Astral Apostle

  Chapter 33 Reservations and Bottlenecks

  [This campaign has ended]

  [The actual length of stay: 12 days]

  [This resource collection situation: 514 astral points]

  [The experience log has been archived, and the relevant exploration results have been entered in the illustrated book]

  [Cooldown time of next shuttle: 16 hours]

   The launch time has ended, Zhou Jing returned to the shuttle preparation space, and the panel information was swiped.

   "Yo, there are quite a lot of star realms this time." Zhou Jing glanced at the statistics and found that it was the benefit of killing high-risk alien beasts.

   In addition, the synchronization rate of his astral apostle has reached 64% - when it exceeds the 50% limit, 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 14% more total income than before.

   This launch has been fruitful, allowing the apostles to gain extraordinary power and enter the circle of hunters, taking a solid step.

   He planned 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 could start preparing for the second abnormal blood enhancement.

   "Things are going great."

   Zhou Jing was secretly happy.

  Close the settlement panel and enter the placement setting interface.

  [Place object: Jason Wood]

  [The highest synchronization rate: 64% (the third stage)]

  [Place income upper limit: Astral point 940/4000, information state income 0/40]

   He was already familiar with the road, he quickly set up a placement plan, continued the conservative route of focusing on cultivation, and then left the shuttle preparation space.

  Om!

   Consciousness was shocked, and he has returned to his 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 risen by 1 point, and it has now 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 it can continue to grow, will my spiritual attributes be directly accumulated to extraordinary levels? Or is it because my basic spiritual power is not high, so it can increase significantly?" Zhou Jing thought thoughtfully.

   In this way, 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 traveled several times, and has become proficient. He sorted out the gains this time, then got up to wash, ate a simple breakfast, and then exercised according to his own plan and studied relevant materials.

   Every time he returns these days, he puts time into 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 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, and after it rang three times, he picked it up quickly, connected the phone, and asked:

   "Hello, who is it?"

   "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, I am a staff member of the Xihai City Branch of the Interstellar Immigration Bureau. We have already 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?"

"okay."

  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 wants 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.

   looks about thirty 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. I will now 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, smiled softly and said, "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 mention, we have to ensure that the applicants are familiar with the meaning of immigration and have not been deceived, coerced, bewitched, instigated, etc., to ensure that the applicants will not have any objections. We have always adhered to the principle of voluntariness, and the immigrants themselves must be voluntary. Declare it, confirm it yourself, and we'll record it."

   Zhou Jing smiled: "It's all forced to emigrate, but are you still voluntary?"

  Cheng Li's smile did not change: "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 about In terms of family, studies, childhood, etc., it also includes your views on your hometown, immigration, and society, so as to make a comprehensive assessment of you, and I hope you will 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 perform psychological analysis on the immigrant object, check whether there is a mental illness or anti-social personality, etc., 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.

  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.

   Pretending to be 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.

   Antisocial Personality? 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

  —Cause? 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, then 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. .

   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. The interstellar immigration again and again makes this matter no longer new, and the mentality of many people is also changing. Compared with traveling to an unfamiliar planet, most People prefer to stay in the colonized stars that have been developed, resulting in fewer people who are willing to actively immigrate to the stars on each planet year by year.

   To select immigrants from a colonial star, often the first few batches are active applicants, which can be easily filled, and vacancies will gradually appear later, and compulsory immigration needs to be implemented.

   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 the 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'll talk face-to-face 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 one cannot expect others to be more attentive.

  Zhou Jing recorded the visit time in five days on the calendar, then left this matter behind and continued to do his own thing.

  …

  …

   Alien World.

   In the forest, a group of hunters are quietly marching, crouching down from time to time to check the traces around, looking for the traces of the target.

   "Did you find anything?"

  Baron pouted towards Griffin who was squatting on the ground.

  Griff shook his head: "I haven't found the whereabouts of the group of Earth Skeletons."

  Weiss leaned on his spear and complained, "We've been wandering in the forest for two days and haven't found anything. Don't you even know the location of the skeleton man's lair?"

   said, 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. There are also ten soldiers of Baiyuan City. 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 ripe, 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 included 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 it was very painful to lose to Balon.

   Originally, Weiss didn’t want to participate in the operation of destroying 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 scoffed at this.

  —Take my money and hire me to do errands;

  Humph, do you really think I agreed for this money? !

  I and the Earth Skeletons never share the sky!

  Except for Whis, who was tough-mouthed and soft-legged, this time Frostaki 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 Baron and the others in destroying the den of skeletons, and they were also in the team at the moment.

   Hearing Wes's complaint, Baron 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 looters are wandering around, so it's hard to follow."

   "Okay, okay." Weiss was helpless.

   Everyone gathered to discuss how to locate the Earth Skeleton, but Zhou Jing did not participate.

   In terms of tracking, he is not particularly good at it. 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-Knife Technique] remained silent. Lv4.

   And he felt that even if the practice acceleration was turned on, the efficiency of practicing swordsmanship was not as good as before. It seemed that he had touched the limit of aptitude and was stuck at a bottleneck.

   When the skill reaches a certain level and the aptitude cannot keep up, the speed of practice will slow down significantly and a bottleneck will be encountered.

   His [Knife Skill] aptitude is green, and he has 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 had a vague feeling that with this apostle's sword skill aptitude, it seems that at most, [Weapon Mastery - Sword Skill] can be raised to Lv5 or Lv6, and I'm afraid it won't be able to improve after that.

  Like many ordinary people who have learned a skill, they start to make rapid progress, but when they reach a certain height, they may not make any qualitative progress for decades, and they will spin around 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 qualification of the apostle... But it is not necessary now. The current level 4 swordsmanship is enough for the time being. It is not worthwhile to use the achievement reward just to improve this skill."

   Zhou Jing secretly calculated, and took a closer look at the current attributes.

  [[Hunter's Breath and Forging]]

  [Current Level: Lv5-(Instinct)]

  [Effect: Physical +4, Resistance +3]

  —

  [[Hunter's Breath Power]]

  [Current Level: Lv4-(Proficient)]

  [Effect: Stamina +1]

  —

  [[Hunter's Breath and Disease]]

  [Current Level: Lv4-(Proficient)]

  [Effect: Stamina +1]

  —

  [Current attributes: Physical 29, Resistance 21, Perception 11, Spirit 6, Energy 0]

   The two new Hunter's Breathing Techniques 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 better display the combat power of extraordinary physical fitness.

   As he was 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."

   (end of this chapter)