In the afternoon, on a remote road in Los Angeles.
Accompanied by heavy panting, Hunter, dressed in a sleek jersey, was Running slowly with heavy steps.
"Ding, gained 1 point of Running experience."
"Running level increased!"
"Congratulations to the host for gaining 1 free attribute point and increasing private space by 1 cubic meter."
A voice suddenly rang out in his mind.
The moment Hunter heard that voice,
he felt like a deflated balloon!
Stopping his steps, which were already too heavy to run, Hunter walked forward slowly for a while.
After looking around, he chose a secluded corner and walked over.
Then, sitting down on the ground, Hunter immediately summoned the system light wall that only he could see.
On it, his current attributes had already changed.
[Host: Hunter.]
[Lifespan: 18/72.]
[intelligence: 11 (The average value of this attribute for an adult male in the current world is 10)]
[Strength: 8 (The average value of this attribute for an adult male in the current world is 10)]
[agility: 9 (The average value of this attribute for an adult male in the current world is 10)]
[constitution: 8 (The average value of this attribute for an adult male in the current world is 10)]
[endurance: 7 (The average value of this attribute for an adult male in the current world is 10)]
[Unallocated Attribute Points: 1.]
...[Current Skill List]
[Driving lv2 (472/500): The highway can no longer satisfy you.]
[Lockpicking lv1 (1/200): You can try picking locks without a key.]
[Culinary Skill lv1 (62/200): Delicious food can please the heart and do much more.]
[Reading lv0 (83/100): Wisdom comes from knowledge, and Reading is one of the shortcuts to gaining knowledge.]
[Repair lv0 (46/100): Once you master this skill, you might be able to fix anything.]
[Swimming lv1 (0/200): Keep it up, you're already faster than a seahorse.]
[Running lv1 (0/200): Don't stop, keep Running, and you will gain health and a good body.]
[Shooting lv0 (69/100): American Iaijutsu, ensuring your safety.]
...In just five short days, Hunter had activated a total of eight skills!
This efficiency really wasn't low.
Moreover, every skill Hunter activated felt very practical to him.
Driving, Culinary Skill, Repair, and Shooting—these four went without saying. The first three were essential life skills.
Especially Culinary Skill and Repair; even if Hunter fared poorly in the future, he could still use them to make a living.
As for Shooting, that went even more without saying.
Free America, gunfights every day.
Every year in America, tens of thousands of people die needlessly in Shootings.
Not to mention this was the America of the fast & furious world; the situation would only be more chaotic.
Learning American Iaijutsu was definitely the right move.
As for the remaining four new skills, Reading was unexpectedly triggered when Hunter was flipping through his predecessor's adult magazines at home.
After later testing, he found that as long as he read books with text and pictures,
and could understand the information in the book, his Reading experience would increase.
Unfortunately, this skill favored more professional books.
It was also quite time-consuming; generally, experience could only be accumulated after Reading an entire book.
Of Hunter's current eighty-some experience points, half were obtained from over forty of his predecessor's collections.
Reading an entire adult magazine only yielded one experience point.
The remaining forty-some points came from two introductory books on motorcycles and Repair.
Comparing the two, it was obvious which one provided more Reading experience.
The Lockpicking Skill was niche, and Hunter hadn't even thought of a use for it yet.
However, since one point of experience could be gained just by constantly picking different locks,
over the past five days, Hunter had visited several hardware stores.
Under the guise of choosing locks, he had tested picking them hundreds of times, which had actually leveled up the skill once.
As for Swimming and Running, those were skills he had accidentally ground out while trying to exercise.
Since they were both practical and could improve physical fitness,
Hunter was very satisfied with these two newly unlocked skills.
Through five days of continuous exploration, he had discovered that with the Proficiency System he had obtained,
regardless of the skill triggered, the lower the skill level, the faster the improvement speed.
This was also why Hunter was able to, in just five short days,
raise the levels of five of the eight triggered skills by one or two levels.
Hunter also discovered that for the skills he triggered,
whether the level went from lv0 to lv1, or from lv1 to lv2,
the rewards for leveling up were the same.
They were always 1 free attribute point plus a 1 cubic meter increase in private space.
And so!
After five days, Hunter had gained a total of 6 free attribute points, and the size of his private space had increased to 7 cubic meters.
Of the 5 free attribute points he had previously obtained, 2 were added to intelligence.
In his previous life, he felt his IQ wasn't quite high enough, and he deeply regretted not being able to get into a good university and take a different path in life.
With a chance to change that in this life, Hunter naturally wanted to be a smart person.
The 2-point increase in intelligence was undoubtedly very noticeable.
After adding them, Hunter quickly felt it.
He began to slowly remember many blurry memories.
Even when Reading books normally,
Especially for highly specialized books, his comprehension efficiency has significantly improved compared to before.
As for the remaining 3 free attribute points, Hunter evenly distributed them among strength, agility, and constitution.
Now, the newly acquired 1 free attribute point.
Hunter added it to endurance without hesitation!
With the addition of that one free attribute point!
He quickly felt that his legs, which had been weak and tired from running five kilometers, were now
instantly filled with new strength!
However, Hunter didn't push himself.
Although he had the system's golden finger, he still knew the principle of 'too much is as bad as too little'.
After resting for about ten minutes, he got up and made sure no one was around.
Hunter quickly retrieved the motorcycle he had stored in his private space.
Then, he rode the motorcycle back to his residence...