Wasteland Development Diary

After bidding farewell to the Lord of Weapons, Zhou Yi returned to Threefork Slope by car with Yuanxiao and the Witch Hunter.

A day later.

Zhou Yi once again had the manager, Mei You, drive him all the way to the Dragon Palace in the Fifth District.

Located in the bustling city center, it had a paifang-style gate made of white jade, with clearly distinguishable vermilion Chinese characters carved at the top.

"National Zhongshan University"

The Dragon Palace was indeed a university.

Zhou Yi tried to approach the paifang, and standing there was fine, but he couldn't cross it.

An invisible barrier blocked him.

The sparse number of people entering and exiting seemed to be students from inside, some human, some Photonians, and some Mechanical Lifeforms.

Same old method.

Zhou Yi placed his hand on the white jade.

Energy input, consciousness synchronization activated.

"Pardon my intrusion, hello, Zhongshan University."

"Who are you?"

If he could communicate, that would make things easier.

After introducing himself, Zhou Yi said, "I'd like to come to your esteemed university to recruit some outstanding talents to teach in the schools of Sandport and educate the next generation of children."

"Spreading knowledge is a good thing."

The other party expressed approval: "You wish to enter the campus?"

"Yes."

"Then I will register you. However, you can only stay for 24 hours, and there are some special areas inside that you cannot enter or exit. Please understand."

"This is already very good."

A green light was released from the stone paifang, enveloping Zhou Yi, Yuanxiao, and the Witch Hunter.

After a moment, Zhongshan University said, "Blacklisted member detected. This person once caused trouble on campus, seriously affecting campus order. Cannot enter this school."

Yuanxiao emitted a red light.

Zhou Yi understood instantly. Yuanxiao had previously fought a dragon here to pick up her daughter, Niangao, and had been marked as a dangerous element.

"Wait for me outside."

"Yes."

Yuanxiao was quite calm.

Surrounded by green light, Zhou Yi and the Witch Hunter stepped through the school gate, each with a green rotating halo beneath their feet.

Passersby stopped to watch.

They had never seen such a scene before, and they began to discuss it.

"Who are those two?"

"Never seen them before. But that one outside... is the Death Angel, seems like her name is Tangyuan. She's been here before and challenged the Dragon, got thrashed pretty badly..."

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

"Looks like it."

"Does that mean they're going to challenge the Dragon? Another fight! We have to go see!"

"Find a trainee inside the Dragon Palace, have him take us in, quick, quick, doesn't your shop have a trainee working there?"

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

"I know, I know!"

Someone suddenly said, "That's Zhou Yi, the chairman of Wasteland Development Company. Yuanxiao is his assistant now. They're here to get revenge! Something big is about to happen!"

"The Mechanical City was wiped out by Wasteland Company, and they didn't dare say anything. I heard a Mechanical Unit went over there and got wiped out too. I think the Dragon is done for."

"Whoa!! This is quite the show, looks like they're going to get serious!"

"They're kicking down the front door!"

"Quick, quick, quick!! Go in and watch, find those trainees!"

A group of people chattered and quickly took action, finding connections to immediately find Dragon Palace trainees to take them in. Because each trainee could only take two people, they had to find quite a few.

The trainees were baffled, but because the others were paying, they were happy to earn some money.

A large number of outsiders poured into the Dragon Palace, searching for Zhou Yi and his group, ready to watch a great show.

...

Meanwhile.

Zhou Yi, completely unaware, was lost on campus.

He only knew that he had entered through the North Gate, as it was written on the sign at the entrance, but after entering, he didn't see a map.

There were signposts along the road, but the place names and building names on them were completely unfamiliar to him.

He stopped a passing Mechanical Lifeform with an LCD screen.

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

The other party asked, "Are you a freshman?"

"No."

Zhou Yi said, "I'm here to recruit talent for the Dragon Palace, Wasteland Development Company, have you heard of it?"

"Never heard of it."

Zhou Yi scratched his head.

His company had already started fighting with the Mechanical City groups, but this Mechanical Lifeform in front of him had never heard of it.

It seemed the company still had to work hard, it had no reputation here at all.

The other party said, "But if you can come in directly, it means you have the approval of the Dragon Palace or Lord Dragon, so there shouldn't be any problems."

"The trainees here are very scattered because everyone is studying different fields, and different colleges and industries have their own laboratories."

It said, "But since you're recruiting, I suggest you go to the Liang Qiuju Auditorium, where the graduation ceremony is held. Lord Dragon will give each trainee a final rating, thus completing the graduation ceremony."

"Thank you."

Zhou Yi took the opportunity to ask, "Are you interested in coming to our company?"

He immediately promoted his company to the other party.

"I'm sorry, I've been teaching at the Dragon Palace and have no plans to go out."

So he was a college teacher.

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

The Liang Qiuju Auditorium was a large, simple three-story conference hall.

When Zhou Yi arrived, he saw one or two trainees coming out of it.

However, he didn't have any promotional materials or signs, and he lacked pre-event publicity, so this sudden recruitment on campus was really a bit restrictive.

Should he shout here?

Wasteland Development Company is recruiting, click to get freebies?

No. Too degrading.

So Zhou Yi could only discuss it with Zhongshan University again.

"I'm not familiar with this place, so I have to trouble you. Can you use your power to inform the graduating trainees about our recruitment?"

"I can. But I can't be sure how effective it will be."

This university was surprisingly easy to talk to.

Soon.

It gave feedback: "I have issued a notice, conveying it to every graduate on campus, and also informed them of your location. Next, it's up to you."

"Thank you very much."

Zhou Yi had a good impression of this Dragon Palace.

When he asked for directions, the lecturer Kenny answered patiently, and the building lifeform itself was very peaceful and polite.

But after the announcement, no one came.

Zhou Yi was idle anyway, so he chatted with the Dragon Palace.

"There are few building lifeforms as universities. Higher education is scarce everywhere outside. Your school's graduates should be easy to employ. I wonder where they usually go to work?"

"It's not like that."

Zhongshan University said, "This school does focus on cultivating talents in various fields, and a considerable number of them are very outstanding, but the external demand is limited."

"This school's most advantageous disciplines are ecology, business administration, clinical medicine, public administration, ideological and political education, philosophy, mathematics and applied mathematics."

"But currently, in terms of employment, only medicine, mathematics, and business administration are relatively easy, mostly employed in the Heavenly Kingdom and major and medium-sized cities. The employment rate for other majors is very low because the demand is too small."

"The school also has an unshirkable responsibility for the unsolvable employment problem. The Dragon is also trying various ways to help graduates find suitable employers and organizations."

Zhou Yi realized.

The reason it was helping him was also to solve the employment problem for the graduates.

The general environment was like this.

Infrastructure was generally poor throughout the wasteland world, and many highly specialized professions lacked space to survive. The employment rate of the most professional mechanical lifeforms was also continuously declining, not only because of high salaries.

Zhou Yi suddenly came back to his senses: "Wait. Are you saying that you and the Dragon can talk?"

"No. Although the Dragon is a conceptual lifeform, we still cannot communicate directly, but we can understand each other through indirect actions. We have been cooperating for many years."

Zhou Yi raised a question he had for a long time: "Conceptual lifeforms are consciousness bodies, why can't they communicate with you?"

"Dialogue and communication involve two conscious actions of sending and receiving."

The other party patiently explained, "If building lifeforms like me directly connect with conceptual lifeforms, then the consciousness bodies will interfere with and disrupt each other. Not only will we not get a stable sending and receiving result, but it will also cause both parties' consciousness structures to become unstable, falling into extreme danger. This is a lesson we have tried."

According to its description, it was like physically connecting two brains, and the two sides would begin to have neural entanglement and conscious fights. Not to mention communication, they wouldn't even be able to operate the brain normally.

The field of consciousness was far more complex than it seemed.

While chatting, Zhou Yi finally waited for the first applicant.

The person came running panting all the way. He was an unenhanced New Human, looking in his early twenties, wearing a wrinkled black coat, and his cloth shoes had many openings.

"My name is Liang Xing, and I admire Wasteland Development Company very much!"

Zhou Yi smiled, "You know our company?"

"I know, I know."

Liang Xing said, "Your company is very strong! Very famous! Very powerful!"

"..."

He felt the other party was a bit insincere.

Zhou Yi asked, "Student, to be honest, have you heard of our company?"

"...No."

As expected.

But it was also normal. In order to apply for a job, sometimes you have to say some polite words.

Mainly, the trainees of the Dragon Palace have to study here for at least four years to become first-tier graduates. Four years ago, Wasteland Company was still in the container stage.

In addition, the Forbidden Continent was an isolated island detached from the outside world, and there were no Mech Stations services here, so information circulation was slower than the outside world.

It wasn't surprising that he didn't know the company.

"What's your major? Are you a bachelor's degree or... no, a first-tier or second-tier trainee?"

"Sir, my major is basic chemistry. I'm a first-tier trainee, graduating this year. My grades are pretty good, and I was rated as a B-level graduate by Lord Dragon!"

The young job seeker said cautiously.

Zhou Yi said, "Basic chemistry, which means you have a good understanding of basic chemical theory and experiments?"

"Yes, I have a solid knowledge and experience in this area. I have completed all courses and final exams in chemical principles, structural chemistry, chemical equilibrium in solutions, elemental chemistry, analytical chemistry, and organic chemistry."

He showed a somewhat uneasy look: "But I haven't done large-scale experiments, and I lack experience in chemical engineering and application manufacturing... It may take time to accumulate."

Zhou Yi thought to himself, it seemed that this job seeker had very little job-seeking experience. Who would expose their weaknesses right away?

But this was not a problem.

For Mushroom Forest Elementary School, such a basic chemistry teacher was enough.

Zhou Yi changed the topic: "I need to understand your family and personal situation. Can you talk about it? This is also to avoid risks."

"Of course."

Liang Xing's expression relaxed slightly: "My father is a doctor, mainly doing organ transplant surgery. I came here with my father. He lost all his family property gambling, and then he died. I was lucky enough to pass the Dragon Palace test, and the Dragon Palace basically provides food and clothing, but my grades weren't good enough for medicine at the time, so I chose chemistry."

"I'm graduating this year, but I've already passed the final assessment and received a rating from Lord Dragon. I can stay until the end of this year at most."

"I used to work outside, doing chemical metal engraving, engraving, and washing jewelry in a shop. It's very difficult for my major to find a stable job..."

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

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

"No."

Zhou Yi shook his head: "The salary for teachers at our Mushroom Forest Elementary School is 100 Light Seeds."

"100 Light Seeds!!"

The young man's breathing became heavy.

"But you are a newcomer, without teaching experience, so there is a one-year internship period. We need to confirm whether you have the ability to do this job well and teach the students there the relevant knowledge and skills. So the first year is only 80% of the probationary salary, which is 80 Light Seeds. Can you accept it?"

"Yes! I can accept it!"

Liang Xing stood up straight: "Chairman, I will definitely be a good chemistry teacher!"

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

"Then, welcome to join, Teacher Liang."

"Thank you very much!"