Chapter 0 Extra: Liu Zheng: The Gunman
At a very young age, Liu Zheng faced the cruel side of this world.
The talent for shooting was the key that allowed her to walk out of the confused people of the Fourth Galaxy, and also allowed her to see clearly what the people of the Fourth Galaxy were in the eyes of those people.
"Honestly, you're not like the people from the Fourth Galaxy I've heard about."
Mary was the first friend Liu Zheng met in the Second Galaxy Shooting Team. She took the initiative to talk to Liu Zheng, and from then on the two of them often traveled together.
"What?" Liu Zheng shot a bullet casually, hitting the bull's eye.
"In my impression, people in the Fourth Galaxy are all lazy, but you are very hardworking." Mary put on the calibrator. "How does that saying go? People in the Fourth Galaxy are poor because they deserve it—"
"Because they are greedy and lazy, the entire galaxy is so poor. You are different from them. You are a genius. You have talent. You can definitely get out of the Fourth Galaxy."
Mary said with a smile on her face: "If you are willing to join the Second Galaxy——"
The cold expression on Liu Zheng's face made her swallow the rest of her words.
From then on, the two became strangers.
Liu Zheng knew that the entire empire, and indeed the entire interstellar system, looked down upon the Fourth System. Huge prejudice and discrimination enveloped the place where she was born, and sometimes even Liu Zheng herself wondered if her birth was a sin.
Whenever Liu Zheng saw fellow competitors using their money to buy better equipment, while she could only compete with them using basic firearms, she suddenly understood the saying - poverty is also a kind of privacy.
Sometimes she really wanted to hide herself completely.
Awakening to S-level mental power was completely beyond Liu Zheng's expectations.
Before this, Liu Zheng had been brainwashed countless times. It was impossible for a person with high psychic power to appear in a place like the Fourth Galaxy. How could a genius emerge in such an environment?
Liu Zheng's appearance was a loud slap in the face of these people.
Those who had shown contempt for her before came to apologize one after another. In an instant, Liu Zheng's world was filled with good people, as if all the previous unpleasantness was just a misunderstanding.
Even Mary sent her an email to express her apology for the offense she had caused her, and expressed regret for having ever despised those in the Fourth Galaxy.
From that moment on, Liu Zheng opened up to the other side of the world.
She discovered that as long as she was strong enough, those who had been condescending and discriminating against her would change their attitude and start to respect and please her, and their attitude would even spread to the fourth galaxy where she was.
From then on, Liu Zheng was determined to become the strongest. She accepted the olive branch extended by Moye Military Academy and chose a path to become a strong person without looking back.
The first time Liu Zheng saw Xu Lingqu was when she fainted during an interstellar jump. She felt that she was no different from the nobles she had met before.
The same hypocrisy and selfishness, openly using backdoors.
But this idea was soon overturned.
From seeing her defeat seven opponents at once during combat training to later cooperating with the instructor in opening the floodgates in the middle of the night, Liu Zheng's opinion of her changed drastically in just one day.
She is a very nice person.
Liu Zheng defines Xu Lingqu in this way.
But when he saw Xu Lingqu shooting, this idea changed again.
In Liu Zheng's world, she had been a recognized genius since childhood, unrivaled in the field of shooting. Even the expensive equipment her competitors purchased couldn't match the results she achieved with her basic firearms.
Along the way, in the field of shooting, Liu Zheng always won by crushing others, but when she saw Xu Lingqu, she suddenly realized.
There was a good chance she wouldn't be able to beat her.
Xu Lingqu has not received professional shooting training, and many of her gun-holding movements are even incorrect, but she just shoots accurately.
What does this mean? This means that an even more terrifying talent has been born in her, even if she didn't have professional training when she was young...
Liu Zheng couldn't figure out how she felt about Xu Lingqu. Was it jealousy or envy? Or was it an inexplicable mutual admiration?
She thought she must hate Xu Lingqu.
The appearance of Xu Lingqu simply overturned all her efforts in life. Why shouldn't she hate Xu Lingqu?
But Liu Zheng helplessly found that she really couldn't hate Xu Lingqu.
Why? She couldn't explain it herself. Perhaps it was because she could understand her own jokes, Liu Zheng thought.
In the military academy league, the shot fired by Liu Zheng made the entire empire briefly face up to the existence of the fourth galaxy. Everyone said that only she could fire that shot, but Liu Zheng knew that was not true.
There is another person who can fire that earth-shattering shot, and she can even do it faster and more accurately.
But she was right. Liu Zheng could not do what she had to do, and she could not split herself, so this shot had to be fired by Liu Zheng.
Liu Zheng accepted this statement and planned to be the best gun in Xu Lingqu's hand for the rest of her life. When she thought it would always be like this in the future, Xu Lingqu died.
Xu Lingqu died for the Fourth Star System, her death shattering Liu Zheng's beautiful fantasy of the future. At the same time, she also learned from the Imperial nobles that as long as the Empire existed, the Fourth Star System would always be considered inferior in their eyes.
Xu Lingqu's blood completely washed away the last bit of confusion in Liu Zheng's heart about the land of original sin where her family was born.
The Fourth Galaxy is innocent, someone else deserves to die.
With this in mind, she took the initiative to start the Republic War.
On every revolutionary night filled with gunfire, blood, and the smell of rust, Liu Zheng would recall the days when they fought side by side in the league.
The title of the personal report belonging to Liu Zheng is: Who in the world doesn’t know you?
Liu Zheng didn't like it because the first half of the sentence was: Don't worry about having no friends on the road ahead.
She would never have another confidant.
Her confidant died for her hometown.
The gunfire of the Republic War was the death knell for Xu Lingqu by Liu Zheng.
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