The chapter ends with a good setup for the interview and the approaching countdown. The two-day countdown to September 3rd is clear. I feel the ticking clock. The story needs to balance this urgency with character development.
I really appreciate how the author shows poverty without being preachy. The Li family eats two meals a day with palm-sized flatbreads and wild vegetable soup, while most families in the colony eat only one. The father's squad leader salary of 7 shi of grain is barely enough for twenty-three people. It feels historically grounded.
I want to see the other alternate selves. We know four are dead and are providing the fixed boost, but what if a *live* one appears? The "switching modes" function implies there might be other transmigrators from different fictional worlds out there. Imagine if a Cultivation world Qi Sheng appears. The power scaling could go in a completely bananas direction that the original author never intended.