After saying goodbye to the Warlord, Zhou Yi took Yuan Xiao and the Witch Hunter back to Tri-Branch Slope by car.

A day later.

Zhou Yi let the steward, Mei You, drive him all the way to the Dragon Palace in the fifth district.

Situated in the bustling area, it featured a Han White Jade archway with a gate, and the vermilion Chinese characters carved on top were still distinct.

"National Zhongshan University"

So, the Dragon Palace is really a university.

Zhou Yi tried to approach the archway; standing here was fine, yet he could not step across it.

There was an invisible barrier blocking the way.

Those entering and exiting sporadically seemed to be students from inside, including humans, Guangna Species, and Mechanical Life.

The old method.

Zhou Yi placed his hand on the Han White Jade.

Energy input, synchronize consciousness to open communication.

"Excuse my intrusion, hello, Zhongshan University."

"Who are you?"

Since it could talk, that would make things easier.

After Zhou Yi introduced himself, he said: "I wish to recruit some outstanding talents from your university to teach at our school in Sand Port, educating the next generation of children."

"Spreading knowledge is a good thing."

The other party expressed approval: "Do you want to enter the campus?"

"Yes."

"Then I'll make a registration for you. However, you can only stay for 24 hours, and there are certain special areas that you won't be able to access; please understand."

"This is already very good."

A green light emitted from the stone archway, enveloping Zhou Yi, Yuan Xiao, and the Witch Hunter.

Moments later, Zhongshan University said: "Detected a member on the blacklist; this person once caused trouble in the school and severely disrupted the internal order, and cannot enter this school."

Yuan Xiao emitted a red light.

Zhou Yi immediately understood. Previously, in order to fetch his daughter Nian Gao, Yuan Xiao had fought with a dragon here and had been marked as a dangerous figure.

"You wait for me outside."

"Yes."

Yuan Xiao was quite calm.

With the green light swirling around, Zhou Yi and the Witch Hunter stepped into the campus, each with a green rotating halo under their feet.

Passersby all stopped to watch.

They had never seen such a scene before, and it sparked much discussion among them.

"Who are those two?"

"Never seen them. But that one outside… is the Angel of Death, seems like she's called Tang Yuan. She's been here before; challenged the dragon and got heavily defeated..."

"Could it be that the Angel of Death has brought reinforcements?"

"Looks like it."

"Could it be that they are here to challenge the dragon again? It's going to be a fight! We've got to go see this!!"

"Find one of the advanced learners inside Dragon Palace, let him take us in, hurry, hurry, doesn't your shop have an advanced learner working there?"

"You're saying they're going to fight?"

"I know, I know!"

Suddenly someone said: "That's Zhou Yi, the chairman of Wasteland Development Company. Now Yuan Xiao is his assistant, and here they are, looking for a showdown! Big things are coming!"

"Mechanical City was wiped out by Wasteland Company, and neither side dared say anything. I heard a mechanical troop went there and got decimated too, looks like the dragon is going down."

"Wow!! This situation looks serious!"

"They're going straight to their door to challenge!"

"Hurry, hurry!! Go inside, find those advanced learners!"

A crowd quickly got moving, frantically finding contacts to immediately locate advanced learners from the Dragon Palace to take them inside. Since each advanced learner could only bring two people, they had to find quite a few.

The advanced learners were perplexed by the sudden request but were paid, so they were happy to make some money.

A large number of outsiders poured into Dragon Palace, beginning to search for traces of Zhou Yi and his group, ready to watch a big show.

…

Meanwhile.

Completely unaware, Zhou Yi was lost inside the campus.

He only knew he had entered through the North Gate, as indicated on the entrance sign, but he saw no upright maps once he entered.

There were directional signs by the road, but the various site and building names on them completely baffled him.

He stopped a liquid crystal screen Mechanical Life passing by.

"Excuse me, where is the most crowded place here?"

The other party counter-asked: "Are you a new student?"

"No."

Zhou Yi said: "I am here to recruit talent for Wasteland Development Company; have you heard of it?"

"Never heard of it."

Zhou Yi scratched his head.

It seemed remarkable that his company, despite clashing with the Mechanicalнурs the Mechanical were unaware of them.

It seemed the company still needed more effort; it was completely unknown here.

The other continued: "But since you managed to come in directly, you must have been recognized by Dragon Palace or Lord Dragon, so there should be no problems."

"The advanced learners here are quite scattered, as everyone practices in different fields, and different academies and industries have their own labs."

It said: "However, since you are here to recruit, I suggest you go to the Liang Xing Auditorium, where the graduation ceremony is held. Lord Dragon will grant each advanced learner their final rating, thus completing the graduation ceremony."

"Thank you."

Zhou Yi took the opportunity to ask: "Are you interested in joining our company?"

He then promoted the company for a while.

"Sorry, I have been teaching at Dragon Palace all the time, no plans to venture out."

So he was a university professor.

This Mechanical Life named Kenny was a physics teacher with many years of teaching experience, but Zhou Yi could only regretfully thank him and say goodbye after the conversation.

The Liang Xing Auditorium was a very plain-looking, large three-level meeting hall.

Upon his arrival there, Zhou Yi saw one or two advanced learners coming out from the inside.

However, lacking any promotional materials himself and without prior publicity, this sudden on-campus recruitment felt quite constraining.

Maybe shout here?

Wasteland Development Company is hiring, click and get a prize?

No, that's too degrading.

So Zhou Yi had no choice but to discuss again with Zhongshan University.

"I'm not familiar with the area, I'll need to trouble you. Can you use your influence to inform the current graduates about our recruitment?"

"Yes, I can. But I'm not sure about the effectiveness."

The university was surprisingly easy to negotiate with.

Very soon.

It reported back: "I have issued the notice, reaching every graduate on campus, and informed them of your location. The rest is up to you."

"Thank you very much."

Zhou Yi had a good impression of Dragon Palace.

When he arrived and asked for directions, instructor Kenny patiently answered, and the Building Life itself was also very calm and polite.

But still no one showed up after the announcement.

With nothing else to do, Zhou Yi chatted with Dragon Palace.

"As a Building Life of a university, there are few, and higher education is scarce everywhere, your graduates should be very employable. I wonder where they generally find jobs?"

"That's not the case."

Zhongshan University said: "Our school indeed focuses on cultivating talents in various fields, and a considerable portion of them are excellent, but the external demand is limited."

"Our school's strongest disciplines are ecology, business administration, clinical medicine, administrative management, ideological and political education, philosophy, mathematics and applied mathematics."

"But in terms of employment, only medicine, mathematics, and business management are relatively easier, mostly employed in Heavenly Kingdom and major urban centers. The employment rate for other majors is very low, because the demand is too small."

"The unemployment problem is also our school's responsibility, and the Dragon is trying to help graduates find suitable employers and organizations through various means."

That's when Zhou Yi found out.

It must be also wanting to solve the problem of graduate employment.

Due to the large environment.

Infrastructure is generally poor everywhere in the Wasteland World, and many highly specialized jobs lack survival space. Even the employment rate for the highly specialized Mechanical and Electrical Life is declining, not just because of high salaries.

Zhou Yi suddenly snapped back to reality: "Wait. Are you saying that you and the Dragon can talk?"

"No. Although the Dragon is a Concept Life, we still can't communicate directly, only can understand each other through indirect actions. We have been cooperating for many years."

Zhou Yi raised a long-held doubt: "Concept Life is a Consciousness, why can't it talk to you?"

"Communication involves emitting and receiving two conscious actions."

The other side patiently explained: "Direct interaction between Building Life like me and Concept Life means our consciousnesses will interfere and disrupt each other. Not only would we not achieve a stable transmission result, but it could also lead to instability in both parties' consciousness structures, leading to extreme danger. This is a lesson we have learned."

According to its description, it was like physically connecting two brains, and both sides start tangling nerves and fighting over consciousness. Not to mention communication, it is impossible to normally operate brains.

The realm of consciousness is much more complex than it seems.

During the chat, Zhou Yi finally waited for the first applicant.

The visitor ran all the way, panting. He was a new human not enhanced, looking to be in his early twenties, wearing a wrinkled black jacket, and his cloth shoes were also quite torn.

"My name is Liang Xing, I greatly admire Wasteland Development Company!"

Zhou Yi smiled: "You know our company?"

"Yes, yes."

Liang Xing said: "Your company is very strong! Very famous! Very capable!"

"..."

He felt the other party was somewhat insincere.

Zhou Yi asked: "Honestly, have you heard of our company?"

"…No."

As expected.

But that's normal, sometimes you have to say some pleasantries for an application.

Especially since Dragon Palace's advanced learners, at least study here for four years before they can become first-level graduates. Four years ago, Wasteland Company was still in the container stage.

Plus, Forbidden Continent is an isolated island disconnected from the outside world, there are no Machine Stack services here, so information circulates much slower than outside.

Not knowing the company is also not surprising.

"What's your major? Undergraduate or… no, first-level or second-level advanced learner?"

"Sir, my major is basic chemistry, I am a first-level advanced learner, graduating this year. My grades are quite good, I was rated as a B-level graduate by Lord Dragon!"

The young job seeker carefully said.

Zhou Yi said, "Basic chemistry, so that means you are fairly familiar with the basic theories and experiments of chemistry?"

"Yes, I am very solid in my knowledge and experiments. Chemical principles, structural chemistry, chemical equilibrium in solutions, element chemistry, analytical chemistry, organic chemistry, I have completed all the full courses and final exams."

He showed a somewhat awkward expression: "However, I have not conducted large-scale experiments, and in terms of chemical engineering and practical manufacturing… I lack experience and might still need time to accumulate."

Zhou Yi thought to himself, it seems this job seeker has little experience, who starts by exposing their weaknesses right away.

But this was not a problem.

For Mushroom Forest Primary School, such a basic chemistry teacher was already sufficient.

Zhou Yi changed the topic: "I need to know about your family and personal situation, can we talk about it? This is also to avoid risks."

"Of course."

Liang Xing relaxed a bit: "My father is a doctor, mainly performing organ transplant surgeries. I came here with my father, he gambled away all our property, and later died. I was lucky, I passed the Dragon Palace test, practically everything for eating and clothing was provided by the Dragon Palace, but my grades were not enough for medicine, so I chose chemistry."

"I am graduating this year, but I have already passed the final assessment and received a rating from Lord Dragon, I can only stay until the end of this year."

"Before this, I worked part-time, doing chemical metal carving, engraving plates, and cleaning jewelry in a shop. It's not easy in my field to find a stable job..."

"I heard before, the Floating Heart of Wasteland Development Company, it's very miraculous. Unfortunately, I have never seen the real thing."

Zhou Yi nodded: "What are your salary expectations?"

The young man hesitated for a moment and said: "3… Light Seeds?"

"No."

Zhou Yi shook his head: "Over there at Mushroom Forest Primary School, teacher's salary is 100 Light Seeds."

"100 Light Seeds!!"

The young man's breathing became heavy.

"But you're new, with no teaching experience, so there's a one-year probationary period, we need to confirm whether you have the ability to do this job well, to teach the students there relevant knowledge and skills. So the first year is only 80% of the probationary period salary, which is 80 Light Seeds. Can you accept that?"

"I can! I accept!"

Liang Xing straightened his body: "Director, I will definitely be a good chemistry teacher!"

Zhou Yi smiled and extended his hand, shaking hands with the other party.

"Then, welcome aboard, Teacher Liang."

"Thank you very much!"

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