Fang Xin was in a small restaurant.
He looked out the window.
After hearing three waves of Dolphin speak, he couldn't help but laugh.
Ever since the spiritual energy revival, it has all been 'joyful education'.
This pressure-based education model disappeared many years ago.
He heard that the education model a few hundred years ago was exactly what Fang Xin was seeing now.
He couldn't quite understand why these Dolphin wanted to learn human learning methods.
After the three waves of Dolphin left, groups of clearly disorganized Dolphin came walking in.
One of the mantis shrimp walked in the middle, saying, "Students, you cannot become complacent just because you got into university and think your life's merits are complete. University is a small society, a stepping stone to your future. In university, you can play, but you must learn your specialized knowledge well. Don't just play because others are playing, otherwise, when you graduate, you'll find that some classmates with family backgrounds, even if they play, will have their families to fall back on after graduation, with paths already laid out for them. If your family is ordinary and your grades are poor, you can only become the bottom of society!"
Those Dolphin responded lazily, many of them not taking the mantis shrimp's words to heart.
After this group of university Dolphin left.
Many miscellaneous Dolphin then poured in haphazardly.
The entire snack street immediately became chaotic. Fang Xin looked out the window and found that these Dolphin seemed to be a microcosm of society, with all sorts of identities. Some rushed off to work, some slowly watched those who were late, and some, high-ranking, rode in carriages pulled by lower-class Dolphin.
All kinds of Dolphin headed towards the distant abandoned city.
From a distance, lights were on in that abandoned city, as if it were just like a normal world where humans lived.
Among these Dolphin, some had extremely high cultivation levels. Fang Xin even saw two with Level 13 combat power heading into the city.
Fang Xin was dumbfounded.
These Dolphin seemed to have crawled out of the sea, replicating human life one-to-one.
As Fang Xin was observing.
He heard a click.
The lights on the food street he was on also lit up, and many Dolphin who seemed to work there walked in.
The door to Fang Xin's restaurant was pushed open, and a bipedal shark, smoking a cigarette, walked in from outside. After entering, he glanced at the door, "Who was the last one to leave yesterday and didn't lock the door? What the hell were you doing? How could you forget such a simple thing? If anything inside goes missing, can you afford to pay for it? Can you even do this job? If you don't want to work, then get the hell out! If you don't do it, there are plenty who do! What the hell!"
The big shark walked in, turned around, and sat in front of the counter. He flipped through a bill, then said to a particularly ugly blobfish, "Go hand out flyers. Cover your face. Look at how ugly you are, if you don't cover your face, you'll scare away the customers, what then? What the hell, you people, day in and day out, a bunch of useless idiots, you never let me, your boss, have any peace!"
He flicked his cigarette ash and said to a chubby Dolphin, "Where are the ingredients? What the hell are you doing? Can you be useful for once? I have to nag you every day! And you still want me to promote you, with your pathetic self, you're dreaming!"
The chubby Dolphin bowed and scraped, smiling obsequiously at the big shark, "Boss, please calm down. I've already contacted the supplier for the ingredients, they'll be delivered shortly. It's just the start of business, customers will still take a while to arrive. Have a cigarette, my cousin bought these from the city, I heard they're good cigarettes that humans used to smoke often, called 'Huazi'! Please try one!"
The big shark took the cigarette, took a puff, and, being indebted, his expression softened slightly.
"Boss, is Yuan Yuan not here today?" the chubby Dolphin asked shamelessly.
Upon hearing this, the big shark's eyes immediately flashed with ferocity, "Damn you, you dead cook, you're still thinking about my daughter! Look at how ugly you are, as wide as a jar but not as tall, nothing but a head and a waist, useless at everything, but first in eating. You still want to think about my daughter, you might as well give up now and get out! You haven't even inquired, my daughter is the prettiest girl in ten villages, rich second-generation suitors wanting to marry her line up from the beach to the trench. You're dreaming before dawn, you really haven't woken up! Get out and get to work!"
The chubby Dolphin, after being thoroughly scolded, bowed and scraped and ran off to work.
Fang Xin stayed in a small private room in the restaurant, vigilantly watching every move outside.
The big shark outside had a combat power of only about Level 5.
The several odd-job workers seemed to have only Level 2 or 3 combat power.
Fang Xin was full of doubts. Normally, unless it was a divine beast with exceptional talent, they wouldn't be able to speak human language at this level.
This place was full of strangeness.
The Su Zhi Shark took a large toothpick, picking his teeth while cursing the family trees of his employees, who remained silent.
Not long after, the door opened, and a female shark entered from outside. It was clear she was a female character, wearing makeup, a short skirt, and a small diamond-studded cross-body bag.
"Dad, please control your temper. I heard you cursing the employees from outside!"
The Su Zhi Shark immediately stood up when he saw his daughter, greeting her with a smile, "Yuan Yuan, you're wronging Dad. Where did Dad curse them? They clearly ran into Dad's firing line. I wasn't cursing them, I was motivating them."
The shark named Yuan Yuan put her fins on her hips, and the Su Zhi Shark immediately yielded, "Alright, alright, Dad knows, I'll definitely change!"
As the father and daughter chatted, the chubby Dolphin who had just been scolded came in from outside, pulling a cart.
On the cart were various ingredients. Fang Xin glanced at them, and when he saw them, he froze for a moment, thinking he had seen wrong. Looking closely, he found that there was half a human on the small cart.
After careful observation, he found that the person on the cart seemed to have some differences from normal humans. The skin seemed rougher, and the body hair was relatively more abundant.
The big shark stood up, "Why only half a person? And it's frozen?"
The chubby Dolphin said helplessly, "Boss, I almost didn't even get this half. I had to ask my cousin at the city's food administration bureau to help me get it. I heard that a while ago, several people broke through the barrier, connected to the Land of Eternal Night, and many people escaped. Now the price of humans has skyrocketed, whether for edible humans or pet humans, the price has gone straight to the sky. I heard my cousin say that just yesterday, a good-looking pet human was traded for four million crystal shells."
Su Zhi Shark tilted his head, shouting, "Four million? What kind of pet human can sell for four million? Is that pet human diamond-studded?"
