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There weren't any education experts involved in this matter now, and the makeshift leader, Lu Yuan, was truly worried to the point of turning his hair white.

"How did the Green Grass Civilization solve this? Miss Secretary, don't zone out, I remember the fertility rate of the Green Grass People was extremely low, the kind that was on the brink of self-extinction."

"Ah?" Miss Secretary responded dimwittedly, "Um, let me think... It was the Great Elder who raised everyone in the Green Grass Paradise..."

"So everyone treats the Great Elder as a very close relative. Everyone trusts him a lot and calls him 'Big Daddy'."

"Everyone has the same 'Big Daddy'?"

"Yes, that's right!" Conch affirmed with certainty.

Lu Yuan began to question life itself; what kind of bizarre civilization was this?

"Don't find it strange; the image of 'Big Daddy' is mainly active before the ages of four to six."

"There aren't many memories left from before four years old, but the close relationships between people are established before turning four. After that age, it's difficult to foster closeness in children."

"Hmm... that's true." Lu Yuan remembered that those involved in human trafficking always wanted younger ones; older children, being hard to bond with, were not wanted.

Conch's range of knowledge was indeed wide as she continued, "All happy childhoods and stable emotions are established at a young age."

"In a peaceful family atmosphere, children become more confident."

"In a complex family environment with numerous disputes, children evolve to be wary and distrustful, just like wolves in the forest are always more vigilant than domestic dogs."

"Most of their energy is used to develop these warning senses, making it harder for them to integrate into society."

"So the younger the age, the more important the family environment."

"With age, school activities gradually replace family ties, and long-term sibling relationships form at school."

"The model of 'Big Daddy' will slowly fade away. Everyone will realize that 'Big Daddy' is not their biological father, but it's okay, and everyone can accept it."

"Under this upbringing system, the thinking of the Green Grass People is healthy, and their personalities are independent. They also trust the Great Elder a lot." Read new chapters at My Virtual Library Empire

Lu Yuan kind of understood.

According to many Human family experiences, if you raised a child, as long as you invested a lot in them and took good care of them, and then told them when they grew up that you're not their biological parent, the child wouldn't mind too much.

After all, feelings are not easily worn away.

The grace of upbringing is greater than the grace of birth.

And the Green Grass Civilization that invented this method had advanced productivity, a long-lived populace, profound hedonism, and an unbelievably low birth rate.

With a population of a hundred million, there were fewer than five thousand children born a year!

Back then, the Great Elder was "deeply worried"; if things continued like this, wouldn't the Green Grass Civilization be extinct without any external enemy?

Thus, during a certain assembly, the Green Grass Civilization enacted a compulsory birth policy: young men and women, if they haven't reproduced by the age of five hundred, were forced to donate reproductive cells to conceive an infant in an artificial womb!

The child without parents didn't need you to raise them; the Great Elder would do it!

Consequently, the spoiled 'giant babies' of the Green Grass Civilization all agreed.

The Green Grass People even developed a whole set of intelligent systems in the Virtual World, allowing the virtual influence of the Great Elder to educate infants and toddlers, giving them a sense of basic family affection and creating a harmonious family atmosphere.

The children nurtured this way turned out to be of quite good quality.

Lu Yuan couldn't help but comment, "Your Great Elder truly went to great lengths for the continuity of the Green Grass Civilization..."

"Playing both mother and father, he even came up with such a strange method."

Conch blushed slightly, feeling both embarrassed and annoyed—the Great Elder of the Green Grass Civilization wasn't dead yet!

Be careful, lest that "Demon" come looking for you to settle the score!

She stamped her foot lightly, "Anyway, it's pointless for you to mock the Great Elder since you are about to plagiarize his method!"

"Moreover, this parenting plan also has its conditions," she explained patiently. "Firstly, there needs to be a family head like the Great Elder, someone with ability and compassion."

When it came to the words "with compassion," she laughed at herself, "Anyway, one must have compassion! Do you have compassion?!"

"Of course, I do."

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"Second, even after they reach adulthood, this head of the household still has to manage affairs and provide them with enough resources to survive in society,"

"You should know, the biggest network a person has is their family!"

"If there are no parents, society must provide sufficient compensation."

Lu Yuan grimaced, he had understood all right—wasn't this just state-sponsored upbringing?

And an especially weird version of it at that...

But it seemed like the only option at the moment; with just over nine thousand adults, amounting to at most four thousand couples, they were expected to raise fifty thousand children...

One only needed to think with their toes to know, it had to be state-sponsored.

"If we implement this plan, we need to set up a specific image for the caregivers in the Green Grass Paradise, it can't just be the Great Elder's image, right?" Lu Yuan swallowed hard, "Conch Mother, can you do it?"

"You be the mother of fifty thousand little friends, this civilization is yours. I'll just be a lapdog general, that works."

"The people raised this way would essentially become Green Grass People... Reviving the Green Grass Civilization, I have no problem with that."

Conch Mother immediately blushed, raised her little fists, and pummeled Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan laughed heartily, taking the hits while seizing the opportunity to hug her a couple of times.

According to Green Grass Educators, the children raised by the society must have a strong, affectionate head of the household with a very high social status.

Just any ordinary mom and dad wouldn't do.

With a head of the household, they would be filled with confidence throughout their lives—that is, someone has got to have their backs, otherwise just the discrimination from Natural People alone would give them a hard time.

Watching the two messing about in the office, "hee hee haw haw," not stopping with the PDA, Old Cat's fur exploded, and with a "meow," it intimidated them both into silence.

"This is simple. Don't you have a man and a woman?"

"Lu Yuan, you be the dad of the entire civilization, and you, Conch Mother, be their mom..."

"What?!" The two exclaimed in unison.

"Humans aren't Green Grass People, having actual parents is pretty standard, right? You two, a handsome man and a beautiful woman, both hold high social status!"

"Forget about doing anything else these years, raising children is the most important thing," Old Cat said seriously, "Caring for over fifty thousand children to maturity in twenty years is more critical than anything."

"What's the use of a ragtag bunch like now anyway?"

Its words really made sense.

Conch Mother looked down, biting her lip, eyeing her white sneakers, then sneaking glances at Commander Lu with the corner of her eye.

Her girlish heart began to stir, even leap with joy, and she involuntarily grabbed Lu Yuan's clothes tightly.

As for Lu Yuan, seeing Conch Mother like this, he knew she agreed.

He felt a mountain of pressure inside.

On one hand, to emulate the Great Elder of Green Grass Civilization was an enormous responsibility!

The Great Elder was a demon, able to disguise himself perfectly for a lifetime, paying attention to every detail without fault.

But he, Lu Yuan, was human... he would inevitably make mistakes.

On the other hand, would this pretend motherhood affect Conch Mother's perception?

"Stop pretending... You were just flaunting your love, now you're all shy," Old Cat said cheerfully, its fluffy orange tail erect in the air, "Isn't it better for you, Lu Yuan, to call out 'Conch Mother' in front of the children with your head held high, rather than whispering it in secret in the office?"

"You lowly maid, how dare you eavesdrop?!"

Old Cat: "Conch Mother."

A shiver ran down his spine all the way to his crown.

Lu Yuan swore to himself to improve the soundproofing of the office and vowed to catch the offender and throw him out the window.

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