Angela Lopez took over driving for the afternoon patrol. After Jack offered to train him in marksmanship for an hour after work in exchange for his daily lunch, she readily agreed and told him to call her Angela from now on, instead of Officer Lopez.
Sitting in the passenger seat, Jack opened his system and checked the new notifications. The successful arrest that morning had rewarded him with 5 experience points.
The two comprehensive ability dals he received at graduation and the reward for officially becoming a police officer provided a total of 4 system coins. He had accumulated 2 more during his six months at the police academy, for a total of 6. He had impulsively used up 5 coins by leveling up his healing skill to mastery, leaving him with 45 experience points and only 1 system coin remaining.
Thinking that even after leaving the rookie phase, a regular patrol officer's daily work would mainly consist of handling trivial matters, his desire to actively intervene in key plot points grew stronger.
The experience gained from arresting or killing serious criminals would definitely be much higher than catching a pair of lesbians, right?
Jack had so plans for using the system coins. After graduating from the police academy, both his ntal strength and physical constitution attributes had increased to 19 points.
With these increases, the effects were becoming increasingly noticeable.
When focused on studying or training, the higher the concentration and the longer the duration, the faster his ntal strength grew. Conversely, increased ntal strength greatly improved his learning and training efficiency.
Physical constitution was easier to understand. Initially, Jack's physical constitution was only 8 points. With active fitness and dietary adjustnts, when it broke through 10 points, his mild nearsightedness disappeared, and so minor ailnts caused by his original body's bad habits also vanished completely.
After joining the police academy and learning new fighting techniques, he secretly used healing to eliminate muscle strain while practicing relentlessly, causing his physical constitution to rise rapidly, eventually matching his ntal strength.
Now, both attributes had been stuck at 19 for so ti. Jack estimated that breaking through to 20 would bring so surprises, but allocating these attribute points was also quite cumberso; the system warned that each point below 20 consud 2 system coins.
So that's why Jack offered to trade lunch for Angela's help with shooting training. Before he could accumulate four system coins to break through to level 20 in both ntal strength and physical constitution, his skill level could only be improved through his own hard work.
And in Los Angeles, being a policeman ant more than just being proficient in pistol and rifle shooting.
"Let see your shooting skills first."
After work, Angela took Jack to the police station's underground shooting range.
Jack took out his police-issued Glock 22 from his holster, put on his goggles and earmuffs, assud his stance, held his breath, and emptied the magazine at a fixed target 10 ters away.
Taking the target paper from the automatically zooming target, Angela looked at the densely packed bullet holes around the center and asked, "So what do you want to teach you? At least half the people in this police station aren't as good a shot as you."
Fearing she'd misunderstand, Jack quickly explained, "Hannah said my shooting skills are only good for playing around at the range, not enough for real situations. I also hope I can perform better when facing ard criminals."
Angela nodded. "I know what you need. I can give you so training in this area, but you need to understand one thing: before you actually fire your first shot in a real situation, you can never imagine what you'll be facing."
"Now, forget everything your instructors taught you at the police academy, throw away your earmuffs and goggles, and let's start practicing."
At 6:30 p.m., when Jack drove his newly bought secondhand Chevrolet back to Hannah's house, his hearing still hadn't fully recovered. Although the Glock's gunshot wasn't loud, firing five magazines in the echoing underground shooting range still left him dizzy. Keep in mind that a standard Glock magazine holds 15 rounds.
Today was quite fruitful; it's basically confird that once he's mastered the fundantals of combat shooting, his pistol shooting skills should have reached the proficient level.
Opening the door, passing through the porch into the living room, Hannah, her long legs bare, wearing only a knee-length T-shirt, sat on the sofa watching TV and munching on potato chips.
Seeing Jack enter, Hannah threw down her chips, scread, and jumped off the sofa onto his back.
"I'm starving! Hurry up and cook! I want sweet and sour pork ribs and mapo tofu!"
It has to be said that Hannah, constantly clinging to him like a human weight, played a significant role in Jack's rapid physical growth.
This farm girl from Texas, ever since eting Jack through Zoe, has acted as if she'd discovered a rare treasure. Whenever she has ti, she'll hover around him like a lioness discovering her lion king.
With more and more contact, she's beco increasingly less distant from Jack. Ever since that ti she helped Jack do sit-ups and had so physical contact, she's gradually beco unrestrained, frequently pressing herself against him.
Jack initially thought Hannah was a rather open-minded girl and planned to keep his distance. However, one day Zoe asked him how he managed to get close to her. She already knew Hannah had a mild case of androphobia; after any contact with male suspects or male colleagues, she would secretly wash her hands frantically in the restroom.
Jack was greatly surprised by this and cautiously probed Hannah about it, but she simply ntioned it was related to her past experiences. Given sensitivity to personal privacy, he didn't dare to press further.
Thus, the strange relationship between the three of them continued. Hannah ignored the subtle feelings Jack and Zoe showed, giving Jack opportunities to "please" her, while ignoring Hannah's harassnt of Jack until Zoe confessed her feelings. Caught in the middle, the man was experiencing a bittersweet mix of pain and pleasure.
After spending 40 minutes preparing dinner, Hannah ate with a smug grin, like a kid who pestered her parents for a gift and got it. To keep Jack's promise of three als a day, the wealthy young woman had not only converted her open kitchen into a closed one, but also installed a new stove and range hood, and bought a luxurious refrigerator.
"Want to co to the bar with tonight? Nolan, Lucy, and I are getting together," Jack asked, turning back after putting the dishes in the dishwasher.
"Sure, I'll drive," Hannah replied happily, grabbing her car keys and dragging Jack out the door.
Hannah's car was quite distinctive — a yellow and white striped Mustang, a typical Arican muscle car.
The two arrived at the small bar and found John and Lucy already there.
"Nolan, you don't look well," Jack said, grabbing four bottles of Budweiser from the bar with concern.
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