Chapter 32: The Gun God from the Fourth Galaxy
Shooting is the sport that Liu Zheng is most proud of and confident in.
Growing up in the Fourth System, a place full of danger, poverty and violence, is a hole in the gorgeous robe of the glamorous empire.
The hole objectively exists, but the dignitaries ignore it.
Liu Zheng's family is ordinary. Her father and mother both work in factories. Although robots can completely replace low-level labor jobs in a certain sense, in order to provide ordinary humans with food, the imperial government controls the ratio of human and machine employees in the factory, so that her parents will not lose their jobs and her family will not starve to death.
Before her S-level mental power was tested and activated and she was praised to the sky, being able to touch a gun was an unexpected surprise in the life of seven-year-old Liu Zheng.
Who doesn't have a poor relative? Liu Zheng's family was a poor relative themselves. On a snowy day, her mother brought her, who was ten years old at the time, to the Second Star System.
She saw skyscrapers and all kinds of aircraft flying in the sky. She saw a gun for the first time at the home of her mother's cousin, her aunt who worked at the Second Star System Police Department.
It was an ordinary GF-60, which every police officer in the Interstellar Empire had one, but it deeply attracted Liu Zheng at that moment.
After pleading, her aunt put the gun without bullets in Liu Zheng's hand. At that moment, she felt that she had found something that she would love for the rest of her life.
The mother and daughter stopped at the entrance of the luxurious shooting club in the second galaxy. Finally, the mother gritted her teeth and exchanged her return seat ticket for a standing ticket. She used the money saved to buy ten bullets. The ten-year-old Liu Zheng chose the gun that attracted her the most, the GF-60. All ten bullets hit the bull's eye. When she was about to leave with her mother with an unsatisfied look, the club owner stopped them.
"She's very talented and can become a professional shooter. Give it a try."
Liu Zheng's fate was changed by this sentence. She frequently traveled between the 2nd and 4th galaxies, cherishing every opportunity to shoot. She practiced her muscle memory to the point that she could suddenly make gun-raising gestures in her sleep in the middle of the night, startling her mother who came to cover her with a blanket.
The club owner covered most of her training expenses, but she still had to cover a small portion herself. Her mother and father, both of whom were taciturn, secretly found extra work to make up for the shortfall. Although she was from the Fourth Galaxy, her beautiful new clothes and the well-stocked ICP account she had when she trained with the students from the Second Galaxy were all expressions of her unspoken love.
At the age of 15, Liu Zheng lived up to her parents' love. She won the Interstellar Empire Shooting Youth Competition with a score of almost perfect marks. The prize money she won was enough to pay off the sponsorship from the club owner and subsidize her parents at home.
She must become stronger. With this idea in mind, 16-year-old Liu Zheng entered the Haoyue Military Academy, a local military academy in the Four Star Systems. In the same year, she participated in the mental strength test and achieved S-level. The entire galaxy was shocked. The galaxy leader personally received her, and tears flashed in her parents' eyes.
Two years later, she naturally entered Moye Military Academy, one of the six major military academies in the empire, and shouldered the hope of the entire galaxy.
If she could successfully enter the military and hold a high position of power, it would no longer be just her fate that would be changed, but the fate of thousands of families in the fourth galaxy that had been unable to develop because of its location close to the border.
Performance during the trial period is very important. As the "Phoenix" from the fourth galaxy, the interstellar media is also always paying attention to the performance of the key students of the six major military academies.
She can't be mediocre anymore. At least in terms of shooting, Liu Zheng must not lose.
The revolver felt slightly warm in his hand. The students in the blue team stood in the obstacle course and loaded three bullets into the roulette wheel.
"Liu Zheng will definitely not let you go." Jin's voice was resentful, "Chen Shouli will definitely not let me go either."
He stood beside Xu Lingqu, looking ashen and dejected as death. "Or I'll just stay at the starting line and wait for the instructor behind me to shoot me down."
"Didn't the instructor say we'd get double the points if we got hit?" Xu Lingqu said casually as he watched the instructor sorting out the obstacles and bunkers that had been knocked off the field. "If you're so reckless about your life, just use you as my mobile bunker."
"You're such a heartless person..." Jin's face turned green as he reached out to curl his half-long red hair, muttering to himself softly, "You shouldn't have applied to the military academy. There's a job waiting for you that's more suitable for you..."
Xu Lingqu didn't hear clearly what he was saying, so he turned around to ask, but a person who didn't look familiar came over.
"Well, if you don't mind, I can be your mobile cover." Wang Qihu said this awkwardly. He was simply eavesdropping on the conversation between Jin and Xu Lingqu. He remembered that he escaped the disaster in the beginning thanks to Xu Lingqu who tripped him. He wanted to repay the favor, so he interrupted in a fit of rage.
Xu Lingqu's expression showed that she had no idea who Wang Qihu was. Although Wang Qihu had expected this, he still felt a little hurt.
"Uh, sorry, it's just me." Wang Qihu's face flushed red, and he stuttered for a long time before finally giving up. "I think the mobile cover tactic is worth a try. If my cover for you is useful, you cover for me next round."
Xu Lingqu and Jin exchanged a glance, and Jin bared his fangs: "She, with her physique, can't even cover you halfway even if she shields you."
Wang Qihu looked down at his well-trained physique and his face turned even redder.
"But the two of us together can definitely cover you, and you can definitely cover both of us." Jin immediately put his arm around Wang Qihu's shoulder and looked at Xu Lingqu, "Commander Xu, let's give it a try."
After the instructors finished arranging the training ground, Xu Lingqu briefly explained the plan for the mobile shelter.
In fact, it depends on the fixed obstacles and shelters on the field. There is a route that can avoid the shooting angle to the greatest extent. Even if there are gaps on this route, if there is a mobile shelter that moves at high speed with you, you can achieve perfect avoidance.
Now the three of them were covering each other, and it was the first time they were cooperating. Xu Lingqu did not give the other two the most specific routes.
The command gun sounded, and the three of them set off at the same time, following closely beside Xu Lingqu. They passed the first short section smoothly, but the second section had the largest gap, requiring them to mobilize their physical mobility to the greatest extent possible to pass.
A bullet grazed Xu Lingqu's cheek and almost killed her. After a close call, the third section of the journey began. The mobile bunker plan was activated in this most critical section of the journey. Wang Qihu immediately stood beside Xu Lingqu and Jin to block the sniper angle.
A bullet hit Wang Qihu, but they were already getting closer and closer to the finish line. He thought that his death was a worthy one, but at this moment, another bullet, like the last one, hit Xu Lingqu, who was only one step away from the finish line, at a very tricky angle.
She fell to the ground sideways, and the sniper's name popped up on the computer.
It’s still her, Liu Zheng.
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