On the dinner table, cups and cups were intertwined, and one drink after another was drunk.
Lu Yuan didn't drink, he just drank a drink. He had to do something later, so he couldn't slip up at the critical moment.
"Hey, teacher, where's your Dabai? Come out for dinner too. I've also made a table of meat pot just for your Dabai."
Lu Yuan wanted to refuse, but Cheng's father stopped him with just one sentence: "The food is ready, so we can't throw it away."
In order not to waste food, Lu Yuan could only let Dabai finish the New Year's Eve dinner in tears.
Dabai: I didn’t cry. I was enjoying the meal.
The Spring Festival Gala was playing on the TV next to it. No one watched the boring cross talk. Everyone talked about this year's harvest, other children's college grades, and the future employment prospects.
As they talked, the subject of classmate Cheng Xueyan’s grades came up.
"Teacher, do you think it is possible for our Xueyan to be admitted to the Beast Control University?" Father Cheng asked humbly.
Cheng Xueyan's parents were not beast masters, and even this small village didn't have many beast masters.
All those who became beastmasters moved out and never came back.
In this village with inconvenient transportation and backward productivity, it has become the family's hope that their children will become beast masters and take off with the whole family.
Cheng Xueyan sat across the dining table, head lowered and silent.
Her big raccoon has evolved into a two-star chef. At that time, she was naive and ignorant, and did not think about such far-off things. The teachers in the village were just ordinary teachers, not beast masters.
It wasn't until this year, when a beast control master came to the village for the first time to teach, that she learned from Lu Yuan that Big Li had failed in training. The moment he became the master chef, he lost hope of applying for the combat department.
Now, she can only apply for the cultivation department. The teacher has not explained in detail whether the cultivation department is difficult to pass, and she doesn't know if she can pass the exam.
“The environment has changed now and it’s not as comfortable as before.
“In the past, there were many scientific research routes, but the training department was short of people, so people would be recruited from all over the place.
“In recent years, the international scientific research community has been in a stagnant state. No satisfactory new results have been released, and university enrollment has also been tightened.
"Now the school is more inclined to recruit students from the combat department. In terms of enrollment ratio, the ratio of combat department to training department is seven to three. The admission threshold of the training department has been raised, and many people have been screened out.
“I read her lab report, and it’s currently qualified.
"But Dali has no auxiliary ability, so his score will drop a lot in front of the admissions teachers."
While Lu Yuan was eating New Year's Eve dinner, he saw that the expressions of the Cheng family gradually changed from joy to solemnity.
How could someone who is celebrating the Chinese New Year say such unlucky words?
Lu Yuan immediately changed the subject and said, "But that is difficult compared to ordinary students.
"When no one has any breakthrough results, if Cheng Xueyan can write two or three papers in a certain cultivation department paper, he will be much more outstanding than ordinary students.
"Even if the initial pet beast evolution route is very ordinary, it will not affect her registration. The admissions teacher will be more inclined to recruit good students who can start doing research in their freshman year."
Lu Yuan's words reminded everyone, and their eyes lit up.
But soon, they realized something.
Where can I find the second and third papers on the cultivation department? Does their daughter have this ability?
Doesn't this mean you have to spend money to buy a place?
Cheng's father immediately began to calculate how much his family's savings were, and he didn't know what the price of a place would be.
"Teacher, can't you pass the exam if you apply normally?" Cheng Xueyan said a little discouraged.
"Of course you can, as long as your scores are higher than those students in the county." Lu Yuan sighed.
In the past, when the enrollment quota was not tightened, not many people applied for the training department. Everyone wanted to fight and stand on the global stage to show off their invincible style as a pet beast.
Now times have changed, and people have lost confidence in scientific research on pet animals. The breeding department has achieved very few results in recent years, resulting in the entire department's resources being reduced by 90% compared to four or five years ago.
The resources of Yuju University are limited, so it is impossible to recruit students but not have the resources to train them.
The combat system is so rich that it leaks oil. Those are the resources that people use their own strength to fight through space cracks.
Therefore, the number of students that the Beast Control School can recruit is all allocated based on existing resources.
Schools with few resources cannot afford to support so many students, so their enrollment quota will naturally decrease.
Those famous training schools with many resources also produce a lot of scientific research results.
In order to ensure that results are produced every year, admissions must be based on the best of the best.
Those who are not selected will be sent to their second choice school.
If you can't make the choice again, you'll fall to your third or fourth choice.
“But don’t be discouraged.
“I have chosen a topic for my graduation thesis, and I will bring a group of students to help with it.
“As long as I’m not lazy, I can give you a third author position.
"If you perform well, you can be the second author."
Lu Yuan did not mean to undermine people's confidence on New Year's Eve, but to be honest, it would be difficult for normal applicants to compete with students from big cities.
Big cities have a huge population and many beast masters. They start learning beast master knowledge from an early age.
When it comes to exams, all of them are top scorers.
If you want to compete with them in the rankings, unless you are extremely talented and are gold in your own right, ordinary people should find other ways to overtake them in corners.
Of course, if Cheng Xueyan applies for the combat department, there won't be so many twists and turns.
In the combat system, the combat effectiveness of the pet beast is the only score.
As long as you can fight, beat the candidates in the same period, and defeat the last person, you can be admitted to the Beast Control University.
This is a battle without any water.
If you can beat it, you can beat it.
If you can't beat me, you're just a dish, so practice the dish more and come back next year.
If you can't retake the exam next year, then Beast Control University won't want you.
The combat department attaches great importance to combat ability and combat talent. Those who are talented may be delayed and seek guidance from a teacher. It will take a year to check and fill in the gaps and show their talents. Those who are incompetent will naturally be ruthlessly eliminated by their opponents.
In this battle, only the winner will survive.
Back to business.
Lu Yuan told him about the lack of helpers for his thesis. Cheng's father and classmate Cheng Xueyan both had joy on their faces and saw hope.
Later, they wanted to ask Lu Yuan to talk in detail, but Lu Yuan refused the time to chat about family matters on the grounds that he was looking for information to prepare for his graduation thesis.
After eating, he immediately took Dabai back to the dormitory.
Tonight is New Year's Eve, and firecrackers are going off outside. Colorful fireworks are flying into the sky, and beautiful auspicious clouds of fireworks have exploded.
There are white Nian beasts in the forest. They lead the little Nian beasts behind them and walk into the village with light steps to stay up and celebrate the New Year.
They saw the Nian beasts following Lu Yuan. The wild Nian beasts did not approach, but just snarled and said Happy New Year.
Lu Yuan also waved and said hello to them with a smile.
"Ouch!"
Dabai also waved his tail and barked at them to express his welcome.
When it was a child, it followed its parents to the human world to stay up late during the New Year.
It remembers the first time they met, their parents were standing in the corridor, and it timidly hid behind its parents.
Hearing the little boy's cry of "Wow" seemed like a special surprise and I really liked it.
It stuck out half of its head, met the eyes of little Lu Yuan, and saw Lu Yuan's innocent eyes.
At that time, Dabai felt that this boy was capable and could become a future partner.
