It was the height of midsummer, with the blazing sun hanging high overhead.
Hong Kong Island had a subtropical climate, and temperatures stayed relatively high throughout the year.
What was more, this was the hottest season of the year.
Being outdoors was like being shut inside a steamer.
Yet even under such scorching heat, plenty of people still worked hard and sweated profusely.
At an open-air shooting range at the Police Training School in Wong Chuk Hang.
A group of young police cadets, dressed in green uniforms and black peaked caps, held revolvers and stood at attention, gazing at the circular targets fifteen meters ahead.
Even the pale yellow protective glasses on their noses could not conceal the concentration in their eyes.
Behind the cadets stood a middle-aged man, also dressed in a green uniform, binoculars slung across his chest and a police baton tucked under his arm. He paced back and forth.
Unlike the young cadets, this middle-aged officer wore three chevrons on his shoulder epaulettes.
According to the Hong Kong Island Police Force's rank insignia, the middle-aged man was a sergeant.
Since he held an official rank, he was clearly an instructor at the Police Training School in Wong Chuk Hang.
"My name is Xu Hongsheng. Starting today, I'll be replacing your previous ACI and teaching you how to use police equipment, as well as conducting your firearms training."
After Sergeant Xu slowly took his place in the middle of the formation, he said in a low voice, "There are many kinds of police equipment, but the most important is naturally the police firearm.
"The revolvers in your hands are Smith & Wesson Model 10 Revolvers, the standard issue for the Police Force.
"Because they use .38-caliber round-nose ammunition, our colleagues in the Police Force often call them Point Three-Eights."
As he spoke, a serious expression crossed Sergeant Xu's face.
He continued in a low voice, "As future members of the Police Force, your shooting scores are naturally subject to certain requirements from PTS.
"The Point Three-Eight revolver has six chambers and can hold six rounds. Its effective range is thirty meters.
"The standard for your graduation assessment is thirty-five points on the fifteen-meter circular target.
"Thirty-five points is a pass. Forty to fifty points is good, and above fifty points is excellent."
Sergeant Xu paused briefly.
He looked over the cadets in front of him, and his expression softened slightly.
Then he continued, "Of course, today is only the first day of your shooting training.
"Whatever your results, they won't count toward your assessment.
"Even so, I hope you'll stay focused, focused, and focused, and get a good score that makes me sit up and take notice.
"Understand?"
Those signature Police Force words immediately roused the cadets standing beneath the blazing sun.
"Yes, sir!"
Though their response was crisp and loud, the cadets remained completely still, maintaining their perfectly standard standing firing stance.
"Very good!"
Sergeant Xu was very pleased with the cadets' response.
He smiled and nodded, raised the baton tucked under his arm, and gave the order in a low voice: "Now, listen for my command. Fire!"
As the baton in Sergeant Xu's hand came down, a burst of uneven gunfire rang out.
"Bang... bang... bang..."
Yet amid the disorderly gunfire, six shots caught Sergeant Xu's attention.
More accurately, from the moment the first shot rang out, Sergeant Xu had been watching the cadet who fired those six shots.
"Six rounds from a Point Three-Eight pistol. Sixty points on a fifteen-meter circular target."
Raising the binoculars against his chest, Sergeant Xu looked at the circular target in front of the cadet, and admiration flickered in his eyes.
"And his scores in the other subjects are excellent too. The police academy has produced a tiger this year!"
Zhou Quan, standing among the cadets, naturally had no way of knowing what ACI Sergeant Xu was thinking.
He calmly unloaded and reloaded, continuing with the pistol-shooting training.
Those six rounds from the Point Three-Eight that had just scored sixty points had come from him.
Zhou Quan had already anticipated this result; he had been completely confident.
To understand why he was so confident and unruffled, one had to mention his cheat.
Turn the clock back six months. At that time, Zhou Quan had been an ordinary young man in his twenties in the 2020s of the twenty-first century.
He had lived a peaceful, quiet, ordinary life.
Who could have guessed that one night, after watching short videos until he fell asleep,
he would wake up to find himself transmigrated into the body of a Hong Kong Island man from the 1990s, a man with the same name as him?
The moment Zhou Quan regained consciousness, his cheat arrived right on schedule.
Even now, Zhou Quan could clearly remember what had happened.
[Ding! A mysterious change in the player's consciousness has been detected. Earth Online is updating. Life Achievement System activated!]
He had often come across the nickname "Earth Online" while watching short videos.
Even though he knew those videos were all make-believe, he had still found them fascinating.
People said life was unpredictable, and reality was often more fantastical than fiction.
Zhou Quan had never truly understood that before.
But now, he believed it completely.
After all, Zhou Quan had not only experienced a transmigration of consciousness, but had also received the help of a cheat.
Thanks to the vast expanse of the internet he had absorbed in the twenty-first century, Zhou Quan accepted what had happened to him very quickly.
It didn't take long for him to figure out his own situation and that of his cheat.
In this era, Zhou Quan's starting identity was that of a highly educated man who had passed the Police Force's open recruitment exam and was about to begin training at the Police Training School in Wong Chuk Hang.
Once he passed the police academy's graduation assessment, he could officially join the Hong Kong Island Police Force as an officer with the rank of Probationary Inspector.
As for Zhou Quan's cheat, the Life Achievement System-
as the name suggested, whenever he achieved something important, he would receive a reward from Earth Online.
Apart from that, there were no restrictions or so-called missions.
All rewards and possibilities depended on Zhou Quan's own choices.
According to Earth Online, the Life Achievement System had activated because Zhou Quan's consciousness had undergone a mysterious change after transmigrating.
Therefore, the system did not count any of the achievements his current body had previously earned.
Otherwise, given the original owner's status as a highly educated man, Zhou Quan would surely have received plenty of rewards.
After all, from what Zhou Quan knew of the original owner, he could definitely be called an elite among elites.
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