited, and in order to compete for various cosmic resources,
Human Civilization proactively initiated a series of conflicts and wars.
Those alien civilizations that had been driven away...
All of them were secretly watching Human Civilization, launching counterattacks whenever they had the chance.
"This is troublesome."
Lin Yuan's mood sank.
He knew very well that although Human Civilization, overall,
held the absolute upper hand in wars against most alien civilizations,
local battlefields were not always smooth sailing.
The alien civilizations in the depths of the starry sky were cruel and brutal,
with individuals powerful to an unbelievable degree.
Tearing warships apart with bare hands was absolutely not an exaggeration.
When fighting these aliens, even fully armed Human soldiers,
had an average mortality rate of twenty to thirty percent.
Furthermore,
due to the confidentiality of the war,
all soldiers participating in the war to eradicate aliens were forbidden from communicating with the outside world.
Local space wars generally lasted a long time, with centuries or even hundreds of years being normal.
This meant that if Lin Yuan was selected for this conscription quota,
even if he survived the fight against the aliens,
he would likely spend the rest of his life on cold, outer space warships.
Unable to touch the land and oceans of life planets for his entire life.
Lin Yuan took a deep breath, "Director, can we discuss this? My parents will be relying on me in the future, and I also have a younger sister…"
The dean of students tapped the table and said solemnly, "Don't worry, if you actively respond to the government's conscription policy, your family will be properly settled."
"Your father's current position will be elevated by one level, and your mother will receive a respectable job from the district."
"Your sister's future tuition fees will all be waived, and after she turns eighteen, she will have one opportunity to study at a higher education institution."
"...So, you've already considered my posthumous affairs?"
Lin Yuan pursed his lips, a complex feeling he couldn't articulate welling up in his heart.
Fairly speaking, these conditions were acceptable.
His father was currently at a career bottleneck, which most people couldn't overcome in decades.
His mother was currently unemployed, and if she could get a respectable job,
it would greatly improve the family's living conditions.
As for his sister's opportunity to study at a higher education institution, that was something money couldn't buy.
If his sister could go to a higher education institution for further study, it would be no exaggeration to say her future prospects were limitless.
It's just...
It's just...
It's just...
Why does all of this have to be built upon my sacrifice???
Lin Yuan had only transmigrated into this body a few days ago, and although he had fully received all memories,
facing this scene of 'sacrifice me alone, for the happiness of the whole family,' an indescribable sense of rejection still surged within him.
"I still prefer life on a planet."
Lin Yuan was silent for a while, then couldn't help but speak.
After becoming a soldier, everything would be brought under military management.
By then, it would be too late to refuse.
Although, refusing now probably wouldn't do any good either.
"Lin Yuan, serving the government is a duty we citizens should fulfill."
"Besides, this conscription is a mandatory policy. Since it has fallen upon you, it's useless no matter how much you don't want to go."
"Moreover, young man, what's wrong with going out and experiencing things? Being able to witness alien races that only appear in textbooks is something ordinary citizens can't do in their entire lives."
"If you can achieve merits, you might even be transferred back to the military region for duty in the future."
"This is a rare opportunity."
The dean of students patiently comforted Lin Yuan for a few moments.
"But…"
Lin Yuan opened his mouth, still wanting to say something.
However, the dean of students waved his hand, "Alright, you can go out now. Spend more time with your family these few days."
Under the gaze of the dean of students, Lin Yuan got up and left.
Outside the door.
There were more than ten students about Lin Yuan's age, waiting in line.
After Lin Yuan came out, one student walked in.
"Classmate, the director asked us to come over, what's the matter?"
A dark-skinned student hurriedly pulled Lin Yuan's arm and asked in a low voice.
"You'll know once you go in."
Lin Yuan sighed, ignoring him, and walked straight away.
Before seeing the director, Lin Yuan had not expected that he would be included in the mandatory conscription quota.
Last week.
Lin Yuan had learned about the mandatory conscription news from a broadcast by an authoritative media on his home planet.
It was just that Lin Yuan hadn't paid too much attention to it at the time.
The scope of mandatory conscription covered the entire Canglan Star, as well as dozens of surrounding life planets.
Canglan Star had a resident population of fifty billion,
while the conscription quota allocated to Canglan Star was only a few hundred thousand.
From a probability perspective, the chance of a citizen being selected for mandatory conscription was about one in a hundred thousand.
With such a small possibility, Lin Yuan didn't take it to heart at all.
It's just that reality is full of various surprises,
the original body had bought all kinds of lottery tickets for more than ten years and never won once,
yet the mandatory conscription quota, with only a one in a hundred thousand chance, was hit just like that.
Returning home.
Lin Yuan found both his parents at home, and even his young sister was uncharacteristically sitting in her seat.
She was drooling at the cake in front of her, but didn't dare to reach out.
"Lin Yuan…"
His mother, Lu Qiong, stood up, looking at Lin Yuan with a hesitant expression.
His father, Lin Shoucheng, sat there frowning, wondering what he was thinking.
It was clear that the news of Lin Yuan being included in the mandatory conscription quota had already reached home.
In fact, his parents had known about it even earlier than Lin Yuan.
"There's still room for discussion regarding the conscription."
"Tomorrow, I'll go find your maternal uncle and ask him to mediate."
His father, Lin Shoucheng, said.
The maternal uncle he spoke of was a distant relative.
He currently held a position in a certain research institute and had quite a bit of connections.
"No need."
Lin Yuan shook his head.
The mandatory conscription policy was issued by the government.
Let alone a mere employee of some unknown research institute.
Even the governor of Canglan Star would have to pay a huge price to change it.
Of course,
if Lin Yuan truly had a connection with the governor,
his name wouldn't have appeared on the conscription list at all.
Before the conscription list came out, spending money and using connections,
there was hope of not being on the list.
But once the list was finalized, it would be difficult to get off it.
"I'm a bit tired."
"I'm going back to my room now."
Lin Yuan ate a little, then got up and returned to his room.
"How to get out of the mandatory conscription quota…"
Lin Yuan lay on the soft bed, still holding onto a sliver of hope.
"Connect to Wisdom Goddess."
After a moment of thought, Lin Yuan sat up.
Wisdom Goddess is one of the Three Goddesses of the Cosmic Human Alliance.
She is the core intelligent processing system of the entire civilization, overseeing the overall operation of the civilization, responsible for all affairs of all citizens of Human Civilization, strictly monitoring any abnormal behavior, and ensuring that all operations are carried out in accordance with the civilization's charter.
Over the two million-plus years of the Star Sea Calendar, the reason Human Civilization was able to sweep through numerous alien races was largely due to the Three Goddesses.
Without the absolutely selfless processing methods of the Three Goddesses, the Cosmic Human Civilization would probably have perished from internal strife long ago. How could it have developed into such a vast, glorious, and brilliant civilization as it is now?
Humans have emotions, can have cognitive biases towards things, and can be influenced by emotions to make wrong decisions, but the Three Goddesses do not.
The stance of the Three Goddesses is always for the entire Human Civilization, without any self-interest, and they can always achieve absolute fairness.
The Wisdom Goddess that Lin Yuan connected to was naturally not the main consciousness of the true Wisdom Goddess.
Instead, it was a tiny, insignificant sub-consciousness that she had branched off, a welfare that every citizen possessed.
"Cosmic First-Level Citizen Lin Yuan, please state your question."
An electronic synthesized voice, carried by the omnipresent network, sounded in Lin Yuan's ear.
"I want to know the conditions for exemption from mandatory conscription?"
Lin Yuan organized his words and asked.
"Mandatory conscription originates from Article 156 of the Charter, used to maintain the stability of Human Civilization and for external conquests. All Human citizens have the obligation to cooperate with conscription."
"Under the following three circumstances, mandatory conscription can be exempted."
"One: Evolvers, humans walking on the path of evolution, are the hope of Human Civilization and possess the privilege to refuse the mandatory conscription policy."
Evolvers… Lin Yuan's expression was complex.
Throughout the long Star Sea Calendar, Evolvers were not a secret.
There were many ways to become an Evolver,
mainly divided into unique Evolvers and common Evolvers.
Unique Evolvers are easy to understand: Evolvers that cannot be popularized or replicated.
For example, certain evolutionary families that inherit through bloodlines belong to this category.
There are also individuals who have undergone irreplicable special processes, undergoing mutations and possessing extraordinary power.
They also belong to unique Evolvers.
As for common Evolvers… they are humans who have embarked on a stable path of evolution.
For example, Gene Warriors, who have taken expensive gene agents and stepped onto the path of evolution.
And Mental Masters, created through brutal training and torture,
combined with specific cultivation methods, such as killing machines, and so on.
Any stable path of evolution is extremely precious,
it is valuable knowledge explored by countless predecessors with their lives.
"I should just be an ordinary person."
Lin Yuan sighed.
Being an ordinary person meant having no connection with unique Evolvers.
If Lin Yuan wanted to become an Evolver, he could only consider stable evolutionary paths.
However, the latter was not something that could be achieved overnight. A few evolutionary paths, such as Gene Warriors, could be fast-tracked.
But that was based on expensive gene agents and other treasures,
and in the Cosmic Human Alliance, gene agents were strictly controlled products.
Ordinary people simply had no means or qualifications to purchase them.
To take a step back, even if gene agents were placed in front of Lin Yuan, he couldn't afford them.
Just as Lin Yuan was deep in thought,
the cold, indifferent electronic synthesized voice sounded again.
"Two: Cosmic Fourth-Level Citizens, who have a privilege of exemption once every ten years, which can negate mandatory conscription."
"Fourth-Level Citizen…"
Lin Yuan's mouth twitched slightly.
In the first year of the Star Sea Calendar, Human Civilization established a citizen ranking system.
Citizens were divided into twelve levels, and citizens with higher levels had greater privileges.
The method to raise citizen levels was through contributions to Human Civilization.
This was supervised and implemented by the Three Goddesses, ensuring absolute fairness.
Therefore,
raising one's citizen level was extremely difficult.
Almost ninety-nine percent of citizens remained First-Level Citizens from birth to death.
Of course, accompanying this were the numerous benefits of high-level citizens.
Starting from Fourth-Level Citizens, they had a privilege of exemption once every ten years.
This could pardon citizens below serious offenders from their penalties.
Mandatory conscription was also included in this.
However,
with the current connections of the Lin family, where would they find a Fourth-Level Citizen?
It should be known that currently, on the entire Canglan Star, with a resident population of fifty billion,
there was only one citizen whose level reached Fourth-Level.
That was the governor of Canglan Star.
A prominent figure who held the lives and deaths of tens of billions of citizens.
"What about the third situation?"
Lin Yuan couldn't help but ask.
"Three: Make contributions to Human Civilization, and upon being promoted to Second-Level Citizen, you can be exempted from mandatory conscription."
The electronic synthesized voice came again.
But it made Lin Yuan fall silent once more.
A Second-Level Citizen, even if not an Evolver, held a status no lower than most Evolvers.
The privileges possessed by Evolvers were naturally also enjoyed by Second-Level Citizens.
However...
This was even more difficult than becoming an Evolver.
At least Lin Yuan knew how to become an Evolver, even if he couldn't do it himself.
But to be promoted to a Second-Level Citizen, the contributions required to be recognized by Wisdom Goddess were completely without any clue.
"Specifically, what kinds of actions count as contributions?"
Lin Yuan tentatively asked.
"Providing a completely new evolutionary path will result in enormous contributions."
The electronic synthesized voice sounded.
Vaguely, Lin Yuan realized that
Wisdom Goddess placed great importance on new evolutionary paths.
Otherwise, she wouldn't offer enormous contributions as a reward.
"Let's think of other ways."
Lin Yuan rubbed his temples. The three situations provided by Wisdom Goddess.
None of them were something Lin Yuan could achieve at present.
Especially the last one, providing a completely new evolutionary path?
If Lin Yuan had that, he would have already been promoted to a Second-Level Citizen, why would he still be waiting to be forcibly conscripted?
Unconsciously, it was already midnight.
Lin Yuan gradually fell into a deep sleep.
Suddenly.
Just then.
A strange suction force pulled Lin Yuan's mind towards his brain.
And in the depths of his mind, a magnificent, towering gate of light appeared.
Inside the gate, a faint blue light screen filled it.
Like water waves, constantly rippling.
"What is this?"
Lin Yuan was startled.
Then he woke up from his sleep.
"It's not a dream."
After waking up, Lin Yuan could still perceive the gate of light deep within his mind.
At the same time.
Lines of ethereal text flashed below Lin Yuan's field of vision.
[Name: Lin Yuan]
[Identity: Master of the Gate of Myriad Realms]
[Realm: None]
[Talent: None]
[Divine Abilities: None]