There were six children in the Mexican family. If the woman was sent back to Mexico, the children would become orphans, which would be even more troublesome.
The father of the children was also an illegal immigrant. If the mother was sent back, he would be sent back as well.
But if he didn't show up, the six children would be handed over to the Child Welfare Bureau, and they would be no different from orphans.
The officers didn't want to deal with such a troublesome matter. None of them worked for Immigration, and they didn't want to add to their workload.
More importantly, the patrol officers wouldn't be held responsible if Selina took over the case, and there was no need for them to confront the two detectives of the Major Crimes Division.
They simply warned the Mexican mother not to make too much noise.
Then, Luke and Selina went to the room next door and knocked on the door, warning the single man inside as well.
He was the one who had called to report the crime, but Luke tricked him into telling the truth.
Because the children next door were too noisy, the man simply called to report child abduction in his fury.
Fine, this wasn't anything new in America.
The one who made the call was at least rational enough to pull out his gun and shoot the other party in the heat of the moment.
Luke continued to threaten him, saying that if he didn't behave himself, she would consider his call a false alarm.
If the Mexican girl was sent back, he would be detained too.
The man immediately backed down.
Luke patted his shoulder. "Actually, you can buy an earpiece. The kind you wear for games. The whole world will be quiet as long as you wear it. You can buy a regular one on Amazon for a dozen dollars. It's much more convenient than making a false alarm. "
The man exclaimed, "Huh? You can do that? "
Luke chuckled and shook his head.
The man might not have called the police entirely because of the noise next door. That was probably only part of the reason.
The other reason was that he wasn't having a good life, and was annoyed by the noise, so he simply made other people's lives worse.
Of course, it was possible that the man didn't even realize his dark thoughts.
After that, Selina and Luke went downstairs and got into the car. Selina looked at him curiously. "Why do I feel like you're quite happy?"
Pondering for two seconds, Luke decided to tell the truth. "Look, these cases are boring, but they've helped us familiarize ourselves with Westside. Take these people for example. If the situation is right, they can become our temporary informants. A few of them might not be useful, but what if we have hundreds of them in our hands? "
Selina exclaimed, "Is that even possible?"
Luke nodded solemnly. "Of course. Otherwise, why would I give these people my contact information? "
Luke was elated. After patrolling like this for the whole morning, he had actually gained a lot. Brock probably didn't realize that this would be a great help to me.
In just one morning, the three groups of hoodlums he had chased away had provided him with 19 experience and credit points.
This kind of small mission to chase away the drug dealers gave a total of 10 experience and 10 credit points.
Selina also took some of the points, so Luke only got 15 out of the three rounds.
Taking care of the woman who was drying clothes was also worth 10 experience and credit points. Since Luke had put in more effort, he got 7 points.
The Mexican woman with the child and the man who made a false report were considered as a case of a neighborhood dispute. Total experience points: 20.
Luke got 10 points.
He guessed that when he warned the man, he received a higher contribution rate.
Otherwise, Selina had taken care of the Mexican woman, and he hadn't done anything at all.
Luke earned 32 experience and credit points in the morning from these small cases.
If he did more in the afternoon, he would be able to earn more than 50 experience and credit points in a day.
After patrolling for a week, Luke would be able to earn around 400 experience and credit points.
He had finally escaped from Brock's experience cage. He no longer had to deal with cases that couldn't be solved.
If he couldn't solve a case, he wouldn't have any experience and credit points.
Without experience, he couldn't level up, and without credit points, he couldn't buy abilities.
He had earned a lot of experience and credit points with Brock's "help," but he wouldn't be grateful to Brock.
Together with the benefits that Luke had promised Selina, this patrol mission was killing two birds with one stone.
In the next few days, Luke and Selina worked hard on the frontline.
Thanks to Luke's encouragement, Selina became more proactive.
A police officer who was familiar with the area would be much more helpful than a police officer who was completely unfamiliar with the area.
After a week, Luke and Selina's contact information was distributed fifty to sixty times.
Most of them wouldn't be of much help, but the homeless and low-level workers would be very useful.
Most crimes might be able to fool technology and the police, but few could fool the human surveillance cameras that were stationed on the streets at all times.
However, in order to obtain intelligence from these people, he had to pay them.
It didn't have to be money, but money was undoubtedly the best thing.
Luke didn't really care about money, but he had to admit that he was short of it.
It seemed that he would have to target the drug dealers. After all, he didn't have to pay taxes for being an informant, and he wouldn't apply for subsidies from the police department. It was all for the sake of earning experience and credit points.
Besides, he wouldn't feel guilty about taking care of the drug dealers, and he would have a clear conscience if he used the money to solve the cases.
The system definitely wouldn't stop him from doing that.
Luke even felt that the main reason why the system allowed him to be a freeloader was that upholding justice also cost money.
That was why he was allowed to do this.
Most of the week's patrols were similar to the first day's events.
All kinds of strange characters and conflicts appeared before their eyes.
Selina sighed many times. She had been a police officer in Shackelford for four years, but she hadn't seen as many strange things in a week.
As expected of a big city, there were all kinds of strange people.
There was a woman who was caught cheating with her landlord, and her husband beat her naked husband and wife.
There was a woman who went crazy and called a police officer to provoke him, saying, "I have a gun, don't come near me."
There was also a drunk young woman who took off all her clothes and slept on the street in broad daylight.
On the last two days of Selina's mission, she had been excitedly guessing what strange things she would encounter that day.
These trivial and bizarre cases were a welcome addition to her field of vision.
Of course, it was also an eye-opener for Luke. However, in his previous life, there were even more strange people on the Internet, and he was more receptive to them.
There were very few strange people in this world, but most of them appeared in front of the police.
Luke, however, didn't benefit from these things. In fact, the experience and credit points he earned from these cases were secondary.
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