Eighth Research Institute

The **Eighth Research Institute** is a very mysterious organization which basically don’t have any contact with other factions and seem to be self-sufficient. They only occasionally use smugglers to obtain special items. However, their commissioners, such as Qiao Chu, often appear in the Ashlands.

It's believed that this organization is a remnant of the Old World. Some people suspect that they are gathering all kinds of information to establish a new world. Others suspect that they are destroying clues and burying the real reason for the Old World’s destruction.

## Personnel

Eighth Research Institute’s current personnel composition was divided into three categories. The first was the survivors of the Old World’s destruction who married each other and left behind descendants. Back then, the Eighth Research Institute hadn’t suffered much damage, nor did many people contract the Heartless disease—it was very similar to the situation in Ceningmis. The second was the batches of fresh blood that the Eighth Research Institute’s commissioners brought back from the Ashlands over the years. The third was the children born by the ‘natives’ and these fresh blood.

The Eighth Research Institute’s children would undergo tests when they were young and memorize all kinds of prices and their corresponding domains. When they were 17 or 18 years old, they would end off with an Awakening as their graduation exam.
Those who could successfully Awaken would undergo further studies. They would then be assigned different jobs according to the price they paid and the abilities they obtained. Some were in charge of internal affairs, some were commissioners, and some became reviewers or researchers.

Those who couldn’t Awaken could only do odd jobs, participate in all kinds of production lines, be research assistants, farm in the hot spring valley, or take on a lower-ranking administrative position. As for cleaning the research institute, that was left to ordinary robots.

In the Eighth Research Institute’s system, such people were considered ordinary employees. They could at most be promoted to Research Assistant unless they had outstanding scientific talent.
Similarly, they had to rely on their qualifications or make considerable contributions to have a chance of being provided genetic enhancement serums.

Awakened were ‘graduate students’ who were one level higher than ordinary employees in the beginning and enjoyed all kinds of benefits. When they completed their studies and completed the many missions assigned to them, they would be promoted to lecturers.
Further Promotion to Research Assistant is possible.

The non-negotiable condition to become a Researcher was that they had to enter the Mind Corridor.
If the Researchers had made great contributions and had yet to explore the Mind Corridor’s depths, the Eighth Research Institute often gave them a more honorary title—Associate Professor.

All Awakened who had explored the Mind Corridor’s depths were Professors, but not every Professor was a member of the Professors’ Association. Only those who had obtained the recommendations of at least half of the quartet—Vice President, Charlie, Professor Li, and Doctor—could enter the ranks of Eighth Research Institute’s core team.
The employees in the research institute liked to call the members of the association ‘tenured professors.’

## Members

* Qiao Chu
* Khal
* Vice President
* Charlie
* Professor Li
* Doctor
* Professor Qin

1. ↑ Chapter 82
2. ↑ Chapter 854