skillful

Chapter 5 Logging
The final result was that Zhang Gan spent five copper coins to buy five hot meat buns, plus a free white flour steamed bun. He gave Ji Youcai a bun and a steamed bun to fill his stomach with water, and the remaining four buns Save it for lunch for two.

The two rushed to the Carpenter's Union, paid a visit to Zhang Qian's instructor, and then went to Zhang Qian's residence to pick up logging tools and a wheelbarrow. They also found a rope in case of emergency, and then hurriedly hit the road.

The lumber camp is not too far from the town, and it takes more than half an hour and less than an hour to walk.

While chatting on the road, Ji Youcai learned that Zhang Qian's mentor, Zhang Zhiyuan, was not only his mentor, but also his clan uncle. Still pretty good.The task I received from the Swordsmen Guild this time was nominated by the other party.A total of [-] iron-core wooden swords, the task reward is [-] silver coins, and the task period is ten days. Because I am a little rushed, I gave an extra two silver coins as an expedited fee, increasing the original ten silver coins to twelve silver coins.

The task given to him by Zhang Qian's mentor is to collect 120 pieces of wood that meet the requirements for making wooden swords within three days!The reward is three silver and sixty copper!
Zhang Gan’s task for Ji Youcai is to send the qualified timber he felled to his mentor in time every day, at least fifty timbers a day, and pay him one copper coin for each timber. One piece of wood will be deducted from the number of lumber already delivered, that is, the commission of an additional copper coin will be deducted. If the total number of lumber delivered on the day is less than 25 pieces, then Ji Youcai will not only get no commission, but will also have to pay ten. One-fifth of the liquidated damages five copper coins!But if it exceeds fifty, Zhang Qian is willing to pay double the commission for every additional one!
However, that being said, Zhang Qian has the final say on how much he cuts every day, even if he can cut a hundred, he will only cut fifty after hesitation, and the double commission is just a cloud.Of course, if he cuts less than fifty trees a day, then as long as Ji Youcai delivers all the wood on the same day, it will not be considered a breach of contract.

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However, when Ji Youcai arrived at the lumberyard and saw Zhang Gan starting to work, he knew that if he felled a hundred roots a day, he could think about it, but if he took it seriously, he would lose!
First of all, it takes a lot of time to find and select suitable wood, and then you have to observe whether there are insects or obvious tree tumors, sores, etc. Don’t accidentally cut for a long time before you find that the core of the entire wood has been covered by termites. Only when you empty it out will you cry to death!The final felling is also the most labor-intensive. Hatchet, axe, and hacksaw take turns to get a wood with a relatively flat cut that meets the conditions—half of it!Don't forget, what he needs is the four or five feet in the middle of the wood that meet the requirements, not just cut it down!That is to say, to obtain a piece of qualified wood, the same process needs to be done twice - pinching the head and removing the tail!

After waiting for a long time, it turned out that Zhang Gan had only got three or five pieces of qualified wood, but he was already sweating from exhaustion. Because there was a wheelbarrow that could transport more than ten pieces of wood at a time, Ji Youcai was not in a hurry It was transported back, so he greeted Zhang Gan, asked for some white lime powder for marking, and followed his example to find suitable wood.

Walking while searching, he soon walked into the dense forest and could not see the figure, but he didn't stay away, he just found a relatively hidden place nearby.

He wants to use his neutered collection skill!
After all, if you choose to integrate into the society and live a normal life, although time will slowly wear away the alien atmosphere on your body, living a day can eliminate a little negative experience value, and when the experience value returns to zero, you can use your skills normally.But nearly a thousand negative experience needs nearly three years!He can't afford to wait, and doesn't want to wait!
So he wants to try the method of stopping the skill. It is mentioned in the skill explanation that if you give up collecting when the collection skill is halfway used, the skill will not succeed, but it will not fail, because this method can plunder the collected objects. Bless yourself with half of the power of existence in the world, and increase the experience value of the skill by one, so as to achieve the effect of crossing the sea. (The quality of the item being cast is reduced by half, and this method cannot be used on the same item twice)

In this way, even if he can only use the skill suspension technique once a day, it can also reduce the time required for the skill to become normal by half!
If he can perform the skill suspension technique more than ten times a day, the time to return to normal can even be shortened to about three months!
If this number is one hundred times, then the time can even be shortened to less than ten days!

Therefore, if he wanted to try his own limit, he had better plan ahead.

Putting the palm of his right hand on a piece of iron core wood about a foot thick in front of him, Ji Youcai activated the harvesting technique!

Collection begins!
In a daze, Ji Youcai seemed to see strands of white light spreading out from his right palm, like vines, more like tentacles, dancing nimbly in the air, and then fiercely but silently as if poking into the air. Drill into the tree trunk.

A page suddenly appeared in front of Ji Youcai!
Botanical name: Ironwood
Tree age: 14 years
Features: hard and tough texture, dense and heavy wood, good corrosion resistance.

Status: Collected...

There are still 59 seconds until the acquisition is successful, 58 seconds and 57 seconds...

Please stop the skill before obtaining the item at the last second of successful collection, and withdraw the collection skill.

If the item is successfully obtained, the acquisition technique skill is added to the acquired item and cannot be recovered, it means that the skill has failed, the skill experience -10, and the skill consumption will not be returned; if the item is not obtained and the collection technique skill is successfully recovered, it means the skill If the suspension is successful, the skill experience will be +1, and the skill consumption feedback will be doubled; if the item is not obtained and the collection technique power cannot be recovered successfully, it means that the skill casting has failed, the skill experience remains unchanged, and the skill consumption will not be rewarded.

Although I really want to try the first one, but thinking about my negative experience that almost broke the thousand, I still forget it!
As the countdown draws closer and closer to the end, Ji Youcai feels that the silky tentacles protruding from his palm are like fishing nets to catch big fish more and more clearly. At the end, he even feels like he is about to hold something in his hand and grab it It's an illusion, as if the technical tentacles of the harvesting technique have really become an extension of your own hand!
Countdown: 1 seconds!
"Collection terminated!"

Ji Youcai grabbed the time and gave the order to stop the skill. The next moment, the feeling of catching something disappeared, but the tentacle formed by the gathering skill did not let go of the item it let go, as if unwilling to do so. I took a big bite, and then slapped the object hard as if to vent my anger because I couldn't compete. In short, it was a strange feeling that I couldn't describe, a bit fuzzy and not very clear.

"The collection technique skill was successfully terminated! Steal half of the opponent's existence power, offset part of the alien atmosphere, skill experience +1, current skill experience -998."

"Successfully suspend the collection technique skill, and double the skill consumption reward!"

Ji Youcai was refreshed, not only did he feel that the previous fatigue was gone, but even the 0.1 of the energy consumed by the skill was restored to full value, and even exceeded it!

Name: Ji Youcai
Race: human

Permissions: host

Sex: Male
Age: 16 (this data is the physical age, the body age is 24)

Status: Normal
Fine: 1 (+0.1)

Gas: 1 (+0.1)

God: 1 (+0.1)

Repair: none
Equipment: none
Items: none
Skills: Talent skills ([-]).Acquired skills (zero).

Note: Skill feedback can be stacked up to ten layers, all attributes of spirit, energy and spirit +1, and the effect lasts for one hour.

Originally, after releasing the Harvesting skill once, the various values ​​of spirit, energy, and spirit have been reduced to 0.9, but after obtaining the effect of doubling the skill consumption feedback, it has obtained a feedback compensation of 0.1×2 consumption.

This effect is a bit against the sky!
Doesn't this mean that as long as you keep using the skills to stop getting rewards, not only do you not have to worry about the number of times the skills are cast, you don't even have to worry about the consumption!

Although it is a bit regrettable that I can't get the item!But the feeling of being a humanoid perpetual motion machine seems to be even better!

24 hours a day, one hour six 10 minutes, 1 minute can cast a skill suspension effect, then one day I can cast 1440 skills, will -999, ah no, it is -998 now, and -998 points of skill experience will be offset or even It takes less than a day!
At this moment, Ji Youcai was so excited that he wanted to yell, but he didn't know that at this moment, he ignored a problem that really needed attention!

　As for what to say, the next chapter will reveal it!It's also about skills!

　　In addition, digitization is really tiring. I count my fingers as tired, and maybe those who read my book feel tired too, but I am also very helpless because of the needs of the plot!

　　Here's today's update! One more chapter until 10:30!
　　
　
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