Orderly tyrant

"In the future, if you have any tasks, come and ask me first, and I'll help you check them out."

Chen Yanan sat on the hospital bed and instructed, "Later, I'll summarize some key points and precautions about patrol work and send them to you. Read them carefully and keep them in mind."

Lin Qing nodded, feeling a long-lost warmth in his heart.

For people in the apocalypse, care, love, and family are all luxuries. He hadn't felt them for a long time, and he didn't reject them.

Even if all betrayals have their price, human nature shouldn't be tested.

The warmth and coldness of human relationships are normal. It's enough to stay awake.

"You're following Team Two's Team Leader Han, right?" Chen Yanan asked.

"Yes," Lin Qing asked, "What kind of person is Team Leader Han?"

"Han Linsong is a good person."

Chen Yanan said, "He has severe OCD and is a bit rigid, emphasizing rules. However, he's also fair and upright. Following him, you won't find any easy money, but at least you don't have to worry about him playing tricks, and he won't take credit for your achievements. I'm very relieved about that."

Lin Qing raised his eyebrows slightly.

He had heard that patrol work sometimes offered opportunities for easy money, such as searching casinos and nightclubs, inevitably touching on sensitive illegal areas. To avoid trouble, those in charge would give some 'tribute,' which was normal.

Of course, even if there was easy money, it had nothing to do with temporary patrolmen, so he had only heard about it.

"No wonder..."

Lin Qing suddenly frowned and said, "No wonder the guy surnamed Xiao specifically assigned me to Team Two. It seems he doesn't want me to make easy money?"

He looked at Chen Yanan and said, "Is the guy surnamed Xiao worried that I'll make money to pay for your leg treatment?"

Chen Yanan nodded slightly and said, "In the past, I had lofty goals and didn't care about small gains, not wanting to delay my career, so I didn't accept much tribute, and my savings aren't much."

She sighed, "Now is when I need money the most. That guy surnamed Xiao is probably worried that you'll take advantage of this time to make easy money and raise money for me to buy a better mechanical prosthetic."

"If my strength doesn't decline much, his chance of getting promoted will be small," she said with a mocking smile. "But he specifically assigned you to Team Two. With a rigid and upright superior like Team Leader Han, you won't have much easy money to make in the short term."

Lin Qing shook his head slightly.

Xiao Peidong, a shameless person, was indeed very scheming.

"It doesn't matter."

Chen Yanan said indifferently, "The guy surnamed Xiao is overthinking it. Including rest and preparation, I'll need a prosthetic surgery in at most two or three months. Even if you were allowed to make easy money as a newly promoted patrolman, how much money could you raise in two or three months?"

She reached out and patted the back of Lin Qing's hand, "Being able to stay in Han Linsong's team is already the best outcome."

"However..."

Lin Qing frowned slightly and said, "What if I could raise more money? Maybe I could really get you a better mechanical prosthetic?"

"Don't think too much," Chen Yanan shook her head. "The family's savings, plus my work injury insurance and disability allowance, are about two million. Your brother asked his classmate in the metropolitan area, and this money can already buy the Dawn Group's G21L mechanical prosthetic and spare energy."

"And the higher-end G53 series mechanical prosthetics start at least five or six million."

She shook her head and said, "Even if you're capable, raising another million or so in two or three months, spending so much more money will only make the battery life and other aspects better. There's no qualitative change in performance, so it's completely unnecessary, do you understand?"

Lin Qing nodded slightly.

It was just an idea. If he could raise enough, he would definitely help as much as possible.

"It's good that you understand."

Chen Yanan looked at him with relief, "You've grown up."

She couldn't help but think to herself that she had protected this child too well in the past, not letting him experience much hardship. As soon as something happened to her, he immediately matured a lot.

'It's a different person...' Lin Qing muttered to himself, and then asked, "Sister, do you know how to learn combat skills faster?"

"Besides earning merit, what else can you do?" Chen Yanan glanced at him.

"The escaped prisoner who injured you, what kind of merit would it be if he were caught?" Lin Qing suddenly asked.

Chen Yanan couldn't help but glance at him and said, "Don't go looking for death, kid."

"I'm just asking," Lin Qing shook his head and said, "How could I be so overconfident?"

"That's true..."

Chen Yanan then said, "If that person could be caught, it would definitely be a first-class merit. He's much stronger than me, and he has almost no weaknesses. Even bullets can hardly cause effective damage to him. Even if he's targeted by a concentrated fire, he can escape. I guess only the city bureau's captain, Yuan Anping, can deal with him."

Bullets are hard to deal with?

Upon hearing this, Lin Qing couldn't help but feel a surge of desire.

Isn't this the kind of power he's been pursuing?

Unfortunately, even his cousin, whose strength is not as good as the opponent's, is far inferior to him.

"Merit..."

Chen Yanan pondered for a while and suddenly said, "How about this? I still have two unused third-class merits under my name. I'll apply to transfer them to you. If you get another third-class merit, you can also try to learn a combat skill."

"Merit can be transferred?" Lin Qing asked in surprise.

Chen Yanan nodded and said, "Third-class merit can be transferred, but honorary commendations and file records cannot be transferred, so they can't be used to promote ranks, but substantive rewards involving merit exchange can still be transferred."

She said with some regret, "However, the eight third-class merits and two second-class merits I've earned over the years have all been used to try to learn combat skills."

"Then sister, haven't you learned six combat skills?" Lin Qing couldn't help but ask.

Three third-class merits to learn one, one second-class merit to learn two combat skills.

After learning six combat skills, Chen Yanan's merits added up, leaving exactly two third-class merits.

"Six skills?"

Chen Yanan couldn't help but glance at him and said, "These are just six chances to try to learn, how is it possible to learn just by trying? After trying six times, I only have three combat skills that I've mastered, and only two that I've really delved into."

"So hard to learn?" Lin Qing asked with interest.

"Of course it's difficult. The patrol bureau's inventory has four series of combat skills, a total of twenty-three, there's always one you can master, it depends on your luck."

Chen Yanan said, "My luck is considered very good, I only tried six combat skills, and three of them were successfully mastered. If you encounter bad luck, maybe none of the ten combat skills will be mastered."

Lin Qing suddenly understood.

He wasn't worried, he could learn combat skills after completing the fourth and sixth edition of the Chaoyang Training Method.

"I'll give you my two third-class merits."

Chen Yanan glanced at Lin Qing and said, "You still need one more third-class merit, figure out a way to get it yourself."

"I'll do it myself," Lin Qing nodded.

She had already reduced the difficulty for him by more than half, which was already very good.

"Your marksmanship is good, isn't it?"

Chen Yanan instructed, "Get promoted to a third-level patrol officer as soon as possible, then you'll be qualified to carry a gun."

Lin Qing nodded.

Soon, if everything goes well, maybe it'll be this month.

...

After leaving the hospital, Lin Qing was too lazy to go to school anyway. Since he was going to follow the patrol system, whether or not he took the college entrance exam wasn't that important.

He went home all the way.

After eating a cheap but not-so-tasty lunch, Lin Qing began to practice the fourth and sixth editions of the Chaoyang Training Method to 'repay his debt'.

He only needed to practice perfectly 65 times to complete it, which didn't seem like much.

However, after practicing only once, Lin Qing realized that something was wrong.