NOVPUBChapter 750 -421 Is It a Bug or an Easter Egg (First Update)_2
Chapter 750 -421 Is It a Bug or an Easter Egg (First Update)_2
“Sure, well done. Give this to the teachers in the administration department and have them help with it.”
“Okay, principal. The Director of the Internal Affairs Department has prepared the statistical report for this academic year, and we hope you can take a look and sign it when you have time.”
“No problem, go ahead.”
Watching the Slime roll away, Xiemen Waidao asked in even more astonishment, “You have your own administrative system too?”
“Yeah, a total of three hundred and ten people, all former students who stayed on after being transformed into administrative teachers. The system management here is quite efficient, and some tools make this place more comfortable. Not only that, we also have teachers of various levels, including one hundred and twenty-three specialty teachers, five hundred and sixty-two level one teachers, one thousand four hundred and sixty level two teachers, and level three teachers…”
Xiemen Waidao interrupted Liuzi and hurriedly asked, “How are these levels determined?”
“By the number of top-level teaching skills one possesses—five or more for specialty teachers, four for level one, and so on. I’ve found that the more top-level teaching skills one has, the more likely it is to trigger a domino effect during lectures, making the teaching more efficient. Oh right, I forgot to ask, how many teachers does your school have?”
“I…”
Seeing that Xiemen Waidao didn’t speak, Liuzi didn’t press further, displaying the composure of a superior being.
Continuing to lead Xiemen Waidao, Liuzi pointed to a large building that resembled an opera house and said, “This is our school’s auditorium where students are currently holding a cultural performance. Among the students, there are quite a few musically talented ones. The Goddess of Art is responsible for picking these individuals out and then training them collectively.”
“That’s pretty extravagant!”
“Not at all, I’m wealthy now. Just wait a minute…”
Telling Xiemen Waidao to hold his tongue for a moment, Liuzi raised his hand and asked him to listen carefully.
From the opera house, a melodious singing voice could be heard, crisp and melodious, with a pure and flawless tone that made one reluctant to leave.
After listening to the song, Liuzi reflected, “They really are a good group of students.”
“Where did you find these good students?”
“Through continuous recruitment. Once the base population increases, naturally there will be good students. We’ve adopted a scientific system for streaming students; the poor students we let indulge in luxuries so, even though they don’t learn anything, at least they won’t do bad things and they will still give me money afterward. The good students, I invest money in training them, and after they graduate, they help promote our good reputation, bringing in better students.”
“There’s a reputation system in this game?”
Liuzi looked at Xiemen Waidao, puzzled, “You’ve been playing for so long, and you didn’t know about the reputation system?”
“No wonder I haven’t been getting any new students lately! But what if those pleasure-seeking students run out of money?”
“I used to kick them out, but later I found I could create some places for students to work, although I don’t know why that place is called the Spirit Gathering Platform. Students who are out of money can go there to work, and those who are eager to learn can apply for scholarships and student loans, or participate in the school’s assessments. If they pass, they can also get rewards. So, even if these people don’t like studying, in order to continue staying here, they choose to learn something practical and are unconsciously transformed.”
After seeing a content Liuzi and then reminiscing about his own gloomy school, Xiemen Waidao felt that he had lost quite thoroughly this time.
“Just you wait!”
Not wanting to listen any longer, Xiemen Waidao decisively left and returned to his own school to cry.
Watching Xiemen Waidao leave with satisfaction, Liuzi murmured, “Being invincible is indeed lonely.”
The Goddess of Art, standing by his side, noticed that her child was getting naughtier.
Before long, Liuzi made his gameplay public, causing a shift in the game’s environment.
The previous approach was mostly Xiemen Waidao’s prison strategy, mainly centered on tormenting and then extorting money from the students.
However, with more players engaging in this gameplay, the demons inside Heaven-Opening Blocks have come to know which places to avoid. Some excessively exploitative areas completely ignore players, eliminating the possibility of extortion right from the source.
But when Liuzi’s teaching method was introduced, the demons here were pleasantly surprised to discover such a great place.
Though some demons might never repent for their entire lives, as long as those who could be reformed were pulled out and had a change of heart, the school’s education efforts would not have been in vain.
They came here excitedly and spent all the money in their pockets at the various entertainment facilities, then continued to work here. The spiritual energy they earned would be spent here again, making them a part of this vast system.
Those who were amenable to reform used the funds provided by these individuals to actively reform themselves, turning into pillars of the community.
Among them, a group that completed the reform stayed on as teachers. If they weren’t interested in staying, they could accept the invitation from Zhiyi Heavenly Lord to go to Immortal Village for further reform and then study the situation here together.
While this method wasn’t simple, playing the game this way clearly provided a greater sense of accomplishment than pursuing Xiemen Waidao’s prison-style gameplay.
After all, everyone has a bit of an aesthetic pursuit, and not everyone is a pervert who likes environments that look downright weird.
So, not long after Liuzi published his method, a large number of players learned it, transforming this place completely.
In the forums, the former prison approach was immediately replaced by the new style. Players also began actively discussing the novel gameplay and created new variations based on it.
[Everyone, I always feel that my personnel turnover is a bit slow. Is there any way to graduate students more quickly?]
[You could adjust the academic year, allowing students to graduate in two years. However, I don’t particularly recommend it, because the graduation rate would be quite low.]
[No worries, I just want some people who can work. A lower graduation rate isn’t bad—it allows them to enroll again and continue working and entertaining me.]
[My workers seem quite depressed and not in a great mood. I’ve built entertainment facilities, but they are unwilling to spend money here. How can I fix this?]
[You’re taxing them too high, and you also schedule too much work time for them every day. How can they be happy then? Lower the taxes and upgrade the Spirit Gathering Array. This way, their work efficiency and the spiritual energy they earn will increase, and the entertainment facilities will also pick up.]
[I see, wait, why do I suddenly feel something is off?]
Thanks to the players’ efforts, modern schools rose from the ground, bringing new life to the previously barren Heaven-Opening Blocks for the first time.
Outside the ninth layer of this Heaven-Opening Block, Zhiyi Heavenly Lord looked at the group of students who had just graduated in front of him and nodded in satisfaction.
He tested each one of them, and nearly all had shed the influence of the Demon Lord and returned to the right path.
After personally infusing them with spells, Zhiyi Heavenly Lord said with satisfaction, “Great Heavenly Lord, you were right. These players are indeed quite remarkable.”
Fang Cheng looked on with satisfaction at Dustfire, equally content.
He knew that the logic of game players was different from the ordinary, making even the most bizarre places playable.
And indeed, these players lived up to expectations, showing him their unique ways of thinking.
Although he initially felt as though he failed again with Xiemen Waidao’s prison-style play at the start, it was no small feat for Liuzi to take charge and steer things back on course.
It seemed that adversity could be situation-dependent; putting two adversaries together might just create a canceling effect, bringing his game back on the right track.
Just as Fang Cheng felt that this time he might be successful, an unsettling piece of news popped up on the forum. 𝓃𝓸𝓋𝓅𝓾𝒷.𝒸ℴ𝓂
[Guys, could you help check this out? Is it a bug or an Easter egg?]
