Education is one of the two core focuses of the company's second five-year plan.

Zhou Yi stayed at Zhongshan University for a week, primarily to continuously negotiate with this Building Life and the dragon.

He also observed the daily lives of students and teachers.

This university is the most complex and vast Building Life Zhou Yi has ever seen.

It is composed of many buildings with different functions, capable of accommodating the study and life of 20,000 students, although currently, there are less than 800 students and 80 full-time teachers.

There is still considerable room for growth.

Unfortunately, Zhongshan University is located on the Forbidden Continent, making it naturally a high threshold to cross. Just getting here filters out 99.99% of the world's population, as ordinary people do not know where this place is nor have the money to buy tickets to enter.

Zhou Yi suggested, "Why not set up an admissions office in the Sand Port Region, sending teachers there annually to publicly recruit students independently. This way, more quality students can be attracted from the outside. The selection will be completed through exams, and then the company will provide airships or ships to transport students to the Forbidden Continent for enrollment."

Zhongshan University readily agreed.

This Building Life also reciprocated: "Although our school does not have many students or teachers, over the years, we have accumulated some achievements and inventions. All of them can be licensed to you, as long as you provide patent fees to our school."

This point made Zhou Yi particularly happy.

The company, founded just seven years ago, although it has achieved rapid rise and global fame by breaking through in new fields, still objectively lacks foundational accumulation.

Compared to old forces like the Heavenly Kingdom and Mechanical City, it is still too little in this aspect.

The Dragon Palace holds over 370,000 papers and technological achievements, covering various fields such as ecology, clinical medicine, physics, chemistry, biology, and basic medicine.

Zhou Yi originally thought that the selection of which specific technologies and theories could be used would be handled by Recursive City. Once confirmed usable there, they would be formally reported to Zhou Yi, and he would make the final decision on whether to purchase them.

But Zhongshan University offered a figure he couldn't refuse.

"If you want it, all our school's patents, including past and currently producing ones, will be fully licensed to you for ten years, for only 2 million Light Seeds. However, patent dividends will be calculated separately."

"Deal!"

Zhou Yi immediately secured it.

A ten-year monopoly patent license means all results from Zhongshan University are exclusively for the company's benefit.

Dividends are just a minor consideration.

...

Having negotiated multiple collaborations, Zhou Yi returned to the company on the Black Thorn and announced this series of news the same day.

On the big screen of Building A, the girl-like Biting Cat said, "Dear audience, good afternoon. We are now broadcasting an important announcement. All employees of the Wasteland Development Company, please listen carefully."

"The chairman has reached an educational collaboration with the Dragon Palace. The Sand Port will serve as an examination site for Dragon Palace's annual student recruitment, with open exams for enrollment worldwide..."

"Moreover, due to the high-quality students of Mushroom Forest Primary School and their demonstrated excellent potential, it will receive 5 exemption from exam admissions each year from the Dragon Palace."

"These quotas are determined by academic performance and invention achievements. For the graduating class, the top three in academic performance will be selected. Similarly, for achievements, the top two will be chosen."

"For these top graduates recommended for admission, the company will pay their tuition and award corresponding scholarships based on their yearly performance at the higher education institution to encourage continued advancement at the Dragon Palace."

With these two pieces of news released,

the residents immediately burst into excitement, discussing fervently everywhere.

Perhaps other places might not understand.

But the company employees are very well aware of the status and value of the Dragon Palace.

It was a place where ordinary people could never enter. Just getting to the Forbidden Continent required significant investment to purchase tickets. After arrival, one had to find a place to settle, wait for the Dragon Palace's recruitment. Without guidance, entrance difficulty was hell-level.

Dragon Palace is a high-end educational place exclusive to the world's elite.

Outstanding graduates can even become the Dragon's Inheritor and gain the power of the dragon.

Now, just by studying at Mushroom Forest Primary School, finishing in the top three of the final grade can directly lead to admission!

With one of the top two school-ranked inventions, one can also be admitted without exams!

"Great opportunity! I have to make that kid study hard for me!"

"Top three... seems a bit tough, but my kid is pretty good in manual operations and inventions, maybe there's a chance."

"This year is definitely the least competitive year! There are only 7 people in the sixth grade, 5 are selected from 7!! Hahaha! Initially, you all said to enroll my child early, eat more years of student meals. I insisted on enrolling my son in the graduating class. Now who's foolish? Was my judgment right or not? Speak up! Next year my kid is going to the Dragon Palace!"

"Damn! Miscalculation, my kid is only in third grade this year, there are already over 50 students, by the time he graduates, it will be very challenging..."

Some are happy, some are worried.

But overall, everyone was very excited.

This is yet another upgrade in the company's education benefits.

On the screen, the electric cat host continued: "The company and the Dragon Palace have also reached an agreement on talent introduction and joint training plan. Outstanding cultivators from the Dragon Palace will intern in various departments of the company and participate in the fields of research and production."

"From the second half of this year, Mushroom Forest Primary School will add 7 new teachers, namely biology teacher Shu Yumei, Light Imprint teacher Troy, physics teacher Han Ye..."

Residents were all watching the big screen in Jade City, afraid of missing important opportunities.

"Finally, a special announcement."

Biting Cat said, "Please look at the big screen."

The projection wall displayed a large samurai crab with black and white colors like a cow.

"This is the company's concept consciousness. It will be officially unveiled starting today."

The camera zoomed in, and Biting Cat stood next to the samurai crab: "Hello, please greet everyone."

The cow crab waved its claws: "Hello everyone, I am the company's concept consciousness."

Zhou Yi drank a cup of iced tea in the Black Thorn Light Core, observing all this secretly.

He pondered in his mind.

The dragon quickly adapted to its new identity, cooperating well with screen work.

Biting Cat held the microphone and asked, "So how should we address you in the future?"

"The chairman gave me a name, 'Crab Boss'. From now on, everyone should call me that."

"Oh, that's a really memorable name."

The girl in the cat suit smiled and said, "So, will you be around us for a long time in the future?"

"Wherever the company is, that's where I'll be."

The Biting Cat asked again, "So, what will you mainly be doing?"

"Mainly promoting the company."

The Crab Boss crossed its pincers in front of its broad chest, "I have the chairman's authorization, and I will also be looking for talented individuals everywhere for the company. No talent should be buried."

It waved its pincers at the screen, like it was pointing at the people in front of the screen.

"If you have what it takes, I will find you and invite you to join our Wasteland Development Company!"

"Your salary depends on your capability."

"The company's big stage is here if you have the talent!"

Zhou Yi almost spat out a mouthful of water while watching.

Even the dragon turned into a crab suit, quite the contrast indeed.

If he didn't know its true identity, he wouldn't have associated this Crab Boss performing on screen with that lofty dragon that once ruled the post-divine era.

...

The performance ended.

The dragon, in the form of Crab Boss, appeared before Zhou Yi.

"Now we can talk about that Heavenly Person."

"Previously, it wasn't that I didn't want to tell you, but that part of it wasn't with me. To avoid being repeatedly killed and fragmented, I hid its remaining part in the Dead Sea."

Its tone also became serious at this moment.

Zhou Yi frowned, "So did you find that part?"

"I recovered it."

The dragon said, "I hid that portion of information on the Bone Fish, carving it into their bones with my unique 'Inheritance', only I can read the information within. It was actually disseminated worldwide a long time ago."

"Even if most creatures go extinct, the Bone Fish can still survive. They will keep excavating bones and continue to propagate themselves. As long as a piece of bone exists, the information will continue and replicate, entering the Bone Fish throughout."

Zhou Yi pondered.

This method of artificial biological genetics is indeed ingenious.

The dragon played a hand of deceit, using the most common creatures to conceal the most important intelligence.

"The Heavenly Person, upon near death, came here to become my follower, because it wanted to merge with me. My 'Deceit' also comes from it."

The dragon spoke of the dusty past.

"It wasn't until we merged that I realized it was a Heavenly Person."

"Before that, it appeared in the form of Consciousness, and I thought it was some new concept life I hadn't seen before."

"There was little information in its Consciousness because most of it was stored in the gemstone body. After it completely abandoned its body, projecting from the Sun to the Earth Great Saint Spirit, it could only take away a tiny portion."

"It was specifically in charge of nurturing the Heavenly Person's offspring, and I called it 'Yu'."

Zhou Yi asked, "It was responsible for cultivating glass people?"

"It is the cultivation of the entire Heavenly Person."

The dragon continued, "The cultivation of Heavenly People has a complete process, completed collectively by multiple celestial bodies. The large amount of liquid methane needed by Heavenly People is collected from Saturn's moon."

"Most gemstones are processed on Venus."

"The most critical are the glass people. Nurturing them requires a special mineral embryo, which the Heavenly People call 'Intelligence Core', only produced on Jupiter and its moon. The main production site, Jupiter, is unusable, leaving only a small number of Intelligence Cores on Jupiter's moon, with very low output."

Zhou Yi immediately unveiled the Shell Sanctuary, "Is it this?"

"Yes… Huh? You have this too!"

The dragon was a bit startled, "Where did you get it from… According to the Heavenly People, Jupiter's moon has now been depleted, and no Intelligence Core can be generated… so they are unable to reproduce."

Zhou Yi thought to himself, indeed.

The Ancestral Land of the Cave People is also the Intelligence Core capable of nurturing glass people.

Zhou Yi asked, "Is 'Yu' reaching the end of its lifespan?"

"No."

The dragon said, "That is the biggest issue."

"'Yu' was critically injured and near death, ultimately fleeing to Earth."

"Sibling rivalry?"

"No."

The dragon hesitated for a moment, "According to 'Yu's memory, a giant Bone Fish attacked Jupiter's moon, killing another Heavenly Person and severely injuring it."

Zhou Yi was a bit bewildered by this.

A Bone Fish defeating two Heavenly Persons… What kind of Bone Fish is this in which timeline?

Hold on.

He suddenly remembered, the earliest number one substitute said there was a powerful Bone Fish that rose from underground, flying towards the Sun, but it was said to have been captured by the Transformers.

Could it be that this one wasn't recruited?

And it clashed with the Heavenly People?

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