Chapter 4: Real Cheats

The golden finger that has just been activated is very down-to-earth and is directly displayed in the form of a panel.

【Name】：Luke Williams
【Sex: Male

[Age]: 18 years old

[Hack Skills]:
Firearms Mastery (Rifle) (Proficiency)
Painting (Expert)
This golden finger is really real. It directly shows that it is a plug-in and there is no need to pretend.

Buddies, pack your bags and get going!

When Luke went to investigate the specific details of the two skills, he found out that he was wrong.

In his consciousness, the two skill fragments he had just obtained did not dissipate directly and merge into his soul. Instead, they were like external devices, hanging outside his soul through a panel.

Real cheat.

This is quite reassuring. After all, the soul is the foundation of a person. If there are always messy things mixed in, who knows if there will be any sequelae or something. It is also good to be able to use it plug and play like this.

His consciousness touched the two external fragments, and a piece of information entered Luke's mind.

[Gun Mastery (Rifle)] (Proficient): You have mastered the use of most common rifles. After a long period of training, you have established a preliminary connection with the rifle in your hand. You can easily complete 100-yard fixed target shooting. In the military, you are already a qualified new line filler.

[Painting] (Expert): Excellent talent plus long-term practice make you an excellent painter, but living in the alienated environment of a cult for a long time, your painting style is focused on horror and weirdness. Only by drawing aliens and monsters can you fully unleash your inspiration and talent.

Other than that, the panel doesn't give any more information.

According to the information currently available, this golden finger seems to require killing to be activated. After activation, it manifests itself in plundering some of the enemies' abilities during their lifetime. The object of its effectiveness has not yet been determined.

Level 0 spiritual creatures were mentioned twice in the previous panel. I don’t know if all humans are so-called “spiritual creatures” or only some special humans are considered such.

After all, Luke killed two "spiritual creatures" in a row, which made it impossible for him to be sure of the answer.

However, it is clear that at least ordinary wild animals are not "spiritual creatures".

Because in the eighteen years since he traveled through time, as a veteran reader of online novels, Luke has fantasized about and experimented with ways to activate the cheat code countless times, including hunting - after all, killing monsters to gain experience and level up is also a common cheat code in online novels.

However, it obviously didn't work. Otherwise, the cheat wouldn't have been activated until today, wasting more than a decade.

In addition to hunting, Luke also played basketball and joined the high school team, but he did not activate the Basketball God System. The same was true for baseball and football.

He also asked his father to use his connections to go to Hollywood, where he visited and learned in a small crew and experienced filming and acting. Similarly, he did not activate any Hollywood artillery system.

In short, after struggling for about seven or eight years, Luke finally accepted that he might be just a useless time traveler. He was ready to follow his father's arrangements, go to a top high school, study at an Ivy League school, inherit billions of dollars, and criticize the decadent life of capitalism.

Fortunately, I traveled to America. If I had traveled to the other side of the ocean, I would probably never be able to activate this golden finger in my lifetime.

Time passed quickly. Perhaps it was because the police in the wealthy area were of higher quality, or perhaps it was because of Luke's phone call. Under the influence of various factors, the police arrived very quickly. In less than ten minutes, six or seven policemen rushed up.

Thanks to the testimony of his classmates, led by Eve, Luke was spared from having his magazine emptied by these nervous policemen, and was carried out on a stretcher along with Calvin.

Many ambulances arrived, and some students who were shot and luckily survived were carried away on stretchers one after another.

Although Luke repeatedly said that he was not injured, the blood on his body was still very scary. The school leaders who rushed to the scene had already learned about the general process of the incident. Now they wanted to worship Luke as an ancestor. They waved their hands and asked the hospital to give him a full-body physical examination to ensure his health and safety. After drawing several tubes of blood and completing a lot of examinations from head to toe, Luke just returned to his ward and saw three people waiting at the door.

A handsome old man with a serious expression was Luke's father, Philemon Williams, an executive of an Internet company; a woman with an anxious face was Luke's mother, Fran Williams, a full-time housewife; and there was an old man with half of his hair white, whom Luke had never seen before.

At this time, Luke had already changed his blood-stained clothes. Seeing that he looked fine, Philemon breathed a sigh of relief and his expression softened.

Fran walked straight to Luke and hugged him.

"Luke."

Her voice trembled.

Luke patted her shoulder and smiled, "Hey, Mom, it's okay. I'm fine."

After Fran calmed down, Philemon and the old man came forward.

The old man introduced himself as Blank Daniel, a member of the school board. He came on behalf of the school to express his condolences to the two heroes who saved the school and killed the gunman.

The two exchanged a few pleasantries briefly, and Luke asked about Calvin's condition. He came to the hospital with Luke, but the difference was that he went into the operating room, while Luke only underwent an examination.

Hearing Luke's question, Blank's expression became a little strange, as if he wanted to laugh, but he forced himself to hold it back. He cleared his throat and comforted her, "The operation was a little complicated, but it was very successful and there won't be any sequelae."

After the greetings, Blank hurried to other wards to visit the injured students.

With the power of money, special matters were handled promptly, and Luke's test results came out quickly. Before noon, a doctor came with the test results.

"Luke, right?" The doctor confirmed his identity and continued, "The examination results are fine. You are a great guy, but your wisdom tooth is really..."

He paused, feeling that Luke wouldn't understand him if he used professional terms, so he said figuratively: "If I had encountered your wisdom tooth a few years earlier, I wouldn't have had to delay my graduation for two years. The difficulty of your wisdom tooth is worth a doctorate degree."

After he finished speaking, he added: "A doctorate degree from Germany."

Judging from the frightened look on his face, he must have had an unforgettable experience studying abroad.

Just then he ran into the doctor and remembered the expression on the Blank school board member's face not long ago. Luke asked, "How's Calvin's surgery going? The one who got shot in the butt."

The doctor was a little confused at first, but after hearing the second half of the sentence, he immediately understood, and then the same expression as Blank's before appeared on his face.

"His condition has spread all over the hospital. He was shot in the buttocks. The bullet went straight through, leaving four holes."

"Huh?" Luke was shocked.

"The bullet passed through the side, entered the body from the left hip, exited from the right side of the left hip, and then penetrated the right hip."

"But the surgery is simple and it's done now, so don't worry."

　The situation of four holes in one bullet is based on a real case in China. The firearm is a well-known domestic small-scale gun - Type 64 pistol.

　　Also, the fifth chapter has been temporarily reviewed and is being revised. Please be informed...

　　
　
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