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Chapter 9

The upgrade of system skills allows Locke to quickly understand fighting skills, but to use them requires physical cooperation and relevant actual combat experience.

After all, this is not a game, and it can be used perfectly after being learned. In reality, the cooperation of the body is needed after the skill is learned, and it also requires people to choose and judge how to use it.

There is also psychological quality. It was not just that his skills were rusty just now. In the face of the enemy's moves, Locke, who had been punching according to the routine at most before, was obviously flustered and his movements became stiff.

Without judging the opponent's position, he shot recklessly, thus revealing more obvious flaws, and was hit by the opponent in an instant.

Obviously, many skills don't just increase the skill level and everything will be fine. The reality is not a simple game, but also requires more practice and more actual combat experience. He is still far behind.

Thinking of this, Locke couldn't help rubbing his neck again. Although he knew that the meditation battle would not have any effect on the body, the feeling of trauma at that moment still made Locke feel a dull pain in his neck at this time.

After slowing down, Locke regained his composure and chose to do it again, feeling that he couldn't be so embarrassingly killed in seconds.

I have continued to do it many times, until I feel a little dizzy and lack of energy, I pack up and close my eyes to rest and recover from the mental loss.

After his spirit calmed down a little, Locke didn't continue. He glanced at the system panel first, and found that his experience in mixed martial arts had improved a lot, which was much faster than simply punching sandbags.

It can be said that the effect is remarkable, but the mental pressure is not small, making Locke a little drowsy at this time, and he knows that this is a manifestation of excessive mental consumption.

In the next few days, Locke continued to indulge in meditation battles, each time stopping until he felt mentally tired.

And after trying it, he found that meditation combat can not only be used to improve mixed martial arts, but also can be used to train other combat skills.

Such as shooting training.

It is said that Happy Millikin shoots every day, but Locke still hasn't touched a real gun. His intermediate shooting skills are learned by reading shooting books and holding toy guns.

Although it was a bit funny, it was so easy to brush skills at the beginning, but during the meditation battle, Locke was often headshot before he saw the opponent.

The alarm clock rang at five o'clock in the morning, and Locke groaned, barely restraining himself from smashing the alarm clock and sat up.

Studying is very hard, and many people are unwilling to endure this hardship, and life is also very bitter, but many people can endure that hardship. To put it bluntly, it is inertia.

Learning requires you to take the initiative to suffer, but the suffering of life has no choice, passive bearing, no choice.

Locke understands this truth, so he will work hard to overcome his inertia and take the initiative to bear the pain of learning.

Fortunately, IQ has almost improved now, and learning is basically one-time learning without pointing. This aspect can bring more sense of accomplishment, but physical fitness needs to be strengthened.

Especially with such a convenient method of meditation warfare, various combat skills will also start to be developed. After all, the United States is really far behind the Eastern State in terms of security, and there is no harm in practicing more skills.

These all need to spend a lot of time, especially the meditation battle. It takes a deep sleep to recover after using it a few times. 15 minutes of deep sleep can restore most of the mental and physical strength.

The original evening study time was moved to the morning, and Locke could always be seen on the school playground at night. After enough physical exercise, a meditation battle began, taking turns with each other.

With some difficulty, he folded the quilt and put it back in the closet. Locke only felt that his thighs, arms, wrists, fingers, and neck were all sore, which was probably the aftereffect of yesterday's excessive exercise.

He moved to the bathroom with crabbed steps, washed up, and then came to the desk and started to study.

When the time was almost up, Locke carried his schoolbag and came to the teaching building. He first went to the office of the college application counselor.

In the United States, the matter of going to college is actually prepared from the moment you first enter college.

Locke hasn't decided which university to go to, but he has already confirmed the requirements for entering the university.

With Locke's conditions, excellent grades are naturally an indispensable admission condition if you want to go to universities in the United States, especially those top universities.

But the SAT score is only one of the conditions. There are only so many top universities, and outstanding talents are vying for a limited number of places. If you want to stand out from the many outstanding applicants, you need to consider other aspects comprehensively.

For example, club activities in American high schools, to prove your organizational and leadership skills, or to master some special talents.

Leadership is also a point that these universities value more. Students need to join some clubs and act as leaders in these clubs to lead the clubs to complete some activities.

Special talents cover a wide range, mainly in sports and literature and art.

Sports are rugby, basketball, baseball and other sports. Through these sports, you can prove your overall quality.

And literature and art are all kinds of skills such as music and painting, or the skills of niche sports such as horseback riding and sailing, which are also important standards of measurement. In the previous life, Locke watched the news, and there were students with average grades relying on them Technical expertise in riding into top universities.

If you simply rely on grades, you must be good enough to be dazzling, such as winning medals in large-scale scientific competitions with weight.

Locke must be preparing to enter a top university, otherwise time travel would not be in vain. As soon as he entered high school, Locke joined the Mathematics Olympiad team and the baseball club to prepare for university.

It is calculated that the lottery is still a success. After removing the high tax, the final bonus is more than 28 US dollars, which can be said to be a huge sum of money in this year.

The odds were left, and Locke invested the rest of the funds in the stock market, and Locke divided this part of the money into two parts.

Part of it is placed on the stocks of companies with potential in Locke's impression, and long-term holding is considered a fixed investment.

The other part is used for short-term investment, to seize the opportunities that Locke remembered in his last life.

After getting the money, Locke's first thought was to do it again, but then he stifled this idea, because consecutive winnings were too conspicuous.

One time can also be explained by luck, but if you win consecutive prizes, the issuer will definitely investigate, and Locke's calculation results are likely to be exposed, which will cause a lot of trouble.

At this stage, the money is enough. Even if you do it again, you can’t choose the same lottery ticket again. In this way, you need to recalculate and start all the work from scratch.

The only thing that gives Locke a headache is that the Internet is not yet developed, and investing in stocks still requires contacting stockbrokers by phone, which is a bit poor in terms of timeliness.

In any case, with this capital, Locke's mentality gradually began to relax a little, and he no longer pushed himself so hard like before.

"I heard that this year's Mathematical Olympiad will be held in New York." In the cafeteria at noon, Peggy said: "My mother is considering whether to go with me. She is worried that I will not adapt."

"There is nothing to worry about. The school will arrange the whole process. When I went to your house last time, I heard Barry complain that Linda didn't care too much about him. Why don't you take this opportunity and let the two of them have a chance to travel somewhere?" .”

"This is indeed a good idea." After hearing this, Peggy also felt good. She occasionally wanted to get rid of the shackles of her parents: "I will talk to my mother when I get back. By the way, can you persuade her for me?"

"why?"

"Because my parents think you are a reliable person, if you help, the chances of persuading them will increase a lot."

"This is my job?!"

"That's right." Peggy smiled at Locke.

The day of the Olympiad competition is getting closer and closer. Winning the championship will not only increase the credits, but also get bonuses. After Peggy joins, the bonuses will be further increased.

Because there are very few female geniuses in mathematics, as the equality of men and women in the United States is gradually emerging, many competition organizers have also set that if there are female members among the contestants, the prize money can be doubled after winning.

Of course, in order to avoid someone taking advantage of loopholes, the king wears bronze, and randomly finds a girl to fill up the number, and also made some regulations.

During the preliminaries, there is a part of the competition called death elimination, and both sides can designate members of the other party to participate.

There is no room for cheating in mathematics. After a period of competition, the two sides must have a general understanding of the level of the opponent's players. Once this stage is reached, they basically choose the weakest link of the opponent. At this time, bronze can't be changed. King's.

The addition of Peggy just made up for the lack of female players in the team, and Peggy herself is a king player, the king leads the king, plus Locke himself, he can't think of how to lose.

(End of this chapter)