After a few days of indulgence and getting used to his new lifestyle, Glenn decided it was time to get himself stronger.
But before that, he visited John and Elle at the shop and helped a little during his visit. Elle, became lively when she saw him once again.
"How are doing, bunchkin?" Glenn teased.
"I told you not to call me that, dickhead!"
"Ah, now you're talking to my dick, huh. Uncle John!!! Elle's—effmhmmmhmnhahm."
Glenn couldn't finished his sentence because Elle jumped over him in head lock while her other hand was over his mouth.
"I'm gonna kill you lunatic, don't breath! Shhh! Don't breath! Let it go, embrace your death." Elle, said with deadpan face as she whispered.
Glenn shivered hearing that but then he immediately came up with a counter.
He licked her palm.
"Yuck! Ewwwww! That's disgusting!"
Glenn didn't reply and just smirked in triumph while he was dodging her kicks.
A few minutes later, they both calmed down.
"By the way, here's my key card. You can visit me anytime with uncle. The address is in there and that key card is the access to my apartment. Just ask for help in the lobby if you're having trouble going up."
Glenn gave Elle the black extra key card he have.
"And also, here's some cash! For your school or buy something you and uncle John need."
"Wow, these are a lot. How much is it?"
"$5,000 cash."
"Really? You earn that much? Hmmm.. Tell me honestly, what do you do exactly?"
"Well I.. I fix things? I'm a freelance I guess?"
"Fix things? In what industry? Like debugging?"
"Well, something like that. I remove bugs that are harmful and causing trouble all the time."
"You learned that fast? From a guy with amnesia to a computer genius? Sounds suspicious."
"Well, what can I say? I'm even surprised myself. Maybe I was a programmer before and my body is just re-experiencing my job from the past."
"That makes sense when you put it that way. You better explore more so you can recover your memories faster. Anyway, thanks and I won't decline this."
"Yeah sure, please don't." Glenn grinned while he heaved a sigh of relief inside.
Suddenly, his phone rings.
Ring! Ring! Ring!
"Hang on a second, let me take this call."
"Go ahead busyman."
"Hello, Glenn, speaking! "
"Hello, Mr. Peterson? This is Brian from Diamond Tower."
"Oh hello, Brian. What's up?"
"Sir, the heavy weight lifting equipment you've ordered has already arrived. The items are in the basement, should I arrange it to deliver it to your personal gym."
"As efficient as always, Brian. Okay, please help me bring those up. Just quote how much I needed to pay and I'll send you the money later, okay?"
"Of course, sir."
"Oh by the way, just in case someone like a korean father and daughter came with my key card, please assist them cause I gave my extra key card to them."
"May I have their name, Mr. Peterson?"
"Sure, it's Elle and John Lee. They are family."
"Understood, is there anything else, sir?"
"No, that would be all. Thank you, Brian."
Tooot tooot toooot
After the call, Glenn turned towards Elle and said, "I guess that's my cue. I should go. Do not lose the key card, okay?"
"Okay, lunatic. Go on, shooo!"
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Glenn visited a gun shop and bought a Beretta M9A3 with silencer and lots of ammo. He was about to sell the gold plated pistol he got in his inventory but ultimately decided against it as it might be traced back to him. Glenn wasn't going to leave any chances for that. Though he wasn't afraid, he also don't want to invite trouble in his doorstep.
He stored his new gun in his inventory and decided to head home. He was excited to try the new equipment he bought for training.
When he arrived at his penthouse, he saw a new row dumbell disk lined up at the side. He picked one disk and checked the weight to his satisfaction.
He changed his clothes for a work-out outfit and went to the kitchen. He took out the sea king meat left from last time and cooked it in a pan.
After finish eating the delicious meat, he felt a familiar warmth inside him starting to build up. Without a second thought, he went to his personal gym and started lifting. He enjoyed the pain and the warmth seeping inside his muscles. Every five sets, he felt his muscles more firm and getting stronger. And everytime it happened, he felt the weights are getting lighter. He couldn't help but grinned seeing the effectiveness of his training.
He spent the rest of the day completing his daily task, earning some points from the system quests.
At night, he bought another kilo of sea king meat from the shop and stored it refrigerator. As he was about to put it inside, he remembered he had an inventory but he wasn't sure if what was stored inside remain the same as when he put it. He figured he needed to test it out first by putting an apple in his inventory and see if it will spoil. Then he proceeded to put the sea king meat inside the fridge.
After eating a regular food as his dinner, he took a shower and changed it to his professional attire with gloves and red necktie. Tonight, he planned to raid another drug base and replenish his dwindling money.
He took out the ledger from his inventory and remembered the gang base he raided last time which controlled the area where John's shop was.
He skimmed the address on the list and in the end, he chose a base that was a little far from Korea Town so no one would trace the pattern of his operation.
He opened the system shop and bought Yassop's Gun Mastery (Pistol) for 2,000 points. When he bought the skill, a ball of light appeared in front of him which disappeared right away revealing a book.
Without much further thought, he took it and slapped it to himself which caused it to disintegrate. This made him in daze for a second as he absorb the knowledge from the book.
He then took out his new gun assembled with the silencer and load bullets to the magazine. He cock the gun and went to the fridge to take out a can of soda. He threw it out I full strength out of the balcony and shot according to his instict.
Pow!
The soda burst out in midair as Glenn marvel the feeling when he shoot the soda. Everything feels natural as he somehow knew the distance and the direction of the soda. When he glance at it in midair, everything seems to slow down and he knew how to hit it.
He looked at his hands incredulously. He couldn't describe the feeling and he couldn't believe he did that!
Taking a deep breath, he calmed himself down before jumping out of the balcony without any hesitation. He then he executed moonwalk (Geppo) as soon as gravity pulls him down. As he enjoyed the feeling of defying gravity, he laughed loudly while he felt the wind against his skin. He felt liberated at that moment while appreciating the night view from that height.
'So this is what it feels like flying'
After playing around a few more minutes, he proceeded to move and hop from building to building.
Half an hour later, he finally arrived at his destination. Before starting what he came for, he opened the system quest panel and checked if there's a related quest for what he's going to do. Sure enough, there is a quest for it in the daily quest tab.
•Street Sweeper•
Defeat an enemy without getting wounded.
Gain 30 pts for every enemy defeated.
Enemy (0)
After reading this, he couldn't help but smile at the system for bringing him an opportunity to gain more points.
One hour later, Glenn was walking out of one well guarded warehouse. He couldn't help but mused to himself, why do the gangs always seem to pick warehouses as their base. But he quickly shrugged it off not finding an answer to his question.
Nevertheless, he left quite happy for his gains tonight as luck favored him, this group seems to have an important meeting with its members. This means that there so many gang members gathered here today and all of them gave Glenn a substantial amount of points and cash.
On his last operation, he killed indiscriminately just to test his skills and see if the concept of killing will make him feel some disgust. After confirming that he's okay about killing, he figured he might be too harsh to these scums. So he opted in killing the leaders and leave the underlings with a few bones broken giving them a second chance at life. He tested it to see if incapacitating an enemy counts as defeating them as the quest indicated and it surprisingly works. In total, he killed a 35 key members of the gang and maimed 200 underlings. Multiply it by 30 earning him 7,050 points, plus the cash he grabbed from them was a total of 58 million dollars.
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When he stepped inside his rooftop balcony from the outside, it was already 3:00 AM and he could hear a lot police sirens from the distance on the way home. He went to the kitchen and grabbed a beer from the fridge before sitting on his couch. He popped the beer opened and chugged the ice cold bevarage which gave him a refreshing feeling.
He took a cigarette from his inner pocket and light it up while he was lost in his own thoughts about his future. He thought this kind of method to earn money isn't for the long term and it increases the risk of being exposed to some organizations as criminal like SHIELD mainly because he wasn't part of the authority and the way he handles those gangs members. As he was mulling deeper into the problem, he realized that there's only one way he could thought of where he could put his skills to use, earn a lot of money and at least be placed in a gray area status. And that is to be a mercenary.
After deciding which way to go forward, he fished out his phone and texted Daisy asking her to teach him how to open the darkweb. Then he took off his clothes and and go to bed expecting to have received some answer from her the next day.
Waking up the next day, he went to the kitchen for breakfast quickly frying a slab of sea king meat. Then he went to his routine exercise ensuring to do all the daily quest generated by the system. With the advance gym equipment, he completed them in no time spending an hour of the morning before going for a quick shower.
He checked his phone and saw some reply messages from Daisy.
[Are you insane? What for? It's dangerous]
[Seriously, I know it's not my business but if you haven't thought about carefully, consider it more]
Seeing the concern on her text, he replied back chuckling to himself.
[Don't worry, I know what I'm getting myself into]
[Okay, just making sure you know what you're doing. Call me right now and I'll teach you how]
Glenn dialed Daisy's number and prepared his laptop. They soon went to a session on how to access the forbidden side of the internet.