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F{h*F5.% V8. Patrol Officer Ranking

A night passed.

February 9th, 10 AM.

“Captain Lin.”

“Good morning, Captain Lin.”

“I heard Captain Lin achieved another great success yesterday, and you are going to be promoted to a Level 2 Patrol Officer soon, right?”

“Is Captain Lin going to become a full Captain next month?”

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After arriving at the precinct, the greetings Lin Qing received from both the patrol officers and the various departments were no longer as enthusiastic as before.

Enthusiasm often occurs among people of similar ranks, but for those many levels above, it’s more about respect and fear.

The patrol system placed the most emphasis on personal strength and achievements.

Strong abilities, and repeated meritorious deeds.

Having only recently taken office as a patrol officer, he had already performed such meritorious services.

Many people realized…

In just two short months, this Deputy Captain had already soared to a height where they had to look up to see him.

Consequently, their attitudes in his presence naturally became more restrained and careful.

Although Lin Qing himself felt it was unnecessary, after the news spread, the contrastingly distant restraint shown by his colleagues truly left him with no recourse.

Fortunately, he had always been accustomed to being alone and had little private social life.

Moreover, there was one person whose attitude was actually growing closer…

“Captain, your ranking has risen!”

In the captain’s office, Zhao Jiayi had originally been lazing on the sofa like a cat, but she suddenly sat up, staring at her mobile phone with a gossipy expression.

“Ah?” Lin Qing was slightly startled, “What ranking?”

“The ranking of the Patrol Officers in Lin’an City.”

Zhao Jiayi blinked her azure eyes, “Someone ranked the seventeen patrol officers across the twelve districts of Lin’an City according to strength, and you, Lin Qing, have risen from NO.17 to NO.9!”

“I’ve told you many times to address people by their official titles during work.”

Lin Qing casually threw out a quip before continuing, “Who made this ranking? Jumping straight from NO.17 to NO.9? Is it that high?”

“A mysterious person with the platform ID ‘Even a Dog Passing By Must Be Ranked,'” Zhao Jiayi looked closely, “everyone calls him ‘Ranking Bro’.”

She then held up her phone to show him, “Look, when Ranking Bro ranked you, the comments were very conservative. They said that you alone could wipe out the Yuanhong Society’s Underground Boxing Arena, so at the very least NO.9 is justified, and it’s quite normal for you to rise a few more places.”

“Who are the top three?” Lin Qing asked curiously.

“NO.3 is Wang Xin’an.”

Zhao Jiayi read from her phone, “It seems he has already mastered all five Combat Skills of the Five Elements Series, and he was naturally born with great strength.”

“All the Combat Skills of the Five Elements Series?” Lin Qing raised an eyebrow slightly.

The more Combat Skills mastered, the stronger the ability and the fewer the weaknesses.

Once the entire series is mastered, there are basically no flaws at all, just different focuses on different series.

This NO.3, Wang Xin’an, probably had stronger skills than him at present.

After all, he had only been confirmed for two months and had learned only three Combat Skills. Though he had reached the Instinct Level with all of them, the power enhancement was just equivalent to an entire series of Combat Skills, not to mention that the other party was also naturally very strong.

“NO.2 is Zhang Shuhui.”

Zhao Jiayi read the introduction on her phone, “Besides mastering an entire series of Combat Skills, it seems one of the Combat Skills has even reached the Instinct Level, and he has mastered another series’ Combat Skill. Ranking Bro says this person’s talent for Combat Skills is very high; he achieved Instinct Level with one Combat Skill within just three years.”

Reading this, she couldn’t help but look at Lin Qing.

Lin Qing knew what she was looking at, and said helplessly, “Don’t look at me, tell me about the first place.”

“Oh…”

After chatting with her father last night, Zhao Jiayi really wanted to lay things out with Lin Qing, but she was somewhat embarrassed and didn’t know how to start, and Lin Qing didn’t seem to be inquiring.

“NO.1 is called Xu Qiu.”

Zhao Jiayi made a surprised noise as she read, “This person is a woman too, just like you, Captain, she has mastered the Combat Skills of the Free Body series.”

“She’s the first just by mastering one series of Combat Skills?” Lin Qing couldn’t help saying, “Could it be that she…”

“Yes, she must have mastered the Original Sunrise Training Method,” Zhao Jiayi nodded.

“No wonder,” Lin Qing realized.

After mastering a series of Combat Skills, unless one has cultivated a Combat Skill to the Instinct Level, even learning new Combat Skills wouldn’t make a significant improvement to one’s strength.

But the difference between the Original Sunrise Training Method and the Version 77 Sunrise Training Method was substantial.

“Isn’t this NO.1’s strength almost at the level of a Patrol Chief?” Lin Qing couldn’t help but click his tongue in amazement.

There are two requirements for promotion from Patrol Officer to Patrol Chief.

First, strength.

One must master the Original Sunrise Training Method and control a series of Combat Skills.

Second, merit.

One must have accumulated six instances of Second-class Merit or one instance of First-class Merit.

Considering this, NO.1 from the Lin’an city’s Patrol Officers is only short of merit to be promoted to Patrol Chief.

In terms of strength, this Xu Qiu is probably not far off from the fugitive on Qinghu Island.

It’s just that she’s not as hidden in strength as Yuan Anping.

“This Xu Qiu is quite talented,” Zhao Jiayi said, “I heard from Brother Dog Rankings that she’s only twenty-two this year.”

“That is indeed quite a talent,” Lin Qing nodded.

Seeing him say this, Zhao Jiayi couldn’t help but add, “Compared to you, Captain, these people are far behind.”

Lin Qing gave her a helpless glance and said, “Don’t spread that around.”

“I know,” Zhao Jiayi immediately covered her mouth and nodded.

“Alright, I’m going out for a bit.”

Lin Qing glanced at the time and immediately left the office, heading down the path to the second floor where the Combat Skills were studied.

Soon after, having passed the identification check and going through the elevator and the passageway, Lin Qing once again entered the secret chamber to study Combat Skills.

“Lin Qing, what brings you here today?”

That slightly hoarse voice spoke, “The headquarters record says you’ve accomplished a great feat these past few days, but the merits have not been verified and issued yet, so you can’t learn Combat Skills.”

Merit verification and completion of the entire process would take at least a week.

Lin Qing shook his head slightly and said, “I’m not here to learn Combat Skills, I just have something I wanted to consult with headquarters.”

“Go ahead,” that hoarse voice said.

Lin Qing slowly said, “I want to understand more about the Super Sensing Liquid.”

“Super Sensing Liquid?”

That hoarse voice sighed, “It seems you’ve encountered difficulties in cultivating the Original Sunrise Training Method, right… The first step of the Original Sunrise Training Method is troublesome, and no one can tell when they might sense the Mysterious Energy from outside.”

He paused, “Indeed, Super Sensing Liquid can help you, but after all, it is produced by Intelligent Star Group. The headquarters have no channels for it, and the higher-ups might get it from the urban circle, but they would prioritize people the higher-ups value. Plus, there’s also a long waitlist, so there’s really nothing that can be done.”@@novelbin@@

Lin Qing fell silent for a moment and said, “Could you send me the detailed information on Super Sensing Liquid?”

“Detailed information?”

That hoarse voice said, “That’s possible; however, since it’s produced by Intelligent Star Group, no scientific research institute around the world has been able to replicate it. It’s very difficult to analyze.”

“I just want to understand it a bit,” Lin Qing shook his head.

“You do have the access permissions, so you can look at it right here.”

Following that hoarse voice, a large amount of data was projected onto the wall in front of Lin Qing.

Apart from usage methods, potential side effects, and symptoms that might occur, it included methods of verifying the authenticity of Super Sensing Liquid!

“As I thought, there is…” Lin Qing felt a rush of excitement, quickly read through it and memorized the information, then said, “Alright, that’s it for me. I’ll come back to learn new Combat Skills once the merit is awarded.”

After leaving the secret chamber, he went straight to the laboratory to borrow some chemicals.

“As long as the Super Sensing Liquid is confirmed to be genuine, I can have the injection today.”

Lin Qing quickened his pace, his heart full of anticipation.