1!5! Deep Blue Attribute Allocation

Inside an empty room at Midtown High School, Bai Ye raised his head and looked at the bright moonlight streaming through the window, only then realizing he had stayed in the classroom for so long.

Feeling the five additional strands of true qi in his Dantian, Bai Ye realized he had cultivated for around ten hours. "I got so absorbed in cultivating that I even forgot to work out. I should set an alarm next time."

He got up from the floor and stretched lightly twice. The skin on his body had completely recovered during this time, so it was time for the next stage of soaking in the bath.

Bai Ye opened the door and walked out, heading home under the streetlights, prepared to make up for all the training he had missed during the day.

But as he passed along the street, a massive blast erupted from the bank next door. The thunderous boom could be heard for several miles around.

What was that? The sudden explosion in the middle of the night startled Bai Ye, and he instinctively took a step back. Then, realizing something, he hesitated for a moment before walking toward the bank.

Terry Bank had already closed for the day. At that moment, an irregular hole half the height of a person had been blasted through the outer wall of its vault.

A robber holding a rifle and wearing a mask, dressed like Batman, stood guard at the blasted entrance to the bank.

Meanwhile, three other robbers with hoods over their heads filed through the hole blasted open by the explosives. Before the police arrived, they efficiently began looting the cash and jewelry in the vault. One look was enough to tell they had rehearsed this many times.

So it really is a bank robbery. Is this what they mean by free America?

But they picked a terrible location. There are hundreds of banks across New York, yet they chose this one downtown. It's so close to the police station that even at night, the cops can get here within ten minutes.

The car has fake plates, sure, but why is there only one person standing guard outside? There isn't even anyone in the car. This robbery crew is way too bare-bones.

Standing more than ten meters from the bank, Bai Ye watched the working-class laborers diligently toiling away inside and analyzed the situation in his mind.

Still, though this crew looked like a rookie amateur team to him, with an extremely high risk of getting caught afterward, they should be able to pull this job off.

After checking that there were no cameras nearby, he prepared to make his move.

Of course, this was not some act of justice. He was simply a little short on cash lately and planned to rob the robbers.

Looking at the robbery crew, with only one person guarding the opening, Bai Ye hesitated before summoning the Stat Panel.

Name: Bai Ye

Lifespan: 18/120

Strength: 1.4+

Constitution: 1.3+

Spirit: 1.4+

Charm: 1.4+

Unused Attribute Points: 0.5

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For the past few days, Bai Ye had been staring at the unused Attribute Points on the Stat Panel, always wondering when he should add 0.1 and see what happened. After all, how could he know what would happen when assigning points without trying it?

This was the perfect opportunity to test it out.

Hiding behind a wall, Bai Ye hesitated before raising his hand and lightly tapping the plus sign beside Strength. In the next instant, the values on the Stat Panel changed.

Name: Bai Ye

Lifespan: 18/120

Strength: 1.4+0.1

Constitution: 1.3+

Spirit: 1.4+

Charm: 1.4+

Unused Attribute Points: 0.4

Description:

You have equipped 0.1 Attribute Points to Strength. Your actual Strength is 1.4. You have additionally equipped 0.1 Strength, making your displayed Strength 1.5.

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What does that mean? This additional 0.1 isn't counted together with the strength I trained up? It counts as extra equipment? Bai Ye wondered as he looked at the changes in the description.

But in the next moment, a cool sensation began flowing into every part of his body, transforming it.

Soft cracking noises came from the joints throughout his body. The enhancement brought by the added point allowed him to clearly feel his strength rising.

In only the time it took to breathe, he felt his strength increase by roughly fifty percent.

There was no pain or discomfort at all, only the confidence that came with increased strength. He was certain that the strength and speed he displayed now had already surpassed human limits.

He lightly clenched his fist, feeling the flesh and bones in his arm creak under the immense force, bringing faint pain. He knew his body was telling him that his Constitution was already struggling to keep up with the increase in Strength.

Does raising the Strength attribute not increase Constitution as well? Bai Ye sighed regretfully.

He had thought his Constitution would rise a little along with his Strength, ensuring his body remained balanced. It seemed he would not be able to exploit that loophole.

At the same time, this experiment proved something else: assigning points truly had no side effects. It took only an instant. He really could use it like a Senzu Bean.

After allocating the point, Bai Ye calculated the time. He had to end the fight within eight minutes, or he might run into the police.

Feeling that he had plenty of time, Bai Ye took off his outer clothes and wrapped them inside out around his right hand to avoid leaving fingerprints.

He also removed the shirt underneath and covered the area below his eyes to hide his face. Then he bent slightly, circled around to the bank's side entrance, and lightly jumped with force from his legs. Bracing his right hand against the exposed edge of the second floor, he easily leaped up to the second floor like an agile ape.

Walking on tiptoe, aided by the control granted by his 1.4 Spirit, he silently made his way above the blasted hole. He lay in wait without a sound, waiting for the right moment.

Inside the bank vault, the three robbers were continuously moving the US Dollars, foreign currency, gold, negotiable securities, specimen notes, jewelry kept in safekeeping, and other valuables stored there.

They directly stuffed the loot into burlap sacks, then threw them through the blasted hole to their accomplice outside, who loaded them into the car.

They repeated this process, gathering valuables as quickly as possible within five minutes. After that, no matter how much remained, they would drive off immediately.

Crouching on the second floor, Bai Ye lightly pressed his right hand against the eaves and looked down at the guard below. The man held a rifle in his left hand and carried a bag of cash thrown out by his companions in his right as he walked toward the car. Bai Ye once again mocked how unprofessional they were.

Taking advantage of the man's lack of vigilance, Bai Ye lightly flipped over and jumped directly from the second floor to land behind the robber. He drove a fierce punch into the man's solar plexus. The robber did not even manage a grunt before instantly falling into a baby-like sleep.

Bai Ye gently caught the robber's body and dragged him aside, then immediately and skillfully stripped off his entire set of equipment and put it on. The whole process took no more than forty seconds.

The items he acquired included: hood ×1, black gloves ×1, rifle ×1, coat ×1, pants ×1. As for the bulletproof vest beneath the robber's clothes, Bai Ye considered it too time-consuming to put on and skipped it.

After changing into the clothes and hood, he immediately stood silently at the hole. Another sack of valuables was thrown out here.

He bent down and silently picked it up, then, just as before, dragged the sack of money over and tossed it into the trunk of the vehicle parked by the entrance. Afterward, he returned to the hole and waited for the next bag of money to be thrown out.