US police: outlaws

Chapter 2: The Golden Finger

Soon the prisoner was taken away by his colleagues to have his eyes cleaned, and Li Yisen patted his bewildered junior on the shoulder.

"Sean, are you alright?"

Sean shook his head.

"I'm fine, but are the prisoners alright?"

"OC spray doesn't have much of an impact as long as it's treated promptly, but it is indeed quite uncomfortable."

Seeing his senior's composure, Sean relaxed. When that big guy approached, he felt lost because he didn't have a gun.

While prisons in other states and counties may be allowed to carry guns, California prison guards are generally not armed.

It's truly unexpected that the senior in front of me would pull out an OC spray without warning.

"If anyone dares to assault a police officer in the future, don't be polite to him."

Lee Ethan didn't care much about the violence he used. If a prisoner dared to attack a police officer, they might not be held accountable even if they seriously injured the prisoner. Besides, he was already being merciful by not using a stun gun. That's America.

However, what's attracting Lee Esen's attention more right now is that illusory prompt in his mind.

[Ding! A criminal who was about to attack the police has been subdued. Initiating the extraction of 1-star reward from the criminal's body.]

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have acquired a one-star desire-type skill: Beginner Smoking Addiction]

[Desire-type skill: Basic Smoking Addiction (One Star): Fusing this skill grants basic smoking addiction. The body will occasionally crave cigarettes, providing mild physiological satisfaction while smoking. It can also distract attention and relieve pain. (Can be used or placed in the system)]

[Evan: Five a day isn't much; I feel uncomfortable if I don't smoke them.]

As expected, even one-star rewards are garbage.

Although Li Yisen was a little disappointed, he was mentally prepared, after all, it was the lowest level one-star skill, and the most useless desire type.

A year and a half ago, I was reborn into this world with a system. Although the system is clearly called the Black and White System, its functions are not described in detail. I can only figure out some of its functions through more than a year of trial and error.

Bai's function is very simple: as long as he stops crimes and arrests criminals, like when he just subdued Evan who assaulted the police, he will be rewarded according to the severity of the crime, with a minimum of one star and a maximum of unknown. Generally, he extracts skills or talents from criminals.

After a year as a prison guard, he only received two 2-star rewards: one for a skill and one for a talent.

[Constitution-type talent: Basic Dexterity Fingers (2 stars): Enhances finger dexterity and stability.]

With just this simple description, Li Yiwen felt the changes the skill brought to his body. His fingers became much more flexible, making it easier to learn things like the piano. He also typed faster when playing games online, and his grip on things, such as a gun, became more stable.

The other 2-star skill is technique-based.

[Skill-based skill: Intermediate batter (2 stars): You have mastered intermediate baseball swing technique, a level that allows you to compete in amateur-level games.]

Although Lee Ethan doesn't play baseball, this skill isn't entirely useless. For example, it increases his experience in swinging a bat, making it more painful and faster to hit someone with a bat, which is exactly what he uses as a police baton.

Besides the 2-star skills, I've also acquired 8 1-star skills and talents over the past year. After all, it's rare to encounter major cases in prison; at most, it's like assaulting a police officer today. And the 1-star reward effects are all ridiculous.

[Desire-based talent: Basic heat (1 star): You are more easily aroused by the opposite sex, and you are more likely to notice their beauty. Echo: There are no ugly people in the world, you just haven't discovered their beauty yet.]

This was payment received from a rapist.

[Constitution-type skill: Sensitive eyelashes (1 star): Sensitive eyelashes cause you to blink more easily.]

A skill acquired by a narcissist.

[Knowledge-based skill: Dietary habits of domestic pigs (1 star): You have a basic understanding of the dietary habits of domestic pigs.]

farm workers

Multiple experiences have confirmed that 1-star skills are generally terrible. Using them on yourself will do more harm than good. Comparing the dietary habits of domestic pigs is the most useful approach, as it provides knowledge and saves you time learning while also giving you practical experience.

As for other skills and talents, he'd rather not use them and become someone who's constantly lustful towards the opposite sex, or a freak who blinks frequently. So it's better to store the 1-star skills in the system.

Ethan didn't know why the system divided the rewards into talents and skills, and even categorized them. For now, he only knew that there were desire-type, physical type, skill-type, and knowledge-type rewards.

He accepts whatever the system gives him.

In addition to skills, physical attributes are also displayed on a panel, which really feels like playing a game. However, the player's own inherent skills and talents are not displayed; only system skills and talents are shown.

[Ethan Lee (Ethan Lee)]

【Strength: 13】

[Endurance: 12]

[Agility: 12]

【Spirit: 19】

[Talent: Basic Dexterity Fingers (2 stars)]

[Skill: Intermediate Beater (2 stars)]

Li Yisen estimates the physical fitness of a healthy adult male to be 10, and his physical fitness is already quite good.

The contrast between when he was first reborn and when he was sickly for a while after becoming Ethan, even though he had been in the police academy for three months and had been receiving training.

He didn't know what happened to his predecessor that led to his rebirth. Through his memories, he only remembered that his predecessor fainted while walking and was taken to the hospital by his classmates. After being discharged from the hospital, he was quite weak, but fortunately, he worked hard to exercise and recover, and eventually completed his studies.

As for whether there are any other functions in the black and white system, Li Yisen was not sure, but his intuition told him that there should be.

This is not a wild guess, but a special ability that comes after rebirth, perhaps even a result of the rebirth itself.

He called this ability the Shining, that's right, he named it after an ability from a movie in his previous life, mainly because the ability is somewhat similar.

After his rebirth, Li Yisen's intuition became much more accurate. Most importantly, there was another effect: sometimes he would have hallucinations in his mind, which, according to tests, were images of people being killed around him.

Over the past year and a half, I have experienced hallucinations more than 10 times, such as residents being robbed and murdered two streets away, and homeless people being beaten to death by gangsters a few hundred meters away.

Not all deaths are premonitions; they feel like they happen randomly.

It was also the system's appearance that allowed him to get through the period of confusion after his rebirth.

...

With the prisoner reception concluded, Lee and Ethan were given a precious rest.

The sound of the iron door opening in the prison guards' break room interrupted Ethan Lee's thoughts on the system. The person who came in was Logan Brown, a young white police officer who had been a prison guard for almost two years and was also one of Ethan's ordinary friends in prison.

Logan Brown punched the Chinese-American police officer in the shoulder, acting nonchalantly.

"Ethan, I heard you passed the elite assessment. I really envy your smart brain; I wouldn't even dare to try."

"What else do you want to envy? You'll be transferred out of the central prison soon too."

Logan smiled.

"Two years is nothing compared to one year. But after two years, I'm actually a little reluctant to leave the prison, and those bastards' gnashing teeth. I wanted to leave every moment when I first arrived."

"You don't have to leave."

"Please, if I stay any longer, I'll end up with mental problems like those old guys. I'm telling you, the old guy in T344 next door has been diagnosed with mental problems and might have to retire early. I don't know whether to call it luck or misfortune."

The image of a policeman in his fifties flashed through Li Yisen's mind; they didn't have much interaction.

"I just don't know if the extra mental health allowance will be enough to cover medical expenses."

"That's true."

The two men sighed, after all, they were prison guards at the time.

During their conversation, Logan didn't really engage with Sean much because the turnover rate for new officers was too high; it would take at least a month before they would consider him a true colleague.

"I'm not talking to you anymore, it's time for our group to have some fresh air."

"Don't let your guard down in these final days."

Don't worry.