Shooting Training 2

While Xu Xiqin was still worrying that Xu Lingqu would be treated as a living target by a group of people, the sniper had already sought Xu Lingqu out herself.

Liu Zheng walked up to Xu Lingqu, looked at her, and said, "My gun barrel will definitely be aimed at you."

Provocation—this was blatant provocation.

Jin, standing beside Xu Lingqu, expected her to deliver a ruthless hand-chop warning or a flying kick warning to Liu Zheng as she had done to him. Instead, Xu Lingqu only nodded faintly, indicating that she accepted the challenge.

"This isn't right. You're not usually like this with me," Jin complained as he watched Liu Zheng walk away, his expression full of grievance.

Xu Lingqu glanced at him. "Am I that bad to you?"

"It's not exactly good," Jin said, recalling that the first time he spoke to her, a branch was already about to poke his neck. The feeling was hardly pleasant.

"You can think of it as something special I do for you," Xu Lingqu said as she took a gun from the instructor. In the first round, the red team would run while the blue team sniped.

Jin also picked up a gun and looked up at Xu Lingqu, who handled the weapon with practiced ease. "Don't tell me you've had systematic training in marksmanship and are a sharpshooter."

"I've never had systematic training," Xu Lingqu answered truthfully.

Jin breathed a sigh of relief. If Xu Lingqu were also proficient in gunplay, that would be too monstrous—she'd be another Shen Shouli, raised as a human weapon from childhood, except Shen Shouli had more humanity than Xu Lingqu did.

In Jin's eyes, Xu Lingqu's occasional coldness made him want to recommend a job perfectly suited for her after graduation.

A certain group of madmen who killed without batting an eye.

The students chose their positions at various spots, making sure the red team members were fully exposed to their gun barrels, leaving no blind spots for them to exploit.

At the order, the red team began their obstacle course run.

Jin focused on finding Shen Shouli's position, only to realize the guy was serious this time—he was moving at high speed, making him very hard to target. While Jin hesitated, he suddenly saw Shen Shouli's body jerk and roll to the side. Clearly, he'd been hit.

Who?

Jin was shocked, unable to imagine anyone actually hitting Shen Shouli. He switched to an easier target, fired three shots, and got the points. He looked up, wanting to share the news with Xu Lingqu.

Turning his head, he saw on Xu Lingqu's smart brain the names of three people she had eliminated.

"Shen Shouli, Xu Xiqin, Liu Zheng." Jin swallowed. "Why didn't you just wipe out the whole family? Why not 'kill' Tang Muwen too?"

Xu Lingqu blinked. "I was looking for him, but he was too slow, so I just picked one at random."

As if I'd believe you picked randomly. You must have taken out whoever challenged you. Jin grumbled inwardly, then felt a chill.

If he hadn't been assigned to the blue team, he might have been the third one Xu Lingqu collected.

Jin complained, "You tricked me..."

Xu Lingqu was speechless. "What did I trick you about?"

"You said you never had systematic training, but your performance is that of a sharpshooter." She had taken out the three strongest members of the red team—what else could that be?

"I didn't lie to you. I really haven't," Xu Lingqu said as she removed her gun, ready for the next round. Now they had to run while the red team shot at them.

In the apocalypse, she didn't have time for systematic training. Her first shot was fired in combat.

All the surviving law enforcers in the base had such marksmanship, not because evolution granted them advantages, but because in battles against mutant beasts, those who couldn't shoot accurately died. The ones left behind were all sharpshooters.

If you made Xu Lingqu shoot at targets, she might not hit ten rings every time to build a legend. But when it came to hitting familiar, living human targets, her aim would not miss anyone she intended to hit.

Jin walked with her to the starting line of the obstacle course, muttering incessantly, "You're done, you're done, I tell you. Shen Shouli, Xu Xiqin, and that Liu Zheng who challenged you—they'll definitely chase you down."

The three strongest members of the red team would all have their gun barrels locked on Xu Lingqu. Jin felt the pressure just thinking about it. "Why not just stand still and let someone snipe you? Whoever's quickest gets your point, how about that?"

"Not happening."

At the starting command, Jin bolted out first out of habit. He naturally assumed Xu Lingqu would stay by his side, but half a lap in, he turned his head and found she was gone!

He instinctively looked ahead, thinking she had already outpaced him, but there was no one in front. In that moment of hesitation, a sudden pain shot through his leg—he'd been hit.

Just as he was going down, a figure darted out, using his body as a shield to leap over the conspicuous obstacle that was easy to snipe, then rolled smoothly behind the next obstacle for cover.

When the next person passed him but got hit, she used the same trick again, advancing without a scratch.

Damn! Damn it!

Jin lay on the ground, stunned, never expecting Xu Lingqu to use such a sneaky tactic—using others' "corpses" as cover to advance unscathed.

He had imagined she would win in a blaze of glory, charging ahead alone. But these days of physical training had fooled him and everyone else.

Xu Lingqu was a commander, a very, very clever one.

And clever commanders had the dirtiest hearts.

Just as Xu Lingqu, relying on her sneaky methods, was about to reach the finish line, a bullet seemed to come out of nowhere, fired from an extremely tricky angle, hitting her precisely.

All her efforts were wasted.

Jin, lying on the ground, wanted to applaud that "piercing cloud" bullet.

Xu Lingqu lay on the ground, calm as if she were truly dead, and immediately opened her smart brain to see who had hit her.

Liu Zheng. As expected.

Her smart brain showed that Liu Zheng had fired three bullets, and only one had hit Xu Lingqu. The other two had missed. Given the accuracy of that one hit, it was unlikely she had missed other targets.

She had used all three bullets to snipe at Xu Lingqu, and she was so persistent that even after missing twice, she still aimed at her from such a tricky angle for the third shot.

Realizing this, Xu Lingqu's somewhat lazy attitude shifted.

Liu Zheng's challenge was serious. She truly intended to compete with Xu Lingqu in this shooting exercise.