Astral Apostle

Chapter 27: Current Objectives; Target Attributes (1) Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

No matter which colonial planet it was, houses were easy to find in this era.

Due to the incentive provided through the fertility welfare funds, the population of the various colonial planets had been growing rapidly. As a result, every country on the planet would have to constantly be constructing new buildings.

In the early stages of interstellar development, there was an increase in resources and the development of society. An ideological shift led to a decrease in the birth rate. To provide population resources for interstellar expansion, the Interstellar Joint Government adjusted many systems to adapt to the environment.

For example, they supervised the implementation of a fertility welfare system for various countries and planets. They no longer played with various concepts and tax cuts but gave real money to give birth to children. As long as a family gave birth to a child, they could get money every month. This money was enough for a family to simply leech off in this era.

The core principle of this system was very simple—giving birth was very profitable. After all, most of the jobs used automatons. If one wanted to enjoy life even without work, one could contribute through children.

Every family unit had three welfare quotas for children. At the most, they could receive three sets of fertility benefits at the same time. When the child reached adulthood, the benefits would halt. However, this would also cause the quota to be freed.

Thus, if a family could give birth to another child during this period, they could continue to receive fertility welfare benefits. The Interstellar Joint Government used this system to continuously stimulate the population and encourage a family to give birth a few more times. Therefore, many families chose to have multiple children.

Whenever their first three children neared adulthood, they would give birth to three new ones to maintain the fertility benefits for the next ten-odd years. This ensured a constant income. For example, Zhou Jing’s family was currently going through the second round of welfare benefits.

In the beginning, the traditional view of the mother planet era meant that many of them were not used to the need for manpower for interstellar expansion. In the end, the Interstellar Joint Government chose to use stable interests to drive the growth of the population.

Establishing a family out of utilitarianism was also one of the reasons why the concept of family in the interstellar era gradually faded. It was already the norm in this era, and it was in line with the needs of the population of the various countries’ interstellar exploration.

The rich resources brought about by interstellar expansion caused the economies of various countries to rapidly increase. Coupled with the improvement in productivity, money was abundant. A portion of it was enough to support many similar high-welfare systems.

Furthermore, in order to prevent a monopoly, each colonial planet was jointly managed by multiple countries. The territories of each country were not limited to a single planet but instead distributed across various planets.

For example, in the Silver Wind Planet that Zhou Jing lived on, the Interstellar Joint Government had divided the planet into 14 sectors for 14 different countries to develop and manage. Three of them were members of the “Seven Countries of the Summit,” which were the Scarlet Nation that they belonged to, as well as the United States of Weiss and the Silver Star Federation.

The Silver Wind Planet had received 25 large-scale migrations in total. So far, it had been developed for 216 years, and all the facilities were perfect. Therefore, despite only having left in the morning, Zhou Jing found a relatively suitable rental house by the afternoon.

The house was not big, but the furniture was tidy. There was water and electricity, and the rent was 700 Nassaus a month.

The Interstellar Joint Government had long since introduced a common currency as the benchmark. The unit was known as Nassau, and the exchange rate was higher than the currency of all the member countries. After many years of promoting it, it had become the main source of daily payment currency in more than a hundred colonial planets.

Zhou Jing had a total of 3720 Nassaus in savings. Taking into account his daily living expenses, renting for two months was no problem. It was enough to support his plan.

He did not see the landlord during the whole process of renting the house. The landlord had long since given full authority to the intermediary company, and everything was transferred by mechanical hands. The efficiency was impressive.

He paid on the same day and checked in with his bag.

“I guess I’ll be living here for the next two months.”

Zhou Jing put down his things and looked around the room. He had mixed feelings. As much as he looked forward to it, he could not help but sigh.

He shelved his complicated feelings and went to the mall to buy his necessities as well as food. When he returned, he tidied up the house briefly before pulling all the curtains closed and sitting in front of the computer.

Zhou Jing spent some time on the Internet and searched for some policies related to the support given to Supers towards forced immigration. He made a preliminary plan.

“Because of the existence of the interface, becoming a Super is no longer impossible. However, the prerequisite is for the Astral Apostle to be able to clear the mission…”

Zhou Jing tapped his fingers on the virtual keyboard and thought.

Only the apostles who completed missions would be able to convert their superpowers into his body.

He’d already changed the name of the world he’d traveled through the last time to “Mutant World” in the interface’s archives. The serial number was still labeled as 001. It was the only astral realm currently recorded in the archives.

He still didn’t know how to discover new astral realms, so he planned to leave that for later and solve what he could solve first.

To become a Super in the Mutant World, I have to make the Astral Apostle consume the Mutant Blood Potion as soon as possible. There are only two months left before this batch of immigrant spaceships depart.

Zhou Jing calculated the time in his heart.

Becoming a Super was only meaningful if he could do so before the immigrant spaceship set off since he could avoid being forced to emigrate. Otherwise, if he got on the spaceship, they wouldn’t turn around to send him back.

He did not intend to live under the same roof as his family anymore. After accepting the forced immigration quota, they would not owe each other anything and would walk their own paths in the future.

However, interstellar migration was still a big matter, and he still had to consider it… Zhou Jing felt that he had to take the initiative whether to move or not. That way, he would choose rather than be forced to do so.

“Before the immigrant spaceship takes off, I need at least one Astral Apostle to complete the mission. That way, I’ll get the powers and have a right to choose whether to board or not.”