Chapter 34: Brick-laying

There are twelve Virtues, the watch face is divided into twelve hours, and the Chosen Ones below the Heavenly Human are also divided into twelve stages.

Below the Heavenly Human, the Chosen Ones are divided into twelve stages, totaling four major realms: Invocation, Metamorphosis, Rebirth, and Transcendent. If placed on a watch face, it would be exactly one sector every three hours.

Each stage represents one's own height moving one step closer to the Virtues, and each realm represents a terrifying change that is completely different and earth-shattering from before.

According to Ji Jue's cognition and speculation, Sister Wen should be an out-and-out Transcendent big shot, a master among masters, a master of masters. How high exactly, Ji Jue couldn't tell at all. As for that old victim Lawrence, perhaps he was in the Rebirth realm, between the sixth and ninth stages, having completely shed the weaknesses of mortal objects; even if he were ground into dust, he could instantly grow back.

Unfortunately, he, who was single-mindedly trying to break through to the Transcendent realm with dragon blood, met the even more unreasonable Wen Wen and was completely evaporated by dragon thunder from physics to soul.

And Ji Jue... was still a little shrimp who had just reached level 1 and didn't even have a matrix.

A blank slate among blank slates, a newcomer among newcomers.

He belonged to the kind who had just created an account and was still looking up strong professions online.

For a heavy-duty roll-dog obsessive-compulsive patient like Ji Jue, there was nothing more uncomfortable than seeing a progress bar that wouldn't move no matter how hard he tried.

If you don't practice leveling for a day, you can still say you're accumulating virtue, but this daily lack of leveling...

Precisely because of this, he was particularly anxious.

But being anxious was useless.

Within the three stages of the Invocation realm of the first realm, all of them were the development and breakthrough of the Chosen One's own abilities. Except for the realm related to the ability, everything else was no different from ordinary people. Eating overnight braised pork rice would give you a stomachache, and being shot in the head would still result in immediate death.

The realm of punching Lawrence, kicking Lawrence, and destroying Lawrence with dragon breath like Sister Wen was too far away.

According to Ye Chun's statement, at this stage, he should work hard to exercise his ability until it grew to a certain node, then seek new blessings from the Twelve Virtues, and then successfully LVUP.

As a result, he got stuck just as he started at the beginning. If he told people, no one would believe him, and if they did, they would probably be laughed at, and after being laughed at, they might be written into some broken book.

It was simply more miserable than a screaming chicken.

What's more, as the foundation for the Chosen One to go further, the crucial matrix, he didn't even have a shadow of it yet.

Now, counting the Twelve Virtues, there are a total of 221 matrices registered in various parties that are enough to achieve Heavenly Human. Where are they not hot cakes? Which one isn't a radish in a hole?

It might be that the hole existed first, and then the radish.

Want one?

Either you are a direct descendant of a large organization, or you have signed a slave contract even harsher than this, and you have to sell your blood, kidneys, and youth for a lifetime to get a spot in line.

Chosen Ones are common.

Since the beginning of time, not to mention the rarest Chosen One summons, just the autonomous awakenings due to accidents and the upper-level invocations caused by the soul being eroded by certain things are countless.

Yet, matrices, which are important treasures that require countless predecessors to try and make mistakes one by one, and finally fix the order and rivet them completely with the Virtues, are not many.

Basically, the slightly better ones are all monopolized by large organizations.

The Federation on the left, the Empire on the right, the Middle Earth in the middle, then there is the Chongguang Church far away, the Ring of Taiyi nearby, and the Wilderness Collection behind... Those who really have no qualifications and cannot see the light simply rush into ghost places like the Long Jihui or Nirvana.

There are too many Chosen Ones who want to progress but have nowhere to go.

They don't lack him.

Therefore, for the time being, even if he is stuck in a level, Ji Jue is not in a hurry.

Isn't the artisan's progress bar moving anyway?

Just grind whichever one you can.

Besides, isn't he living well?

Surviving a terrorist incident and becoming Professor Ye's apprentice can be called a turn for the better. At least he's not unlucky anymore, and he doesn't have to worry about being hit by a car when he goes out.

Really good!

Ji Jue lay on the bed, spread out in a 'wood' shape, feeling extremely relaxed.

Things are getting better. Ever since Lawrence died, everything has been getting better.

In the future, when Little Two becomes an accountant, I become an alchemist, and that dog thing Lu Feng continues to repair cars, everyone will have a bright future.

Just like that, amidst the messy thoughts, he closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

No dreams all night.

Under the same night, there were still people who didn't sleep all night.

"That kid, the problem is big."

In the building next to the viaduct, in the office, a photo taken this afternoon was pushed to the front of the table, and the tracker who had just rushed back said decisively:

"There is definitely a problem."

In the photo on the table, under the dim light of the sunset, the teenager riding the little sheep twisted the throttle, bringing a burst of laughter from the girl behind him.

Youthful and beautiful.

"What do you mean?"

The old man behind the table was stunned for a moment, then frowned: "Are you saying that he really has some connection with that woman?"

"Maybe, it's possible."

The middle-aged man Qi Qin, with a face full of stubble, smoked and said in a muffled voice: "Half a month ago, at the same time the Chosen One summons happened, the biggest thing in the entire Yacheng was the thing the Long Jihui made."

But among all the survivors, he was the one most closely connected to the woman surnamed Wen...

That woman kept her mouth shut about the entire process of the action and was vague. Is it possible that she wanted to cover up the existence of a Chosen One summoner in the action?

"... Are you crazy?"

The old man Jiang Jin was stunned for a moment, then suspicious: "Serious?"

After decades, the sudden appearance of the Chosen One summons had already stirred up the entire Haizhou. In these days, I don't know how many people have offered rewards, looking for traces of the Chosen One summoner.

Similarly, it also aroused the vigilance of more people.

Even if Wen Wen didn't mention a word and had never said anything about Ji Jue, several visits could not be hidden from the prying eyes of those with intentions in the dark.

In fact, it's not that no one suspected that Ji Jue might be a Chosen One summoner.

Because almost everyone who was suspicious had been dug out, and almost no one who was suspicious was left behind, including Ji Jue. But soon, after deep digging and investigation, the first one to be excluded was him.

"Get it straight, he's a cursed one!"

Jiang Jin was furious: "You want me to take this thing to hand over to that side? Are you crazy? Do you think anyone will believe this kind of nonsense?"

"Such an outrageous thing as the Chosen One summons has happened... It's not that unacceptable for a cursed one to become a Chosen One, right?"

Qi Qin pondered for a moment, prying at the old man's face, and said with a stiff scalp: "Besides, even if this person named Ji Jue is not a Chosen One, he must really have some relationship with that woman surnamed Wen, right?"

Jiang Jin was slightly stunned, not knowing what he wanted to say.

"Until yesterday afternoon, I saw them sitting on the same motorcycle at Tianmen University with my own eyes. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have thought that woman would actually smile."

Qi Qin lit a cigarette and took a deep breath: "Is it possible that she is in love?"

"..."

The corners of Jiang Jin's eyes twitched, more spasmodic than before.

Qi Qin continued: "... To tell you the truth, I think that kid looks like a pretty boy, I don't know how many little girls he has cheated. Besides, an iron tree is also a tree. Spring is here, maybe the iron tree will bloom?"

Jiang Jin's expression changed slightly.

Even if it's absurd, what if it's true?

If that's the case, there's a lot that can be done with that kid.

After all, even on the side of the Security Bureau, there are plenty of people who want to see that woman surnamed Wen have bad luck.

Besides, if you can really grasp the handle of this plague god, then the difficulty of making a living in the Beishan District in the future will undoubtedly be reduced a lot.

More importantly, what does 'that side' mean?

"You go out first."

The old man Jiang Jin was calm, and Qi Qin got up and left.

After a long time, he heard the voice from behind the door: "Come in."

The old man in the office put down the phone, his expression changed, and after a long time, he said: "Just do as you said, go check... dig it out for me, figure it out."

He paused, and a fierce look appeared in his expression, "If it's true, solve it, understand?"

If he's a pretty boy who is lucky enough to hook up with Minerva, then he can be used a little bit.

It's already something many people don't want to see for that disaster Wen Wen to gain a foothold in the Security Bureau. If she has one more weakness, everyone will be more at ease.

But if she really cultivates a strong support for the Chosen One summons... no one knows how big a hole she can poke!

"Don't worry, boss."

Qi Qin grinned, revealing two rows of teeth yellowed by smoke, "I'm a professional."

Thus, he patted his chest and made a guarantee without shame.

And then...

The days of being in prison began.

Not to mention what the guys prying in the dark wanted to dig out of Ji Jue, just following a roll-dog who didn't even want his life when he saw credits, papers, and grades was undoubtedly not a rational idea.

Especially when this roll-dog was put on a dog leash and taken to be a graduate student before he even graduated...

It would become even more rolled.

Fake graduate student daily life: pretending to shake test tubes in a laboratory with bright lights and advanced equipment, looking at the inexplicable liquid inside, and nodding and smiling at the camera with colleagues next to him.

Real graduate student daily life: picking up trash, doing hard labor, laying bricks.

Depending on the situation, you might also have to bring children for your mentor, participate in the legendary junior high school technology research and development competition where big shots walk everywhere and doctors are not as good as dogs, and by the way, cook, wash clothes, and maybe even sacrifice your chastity and body.

Fortunately, Professor Ye had never been married and had no children, and her only niece was her senior sister. Except for her pure research interest in Ji Jue's body, spirit, soul, and ability, and wanting to throw him into the furnace or put him on the dissecting table, she had no other needs.

Therefore, for Ji Jue, an alchemy apprentice on his first day of work, the work he had to face, besides running errands to buy milk tea, bring lunch, play games to rank up, and chat about gossip for the senior sister in charge of supervision, all the remaining time was spent...

Doing hard labor!