After every fire, ants survived - Preface.

The capital city is the outskirts of Yong'an, Xishan Nature Reserve.

After two autumn rains passed, the red leaves on the hillside fell almost all the time. There were only a few tourists here, and there were only the lonely sound of evening drums in the temple. Although the weather was already very cold, Xuan Ji was still sweating all over the way up the mountain. Director Xiao, who was leading the way, walked too fast, and his feet were rolling like two hot wheels, so he rolled to the back door of the small temple on the top of the mountain.

Director Xiao went to open the door, Xuan Ji finally took a breath and said with his waist, "I said to Director Xiao, we are now leading cadres. Can we be a little more steady? I'm worried all the way, for fear that you won't be able to split it in one step."

"Stop talking nonsense, I have something else to do later," Director Xiao opened the door and waved at him impatiently, "Speed ​​up!"

"Director Xiao" is named Xiao Zheng. He was thirty years old. He dressed meticulously and his eyebrows were sharp, like a young man who was not easy to mess with. He hurriedly walked up the stairs. He followed the staff passage of the Xiaomiao and took Xuan Ji straight to the backyard where "tourists stopped". There was no one in the backyard, so he blew the old well. Director Xiao took out his wallet and shook the work permit inside to the well mouth: "In the future, you have to bring your ID to work, and you have to swipe your card when you enter and exit."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a "ding" sound from the well. Then, the bluestone tiles around the old well slowly separated to both sides, revealing an authentic tunnel for one person to pass through.

Director Xiao lowered his head and crawled in. Xuan Ji hurriedly followed. The two of them walked about a hundred meters in a row of stone steps. When they reached the end, there were a row of stone steps walking to the ground. Following the stone steps, Xuan Ji found that he was already in a dense forest. Before he could see clearly, thick fog appeared around him, and the visibility quickly dropped to less than one meter. Then a white light shot out from the forest and swept across the two of them. A mechanical voice said: "Identity verification, please wait - Ding, the verification was passed. Director Xiao, good evening, welcome new colleagues. Please be careful at your feet and stand firmly."

Xuan Ji: "Ah? Where can I help me?"

While speaking, the ground under his feet suddenly moved. Xuan Ji was not prepared and leaned back for a moment before he could barely stand firm. The ground in the dense forest turned into a huge "conveyor belt", carrying two people through the thick fog like a maze. The plants hidden behind the thick fog were shaking in shadows, dazzling. For about five or six minutes, the "conveyor belt" slowly slowed down and stopped.

Xiao Zheng: "It's here."

As the thick fog dissipated, Xuan Ji looked up at the magnificent building in front of him. After a while, he slowly exhaled: "Take aside!"

It was an unreal building, with the upper floors straight into the clouds. Two rows of guards were standing guard at the entrance of the building. The national emblem and flag were hung on the magnificent front door, white marble bricks were covered on the ground, and a golden dragon with a vivid appearance on the stone bricks. A large sign was hung in the middle, saying: National Anomalies and Special Species Management, Prevention and Control Administration.

This is the legendary "Super Control Bureau", one of the most mysterious "relevant departments", Xuan Ji's new work unit. The introduction in the employee manual is soon emerged in his mind - "The responsibilities of the Super Control Bureau are to identify, monitor, and handle various non-natural events, abnormal energy movements across the country, maintain social order, and safeguard national prosperity and stability."

Similar to "illegal entry of vampire bats", "unknown whirlpools appearing in urban rivers", "three-headed water monster incident", etc., they are all under the jurisdiction of this department.

In addition, the Extraordinary Control Bureau is also the only official institution for the autonomy of "special ability persons".

According to the results of the 6th Census in 2010 (internal data of the Bureau of Different Control), about one in 200,000 people belong to "special ability people", referred to as "special ability people".

Why are there such people? The scientific explanation given in the official data is that this may be because a few contemporary Homo sapiens are not very serious about the relationship between men and women during the evolution process, leaving some non-human blood to their descendants and retaining some special genes. Of course, this theory is difficult to verify because the abilities of special people have a wide variety. Strictly speaking, almost every special person is an isolated case and it is difficult to obtain sufficient sample data.

As for folk legends, it is much more interesting: Legend has it that in ancient times, human race and demon race had a hundred years of war, and blood feuds were fought for generations. The half demons left by the mixed blood of demons were not relying on both sides. Grandma did not love his uncle, so she had to join him to keep warm. Later, she joined Emperor Wu of Qi. Emperor Wu used their power to kill the demon king. After the world was peaceful, he followed the promise to set up the "Qingpingsi" to accommodate these half demons. Qingpingsi is the predecessor of the alien control bureau, and today's special talent is the descendant of the mixed blood half demons back then. Of course, if you have a little common sense, you will know that this statement is purely nonsense, because in history, the Qingpingsi department was banned more than 700 years ago. The alien control bureau was established after the founding of the modern country, and it is impossible to fight.

In fact, the so-called "special talented people" are not that "special". In fact, most special talents are not much different from ordinary people without special training. At most, they are more intelligent in the ears and eyes, more keen intuition, and have some tiny special abilities that are basically of no help to daily life.

The Extraordinary Control Bureau recruits people every year, not for all citizens, but only from special talents and ordinary people who have "had participated in abnormal energy events and were incorporated into the file for some reasons."

Xuan Ji was satisfied with both - he was a special talent and an old friend of the other control bureau.

Director Xiao is a very noble and cold person. He can come out to pick up Xuan Ji in person, which shows his friendship.

A few years ago, when he was Captain Xiao, he owed this guy a favor. That time, Team Xiao took people to arrest a group of vampire bats who entered the country illegally. They underestimated the intelligence of the bats, but were deceived into a cold storage by the bats and almost freeze. Xuan Ji, who had just finished visiting the night market, was passing by with slippers, sat next to him for a while, and ate two kilograms of crayfish with relish. After that, he wiped his mouth, snatched a finger, summoned a big fireball, and burned a braised bat on the spot (note)... and half of the handsome eyebrows of Team Xiao were burned.

From then on, Xuan Ji had an inexplicable relationship with the Extra Control Bureau. Because of this unpredictable arson technology, he had been on the key observation list of the Extra Control Bureau. Later, because of his clean resume and law-abiding, he could not see any problems. The bureau relaxed his monitoring and tried to recruit him. Unfortunately, Xuan Ji was still in college at that time, and his mind was full of the illusion of "taking the position of CEO, marrying a rich and beautiful woman, and reaching the peak of his life". He refused without thinking and said to others casually, "Forgive me for being a bohemian and unruly love freedom all my life."

Then society taught him a lesson.

After graduation, Xuan Ji soon found that his interest in making money was far less than spending money. His hard work was always strangled by eating, drinking and having fun. After years of hard work, his greatest achievement was to accept the fact that he had no future. His main business was to be a salesperson in a small company and occasionally play live broadcasts. He was so poor that he could not help but provide some messy marketing accounts. He was a down-and-out social animal who "don't hold back his money".

Because of the industry reshuffle, their company has been half dead since the beginning of the year, and has been suffocating for several months. He is so sad. Xuan Ji has also become an unemployed young man. The marketing account that often receives his manuscripts was reported because of "feudal superstition". It can be said that it is raining all night long. The rent has to be paid and the credit card has to be paid. He loves freedom and is poor and destitute. Finally, under the beating of society, he becomes a pair of resentment with "freedom" and comes to the conclusion that work must be stable.

So he bought a book and newspaper class and prepared to take the civil service exam.

At this moment, Director Xiao, an old friend who had just been promoted, sent him a recruitment notice.

Xuan Ji would rather snatch his feet on the roadside than join the other control bureau. He could not stand the militarized management of the field players alone. However, this recruitment notice was different, and it mainly recruited logistics personnel.

The logistics and field office of the Extra Control Bureau are completely different. More than 80% of the staff in it are ordinary people. In addition to abiding by the confidentiality regulations, they are similar to ordinary civil servants. After Xuan Ji thought, ordinary civil servants are recruiting for the whole society, and they have to compete with a group of academic masters. The "civil servants" of the Extra Control Bureau are subject to the application conditions, and the competitive pressure is about no. Isn't that good?

Xuan Ji asked Director Xiao about which position he had the least registration. After that, he threw away the test paper and came to the other control bureau.

He applied for the "Aftercare Department" and participated in one round of written tests and interviews. It is said that after the information of the position was released, six contestants across the country were interested in participating in the selection. Among them, three of them failed to apply because they were over-age, could not access the Internet, and had mistaken filling in important information. The remaining two were missing the exam, and the other had some quarreled with the examiner during the interview, which did not meet the requirements of "easy-mindedness" for the position.

In this way, Xuan Ji, who was so kind, lay over two levels and "slashed" the five generals without bloodshed. As soon as he finished introducing himself during the interview, he was admitted by the examiner.

When he came to report on the first day, Xuan Ji saw that everything was fresh. As soon as he stepped onto the white marble brick at the door, the golden dragon moved, and the stone bricks shook slightly. Then, a distant and solemn dragon roar sounded, and the golden scales on the dragon's body flickered, and he drove from their feet majestic and gracefully, giving way out, and climbed a stone pillar in front of the stairs.

"The dragon is a guide. The headquarters has some external administrative windows, which can register ID cards and so on. Foreign visitors are getting temporary documents. The guide Jinlong will plan the best route for you according to the type of documents," Xiao Zheng led Xuan Ji into the door next to the stone pillar that Jinlong entrenched, "The employee passage is here."

Xuan Ji lowered his head and rubbed his eyes, and wiped his eyelids with his thumb. An open "book" floated in his field of vision, which was translucent and did not affect his vision. The corner of the "book" reads "Thousand Demons Picture Book". Wherever Xuan Ji's gaze is focused, small words will float on the pages, telling what he saw, usually only a name is displayed, and sometimes a detailed description will be provided.

When Xuan Ji was born, he had this "book" in his eyes, which may be an innate special ability. It cannot be used, and it cannot be performed except for reading. The source is unknown, and the author is unknown... The author looks uneducated - Xuan Ji was not good at foreign language when he was young, and went to college to take the CET-4 exam. He once tried to cheat with it. He opened the "Thousand Demons Picture Book" to stare at the test paper. Unexpectedly, this thing seemed to be less than the words he knew. He hesitated for a long time and finally let him faintly float the three words "Fanbang dialect".

It is like a crappy game plug-in, and most of the time it is talking nonsense. For example, at this moment, Xuan Ji is in the hall of the "Metaphysics Headquarters". He wanted to open the picture book to see what magical species he didn't know about. As he glanced over the crowd in the hall, the pages of the "Thousand Demons Picture Book" would only jump out with the word "man" dry.

"Nonsense," Xuan Ji complained, "I don't know these are called 'people'?"

The picture illustration seemed to be in line with his mind, and the word "man" disappeared immediately, and then two words were spewed out: mortal.

Xuan Ji: "..."

After being angrily closed the picture book, Xuan Ji's vision was clean. He looked into the hall - from left to right, there were a total of six partitions in the hall, and the large signs of the partitions said "Metal System", "Plant System", "Ice Water System", "Thunder and Fire System", "Spirit Or Strength System" and "Special and Others".

Among them, there were crowds of people in the "Plant System" and "Spiritual or Power System" areas, and visitors lined up to turn around. In order to maintain order, they had to pull the line. There were six or seven visitors in the "Metal System" area, and there were basically no one in the "Ice Water System", "Thunder and Fire System" and "Special and Other" areas. The staff were idle and sleepy. The external service window for the "Thunder and Fire System" was simply not opened, and they were called to help by the "Plant System" next door.

"Hey, old Xiao, old Xiao," Xuan Ji grabbed Xiao Zheng and used the partition sign hanging on the partition with a tip of his chin. "What does this mean?"

"Talk when you speak, don't touch your feet." Xiao Zheng patted his claws, "What does 'what' mean?"

"That partition—"

Xiao Zheng looked at him for no reason: "District? It is divided according to the six major genealogies. What's wrong?"

Xuan Ji was curious: "What is the 'Six Genealogy'?"

Xiao Zheng and Xuan Ji have been old friends for many years. They usually quarrel and bury each other, which is considered a fateful friendship. However, Xuan Ji has never revealed his origin to him. To this day, Xiao Zheng can only vaguely guess that Xuan Ji may have come from a secret folk special organization. As a rare "Thunder and Fire System", Xuan Ji is incredibly proficient in magic circles and talismans, and knows many unheard of things.

But strangely, sometimes he lacks common sense on some "well-known" issues.

"Special talented people are divided into six genealogies according to their different power and attributes," Xiao Zheng said briefly, "It is the mainstream classification method in modern times. The definition conditions of each genealogy are written under the partition card. Do you recognize the words? Look at it yourself."

Xuan Ji was excitedly crossing the glass window of the employee passage to observe how they demarcated the varieties for the special talented people.

The closest partition to him is the "metal system", and the big sign two meters square reads:

"Those who meet any of the following two conditions can be considered to have metal system special energy.

(1) There is a sensing ability that exceeds that of ordinary people for any one or more metals. The "induction ability" includes but is not limited to accurately perceiving the position, volume, composition ratio, forging process, free electron distribution of the metal surface, etc.;

(2) It is able to exert influence on metals without contact, including but not limited to changing the position of metal space, changing the length and shape of metals, depriving or moving free electrons in metals, changing the distribution of free electrons, etc..”

"So the 'metal system' means being able to sense metal and control metal," Xuan Ji said. "What about the person who can turn part of his body into metal? Isn't it a metal system?"

"I haven't heard of it," Xiao Zheng rolled his eyes, "How old are you? Please pay less attention to Transformers."

Xuan Ji blinked and asked again: "What about there are several attributes at the same time? For example, it can spit fire, control metal, and fly--"

"That's not our management. The organizational relationship may belong to the circus." Xiao Zheng felt that he was talking nonsense, and he ran out of patience and was too lazy to pay attention to him. He quickly walked to the administrative front desk at the end of the employee passage, knocked on the front desk table, and asked: "Work number 3-1101, the name is 'Xuan Ji', is the card ready?"

"It's ready," the receptionist at the front desk was a very popular round-faced girl. Perhaps she heard the conversation between them just now. She said to Xuan Ji with a smile, "In the six genealogies of special talents, except for the 'special and other' series, the others are basically corresponding to the traditional 'five elements' theory in my country. The 'four elements' talk about 'metal' water, fire and earth'. Therefore, although there are 'four people with multiple attributes at the same time, the obvious 'metal' and 'thunder and fire' are unlikely to appear on a person."

After hearing the girl at the front desk, Xuan Ji hesitated and muttered thoughtfully: "There is such a saying."

"Come here to sign and get the card and apply for the job." Xiao Zhengchong Xuan Ji waved.

Xuan Ji no longer thought about the special genealogy. He happily took the pen. He didn't even look at it. He signed a group of contracts and letters of information: "Is this a good idea to have a resident account? Can I buy a house in Yong'an city?"

"Yes, give it, can," Xiao Zheng replied coldly, "but do you have money?"

Xuan Ji: "..."

"You are an old man like you, you don't have to participate in the training, just join the job directly. The department and job responsibilities staff manuals are written. Go back and have a good look. Your ex can't hand over the work with you in person due to some special reasons. The department office is on the 36th floor of the ground," Xiao Zheng nodded to the front desk girl, like an emotional courier, "deliverying to the point" of Xuan Ji. He felt that his merits were fulfilled and his benevolence was fulfilled. "Your department has notified you, someone will pick you up, go up by yourself."

Director Xiao, who was busy with trouble, said that he did not give Xuan Ji a chance to talk to him, and then left. Before Xuan Ji could stop him and complain about his indifference, he saw the girl at the front desk stand up and said frankly: "Director Xiao walk slowly - Director Xuan, please welcome to join our different control bureau."

Xuan Ji was stunned: "What are you calling me?"

"Director." The front desk girl handed over his new work permit, and saw his position noted under Yicun's photo: Xuan Ji, the aftermath department, the acting head of the operation, and the acting director of the department.

Xuan Ji looked at the small card several times, a little confused: "After care department... Director? My girl, did you print the card wrong?"

The front desk girl replied: "Yes, Director Xuan, that's what I've received."

Xuan Ji was shocked: "It's expensive... Are we so unconventional in the bureau?"

The intern who has not passed the probation period is promoted to department director directly? This unit is too hasty, isn’t it a bit unreliable?

"You are too modest." The front desk girl covered her mouth and laughed. "Often we can say more to Director Xiao, we have to be happy for a long time. You are the one who he personally guided you, so you must be a very amazing and talented person."

This girl is actually Lao Xiao’s fan girl. Although Xuan Ji was praised in person, she was quite uncomfortable... She felt that she borrowed Director Xiao’s light and looked like a brother-in-law, who was born in a nepotism.

"There are very few talented people in our logistics department. As long as they are special talents, they will be treated as elite backbone. They are originally the candidates for the department director. It just so happened that Director Gong, the former director of the aftermath department, had an emergency illness and had just left the disease. He was vacant. According to Director Xiao's words, you were also an advisor to our bureau. You must have experience and ability. It is not surprising that you can take over the aftermath department directly." The front desk said, leading him in, "Come with me."

"Although..." Xuan Ji frowned slightly and thought suspiciously, "There is such a good thing?"

He won more than five yuan in lottery tickets and never ate the pie that fell from the sky. Suddenly, he tasted the freshness and couldn't get used to it, and always felt terrible.

By the way... Xuan Ji suddenly remembered that when he read the recruitment notice and left a message on his circle of friends to ask Lao Xiao "what position is the best test", Xiao Zheng did not argue with a "toilet tasting staff" on the spot, but after a while of silence, he seriously returned to him with a "aftermath" department.

Wait, did Xiao Zheng do it on purpose?

But why?

I have heard of cheating money and sex, and what is the reason for cheating people to become officials?

Xuan Ji was puzzled and walked through the administrative hall and walked to the inside of the building of the Extraordinary Control Bureau. He saw a huge dead tree in the open space in front of the elevator. He had no idea what kind of species, the trunk was about a hundred meters in diameter, surrounded by dead vines, looking from bottom to top, and it could not be seen at first sight.

Because the visual effect is too shocking, it almost looks a bit divine.

Xuan Ji looked at the tree and felt a little terrified for no reason. The girl at the front desk next to him turned around and said, "This is the 'foundation tree'. This tree was first and the headquarters building built later. Isn't it spectacular? I'll take you around?"
To be continued...