"I still need to research Bukujutsu as soon as possible."
After a successful debut, Hawking quickly rode his kinto'un into an empty park, waiting for the Goku template to finish loading.
While the Goku template significantly boosted his combat power and came with the incredibly fast flying tool kinto'un,
because of Goku's personality interference, it wasn't suitable for him to continue fighting crime and earning Justice Points. There was a good chance his carefully cultivated noble image would instantly collapse into a ridiculous one.
Therefore, Bukujutsu, the ability to fly using Ki, became extremely important.
If he had known Bukujutsu just now, the effect of showing off might have been even better.
However, Bukujutsu is a technique of the Crane School. The thirteen-year-old Goku hadn't met Tien Shinhan and Chiaotzu yet, and hadn't seen Bukujutsu, so naturally, he didn't know how to practice it.
This was different from Kienzan and the Manipulated Ki Blast. Kienzan, at a glance, was clearly about the compression and rotation of Ki. The Manipulated Ki Blast was mental control over a Ki blast. By studying the principles, it wouldn't be too difficult to figure them out.
But Bukujutsu allows a person to fly, and humans still rely on external tools to achieve flight. The principles of air dynamics simply cannot be applied to the study of Bukujutsu.
However, after three years of gradually mastering Ki, he had some vague ideas. He believed that with a little more time, it wouldn't be impossible to figure it out completely.
Mainly, he had previously focused his energy on improving his combat power, especially on researching Kienzan.
Krillin, with a combat power of 75,000, used Kienzan to sneak attack and cut off the tail of Frieza in his second form, who had a combat power of 1,000,000.
If Frieza hadn't dodged in time, he might have been dismembered on the spot.
This meant that with the power of Kienzan, if it hit, he could at least take down an enemy more than ten times stronger than himself.
Even Captain Marvel, if hit by his current Kienzan, would probably be in serious trouble.
He definitely needed to spend more time on such a BUG-like technique.
"So much money, what a pity!"
At the same time, he recalled the large amount of U.S. dollars scattered from the overturned van.
If he had been fast enough just now, he would have had the chance to use the Deformation Curse to take those U.S. dollars, but for safety's sake, and to better shape his image, he ultimately gave up.
Anyway, he felt that there would be plenty of opportunities in the future.
"That's about enough."
Once the Goku template expired, Hawking leaped up, continuing his actions for the night.
However, this time he no longer picked and chose, but rather dealt with each incident as he found it.
But afterward, he would always gracefully leave after resolving an issue, not even giving the other party a chance to thank him, and no longer announcing his name.
Shouting a slogan once was enough; doing it more would make him seem cheap.
Thus, he continued until 5 AM, having resolved nearly twenty incidents, ranging from petty theft to murder.
"The efficiency still isn't high enough!"
Standing on a rooftop at the street, Hawking checked the progress bar on his panel and couldn't help but frown.
The South Bronx area was indeed chaotic, with many messy incidents, but they were all spread across various parts of the city, and many didn't happen outdoors.
Incidents like murder, home invasions, and gang shootouts mostly occurred inside buildings, abandoned factories, and Underground Rooms.
It really wasn't that easy to spot these while jumping across rooftops.
To improve efficiency, he tried to borrow a Police pager.
However, he later found that many incidents were already over by the time the Police pager rang. The Police were mostly there for cleanup, so it was less efficient than him searching on his own.
Crucially, he also discovered a very important thing.
That was, the Justice Point income for each thing he did was different, and the difference was not small.
The incidents that gave the most Justice Points were those that saved lives.
For example, if he caught a thief breaking into a house, even if that thief stole a hundred million, preventing it would only give him a small amount of Justice Points.
But if that thief was about to kill someone with a knife and he stopped them, that would be a hundred Justice Points.
In other words, petty theft, and even many things considered serious by the public, if they didn't involve murder, would give very few Justice Points.
Even the bank robbery incident where he made his debut, if the robbers never intended to kill anyone and just robbed and ran, catching them would yield little difference in Justice Points compared to catching someone stealing a lollipop on the street.
There was also another thing: the panel's judgment of justice.
As long as he considered something just, then it was just. While this made him very happy, it also imposed a restriction on him.
That was, he couldn't deliberately create incidents to farm Justice Points.
For example, holding someone under Water, saving them when they were about to drown, then holding them under Water again, saving them again, holding them under Water again, and repeating this process would yield no Justice Points at all.
Because when he had this thought, his inner self had already judged it not to be a just act, but a bad act done for Justice Points, so naturally, there would be no Justice Points.
So, for the next period, he had two things to do.
First, improve the efficiency of finding incidents, not just outdoors, but indoors as well.
Second, he couldn't act on every incident he encountered. That would waste time and earn few Justice Points. Petty thefts and similar incidents could be ignored. Incidents that helped his image and gave more Justice Points were the priority.
"Perhaps I can find time to go to Queens to find Peter Parker."
If he remembered correctly, Spider-Man possessed Spider-Sense, which not only allowed him to sense danger but also to sensitively detect incidents happening within a certain range around him.
This often caused Spider-Man to be late for work, school, and dates, because his moral standards prevented him from ignoring those incidents.
Of course, Spider-Man in different Universes had varying strengths in this ability.
But it didn't matter; it would definitely be more efficient than him searching alone, even if only slightly. If it was a small incident, he could let Spider-Man handle it himself. For larger incidents, he could have Spider-Man notify him to resolve them.
Moreover, if he were to establish a Superheroes International Company in the future, Spider-Man was one of the people he planned to invite.
Superheroes like Tony Stark, who had the advantage of wealth, would certainly not join his company, but for civilian Superheroes like Spider-Man who were short on money, contacting them early offered a very good chance.
"Time is almost up, I'll go back for breakfast and sleep!"
Rubbing his stomach, Hawking disappeared with a few leaps, heading towards the abandoned park in the North Bronx where he had first arrived.
As dawn broke and darkness receded, even the chaotic South Bronx became quiet during this period. Staying here would be a waste of time; he might as well go back for breakfast, fill his stomach, and sleep.
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