Volume 2, Chapter 37 – She Looked Very Peaceful When She Closed Her Eyes

“Bang bang bang…”

They were only pistols, but with three pistols firing at once, the seven people standing with their backs to the door went down like wheat before a scythe.

Their screams mixed with the gunfire and exploded through the silent corridor in an instant.

“There’s someone there!”

“Move, quick!”

“Ye Yang! Ye Yang!”

The soldiers who had come to their senses immediately dodged to both sides. The doorway was fairly narrow, and they had been standing rather close together. After that volley, Anran saw countless damage numbers float up from the doorway, but in the end, the kill notifications she heard only counted four people.

That round of kills brought Anran a total of 1500 EXP.

“How many did you kill?” Anran asked Zhou Jieyu in a low voice.

Zhou Jieyu froze for a moment, then immediately replied, “One.”

That meant they had killed five in total, and there were still two people alive on the other side.

The only question was what state those two were in.

Two versus two. Their side was not afraid at all now.

“So it’s Morningstar people again.”

Hiding under the table, Anran curled her lips and quickly reloaded both pistols with fresh magazines.

Sometimes she really could not understand what the Morningstar people were thinking. As a resistance force that shouted slogans about “ending the Empire’s rule,” why were they running around killing people in a hospital?

Wasn’t that just courting death?

Since she could not understand Morningstar’s thinking, Anran could not be bothered to try.

Her attention was completely focused. After signaling Zhou Jieyu to hide, she kept her sights locked firmly on the doorway.

The slightest movement there, and two bullets would be sent flying over at once.

At first, Anran had simply wanted Zhou Jieyu to play ghost and draw their fire, while she hid behind and suddenly opened fire to turn the situation around.

But while carrying out the plan, Anran suddenly noticed that one of the skills in the mechanic skill tree could affect the operation of mechanical devices, namely [Mechanical Interference Lv1]. Struck by inspiration, she immediately spent 2 skill points to unlock it.

What happened after that was just as described before.

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“How many people are still alive over there?” Zhou Jieyu turned her head and whispered to Anran.

“Tw…”

Anran had barely parted her lips to say the word “two” when a figure suddenly appeared in the doorway, and she instantly pulled the trigger.

“Bang bang!”

“Bang!”

Three gunshots split the silent corridor at the same time.

“Ah!”

The figure at the door was forced back by Anran’s shots, but the damage numbers that floated up were only -46 and -51.

What was going on?

With the power of the 1886 Hermit Pistol, an ordinary person should have had no chance of blocking it.

And the people on the other side were obviously ordinary people, because if they were not, they would have thrown their guns aside and gone one-man-army mode already.

“Ow, that hurts.”

At that moment, Zhou Jieyu’s pained cry sounded beside her.

Anran immediately turned her head and saw Zhou Jieyu clutching one shoulder with one hand. Her clothes were slowly being dyed red by the blood seeping out, and the pained grimace on her face made Anran puff out her cheeks slightly.

Was it really that exaggerated? It was just a bullet graze on the shoulder. She had only lost a little over twenty HP. There was no way she would die from that.

Besides, a player’s pain sensitivity could be adjusted. Anran refused to believe that a player as timid as “Leading the Escape” would set hers very high.

“Calm down!” Anran patted Zhou Jieyu’s other shoulder and said, “Actually, it doesn’t hurt at all!”

“Huh?” Zhou Jieyu froze.

She had heard exactly what Anran said.

Now that she put it that way, ummm…

“It really doesn’t seem to hurt. It’s like a mosquito bite.” Zhou Jieyu let go of her shoulder and looked at it. In fact, the blood was not flowing as much as she had imagined.

Anran’s face darkened at once.

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It was a good thing she had never expected much from Zhou Jieyu to begin with and had only treated her as a meat shield for drawing fire. Otherwise, she definitely would have been dragged down by her already.

If other NPCs ever dared hand a similar mission to “Leading the Escape,” then they would truly have had rotten luck for eight lifetimes.

“By this day next year, it’ll be the anniversary of your death!”

Ummm…

“Oh, right.” Anran suddenly patted Zhou Jieyu on the shoulder again.

Zhou Jieyu lowered her voice. “What is it?”

“Keep screaming!” Anran said.

“Huh?” Zhou Jieyu was bewildered.

“Keep screaming like you just did. Hurry up, or the people outside will start getting suspicious,” Anran urged.

Zhou Jieyu looked troubled. “I really have to scream?”

Anran shot her a sharp look. “What do you think?”

“All right, then.”

Their conversation was both quiet and fast. Once she made up her mind, Zhou Jieyu took a deep breath and suddenly started going “Ahhh.”

“…”

After hearing Zhou Jieyu’s scream, Anran’s expression turned rather strange.

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The expressions of the two surviving Morningstar soldiers outside also became strange.

There was just something weird about “Leading the Escape’s” scream. It somehow made it sound like they were doing something unspeakably embarrassing to her.

Pat pat.

Anran reached out a hand.

Sis.

Zhou Jieyu paused and looked at Anran in confusion.

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“Your voice…” Anran reminded her.

“Moaning?”

Oh, oh.

Zhou Jieyu switched to a different tone.

“…”

Anran was on the verge of losing it, but then her eyes flicked toward the doorway, and a smile immediately appeared on her lips.

Never mind. The other side could not hold back any longer and had already shown themselves first.

“Bang!”

“Damage calculation successful. You inflicted a fatal wound on the target.”

-164.

Was the other guy just low on HP, or was he already wounded?

The corpse that fell in the doorway was immediately dragged back.

“Sto…”

Anran had just turned to tell Zhou Jieyu to stop screaming.

The last surviving Morningstar soldier outside suddenly popped out again. “Die!”

With a shout, he fired a three-round burst from the rifle in his hands. Zhou Jieyu, who was hiding beside Anran, was hit three times in a row, and the spray of blood made Anran freeze for a moment.

Blood.

Anran spun around and fired two shots toward the doorway.

-36.

One shot missed. The other dealt only 36 HP of damage.

“Hahaha, I’m wearing a bulletproof vest,” the Morningstar soldier laughed three times, already leveling his gun at Anran.

So it was body armor. No wonder.

Anran rolled with the movement and dodged a bullet.

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That figure disappeared again.

Body armor. No wonder.

Now that she knew his trump card, Anran was relieved instead. Body armor was not invincible. He had simply appeared standing upright so suddenly that she had no chance to aim at his weak points, so he wanted to trade blood for blood.

What he had not expected, however, was this…

“Bang!”

“Urgh…”

The Morningstar soldier lowered his head to look at the bullet hole driven deep into his lung, his eyes full of disbelief. Why?

Thud. He fell to the floor, dying with his eyes still open.

[Basic Mechanical Enhancement]: Can enhance simple mechanical devices.

And a pistol was a machine too.

Anran blew across the muzzle of her gun.

After receiving the game’s prompt, she turned back to look. Although none of the places Zhou Jieyu had been shot were vital points, with three shots in her and a skinny body like that, the bleeding debuff alone could bleed her to death.

“Ah, there’s no saving you.”

Zhou Jieyu’s face went pale. Don’t say that. I think I can still be rescued. My mission isn’t finished yet.

Anran continued, “Don’t worry. Another few steps and we’ll be at the destination. Your escort mission will count as completed too.”

With that, Anran walked out.

Wait.

Zhou Jieyu wanted to open her mouth, but with her stamina and HP dropping so fast, she had already entered a weakened state.

“You have completed the mission [Escort Anran]…”

Ah.

With a peaceful look on her face, Zhou Jieyu closed her eyes.

I’ll claim the reward when I come back.