The World of American Drama: From the Los Angeles Patrol

Chapter 125
There is a place called "Invisible Valley" in Joshua Tree National Park. There are more than a dozen rocky cliffs with different levels of difficulty. It is a paradise for rock climbers and known as one of the top ten holy places for rock climbing.

Jack parked his car at a nearby campsite, put on a backpack full of climbing ropes, pitons and other equipment, and went up to one of the ten-meter-high rocky cliffs from the side.

Jack is not a rock climbing enthusiast. He came to do experiments. After the system update, the entire skill panel changed drastically. The three skill trees really became densely packed trees.

Under the original professional skills tree, a lot of large icons have been added, such as vehicle driving, and a bunch of small icons are added when you click on it, which are ground vehicles, water vehicles, and air vehicles.

Then click on the ground vehicle, there are two smaller icons, small vehicle, large vehicle, his original driving skill (proficiency) has now become a small vehicle (proficiency), and behind the icon of a large vehicle is only displayed ( getting Started).

Then click on the surface vehicle, it is also a small ship (introductory), the icon of a large ship is simply gray, and I don’t know if the aircraft carrier is considered a large ship in the system
Aerial vehicles are even more outrageous. They are simply divided into two types: fixed-wing and rotary-wing. Although they are all gray icons, Jack really can’t drive them, but he can drive electric fans with propellers and jets. Are they both fixed-wing?Is the space shuttle Buran a fixed wing?
Thankfully, like forensic science, the system of psychology has not been branched out. Otherwise, when you think of the dozens of forensic science, such as trace evidence, footprint analysis, fingerprint identification, etc., and the micro-expression analysis of psychology, Psychological evaluation, behavioral analysis, etc., all kinds of things, Jack can pass out on the spot.

However, the benefits of this upgrade are not without. For example, the skill system that was not mastered was never displayed, but now it is indicated with a gray icon, and a small progress bar appears under all skill icons.

For example, since Jack has upgraded to proficient, he has never had a static rifle shooting technique. Now all shooting skills are classified as combat skills under professional skills.

Combat skills are divided into three categories, shooting, fighting and special skills. Among them, the shooting branch, Jack is currently a pistol (proficient), a rifle (proficient), and a crossbow (beginner). Interestingly, the progress bar under his rifle skills has already full.

The reason why Jack came to rock climbing was because there were a bunch of gray skills under the special skills, one of which was climbing.

He read a few professional books on rock climbing and rope climbing last night. Although the climbing skills are still gray, the progress bar is already full.

By observing the progress bars of different skill icons, he roughly had some guesses in his mind, and he came here today to verify.

Jack laid three pitons on the top of the rocky cliff, and then tried to recall in his mind the figure-of-eight tacking method he learned from the book, tied a safety rope for himself, and first descended to the bottom of the cliff by cable, and then went down to the bottom of the cliff by cable. Drive two pitons.

Then he started to try rock climbing with bare hands. There is no difficulty at all. When a person can easily lift himself up with only one or two fingers, the rest only needs enough patience and care.

When Jack returned to the top of the cliff, among the system skills, the climbing skill was indeed upgraded to entry level, and the experience bar was still full. He set his sights on another rocky cliff more than 30 meters high not far away.

This rock cliff is very big, and there is a rock climbing team consisting of five people, three men and two women, who are preparing for work on the top of the cliff. Seeing Jack coming up from one side, two blond girls with good faces and fit bodies in the team directly approached him. She winked.

The daytime temperature in the Mojave Desert in May can be close to 5 degrees, so Jack only wore a pair of close-fitting knee-high hiking pants, and his bare upper body showed amazing muscle lines.

Compared with those Onsa who are desperately trying to peel off their skin and want to get a tan, Jack is still very satisfied with his ivory skin. Anyway, he can't get a tan even if he wants to, and he saves on sunscreen.

Smiling politely back, Jack passed by the team and chose the area where the cliff protrudes outwards, which should be the most difficult.

It is still the same as before, nailing and hanging safety ropes, but Jack has more tools such as rock plugs, mechanical plugs, and rock hooks on his waist.

After successfully descending to the bottom of the cliff, Jack started the second round of climbing, which was much more difficult this time, especially when he reached the protruding part of the rock wall. Brutely relying on brute force, the whole process was completed.

Just as Jack climbed up the rock wall with difficulty, a slightly calloused hand was stretched out in front of him. When he looked up, the older-looking one of the two blond girls just now was standing in front of him.

"Thank you."

Jack took her hand and took advantage of the momentum to get up.

"My name is Natasha, and I'm an international student at the University of California, from Moscow." The blond girl's accent was a bit heavy, with a little flick of the tongue.

"My name is Jack Tavole, just call me Jack."

The language tree in the system skill tree has also been updated, probably because there are too many types of languages, and there is no way to list them all, but there are also more than 60 densely packed, most of them are gray at present. Some time ago, someone brushed Italian and Latin proficient After that, I happen to be currently brushing Russian and have just reached the entry level.

Unable to bear the itch, Jack greeted directly in Russian: "Zdrastvi (hello)."

Natasha showed a pleasant smile, and then a large paragraph of Russian came out of her mouth. At this time, the awesomeness of the system was reflected. Although it was only an entry-level mastery level, he could basically understand it. He just answered When I was a beginner, I was a little stuttering, and my tongue-playing imitation was not very good.

After some conversation, Jack learned that the younger one was Natasha's younger sister, Thalia, who came from a relatively wealthy family and studied well. She is currently studying at the University of California, LA. Both of them are rock climbing enthusiasts. The professional kind.

Knowing that Jack's job is a policeman, and this time he is taking a road trip alone on vacation, Natasha could not hide her envy in her eyes.

Jack didn't think much about it. The system reminded him that his climbing skills had been upgraded again, and he was proficient now, but this time the experience bar was no longer full, only half of it was left.

Taking the opportunity of chatting, he asked Natasha for some rock climbing knowledge, and found that the experience bar had risen a little, which basically confirmed his conjecture.

There are hidden conditions for upgrading system skills, such as climbing skills, which should be divided into two parts: theory and practice. In the future, you can't get started by just reading theoretical knowledge, and you need to do enough practice to finally upgrade the level.

(End of this chapter)