Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 586 The Company's Grand Stage: If You're Capable, Come and Join Us!
Education is one of the two core elements of the company's second five-year plan.

Zhou Yi spent a week at Sun Yat-sen University, mainly negotiating with the architect and the dragon.

He also visited the daily lives of the students and teachers.

This university is the most complex and largest architectural entity Zhou Yi has ever seen.

It is a combination of many buildings with different functions, and can accommodate 2 students for study and living, but currently there are fewer than 800 students and 80 full-time teachers.

There is still a lot of room for growth.

Unfortunately, Sun Yat-sen University is located on a forbidden continent, making its entry barrier very high. Just getting here filters out 99.99% of the world's population; ordinary people neither know where this place is nor have the money to buy a ticket to enter.

Zhou Yi suggested: "Why not set up an admissions office in the Shagang area and send teachers there to conduct open admissions every year? This would attract more high-quality students from outside. The selection process would be completed through examinations, and then the company would provide airships or ships to send the students to the forbidden mainland for enrollment."

Sun Yat-sen University readily agreed.

In return, the architect said, "Although our school doesn't have many students or teachers, we've accumulated some achievements and inventions over the years. We can license them all to you, as long as you pay the patent fees to our school."

This made Zhou Yi particularly happy.

The company has only been established for seven years. Although it has achieved rapid rise and fame by breaking through in new tracks, its lack of basic accumulation is also an objective weakness.

Compared to established powers like Heaven and Electromechanical City, this aspect is still far too limited.

Longgong has a total of over 37 papers and technological achievements, covering various fields such as ecology, clinical medicine, physics, chemistry, biology, and basic medicine.

Zhou Yi's original plan was to leave the selection of specific technologies and theories to the Recursive City for screening. Once they were confirmed as usable, they would be formally reported to Zhou Yi, who would then make the final decision on whether to purchase them.

But Sun Yat-sen University gave him a number he couldn't refuse.

"If you're willing, all of our school's patents, including those from the past and those currently in production, will be licensed to you for 10 years for just 200 million light seeds. However, patent dividends will be calculated separately."

"make a deal!"

Zhou Yi won directly.

A ten-year monopoly on patent licensing means that all the achievements of Sun Yat-sen University are exclusively owned by the company.

Dividends are a small matter.

……

After finalizing several collaborations, Zhou Yi returned to the company on Black Thorn and announced the news that same day.

On the large screen in Building No. 1, the girl-shaped Biting Cat said, "Good afternoon, viewers. Now, we have an important announcement to make. All employees of the Wasteland Development Company, please pay attention."

"The chairman has reached an educational cooperation agreement with Longgong. Shagang will serve as the examination venue for Longgong's annual admissions, conducting entrance examinations open to students from all over the world..."

"In addition, because of the high-quality students at Mushroom Forest Elementary School and their outstanding potential, they will receive five places for admission to Dragon Palace without examination each year."

"The number of places is determined based on academic performance and invention achievements. For graduating students, the top three in terms of academic performance are selected, ranked from highest to lowest. Similarly, the top two in terms of invention achievements are selected."

"For these outstanding graduates who are recommended for admission without examination, the company will pay their tuition fees and award them scholarships of corresponding levels based on their performance in college each year, in order to encourage them to continue their studies in Dragon Palace."

These two news items were released.

The residents immediately erupted in discussion, with heated debates taking place everywhere.

Other places may not know this.

However, the company's employees are very clear about the status and value of the Dragon Palace.

That used to be a place that ordinary people could never enter. Just to get to the Forbidden Continent, one needed to spend a lot of money to buy a ship ticket. After arriving, one had to find a house to settle down in and wait for the Dragon Palace to recruit students. Without expert guidance, the difficulty of getting into the school was hellish.

Dragon Palace is an exclusive high-end educational venue for the world's elite.

Outstanding graduates can even become descendants of the dragon and receive the dragon's power.

Now, as long as you attend Mushroom Forest Elementary School, you can directly enroll if you rank in the top three of your grade!

Those with inventions that rank among the top two in the school can be admitted without taking the entrance exam!

"Great opportunity! I need to make that kid study hard and give it his all!"

"Top three... that's a bit difficult, but my husband is good at manual operations and inventions, so maybe he has a chance."

"This year's competition is definitely the least intense ever! There are only 7 sixth graders, 5 out of 7!! Hahahaha! You all told me to enroll him from a young age, to let him eat school meals for a few more years, but I insisted on enrolling my son in the graduating class. Now you're dumbfounded, aren't you? Was my judgment right?! Tell me! My little guy is going to Dragon Palace next year!"

"Damn it! I miscalculated. My kid is only in third grade this year, and there are already more than 50 students. By the time he graduates, it will be extremely difficult..."

Some people are happy that someone is worried.

Overall, everyone was very excited.

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

On the screen, the host continued, "The company and Dragon Palace have also reached a talent introduction and joint training plan. Outstanding cultivators from Dragon Palace will come to various departments of the company for internships and participate in research and development and production."

"Starting in the second half of this year, Mushroom Forest Elementary School will add 7 new teachers: biology teacher Shu Yumei, light-printing teacher Troy, and physics teacher Han Ye..."

The residents all stared at the large screen in Emerald City, afraid of missing an important opportunity.

"Finally, there is a special message."

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

A huge samurai crab appeared on the projection wall, its body black and white like a cow.

"This is the company's conceptual entity, which will be officially launched today."

The camera zooms in, and the biting cat approaches the warrior crab: "Hello, please say hello to everyone."

The cow-crab waved its claws: "Hello everyone, I am the company's conceptual entity."

Zhou Yi sipped a cup of cool tea inside the Blackthorn Core, secretly observing everything.

He pondered to himself.

Lung adapted to his new identity quickly and was very cooperative with his on-screen work.

Biting Cat, holding up the microphone, asked, "So, how should we address you from now on?"

"The chairman gave me a name, 'Mr. Krabs,' everyone can call me that from now on." "Oh, that's a really easy name to remember."

The girl in the cat costume smiled and said, "So, will you be appearing with us for a long time from now on?"

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

The biting cat then asked, "So what kind of things do you mainly do?"

"It's mainly for promoting the company."

Mr. Krabs crossed his claws over his broad chest and said, “I have been authorized by the chairman to search for talented people for the company. No one with talent should be overlooked.”

It waved its pincers at the screen, as if pointing a finger at the person in front of the screen.

"If you have the ability, then I will find you and invite you to join our wasteland development company!"

Your salary and benefits will be based on your abilities.

"The company is a great platform; if you have the ability, come and join us!"

Zhou Yi almost spat out his water when he saw it.

The contrast is quite striking when the dragon transforms into a crab in a leather suit.

If I didn't know its true identity, I would never have guessed that this Mr. Krabs, who amuses everyone on screen, is the high and mighty dragon who once nearly ruled the post-divine era.

……

All done.

The dragon appeared before Zhou Yi in the form of Mr. Krabs.

"Now we can talk about that celestial being."

“It’s not that I didn’t want to tell you before, but that part of it wasn’t on me. To avoid being fragmented after being repeatedly killed, I hid the remaining part in the Dead Sea.”

Its tone became serious at this moment.

Zhou Yi frowned: "So you found this part?"

"Recovered."

The dragon said, "I hid that information in the bone fish, engraving it into their bones using my unique 'tradition,' so only I can read the information within. In fact, it spread throughout the world a long time ago."

“Even when most species go extinct, bone fish can still survive. They will keep digging out bones to continue their existence. As long as one bone exists, that information will continue to be passed on and replicated, entering the bone fish’s entire body.”

Zhou Yi pondered to himself.

This method of creating artificial biological genes is quite ingenious.

The Dragon Lord employed a clever tactic, concealing the most crucial information through the most common creatures.

"The celestial being entered here on the verge of death to become my follower because it wanted to merge with me. My 'deception' technique also originated from it."

The dragon began to recount long-forgotten stories.

"It wasn't until I became one with it that I realized it was a celestial being."

"Before that, it appeared in the form of a consciousness, which I thought was some kind of new conceptual life that I had never seen before."

"Its consciousness contains very little information, as most of it is stored within its gem body. After it completely discards its body, it can only take a very small portion with it when it projects from the sun to the Great Holy Spirit on Earth."

"It is specifically responsible for nurturing the offspring of celestial beings; I call it nurturing."

Zhou Yi asked, "Is it responsible for cultivating people with glass bones?"

"It is the cultivation of the entire celestial beings."

Long continued, "The cultivation of celestial beings involves a complete process, which is completed jointly by multiple celestial bodies. The large amount of liquid methane needed by celestial beings is collected from Titan."

"Most gemstones are processed on Venus."

"The most crucial element is the Glass People. They require a special mineral embryo, which the Celestials call the 'Intelligence Core,' which can only be produced on Jupiter and Io. Jupiter, the core production site, is unusable, leaving only a small number of Intelligence Cores on Io that are available, with extremely low yields."

Zhou Yi immediately showed the shell shelter: "Is this it?"

"Oh...wait? You have this too!"

The dragon was somewhat taken aback: "Where did you get this from...? According to the Celestials, Io is now depleted and unable to produce intelligent cores...so they cannot reproduce."

Zhou Yi thought to himself, "Just as I thought."

The ancestral land of the Cave People, which is also the core of the intelligence that can nurture the Glass People.

Zhou Yi asked, "Has Yu reached the limit of his lifespan?"

"Do not."

The dragon said, "That's the biggest problem."

"Yu was critically injured and on the verge of death, and eventually escaped to Earth."

"Fighting among their own kind?"

"No."

Long hesitated for a moment: "According to Yu's memory, it was a giant bone fish that attacked Io, killing another Celestial and severely injuring it."

Zhou Yi was a little confused by what he heard.

A bone fish takes on two Celestials and kills them... What timeline is this bone fish from?

Wait.

He suddenly remembered that the earliest Agent Number One had mentioned a powerful bone fish that rose from the ground and flew towards the sun, but it was said to have been captured by the Transmutators.

Was this person not recruited into the government?
They even got into a fight with the Celestials?

(End of this chapter)