Wild Swan Bar was one of the few establishments on the Sixth Street that stayed open until midnight. Because the actual controller of Wild Swan Bar was one of the leaders of the Stanton Gang – Harson Swinton. The Sixth Street was the Stanton Gang's traditional sphere of influence, so no one dared to cause trouble for Wild Swan Bar.
Wild Swan Bar also became the gathering place for drunkards, gamblers, and drug addicts near the Sixth Street. On the corner of the second floor of Wild Swan Bar, there was a room that was specially guarded. This room was where the leaders of the Stanton Gang in the Sixth Street gathered. Generally speaking, the distribution of profits and the distribution of the grass (big …) would be carried out in this room.
Today was not the day for the gang to reconcile accounts, and there was no new Harson to be distributed in the Sixth Street. The leader of the Stanton Gang in the Sixth Street, Harson Swinton, was gambling with a group of small leaders in the room. "Why is Zuo En gone for so long? Is he coming back to play?" On Harson's left, a small leader who helped him distribute Harson at the nearby high school complained. Harson was also a bit impatient. Zuo En lost quite a bit on the poker table, almost seven thousand USD.
Zuo En said he was going out to "earn some money" and then come back to play. As Zuo En's boss, Harson clearly knew what Zuo En meant by "earn money". Zuo En was Harson's top fighter, so it was easy for him to do these things. But he was gone for too long today.
Harson tried to call Zuo En's phone, but no one answered. Harson was about to send his men out to find Zuo En, but before he could open the door, he was interrupted by a series of hurried knocks. When Harson opened the door to see who was knocking, he saw Zuo En, who he was about to send his men out to find, being carried in like a dead dog.
Both of his hands were clearly fractured and dislocated, and many of his ribs were broken. Zuo En also showed signs of internal bleeding as he began to vomit blood! Harson was instantly enraged. Who dared to beat up his top fighter in the Stanton Gang's territory like this! This was not giving face to the Stanton Gang, nor was it giving face to Harson Swinton! "I want you to find out who did this! I'll throw him into the sea! "Harson Swinton said angrily.
Li Jie returned home before twelve o 'clock. He ignored his father who was winking at him and asking him who he was going out with. Instead, he went straight back to his room and clicked on the mission in the system to check the results of the day.
New Hero Daily Mission: 1. Obtain 100 Reputation Points (Obtained 5) [Reputation is the cornerstone of a Hero's growth. The higher the Reputation, the faster the growth.]
2. Prevent ten crimes from happening. [Heroes are supposed to help the weak. It's time to wear your red underwear on the outside! Preventing a crime will earn you Reputation.]
3. Prevented three serious crimes. (Completed 0) [A crime! A vicious crime! Murder, sexual assault, child abduction! Please stop these crimes from happening! You can obtain a lot of reputation points!]
Reward for completing the Novice Hero Daily Mission: One E-class Hero Training Card, one random E-class item.
Who would have thought that after wandering around for an entire night, he would only be able to complete one mission and obtain only five Reputation Points as a reward? Li Jie summarized his failures for the day.
One: He went out too early. Most of the crimes happened after ten o 'clock at night. There was no point in going out too early.
Two: His mental fortitude was not up to par. Although it seemed easy to deal with the bald man, he was actually distracted twice. But in reality, he had been distracted twice. The first time was when the tip of the knife almost stabbed him, and the second time was when the bald man's left fist almost hit his head. If it wasn't for the bonus of internal strength and basic combat, he would have been easily beaten to the ground by the bald man.
Three: He didn't prepare enough and went out rashly. Because he didn't prepare anything, he actually went out empty-handed. Fortunately, the bald man he met today only had a switchblade. If he had a gun, he would probably be in trouble. He had to at least prepare a weapon in case of emergency.
Li Jie concluded that he really had a lot of shortcomings. He was lucky that he didn't meet an armed criminal today. Otherwise, he might have ended up dead. It seemed like he had to prepare more before going out to do a mission next time.
Li Jie didn't sleep immediately after taking a shower. Instead, he sat cross-legged on the bed. He was using the Purple Sun Divine Art cultivation method taught by the system to cultivate internal strength. Although the Novice Hero Gift Pack gave him the internal strength of the Purple Sun Divine Art, Li Jie felt that it was far from enough. However, Li Jie felt that this was far from enough. If he wanted to become stronger, he would need to cultivate even more.
Also, the system introduced that the Purple Sun Divine Art was a relatively peaceful internal strength. As long as he practiced a few more times, his blood would remember the way to circulate internal strength. His body would be able to cultivate internal strength at all times. Whether it was walking or sleeping, it would be able to cultivate on its own. He didn't need to sit and cultivate like now.
After all, Li Jie had lived two lives, so he was very patient. Although sitting cross-legged to cultivate inner force was very dry and boring, he was still able to control his temper. If it was the child with ADHD, Peter Parker, twenty minutes would probably be the limit.
This time, Li Jie cultivated for a whole five hours. In the last three hours, he actually fell asleep with his legs crossed. However, he was still thinking about the internal strength cultivation in his sleep. Unexpectedly, the internal strength cultivation didn't stop and directly reached the state of self-cultivation that the system said.
When Li Jie woke up and found that his internal strength was still circulating endlessly after he fell asleep, he was really happy. After carefully sensing it, he found that his internal strength had indeed grown a little. Although it was not very obvious, the change was indeed real. If internal strength could be cultivated on its own in the future, Li Jie could have a lot of free time to do the missions given by the system. Don't forget that the missions given by the system were also an important way to strengthen yourself.
Li Jie only rested for five hours that night. To be precise, he only slept for three hours, and he felt that all the fatigue in his body had been swept away. He felt that he had never had such good energy. This should be the benefit of cultivating internal strength. Li Jie looked at the sky outside. It was five o 'clock in the morning in May, and the sun had just risen.
Since he couldn't sleep anyway, he might as well get up to exercise and practice the basic skills he had obtained. In his backyard, Li Jie practiced the basic fighting techniques related to the grappling and kicking techniques. Then, he went to the garage to find a stick left over from his carpentry work and practiced the stick techniques from the basic cold weapon techniques. At 6: 30 in the morning, he said goodbye to his mother, Jasmine, who had just woken up to prepare breakfast, and went to take a shower.
After breakfast, Li Jie drove his second-hand Ford to school. After driving for less than two blocks, he happened to meet Peter Parker who was skateboarding and preparing to go to school.
"Hey ~ Peter, get in, buddy!" Li Jie directly parked the car next to Peter Parker and called out. "Oh ~ thanks, I can hitch a ride with you." Peter Parker directly threw the skateboard into the trunk and sat in the front passenger seat.
"Wow ~ oh, Jason. When did you get a new sound system for your car? " Peter Parker often hitched a ride with Li Jie. When he got in the car, he noticed that the car's sound system had obviously been modified. It was originally a very old cassette sound system, but now it had been replaced with a new system with a USB port that could read modern storage devices.
"Two days before the trip to HSD, I had been helping out in the kitchen of my grandpa's restaurant and earned some pocket money. I spent four hundred dollars to buy this second-hand equipment and a matching speaker. It was taken from a Mercedes-Benz. It took me three nights to install it. "Li Jie replied. "You know, Peter, it's hard to buy a music cassette with this idea. So I think the money was well spent. "
"That's for sure. Let's play some music, buddy!" Peter picked a Queen song and played it. "Oh ~ the music effect is great. It's a pity that I can't cook like you. If I could work as a sous-chef in the restaurant, the salary would be pretty good. "Peter said with some envy.
"Oh ~ come on, I can only cook. I'm not good at anything else. You are going to study at MIT in the future. The future scientist, Mr. Peter Parker. "Li Jie said half-jokingly and half-seriously. "Actually, I don't really want to apply to MIT right now. It's hard to get a full scholarship there. If I can only get half of the scholarship, or even less. You know, Jason, Uncle Ben is already very old. If I want to study at MIT, I will need a lot of money. "Peter Parker was a little bitter as the conversation progressed.
Li Jie knew Peter's family situation very well. Ben Parker was Peter's uncle, an excellent electrician. He worked in a large shopping mall and was in charge of the power distribution room of the mall. And Peter's aunt, May, was just an ordinary cashier in a supermarket. Ben's salary was not bad, about sixty thousand dollars a year. But May only got twenty thousand dollars a year. According to American standards, an income of eighty thousand dollars was considered middle class.
If that $80,000 had been earned in another state, life would have been good. But this was New York, the most expensive area in America. The Metropolitan High School that Peter Parker studied in was a private school. Although the quality of teaching was among the best in New York, the tuition was also very expensive.
Li Jie had to pay almost seven thousand five hundred dollars a year. And because of Peter Parker's excellent grades, he got a two thousand five hundred dollars annual scholarship. He only needed to pay five thousand dollars a year. After deducting the daily expenses, taxes, and medical insurance for Peter's family, there was not much money left in Peter's family.
Peter was seventeen years old this year. In fact, he also wanted to have a car. Even if it was a second-hand car like Li Jie's, he would be very satisfied. But Peter Parker was very sensible and would never bother his family with this kind of problem. No matter how powerful the Spider-man would be in the future, the current Peter Parker was just a poor little boy.
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