The Blacklist

Chapter 58: Careful Study is Useful
After handing the matter over to the Ministry of Justice, SER regrouped and returned to the post office, and no one mentioned the case again.

Kerry understood everyone's feelings, and so did he, because thinking too much would affect his courage to live in this world! Because of this, even though he was definitely triggering a task, he did not take the initiative to check the system display.

Of all the people, Elizabeth was the most touched. She was a little scared. Thinking back to the time when she discussed with Tom about adopting a child, she felt a chill, because she couldn't imagine whether the child she was going to adopt would also...

Ah, I dare not think about it! So she gave up the decision to adopt almost immediately.

When Elizabeth came home and told Tom about this, he was furious. They had been preparing for more than a year to adopt a child, and had gone through countless applications and reviews. Now that they were finally about to achieve their wish, Elizabeth said she wanted to give up! He couldn't accept this.

Before Elizabeth could explain the reason, Tom had already slammed the door and ran away from home. She was a little sad, but she didn't think much about it. She thought that her decision was too sudden and Tom couldn't accept it for a while. She planned to wait for him to come back and explain it to him.

What she didn't know was that Tom was going to drink with another woman at this time.
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Soon, Reddington, who was on business in Turkey, received a report from his subordinates: the person responsible for secretly protecting Elizabeth discovered Tom's unusual behavior, saying that he left Elizabeth alone at home and drank with a young and beautiful woman in a bar outside.

Reddington was very angry and ordered his men to investigate the origins of this woman. At this time, he regretted not taking Carrie's advice earlier and conducting a thorough investigation of Tom, but he felt that it was not too late now.

At the same time, after he calmed down, he thought of one thing: if Tom really cheated on her, and he proved it to Elizabeth, would it be possible to make her break up with Tom? As soon as this idea came up, he couldn't help but be tempted and decided to take action.
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When taking a shower after exercising at night, Carrie subconsciously looked at the system display: "Host killed Mallory, the mastermind of the 'evil pregnancy', and Galatea, the implementer, and was rewarded with 2.8 crime-killing points and recovered 1150 million criminal funds; saved 22 victims and was rewarded with intermediate combat skills."

Just as he had judged before, only by saving people can one be rewarded with skills or items.

This intermediate fighting skill is very timely for him, allowing him to make full use of his physical fitness and make up for his previous shortcomings.

As for the crime-killing value, he has now accumulated 28.9, which seems like a lot, but is only enough to buy a partner ring, so he decided to keep it for now; he no longer cares about the money, and now more than million is enough for him!

He decided to receive the reward tonight, so he let Gina go to bed first and went to the study to spend the night. Fortunately, Gina already knew that he had many secrets, so she didn't blame him and went to bed first.

As expected, it involves purely physical skills. Although it is only intermediate combat, the physical pain caused during the infusion is greater than the intermediate light weapon combination skills. If it were not for his current strong physical fitness and perseverance after several trainings, he really could not bear it!

Based on previous experience, he still used distraction to relieve the pain, so he tried to concentrate on studying the system content, and unexpectedly discovered some new situations that he had not noticed before. The first was the personal module that had been ignored. Now after careful study, he found that the information displayed on it was very detailed. For example: his current physical fitness is 325. Select this data to see the annotation - the average value of an ordinary healthy adult is 100.

His current equipment is a "full body protective suit". When it is selected, a note will be displayed - protect the host from ordinary energy and physical weapons; the default detection range for hostile persons is 100 meters in diameter, which can be expanded by spending money when necessary. The current maximum range is 1000 meters in diameter, 1000 US dollars per second.

This feature should be very useful, and he hadn't discovered it before.

Also, in the status item he saw:
Battle partner – Gina Porter;
Quasi-battle partner - Donald Lesler.

This greatly surprised him, how did Donald become a prospective fighting partner?
After thinking carefully for a long time, he found that the special incident between the two was that Donald's leg was seriously injured at that time, and he gave him a red bottle of life! Could this be the reason?
So he went to check the red bottle again, and found the note as expected - used for emergency treatment of severe injuries.

Note: When taken by an individual, it has the best healing effect, and has a slight effect of strengthening the physique; when taken by a combat partner, the effect is standard; when taken by a non-hostile person, the effect is half of the standard, and it converts the person into a quasi-combat partner; when taken by a hostile person, it has the opposite effect, i.e., it is highly toxic.

Then look carefully at the notes of the combat partner - on the premise that the host does not actively betray, the combat partner will maintain trust in the host, and in the joint battle with the host, the partner's own physical fitness and skill level will be improved by 15%. After killing the criminal, the host can get one third of the crime-eliminating value.

Wow! This is such a pleasant surprise! This emotion even outweighs the physical pain!
Although she knew it was wrong, Kerry now really hoped that everyone around her could drink the red bottle of life.
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At work the next day, although Elizabeth tried her best to hide it, everyone still noticed that she was in a bad mood, but when asked, she didn't say anything.

Cooper even specifically looked for her and asked her what happened and if she needed help. She said it was okay and emphasized that her condition would not affect her work.

Among the crowd, only Carrie guessed the reason, but she couldn't tell it because it was considered personal privacy in the United States, and even colleagues were reluctant to ask or comment.

I don’t know what this guy Reddington is busy with all day. He has reminded him, but he has not yet found out and solved this problem of Tom. He is really slow!
Carrie hesitated, should he kill Tom himself? But if Elizabeth knew about it, it would affect their relationship and would be detrimental to his completion of the main mission, which made him very conflicted.

At this time, he felt that Gina's idea was a good one, which was to give Elizabeth a companion ring. Then many things could be said more clearly, and there would be no need to hide things like now!

Thinking of this, he looked at Donald not far away. It was amazing that this guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes was now his quasi-combat partner!
(End of this chapter)