Chapter 119: Chapter 91: A Bountiful Harvest

After pondering for a moment, Gu Ji decided to temporarily set aside the matters of the Volut Company and focus on studying the rewards of this level.

This time, it could be said that he had reaped a bountiful harvest.

Aside from the imprint chest and item chest, he also held 20.2 crisis points, enough to splurge for a while.

Gu Ji first pulled up the status board and decided to raise his character’s level to 5. He urgently needed imprint slots now.

He wondered if the system would have special items to increase slots in the future; otherwise, just leveling up would consume a large amount of crisis points.

[Would you like to consume 9 crisis points to ascend to level 5?]

[Yes!]

As white light flashed by, he gained six more attribute points.

Considering the diminishing returns after a single value exceeds 15 and the benefits he tasted from the sensory organs in the Jinyuan Building level, Gu Ji allocated his points as “Intelligence 2, Strength 1, Endurance 1, Perception 1, Speed 1.”

Character: Gu Ji

Level: 5

Central Nervous System: 16.1+1

Skeletal Muscle Movement: 15.5+0.5

Cardiovascular Circulation: 12.9+1

Sensory Organs: 12.6+1

Digestive System: 10.7+1

Immunity: 11.2

Current remaining enhancement points: 0

Imprint Slots: Reflex Enhancement (Minor), Combat Specialization (Minor), Empty

It was just as expected.

This time, moving from 16 points to 17 points required over 500 hours, more than 20 days. If he didn’t enhance his digestive system any further, when the level updated in fifteen days, he wouldn’t be able to fully enhance his attributes.

In terms of skills, there was also a major update this time.

Although he had enough points remaining to light up all new skills and enhance the old ones, he was not planning to use them all up for now.

In the future, not only the imprint and item chests would require an unlock fee, but switching between imprints would also consume additional points, so he needed to ensure redundancy.

Imprints are the core, while skills are secondary.

Anyway, there will be more good skills in the future, so there’s no need to get hung up on enhancing by just a point or two unless it’s extremely practical, like “Police Tactical Disposition” or “Firearms Usage.”

Four crisis points were spent.

Instantly, a vast flood of knowledge surged into Gu Ji’s mind. Thankfully, he had strengthened his central nervous system multiple times, and his brain neurons were highly active, quickly organizing this information.

[Catastrophe] SERE Survival Training lv1

[Accident] Dangerous Chemical Handling lv1

[Public Health] Bacterial Biochemistry, Radiation Crisis Response lv1

[Tactics] USMC Bomb Disposal and Demolition Methodology lv1

Gazing at these four new skills, a fierce gleam flashed in his eyes. The usual aggressiveness intensified, and his eyebrows bore a rough and forceful wildness.

In other words, when confronting enemies, the sense of danger Gu Ji emitted,

became even stronger.

And indeed, these four newly acquired skills were extremely “dangerous.”

The fields of accidents and public health were easy to understand, involving chemical explosions, fires, bacterial biochemistry, and radiation source dispersal handling measures.

On the tactical side, the skills learned this time were quite strong, covering both counter-terrorism explosive disposal and enhancing breaching and forceful entry capabilities.

This skill also linked with the former two, along with his previous military disaster prevention and special equipment skills, turning Gu Ji almost into half a military CBRN specialist or demolitions expert.

Exactly.

If given another chance to reload at the Jinyuan Building level, after cooperating with Chaojun to deal with Dahai and the henchmen, he could take firearms and explosives from the armory and minerals department. With just two rounds of targeted demolition, he could take down Qi Liran and all his subordinates.

It highlighted the terrifying potential of the “demolition” ability.

The skill prefix carries USMC, standing for the United States Marine Corps, the unit to which one of the thugs Gu Ji encountered at the Laird Airport level belonged. The predecessor of the USMC was the Navy Combat Demolition Units, specializing in underwater demolition, which was extremely hazardous.

That was also the reason for the change in Gu Ji’s gaze.

Professions that dabble in explosives all have a touch of madness.

However.

What truly delighted him was not merely the demolition skill, but the SERE Survival Training in the catastrophe category.

The so-called “SERE” mainly includes four aspects:

Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape!

It is a compilation of skills related to survival behind enemy lines, encompassing how to survive in the wild, how to evade capture, escape if imprisoned, resist interrogation, and so on.

The majority of the world’s tier-1 and tier-2 special forces require their combatants to master the contents of the SERE courses, as these units typically perform missions abroad and are accustomed to being pursued by enemy forces.

For instance, the British SAS “B20” squad during the Gulf War pursued by Iraqi troops, Delta and Rangers ensnared in the people’s war of Somalia during Operation Gothic Serpent, and the SEAL reconnaissance team chased by the Taliban during Operation Red Wings.

The skill Gu Ji learned mainly focused on SERE Survival Training, to handle survival after natural disasters, such as finding water sources, making traps, building and choosing shelters, and so on, but it also provided knowledge of the latter three items.

The real utility of this skill for him is: pressure handling!

That’s right, whether it’s professional survival training, anti-tracking, or anti-interrogation, it invisibly raised his panic threshold, helping him recover more quickly from stressful events.

This provides a good mental support effect when tackling classic levels, facing “heart mode”.

After finishing the system enhancement.

Gu Ji rubbed his stomach, preparing to go downstairs to eat something, just to improve the speed of attribute enhancement.

The next day was Saturday.

Early in the morning, he went back to school to find Gao Bo.

In the dormitory room.

Gao Bo was tidying up books and clothes, and when he saw Gu Ji coming, he couldn’t help but tease him.

“Yo, isn’t this Mr. Gu who values romance over friendship, what brings you here?”

“When have I valued romance over friendship?”

Gu Ji was a bit puzzled by his sarcastic question.

Gao Bo first “gritted his teeth” and then feigned grievance.

“You say you don’t value romance over friendship? Both moving houses, Chen Zhiyu called you and you went running, but I called you several times yesterday morning, and you just said you were busy, may I ask how your 37-degree hands typed such cold words, boohoo!”

“Wasn’t I busy moving yesterday too…”

Gu Ji murmured guiltily.

Because he had to consider timing for the game level, he declined Gao Bo’s help request early on, but unexpectedly, the level was short, only taking half an hour.

“Alright, stop pretending, after I help you move, I’ll treat you to dinner, how about that?”

“I’m kidding, how could I let you treat when you came to help? Tonight we’ll go have some grilled kidneys and barbecue, alright?”

…

Unexpectedly, Gao Bo’s stuff was even more than a woman’s.

The two of them worked until the afternoon to completely finish moving.

Just as Gao Bo was discussing where to eat dinner, WeChat suddenly rang twice, from Mr. Zhou of the Anti-Narcotics Team and their boss Zhang Wenjun.

“Well, looks like I saved some money today.”

He grinned.

Turns out Mr. Zhou had promised Zhang Wenjun and Gu Ji a meal before, and since today was a Saturday off, he arranged it for the evening.

By evening.

The two arrived at a barbecue house, it was quite crowded on the weekend, but Gu Ji still spotted Mr. Zhou and Zhang Wenjun at the corner table at a glance.

Although the two had changed into casual clothes, a narcotics officer and a SWAT member, they were police officers who operated in “dangerous fields” for years, and their aura was distinctly different from ordinary people.

“I was just talking to Mr. Zhang about you two, sit down, your boss has spoken, order whatever you want, don’t save money for me!”

Mr. Zhou’s full name was Zhou Penghui, he was the captain of the first narcotics squad in Ningjiang District, Ningzhou City, and was Zhang Wenjun’s roommate from police school; they’ve been friends for years and always expose each other’s shortcomings.

Perhaps because Zhang Wenjun was always severely reprimanding Gu Ji during police training, it left a deep impression on Gao Bo.

So no matter what Zhou Penghui said, he was anxious and didn’t dare to be too casual.

“Then I’ll order for you guys!”

Zhou Penghui, with a cigarette in his mouth, pointed at a few items on the menu to the waiter and then poured a cup of tea, “There’s a case, so no drinking today. Once the case is solved, I’ll treat you all again properly!”

“Thank you, Mr. Zhou!”

Gu Ji responded politely.

After the four drank their tea, Zhang Wenjun suddenly asked.

“Mr. Zhou, any progress in your team’s interrogation?”

“Not much progress.”

At the mention of this, Zhou Penghui looked troubled, taking several puffs of his cigarette.

“Those two don’t know much, for now, we have temporarily locked down their superior: Mr. Shao, but unfortunately, no full name, and we’ve already asked the city’s Criminal Investigation Department’s best profiler to sketch, currently doing a comparison with the police internal archives.”

Upon hearing “Mr. Shao,” Gu Ji’s eyelid twitched instinctively.

He wanted to reveal everything he knew, but he couldn’t, otherwise, he could have used Wa Xueming’s identity to send a message directly to Zhou Penghui’s phone at that time.

The Crisis Management Game and Vlout Company are too involved.

Gu Ji didn’t want to drag himself into danger or get those around him killed.

But that doesn’t mean he will sit by and do nothing.

Anyway, “he” has already explained the stakes of this incident to Chaojun, telling him to report to the superiors by all means.

Next, once the game maps to reality, and the plot ends.

Then the police system will naturally know all the information and intelligence about “Shao Liang”!

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