The real life of an American police officer: Winning over others with virtue

Chapter 189 Road Trip
Early the next morning.

Eric stood at the door, waved to Tifa, who was sitting in her car and looked radiant, and watched her drive away.

Today is the day Tifa is sending her parents and younger brother home.

As for why he's still standing here instead of going with them, it's simply because his future father-in-law is jealous because of what happened yesterday and doesn't want to see him.

The moment the car disappeared from sight, Eric could no longer maintain his composure and instinctively gasped.

He put in a lot of effort yesterday to appease Tifa.

They unleashed their most treasured skills, such as the Dragon Claw Hand, the Thirty-Six Styles, and the Eighteen Moves.

As a result, the price was scratches all over my back, a string of teeth marks on my shoulder, and a rather sore lower back.

Eric pulled down his collar to look over and found that the teeth marks on both shoulders had merged into a line.

God knows how Tifa managed to fill every space on her shoulder with those teeth marks.

"That girl is definitely doing this on purpose." Eric, who was in pain all over his body, couldn't help but grit his teeth and say.

Because of this, he couldn't even wear a vest and could only wear long sleeves to cover up. You should know that in the early summer season, he usually just habitually wears a simple vest to get through the season.

So this was definitely a small punishment for him by Tifa.

Eric could only chuckle, walked to the sofa area and sat down. He silently chanted, and a virtual window appeared before his eyes at will.

[Personal attributes]
Spirit: 15 (average for humans is 10)

Strength: 14 (average for humans is 10)

Agility: 14 (average for humans: 10)

Constitution: 14 (average for humans is 10)
[Skills]: Rapid Fire lv5 (Master), Firearms Mastery lv4 (Expert), Precision Shooting lv5 (Master), Melee Combat lv4 (Expert), Driving Mastery lv4 (Expert), Acting lv4 (Expert), Language lv4 (Expert), [Architecture Analysis] lv1 (Beginner), Hacking lv3 (Proficient), Intelligence Gathering lv3 (Proficient)
Attribute points: +0.5
Completed cases:
“I can take advantage of this free time to deal with this.” Eric looked at his personal panel and stroked his chin.

He got these unprocessed attribute points while doing dirty work with Lei. After thinking about it for a few days, he decided it would be better to add these +0.5 attribute points to his Spirit.

Because when his combat strength met the requirements, Eric suddenly found himself using his mental attributes more and more lately.

It's even related to learning; only when learning ability improves can the skill experience bar be filled up quickly.

Therefore, adding points to the Spirit attribute is a more reliable approach.

Without much thought, Eric, who had already made up his mind, directly added the attribute points that hadn't been processed yet to his Spirit.

A mechanical voice, a system feedback tone, rang in my ears.

[Add points successfully]
[Spirit: 15 to 15.5]
As always, when I allocate points to the Spirit attribute, a refreshing feeling always arises in my mind.

It feels like rubbing Tiger Balm on your temples.

Eric shook his head, which felt cool, and looked at the virtual market in front of him, suddenly sensing a change.

All abilities involving the brain are constantly improving.

In a daze, Eric felt his mind was clearer than ever before.

Everything was now clearly presented in my mind.

The veins are clearly defined, and every detail is vividly shown.

But this unparalleled clarity, like the ability to see through everything, vanished without a trace like fireworks in the sky, never to have appeared again. Eric blinked, took a deep breath, and realized something: "Only when the mental attribute value reaches a certain level can one enter that state?"

Thinking of this, when Eric looked at the virtual window again, he no longer felt the same sense of control he had just felt.

After a moment of silence, Eric shook his head, picked up his laptop from the coffee table, and began planning his route to Boston.

Because of the flight restrictions, he and Tifa decided to drive there themselves.

While we're at it, let's find a place to relax and unwind along the way.

After arriving in Boston, he then returned to Los Angeles to continue working.

It's equivalent to a road trip.

Road trips are a unique form of tourism based on road culture. They are a very popular and well-established form of tourism here, enjoyed by both the wealthy and ordinary people.

Eric remembered that in his previous life, many people in his country also liked this kind of travel, not caring about the destination, but only about the journey itself.

He still remembers that there is a must-drive route on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway 318 between XZ and LS, which attracts countless tourists.

However, Quantico’s main route to Boston is along Interstate 95, heading north.

The route traverses the densely populated East Coast of the United States, and most of the road is highly urbanized or suburbanized, lacking continuous, sparsely populated wilderness mountains or large primeval forests.

However, if you deviate slightly westward and take parallel roads like US-15, you will enter the eastern edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The terrain becomes undulating, the forests become dense, and there are even state parks along the way, such as Sky Meadow State Park, which is a true forest and mountainous area.

Eric quickly found a decent route on the map: from I-95 to the parallel US-15, then into Sky Meadows State Park, and then back to I-95 via the parallel intersection to get to Boston.

Eric thought the plan was perfect; he even found a large lake that was just right for swimming in the summer.

"Not bad." Eric checked the photos online, nodded in satisfaction, tidied up, closed his laptop, packed his things, and went out.

Planning the route is far from enough; he also needs to prepare more for safety.

As a patrolman and an extraterrestrial being, he was well aware of the dark side of things and naturally knew more than ordinary civilians.

According to his understanding, many of the victims in the Los Angeles Police Department’s archives, which have been filled with missing persons cases for many years, were people who lost contact while traveling.

Their preferred mode of travel is often road-based self-driving.

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Sitting in the driver's seat of the Cadillac Escalade ESV that hadn't yet been returned, Eric's mind was filled with countless road movies from his past life.

Murderers, scumbags, all sorts of movies and TV shows flashed through my mind.

This made him, who always felt insecure, subconsciously squeeze the steering wheel, and he started to have the urge to get his hands on some powerful equipment.

For example, heavy weapons such as machine guns, grenades, and grenade launchers.

With all this stuff, he'd even dare to kill a god! Fortunately, reason pulled him back to reality in time.

Eric parked his car on the side of the street, glanced at the gun shop over there, and got out of the car.

For him now, carrying too many guns would be pointless and would only be an unnecessary burden.

(End of this chapter)