Improving Attributes

Driving back towards the initial location, Link saw figures in the woods and a car parked at the edge of the trees.

Link drove closer, and to his delight, the people by the car in the woods didn't seem to be on alert. This made Link happy. After getting closer, he called out as usual and took care of the six people there.

However, the gunshots also startled the people in the woods. Someone shouted, "What's going on? Why are you shooting!"

Link didn't answer. Through the night vision goggles, he quickly saw six people in the woods, two of whom were lying on the ground, though he didn't know who they were.

Link reloaded his magazine and hid under the car. The other side seemed to sense something was wrong and cautiously approached. When they reached the edge of the woods to check, Link heard someone shout, "Billy and the others are all taken care of."

"Who did it!"

"What's happening?"

From their voices, Link recognized the voice of the person in charge of hosting. Watching the few people split up from under the car, Link didn't hesitate. He emerged from under the car, using the car and the cover of darkness for concealment, and first took down one person nearby.

"Who's there!" Someone heard the movement and immediately looked over, but Link had already circled around to the other side and pulled the trigger.

Bang bang! Two gunshots rang out, and two more people were taken care of, including the initial host.

Only one person was left. After hearing the screams, perhaps he was too terrified and made a wrong decision, opening the car door and preparing to drive away.

As a result, Link rushed over and punched him, sending him into the driver's seat.

"Help, let me go, please!"

At this moment, Link calmly asked that person, "Tell me! How many players are participating in this game?"

"Please let me go!"

Essentially, these were all just ordinary people, and it was understandable that they were so scared at this time. However, Link's heart didn't waver at all. He punched him in the abdomen again, then dragged him out of the car, kicked him again, and continued, "Answer my question!"

"Thirty-four people, there are thirty-four of us in total, please let me go."

"Thirty-four, fewer than expected." Link calculated in his mind. If these ten people were added, they had all been taken care of by him. The whole process could be said to have gone unexpectedly smoothly.

He thought for a moment, then walked into the woods and saw Bob and his daughter. Bob was covered in various injuries, his face full of despair.

Clearly, he was the first to be tortured to death, and his daughter still had a little breath, but she also had many injuries on her body and was probably not far from death.

Link thought for a moment, dragged the bodies of the two people to the side of the car, and destroyed the bodies with gasoline using the previous method. After the car and bodies were ignited, he rushed to the next few locations and set them on fire one by one.

In such an open suburban area, in the middle of the night, there was no sign of human habitation for dozens of kilometers. Even if the flames soared into the sky, no one paid attention. Link drove the only remaining car, identified the direction, and headed back, quickly arriving at the motel.

He searched around here and found his backpack and clothes. The other party obviously hadn't had time to deal with them, and no one had even touched them.

Link searched around here, used the electricity and gasoline to design a simple timed ignition device, and then drove back to where his car had a flat tire.

These people's cars all had spare tires. Link changed the tire, then threw all his belongings, including the tactical vest and various equipment he had used before, onto the car he had driven over.

He drove the car to the side of the road, poured gasoline on it, and repeated the trick of setting the car on fire. Only then did he return to his used Ford and quickly drove away.

When Link passed the motel, the timed ignition device at the motel had been triggered, and the entire motel had been ignited. Link looked at the map.

The nearest town was still fifty kilometers away, but there was a highway entrance about thirty kilometers away.

Link didn't take the highway with surveillance cameras but drove through the town ahead.

At this time, Link also had to be grateful that the towns didn't have the dense network of cameras they would have twenty years later. Coupled with the fact that Link passed through in the middle of the night and chose a slightly remote route, he didn't encounter many cars along the way.

After driving all night and morning, Link finally entered California. He had traveled several hundred kilometers from his previous location before stopping at a motel for a quick meal and renting a room.

However, Link didn't rest immediately. Instead, he first turned on the TV and switched to the news channel of a local station from the previous area. After waiting for over half an hour, he finally saw news about the motel fire by the roadside. The cause of the fire had not yet been determined.

Other than that, no other news came out. Link thought for a long time before lying down to rest.

Perhaps it was the previous lesson, or perhaps the aftermath of the accident kept Link uneasy. It took him a while to fall asleep, and when he woke up again, it was already past ten at night.

Choosing not to rest further, Link checked out of the room and left. He drove through the night until the next day, reaching Pasadena, the city where the California Institute of Technology is located. Only then did he find another motel to rest and simultaneously open his system.

Besides the notification of increased experience points, there was also a notification of a completed mission, which granted Link an additional 100 Evolution Points.

After reviewing these notifications, Link opened his attribute panel.

Link Bennett

Biological Level: 1 Star

Attributes: The average attribute value for a normal adult male is 10 points.

Strength: 12.7 (Muscle 13.1, Physical Robustness 12.3)

Agility: 13.75 (Hand-Eye Coordination 13, Flexibility 15, Reaction 15, Balance 12)

Constitution: 14.2 (Health 14.8, Stamina 13.6)

Intelligence: 14.8 (Learning Ability 15.2, Mental Activity 14.5)

Perception: 11.5 (Willpower 12.5, Common Sense Judgment 11.5, Perceptiveness 11.5, Intuition 10.5)

Charm: 12.7 (Presence 13, Persuasion 11, Personal Appeal 15, Leadership 12, Appearance Appeal 12.5)

Skills: Baseball (Slightly Accomplished), Mixed Martial Arts (Slightly Accomplished), Basic Science (Slightly Accomplished), Basic Firearms Proficiency (Slightly Accomplished), Violin Playing (Beginner).

Special Abilities: None

Evolution Points: 800

Possessions: None

Space-Time Mission Function: Conditions not met, cannot be activated.

Everything else was the same as before, except for the additional 800 Evolution Points, and a '+' sign had appeared after the branches in parentheses for the basic attributes.

Link first clicked on the '+' sign next to Muscle under Strength. As a result, his Evolution Points instantly became 790, and Muscle increased to 13.2 points.

After considering for a moment, Link first increased Strength and Constitution to 15 points. Then, seeing that the remaining Evolution Points were not enough to raise Agility to 15 points as well, he simply allocated all of them to Intelligence.

However, at this point, the cost to increase a branch attribute by 0.1 points changed from 10 Evolution Points to 30 Evolution Points. Therefore, Intelligence was only increased to 15.2.

Next, Link quickly felt a tingling and itching sensation within his body. The feeling was neither pain nor itch, but more like a combination of soreness, numbness, and swelling, as if the muscles in various parts of his body were constantly moving.

He didn't have to wait long before the tingling and itching sensation inside his body grew stronger and stronger, making it somewhat unbearable. He was even unable to concentrate on thinking and could only grit his teeth and endure.

At the same time, his brain also felt somewhat swollen, like having a fever. All these changes prevented Link from fully concentrating, and he could only grit his teeth and silently endure.