"Bang! Bang! Bang..."
Ten gunshots rang out, the rhythm steady and the entire sequence executed in one breath.
The target reporter checked the target, his voice tinged with obvious confusion and bewilderment, and shouted, "Report! Jiang Yan, ninety rings!"
Whoosh—
Another violent commotion erupted among the crowd!
"Ninety rings? What's going on? Did I hear that right?"
"Jiang Yan underperformed? He scored a full four rings less than his previous score!"
"Something's not right, something's really not right... Could it be that this gun... is actually faulty?"
"My God, no way? Wasn't Su An accused of cheating? Who would use a faulty gun to cheat? That would be stupid."
Li Yue's smile froze, and she stammered to Qiao Lin, "Sister Qiao Lin, what... what's going on?"
Qiao Lin's face was also a little pale. She bit her lip and forced herself to say, "It must be that Jiang Yan is not in good condition today. Yes, that must be it!" But even she couldn't convince herself of this.
"Bai Wei, you go!" Zhang Ruobing ordered.
Bai Wei's face looked terrible.
She didn't believe in this superstition.
She felt that Jiang Yan must have underestimated her opponent to score 90 points. As the top female soldier, she wanted to use this gun to achieve a better score than Su An and prove that she was the strongest.
She walked forward confidently, picked up the gun, her posture was standard and her movements were neat. She raised the gun, aimed, and pulled the trigger.
"Bang!"
A crisp gunshot rang out, and the bullet whistled through the air.
However……
The target, fifty meters away, remained completely still.
The target reporter, holding his binoculars, waited for a long time, his mouth agape as if he could fit an egg in it, before finally stammering in a voice that sounded like he'd seen a ghost, "Missed...missed the target!"
The entire venue fell into a deathly silence.
Immediately, an uproar erupted like a flash flood!
"What?!!"
"Mistake? Am I hearing things? Bai Wei actually missed the target?!"
"How is this possible! Her marksmanship is second only to Jiang Yan's, and she's as steady as a mountain. How could she miss the target?!"
Bai Wei's face drained of all color in an instant, turning deathly pale.
She felt as if hundreds of eyes were piercing her like needles, causing her a burning pain.
Impossible! Absolutely impossible!
"I...I didn't aim properly!" she said loudly, as if making an excuse for herself. Then, defiantly, she raised her gun again, breathing rapidly, and quickly adjusted her aim.
"Bang!"
"The Third Ring Road!"
The target reporter's voice struck Bai Wei's heart like a heavy hammer.
"Bang!"
"The Fifth Ring Road!"
She became increasingly anxious and flustered as she fired, and her arm began to tremble uncontrollably. The next few shots were six rings, seven rings, six rings again... Her score was abysmal, the kind of performance a greenhorn who had just picked up a gun could achieve.
"Stop!" Zhang Ruobing finally shouted to halt the public execution.
She stepped forward, took the gun from the distraught Bai Wei, turned around, strode down the platform, and personally handed the gun to Lei Kuan.
Lei Kuan took the gun, glanced at it, and came to a conclusion: "..."
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