Chapter 113
Two o’clock in the afternoon.
Ruidu Community, Luke’s house.
An Audi Q5 was parked in front of the door.
Linda, Fatty, Robert, and Val stepped out of the car.
“Hi my loved ones, welcome to the Rido Community.”
As soon as Val got out of the car, she couldn’t wait to ask, “Luke, I heard you bought a big one.”
“That’s right, it’s inside.” Luke opened the garage door.
“Wow. …… This is what a man should drive.” Val tapped on the door, “Can I take it for a test drive?”
“No,” Luke refused dryly, this big baby he was still fresh and couldn’t afford to let anyone else touch it.
Especially not his unreliable uncle.
The guy spent more time drunk than sober every day.
Luke wouldn’t even have a leg to stand on if he really hit him.
Robert patted his grandson on the shoulder, “Very wise choice, kid.”
Val backed off, “What about your Harley?”
“Don’t even think about it, sent it off for maintenance.”
Not to mention the motorcycle was lost, even if it wasn’t, Luke didn’t dare lend it to him, motorcycles can be more dangerous than cars, what if this one had an accident?
Val grumbled, “What a mean kid, just like your grandpa.”
Linda also looked around, “This car cost 130,000 dollars?”
Luke nodded, “It was a little more expensive, but it was worth it.”
Linda bristled, “Right, next time you can’t afford the rent, you’ll have a place to sleep.”
Luke “……”
“Dude, this car is super cool.” The little fat man was full of excitement, surrounded the car this look, that touch, already can’t wait to go in and sit down.
“I’ll take you for a ride some day.” Luke patted his brother’s shoulder and greeted, “Come on, I’ll show you around the house.”
Robert looked at the grill, “Hey, you’ve got a good eye for a good grill.”
“Sure.” Luke doesn’t usually buy things, if he’s going to buy something, he’s going to buy something good.
Luke gives his family a tour of the house.
Linda looked around the house and nodded with satisfaction, “Nice neighborhood, and the house is okay.”
The climate in Los Angeles is pleasant, with blue, washable skies and a light breeze blowing.
Beer, drinks, and fruit plates were set up in the yard, and the family sat together and chatted.
Fatty and Val got together and circled the Mercedes G500, not knowing what they were doing.
Robert was fiddling with the grill.
Luke poured his mom a glass of orange juice, “Isn’t Fatty’s birthday coming up?”
“Yes, I started hinting at a birthday present half a month ago and I pretended I didn’t get it.”
Luke laughed, “What’s the plan for him?”
“Haven’t thought about it yet.”
“Let me know when you figure it out.”
The two stopped the conversation when they saw Chubby and Val coming over.
“Hey, what were you guys doing in the garage?”
Chubby said, “I took some pictures to show my classmates tomorrow that my super cool old brother bought a super cool car.”
“COOL,” Luke smiled.
Robert came over as well, “The grill is done, it’ll be ready in a few minutes.”
“Grandpa, I’ll let you taste my handiwork in a bit.” Luke clinked glasses with him.
Robert nodded, “GOOD, we finally have a real man in the family.”
Val “……”
Linda rubbed her chin, seemingly preoccupied, and dwelled for a long time, “Luke, how much money do you have left?”
“A few tens of thousands left? Do you want to use it?” Luke could also see that something seemed to be on his mom’s mind.
“No, I don’t need your money.
You’ve grown up and have your own income.
I’m very glad …… and don’t want to ask too much.
But …… I’m just making a suggestion …… Have you ever considered making some investments.”
Linda said implicitly, but Luke also heard out, this is afraid of him to spend money again, laughed: “What good advice do you have?”
“I haven’t done much business either, but I’ve been investing in stocks, which was also influenced by your grandfather, so if you want to invest in stocks, I can give you some suggestions.”
Robert concurred, “I also have a few good stocks that I have been holding for more than ten years. You can be introduced to them if you need them.”
Many people in the United States played stocks, not everyone thought of getting rich overnight with stocks, it was more of a means of investing to preserve value.
The return on investment of the US stock market is still very considerable.
In fact, the first two years ‘Luke’ also invested in stocks, only later the spending was too big to sell off, the stock account is still there.
Under the inducement of his two relatives, Luke took out 35,000 dollars to invest in the stock market, and still had two thousand dollars left for backup.
Luke invested in a total of seven stocks, each stock invested five thousand dollars, he felt that this is more secure.
In fact, regarding the matter of investing in stocks, he had considered whether it could be used as a means of realizing cash a long time ago.
However, as he gained a deeper understanding of the system, he felt that the possibility of realizing cash through the stock market was unlikely, and the element of luck was too high.
This is from his two cash experience.
The first experience was buying scratch-offs.
The second experience was bidding for a warehouse.
From these two points we can see the characteristics of the cash channel.
The first feature is that it has little influence on society.
The second characteristic, predominantly Luke.
Then look at the characteristics of stocks.
Stocks are oriented to the whole society, Luke’s funds can only be ordinary retail investors, to put it bluntly is a leek.
Listed companies earn a million dollars, he earned a hundred dollars is good.
If you want to realize all the 35,000 dollars, the listed company shall not earn crazy, the social impact is too great.
Specific examples.
Luke and mom, grandpa bought the same stock, if through the stock market cash, he bought the stock will certainly soar, then mom and grandpa do not have to do anything to get rich.
Unrealistic.
Of course, Luke himself does not know much about the stock market, this is just his personal speculation.
There is no chance that the stock market has other ways to play, can be realized.
Solely hold the mindset of trying.
Watching that it was almost time, Luke got up and announced, “OK, time for the roast.”
Luke moved the grilled meat out of the kitchen, burned the charcoal, put steaks, lamb chops, seafood, and vegetables on it and grilled them, sprinkled with the secret Chinese seasoning.
Soon the smell of meat filled the entire yard.
Luke inhaled hard, this is right, this is what he wanted to live in Los Angeles.
Robert shouted, “Luke, do you know how to grill meat or not, it’s burnt!”
The following morning.
Club Gun Club.
This gun club covers a large area, with an indoor shooting gallery and an open-air shooting range.
The venues were different, the training content was different, and the prices were different.
Last time, the gun club that Luke and David went to together belonged to the police-only venue, which was close and small, and could only shoot fixed targets for practice, which was not much fun.
In his past life as a domestic police officer, Luke is not very important to the gun law, itself has not been used a few times, want to practice the gun is not much opportunity, the gun law is very general.
But Los Angeles is different, almost every mission will use a gun, are faced with the risk of being shot, he felt that he experienced these several real battles, the gun law has improved significantly.
Of course …… there is still room to rise.
In order to be safe gun law still need to be practiced, the critical moment can really save lives.
The first practice is still a pistol, don’t look at the rifle power, more bullets, but the actual use is far less than a pistol.
Handguns can be carried on the body at any time, encountering danger can be the first time to counterattack.
There is time to replace the rifle, it proves that the police are prepared to fight with more than less, this time instead of the danger is not high.
Therefore, life preservation still relies on the pistol.
A more important point, Luke now had a pistol card, and he was eager to try the actual function of this card.
The fixed target was directly passed by Luke, wanting to shoot this thing, he could shoot it every day after work.
The whole point of coming to this big gun club was to get closer to real world shooting.
Luke chose a commonly used Glock pistol.
The first shooting range was a moving target range.
The distance is divided into 20 meters 30 meters 40 meters, people stand still, the target will slide from the front, the speed is divided into three gears.
Luke chose 30 meters, the lowest gear speed, holding the gun with both hands, and pressed the mobile switch.
The moving target slides from the left to the right.
Shoot, bang!
Missed, test feel, very normal.
Second shot, bang!
Try the feel again.
Third shot, bang!
Wipes the edge.
Luke empties the magazine, 17 shots in total, five hits.
Luke was a little disappointed.
Maybe the distance was a bit far.
As for why he was able to hit the suspect last time, he reflected on it.
For one, he used the precision card to improve the hit rate.
Second, the suspect was standing still and aiming at a fixed target ……
“David is right, you suck at shooting ……”
A man’s voice came.
Luke whipped his head around and it was Ramon.
“What a coincidence?”
“I come on every vacation.”
“Sounds like a good one, try it.” Luke handed him the pistol.
Ramon took the pistol, loaded it and took aim while putting it back in the stock.
He flicked down the switch that moved the target and selected the fastest gear.
This time the target moved significantly faster.
Raymond pulled out his gun and fired, “Bang Bang Bang ……”
Seventeen consecutive shots were fired and seventeen shots were hit.
Luke looked dumbfounded, “That’s awesome.”
“The distance of the target is fixed, the moving speed is fixed, the person is fixed, the difficulty of shooting is not high, hitting is normal.” Ramon returned the gun to Luke.
Luke secretly said, isn’t this a ready-made coach? Instead of fumbling around blindly, he should follow him.
“Ramon, your marksmanship is so good, can you teach me?”
“Are you serious?”
“Of course, I’m sincere, I’ll buy you a drink tonight.”
“Did Harley find it?”
Luke “……”
“Think about it, I’m a tough one, be prepared to learn guns from me.”
“No problem, I’ll buy you dinner.”
“GOOD.”
The two then started the teaching mode.
Ramon said some movement essentials and spoke in detail, and Luke learned very carefully.
Afterward, Ramon demonstrated the shooting maneuver once more and gave the gun to Luke, “You try it.”
Luke held the gun with both hands and pressed the switch to move the target.
The target just moved.
“Bang,” Ramon turned the target off again, “Are you going to shoot with both hands?”
Luke was confused, is it hard to play one-handed operation?
Ramon said with a stern face, “In the execution of the mission, usually with a gun, not holding a gun, so every practice shooting should start from drawing the gun.
Close range shooting, both sides have a high chance of hitting each other, the speed of shooting is the key to staying alive, and drawing the gun is the first step in shooting.”
“OK,” Luke put his gun into the holster, then pressed the moving target.
Draw, aim, shoot!
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
“What are you doing? Don’t pause, the speed of fire is what keeps you alive, speed up!”
“Bang, bang, bang ……”
Luke sped up his shooting speed, the recoil was greater, aiming was more difficult, and the accuracy rate dropped significantly.
Ramon said, “It’s not accurate, but it’s the right way to practice.”
Luke was not satisfied with the progress of the practice, secretly said, this has to be practiced until the monkey’s age, if he wanted to practice to Raymond’s level, he would have to soak in the gun club every day.
Occasional practice was fine, if he ran to practice guns as soon as he had a break, how boring it would be.
He thought of that pistol card, with his understanding of the system, he guessed that this card might be related to learning marksmanship.
It was just right for use right now.
Luke opened the system interface and subconsciously thought of using the pistol card.
Subsequently, the pistol card gave a prompt, [You can quickly learn knowledge related to pistols, including but not limited to theory and actual combat.
Learning efficiency is related to the level of the trainer, the learner’s attitude and qualifications.
The statute of limitations for use is 5 hours.]
With this pistol card, Luke learned with half the effort.
Before, when he watched Ramon’s shooting maneuvers and did them himself, he always felt a bit out of place.
This time, when he watched it once, he felt a deeper understanding and was able to do a standardized shooting.
The shooting accuracy also improved rapidly.
At noon, Luke invited Ramon to dinner, and did not stay idle, asking Ramon for theoretical knowledge of marksmanship.
Rested for an hour.
Continued practicing marksmanship in the afternoon.
After three o’clock in the afternoon, the time limit for learning the pistol card arrived.
The two also decided to end their practice for the day.
At Ramon’s request, Luke retested the hit rate of the moving target to see how the results of today were.
Luke checks the pistol, loads it and puts it in the holster.
Flicks the moving target switch.
Fires the gun.
“Bang, bang, bang ……”
Luke fired continuously, nearly twice as fast as before.
The hit rate also greatly improved, seventeen shots, fifteen hits.
Ramon was also amazed, he was a good shot, and many people asked him for advice.
David and Marcus had all learned from him, but none of them could match Luke.
This morning, Luke was not even as good as Marcus at practicing moving targets.
By the end of the afternoon’s practice, he had already tied David’s hit record.
A genius.
No, then why was he such a lousy shot before?
Has he never practiced?
How lazy must he be?
Ramon thought to himself, we can’t let such a good prospect go blind.
Late at night.
A dark wilderness.
“Hoo……”
A man’s ragged breathing was accompanied by the sound of a cell phone keypad.
“This is the ‘911’ emergency center.”
“I need to call the police.”
“Where are you?”
“I’m in a dirt pit.”
“Do you know what bearing you are located in?”
“No.”
“You must come to my rescue …… He is coming.”
“Who are you talking about? Are you hurt?”
“He’s coming …… He’s coming ……”
A dark figure stood next to him, digging dirt with a shovel and filling in the pit.
“NoNoNo……Don’t do that……please……”
“Rustle ……” the sound of burying dirt.
“Can you hear me?” Receiver voice.
“Please let me go, please ……” the man’s wail.
Converging together none of them could stop the dark figure from continuing to fill in the dirt.
It didn’t take long before all that was left was the sound of ‘Rustle, Rustle, Rustle’.
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“Ka!”
“GOOD, this one passed!” A voice rang out.
“Snap!” The searchlight turned on.
“Get Lucas out of there and move fast.
Lucas, your acting was fantastic.
That part just now could be capped, you’ll be a strong contender for this Oscar.”
A handsome man stood up from the pit and patted the dirt on his body, “Director, before I receive the award, I want to take a shower first.”
“Haha, okay, see you at the banquet later.”