Chapter 56 Three Joyous Events

[You opened the bronze chest and obtained 10 attribute points!!!]

That's a lot.

Chen Mo clicked his tongue inwardly.

If he put all of them into physical fitness, he would essentially gain the physical strength of an adult out of thin air.

For example, if one person can only run five kilometers, two people can run ten.

Immediately, he opened his personal panel.

[Host]: Chen Mo.

[Constitution]: 10 (Ordinary person 10).

[Strength]: 10 (Ordinary person 10).

[IQ]: 35 (Ordinary person 10).

[Skills]: Clear Mind (Rare), Krav Maga (Rare), Reasoning LV14, Autopsy LV7, Criminal Psychology LV5, Trace Investigation LV4, Micro-expressions LV5, Criminal Profiling LV3.

[Items]: double melon-eating card (two days).

[Current melon points]: 8300 (Manual doubling).

Should I improve physical fitness first, or strength?

It was actually quite difficult to decide which was more important.

Both were quite important.

Let's distribute them evenly.

[Ding! You spent 5 attribute points to improve your Constitution!!!]

[Ding! You spent 5 attribute points to improve your strength!!!]

In an instant, he felt a difference.

The most obvious change was that the muscle soreness and strain from earlier had vanished.

At the same time, the exhaustion from sweating through a set of Krav Maga also disappeared.

This effect...

It's instantaneous!

Before, he had only been staring at the double melon-eating card.

He didn't expect this bronze chest—despite being called "bronze"—to actually contain such good stuff.

He clenched his fists, feeling a surge of strength in his body.

It felt like he had been working out for years.

But it still wasn't enough.

It was far from the requirements to perform Krav Maga perfectly.

He had the technique and muscle memory now.

But his Constitution and strength couldn't keep up, so he could only exert about thirty percent of his true power.

It could only be said to be sufficient for the time being.

attribute points also depended on luck; next time there was a bronze chest, he should pay close attention.

He pulled back his gaze; he had already obtained the double card.

From the start, the reason he wanted the double card was for the 20,000 melon points in the betting agreement.

Let's check the progress.

[betting agreement!]

[Task Requirements]: Within 7 days, "eat melons" on seven cases of Grade D or above.

[Task Rewards]: 20,000 melon points, 2 Skill Critical Hit Cards, (Probability of obtaining Hyenas Nose).

[Current Progress]: 5 times (5/7).

Two cases left, which would be the day after tomorrow.

That way, when the melon points doubled and he used the two critical hit cards, his strength would take a massive leap forward!

If he was lucky enough to get that as well, he'd be making a huge profit.

A look of anticipation couldn't help but appear on his face.

Suddenly, something occurred to him.

Why didn't the double melon-eating card double my melon points this time?

The case was finished, and these rewards were in a pending state; it wasn't a case where the melon points were settled first, and the double card obtained later wouldn't apply.

If that were really the case, it would be too inhumane.

He looked at the melon points.

[Current melon points]: 8300 (Manual doubling).

He breathed a sigh of relief; he hadn't noticed those four words just now.

The 8300 should include the 200 he had left over from last time, which meant the melon points from this case were 8100.

[double melon-eating card triggered, melon points doubled!!!]

In an instant, the balance reached 16,400.

"It really is triple happiness. First, I got rare-grade Krav Maga, then I improved my Constitution and strength, and now I've caught the doubling of melon points."

He didn't know how to describe his current mood.

His gaze fell on his skills.

Reasoning was something he definitely had to upgrade, no doubt about it.

Among the other skills, the one he used most was Micro-expressions.

Next were Autopsy and Trace Investigation.

[Ding! You consumed 10,000 melon points to improve your Reasoning ability. Current LV16!!!]

Two warm currents of memory flooded into his mind.

Reasoning had gone up two levels; he wanted to raise the skill to Level 20 before obtaining the critical hit cards if possible.

He had actually thought about it; the higher the level, the more melon points it would naturally cost to upgrade.

For example, if a critical hit card produced a critical hit, it could directly increase the level by 3.

The melon points saved from Level 16 to 19 versus Level 20 to 23 would definitely be different.

He didn't have many melon points, so he had to spend them carefully.

Looking at the remaining 6,400, it was actually enough for one more level.

But his subconscious told him he couldn't do that; the cases he encountered were getting more and more complex, and he had to be a one-man army, a well-rounded hexagon warrior.

[You spent 3,000 melon points to improve your Micro-expressions ability. Current LV7!!!]

Micro-expressions were sufficient for now; as long as someone wasn't trained, they basically couldn't escape his eyes.

But because it was so useful, and he hadn't upgraded it last time, Chen Mo felt it was necessary to favor it this time.

[You spent 2,100 melon points to improve your Autopsy ability. Current LV8!!!]

[You spent 1,300 melon points to improve your Trace Investigation ability. Current LV6!!!]

Streams of memory warm currents surged into his mind.

It was actually quite strange; an ordinary person receiving so many learning memories at once would probably feel like their head was about to explode, but he didn't feel any discomfort.

Instead, he felt a sort of thirst for knowledge.

He went into the bathroom to wash off the sweat from practicing Krav Maga before lying back on the bed.

It was almost one o'clock now.

Drowsiness began to set in.

As soon as his head hit the pillow, the image of a girl squatting on the ground crying appeared in his mind.

It was none other than Li Yao.

He rolled over.

How could he have forgotten her?

Now he was completely unable to sleep.

He had asked her for her phone number before leaving, but she was too busy crying and didn't give him one.

"Actually, it's fine that she didn't give it to me. There are so many tragic people in this world; if I tried to help everyone, wouldn't I work myself to death?"

He was making excuses for himself for not wanting to help Li Yao.

Because once he helped Li Yao, he would face several troubles.

First: As a public official, can he manage commercial matters?

The answer was definitely no.

It wasn't that it was absolutely impossible; he only needed to use his experience from the future to provide advice and strategies, without being involved in the company's affairs himself.

For example, if a police officer works a part-time job driving a taxi after work to supplement their income, from a common-sense perspective, once you're off duty, what you do is a private matter, as long as it doesn't involve using your position for profit and doesn't affect your primary job.

Once the above problem was solved, he would face a second problem.

Whose name would the company be under?

He was a police officer, so it really wasn't appropriate to have it in his own name.

But if it wasn't in his name, who would the property belong to?

If he helped her build it up and Li Yao ran off with the money?

Just thinking about it gave him a headache.

But if he said he wouldn't get involved at all, the image of Li Yao's breakdown when he said he was arresting people kept appearing in his mind.

"You want to save those two children!"

"But who will save my mother!"

"If you arrest Liu Baoguo, what will happen to my mother!"