Chapter 45: One Star
Woke up, refreshed Zhou Ming went straight to the Hunter Guild again, yesterday, Zhou Ming was still a hunter apprentice can only hope that there is a team that can take him to hunt, today, he is about to turn over into a serf to sing, as long as he passes the physical fitness assessment of the Hunter Guild, Zhou Ming will also be among the official hunters, with independent hunting qualifications, he can take on tasks in his personal capacity, he no longer has to go around begging others to take him hunting.
On the second floor of the Hunter Guild, the guild provides a special test room for hunters, the so-called physique test, in fact, is the basic strength, speed and reaction test, which is exactly the same as the physique test that Zhou Ming conducted at the end of each year when he was in the Hunter Guild of Silver Moon City. If all three of the criteria meet the criteria corresponding to the hunter level, you will pass the test. A certain indicator is more than two levels of the corresponding hunter level, and the other two indicators are at most one level lower than the corresponding hunter level, which is to say, if Zhou Ming's strength level reaches the lower four-star level and his speed and reflexes are only the level of the lower one-star, he can also pass the level test of the lower two-star.
Because he came early, Zhou Ming didn't need to queue up, after the Hunter Guild verified Zhou Ming's identity information, Zhou Ming was taken to the test room, Zhou Ming first tested his most confident strength, since he was on the back of the Silver Moon Forest, Zhou Ming's strength is the biggest growth in these three, the strength test is not a high-level machine, it is a simple dumbbell, the dumbbell is made of special materials, and the material of Zhou Ming's double knife is somewhat similar, from the lower one star to the upper five stars in a row, Zhou Ming chose the pair of lower three-star dumbbells, one in each hand, and with a low shout, the two dumbbells were lifted above his headγ
"Strength test level, lower level 3. The tester on the side said without any emotion, and at the same time recorded Zhou Ming's test data.
Next, Zhou Ming came to the track of the speed test, the test content is a fifty-meter run, mainly to examine the hunter's explosive speed, which is also Zhou Ming's strength, the moment the tester announced the start, the "Strange Moon" body method was activated, Zhou Ming's speed accelerated from zero to his limit in an instant, and a moment later, he crossed the finish line in the puzzled eyes of the tester.
"Strange, what's going on......" In his eyes, Zhou Ming's speed is not fast, with his experience for so many years, Zhou Ming's speed should not be able to pass the test, but the timekeeping hourglass of the one-star standard has not yet been completed, the tester looked at Zhou Ming, who had already come over, and then looked at the hourglass that had just dropped the last drop of sand, and could only bow his head and stamp the pass stamp on the speed bar of the upper and lower stars in the book, and secretly thought that he must check the accuracy of this hourglass after going back.
The final reaction test, Zhou Ming is faced with a three-row, three-column ball machine with a total of nine round holes, after the tester announces the start, the ball machine will launch balls at different speeds according to different assessment levels, Zhou Ming has to do is to dodge all the balls within the specified circular range.
This is even more trivial for Zhou Ming, who has the Tricky Moon Body Method, even if the reaction speed is insufficient, he can rely on the sudden acceleration ability of the Tricky Moon Body Method to avoid some small balls that he couldn't dodge. In a minute, the test ended, and the tester also stamped the pass seal in this last test, and then handed the test result registration form to Zhou Ming: "Take this and your hunter card to the room opposite that says 'level registration', where there will be a special craftsman who will embed stars on the hunter card for you, and print the passing time on the back of the hunter card." β
"After that, I'll be considered an official hunter?" Zhou Ming's excitement was overflowing to say that he had worked hard in the hunter school for so many years, and had experienced so much hardship in the Silver Moon Forest, and finally waited for this day.
"Yes, congratulations. Even when he was saying congratulations, the tester's voice was still not emotional.
"Thank you!" Zhou Ming had already run out of the test room and went straight to the room where the tester had registered his level.
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After coming out of the level test room, Zhou Ming's whole person was full of spirit: "Mom, do you know, I am now an official hunter, and I can already support myself, but ah, I still want to become stronger, so strong that I can cross the Star Soul Forest like my father, so that I can go to see you, and when the time comes, you will definitely be proud of me." β
With this momentum, Zhou Ming came to the task bulletin board of the Hunter Guild and began to search for tasks above the next three stars, and soon, he had a harvest:
The target of this quest is a three-star insect-like beast - the Millipede, and there is no requirement to capture or kill it alive, but the publisher of the quest is a taxidermy collector, so it is required that the beast must not have obvious scars on its body, and promises that if the Millipede Worm has no external injuries at all, he will pay an additional 30% additional reward. The Hunters' Guild records the location of this beast on a regular basis, so it doesn't take a lot of time for hunters to spend a lot of time searching the Silvermoon Forest.
Speaking of the fierce beast to deal with in the mission, Zhou Ming and Hong Menglong had encountered it when they were about to leave the Silver Moon Forest, so Zhou Ming knew it very well, this kind of fierce beast was not strong, it could only be said that it barely met the requirements of the lower three stars, the only trouble was that it could not leave obvious scars on it, which had too many restrictions on the hunter's shots, and it was this that made this mission posted on the mission bulletin board for three whole days without anyone caring.
Since it can't leave scars on its body, wouldn't it be enough to use dark energy to penetrate the body and kill it directly from the inside of the body?
"Start the task, start the task, the thousand-foot demon worm of the next three stars, the reward for those with high strength will be distributed first, and it will take about three or four people. Zhou Ming shouted in the tone of the other hunters when they were looking for a temporary team, but the effect was not good, as soon as they heard that the fierce beast could not have obvious external injuries, many hunters shook their heads and retreated.
In desperation, Zhou Ming could only reveal his ability to penetrate the body secretly, affirming that as long as the other hunters could contain the thousand-foot demon insect, he could kill it without hurting its appearance, and then shouted that hunters who were good at capturing or trapping were needed, this time, the hunters who had seen a lot of task rewards finally flocked to it, and after a while, their temporary team was assembled.
This temporary team counted Zhou Ming as a total of four people, two of the lower two stars and two of the lower one stars, and the hunter of the lower one star confidently said to Zhou Ming that he was a trap master, and he had been staring at this task for two days, ensuring that he could trap the thousand-foot demon worm, what Zhou Ming needed most was such a hunter, and he didn't think much about it, so he took him and set off together.
Nothing to do along the way, not much to say. Zhou Ming, as the hunter who took the task, also became the temporary leader of this hunter team, before entering the Silver Moon Forest, he proposed to let everyone briefly introduce himself, so as to facilitate mutual cooperation after entering the forest, he himself naturally does not need to mention more, the next one-star weapon is a double knife. Among the other three, one of the two hunters with two lower two-star positions is called Lao Lu, and the other calls himself a toothpick, using a machete and a shield, which is a balanced hunter who can both attack and defend, and is also the best choice to contain the thousand-foot demon insect; γ
The specified time to complete the task is five days, which is relatively abundant, Zhou Ming and the others are not in a hurry, and they only arrived at the gentian tree "wall" on the periphery of the Silver Moon Forest at noon, for this task, due to the clear division of labor - after Brother Hammer laid out the trap, the two lower two-star hunters led the thousand-foot demon insect over, and finally Zhou Ming ended it with a white sand style, so everyone including Zhou Ming was not very worried, after entering the forest, everyone set off towards the activity location of the thousand-foot demon insect according to the predetermined route.
I don't know if it's a beautiful day, opening a green channel for Zhou Ming, who took the task for the first time, at the end of this day, Zhou Ming's team on the way to the nest of the thousand-legged demon insect except for a slight detour to avoid a group of four-horned antelopes, did not encounter other fierce beasts at all, in such an efficient hurry, the next morning, Zhou Ming and several people have come to the predetermined area.
There was a puff of moisture in the sultry air, the sky was as dark as ink, and the whole forest seemed to be silent because of the impending heavy rain, all of which showed that the beauty of the previous days was not really beautiful, perhaps, it was just the calm before the storm.