Basic Survival Course
After breakfast, Ye Miaomiao accompanied the Xiangzhi people to the visitor center and helped them make a travel plan.
The delicious food that was originally so numerous that it was annoying to not know where to start has been connected into a route for eating and shopping from morning to night, interspersed with newly built museums, food DIY workshops, etc.
The people of Balsam Star were so pleased that they asked in surprise, "We didn't have these yesterday, how come..."
Ye Miaomiao smiled shyly and said, "Eng Eng E is just a small place. When we saw so few of you came here to visit, we assumed you didn't like it, so we didn't build any tourist facilities. These were temporarily built yesterday to meet your needs."
The people of Balsam Star were deeply moved.
In the interstellar world, their people are huddled together on their own small planets. When they go out to work, they are always treated unfairly because of their "disabilities." Travel is even more impossible. Those tourist planets take their money but act like the bosses. Those who don't know better would think that the people of Balsam Star are begging and longing to travel there!
Who are the inferior races? They also need dignity!
"We don't dislike Ehehe!" the tour leader felt compelled to declare. "It's just that you've just opened it to tourism, so not many people know about it. I guarantee that anyone who comes to Ehehe will love it."
Ye Miaomiao sighed somewhat melancholy: "I hope so."
"Really!" the group leader quickly flicked on the screen. "Look, I've already recommended him to my friends. He's a famous livestreamer on our planet exploring restaurants. When he comes, he's sure to bring in a wave of traffic. Then you'll see how great Hunger Hunger really is as a tourist destination."
There is still tap water? Ye Miaomiao looked at his light screen, which clearly read -
"I found a good place to treat illnesses and maintain health. Baldy, come quickly!"
Ye Miaomiao: “…”
Ye Miaomiao looked at him hesitantly. Isn't this tap water really attracting hatred from E E E?
Realizing what he had shown Ye Miaomiao, the team leader was embarrassed: "We're just friends, just joking... and eating stinky food can really cure hair loss. Not only me, but several of them have also recommended it to their relatives and friends! I'm just about to ask for leave! You, Lord, will receive the application soon."
Ye Miaomiao smiled and said something expectantly, and at this moment finally revealed her true purpose: "Excuse me, I want to place a few food advertisements on your planet, is that okay with you?"
"Of course!" the team leader said immediately. "I'm not saying anything about your previous ad. It was just a bunch of boring words, like... beautiful scenery, fresh air, tourist destination... and the smallest print in the newspaper. If I hadn't searched for stinky sac, I definitely wouldn't have come... I'm not saying you're bad, it's just..."
Perhaps not wanting to say anything disparaging about Heng Heng, he hummed for a moment, then couldn't find any merit in the previous ad. He quickly changed the subject, "If we were to film a food commercial, I guarantee there would be even more people willing to come to Heng Heng."
"I happen to know someone who works in this field. I'll send him a message and ask..."
Ye Miaomiao thanked them gratefully. She had originally only intended to ask them about the Xiangzhixing ad and then contact customer service to place it. But she hadn't expected them to be so willing to help. Furthermore, according to what they had said... customer service was even worse at advertising than she had imagined.
"What about cooperating with your official tourism bureau?" Ye Miaomiao asked.
"This..." Several people from Xiangzhi Star looked at each other, somewhat at a loss. "We don't know about cooperation with the official, but currently the official partners are either large tourist attractions or places frequented by Xiangzhi people. If we must cooperate, I'm afraid we will have to pay a lot...of price." This seemed completely unnecessary to them.
Ye Miaomiao understood. It wasn’t that she couldn’t cooperate, but that she wasn’t qualified enough.
But she was not discouraged, and smiled and said she understood: "I hope that day will come."
The members of the Xiangzhi Star tour group also nodded affirmatively: "Of course I will. I will come here often in the future!"
"Me too! Me too!"
"Hungry, hungry, hungry, after that, it will be my distant hometown!"
Although their tone was a bit exaggerated, it was at least six points sincere. After all, a few tourists had just asked for a few extra days off and decided to take a four-day, three-night trip.
"I won't bother you anymore." Ye Miaomiao said goodbye to a few people, and at the same time, several visa applications were received on the light screen.
She handed her visa application to the visitor center for completion, then happily went to Ming'er to work on a food commercial. This time, she secretly decided to invest more money in Ming'er to produce a few high-quality commercials that would dazzle the eyes of the people of Balsam Star!
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Beginning of Spring Star.
Toby is on a video call with his grandfather Knox.
In his arms was a pony, the one Knox had picked out the day before yesterday from a farm with the most beautiful fur. He had taken advantage of the spaceship delivery yesterday to send it along as a gift for his grandson.
"Grandpa, I love it so much!" Toby was overjoyed. "Brother Hu came to see my Pearl yesterday. He said it was the first one on the planet and taught me how to feed it. He said that when I grow up, I can ride on Pearl and become a glorious, real cowboy!"
Knox sternly warned Toby that he could not ride Pearl yet, and the latter swore on his cowboy dignity.
"What are your parents doing lately?" Knox asked.
"Mom and Dad are in class every day..." Toby slumped his shoulders. "Every day when they get home, they have to study in front of a screen. If they don't study hard, the teacher will scold them. They are so tired..."
"People always have to learn, just like if you want to be a cowboy, how can you succeed without learning?"
Toby cheered up, "Then I want the teacher to scold me too! But Brother Hu said I'm too young to learn so much. I need to complete compulsory education first. When I grow up a little, I can immediately start interest classes..."
The child quickly changed the subject, "My classmates envy me because I have Pearl. They ask me every day what happened to Pearl. I wish it would be better if Brother Skye was here."
"Grandpa, what happened to Brother Skye?"
Knox didn't know what had happened to Skye. The Hungry Hungry screen was different from the game screen, so he couldn't transfer any points or supplies. So he simply didn't ask. However, the group often sent him messages to say hello and occasionally mentioned their recent situation.
Noah's Ark was still the same, so Knox guessed that Skye was not doing well either.
Knox made up a lie, and when he heard Toby was going to hand the light screen to his mother, he quickly said goodbye and hung up the phone - Knox's daughter has always been a person who attaches great importance to education, and he was worried that he would lie to his grandson and be exposed by his daughter.
After hanging up the phone, Knox sighed and opened the chat interface with Skye and others. Thinking thoughtfully about the online class Toby had just mentioned, he sent a private message to Ye Miaomiao.
"Start a basic survival course?" Ye Miaomiao looked at Knox's words and fell into self-doubt.
Didn't she open one?
As far as she could remember, there were open basic courses. People who were not hungry could learn intermediate and lower life skills in the hungry school district, but the tuition fees were higher than those for locals. *Note 1
After a moment, Ye Miaomiao realized it.
Given the current situation of being in space, this course exists, but it is equivalent to not having it. Those who need to learn it can't go into space, and those who don't need it don't need to go into space.
She had no choice but to tell Knox about the situation, but Knox seemed to have already had an idea and mentioned the matter of online classes - recently the residents of Lichun Star have been taking online classes, so it would be better to expand the scope of students so that people who are not hungry can also study.
Ye Miaomiao agreed to his request without hesitation.
She had originally wanted to offer basic courses, but she had been too busy in the past and neglected this. Since Knox proposed an idea that cost almost nothing, she had no reason to refuse it, and it could also generate income for the teachers in her own school district.
Knox sent a smiley emoji. "Can the tuition be paid in installments? That way, those who don't have money now but can earn money after learning the skills can also have the opportunity to study. With 100 points in hand, I'm sure no one will refuse to return the points to our territory."
Ye Miaomiao would have done the same thing even without him saying it. She replied with a "hmm", handed the task to the school district, and continued to discuss the advertising matter.
The E E E school district decided to trial its first online course in the field of plant cultivation, a field with the largest number of teachers. The first lesson, "Characteristics of Common Vegetables and How to Improve Harvesting Efficiency," has just been released and will begin at 6:00 PM tomorrow. Within minutes of posting it on the E E E store, the comment section quickly amassed hundreds of comments, pushing it to the top of trending searches.
"Oh my god, this is an intermediate course!"
"Am I crazy or am I just starving? Can I sell the intermediate course?"
"God blesses those who work hard. After waiting for so long, I finally found a real good thing. What if I put it in the wrong place? I'll report it first."
"The one above, what if the money is not refunded?"
"What are you thinking? Don't you know? A long time ago, when the school district was not yet called a school district but a technical college, it already started offering basic courses."
"The basic courses mentioned above include intermediate courses."
"Yes, I was from a nearby territory at the time, and I traveled thousands of miles to study. Unfortunately, my family was all here at the time, and the journey was too difficult, so I didn't move. Now I think I should have been more decisive."
"Oh my god! Why didn't I spawn next door?"
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In short, this intermediate course, which focused on improving planting skills, consisted of thirty lessons. The price was only thirty credits, and one could sign a contract to attend the lessons for free, as long as the credits were paid back within three months.
Everyone learns, only fools don't learn.
Compared to beginner skills, intermediate skills yield more resources for the same amount of labor time. This is a significant investment in yourself; as long as you learn to farm, harvest, or even have some connection to these areas in the future, you will reap unexpected benefits.
This is the power of knowledge, and this precious knowledge was once firmly held in the hands of a few people.
Skye and the others received a special message from Nox, and they cried and laughed and hugged each other, as if they were having a carnival.
"Okay, I understand how you all feel, but dinner time is short and we have to go back to work. Come and eat!" said the leading boy with a smile.
After Skye finished his meal, he continued to do chores at his master's house.
This person happened to be a person with intermediate planting skills. In Noah's Ark, he could afford to hire two handymen to do the work because he had intermediate skills, but now it was different... Maybe Skye would be fired soon, but before that, he wanted to get a few more days' salary.
Skye was ordered to clean up the bedroom. When he walked into the bedroom, he was shocked by the messy items on the floor.
"Laugh? Are you laughing?" The man slapped Skye hard in the face, "Fuck! Fuck!" He kicked the only table lamp that was still standing by the door to the ground, venting his emotions.
Skye's face was slapped to the side, but she stared at the broken lampshade on the ground in a daze.
"Clean up!" After the host gave the order, he went to sit on the sofa outside.
Skye did as he was told, picking up the broken things on the ground with heartache and putting them back in their places one by one.
During the process, he heard a heavy sigh coming from outside the door: "What should I do..."
Skye didn't know what to do. They couldn't waste things anymore, they couldn't hire workers like slaves, they couldn't give alms out of their superiority. What should they do?
After work, he prepared to go to another workplace.
He met many well-dressed people sighing on the way, and even caught a glimpse of his former teacher from afar. The man was carrying a large bag of gifts and trotting hurriedly towards the senior staff accommodation. It was obvious what he was going to do with his toes.
Skye looked at his anxious back and laughed out loud with an inexplicable sense of schadenfreude.
Would someone with advanced skills teach him? Skye didn't think so. He'd heard of someone desperate enough to beg from door to door, just wanting to learn intermediate skills, a skill that wouldn't threaten the status of a master, yet no one taught them.
All the same, even more cold-blooded.
But Skye didn't think they could remain cold-blooded for much longer. A blazing fire flashed in his eyes. Things would change. They should all try to live like ordinary people. If they didn't know what to do, they could ask the 90% of people on Noah's Ark what to do in this hell they had turned a blind eye to.
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