Chapter 10 Handbook Contents

Chapter 10: Handbook Content

After the vice principal was gone, Ji Anzhi returned to the dormitory with Jian Fuxu. One of them had a cat to attend to, and the other had research to do—it worked out perfectly.

Back in his room, Ji Anzhi first opened the handbook to get a general idea of its contents.

After all, he had initially enrolled in this military academy primarily for its security. He'd only looked into the basics about dorms and training beforehand; the rest he could just learn from the handbook.

The first page he opened stated a regulation: any form of ABO discrimination was strictly prohibited.

The whole first page was just for this one rule, indicating that the Federation truly took equality among the three ABO genders seriously.

The stuff up front was pretty standard, containing regulations that could also be found on the military academy's official website, such as prohibitions against unauthorized fighting or damaging public property. However, the handbook also listed the replacement costs for school property.

Flipping to the dormitory regulations section, Ji Anzhi carefully reviewed them. The military academy allowed pets, but an application for a pet license was required from the school. Additionally, private modifications to dorm rooms were permitted, provided they were restored to their original condition upon graduation.

He confirmed that aside from the pet license, he wasn't breaking any rules, and continued reading.

The next page was about points. Ji Anzhi knew a little about them from the application process; points were equivalent to the internal universal currency of the First Military Academy. Everything could only be purchased with points, and star credits could not be exchanged for points.

The handbook detailed the methods of obtaining points and their uses.

Apart from new students being able to convert their military training evaluation scores into points, multiplied by ten, points afterward had to be earned through the mission hall or end-of-term assessments.

Additionally, points could be won by challenging others. One could only challenge another person once a month, with the wager not exceeding half of the opponent's total points. Each person could also only accept up to two challenges per month.

Points had many uses. They could be exchanged for star credits on the school's network, but facilities like training grounds or laboratories within the academy only accepted points as payment.

Points could also be used to purchase various items such as mechas, energy sources, and medicines sold officially in the campus trading city. Many of these items were not commonly found outside, and their prices were much cheaper than market rates.

The trading city allowed students to sell items. For each non-official transaction, the military academy charged a ten percent handling fee. Moreover, the trading city supported holographic shopping, making it convenient for students who wished to conceal their identities.

Any unused points upon graduation would be automatically locked. If one joined the Federation's military, these points could be converted into military merit at a ratio of 100:1 within the Federal Military Department.

After reading about points, Ji Anzhi roughly understood their importance.

In essence, points were the hard currency of the First Military Academy. You could manage without star credits here, but you couldn't do without points.

Ji Anzhi continued reading, coming to introductions about the mission hall and the trading city.

The mission hall issued tasks daily, primarily sourced from the military department, research institutes, the military academy itself, and students. The rest consisted of private requests seeking assistance from the First Military Academy.

The former mainly offered points as rewards, while the latter primarily offered star credits or other items as compensation.

If students wanted to post a task, they needed to deposit the reward with the task management office in advance, along with paying a five percent handling fee.

If a task remained unaccepted for a month after being posted, the student could choose to pay a fee to keep it listed in the mission hall or withdraw the task to reclaim the reward. The management office would not refund the handling fee.

There were also requirements for accepting tasks in the mission hall. Tasks were categorized from difficult to easy into five levels: S, A, B, C, and D, though the handbook did not specify the exact difficulty criteria.

Initially, first-year students could only accept tasks ranked C or lower. After completing five C-level tasks, they could accept B-level tasks, and so on.

Ji Anzhi wasn't very interested in the mission hall, so he skimmed through it quickly and turned to the page about the trading city.

The trading city was located on the military academy's planet, very far from the residential area, requiring over an hour by hover car.

The trading city was laid out in a square, ring-shaped, single-story structure. The innermost ring housed official stores, the middle two rings were the permanent trading zones, and the outermost ring was the temporary trading zone.

It was divided into temporary and permanent trading zones. The former was set up for students who occasionally had items they wanted to trade; they simply needed to choose an unoccupied stall in the temporary trading zone.

The latter was for official academy transactions or students with stable supply sources who operated regularly. This required applying for a stall in the permanent trading zone.

Students could apply for a stall in the permanent trading zone for just 100 points. However, apart from the first month, a monthly rent of 500 points was required thereafter. Additionally, they had to ensure that the transaction amount in the first month exceeded 700 points, with at least three transactions per month subsequently.

Because students in the permanent trading zone had to provide personal information, if a student privately purchased counterfeit goods or items that did not match the description, they could apply to the military academy's central AI for disciplinary action against the shop owner, including store closure. This option was not available in the temporary trading zone.

Therefore, even though goods in the permanent trading zone were often much more expensive than those in the temporary trading zone, the monthly transaction amounts in both areas were not significantly different.

Moreover, if a shop operated in the permanent trading zone for more than six months, the handling fee could be reduced by 0.5 percent each subsequent month until no fee was required.

After reading this, Ji Anzhi resolved to apply for a stall in the permanent trading zone to open a shop once he obtained points after the military training.

The following sections covered matters related to alpha and omega disciplinary violations, precautions and emergency handling measures for their rut and estrus cycles, and corresponding penalties. Since these didn't concern him as a beta, Ji Anzhi didn't read them in detail.

However, the last few pages caught Ji Anzhi by surprise.

The final few pages focused solely on one topic—the privileges of the Department Chief (the top student in the department).

At the end of each academic year, the top student in each department would be assessed based on evaluations and become the Department Chief for the next academic year. The academy never ranked the others, only giving them ratings.

In the past, some had questioned whether this rating system, which only highlighted the top student, might have a negative impact. The military academy's official response was:

"The top student is made public to give everyone a goal to strive for and surpass. If you want to surpass someone, aim for the best. If you only want a target you can easily jump over, we suggest dropping out early. The First Military Academy does not need students with such weak ambition."

This statement directly silenced the critics. Essentially, either accept it or, if dissatisfied, drop out. Since then, no one has openly raised this issue again.

For the first academic year of new students, the department's top scorer in the entrance assessment would serve as the Chief.

As the top student in his department, Ji Anzhi carefully reviewed these privilege contents and had to admit they were truly "privileges"!

The Chief could receive 500 points monthly. At the beginning of each semester, they could freely choose three items from the official stores in the trading city. They enjoyed free meals in the cafeteria, free use of laboratories or training rooms, a 40% discount on all purchases in the trading city, exemption from handling fees in the trading city, and direct access to A-level tasks in the mission hall...

Before even finishing the list, Ji Anzhi felt relieved that, although he had been confident in himself, he had still feared falling behind if this year saw an abundance of geniuses. Therefore, he hadn't hidden his abilities or chosen to keep a low profile but had instead taken the assessment seriously and achieved first place.

Otherwise, after toiling through military training and receiving the handbook, wouldn't he have been filled with regret upon seeing the privilege list for the department's top student?

It took Ji Anzhi about two hours to finish reading the handbook. After organizing its contents, he concluded that his current situation was very favorable.

Setting the handbook aside, he scanned a QR code on the handbook's cover. Using his newly obtained official military academy student ID code, he logged into the Federal First Military Academy's internal network as mentioned in the handbook.

Only official students of the military academy could access the internal network, which Ji Anzhi guessed was managed by the academy's central AI.

After entering his ID code and completing authentication, a prompt appeared: "Entering the First Military Academy's internal network defaults to fully hiding real information. Only the account nickname is displayed externally. The account nickname cannot be changed. Please enter a nickname..."

This meant others couldn't view his information unless he voluntarily revealed it.

Ji Anzhi liked this rule and entered a nickname casually.

"Tu An"

"Nickname already exists. Please change it."

No problem, try another.

"Chao Hong"

"Nickname already exists. Please change it."

Even this one is taken? Let's try another.

"Peaceful Grain"

"Display name is already taken. Please choose another."

...

Ji Anzhi spent over ten minutes frustratedly trying out names. His noble upbringing meant his standards wouldn't allow his public username to be a string of gibberish or numbers.

He finally settled on the nickname—"Zhu Yue"

This one finally wasn't taken. It turned out that such names were best dug up from ancient texts, as characters like "Zhu" were rarely used nowadays.

He finally entered the intranet and was greeted by four main sections.

Communication Zone, Trading Zone, Mission Zone, Service Zone.

Their purposes were clear from their names.

Ji Anzhi first clicked into the Communication Zone. It was divided by grade and by department. He could only access channels for his own grade and department; crossing into others was prohibited.

He skimmed through the posts. Apart from the graduation project requiring the creation of a star chart for a star system, there was no useful information.

He exited and entered the General Channel, which all military academy students could access. This channel was lively.

"Flying Eagle: New students are in military training today. Do you think we'll get a few perfect-score monsters this year?"

"Fleeting Bloom: Probably. I remember several Commanders' kids are the right age for this intake. It should be quite competitive."

"djekbzjksi: I know a bit about this! This year includes the kids from General Qi and General Lu's families. Also joining is that Little Madman from Eighth Legion General Jian's family."

"Seen-Through Scumbag A: That Jian family alpha who hates alphas is coming to First Military Academy? I thought he'd go to a beta college."

"djekbzjksi: Since the Qi and Lu family kids got into First Military Academy, and the Little Madman gets along well with them, of course he'd come too."

" : A bit worried about the alphas this year. Hope half of them aren't lying in Treatment Pods when we get back to campus..."

"Hahaha: Won't happen. My brother's an instructor this year. He told me the Jian family kid waived the military training."

"Seen-Through Scumbag A: That Jian family kid is the department top scorer? His talent has been showing since childhood. Last week, General Jian's place next door exploded again. Their forest area is almost gone."

"87261987: Protect yourselves. Thankfully, General Jian only has one child. If there were more, us alphas would have a hard time surviving."

"Hard: General Jian's family proves that an S-class alpha born to two betas is extraordinary. So I've always wanted to try finding a beta partner. Unfortunately, the pull of omegas is too strong..."

"Alphas Don't Deserve Love: Don't make excuses. If you're lacking, don't blame pheromones. Be careful the Discipline Department catches you."

"Star Chart Department: I heard there's a beta in the Star Chart Department this year. Anyone on campus, send a private picture? I'd like to get to know him."

"Mu Ziwen: I know the Star Chart Department beta! A very gentle boy. I was the one who received him."

" : A beta in Star Chart Department this year? The first in a hundred years, right?"

"Star Chart Department: Yes, and he's this year's top-scoring freshman. I asked my teacher; she said this beta has great talent."

"87261987: This beta is impressive. This year is really a clash of titans. I remember that Na family's sweet little omega also got in, and was top scorer too. My chances of getting a partner just went up."

"Na Yue Andessa: Dream on. An omega who can get into the military academy is no sweetheart. More like a black sesame tangyuan."

"RedSaltedFish: Exactly! I'll never forget last year when I tried to chat up an omega from the Pharmacy Department. Her smile melted my heart, and we chatted for a bit. I went back and got poisoned, aching all over in agony. Now I get goosebumps just seeing an omega."

".........................."

The conversation then shifted to how fierce, scary, and unapproachable the omegas in the academy were.

Ji Anzhi didn't pay much attention after that. His focus was on the mentions of General Qi, General Lu, and General Jian.

Ji Anzhi was now 100% certain that Qi Yanshen was the child of Third Legion Commander Qi Lan, Lu Yan was the child of Eighth Legion Commander Lu Zechuan, and Jian Fuxu was the child of Eighth Legion beta General Jian and another beta.

Moreover, Jian Fuxu must have blown someone up before, leaving a lasting impression on all the high-ranking families' children. He was truly one of a kind.

As for the discussion about himself, although Ji Anzhi wanted to live these four years quietly and inconspicuously, he had already attracted noble attention and had three extraordinary roommates. He had to stand out and show his worth, or he'd easily be seen as a pushover.

If he had to choose between a low-profile life and a comfortable one, he'd definitely choose comfort.

Besides, since he'd already obtained the department top scorer privileges, even if he slacked off and fell from first place later, he'd still have these privileges for a year. Better to hold onto these privileges than let others step on him later.

Seeing the endless chatter about omegas, Ji Anzhi couldn't help but sigh. These First Military Academy alphas, rarely seeing omegas, could talk about them forever. Too pent up and single.

He exited the General Channel. He wasn't very interested in the other channels in the Communication Zone.

He opened the Trading Zone. He remembered from the manual that the top scorer had a privilege: applying for a shop stall didn't require points, and the application was automatically approved and assigned.

Of course, the monthly five hundred points fee still applied.

Ji Anzhi clicked to apply, and sure enough, it was approved almost instantly.

Since this was done via the AI system, confirming the assigned stall in the Trading City required either an on-site visit or using a Holographic Pod to enter the holographic world for confirmation.

Ji Anzhi entered the Holographic Pod, linked it to the AI, and logged into the intranet.

In the holographic world, the Star Network mandated using one's real appearance. To hide one's identity, people usually wore masks. However, the military academy intranet allowed free choice, and this chosen appearance could even be used later on the Star Network.

Ji Anzhi browsed the database, changing his body data to a teenage build ten centimeters shorter than his actual height. For the face, he chose a default model provided by the intranet. Considering his personality, he selected a softer, more omega-leaning facial type.

Entering the intranet, Ji Anzhi clicked the holographic coordinates button in the Trading Zone, instantly projecting himself holographically into the Trading City, inside his assigned stall.

The size of permanent stalls in the Trading Zone, except for official ones, was fixed at twenty-five square meters. Location was the key factor.

The stall Ji Anzhi was assigned was very close to the official stores, which was somewhat conspicuous. He submitted an application to change stalls.

A few minutes later, the system approved and assigned a new stall. This one was neither too close nor too far from the official area, able to benefit from some of the official traffic without being too prominent.

Looking around, the neighboring stalls were fairly standard: a mech repair shop and an Energy Crystal sales shop.

Ji Anzhi entered the shop name:

"Bamboo Moon Shop"

"Description: Primarily sells Mech Energy Tanks. Accepts Energy Crystals in exchange."