The year quickly came to an end, and He Kao's year had been incredibly fulfilling; his experiences were even more exciting and rich than the previous twenty-five years combined.

At this time of year, all departments need to prepare for the end-of-year performance evaluation and assessment, which involves everyone's year-end bonus. The appraisal is, of course, handled by the upper management, but the department heads generally have an idea.

Gao Xue'e privately told He Kao that the performance of their department this year was good, and for He Kao, he could probably receive an eight-month salary as the year-end bonus.

He Kao's monthly after-tax salary is close to twenty thousand, so an eight-month salary is indeed a substantial amount. Besides this small benefit, there is also a year-end team-building trip.

Speaking of team-building, if there's time, the department can actually go out for a meal every week, arrange a nearby trip once a month, and the year-end team-building refers to a long-distance trip arranged every year.

The business division's habit is usually to travel abroad, going to countries where visas are convenient. Although it is said to be year-end, it mostly happens at the beginning of the year, and if arranged, will typically be chosen for the period after New Year's Day and before Spring Festival, around five days of travel.

Recently, everyone has been discussing where to go in January?

Gao Xue'e privately asked He Kao where he wanted to go play, and He Kao asked back: "I heard that a couple of years ago, there was a department team-building trip to Sawa Country. You watched elephant shows, rode elephants, and then went to a shooting entertainment gallery, Do you remember that?"

Gao Xue'e frowned and thought for a moment: "Of course, I remember riding elephants, I took quite a few photos! But the shooting entertainment gallery, I don't remember, maybe I didn't go in to play."

He Kao then went to ask Xiaopang, and Xiaopang remembered it quite clearly because he enjoyed playing there a lot.

He Kao meant that he wanted to go again, first to check out the location, so that it would be convenient to "transport" firearms later. After witnessing Xiaopang's incredible performance that night, resembling Wukong descending to earth, he always felt his firepower was insufficient.

Currently, the secret base only has a crossbow and a handgun, with not many bullets, which is really not enough to handle a big scene.

Why go to that place again? In professional terms, this is called path dependence. Since Xiaopang has already proven that "transporting" firearms from there is feasible, with a rich variety of gun models and ample ammunition.

He Kao is a good student who abides by the law and does not want to start trouble in Eastern Country, but also wants to be prepared. With his current Tier Two Assassin cultivation, it's better to rely on various weapons if things get serious.

This sense of crisis is something that others might find hard to understand.

Although Gao Xue'e didn't completely understand He Kao's intention, she knew what kind of place he wanted to go, so she prepared two plans.

Plan one was a revisit to the old place, still to Sawa Country, still to that place, but considering that Huang Xiaopang and other old employees had been there, so they would arrange to revisit only that repeated sightseeing spot, and other trips would be changed to new places.

Plan two was to completely change to a new location, but there must be a large-scale live ammunition shooting gallery in the itinerary, which needed to be finalized with the partnered travel company.

What is networking? This is networking! Achieving one's goals by reasonable means and using external resources, while not being noticed! Surely the sorcerers of Qi Observation Sect are particularly skilled at this, right?

During this end-of-year period, He Kao contemplated which sect's applied techniques to simultaneously cultivate? He first chose "Earth Formation Skill" from the Heart Plate Sect, because some of its features when exhibited are similar to the Stealth Skill.

"Earth Formation" is an idiom, originating from an ancient famous poem describing snow scenery in Eastern Country: "Rising with clouds and descending, drifting with the wind. Assigning forms according to objects, forming shapes along the earth. Standing due to encounters, being stained following contamination."

Tier Two Knights of Heart Plate Sect can cultivate this skill, emphasizing the integration of one's breath with the Earth Qi Spirit Core, equivalent to merging form and spirit with the environment, producing effects similar to "Concealing Breath" and "Stealth".

He Kao tried for several days, barely managing to start but always feeling a bit awkward, like a long-distance runner suddenly training for racewalking, even though both are athletics, he's habitually not very adapted.

There are two reasons behind this. Firstly, mainly because He Kao's cultivation is still too low, he hasn't yet reached a profound realm with his sect's Stealth Skill, thus suddenly switching to Earth Formation Skill resulted in practicing neither well.

Secondly, after all, he is a sorcerer of Hidden Moth Sect, although Earth Formation Skill's effects are similar to Stealth Skill, their heart methods are different, and once adapted to one state, one finds it hard to seamlessly switch to another state.

So what now? After a few days of worry, one night during sitting meditation cultivation, He Kao suddenly slapped his forehead, thinking he was being foolish!

He realized he had no need to simultaneously cultivate Earth Formation Skill now; just understanding the characteristics of various sects' applied techniques would suffice. If someone sees through that he is cultivating Stealth Skill, then let them mistakenly believe it's Earth Formation Skill.

After all, in Hidden Moth Sect, he's the only one; others don't understand Stealth Skill, and haven't even heard of it, naturally leading them to think of other techniques...

Upon figuring this out, He Kao's mood instantly improved, while also secretly reflecting that Old Man Jiang's hints were not fully understood by him!

The elderly man said it would be best to wait until reaching Tier Four to simultaneously cultivate, which apparently wasn't empty words but rather a mistake in his previous understanding.

Unknowingly, He Kao could already consecutively traverse spaces more than thirty times, according to his own quantitative segmentation standard, which is equivalent to reaching the level of Tier Four Assassin.

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