Astral Apostle Chapter 33: Appointments and bottlenecks
[This delivery has ended]
[The actual duration of this stay: 12 days]
[This resource collection situation: 514 star boundary points]
[The experience log has been archived, and the relevant exploration results have been entered into the illustrated book]
[Next shuttle cooling time: 16 hours]
The release time for this time has ended, Zhou Jing returned to the shuttle preparation space, and the information on the panel was displayed.
"Hey, there are quite a lot of astral points this time." Zhou Jing glanced at the statistics and found that it was the income from killing high-risk alien beasts.
In addition, the synchronization rate of my star apostle has reached 64% - when it exceeds the 50% limit, the synchronization rate bonus for returning to settlement will be generated.
Any part of the synchronization rate that exceeds 50% will become an additional bonus. Currently, "Jason Wood", the astral apostle, has a resource collection efficiency of 114%, which is equivalent to 14% more total income than before.
The launch has been fruitful, allowing the apostle to gain extraordinary power and enter the circle of hunters, taking a solid step forward.
Like before, he planned to use a few days to develop "Jason Wood" and practice the two sets of hunter's breathing skills he learned, and then he could start preparing for the second enhancement of different blood.
"The situation is very good."
Zhou Jing was secretly happy.
Close the settlement panel and enter the placement setting interface.
[Place Object: Jason Wood]
[Highest synchronization rate record: 64% (third stage)]
[Placing income upper limit: astral point 940/4000, information state income 0/40]
He was already familiar with the road, and quickly set up a placement plan, continued the conservative route of focusing on cultivation, and then left the shuttle preparation space.
Hum!
With a shock of consciousness, he has already returned to his body.
Zhou Jing opened his eyes, and the window was already dimly lit.
He sat up, opened the panel and looked at his physical attributes, and found that the spiritual attributes had increased by 1 point, and now it has reached 8 points.
In the past few days, he has confirmed that the constant travel will hone the mental strength of the body. Every time he returns, he feels that his mind is clear and he seems to be more energetic. However, he has not accumulated enough until today to make the attributes officially increase.
"If I can continue to grow, will my spiritual attributes directly accumulate to the point of extraordinary? Or is it because my basic mental strength is not high, so I can increase significantly?" Zhou Jing was thoughtful.
From this point of view, I seem to be more suitable for some super power systems with spiritual attributes...but I don't have to choose at the moment.
Zhou Jing has shuttled around several times, and he is also proficient. After sorting out the harvest this time, he got up to wash up, ate a simple breakfast, and then exercised according to the plan he made, and studied relevant materials. .
Every time he returns these days, he devotes time to training and studying, which is very urgent. On the contrary, most of the time in the world of alien beasts is more casual for him.
From early morning to noon, Zhou Jing made lunch casually, dealt with it wholeheartedly, and was about to continue studying as fast as possible, when his cell phone rang suddenly.
An unknown number called.
Zhou Jing turned his head to look at the phone, and waited for it to ring three times before picking it up in a leisurely manner, connected the phone, and asked:
"Hello, who is this?"
"Hello, is this Mr. Zhou Jing?"
A soft female voice came from the phone.
A voice I've never heard before... Zhou Jing rolled his eyes.
"It's me, may I ask who you are?"
"My name is Cheng Li, and I am a staff member of the Xihai Branch of the Interstellar Immigration Bureau. We have received your immigration information declaration. Now we need to make a phone call to confirm and make an appointment for a visit... Is it convenient for you to video now?" ?”
"Oh, yes."
Zhou Jing remembered this incident. When he came out of the house, he filled out the personal information declaration for forced immigration and confirmed the quota. According to the regulations, the Immigration Bureau would naturally have to visit.
He switched to the video call mode, and a virtual screen popped up from the phone, showing the appearance of a woman, who was Cheng Li who was talking to him.
He looks about 30 years old, quite charming, with a polite and polite smile on his face, wearing a work uniform of the Immigration Bureau, sitting at the desk.
Cheng Li looked at Zhou Jing carefully through the screen, as if she was confirming whether she was the real person. After two seconds, she opened her mouth and said:
"Mr. Zhou Jing, it's a pleasure to meet you. Before you board the immigration spaceship, I will be in charge of all liaison with you. Now I will tell you about the immigration procedure. I hope you will make a record."
"Well, tell me." Zhou Jing responded casually.
Cheng Li nodded, and said with a soft tone, smiling: "First of all, we need to confirm by phone and video. We need to confirm whether it is the immigration information I declared."
Zhou Jing raised his eyebrows: "If it's not declared by me, doesn't it count?"
"Of course it does not count. We must ensure that the applicant is familiar with the meaning of immigration and has not been deceived, coerced, bewitched, or instigated in any way to ensure that the applicant will not have any objections. We have always upheld the principle of voluntariness and must be Immigrants declare themselves voluntarily and confirm this in person, and we will record it.”
Zhou Jing smiled: "They are forced to immigrate, so why not voluntarily?"
Cheng Li's smile remained unchanged: "Yes, this is the regulation of the rules and regulations. Forced immigration must be voluntary."
"Okay, I'm not forced, and I know the meaning of immigration, so go ahead." Zhou Jing shook his head and laughed, only feeling ironic.
"Okay." Cheng Li nodded and said with a smile: "After completing the video confirmation, we need to make an appointment for a face-to-face family visit. The purpose of the visit is to understand your specific situation. I will ask you some Questions, related to family, school, childhood, etc., also include your views on hometown, immigrants, and society, so as to make a comprehensive assessment of you, I hope you will take it seriously.”
Zhou Jing hummed casually.
He has seen the work process of the Immigration Bureau published online, and knows that this link is necessary, mainly because the Immigration Bureau conducts two assessments on immigrants.
One is to conduct a psychological analysis on the immigrant subjects, to check whether they have mental illness or anti-social personality, and to assess the potential danger.
Because every time forced immigration occurs, there will always be a large number of "mental illnesses" who want to escape by pretending to be crazy.
In fact, the evaluation result has nothing to do with immigration, but only affects the strictness of supervision and management... The Immigration Bureau has a set of solutions for this.
Playing crazy? We found out that after boarding the boat, we have to close the small black room.
Really crazy? Good boy, after sleeping in the life support cabin, you can be admitted to the mental hospital on the new planet.
Antisocial personality? It’s great, straitjacket or life support cabin, choose a way to spend the time on the immigrant spacecraft, and you can receive further corrective education after landing, how thoughtful.
In a nutshell, on one point
- Troubled? Oh, you have to immigrate too!
Of course, occasionally some people can't think about it and commit suicide.
As long as it is confirmed that he is really dead, the quota for compulsory immigration will be re-elected and handed over to someone else... Anyway, for the Immigration Bureau, it is a matter of changing individuals. There is no shortage of choices if there are people. As long as someone goes, everyone It's fair.
In fact, a long time ago, it was very easy to recruit interstellar immigrants. There were no such troubles at all.
But the era of interstellar development has been going on for so many years, and many things are changing. The interstellar immigration time after time has made this matter no longer fresh, and many people's mentality has also changed. , the majority of people prefer to stay on the already developed colonial planets, resulting in a decrease in the number of people on each planet who are willing to take the initiative to migrate to the stars.
The first few batches of immigrants drawn from a colonial star are usually active applicants, which can be easily filled, and then gradually there will be vacancies, requiring forced immigration.
There are many records of such news events on the Internet.
Another thing to evaluate is the value and ability of the immigrant object, which is divided into several levels, which are related to the treatment after immigration, which is basically equivalent to an interview.
After reading the information, Zhou Jing knew the process well, nodded and said, "Okay, let's make an appointment."
"Okay, are you free in five days? I will bring the staff to visit."
"Five days later... that's fine. It's best in the morning." Zhou Jing glanced at the date and agreed.
"Okay, for the further process, let's talk face to face at that time, and there will be some documents for you... I'll see you then."
Cheng Li hung up the phone with a polite smile.
Zhou Jing curled his lips and threw the phone aside.
He felt that this immigration staff member named Cheng Li had a gentle voice, but his attitude was businesslike and he was just going through the process.
But that's normal. They're just working. It's estimated that one person will have to deal with dozens of forced immigrants, so you can't expect them to be more attentive.
Zhou Jing recorded the time of the visit five days later on the schedule, and immediately put this matter behind him and continued to do his own business.
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The world of alien beasts.
In the forest, a group of hunters were quietly advancing, squatting down from time to time to check the surrounding traces, looking for the trace of the target.
"Have you found anything?"
Baron pouted at Griff who was squatting on the ground.
Griff shook his head: "I haven't found the whereabouts of the bone men yet."
Leaning on a spear, Weiss complained, "We've been wandering in the forest for two days, but we haven't found anything. Don't you even know where the bone man's lair is?"
As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Zhou Jing.
Zhou Jing was standing aside, wearing a gray-black bearskin armor, two long knives on his waist, and a heavy iron knife on his back.
Seeing Weiss looking at him, Zhou Jing waved his hand: "Don't look at me, I've been in Shuangmu Village for half a year, and I haven't seen the shadow of a bone man yet."
This group of people is the hunter team of Shuangmu Village, including ten soldiers from Baiyuan City. They are looking for the whereabouts of the bone man in the black shirt forest.
Three months have passed since Zhou Jing became a beast hunter, and this star apostle has lived in Shuangmu Village for half a year.
During this period, Zhou Jing also practiced [Hunter's Breath·Strength] and [Hunter's Breath·Disease] to the level of Lv4 proficiency by using the acceleration function.
Seeing Zhou Jing grow up, Baron gradually felt that the time was right, so he finally gathered his men and decided to attack the Earth Bone Man and complete his revenge.
Not only were ordinary people like Zhou Jing, Baron, and Griff in the team, but Weiss was also specially recruited.
Weiss lived in Shuangmu Village for three months, taught Zhou Jing the breathing technique, and finally realized that Baron hadn't fooled himself. Zhou Jing's rapid learning also broke his world view, and he was confused for several days.
I also lost two hundred tyra silver coins, losing to Baron was very painful.
Originally, Weiss didn't really want to participate in the operation to destroy the bone man's lair, but Baron said that as long as he participated in the crusade, the two hundred silver coins would be returned to him.
Weiss scoffed.
——Take my money, hire me to do things, and it’s a waste of nothing.
Hmph, do you really think I agreed for this little money? !
The Earth Bone Man and I are at odds with each other!
Except for Weiss, who was tough-mouthed and soft-legged, Shuangmu Village's petition to the lord finally got some response.
Perhaps because of Zhou Jing's face in solving the threat of alien beasts last time, Root finally sent ten soldiers over to assist Baron and others in destroying the bone man's lair, and they are also in the team at the moment.
Hearing Weiss' complaint, Baron shook his head and said, "We only know that their lair is nearby, but we don't know the exact location. The group of bone man marauders are running around, so it's hard to follow."
"All right, all right." Weiss said helplessly.
Everyone gathered to discuss how to locate the Earth Bone Man, but Zhou Jing did not participate.
He is not particularly good at tracking. He mainly trains in direct combat power, and has no further training in this area.
Zhou Jing quietly opened the panel and took a look. In addition to the two new breath techniques, the original [Hunter's Breath · Forging] has also been upgraded by one level in the past three months, but the [Weapon Mastery-Sword Technique] has never been improved. Movement and stillness, still Lv4.
And he felt that even if he turned on the practice acceleration, the efficiency of practicing swordsmanship was not as good as before. It seemed that he had touched the limit of aptitude and was stuck in a bottleneck.
When the skill reaches a certain level and the aptitude cannot keep up, the speed of practice will slow down greatly and encounter a bottleneck.
My [Sword Art] aptitude is green, and I have been slow to practice since Lv4—this kind of skill aptitude has a significant impact on the efficiency of skill upgrades, and even determines the upper limit of the level that can be upgraded.
Zhou Jing had a vague feeling that ~IndoMTL.com~ With this apostle's saber skill aptitude, it seemed that he could at most upgrade [Weapon Mastery - Saber Skill] to Lv5 or Lv6, and he might not be able to improve after that.
Just like many ordinary people learn a skill, they start to improve quickly, but when they reach a certain level, they may not make any qualitative change for decades, and they just go around in circles. People have limits, that's why geniuses or masters who can leave their names are so rare.
"If you want to solve this problem, you can use achievement rewards to improve your apostle's aptitude... But it's not necessary now. The current level 4 sword technique is enough for the time being. It doesn't feel right to use achievement rewards just to improve this skill. Good deal."
Zhou Jing secretly calculated, and carefully looked at the current attributes.
[[Hunter's Breath · Forging]]
[Current Level: Lv5- (Instinct)]
[Effect: physical strength +4, resistance +3]
——
[[Hunter's Breath·Power]]
[Current Level: Lv4- (Proficient)]
[Effect: Stamina +1]
——
[[Hunter's Breath · Disease]]
[Current Level: Lv4- (Proficient)]
[Effect: Stamina +1]
——
[Current attributes: physical fitness 29, resistance 21, perception 11, spirit 6, energy 0]
The two new Hunter Breathing Techniques are mainly used for combat, and the increase in attributes is not much. The upgrade is to significantly enhance the effect when used, and can display the combat power of extraordinary physical fitness.
As he was thinking about it, Rose's location suddenly flickered in his mind. He was originally sent out to secretly search for the location of the bone man, but now he returned to the vicinity.
Zhou Jing moved his eyes and said:
"You guys search here, I'll take a look next to it."