Credits
This must be considered a school store, right? As Yue Yuan listened to the staff's introduction, an image of a school store appeared in his mind.
According to a Ministry of Education official, the items sold in school shops are tiered. These everyday items are considered basic and are tied to the elementary school district. To obtain items such as steel knives, Iron Farm Tool, glass, tile radios, and cameras, one must achieve sufficiently good grades and advance to a secondary school, as these items are tied to the secondary school district.
To step into the God of Light Kingdom envisioned by humanity and gain the opportunity to travel to the future, one must continue their education and acquire higher knowledge.
Humans do this primarily to motivate the Dog-Headed People with benefits and rewards. Although humans hold the title of God of Light in the Volcano Kingdom, they are not foolish enough to believe that a title alone will suffice.
When it comes to enlightenment, it's impossible to just stay at the level of deception.
Yue Yuan nodded in satisfaction. Judging from this trend, it would probably be long before various snacks suitable for Dog-Headed People appeared.
Well, human snacks can't be given directly to Dog-Headed People, after all, they're aliens, their diets are different, and eating random things could kill them.
Thinking of food, Yue Yuan thought to himself, "I wonder how the food research is progressing. Back then, Wolf's planet was hampered by the issue of left- or right-handed DNA in its biological structure. Now, this planet, like Earth, has Dextrorotatory DNA structure. I suppose we can finally get rid of the days of eating synthetic proteins."
Since the cataclysmic event on Callisto, human food has remained largely monotonous. Although the Food Department has undergone numerous flavor improvements and innovations over the years, it still cannot create real meat out of thin air.
But all of this will change here.
Although Yue Yuan was not a true expert, he had a wide range of knowledge, and as the leader, he was aware of the level of human food technology.
With enough animal samples, it's believed that humans will soon be able to breed edible meat. These days, humans have discovered quite a few large animals on the planet, and surely some of them are suitable for meat production.
Of course, before putting the animals of this planet on our dinner table, humans first need to understand the immune system of the Dog-Headed People and then invent some kind of immune reagent to make humans immune to the microorganisms and viruses on this planet.
This is also a long-term process. After all, every biosphere is unique, and if humans want to utilize non-Earth biospheres, they have to spend a lot of human, material, and time researching them.
The idea that you can just go to an alien planet, find any fruit, and pop it into your mouth is simply not true.
As Yue Yuan listened to the Ministry of Education's report on school matters and his mind wandered, the school he was interested in also came to the end of its day of classes.
The school is named the God of Light School, and it is located on a mountain peak outside the capital city of the Volcano Kingdom. The mountain peak is not very high, and it is a mountain composed of soil and rocks. The main reason for choosing to place the school on the mountain peak is to take into account the identity of the God of Light. Since we are going to play this role, we must carry it out to the end.
In order to build a school on the mountain, humans even dispatched several Escort Ships, which used their high-energy laser cannons to flatten the entire mountain in a few days.
If the commotion hadn't been explained to the King of the Volcano Kingdom beforehand as the God of Light unleashing divine power, the Dog-Headed People in the entire capital of the Volcano Kingdom would probably have thought the radiant hatch was divine punishment.
The school was built on a mountaintop, and humans created two paths to it: one was a normal staircase, and the other was an elevator that required academic Credits to use.
It's fair to say that, in order to incentivize the Dog-Headed People to study hard, inequality exists everywhere in the schools built by humans. The currency within these schools isn't money, but Credits.
As for Credits, they need to be earned through exams. Humans follow the time system of the Dog-Headed People Planet, taking exams every thirty days, and then earning Credits based on their exam scores.
In primary school, there are three subjects: language, mathematics, and theology.
The language is English, but because the Dog-Headed People's pronunciation system is different from that of humans, this English pronunciation system uses the Dog-Headed People's own system. Humans have simply replaced the Dog-Headed People characters with English characters one by one.
Linguists at the time put in a lot of work on this project.
Mathematics goes without saying, especially elementary school mathematics.
As for theology, it is not traditional theology, but a study of church Dog-Headed People's etiquette and worldview regarding how to obey human beings.
There are three subjects, and each subject is worth 100 points in the exam. That means the smartest Dog-Headed People can earn 300 Credits as 'salary' per month.
In secondary school, several more subjects will be added, such as physics, chemistry, biology, music, art, and physical education.
However, this is just the beginning; no Dog-Headed People has completed primary school yet, so secondary school content has not been introduced. Like primary school, the new secondary school curriculum will be adjusted according to the planet's conditions. For example, the value of g in physics is no longer the 9.8 meters per second squared that humans learn, but rather 6.762 m/s² on this planet.
Biology also encompasses knowledge of the planet's biosphere, as well as the Dog-Headed People' own physical structure, organization, and operational mechanisms. In other words, Dog-Headed People masters biology, if given the opportunity to study at a more advanced school, could learn medicine and become a Dog-Headed People doctor.
Education, even accelerated education, takes a long time, but since humanity will be staying on this planet for a very long time, it's not in a rush overall.
As the school bell rang, one by one, the Dog-Headed People walked out of the classroom. The school had no dormitories, and after a day of classes, they had to go down the mountain to return to their homes.
"Junior Inoue, over here!" A voice rang out urgently from among the Dog-Headed People who filed out.
"Oh, it's Ye. What do you need?" The Dog-Headed People called Inobe-kun walked up to another Dog-Headed People and answered, following the direction of the voice.
The student named Jingbian is named Ibena Sui. He is an ordinary Dog-Headed People. As an ordinary Dog-Headed People, he originally did not have a surname. However, when he came to the school last month, the school required every Dog-Headed People to have a surname and a given name. So he gave himself the surname Jingbian because there is a well next to his house.
The "wild" he mentioned is called Takenoshita No, who is also an ordinary Dog-Headed People. Takeshita is his surname, which comes from the same source as the Ibena Sui. His home is under a Bamboo Forest.
Of course, this bamboo is a type of bamboo-like plant found on this planet.
"After the exams tomorrow, we'll get new Credits. How about we go to the store and buy some things to take home?" Takenoshita No said, pointing in the direction of the school store.
"How do you still have Credits? I remember last month you got 50 fewer Credits than me. I only have 12 Credits left. After deducting the 2 Credits for tomorrow's meal, I only have 10 Credits left." Ibena Sui shook his head, complaining about his misery. Last month, he only scored 251 points on the exam, while his good friend Takenoshita No was even worse, scoring only 201 out of 300. How could they possibly still have Credits left?
"Hey, of course I don't have any Credits, but we can go take a look! I've had my eye on that thing called a flashlight in the store for ages. It's a treasure of the God of Light! You remember that beam of light in Mumu's hand that night? That was from that flashlight! It's so much more convenient than a torch. Just thinking about being able to buy one after tomorrow's exam makes me really want to go see it." Takenoshita No rubbed his hands excitedly. The flashlight cost fifty Credits in the store, which he definitely didn't have right now, but he really wanted to go see it.
"Alright, I just need to use 10 Credits to buy a match for my family, so let's go together." Ibena Sui nodded at the dog.
He remembered clearly that 10 Credits could buy a match. He and Takenoshita No were among the better math students, so they had a clear understanding of the relationship between the price of goods and the Credits they had.