The Judgment of Justice

"I still need to figure out the Sky Dance Technique as soon as possible."

After making a successful entrance, Hawking rode the Flying Nimbus into an empty park and waited for the Goku Template to finish loading.

The Goku Template greatly boosted his Combat Power and even came with the Flying Nimbus, an incredibly fast flying vehicle.

However, Goku's personality interference made it unsuitable for him to keep fighting criminals for Justice Points. Otherwise, the lofty image he had just established might instantly collapse into that of a complete idiot.

That was why the Sky Dance Technique, an ability that used ki to fly, was so important.

If he had known the Sky Dance Technique just now, his showboating would probably have been even more impressive.

However, the Sky Dance Technique was a move of the Crane School. Thirteen-year-old Goku had yet to meet Tien Shinhan or Chiaotzu and had never seen the Sky Dance Technique, so naturally, Hawking did not know how to train it.

This was different from moves like the Destructo Disc and Spirit Ball. One look at the Destructo Disc made it clear that it involved compressing and spinning ki, while the Spirit Ball was about using one's mind to control a ki blast. With enough research into their principles, recreating them was not too difficult.

But the Sky Dance Technique allowed people to fly. Even now, humanity could only achieve flight through external tools, and the principles of aerodynamics were completely useless when researching the Sky Dance Technique.

Still, after gradually becoming more proficient with ki over the past three years, he had vaguely developed some ideas. Given a little more time, it was not impossible for him to figure it out.

The main reason was that he had previously focused all his energy on increasing his Combat Power, especially on researching the Destructo Disc.

With a Combat Power of 75,000, Krillin had used the Destructo Disc to sneak attack Frieza, who had a Combat Power of one million in his second form, and cut off his tail.

If Frieza had not dodged in time, Krillin might have sliced him to pieces on the spot.

In other words, if the Destructo Disc hit, its power was enough to take down an enemy more than ten times stronger than its user.

Even Captain Marvel would probably be in serious trouble if she were hit by his current Destructo Disc.

He definitely had to spend more time on such a bugged move.

"What a shame about all that money!"

At the same time, he recalled the massive pile of US Dollars that had spilled out after the van overturned.

If he had moved quickly enough, he could have used the Transfiguration Charm to take all those US Dollars away. But to be safe, and to better shape his image, he had ultimately given up on the idea.

Anyway, he believed there would be plenty of opportunities in the future.

"Almost time."

Once the Goku Template's duration ended, Hawking leaped into the air and continued his night's work.

This time, though, he did not pick and choose. Whenever he found an incident, he dealt with it.

However, afterward, he would leave coolly as soon as he had resolved things, without even giving anyone a chance to thank him. Nor did he announce his name again.

It was enough to shout a slogan once. Saying it too often would make him seem cheap.

This continued until five in the morning. He resolved nearly twenty incidents, ranging from theft to murder.

"My efficiency is still too low."

Standing atop a building by the street, Hawking checked the progress bar on his panel and could not help frowning.

The South Bronx was indeed chaotic, with all kinds of messy incidents happening constantly. But they were scattered throughout the city, and many did not even happen outdoors.

Murders, home invasions, and gang shootouts mostly took place inside buildings, abandoned factories, basements, and other enclosed locations.

Searching by leaping across rooftops made such incidents genuinely difficult for him to discover.

To improve his efficiency, he had tried borrowing a police radio.

But afterward, he found that many incidents had already ended by the time the police radio went off. The police mostly arrived to clean up afterward, so it was less efficient than searching on his own.

More importantly, he had discovered something very significant.

The amount of Justice Points he earned from each deed varied, and the differences were considerable.

The incidents that gave the most Justice Points were those where he saved someone's life.

For example, if he caught a burglar breaking into a house, even if that burglar had stolen one hundred million dollars, stopping him would only earn Hawking a single Justice Point.

But if that burglar had been about to stab someone to death and Hawking stopped him, he would receive one hundred Justice Points.

In other words, petty theft and even many acts that the public considered particularly vile gave very few Justice Points if they did not involve murder.

Even in the bank robbery where he had made his debut, if the robbers never intended to kill anyone and merely planned to grab the money and run, catching them would earn little more Justice Points than catching someone who snatched a lollipop from the roadside.

There was another matter as well: the panel's judgment of justice.

As long as he believed something was just, it was justice. While that made him very happy, it also imposed a restriction on him.

He could not deliberately create incidents to farm Justice Points.

For instance, if he held someone underwater, rescued them when they were about to suffocate, then held them underwater again, rescued them again, and repeated the process, he would not gain a single Justice Point.

The moment he had that idea, he had already judged in his heart that it was not a just act. It was an evil act done for Justice Points, so naturally, it earned no Justice Points.

So, for the next period of time, he had two things to do.

First, improve his efficiency in finding incidents. He needed to search not only outdoors, but indoors as well.

Second, he could not act whenever he encountered an incident. It wasted time and earned too few Justice Points. He could directly ignore petty theft and similar cases. Incidents that benefited his image or offered more Justice Points were the priority.

"Maybe I can find time to visit Peter Parker in Queens."

If he remembered correctly, Spider-Man possessed Spider-Sense. Aside from sensing danger, it also allowed him to keenly detect incidents happening within a certain range around him.

That was why Spider-Man was often late to work, school, and dates—his moral standards would not allow him to turn a blind eye to those incidents.

Of course, Spider-Men from different universes varied in how strong this ability was.

But that did not matter. No matter what, he would surely be more efficient than Hawking searching alone. Spider-Man could handle the small incidents himself, while he could notify Hawking about the bigger ones.

Besides, if Hawking wanted to establish the Super Hero International Company in the future, Spider-Man was one of the people he intended to invite.

Super Heroes with financial advantages like Tony Stark would definitely never join his company. But civilian Super Heroes short on money, like Spider-Man, were far more likely to accept if Hawking contacted them early.

"It's about time. I should go back, eat breakfast, and sleep!"

Rubbing his stomach, Hawking vanished from the spot after several leaps, heading toward the abandoned park in the North Bronx where he had first arrived.

Dawn arrived and darkness receded. At this hour, even the chaotic South Bronx had grown quiet. Staying here any longer would only waste time, so he might as well go back, fill his stomach with breakfast, and sleep.