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Chapter 5 Invitation

After finishing the learning activities of the Mathematical Olympiad group, Locke returned to the single dormitory he was assigned with the books borrowed from the library.

The environment of the school is good, and the surrounding public security, transportation, leisure, shopping and other aspects are very good. After entering high school at the age of 16, Locke chose to live in school and left the orphanage completely.

The layout of the dormitory is similar to a one-bedroom, one-bathroom single-person apartment, with an area of ​​about 30 square meters, which is enough for Locke at this stage.

Washed up, changed, and hung up the school uniform. Locke sat down first, reached out and took out a book, and rubbed the cover carefully, but saw that it said "Introduction to Judo", which was a modern print.

After opening the cover and looking at it for about five or six seconds, a translucent dialog box appeared in front of Locke's eyes, whether to learn the skill: Judo.

"Yes!"

"Fighting: Judo has been learned, the current level is elementary, and the proficiency will increase with the improvement of the skill level."

Next, he directly launched the skill fighting technique: judo, and countless images spontaneously emerged in his mind, and countless images flashed before his eyes, and his hands couldn't help but feel ready to move.

After closing his eyes for a moment, Locke took a closer look at the system prompts and the attribute panel, and found that the basic attributes had not changed in the slightest.

It wasn't too surprising for Locke. When he first learned boxing skills, Locke received a reward of +1 for strength and physique. When he was promoted to the intermediate level, the reward was doubled, and he also added a little charm.

But when I was learning Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, I added 2 points of agility and 1 point of charm when I was promoted to the intermediate level. This may be a mechanism for the system to prevent players from using repeated skills to brush their attributes.

The potential points he earned before were basically invested in intelligence, and the improvement of other attributes was mostly due to his own training and the growth of attributes attached to skills.

Now that the intelligence attribute is enough for the time being, Locke is going to use his skills to refresh his physical attributes.

He took out the second book, Introduction to Muay Thai.

The dozen or so books he prepared this time were all fighting-related books. Compared with mathematics and physics, which the system did not recognize, and science subjects that could only be learned by oneself, fighting skills were obviously skills that the system could read and recognize.

Most of these are printed materials. For ordinary people, without a teacher to teach them, it is almost impossible to learn related skills from these introductory books alone. However, the existence of the system allows Locke to quickly learn a lot of fighting skills.

After reading six or seven books in this way, the system suddenly popped up a prompt: "I found that the player has multiple fighting skills, do you want to combine the skills?"

"Can it still be like this?"

Locke was slightly taken aback. It seems that this system is quite intelligent, and skills of the same type can be integrated.

He directly chose to agree, and the system immediately prompted: generate the skill Comprehensive Martial Arts (Elementary), plus 1 point for strength, agility, physique, and charm.

"Wow, there are unexpected gains." Locke showed a smile on his face, and then finished the rest of the books, and a thick stack of books was integrated into mixed martial arts.

At last, he recalled the various actions in his mind, stood up, and started to fight against the sandbag hanging in the center of the dormitory.

After a few clicks, I got another reminder: MMA experience +1.

Locke felt relieved, and punched and kicked the sandbag in front of him again, vigorously, seeing the experience +1 again, he felt a little joy in his heart.

He concentrated on practicing, and soon the system prompted one after another
Mixed martial arts experience +1;

Mixed martial arts experience +3;

Mixed martial arts experience +1;

The early experience of this system was gained quite quickly. After a few hours, Locke's mixed martial arts was upgraded to the intermediate level, and the special ability meditation battle was currently activated. The character's strength, agility, constitution +4, and charisma +5.

Obviously, the improvement of the attribute of mixed martial arts is higher than other fighting skills, and it is more comprehensive.

However, according to the law of skill improvement, it is easy to upgrade to the intermediate level, but it is not so simple to upgrade to the advanced level.

In the past, just hitting the sandbag casually could add 1 point of experience, but in the future, you may seriously hit it for five or six minutes to get the same effect.

In addition to doubling the experience required for leveling up, it may be very difficult to raise mixed martial arts to an advanced level in a short period of time. What interests him now is the extra meditation battles.

But before Locke tried it, the phone in the dormitory rang.

It was the principal who called: "Locke, I think you should have seen our school's new little genius."

"Yes, Peggy has left a deep impression on me, a talent like her is not often seen."

"It seems that you get along well. Peggy's parents heard about you and want to invite you to their house."

"A guest?"

"Yes, the Swansons heard that you beat Peggy in mathematics, so they want to invite you to his house for dinner tonight."

"Can I refuse?" Locke felt that he was in trouble.

"You are a smart boy Locke. The addition of a talented girl like Peggy is very important to our school."

Public high schools in the United States implement happy education, while elite education is aimed at two kinds of people, the main body is the children of families above the middle class, and the other is the real genius among the common people, who serve as fresh blood to replenish the vitality of the elite.

The high teaching quality of private high schools is mainly supported by donations and expensive tuition fees. Whether you want to receive a large amount of donations or persuade parents to send their children to their own schools, the most important thing is that the school's teaching performance is still high. There is honor.

The addition of a genius is good for both of these points, and can even be used to promote the school's reputation, so Peggy is now the school's treasure.

"Okay, I'll go." Now Locke's tuition and living expenses depend on the school's scholarships and bursaries, so he naturally doesn't want to leave a bad impression on the school for such a trivial matter.

"Very good, can the time be tomorrow night? The address of Swanson's house is... Do you want me to go with you?"

"No, but if possible, I might be able to give Mr. Swanson a ride." Locke recalled the map. Their home is not close to the school. The United States can test a driver's license at the age of 16. Although Locke has a driver's license, but no car.

"No problem, I think the Swansons should be happy to communicate with you more." The principal smiled and said, "You, like Peggy, are a valuable asset to our school."

After school in the afternoon, it was Peggy's mother Linda who came to pick her up.

"Nice to meet you, Mrs. Swanson."

"It's nothing, just call me Linda." Perhaps because of Locke's super charm, Linda seemed to have a good impression of Locke and acted very enthusiastically: "I heard about you at school, and the teachers said that you It's a genius."

"It's nothing, it's not as good as Peggy. When I was her age, I was still in primary school."

"Oh, but I heard Peggy say that Bell you were talking about with Peggy..."

"It's Bell's inequality, a powerful mathematical inequality proposed by Bell in 1964, under the dual assumptions of locality and reality..."

"..." These words made Linda feel like Peggy's usual words. Fortunately, she was used to Peggy's usual words, so she quickly filtered out the words that she didn't understand at all.

"So where are you from, Locke?"

"I don't know, I grew up in Gavill Orphanage."

"I'm sorry." Linda thought she had guessed why Locke had such a high IQ, but he didn't skip a grade like his daughter.

"It's nothing, the teachers in the orphanage are very kind to me, I like the dinner made by Miss Heather..."

Locke came up with his usual answer. In fact, life in the orphanage is not good. Although the United States has formulated strict regulations on the protection of minors, there are many incidents in the orphanage.

His experience is not bad, at most, the manager will beat and scold children who are not pleasing to the eye, and occasionally he may be fined for not having dinner or something.

Fortunately, Locke is mature and knows how to please the manager. In addition, relying on the system, he avoided various punishments and was not bullied by other children of the same age.

As for being isolated by other children who think they have weird personalities, a mature-minded person naturally doesn't care. It is really difficult for reborn people to get along with these children.

(End of this chapter)