3 Chapter 3: The Killer
The place above the Empire State Building is too small to live in; although the Twin Towers are famous, almost all of Li Wei's knowledge of them is related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, and this place is not considered a "Feng Shui place"(1).
Of course, these are not the main reasons. The real problem is that these famous buildings are not in Chicago but New York.
Furthermore, Li Wei, a homeless person in this landmark building can't get in let alone nest on the roof.
Even if he can get in before he can put his sleeping bag in place and get a good night's sleep, the pistol slinging around the waist of the police can get him in trouble, or worse he'll get shot. Even if he got lucky to be arrested they'll ask a compensation ranging from hundreds or even a thousand dollars or he can be simply put in jail for intent to engage in dangerous activities.
After doing this calculation, Li Wei can only target low-rise and middle-rise buildings that are not strictly guarded.
Although everyone can get on the rooftop of this kind of building, except for the special case of Li Wei, no one should be so bored that they have to go to the rooftop to admire the moon and bask in the sun, right?
As the sun rises and the moon sets, time passes by in Li Wei's day-after-day meal wind and dew.
With the sunlight as a stimulating switch, the endless energy is firmly and orderly strengthening Li Wei's body, making his strength constantly increase by 10% per day.
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One month later, with the orange sun rising from the horizon, the sun fell on Li Wei again.
But unlike the previous warmth and comfort, a more peculiar feeling is expressed in Li Wei.
The colors in his eyes became more delicate, the smells he smelled became clearer, and the sounds he could hear began to become clear.
It was as if a blind, deaf, and an ageusia person is suddenly released from all their restraints. With the high-speed operation of his brain, Li Wei's perception of the world instantly changed.
With a light tap of his feet, Li Wei crossed a distance of five or six meters to the rooftop in half a second as he looked down at the hurried crowd in the street below.
There is no need to concentrate, naturally, Li Wei can see the pores on the faces of pedestrians below on the roof tens of meters above the ground.
With a slight inhalation, one can smell some choking perfume on a certain woman from the mixed scent, or hear two robbers self-confidently talking about their robbery plan.
With the enhancement of his five senses and the high-speed operation of the brain, Li Wei was in a daze for a while, feeling that he had mastered everything like a god.
In 30 days, he was strengthened 17 times.
The 17-fold increase reflects not only strength and speed but also physical strength and reaction speed.
Just take the reaction speed as an example.
The speed of human response is related to the sensitivity of the receptors, brain functions, and the excitement of the effector organs. And because of the presence of sunlight, Li Wei has enhanced all aspects of the said areas.
In other words, his reaction speed is 17 times that of ordinary people and it only takes about 0.012 seconds for Li Wei to react to things that ordinary people can react to in 0.2 seconds.
Assuming that a person is holding a pistol with a bullet speed of 500m/s and shooting Li Wei from 50 meters away, it takes 0.1 seconds to reach the location of Li Wei, subtracting the reaction time, Li Wei has a reaction speed of 0.088 seconds.
The human instantaneous speed record is 12.5m/s. Based on the 17 times enhanced physical fitness, Li Wei's speed can reach 60m/s casually and 0.088 seconds is enough for him to rush out 5 meters before the bullet hits him.
Even if the pistol is replaced by a sniper rifle with a bullet speed of one kilometer, Li Wei still had a reaction speed of 0.038 seconds and could still run two meters away.
Super strong reaction speed and action ability, coupled with that unique dangerous premonition, unless someone is frantically attacking an area, no ordinary gunpowder weapons can hit Li Wei.
But Li Wei was not satisfied with it.
If it were the mediocre world of his previous life, Li Wei felt that he could be considered a superman, but this is Marvel!
Although he is not interested in superhero movies like Marvel or DC, he still knows some things through his chat with his roommates.
A purple sweet potato guy that killed half of life in the universe with a snap of a finger, Iron Man with a mortal comparable to a God, Captain America who has surpassed the limit of mankind, and other superheroes and super villains who can mess a country with their power alone.
In such a world, how could Li Wei be satisfied with a small increase in his strength? He needs to become stronger as quickly as possible.
So, after carefully experiencing and controlling his abilities, Li Wei laid down on the rooftop again.
However, as the phrase "The Heaven does not fulfill people's wishes", the arrangement of fate couldn't let him go so easily who is a visitor from another world.
More than a week later, one sunny afternoon, Li Wei was leaning on the roof enjoying the evening scenery.
Suddenly, the crisp clicking sound when a gun is loaded reaches his ears, following the source of the sound, Li Wei finally fixed his eyes on a distance less than 100 meters away from him on the rooftop of the Chicago Central Building.
Although the half-person high concrete wall on the edge of the roof restricted Li Wei's vision, he could still see clearly that the four assassins disguised as maintenance workers were taking out the gun parts from the maintenance box as they assembled them.
After ten seconds, three assassins holding rifles set up their scopes and aimed them at the high-class office building opposite the central building, while another assassin holding a sniper rifle took a few steps back and entered a corner that was difficult for Li Wei to see.
"Is this assassination?"
Looking at the scene in front of him, Li Wei felt some curiosity in his heart, there was an abrupt gunshot.
~Bang~
During the reverberation, the world in front of Li Wei suddenly slowed down, and the trajectory of the silver-white bullets spinning forward in the air was displayed in front of his eyes.
Watching the bullet pierce the air and pierce the reflective glass, a soft sound of bone-shattering was heard followed by a cloud of blood bursting out in the office building.
"Fuck! It's an assassination!"
Seeing that living life was ruined under the muzzle of a gun, Li Wei's pupils shrank instantly.
He stayed on the rooftop for more than a month. He has seen large and small cases and has a full understanding of the freedom of this country.
But these kinds of specially organized and premeditated assassinations, are never included.
These people are organized killers and not just ordinary gangsters!
These are assassins that could only be seen in games in his previous life but now they actually appeared in front of Li Wei and he also witnessed the assassination team complete an assassination operation.
This feeling is completely different from the vendetta and hijacking seen in the past!
(1) "feng" means wind and "shui" means water. In Chinese culture, wind and water are both associated with good health. Thus, feng shui came to mean good fortune.
