The cannon opened its mouth as if to say something, but after looking at Zhou Ziwei, who was "struggling" to raise his automatic rifle and slowly aiming at a position on the opposite building but hadn't pulled the trigger, it shook its head helplessly. Although it still thought Zhou Ziwei had some skill, it was only in certain specific areas. To say that Zhou Ziwei's marksmanship could surpass that of bullets was absolutely impossible.
"Look at this..." Powder Keg pointed at Zhou Ziwei with a face full of indignation, pursing his lips and grumbling, "He actually even specially changed to a double magazine... uh... that's a whole hundred bullets... this little brat wouldn't be thinking of using those hundred bullets... you know what! Oh my god... everyone says I, Powder Keg, am crazy, but compared to this little brat, I think I'm ridiculously normal!"
Although no one else said anything except for Powder Keg, that outspoken madman, ...Bullet could tell that everyone now regarded Zhou Ziwei as an even madman than Powder Keg.
The bullet... she was also quite puzzled, but... she didn't take Zhou Ziwei's words as a joke.
After these two days of interaction, Zidan was quite impressed with the extraordinary strength displayed by Zhou Ziwei, this "little kid." However... she still couldn't quite believe that Zhou Ziwei could really take out nearly a hundred gunmen on the opposite building with just an automatic rifle... Accurate marksmanship was one aspect, the type of firearm was another, and the speed of firing was also crucial.
If your marksmanship isn't accurate enough, then there's nothing else to talk about. And the caliber of a bullet determines how easily or poorly it can be fired into the opponent's barrel.
Obviously... in this respect, only the bullets from the pistol she herself uses have this advantage.
While the automatic rifles used by Zhou Ziwei and his group had slightly smaller caliber bullets than those used by the people in the opposite building, making it not entirely impossible for their bullets to penetrate the barrels of the enemy's weapons, the difference was still relatively small. Combined with the angle of fire, this made it almost a pipe dream for them to actually fire their automatic rifle bullets into the enemy's barrels.
And the last point is speed... That's right, the rate of fire of an automatic rifle is definitely much faster than that of a pistol. If a burst-fire device is used, pulling the trigger once can empty a double magazine of 100 bullets in a few seconds.
The problem is... this kind of shooting is so difficult that it's hard to aim successfully even when aiming little by little. If you use the automatic rifle's burst fire mechanism, isn't that just nonsense?
So even though Zidan had long felt that Zhou Ziwei, though "a bit young," was definitely no less capable than her, the team leader, and in fact, if assessed on an overall level, he was far superior, she still didn't believe that Zhou Ziwei could really overcome this obstacle in an instant. After some calculations, she almost concluded that this was a task that a special forces team of their size simply couldn't accomplish.
Zhou Ziwei held the automatic rifle in his hand, his hand slowly moving from side to side, seemingly not aiming at any fixed target, or perhaps... he simply didn't know how to aim. Most people who saw his stance gave him a headache... Had this kid ever held a gun before...? Didn't he know that this kind of gun had recoil? If he just casually held the gun with both hands and fired without supporting the butt on his body, it was likely that pulling the trigger would injure his arms, or even knock his small body off balance.
Of course... although everyone felt that Zhou Ziwei wasn't very good at shooting, no one said anything to remind him. After all, at this time... they thought it was better to let Zhou Ziwei suffer a bit, so that the kid wouldn't talk nonsense out of ignorance.
Long Wu had a lot of confidence in Zhou Ziwei, and he also knew that Zhou Ziwei must have some amazing abilities. So after his mouth moved slightly, he didn't say anything. He just watched Zhou Ziwei holding his automatic rifle but not firing a single shot. He couldn't help but scratch his head anxiously, but he didn't dare to say anything...
"Hey...you'd better put the gun down right now! If you can't shoot, what are you pretending for?"
The powder keg couldn't stand it any longer and finally snapped, turning around and pointing at Zhou Ziwei while shouting.
However, at the very moment he uttered those words, Zhou Ziwei finally pulled the trigger...
"Rat-a-tat-tat... Rat-a-tat-tat... Rat-a-tat-tat..." Incredibly, Zhou Ziwei not only pulled the trigger, but he actually used a burst of fire, and he kept firing without stopping.
Zhou Ziwei held the gun in his hand, facing the entire building, and shook the muzzle of the gun in a wide, sweeping motion, as if he wanted to unleash a burst of bullets into every corner of the building opposite.
The cannon barrel rubbed its forehead in exasperation, the powder barrel gaped open, unsure whether to continue its tirade, the marble grinned with a wide, sexy mouth, looking like an idiot, while the motor packed up its things, having already made preparations for a complete retreat.
Among these people, only Bullet, Blind Child, and Hawkeye had extremely strange expressions, even incredibly solemn and astonished.
Two of the three were expert marksmen; one had such sharp eyes that he could tell the sex of a mosquito a kilometer away, while the other had such keen hearing that he could hear the sound of an earthworm crawling underground a kilometer away.
Just moments ago, as Zhou Ziwei unleashed a burst of bullets as if they were free, these three men clearly saw or heard countless bullets being fed one by one into the barrels of nearly a hundred guns protruding from the wall, under the slight tremor of Zhou Ziwei's hand.
The modified automatic rifle Zhou Ziwei used had a double magazine with 100 rounds. So, theoretically, if someone could hit every shot, they could cripple nearly a hundred gunmen on the opposite building with just one magazine.
However... that's only theoretically possible. In reality... these guns fire in bursts of three rounds, not to mention in full-auto. As long as you don't lift your finger off the trigger, you'll empty the entire magazine in one go.
In this situation, does that mean those nearly one hundred guns didn't need to be aimed? Even if the targets weren't tiny gun barrels, but large, living people, no one would dare say they could take them all out with just one bullet per person in full-auto mode, right?
But... whether their eyes deceived them or their ears were malfunctioning, in that instant just now, although they didn't hear or see all the details clearly, they knew that at least... at least half of the nearly one hundred guns on that small building were definitely damaged in Zhou Ziwei's round of fire. There was absolutely no mistake about that.
How could Zhou Ziwei possibly control the impact point of each bullet so precisely under such rapid firing? How is that possible? How is that even possible...?
Just as the three were bewildered and the bystanders were filled with doubt and even disdainful sneers, Zhou Ziwei had already stopped shooting. He stopped shooting completely in just a few seconds, but the gun in his hand was not completely empty; there were still nine bullets left.
Because... there are only ninety-one guns in the building across the street, so... he only needs to use ninety-one bullets, which is enough. Zhou Ziwei doesn't have the bad habit of wasting bullets.
When the bullet team leader later learned that Zhou Ziwei's gun still had nine bullets left, while all ninety-one guns on the other side had been completely destroyed, she was stunned for a long time and could not calm down.
Bullet was always very proud of her unparalleled marksmanship. Even though she had a leg disability, she never thought she was inferior to others. She was even confident that when it came to marksmanship, no one in the world could compare to her.
Although Hawkeye's marksmanship was also excellent, Bullet knew that the two of them were not even in the same league. Therefore, Bullet had never taken Hawkeye seriously and had never deliberately shown off his superior marksmanship in front of Hawkeye. It wasn't that he disliked him, but rather that he was disdainful.
However, when she learned about Zhou Ziwei's performance, she was so shocked that she almost gave up using guns altogether, because... she knew very well that even if she practiced hard for hundreds of years, she would never be able to reach Zhou Ziwei's current level of marksmanship... In her eyes, Zhou Ziwei had become an insurmountable mountain for all eternity.
Zhou Ziwei's marksmanship was indeed excellent. After all, among the souls he absorbed were probably thousands of skilled gun users. By combining the memories of these souls from their previous lives, Zhou Ziwei naturally gained a level of gun-handling experience and technique that was unparalleled by ordinary people.
However, Zhou Ziwei himself knew that it was almost impossible to complete the task of using a single magazine to cripple all ninety-one guns protruding from the small building three hundred meters away. Even if his marksmanship were ten times better, it would be useless.
So... Zhou Ziwei had to resort to a little trick... that is, when he grabbed the double magazine from Long Wu's waist, he began a crazy process of creating an independent soul.
In that short period of time, he managed to capture all ninety-one bullets in the magazine, creating an independent soul with its own life and consciousness within each bullet.
Then when Zhou Ziwei started firing... he only needed to adjust the approximate firing angle of the bullets. As for the rest of the details... he let each bullet adjust itself. They naturally knew how to fly into their target... which was the dark hole in the gun barrel.
After Zhou Ziwei successfully completed this cheating act, he immediately handed the gun in his hand to Long Wu, and then jumped out of the cover without hesitation, striding into the open square and rushing towards the entrance of the small building opposite.
He knew that the Dragon Group members might not fully believe him right away, so Zhou Ziwei didn't bother to greet them one by one. He figured they could believe him or not, so be it.
Although we managed to cripple nearly a hundred guns in the building across the street in one go, the enemy still has many spare guns and backup gunmen. So we must not hesitate during this opening. If we hesitate even slightly, and the enemy has time to replace the broken guns, then we can naturally blockade the entire square again.
Of course... given Zhou Ziwei's strength, even if the opposing side had hundreds more guns, they wouldn't pose the slightest threat to him. He could completely ignore their fire and swagger over step by step.
But... wouldn't that seem a bit too pretentious?
A monster that's completely impervious to blades and bullets... isn't that a bit too shocking? Relatively speaking, it seems that demonstrating slightly superior marksmanship is still more acceptable, right? So... Zhou Ziwei tried his best to choose a more acceptable method.
However, Zhou Ziwei failed to consider how much his performance, which he considered relatively normal, had affected his teammates.
When Zhou Ziwei finished firing a magazine of bullets and then rushed out of the cover and onto an open square, everyone was genuinely shocked, including Bullet, Blind Child, and Eagle Eye.
Although they all sensed that Zhou Ziwei's burst of bullets was not fired blindly, and they could hear or see that the effect of Zhou Ziwei's burst of bullets was very significant.
However... they still felt that Zhou Ziwei was taking too much risks. What if... what if Zhou Ziwei hadn't damaged all the guns? What if he still had ten or eight guns left that could fire? Wouldn't his reckless rush into the square be courting death?
However, the bullet hesitated for only two or three seconds before suddenly turning its wheelchair and fiercely following Zhou Ziwei out of the cover and into an open square...
"Team leader... don't be impulsive!" The others nearby were terrified at the sight and involuntarily shouted, trying to persuade Zidan to come back.
As for Zhou Ziwei... no one cared. Most people probably thought the kid was either delirious from a fever or had completely gone mad. The best way to deal with a brat like this who has no sense of reason is... humane euthanasia. Now that he's willing to destroy himself, why should anyone else care?
Jiang Chunshui was an exception. Although she didn't believe that Zhou Ziwei could really achieve such terrifying results when he first made those boastful remarks, she was secretly worried. Then, she couldn't help but spend her life force to steal a moment from the midst of the war and perform a divination. The result was naturally beyond Jiang Chunshui's expectations, yet it also made her extremely happy and surprised.
So when Zhou Ziwei finished a round of rapid fire and dropped his gun to rush into the square, she almost rushed into the square at the same time as the bullets.
Volume 3, King of the City, Chapter 522: Landmines
As Zhou Ziwei, Jiang Chunshui, and Zidan rushed into the square, the remaining people were shocked to find that none of the nearly one hundred gun barrels protruding from the building opposite had fired a single bullet. Zhang Yu began to believe that Zhou Ziwei's burst of fire just now was not just for show.
Then Long Wu, Blind Boy, Eagle Eye and the others also rushed to catch up.
The remaining few people were stunned for a moment, until Zhou Ziwei, Jiang Chunshui and the others were about to rush to the entrance of the small building. Then they seemed to wake up from a dream and rushed over with their guns in hand.
When Zhou Ziwei had covered half the distance of the square, he began to release his soul power and scan the entire building. He quickly discovered that, apart from the ninety-one guns that had been damaged, there were six people hiding behind the entrance of the building, busy installing landmines.
This is a new type of step-and-press landmine that can be placed directly under the floor tiles. It seems that a landmine installation device has already been pre-installed under the ground behind the main entrance of this small building. Normally, there is nothing going on here, so naturally, there is no need to keep a few landmines under people's feet to keep them in a state of fear. But if the enemy comes to attack, they only need to put the step-and-press landmine into a groove under the movable floor tile, and then carefully lay the tile back down. When someone walks over and steps on the tile, it will explode with a "boom," turning the person into a bloody mess.
These guys are really vicious... They hid so many landmines under their own front door. If someone just pushes the door open and goes in, no matter how big their steps are, whether they run or jump, they're bound to step on a landmine. And if one of those landmines explodes, all the landmines buried underground will immediately connect. Even if Zhou Ziwei's body has strong defenses, being bombarded by so many landmines would still leave him with his skin torn apart.
Inside the small building, it wasn't just these few despicable guys plotting something; there were also many other people carrying boxes of brand-new weapons to various firing positions.
Zhou Ziwei's unerring rifle barrage just now crippled all the firing positions in the small building, but only a handful of people were actually injured. So now they just need to replace the broken weapons to restore the building's defensive capabilities.
If the building regains some of its defensive capabilities before all twelve Dragon Group members have passed through the 300-meter-long plaza in front of it... then the Dragon Group members still remaining in the plaza will likely be in grave danger.
However, now that Zhou Ziwei has entered the area within 240 meters of the small building, allowing his soul power to enter every firing point on the building without any obstruction, Zhou Ziwei naturally will not allow such a thing to happen again.
While still running at high speed, Zhou Ziwei gently shook his alloy suit, and the three butterfly darts that had been lying dormant in his suit pocket turned into three silver lights, flashing away and flying into the small building before Zhou Ziwei.
Although it was already night, the square in front of the small building was brightly lit by countless fluorescent lights on the island. This brightness provided a kind of camouflage for Zhou Ziwei's butterfly darts, so no one could see the flashes of light when the three butterfly darts were launched.
Of course... although she couldn't see, she could hear it. With the blind child's amazing hearing, she couldn't be fooled. Just by looking at how the blind child's ears twitched involuntarily the moment the three butterfly darts flew out, she knew that the little girl must have heard some clues. However, she also knew that Zhou Ziwei had many secrets and didn't want others to know them.
The young girl was grateful to Zhou Ziwei for saving her life, so naturally she wouldn't reveal it at this moment.
The three butterfly darts didn't pierce the doors and windows of the small building and fly inside, as that would have created a commotion and attracted attention. Instead, Zhou Ziwei controlled the three butterfly darts to fly into the gun holes of three guns from which damaged weapons had just been removed. After entering, the three butterfly darts didn't linger at all; in a flash, they completely destroyed several brand-new guns that the gunmen were picking up and preparing to re-insert into their gun holes.
Zhou Ziwei's sabotage was remarkably clever. He merely used a butterfly dart to make a scratch on the critical parts of the guns before instantly flying off to sabotage other new ones. So when those who had been given their new guns excitedly aimed at the Dragon Group members rushing towards them in the square and pulled the triggers, they were shocked to discover… not a single one of their newly acquired weapons could fire. Enraged, they cursed and accused the quartermasters of embezzling funds, claiming that all the guns they had been given were counterfeit…
Zhou Ziwei was afraid of scaring everyone, so he didn't increase his speed too much. Otherwise... it was only a distance of 300 meters. If he ran at full speed, he could easily reach the destination in less than five seconds. And if he used wind energy as a boost, his speed could be increased by about 200 meters. In other words... with Zhou Ziwei's current ability, he could probably run 300 meters in just two or three seconds.
If Zhou Ziwei were to truly display such speed, he would likely be regarded as a prodigy! Zhou Ziwei did not want to attract excessive attention or suspicion, so although he was running very fast at this moment, it was at least within an acceptable range.
Despite Zhou Ziwei's repeated efforts to control his speed, he still completed the 300-meter distance in less than half a minute. If someone had timed him at that moment, they would have been astonished. This speed... surpassed the Olympic sprint record and broke the world record.
While it's true that every country has its own group of mysterious elite athletes, and if these individuals were released to participate in the Olympics, breaking world records set by renowned athletes wouldn't be surprising. But keep in mind... Zhou Ziwei looks like he's only five years old... A five or six-year-old breaking world sprint records and easily surpassing those so-called "flying men"—if this got out, it would be strange if it didn't cause a global sensation...
Zhou Ziwei quickly ran to the front of the small building, but he had no intention of going through the main entrance. Instead, he turned around, ran to a closed window on the side, and suddenly jumped... His small body easily jumped onto the windowsill, then he clenched his little fist and punched the large glass window hard.
With a muffled "thud," the glass, struck by Zhou Ziwei's punch, cracked open with countless fine cracks. However, the glass did not shatter; instead, it turned into a white, sticky, and thick piece of rock candy, revealing a series of fine, round bead-like structures inside.
Bulletproof glass.
The windows of this small building are made of very advanced bulletproof glass.
In fact, Zhou Ziwei and his group had already figured this out. Just now, when everyone was firing wildly at the building from outside the square, they couldn't even break a single window, which naturally made them realize that all the glass in the building was bulletproof.
However, no one expected that the bulletproof glass of this small building was even more advanced than that of some high-end cars. Zhou Ziwei's punch just now seemed very easy, but the force it carried was definitely more than a thousand pounds. Even so, it did not break through the glass, which shows how sturdy it is.
If it were someone else, this punch would probably only make their own fist bleed, and wouldn't even leave a mark on the glass.
Zhou Ziwei's punch unexpectedly failed, but he didn't take it to heart at all. He gave a slight snort, raised his small hand again, and casually placed it lightly on the glass window.
However, as Zhou Ziwei pushed out his palm, he had already unknowingly gathered a large amount of attribute-less energy from his middle dantian, which then condensed into a thick, mountain-like earth energy in his palm. As he slowly pushed out his palm, the thick energy condensed in his palm made contact with the glass first. Then, as if a mountain had suddenly pressed down, the glass, which had already been smashed into a white mess, shattered and disintegrated without any suspense. With a crisp "crack", it instantly turned into countless small, round beads that rolled all over the ground.
Zhou Ziwei shattered the super-strong bulletproof glass with a single palm strike. He then saw that the bullets following closely behind him and Jiang Chunshui had caught up in the short time he was delayed by hitting the window.
Zhou Ziwei was quite surprised to see this... Jiang Chunshui's strength was divination, but her actual combat ability was not very strong. Her physical strength had always been very weak before she met Zhou Ziwei. However, this time she and Zidan caught up first, which made Zhou Ziwei feel very surprised.
Little did he know that Jiang Chunshui's divination skills were not limited to predicting good or bad fortune. In fact, it was a sophisticated skill that skillfully utilized the power of the soul. However, each of the magical techniques in divination consumed a certain amount of soul power when used. This skill only had methods for using soul power, but no methods for cultivating and accumulating it. Therefore, every time a little was used, one's life force would weaken, and one would die a year or two earlier... As a result, many of the magical techniques mentioned in divination were gradually used by fewer and fewer people, and naturally, few people knew that divination contained so many strange and powerful methods.
Burning one's own life force to make one's body as light as a swallow and as fast as lightning in an instant... This is a relatively rare technique in divination. However, in the past, Jiang Chunshui had overdrawn his life force too much, and even if he did an extra divination during a mission, he would carefully calculate and dare not do it arbitrarily. How could he dare to waste his limited life force on such trivial matters?
However, this time... Jiang Chunshui received two Soul Pearls from Zhou Ziwei, which instantly replenished almost all of her overdrawn life force. Moreover, she knew that those black pearl-like things... didn't seem to be anything particularly rare to Zhou Ziwei.
Given their current relationship, it shouldn't be too difficult for her to ask for one or two more, so she's naturally not so stingy when using her life-burning technique.
Jiang Chunshui's ability to run so fast already surprised Zhou Ziwei, but what he didn't expect even more was that the person following closely behind him was a disabled person in a wheelchair. For others, wouldn't that be considered ironic?
Of course... a person without legs couldn't possibly run that fast, and the reason Bullet was the second person to catch up was mainly because of the wheelchair she was in... it was truly an awesome thing...
Perhaps because Zidan was still in a wheelchair, she never considered climbing through the window. When she caught up with Zhou Ziwei, she saw him go over there to smash someone's window, but she didn't follow him. Instead, she raised her silver pistol, aimed it at the closed door, and increased the speed of her wheelchair.
Seeing this, Zhou Ziwei panicked and quickly waved to the two of them, shouting, "Watch out, there might be an ambush behind the door! We'll enter from here..."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Chunshui immediately chose to believe Zhou Ziwei without hesitation. Before even reaching the main gate, she twisted her body and, like a light, floating leaf, darted towards Zhou Ziwei with lightning speed.
The bullet hesitated slightly before turning the wheelchair around and heading towards the window that Zhou Ziwei had violently smashed through.
It wasn't that Zidan didn't trust Zhou Ziwei's judgment, it was just that for her... jumping over such a high window would be a very difficult thing, which is why she didn't follow Zhou Ziwei directly from the beginning.
Jiang Chunshui was indeed like a leaf with no weight at all. She simply looked up at the window and floated into the building. Bullet, on the other hand, was somewhat helpless. Although activating some of the special functions on his wheelchair would have made it possible to jump over the window, those functions all required electricity, and the wheelchair's small battery was running low. If it continued to deplete, Bullet worried that if he encountered any danger later, he might not be able to escape unscathed.