America: The Gear-Up Detective

"Her husband died in a hotel room."

Upon hearing this, Rod instinctively assumed it was another old-fashioned case of a wife calling for help to catch her husband cheating in a hotel, which resulted in injury or death.

Dalton sighed and then said:

"Detective Evan, you may have some recollection of this case."

A year ago, there was a case of sudden death in a hotel, and you were the detective who responded at the time.

Speaking of this, Evan, who had been silent, stroked his gray beard and recalled briefly, "There was such a case. At first, we thought it was a sudden death in a hotel, but then various accidents happened. Because we lacked many clues, the case was temporarily shelved."

"It's been put on hold, but the deceased's wife, the lady from earlier, has been appealing to the police station, demanding that we investigate again. So..."

The shelving of the case means that the investigation has reached a stalemate, with no new leads to follow and no suspects to identify.

If there is no major breakthrough in clues or evidence, most cases that are shelved will be forgotten. If someone remembers or finds them more than ten years later, they will only think of them as another unsolved case.

Just as Dalton was explaining the situation.

【Ding! 】

[Mission Update: Sudden Death in a Locked Room? Mysterious Death? Or the Perfect Crime?]

This case, which has baffled even experienced detectives, seems to conceal some hidden secret. A reward will be given for solving it.

[Mission Reward: Hidden.]

[Note: The hidden quest reward is for...]

As Dalton and Evan listened to their conversation, the system, which had been somewhat active recently, popped up a message notification.

Another task update.

Instead of asking the two for more information, Rhodes followed Connor and Evan back to their office on the second floor, sat down, and began to mutter to himself.

"System, display panel."

Name: Rod Lee

Age: 25

[Height/Weight: 186/83.7]

[Position: Detective (Murder and Heist Division)]

【property:

Strength: 10.3 (+1)

Agility: 9.9 (+1)

Constitution: 9.0 (+1)

Spirit: 12.6 (+2)

Luck: 13

(Note 1: The average value of the attributes of healthy males is 10, and the extreme value is 20.)

(Note 2: Luck is a special attribute and cannot be increased by adding attribute points. Furthermore, the luck value of the same person will fluctuate at different times and is not fixed. The daily luck value is 10.)

【Equipment slots (2/2):】

1. Detective Badge: Remember kid, LAPD is just a job!

Your physical fitness has been enhanced in all aspects, with all attributes increasing by 1.

Passive skill: Increases efficiency by 20% when performing physical training.

2. Glasses full of love: The daughter's concern for her father's eyes is all contained in these sunglasses.

After equipping, it can provide 50% immunity to strong light stimulation, improve dynamic vision by 20%, strengthen eye muscles, improve eyesight, and increase mental alertness by 1.

Active skills:

1. Scan: After activating the skill, you will have an unforgettable memory, and while the skill is active, you will be able to observe subtle details that are invisible to ordinary people.

2. Virtual Imaging: Based on images/text that the user has read or memorized, a specific environmental scene can be generated on the retina. The more detailed the content and the more nuanced the details, the more realistic the generated scene will be.

(Note: The duration of active skill activation is determined by the Spirit attribute.)

[Available Experience Points: 31]

【技能：汉语lv3、英语lv4、厨艺lv2、手枪射击lv3、警用擒拿lv2、交配lv3……】

The second piece of equipment, [Glasses Full of Love], has been successfully equipped into the equipment slot.

In my field of vision, Anna, whose fingers were flying across the keyboard not far away, seemed to have slowed down her hand movements; Jackson, who was on the phone, also seemed to have calmed down his rapidly moving mouth.

No, it's not that they've slowed down; it's that their dynamic vision has improved, making them appear slower.

Looking at my palm, even from a distance of thirty or forty centimeters, the lines and even the fingerprints on my palm are clearly visible.

Before this, Rhodes could only clearly see the lines on his palm when he brought it close to his eyes.

The sudden upgrade caused Rhode a brief period of discomfort, but fortunately, the sunglasses also improved Rhode's mental attributes. After a short while, Rhode adapted to the new perspective.

However, the immunity to 50% of strong light stimulation cannot be tested for the time being, unless someone throws a flashbang in front of Rhodes.

But the added benefit of dynamic vision alone makes this equipment very useful.

In the United States, a country where gun ownership is legal, most suspects will attempt to attack with a gun. The enhanced dynamic vision allows Rhodes to react before the other party makes a move to fire, making him a life-saving skill.

"It seems that for future attribute point allocation, we should prioritize agility."

In addition to increasing speed and agility, the Agility attribute also enhances one's neural reaction ability. Combined with dynamic vision, this is the complete life-saving skill!

In addition, the 【Glasses Full of Love】 comes with two active skills.

One is "scanning," which is essentially a simplified version of photographic memory.

Rhodes quickly picked up the files on the table, activated his skill, and his eyes felt a little swollen. On the panel, his mental attribute was also slowly decreasing.

Half a minute later, Rhode quickly flipped through a dozen pages of documents, then deactivated his skill and closed his eyes to recall.

I discovered that the text that appeared in my mind was exactly the same as the text on the document!

Keep in mind, this is over ten pages of English documents in just one minute!

"I see. The key to this skill is scanning, which means speed! You can remember things at a glance, not just text, but also details in a scene, like the lip movements Hank made while typing, or how many times Jackson smacked his cheeks while drinking coffee!"

No wonder the skill is called Scan, instead of the more straightforward Photographic Memory.

I glanced at my spirit attribute; the skill activation took half a minute and consumed some spirit.

"In other words, based on my current mental strength of 12.6, the [Scan] skill can only be activated for about six minutes at most."

Not bad. Six minutes is enough to flip through even a hundred-page academic paper.

There's also skill 2, which now has a detailed skill description.

"It seems that this skill generates a virtual 3D environment simulation based on the input image or text?"

It seems that these two skills can be used together.

Skill 1: Scan text images; Skill 2: Generate a corresponding 3D scene based on the scanned text images?

It seems to be a more specialized skill, but the office is not a safe place to explore this skill.

Rhodes temporarily put skill 2 aside.

I looked at the updated task, which is also the second task introduction in the system so far.

[Mission Update: Sudden Death in a Locked Room? Mysterious Death? Or the Perfect Crime?]

Based on the brief conversation between Evan and Dalton downstairs just now, this case occurred a year ago.

The detective in charge of the case was Evan, who initially chose to classify the death as sudden death, but for various reasons, he rejected his conclusion and temporarily shelved the case.

What could be causing even the experienced veteran detective Evan to look troubled?

There is no further information in the mission description.

"But thinking in reverse, since the system has given a task prompt, then the deceased, no, the victim, could not have died suddenly."

Therefore, there must be a murderer in this case!

The problem is, even the experienced Evan couldn't do anything about it, and even had to put the case on hold, so what can I do?