Chapter 44: Measuring Strength (Part 1)

  Bounty hunters and bounty hunter associations have a mutually beneficial cooperative relationship, bounty hunters need bounty hunter associations to provide services for them, provide credit guarantees, provide trading platforms, and provide intelligence on new tasks from employers.

  The Bounty Hunter Association needs many bounty hunters, especially the skilled ones, to increase their reputation. Only when the association's reputation is high will more clients come to entrust them with missions. For each successfully completed mission, the Bounty Hunter Association takes a portion of the reward as commission. In addition, the Bounty Hunter Association also makes a lot of money by protecting bounty hunters' transactions through its connection with the Mafia.

  So Andy is looking forward to Zhou Jian joining the American Bounty Hunter Association, although he didn't do much by taking down that black D-level bounty hunter yesterday, but don't forget that Zhou Jian is still young and has a lot of room for growth.

  It's possible that with time, the association will have another A-level bounty hunter. Moreover, Zhou Jian may have a background in ancient martial arts in China and it goes without saying how beneficial it would be for him to establish good relations with such forces in the martial arts world.

  Bounty Hunter Association, Testing House—

  This testing room is open to the outside world, and any bounty hunter or even ordinary people can come here to test their strength. However, non-association registered bounty hunters need to pay a $100 entrance fee. Despite this, many boxers and kickboxing enthusiasts still come here every year to test their strength, and the results of the strength assessment provided here have very high authority.

  When Zhou Jian arrived at the Bounty Hunter Association, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon. Such an interesting thing, Linda naturally wouldn't miss it. In fact, an hour ago, this beauty had already begun to rub her fists and palms together, because she suddenly discovered that as a "high hand" walking in Las Vegas, not having the Bounty Hunter Association's strength assessment was a very embarrassing thing.

  When he arrived at the entrance of the testing room, Bill was already waiting. Bill is a medium-sized white man, and when I say medium-sized, even among whites, it's around 1.8 meters tall. This guy used to mix with the New York underworld in his youth, and somehow managed to make a name for himself. As he got older, he retired from the front lines and now follows Andy as the leader of the Association's Power Evaluation Group.

  With Bill around, Linda naturally didn't need to pay the $100 entrance fee. Of course, money wasn't a problem for this beauty; it was mainly an issue of face. As for whether others were selling their own face or not, that wasn't important. At least later on, when she took out the proof of strength issued by the Bounty Hunters Association, she could say with a straight face that when she came to test at the Bounty Hunters Association, the head of the Strength Evaluation Department personally went out to welcome her.

  Under Andy's escort, Zhou Jian and Linda arrived at the testing room on the third floor. There were still many people inside, mostly bounty hunters, with a small number of top-notch players from various parts of the United States and even some countries around the world. Their purpose for coming here was naturally to take part in the strength verification test organized by the Bounty Hunters Association.

  As for those bounty hunters belonging to the American BH Association, they had already been tested. Some came here to see if their recent strength had increased, while most of them were purely here to watch the excitement.

  Zhou Jian had never had a clear understanding of the strength of the Ghost Killer, he had easily defeated Thai boxer Ba Yu, but that was relying on his own spiritual abilities, if not using skills to fight head-on, Zhou Jian was not confident. This time, it just so happened that he could take this opportunity to know exactly how strong he was.

  Zhou Jian has been playing "Shen Mo" whenever he has time, because there are often high-level players with full sets of epic equipment who take him to refresh instances, so although he doesn't play as much as before, his level is rising rapidly, and he has already reached level 25. His current attributes are: Strength: 50, Agility: 150, Vitality: 50, Magic: 25, Spirit: 45.

  Because of his job change to Onmyodo, Zhou Jian's spiritual power had more than doubled from level 20 to 25, even though he only leveled up five levels. What Zhou Jian wanted to know now was what the concept of strength at 50 points and agility at 150 points would be in reality.

  Before the test, he had already put all his equipment, such as the quasi-divine artifact "Blood of the Fallen", into his inventory. He wanted to know his true strength without relying on equipment.

  Zhou Jian asked Bill, "What does the practical test include?"

  "The test is divided into two parts, namely strength testing and speed testing. The speed testing is further divided into displacement testing and evasion testing. I won't explain the details for now, Mr. Zhou will understand once he takes a look," Bill said, pointing to a corner of the hall where a crowd had gathered, creating a lively atmosphere.

  Zhou Jian and others looked over and saw a long, bar-shaped punching force tester in the crowd, with a circular punching bag in front of the tester. At this time, a 1.9-meter-tall white man was standing in front of the punching force tester, exercising his arms and legs.

  Bill said, "This is the Bounty Hunter Association's proprietary attack power testing machine. The unit of measurement for the numbers displayed is what we call 'Huygens/unit'. There is a camera on the testing machine, which is also the only surveillance device in this training room, and it can record the subject's punching action."

  Bill was saying that the big white man seemed to be starting, he jumped a few times in place, took a deep breath, and kicked the punching bag with one foot, which made Zhou Jian's eyes widen, "Can you still use your feet?"

  Bill said, "Of course, the testee can use any part of their body to attack the punching bag for testing. The test results include three parts: fist strikes, leg strikes, and continuous strikes within a short period of time. Some Muay Thai masters from Thailand also ask us to add elbow strikes, which is feasible."

  The electronic screen flickered and finally stabilized at 78.

  A faint sound of surprise came from the crowd, and it seemed that a score of 78 was not bad. However, the white big man frowned, seemingly dissatisfied with this result.

  At this time, a black boy squeezed out of the crowd and walked in front of the white giant, laughing and punching his opponent, "Big Roddy, it's been six months since I saw you, how come you still haven't made progress? It seems that this time you will lose again."

  It turned out that two bounty hunters were taking advantage of this bet, and these bounty hunters really had ideas.

  That black young man bounced to the front of the punching bag, made a few poses commonly seen in movies, then let out a wolf howl and kicked the punching bag with great force. The kick seemed powerful enough, but it didn't make any sound when it hit the punching bag, as if it was a dud firework. However, the violently flashing electronic screen told people that this kick wasn't weak at all, and the final number froze at 86.

  The black kid burst out laughing without any restraint, while the white big man had a dejected look on his face, this time he was going to lose big again.

  Two consecutive high scores got the crowd excited, and several people came forward to try their hand, all scoring in the 50s or 60s, sometimes even over 70.

  Linda also started to get excited, "Huaxia young boy, guess how much I can take out?" Since some things happened yesterday, Linda's nickname for Zhou Jian had changed back from Huaxia Hero to Huaxia Young Boy.

  Zhou Jian turned his head and glanced at Linda, saying: "You go up and try it out, then you'll know."

  "Hmph, how boring." Linda ignored Zhou Jian and walked towards the testing machine.