Not long after, Ji Xun arrived at No. 117 Dongcheng Street, Dongwu District.
Everything here feels familiar.
The black glass building was brightly lit, and the smoke from the crematorium was pouring out black smoke.
In the past few days, there have been many times more corpses in Sinless City than in the past. There are not enough corpse collectors at all, not to mention that it is a completely new branch.
Ji Xun went to the recruitment office.
The person in charge of recruiting people was also an unfamiliar minister.
All the field staff in the previous branch were wiped out, and no one knew him.
Ji Xun said that there was no obstacle to joining the job and he went through the formalities on the spot.
I was given a "Corpse Collector's Manual", a set of work clothes, and a dormitory key, and then I officially joined the job.
He was assigned to the fifth team again.
This team is responsible for a large area near Downing Street. It has the heaviest work and is always short of people.
The minister just greeted the newcomers below. Originally, the newcomers were required to familiarize themselves with the body collector's manual, and they only began to gradually become familiar with the work they took over the next day.
But as soon as Ji Xun walked out, the new captain of the fifth team called out to him.
"Hey, the new one, Ji...Ji San, right? Help take the corpse in the car to the morgue."
"..."
Ji Xun raised his eyebrows, his expression under the mask was slightly strange.
It seems that squeezing newcomers is the tradition of corpse collectors. The captain of the new fifth team is very familiar with this trick.
However, the last time I did this, it was already cold.
Ji Xun thought of some pictures, and a slight smile appeared in his eyes.
Without saying anything, he pushed the trolley, loaded the body with the other newcomer on the trolley, and took the old elevator to the morgue on the third floor below.
As soon as he came in, the newcomer who was two days ahead of him also chose to be lazy and made an excuse: "Hey, just put the customer into the empty box. I'll leave this place to you. Get familiar with it." I want to go up and wait for the mission."
This guy also treated him as a newcomer who didn't know anything.
With that said, people also left.
Ji Xun shook his head and didn't care.
He put the customers into the iron boxes one by one, and clearly felt the extraordinary characteristics emanating from the corpses. At the same time, he said something that only he could hear clearly: "The quality of corpses is very high these days."
This eerie morgue makes others wish they would never come back.
Ji Xun liked it very much.
It's quiet and no one disturbs you.
Ji Xun was already familiar with this process. He neatly prepared the body, found a corner and began to meditate.
...
There is no need to go out on missions on the first day of employment.
Ji Xun stayed in the morgue all night.
Early the next morning, Ji Xun opened his eyes from meditation.
Originally, I planned to go upstairs to have breakfast and then continue to deal with chores. I took the time to meditate and practice.
This is the routine he has developed before.
However, just as he stood up, he suddenly discovered something surprising, and said softly: "The mantra value increased by 200 points overnight?"
Ji Xun rubbed his temples, a little unbelievable.
Because he had always wanted to observe how different the Golden Fragment Breathing Method was from other breathing methods, he had been recording the increase in his mana power.
He clearly remembered that the mantra value on his panel last night was 270.
After these ten hours of meditation, it turned into 581?
Up 211 points!
"Why did it rise so much?"
Ji Xun himself was confused.
Normally, after ten hours of meditation, with his current proficiency, he can increase his mana power by about 40 points, which is pretty good.
But last night, it was five times as much?
"Could it be..."
Ji Xun turned his eyes and suddenly realized something.
When he was in the maze before, he meditated and found that the breathing method was much more efficient. At that time, he thought it was a problem with the secret room, or maybe it was swallowed by the third-level corpse.
I didn't even have time to think about it deeply.
Now that there is no environmental impact, the breathing efficiency is even higher!
The breathing method is still at level 1, so it stands to reason that such an exaggerated increase is absolutely impossible.
Ji Xun eliminated all possibilities, looked at the cloth bag hanging on his waist, and said to himself: "Is it really the reason for this jar?"
If environmental and own factors are eliminated, then this is the only possibility.
"this..."
Ji Xun, on the other hand, is a bit incompetent.
This [x-711-Curse Pot] cannot be contained, but it has no negative effects, so he has been hanging it on his waist since he came out of the maze.
I thought that in case of trouble, I could block the mysterious curse and act as a passive pendant.
Now it seems that this jar not only has the effect of exempting a single target from the curse, but also condenses elemental particles in the void to increase energy and speed up curse cultivation?
Ji Xun thought of this and immediately became more energetic: "I found a big treasure!"
You can spend money to learn professional skills using practice cards, but you can only accumulate your spell power by practicing hard and meditating on your own.
No one is an exception.
He had heard before that rich people would use some secret potions to assist in the practice of breathing techniques, achieving a practice efficiency that was multiple times that of others.
But that kind of cultivation method that is purely money-burning cannot be supported by non-big nobles.
Moreover, the medicines are all top-secret formulas and cannot be purchased by people at the bottom.
There is no use in envy.
Therefore, Ji Xun also estimated that with normal meditation and hard work, even if he had the fragmentary breathing method and his spell power could increase far beyond superhuman, it might take a year or two to reach the level of a formal spell card master.
However, I didn't expect that I picked up a clay pot in the maze and turned out to be a big treasure with five times the cultivation efficiency?
Maybe more than that!
The number of this spell jar is x-711. Chujiu said that this is a brand new number, which means it is a new catastrophic object that was only discovered by the Cao family in the old continent.
Probably even they themselves don't know what the specific use is.
The functions that have been confirmed now are single-target curse immunity and assisted breathing training.
Just these two effects are a priceless treasure.
Ji Xun thought of a lot at once, and his eyes sparkled.
Although there was an increase in the maze before, it was not as exaggerated as last night. I think it was because the jar was not carried close to the person?
Or are there other environmental factors that can affect its growth?
But there is no rush to find out.
No one knows that he has this thing in his hands now. There will still be a lot of time in the future to slowly test the effect of this jar.
Dinner was already served in the cafeteria, so Ji Xun did not stay in the morgue and walked up.
The mission of collecting corpses will begin today.
...
Time flies and half a month passes.
Ji Xun continued to work as an inconspicuous corpse collector at the Golden Oak Branch in East Fifth District under his new identity.
Every day is about going on missions, collecting corpses, burning corpses, and practicing.
Regular, ordinary and unremarkable.
During this period, the assassination of Governor Cao Sihai also began to continue to ferment.
Like a tsunami after an earthquake, huge shock waves hit Innocence City one after another.
There are various kinds of fighting every day in the city.
In addition to gangs, many people from unknown forces also participated.
Without the common foreign enemy of the Cao family in the Governor's Mansion, the wars between the major gangs in Innocence City have become more and more frequent.
It seems that there are still many behind-the-scenes forces fanning the flames.
Corpse collectors in major urban areas are working at full capacity, and the cremators have never stopped.
Not only are there more corpses, but their quality is also getting higher and higher.
In the past, most of the corpses collected were the corpses of card master apprentices.
But gradually, the corpses of first-level spell card masters and even second-level spell card masters may lie on the streets...
The pollution of corpses is getting stronger and stronger, and distortion accidents also occur frequently.
Corpse collector teams from several districts have encountered accidents in which corpses were deformed when they were out in the field. They were deformed at the scene, faked corpses in cars, climbed out of the morgue...all kinds of weird incidents happened one after another.
The level of occupational hazards has skyrocketed.
Even though Golden Oak Company has increased wages, there is still a shortage of people at all times.
But this is good news for Ji Xun.
He can devour more and more attributes every day.
The new captain of the fifth team and several old employees also squeezed this "unsociable" newcomer.
Nowadays, Ji Xun is almost always alone in the morgue.
He did all the dirty work including delivering the bodies, burning them.
Ji Xun didn't care, he worked hard and worked hard to be a transparent person in the company.
...
This day.
The gloomy third underground floor.
The sound of "hoo" and "hoo" echoed through the wind in the empty corridor, faintly mixed with the sound of regular heavy breathing.
Ji Xun was shirtless doing squats and squats in the morgue, while practicing some basic fighting moves.
At this moment, his body was completely different from the scrawny appearance when he first traveled through time. His body was covered in tangled muscles, like a knife and an axe.
Not only are the muscles large in size, but the lines are also very smooth.
The sweat wets the whole body and makes it look like a layer of oil. It looks like steel to the naked eye.
At this moment, Ji Xun was standing on his head doing one-handed presses, still counting: "197, 198, 199...200!"
Counting to two hundred, he jumped up lightly and landed on the ground.
Although [Devil's Feast] can devour corpses with extraordinary properties and bring growth to the body, without resistance training, human muscles will continue to atrophy and their strength will decrease.
Ji Xun didn't want his talent to be wasted on laziness.
So every day he gives himself time to plan training.
His temperament can endure loneliness, and he has become a cultivator madman.
However, as soon as his feet landed on the ground, even if he deliberately controlled them, the sound of his footsteps was extremely heavy.
There was a "boom" sound.
It sounded like a heavy object falling to the ground.
A closer look revealed that Ji Xun also had a heavy iron belt tied around his waist and iron blocks on his feet.
The weight of this body has exceeded two hundred kilograms.
But almost every day or two, one or twenty kilograms are added.
The corpse collectors have been on duty very frequently recently, and the training time is completely insufficient. So they can only increase the weight and reduce the training time with intensity to achieve the ideal training effect as much as possible.
The Frost Knight's trophies previously contained a large number of high-end physical training recovery potions, which also brought great help to Ji Xun.
Even with high-intensity training, there are no hidden dangers left in the body.
Just like this boring training day after day, the attributes are only increasing visibly to the naked eye.
After being devoured by the Devil's Feast, his attributes are now completely different from those half a month ago.
Before the maze of the Great Cemetery, Ji Xun's power attributes were only around 3.
Equivalent to a medium melee type Katu.
But now, all the data are close to 5, and some high-level card students are only at this level.
This exaggerated increase can be attributed to the third-level Frost Knight Captain who was devoured in the maze before, as well as the high-quality customers that the morgue received during this period.
And it’s not just body numbers that change!
Because of the blessing of [Curse Pot] and daily meditation and hard work, the mantra value has reached an astonishing "1554".
This is already similar to the sixth or seventh stage of practicing ordinary breathing techniques.
But according to the Golden Fragments, he is only in the second stage of his career.
After all, the formula has only been practiced to the second level.
If this exaggerated value and improvement speed were known to others, no one would dare to believe it.
In addition, the proficiency in various skills, breathing techniques, fighting, and Qigong has been steadily improved.
The increase in combat effectiveness is visible to the naked eye.
He can easily climb high walls with one leap, he can crush red bricks with his bare hands, and his hard qigong can also defend against ordinary slashes and stabs...
This kind of ability that was considered superhuman in his previous life can now be accomplished easily.
Ji Xun felt that he was in great condition.
He even felt that if his body continued to grow like this, he might not be able to work for long before the identity of "Ji San" would disappear again, and then he would come back with a new identity.
This is just the beginning, the breathing method in the remaining part is only at the second level, and the physical attributes are still a long way from reaching the upper limit of a card master's apprentice. There is a lot of room for improvement in the future.
No matter what kind of chaos the Innocence City is now, he has no interest in getting involved. He will only survive in the morgue until he cannot be promoted.
Without a job change as a formal spell card master, he can only be used as cannon fodder in today's Innocence City.
After finishing one set of presses and resting for a while, Ji Xun was ready to do another set with another hand.
However, at this moment, a voice suddenly came from the communication copper tube on the wall: "Team 5 is on a mission!"
Ji Xun was used to hearing this.
The frequency of tasks these days is very high, and exercise is often interrupted.
He quickly took off the weight on his body and stuffed it into the storage ring.
He wanted to carry the weight with him, but if he really weighed several hundred kilograms and sat on the corpse collector's antique steam truck, it would easily be noticeable.
After wiping off his sweat and putting on his clothes, Ji Xun quickly went upstairs with his toolbox, jumped into the truck that had started on the street, and sped off on the street.