Chapter 92: Hard Currency

Nicholas has to choose the most beautiful one from the snowflakes fluttering in the sky and give it to his sister.

The young student had neither experience nor patience, so after a few words of clumsily comforting the old student, he left with the chagrin of his broken mouth and the thinning snowflakes in the sky overhead.

It's just that this shallow unpleasantness quickly dissipated in the whistling wind - the main reason is that Zheng Qing asked Yelena to meet on the pedestrian street, as long as he thinks of the bright eyes of the gypsy witch, his mood will always involuntarily improve.

Since the adventure of the Xia Yuan Festival, the relationship between the two has suddenly become much clearer.

Although the gypsy witch still often misses the regular school hours, the 'Fu Xue Tutoring Class' every weekend has never been left behind. Zheng Qing was happy, so he made an agreement with the witch after the tutoring class last weekend that he would relax this weekend and go for a stroll in the pedestrian street.

Although the pedestrian street is the premier commercial street in Beta Town, the area of the town is not large, so the length of this commercial street can be imagined.

The so-called going to the pedestrian street for a stroll is just a 'date' that the wizard has the courage to change the word.

Perhaps because the study has been very hard recently, and the ancient talismans that the two of them have been interpreting more and more difficult recently, they are often busy in an afternoon but do not gain much, so the witch just briefly considered for a moment, and then happily agreed to the wizard's invitation.

Today is the weekend, which is the day agreed between the two.

It's three o'clock in the afternoon, a little later than the usual time to go to the library, but for appointments, a little earlier. Zheng Qing originally thought about postponing the meeting time until about five o'clock in the afternoon, so that after shopping and dinner, maybe there would be a chance to spend the first month.

But this suggestion was rejected by Yelena.

"There is also a regular class meeting tonight, and it is said that Lao Yao wants to report on the latest developments of the silent resurgence, and asks all the staff to arrive. In the paper crane that was given back to the public scholarship students, the gypsy witch wrote: "And the temperature and snow have been falling in the past few days, and it is not good for the health to stay outside for a long time." ”

I don't care about cooling down!

I love the snow days!

Go to the special class meeting! Go to the special silent resurgence!

Although he roared like this in his heart, Zheng Qing couldn't ignore the witch's opinion after all. In a compromise, the time for the two to meet was put to half past three in the afternoon - in this case, the two had about three hours of dating time to eat and go shopping.

For a date, this time is a little tighter. But for young government-funded students, it doesn't matter if they can have a real and dedicated date, even if it's short.

In order to prepare for today's date, in the past week, the male witch has been carefully studying which store on the pedestrian street has special food, whether the waiters in the store need to tip, which shop has unique and novel gifts, how long it takes to walk from one end of the pedestrian street to the other, how to show his bravery and invincibility if he encounters a demon attack on the street, and so on.

And all the plans are built on a bulging money bag.

Before entering the First University, Zheng Qing knew very little about the wizarding world, and he had almost no wizarding currency - as a publicly-funded student, the school's financial aid to him was earmarked, and almost never directly distributed in the form of currency, but used a method similar to 'spending' to settle directly with bookstores, clothing stores, pharmacies, etc.

The shy public scholarship student even had the idea of drawing talismans and selling them for money.

However, it is gold that shines wherever it is. At the beginning of the school year, at the first class party of the Astronomy 08-1 class, the young public-funded student who helped Li Meng draw the suppression charm through an impromptu play entered the sight of the boss of the wandering bar.

Because of this, he got a gold card for the wandering bar. With this gold card, Zheng Qing has been doing business for a period of time, and has made a lot of spare money.

Later, organizing hunting teams, participating in hunting competitions, catching demons, etc., all gained a lot of benefits - especially in the campus cup hunting competition more than a month ago, Zheng Qing's crime hunting team won the championship of the freshman competition, which won him a large amount of 'bonuses'.

It's just that this bonus is not given by the school. Because the freshman competition is a derivative event, the hunting committee has limited sponsorship and only provides medals for this competition. The so-called bonus is actually the prize money that Zheng Qing won by betting on his own hunting team before the hunt.

This is a very lucrative one.

Taking Xiao Xiao as an example, he bet on five golden beans, and under the high odds, he finally exchanged for nearly 400 golden beans, equivalent to more than 40 jade coins.

Compared to him, although Zheng Qing's betting odds are low, he bets a large amount - a total of three credits, five silver horns, and eighteen coppers - so in the end, his income is also very considerable, and he has exchanged ten credits!

At First University, there is a saying that 'money is not naturally a credit, and a credit is naturally money.' This means that as the scale of the first university's knowledge evaluation system, credits are not real currency in their own sense, but precisely because of the characteristics of credits such as rigor, scarcity, tradability, and the ability to purchase internal resources of the university, they have become a very strong 'currency'.

According to the official circulation rules provided by the school, one credit is equivalent to one jade coin, and only one-way exchange is supported - that is, you can exchange credits for wealth, but you cannot exchange wealth for credits - at this exchange rate, if you have ten credits, you can exchange ten jade coins at the Registrar's Office at any time. But if you have ten jade coins, you can't get the corresponding amount of credits from the school.

That's the overlord clause.

Although the terms are a bit overbearing, they have also virtually become the most powerful endorsement of the value of credits. With the price of the exchange trade, the price of the OTC transaction is naturally derived.

Due to the mismatch between the supply of credits and jade coins, the exchange rate of OTC transactions often fluctuates significantly. On the surface, one credit can only be exchanged for one jade coin, but in private, the price of credits between students is often speculated to the price of two or three jade coins, or even higher.

And there is generally no market.

You must know that credits, as a necessity for students' studies, are constantly being consumed. Whether it's upgrading, buying lab supplies, going in and out of the library, or using the lab, each necessary consumption must consume credits.

But there are very few ways to get credits. Assignments assigned by professors, awards for school activities, funding for participating in projects, etc. Under normal circumstances, the number of credits that a student can earn in an academic year should be about 120 points. In addition to preparing 100 credits for upgrading, the other 20 should support him in using the school's equipment.

Overstretched is the most painful memory of every first university student.

As a result, credits have become the hardest currency among students, and there is no one.