The rain was like a veil, filtering the gray sky. Under the gray sky, there is a free air.

The day after moving to New York, Rick stayed at home under the pretext of being unwell while Aunt Harvey's Uncle Elana was out with Little Will.

Alone, Rick returned to his bedroom and recounted after adjusting himself.

"System, exchange skills tenacity."

"Ding, it costs 1,500 points to redeem skill tenacity, and the current total points are 5,500 points, do you want to redeem it?"

"Sure."

"Spend 1,500 points to redeem Fortitude, and the remaining 4,000 points are complete."

Rick didn't feel any pain as he lay on the bed, but he could clearly feel a warm current in his body, running through his limbs, torso, and head.

The warm current is extremely comfortable, like a full body massage, and during the strengthening process, Rick gradually becomes sleepy, as if he can't feel the passage of time. Eventually, he fell asleep completely.

When I opened my eyes, I saw a little dust fluttering in the air under the afternoon sun.

The noise of traffic and people in the distant streets can be heard clearly.

The nose also smelled Will's stinky socks in the next room.

Faced with the mixed information pouring in from his five senses, he concentrated and silently blocked the information he didn't need.

Rising from the bed where he was lying, a human figure with a gray mark appeared on the white sheets with a patterned pattern.

Rick rubbed his hands, and the dead skin and foreign objects on his hands were not as greasy as the natural excretion of the human body, but like the ashes formed after the plants and trees were completely burned. They peeled off their hands and floated down.

He grabbed the sheets and threw them in the washing machine, then went into the bathroom to wash his dead skin and dusty body.

After washing, Rick stands naked in front of the mirror in the bathroom. Originally, after eating the spirit fruit, the skin pores of the whole body shrank, and the skin became delicate and fair. And now the body is not as white and tender as imagined, but has begun to transform into wheat color.

Looking quietly in front of the mirror, the body is thin and streamlined. There were no obvious muscles, but no one would have thought that there was an explosive amount of power under this thin body.

With a clenched fist, Rick felt that his body was as powerful as in the game, and his heart swelled slightly.

Turn on the nozzle again, and the cool water flowed down the short black hair, and the swollen heart cooled down.

After drying himself and putting the washed sheets to dry, Rick turned his attention back to the system space.

Some miscellaneous items, a stack of dollars.

A light red spirit fruit, shaped like a peach. It is one of the 3 spirit fruits collected in the adventure island world, and the remaining two are exchanged for points. Just the last remaining one.

Finally, there is a white dragon egg lying quietly in the system space.

There are still 4,000 points, which is just enough to exchange dragon eggs for reality. Rick thought about it for a while, but still didn't choose to redeem it.

He was still living at his uncle and aunt's house at this time, and his little cousin Will was scurrying around from time to time, so it would be bad if he scurried into the room and saw the dragon egg.

Faced with this situation, Rick also thought about whether to move out and live. But on second thought, he had no money on him, and he didn't know the real estate people involved. What's more, Uncle Harvey and Aunt Elana won't agree to live outside themselves.

It takes up to a few months for dragon eggs to hatch, and these are not bad days, so you still need to think about it again.

Time flies. It's been a week since we officially moved to New York.

During the week, Uncle Harvey often went to the institute every morning to work, and often did not return home at night.

After Rick finished exchanging his skills, he quietly followed and investigated a few times, confirming that his uncle was working in a biological laboratory under Osborne's enterprise.

On the surface, the lab appears to be a low-rise villa near Long Island.

But the villa is heavily guarded and full of patrolling guards.

When Rick got closer, through his keen sense of smell, he also found that there were many dogs in the courtyard of the villa. And the walls around the villa, tree trunks are also full of hidden cameras.

Confirmed at Uncle Harvey's place of work, Rick was sure that he would be able to infiltrate the lab, but he didn't need to break in if he didn't have to. Facing the heavily defended villa, Rick retreated after a little observation.

After all, according to the plot, there have been no accidents during this time, and Uncle Harvey, as a high-end science professor, must be safe and secure.

During the week, Rick didn't try to enter the newly opened game world, Kombat Whirlwind.

It takes a lot of time to explore entering a new world, and Rick is not ready for it at this time, and he enters the world frequently, and the body of the current world will fall into a deep sleep, and when he explored the world of Adventure Island before, he has been sleeping frequently for many days, which has also caused Aunt Elanna to worry.

Faced with this situation, thinking of the dragon eggs in the system space, the idea of moving out and living alone became stronger and stronger in Rick's mind. It's time to have a quiet secret base to keep your secrets.

Rick had just celebrated his 16th birthday and was not really an adult, so presumably both Uncle Harvey and Aunt Elanna would have strongly objected to the idea when they found out.

He thought about it again, he couldn't move out and live alone, but he could also have a place to live of his own, and put the dragon eggs there to hatch normally. It is also possible to explore the game world alone without being disturbed.

Money! The total property is only a few thousand dollars, and the detached house is preferably a quiet villa, which is far from enough.

Suddenly, Rick thought of someone, Blackie.

As the head of the bottom of Queens, New York, he must know what gangsters are in New York, and gangsters represent crime and money.

As a well-educated Rick in the 21st century, it is absolutely incumbent upon him to fight crime!

In addition, he still has an unfinished real-life mission [Defeat a Humanoid Creature], and he must be able to get in touch with the conditions needed to complete the task by fighting evil.

The sun is setting, and the afterglow of the setting sun fills the streets.

After dinner, Uncle Harvey still hadn't returned home, and Rick helped Aunt Elanna clean up the dishes and said, "I'll go outside for a look and get acquainted with the environment, and I'll probably be back later." ”

After hearing this, Elana frowned and said, "Don't go to bad places, don't contact bad people, just walk on the street, you must come back before 11 o'clock in the evening!" Also, don't walk down the alley when you come back, the security may not be good at night. “

"Okay, okay. Don't worry, I'm just walking around Queens and Manhattan and won't be going to Brooklyn. ”

After saying goodbye to Aunt Elana, Rick walked out of the villa.

After coming out, he continued walking, about a few blocks from his house, and Rick pulled out his phone against the oak tree on the side of the street.

"Hi, this is Brian, do you have anything to do with me?"

Hearing a burst of grumpy heavy metal voices coming from the little black phone on the other side, Rick moved the phone away from his ear and said.

"Blackie, it's me!"