Chapter 81

【Rat Bastard: A male human who is unfaithful in relationships, maintains intimate relationships with more than one person simultaneously, or tends to pursue profit and pleasure, and has improper conduct】

【Wearing Effect: Your charm will slightly increase, but your reputation among the opposite sex who want to start a family will decline. However, for some opposites with special preferences, your appeal will significantly rise】

【Advancement Route: By continuously asking ambiguous close opposite-sex individuals for money more than 10 times, this badge will automatically advance to the Bronze Badge “Gold Digger”; or by utilizing your outstanding charm to establish intimate relationships with 10 opposite-sex individuals, this badge will skip the Bronze stage and directly advance to the Silver Badge “King of the Sea”】

【Hidden Trait (No Need to Wear): The mental damage you actively inflict on the opposite sex will be enhanced】

“…”

Mental damage… does mental shock driven by anomalous items count? If it does, then this badge might actually be pretty useful? After shutting off the badge interface with quite an exasperated expression, Leon felt extremely uncomfortable under the strange stares of Secret Investigation Bureau colleagues, barely argued with the female police officer, obtained a promise to return the files within three days, and hastily left under the watchful eyes of at least a hundred people.

What’s up with that disgraceful rebel? Why’s he acting so weird today?

Looking at Leon leaving with his neck hunched and back bent, looking rather embarrassed, the victorious female police officer couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow in surprise. She then walked back to the Secret Investigation Bureau hall with a head full of doubts.

“Issa…”

Seeing her walk back with a light step, seemingly in a good mood, a middle-aged female police officer who had been eating watermelon for half the day couldn’t help but come over and warned her anxiously: “In principle, love is your own business as young people, I shouldn’t interfere, but… you must keep your eyes open and take care of yourself!”

“…”

What a joke! That bastard may have understandable reasons, but he’s still a rebel! How could I possibly have any kind of relationship with him?

Without revealing Leon’s rebel identity, she mumbled a few responses, brushing off her senior’s exaggerated concern, then walked towards the underground area with a completely baffled expression, ready to continue her work.

However, as soon as she entered the vacant interrogation room and softened the glaring lights a bit to prepare for questioning, she heard the door creak behind her.

“Issa?”

Squinting to confirm she hadn’t mistaken the person, the male police officer holding a stack of files sighed in relief and signaled her to come out and talk.

“What’s up?”

Following the person out of the interrogation room, the female police officer glanced at the files in the other’s hand and realized they were the ones she handed over in the morning—those families of martyrs whose pensions were prematurely stopped despite not meeting the deduction criteria. This made her frown immediately deepen.

“Did the Military Department return the files and lists? Are they refusing to restore the pensions? Or are they refusing to deal with those derelict comfort officers?”

“Both… They refused to restore the pensions and also don’t plan to handle the comfort officers.”

The male police officer said helplessly, “People from the Military Department said that providing pensions until the age of sixteen adulthood already meets the minimum standard. They’re not nannies and don’t have the obligation to take care of these people forever.”

“With general wage standards, as long as one works diligently, making ends meet in the Capital City shouldn’t be a problem. If unable to maintain life, it’s best to find other reasons; maybe these people aren’t working hard enough.”

Not working hard enough?

If it were anyone else, fine, but that bastard rebel almost killed himself supporting his family, yet he still almost lost everything? And you guys have the audacity to say he didn’t work hard enough? Besides, did you even fully distribute the last six years’ worth of pensions? Forget the rest, just the pensions owed to that bastard rebel’s family were converted into houses in Veteran’s Lane based on average housing prices!

Damn it! Those houses are at least sixty to seventy years old, far away from the core area, surrounded by either prisons or factories, and can’t even be sold! And you dare to offset pensions with them based on average housing prices? There was even a bold statement in the records saying the recipients agreed!

Initially, they were just a bunch of orphaned children, the youngest just weaned, the oldest not even ten. Even if they knew they were being shortchanged, what else could they do but agree?”I understand, thank you.”

After hearing the relayed message, the female police officer was absolutely furious. Hardly suppressing her anger, she thanked the male police officer who came to notify her, then couldn’t help but ask darkly,

“A supervisor from the Comfort Bureau, his name sounds like Will, Will Lane.”

“…”

From now on, the two words I hate most in my life are Lane!…

“Zzzz…”

【Shooting Expert: With sufficient natural talent and extraordinarily arduous practice, you successfully cultivated excellent shooting skills, and your shooting level can now be described as consummate】

【Wearing Effect: Relying on self-developed advanced techniques and the remarkable feel cultivated through diligent practice, when consciously adjusting the gun sights, your shooting accuracy will greatly improve】

【Advancement Route: After completing 30,000 live rounds of shooting, this badge will automatically advance to the Gold Badge ‘Shooting Master,’ current progress 0/30,000】

【Hidden Trait (No Need to Wear): As a firearms enthusiast, when using familiar sidearms for shooting, your shooting stability will significantly increase】

Finally reached silver…

Opening the badge panel and checking the [Shooting Expert] flashing with silvery light in the slot, Leon first lay down and fired a couple of test shots, then stepped back from the firing position, half-excited and half-frustrated.

There’s no need to explain why he was excited; it’s obviously because after the shooting badge upgraded to silver, its effect improved again in leaps and bounds.

Facing a humanoid target five hundred meters away, regardless of how much training and adjustment a bronze-level [Shooter] undergoes, achieving nine stable hits out of ten shots is already the limit.

But the two test shots after the badge upgrade directly halved the “hit zone,” not only guaranteeing a hundred percent hit rate but also allowing subtle adjustments to the bullet’s landing point, choosing whether to hit the upper or lower part of the target.

This is still considering the spin of the nails at five hundred meters. If it were a three-hundred-meter target, it would almost ensure hitting wherever you aimed, with a maximum error of probably no more than two centimeters under stable wind speed and lighting conditions!

As for why he’s frustrated despite such significant improvement… well, the next level-up condition has become harder.

“Thirty thousand rounds…”

Looking at the shocking four zeros in the advancement route, Leon couldn’t help but sigh deeply.

At his average shooting speed, even if he doesn’t work or go home and stays at the range all day, it’ll still take more than a month to finish thirty thousand rounds.

Under normal circumstances where he can only come for an hour or two after work every day, it’ll likely take around a hundred seventy days to advance further, which adds up to about half a year. It seems the shooting badge won’t be able to upgrade anytime soon.

Hmm… but it still needs to be practiced.

Looking at the sky, seeing the sun hasn’t set completely, Leon picked up the nail gun again and returned to the shooting position amidst the despairing gazes of two administrators.

Compared to the [Demon’s Friend], which requires sinful souls, and the [Devout Believer], which requires personally killing heretics, the advancement condition for the shooting badge is simply too easy.

And after merely half a year of training, one can achieve the level of a “shooting master.” He’s already very lucky, so what is there to complain about?…

After shooting until it got dark at the range, Leon first returned the sniper rifle to the Clearing Bureau and then headed towards Happiness Apartment.

Because of a certain “physically weak” muscular grandpa, he originally planned to sleep at the Clearing Bureau and had already informed Anna and the others that he wouldn’t be coming back for a couple of days due to busy work.

But since he’s now acquired the corresponding [Devout Believer] to the [Demon’s Friend], he might as well try going back. Who knows, maybe the hidden traits of these two badges will counteract each other, and the gatekeeper grandpa at Happiness Apartments will change his mind?(Chapter End)