In any given world, only a small number of people ultimately qualified to become players.
If someone had lived inside [Noah's Ark] yet still failed to obtain Player Qualification, then they were destined to have no connection to being a player for the rest of their life... unless they could acquire an exceedingly Rare Player Qualification card.
While a [Player Qualification card] could allow someone to obtain Player Qualification unconditionally, even an ancient Large Organization like the [Night Watcher] had little stock of such an immensely precious item, let alone anyone else.
In any world, ordinary people were the mainstream.
The reasoning behind this was actually quite simple.
The measure of a nation's civilization had never been how tall its buildings were, how fast its cars were, or how powerful its weapons and imposing its military were. Nor was it how advanced its technology was, how refined its art was, how luxurious its meetings were, how dazzling its fireworks were, or even how many tourists went abroad in grand fashion and bought out the entire world.
There had always been only one standard by which to judge it.
—Its attitude toward vulnerable groups.
In a world of this End-of-Dharma era, cut off from the supernatural, ordinary people were the vulnerable group compared to players.
In this regard, the Relevant Department had done exceptionally well. Compared to those foreign player warlords who had already claimed territory as kings, the domestic environment was far better.
But in Positive and Negative's view, this was still not enough.
Within the circle of Researchers, she had been a complete Inhuman Existence from the very beginning.
She did not care about the process, only the results. When selecting research projects, her goals were frighteningly clear.
This research institute built high atop Jianmu had not initially contained