Astral Apostle Chapter 33: Reservations and bottlenecks
[This run has ended]
[The actual length of stay: 12 days]
[This resource collection: 514 astral points]
[The experience log has been archived, and the relevant exploration results have been entered into the illustrated book]
[Next shuttle cooldown: 16 hours]
The launch time has ended, Zhou Jing returned to the shuttle preparation space, and the panel information was swiped.
"Yo, this time there are quite a lot of astral points." Zhou Jing glanced at the statistics and found that it was the benefit from killing high-risk alien beasts.
In addition, the synchronization rate of his astral apostle has reached 64% - when it exceeds the limit of 50%, the synchronization rate bonus for regression settlement will be generated.
The part with the synchronization rate exceeding 50% will become an additional bonus. At present, the efficiency of the astral apostle "Jason Wood" in collecting resources is 114%, which is equivalent to a 14% increase in the total income.
This launch has been fruitful, allowing the apostle to gain extraordinary power and enter the circle of hunters, taking a solid step.
He intends to use a few days to let "Jason Wood" develop, as before, to practice the two newly learned Hunter's Breathing techniques, and then he can start preparing for the second abnormal blood enhancement.
"It's going well."
Zhou Jing was secretly happy.
Close the settlement panel and enter the placement setting interface.
[Place object: Jason Wood]
[The highest synchronization rate: 64% (Phase 3)]
[The upper limit of placement income: 940/4000 for astral point, 0/40 for information state income]
He was already familiar with the road, and quickly set up a placement plan, continuing the conservative route of focusing on cultivation, and then left the shuttle preparation space.
Om!
The consciousness was shocked, and it has returned to the body.
Zhou Jing opened his eyes, and it was already bright outside the window.
He sat up, opened the panel and looked at his body attribute, and found that his spiritual attribute had increased by 1 point, and now it has reached 8 points.
In the past few days, he has confirmed that the constant shuttle will temper the spiritual power of the body. Every time he returns, he feels that his mind is clear and he seems to be more energetic, but it is not until today that he has accumulated enough to make his attributes officially increase.
"If I can keep growing, will my spiritual attributes be directly accumulated to extraordinary levels? Or is it because my basic spiritual power is not high, so I can increase significantly?" Zhou Jing thought thoughtfully.
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 right now.
Zhou Jing has traveled several times, and has become proficient. After sorting out the gains this time, he got up to wash, ate a simple breakfast, and then exercised according to his own plan and studied relevant materials. .
Every time he comes back these days, he devotes time to exercise and study, which is very urgent. On the contrary, most of the time in the alien world, it is more casual for him.
From early morning to noon, Zhou Jing made lunch at random, and after a whole meal, he was about to continue to hurry up to study when his phone suddenly rang.
An unknown number called.
Zhou Jing turned his head to look at the phone, waited for it to ring three times, then picked it up quickly, answered the phone, and asked:
"Hello, who's there?"
"Hello, is this Mr. Zhou Jing?"
A soft female voice came from the phone.
An unheard voice... Zhou Jing rolled his eyes.
"It's me, may I ask you?"
"My name is Cheng Li, and I am a staff member of the Xihai City Branch of the Interstellar Immigration Bureau. We have received your immigration information declaration. Now I will make a phone call to confirm and make an appointment for a visit... Do you have a convenient video now? ?"
"Oh, yes."
Zhou Jing remembered this, and when he came out from home, he filled out the personal information declaration for forced immigration and confirmed the quota. According to the regulations, the immigration bureau naturally wanted to visit.
He switched to the video call mode, and a virtual screen popped up from the phone, showing the appearance of a woman, it 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 across the screen, and seemed to be confirming whether she was herself. After two seconds, she said:
"Mr. Zhou Jing, it's a pleasure to meet you. Before you board the immigration spacecraft, I will be in charge of all contact with you. Now I will tell you about the to-do process of immigration procedures, and I hope you will keep a record." /
"Well, tell me." Zhou Jing replied casually.
Cheng Li nodded and smiled softly: "First of all, we need to confirm by phone and video. We need to confirm whether it is the immigration information declared by me."
Zhou Jing raised his eyebrows: "If I didn't declare it myself, wouldn't it count?"
"Of course not to count. We must ensure that the applicant is familiar with the meaning of immigration and has not been deceived, coerced, bewitched, instigated, etc., to ensure that the applicant will not have any objection. We have always adhered to the principle of voluntariness and must be The immigrant himself voluntarily declares and confirms this himself, and we will videotape it.”
Zhou Jing smiled: "I've been forced to emigrate, but are you still voluntary?"
Cheng Li's smile remained the same: "Yes, this is the regulation of the rules and regulations, and forced immigration must be voluntary."
"Okay, I'm not forced, and I know the meaning of immigration. You can continue." Zhou Jing shook his head and laughed, feeling ironic.
"Okay." Cheng Li nodded and smiled: "After completing the video confirmation, we need to make an appointment for a face-to-face family visit. The goal of the visit is to understand your specific situation. I will ask you some questions. Questions related to family, studies, childhood, etc., also include your views on hometown, immigration, and society, so as to make a comprehensive assessment of you, I hope you take it seriously.”
Zhou Jing hummed casually.
He has seen the workflow of the Immigration Bureau published on the Internet and knows that this link is necessary, mainly because the Immigration Bureau evaluates immigrants in two aspects.
One is to conduct psychological analysis on immigrant subjects to check whether they have mental illness or anti-social personality and the like, and evaluate the potential risk.
Because every time forced immigration occurs, a large number of "mentally ill" will always emerge, trying to escape by pretending to be crazy and selling stupid.
In fact, the assessment result has nothing to do with immigration, but only affects the strictness of supervision and management... The Immigration Bureau has a set of response plans for this.
Playing crazy? We checked it out, but after boarding the ship, we have to close the small dark room.
Really crazy? Come on, take a nap in the life-saving capsule and you can live in a mental hospital on a new planet.
A sociopath? That's great, a restraint suit or a life capsule, choose a way to spend your time on the immigrant spacecraft, and you can receive further correctional education after landing, so thoughtful.
In short, on a subject
- trouble? I'm going to immigrate too!
Of course, occasionally there will be people who can't think about it and commit suicide.
As long as it is confirmed that he is really dead, the compulsory immigration quota will be re-elected and handed over to others... Anyway, for the Immigration Bureau, it is a matter of changing individuals. There is no shortage of choices if there is a population. Is it fair.
In fact, a long time ago, recruiting interstellar immigrants was very easy, and there were no such things at all. The public was almost scrambling for one, and the opportunity to go to other planets might not be grabbed.
But the interstellar development era has been going on for so many years, and many things are changing. Interstellar immigration again and again makes this matter no longer new, and many people's mentality is also changing. Compared with traveling to an unfamiliar planet , most people prefer to stay in the colonized star that has been developed, resulting in the number of people who are willing to actively immigrate to the stars on each planet year by year.
When immigrants from a colony star are selected, the first few batches are usually active applicants, which can be easily filled, and then vacancies gradually appear, requiring compulsory 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 grades, which is related to the treatment after immigration, which is basically equivalent to an interview.
Zhou Jing had read the information and knew this process well, nodded and said, "Okay, let's make an appointment."
"Okay, are you free in five days? I'll take the staff to visit."
"Five days later... OK. It's better in the morning." Zhou Jing glanced at the date and agreed.
"Okay, for the further process, we will talk to you in person at that time, and there will be some documents for you... See you then."
Cheng Li hung up the phone with a polite smile.
Zhou Jing pouted and threw the phone aside.
He could feel that this immigration officer named Cheng Li had a gentle voice, but his attitude was businesslike and he was just going through the process.
But this is also normal. People are just working. It is estimated that one person has to deal with dozens of forced immigrants, and he cannot expect others to pay more attention.
Zhou Jing recorded the time of the visit five days later on his calendar, then put the matter behind him and went on with his own business.
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The alien world.
In the forest, a group of hunters are quietly marching, crouching down from time to time to check the traces around them, looking for the traces of their targets.
"Did you find anything?"
Baron pouted at Griffin, who was squatting on the ground.
Griff shook his head: "I haven't found the whereabouts of the skeleton people."
Weiss leaned on the spear and complained: "We've been wandering in the forest for two days and have found nothing. Don't you even know the location of the skeleton's lair?"
Saying this, he turned to look at Zhou Jing.
Zhou Jing was standing beside him, wearing a gray-black bearskin armor, with two long knives slung around his waist, and a stubborn iron heavy knife on his back.
Seeing Weiss looking at him, Zhou Jing waved his hand: "Don't look at me, I've been in Shuangki Village for half a year, and I haven't seen the shadow of the Earth Skeleton."
This group of people is the hunter team of Frostwood Village, and there are ten soldiers of Baiyuan City among them. They are looking for the whereabouts of the Earth Skeleton in the black-shirted forest.
After Zhou Jing became an alien hunter, another three months had passed, and this astral apostle had also lived in Shuangmu Village for half a year.
During this period, Zhou Jing also practiced [Hunter's Breath, Strength] and [Hunter's Breath, Swiftness] to the level of Lv4 proficiency with the help of the acceleration function.
Seeing Zhou Jing growing up, Baron gradually felt that the time was right, so he finally gathered his people and decided to crusade the Earth Skeletons and complete his revenge.
Not only ordinary people like Zhou Jing, Baron and Griff were in the team, but Wes was also specially brought in.
Weiss lived in Frostwood Village for three months, teaching Zhou Jing breathing techniques, and finally realized that Baron didn't fool himself. He was also shattered by Zhou Jing's rapid learning, and he was confused for several days.
The two hundred tera silver coins were also lost, and the loss to Baron was very painful.
Originally, Weiss did not want to participate in the operation to destroy the den of the skeletons, but Balon said that as long as he participated in the crusade, the two hundred tera silver coins would be returned to him.
Weiss scoffs.
——Take my money and hire me to do errands, empty gloves and white wolf belong to yes.
Hmph, do you really think I agreed for this money? !
I and the Earth Skeleton were never meant to be together!
Except for Whis, who is hard-mouthed and soft-legged, this time, Frostwood Village finally got some echoes from his petition to the lord.
Perhaps it was because of Zhou Jing's face that he had dealt with the threat of alien beasts last time, Root finally sent ten soldiers over to assist Balong and others in destroying the den of the skeletons, and they were also in the team at the moment.
Hearing Wes's complaint, Balon shook his head and said, "We only know that their lair is nearby, but the exact location is not clear. The group of Earth Skeleton raiders are wandering around, so it's hard to follow."
"Okay, okay." Weiss was helpless.
Everyone gathered together to discuss how to locate the Earth Skeleton, but Zhou Jing did not participate.
In terms of tracking, he is not particularly good at tracking. He mainly trains in direct combat power, and he has no further training in this area.
Zhou Jing quietly opened the panel and looked at it. In addition to the two new breathing techniques, the original [Hunter's Breath and Forging] had also been upgraded by one level in the past three months, but the [Weapon Mastery-Sword Technique] had never been improved. The movement is still Lv4.
Moreover, he felt that even if the practice acceleration was turned on, the efficiency of practicing swordsmanship would not be as good as before.
When the skill reaches a certain level and the aptitude can't keep up, the speed of cultivation will be greatly slowed down and a bottleneck will be encountered.
My [Sword Art] aptitude is green, and I have been slow to practice since Lv4. This skill-based 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 has a vague feeling ~IndoMTL.com~ With this apostle's sword skill aptitude, it seems that at most [Weapon Mastery - Sword Skill] can be upgraded to Lv5 or Lv6, and I am afraid that it will not be able to improve after that.
Just like many ordinary people who have learned a skill and begin to make rapid progress, but at a certain height, there may be no qualitative progress for decades, and they are spinning in place. People have limits, so there are so few geniuses or masters who can leave their names.
"If you want to solve this, you can use the achievement reward to improve the apostle's qualifications... But it is not necessary now, the current level 4 swordsmanship is enough for the time being, and using the achievement reward just to improve this skill doesn't feel good. Good deal."
Zhou Jing secretly calculated, and took a closer look at the current attributes.
[[Hunter's Breath · Forging]]
[Current Level: Lv5-(Instinct)]
[Effect: Physical +4, Resistance +3]
——
[[Hunter's Breath Power]]
[Current level: Lv4-(Proficient)]
[Effect: Physical +1]
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[[Hunter's Breath, Disease]]
[Current level: Lv4-(Proficient)]
[Effect: Physical +1]
——
[Current attributes: Physical 29, Resistance 21, Perception 11, Spirit 6, Energy 0]
The two new Hunter's Breathing skills are mainly used for combat, and the increase in attributes is not much. The upgrade is to significantly enhance the effect of use, and can bring out the combat power of extraordinary physical fitness.
While thinking about it, Ross's position suddenly flashed in his mind. He was originally sent to secretly search for the location of the Earth Skeleton, but now he returned to the vicinity.
Zhou Jing's eyes moved and said:
"You guys search here, I'll take a look around."