By a small river far from the crime scene, Li Jie opened the two leather bags he got from the gangsters. One of them was a brown paper bag with a lot of grass inside. Li Jie wasn't interested in this kind of stuff at all. He put two stones in the bag and threw it into the river, letting it sink to the bottom.
The other bag was filled with a pile of green dollar bills. They were all ten dollar bills, and each hundred of them were rolled into a roll. Because most Americans didn't use large amounts of cash, most gangsters' transactions were done with cash and goods. Therefore, a hundred dollar bill wasn't very popular in gangsters' transactions, unless it was a big gang that had a perfect money laundering channel. Generally, small gangs preferred small denomination bills because it was less likely to be discovered.
Li Jie counted. There were a total of twenty rolls of small dollar bills in the brown paper bag, so it was twenty thousand dollars. Li Jie took out two rolls of dollar bills from the bag and put them in his pocket. It just so happened that he was going to open a restaurant car during the summer vacation, so he needed to prepare more liquid funds.
As for the other eighteen thousand dollars, Li Jie didn't plan to touch it. As mentioned before, using a large amount of cash in America was a very troublesome matter. Transactions with a large amount of cash would always attract the attention of the police. Li Jie didn't want to get into this trouble. Moreover, if he hid such a large amount of money at home, it would be hard to guarantee that it wouldn't be discovered. When that happened, how would he explain the origin of the money to his parents? Therefore, Li Jie planned to give the money to someone else who needed it.
San Diego Orphanage was a non-profit orphanage. All of the orphanage's income came from social donations. The street that Li Jie lived in had also organized a donation drive for San Diego Orphanage. Moreover, Peter Parker and Li Jie had been to the orphanage as volunteers for a period of time. The orphanage's director was an old nun named Marian. The orphanage's funds were running low, so she sold her property to ensure the orphanage's normal operation. The old nun had been poor all her life, dedicating all her efforts to the homeless orphans. Li Jie admired the old nun very much, so he placed the rest of the brown paper bill on the balcony outside Sister Marian's office on the second floor of the orphanage. She even wrote a line of words with her twisted left hand: To the respected Sister Marian, please use this gift on someone who needs it.
Li Jie opened his quest system to check the progress of his quest.
New Hero's Daily Quests: 1. Obtain 100 Reputation Points (35). 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 1) [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 New Hero's Daily Quests: One E-level Hero Training Card, one random E-level item.
Li Jie only received five Reputation points when he stopped the bald man. Today, he received thirty Reputation points when he stopped the gang's transaction. It was true that stopping a vicious crime gave him more Reputation points. Moreover, Li Jie also realized that he had only stopped the bald man's robbery, so he had only completed one crime prevention mission. But today, he stopped the transaction. Not only did he stop a vicious crime, but it also overlapped with a normal crime.
He only stopped one crime, but he completed two quests. Speaking of which, today's harvest was quite good!
After browsing through his quest status, Li Jie returned home to sleep. Fortunately, his family didn't notice Li Jie went out at night. Li Jie returned home at three in the morning. After sleeping for three hours, he felt full of energy. It must be said that the benefits of inner force were not small.
"Yesterday morning, there was an intense gunfight at the Sixth Street in Queens. The two parties were local gangs. The gunfight resulted in the death of six gang members. The police initially speculated that it was a fight between two gangs. "Li Jie ate breakfast while watching Fox New York's morning news. What he did last night was on the news.
"There was a strange incident at the San Diego Orphanage this morning. Sister Marian found a brown paper bag on the windowsill outside her office. Inside the bag was eighteen thousand USD in cash. On it was written, "To the respected Sister Marian, please use this gift for those who need it." Sister Marian is the director of San Diego Orphanage. Because she spent her entire life helping orphans, she was highly respected in the community. Some speculated that the money was donated by an unknown kind-hearted person to help the orphanage overcome a difficult time. Please read the report from the reporters at the scene. "
Li Jie finished his breakfast sandwich in a few bites. "I didn't expect the donation to be on TV. Sure enough, reporters are fast." Li Jie thought.
The system's cold voice suddenly entered Li Jie's ears. Li Jie almost choked on the water he was drinking. When he finished the mission yesterday, he checked. His reputation had only reached thirty-five points. There was still a long way to go to the one hundred points required by the mission. How did it increase in one night? Li Jie suddenly had a flash of inspiration as he looked at the TV. Was it because of the news?
The more Li Jie thought about it, the more he felt it was possible. What was reputation? Naturally, it was to let more people know about you and what you've done. That was prestige. Although Li Jie's appearance did not appear on TV, what Li Jie did was on the news today. Fox News New York was a news station that targeted the greater New York area. Although the coverage and audience were limited to the New York area, how many people were there in New York? That was more than twenty million people. And how many people watched Fox News New York in the morning? At least hundreds of thousands!
If that was the case, Li Jie felt that the amount of Reputation Points he had given was too little. After all, more than a hundred thousand people knew about these two things. That was why his reputation had reached one hundred points. Li Jie opened his mission system and saw that his reputation had increased to one hundred and sixty points. His novice hero daily mission had also been completed.
Novice hero daily mission: 1. Obtain 100 reputation points. (Obtained 160. Mission completed to unlock the reputation growth system.) [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 for you to wear your red underwear on the outside! Preventing a crime will earn you Reputation.]
3. Prevent three vicious crimes. (Completed 1). Crimes! Vicious crimes! Murder ~ Sexual assault ~ Child kidnapping! Please prevent these crimes from happening! Obtain a large amount of reputation!]
Reward for completing novice hero daily mission: One E-class hero training card, one random E-class item.
Li Jie was now very curious about what this Reputation Growth System was. He immediately clicked on the newly appeared Reputation Growth System. After a careful look, Li Jie realized that this reputation growth system was something he urgently needed.
Li Jie understood the usage of the reputation growth system in detail. There were actually two uses for the system. One was to purchase, and the other was to level up. The so-called purchase referred to using the obtained reputation to purchase skills and items corresponding to the hero's level. For example, if Li Jie was currently rated as an E-class hero, he could rely on the obtained reputation to purchase E-class skills and items corresponding to E-class heroes. The higher the hero's rating, the better the skills and items that could be purchased. Of course, the better the skills, the more reputation one would need to spend.
As for leveling up, as the name suggested, one could rely on the obtained reputation to level up the skills possessed by the hero. This was because the skills that a hero purchased by relying on the system's reputation were all beginner level skills. It could be said that they did not have much power. If one wanted to master a skill, one would need a lot of training. Relying on reputation, one could use reputation to increase the proficiency and power of the skill. Using Li Jie as an example, the skill that he currently possessed was the E-class beginner inner skill, Purple Sun Divine Art.
If he wanted to upgrade the Purple Sun Divine Art to the beginner state, he would need 10 reputation points. If he wanted to upgrade it to the expert state, he would need 100 reputation points. To upgrade it to the advanced state, he would need 500 reputation points. To upgrade it to the peak state, he would need 1,000 reputation points.
No wonder the system specifically stated in the mission description that reputation was the cornerstone of a hero's growth. So this was the reason! Li Jie finally understood. Li Jie opened the reputation system to see what skills and items could be exchanged. Because Li Jie's current rating was only E-class, only a small portion of the skills could be exchanged. Most of the skills and items were grayed out and could not be exchanged. This could only be unlocked after Li Jie increased his hero rating.
Right now, Li Jie only had 160 reputation points, which was really not much. He had to be frugal and spend his money where it mattered most. Li Jie originally wondered if he should upgrade the Purple Sun Divine Art to the expert level, which would cost him 100 reputation points. However, after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was not urgent. It could be seen from the previous two battles. Ordinary people had almost no resistance against attacks that contained internal energy. Even if he immediately upgraded it, it would not be of any help to the current mission.
And if he encountered someone with superpowers, relying on the expert level of the Purple Sun Divine Art would not be enough. Li Jie thought about it carefully. Yesterday, he was so tired from running and almost died under the gunshot. At the moment, what he needed the most was a skill that could improve his body's speed or reaction speed. At least he could run when he could not beat them.
Li Jie began to search for skills that could increase his speed. In the process of searching, Li Jie discovered that there were restrictions between different skills. For example, the Esper's Water Manipulation Steps and Wind Step were both E-class movement skills, but the prerequisite for using these skills was to have the X-gene. In other words, it was a skill that belonged to a mutant hero.
The high-speed skateboard and low-altitude aircraft blueprints were obviously things that belonged to a technological hero.
At present, Li Jie did not have the X-gene, so it was impossible for him to learn how to make high-tech equipment. As for whether he could obtain the ability of a mutant hero or find the ability to make high-tech equipment in the future, Li Jie did not know.
Now that Li Jie's hero attribute was internal energy, the scope of the search was small. He could only choose skills that matched with internal energy. After careful selection, Li Jie finally chose the skill "Eight Steps Overtaking Cicada". The advantage of this skill was that it could drive the circulation of internal energy during long-distance running, allowing people to run faster and longer. In a short distance, it could explode with an extremely powerful explosive force that could instantly close in on the opponent. This was not a skill that focused on nimble evasion, but it suited Li Jie's taste. It was also the best skill that he could exchange for with reputation points.
Li Jie spent 100 reputation points to exchange for the E-class skill "Eight Steps Overtaking Cicada" and then spent 10 reputation points to upgrade the skill to the Small Success state. After that, he gritted his teeth and spent 50 reputation points to buy a combat belt. The belt's only use was that it had a 0.5 cubic meter space inside. Li Jie could put his short stick, the gun he obtained last night, and two thousand dollars in it.
This belt replaced the original wide black belt that came with the hero's equipment. Compared to the original exaggeratedly wide black belt, this Battle Belt that cost 50 Reputation Points to purchase was a lot more handsome.
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