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Running back to the rental house and lying on her bed, Daisy seemed to be exhausted.
Playing an agent was an experience that neither the former professional street writer nor the former hacker had ever experienced. At that time, adrenaline surged, but now what was left was just a feeling of fear.
After relaxing, she was exhausted. Looking at her reflection in the mirror, she couldn't help but sigh. She was obviously an eye-catching beauty with a score of 80 or above. However, she had been tossing here and there in the past few days which made her look shabby. Now she is probably only at a 60-point level.
Honestly, she really didn't know how to dress up, and there wasn't much in Daisy's memory for reference.
Other time travelers were woken up by being slapped, woken up by beautiful maids, and woken up by shouts of killing. She was different, she was woken up by the fragrance—the scent emanating from her own body.
The previous Daisy was an orphan. She left the orphanage at the age of ten and went through four foster families in a row. She provided them with a monthly government subsidy, and the other party paid for her tuition. Both parties got what they needed, and the relationship was as cold as strangers...
Daisy was very poor and had lived frugally for many years before she bought a second-hand laptop. She had no extra money for grooming, and the strict perfume policies at the church school made it unquestionable—she was awakened by her own natural scent...
Fortunately, the fragrance was not strong, and her nose gradually got used to it.
Faced with huge pressure to survive, Daisy wanted to ensure her survival first and then have time to think about those trivial matters later.
The most difficult step was completed, the obelisk was acquired, and the only insider, the bald brother, also went home to wait for a promotion and salary increase to marry a beautiful woman!
She took a glass of water to calm down her emotions, and opened her backpack, and the obelisk was lying quietly in the backpack.
Without inhuman blood, the obelisk will turn intelligent beings who touch it into stone. Daisy knew that the time had come to test whether she was really an inhuman.
Even though she was fairly certain about it, what if she wasn't? Turning into stone was not her purpose.
Taking out a small knife and holding it in her hand, she was prepared to cut off her little finger once it started to petrify.
She took out a towel and stuffed it in her mouth to prevent herself from shouting later.
"I can do this! It shouldn't go wrong!" She kept encouraging herself, and it took ten minutes before she finally made up her mind.
Trembling, her left pinky reached out towards the obelisk—ten centimeters, five centimeters, one centimeter.
Her fingertip was just a hair's breadth away from touching the obelisk.
Summoning her courage, she pressed her finger down forcefully.
Her eyes widened, unblinking, watching the obelisk and her own finger. There was no petrification, only a slight warmth from the obelisk.
Still not entirely convinced, she grabbed the entire left hand, but the obelisk remained unchanged, and she experienced no transformation.
"I knew I could do it!" She was so excited that afraid of disturbing her roommates, she put her face on the pillow feeling giddy for a while.
After a moment, she calmed the excitement in her heart by stroking her chest.
With her true bloodline confirmed and the obelisk in hand, activating the powers required a ritual. The criteria of the ancient aliens for selecting their own kind were strict; they believed only those with the most superior genes could gain superpowers. The better the genes, the stronger the abilities, but strong abilities could also cause some damage to the original genes.
What genetic flaw did Quake from the original space and time have? She didn't see it. She comforted herself, thinking maybe her genes were just stronger!
Currently, Tony Stark was still selling his Jericho missiles, and the placement of the obelisk in the underground city in Puerto Rico was at least four years away from the TV series. She had successfully altered the course of her own life.
The consequence of not following the original script was that she was now alone, without a single ally. She didn't want to engage in those mind games with those agents again.
She needed to set out alone with the obelisk, head to Puerto Rico, find the underground city, and activate her bloodline.
Going to Puerto Rico, thousands of miles away, with just an anti-pervert taser is not reliable at all.
Her soft yet heroic appearance didn't quite fit the local aesthetic, and her lack of fashion sense was a disadvantage. But she had to be cautious—drunks and racists were everywhere.
Although Puerto Rico has been clamoring to become the 51st state of the United States, the locals are extremely poor and public security cannot be guaranteed at all.
She must have self-defense skills, and firearms become the primary choice.
After counting her savings, she found that they had dwindled to just nine hundred dollars after fooling the bald brother these days, so she temporarily gave up her plan to go on a journey.
No matter what she did next, she needed to make some money. Daisy's hacking skills were good, but unfortunately, the golden age of hacking had passed. Tampering with the banking system was just asking for death.
Fortunately, she is also very good at programming.
A day later, she took a freelance job, helping a company design a database entry system. She would work part-time, during the day she attended classes and stayed up late at night to work as a programmer, a job with no future prospects.
After working hard for seven days and earning three thousand US dollars, Daisy first went to the gun store to browse.
Rifles, shotguns, and semi-automatic shotguns were relatively easy to buy. These guns were adjusted to semi-automatic mode, with corresponding reductions in magazine capacity, and they could be purchased with a valid ID.
Because of their portability, she paid particular attention to handguns. The purchasing requirements for handguns were stricter, requiring advance application and waiting for approval.
New York law allowed eighteen-year-olds to possess long guns, and the purchase age for handguns was twenty-one. Daisy is just eighteen this year, and there was no way she is going to Puerto Rico with a rifle on her back.
Moreover, whether traveling by plane or boat, guns were not allowed. There were no cheats like space rings in the time travel; even if she bought a gun here, she couldn't bring it over. She had to figure out a solution locally.
Buying a gun was difficult, but learning to use one was not. Major chain gun stores had shooting ranges, and there were even more professional shooting ranges that provided comprehensive services from gun selection to training until mastery.
Of course, customers only need to prepare money and a brain that is not too stupid.
Choosing a large chain gun store, she presented her identification, filled out forms, and eventually rented a handgun. She also bought two boxes of bullets, two target papers, and rented a shooting lane. The rental cost was ten dollars for the handgun, thirty-two dollars for the bullets, one dollar for the target paper, and eighteen dollars for the shooting lane.
Finally, after some hesitation, she hired a so-called professional coach who paid $68 per hour.
Making full use of her free time, she practiced for a solid half-month. It had to be said that there was a reason why the future Quake could become the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Her physical fitness was slightly better than an average person's, her vision was sharper, and her reaction time was quicker. These advantages accumulated in all aspects, giving her a higher starting point than an ordinary person, and this was without factoring in the premise of her abilities and the strengthening of her body as an inhuman.
The practice cost her three hundred dollars, with the main expense being the consumption of bullets. While she couldn't claim a perfect hit rate, she felt confident enough to handle the average person. Finding a small factory, she borrowed their X-ray equipment. The obelisk completely showed it's domineering as it didn't show up on the X-ray; it was like a mass of air. Daisy was completely reassured.
Wearing a travel outfit with a backpack, baseball cap, and sunglasses, she bid farewell to her roommate. The reason she gave the school for taking leave was to search for her long-lost parents, and the school happily granted her a month's leave.
After a four-hour flight, the plane landed at San Juan International Airport in Puerto Rico.
She first looked for a place to stay. Although this Caribbean island country mainly speaks Spanish, in order to fall into the arms of her Daddy America, English is also the official language. Daisy quickly found a place to stay in a local hotel that claimed to be the safest.
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