Chapters [89 - 90]

Chapter 89. Gun Master Assessment

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A maximum of 10 accounts can be registered in Gun Master using a game ring unless it was bound to the Emperor's Heart Ring.

Lin Huang did not know that Lin Xin was interested in the game or he would have bought more rings!

After taking the game ring from Lin Xin, Lin Huang went back to his room and summoned the game cabin.

The Gun Master game was expensive because of the game cabin.

The game cabin was only around 10 meters squared. There was a small room with a height of 2.5 meters. In fact, it employed spatial compression technology to make the room look small on the outside even if it had a significantly larger interior. It had an area of more than 10,000 meter squared and its height was about 100 meters or so.

Spatial compression technology was also known as temporary spatial compression. This was still considered new technology and was still not widely known or used by commoners.

The so called temporary spatial compression method was actually a temporary compression of spatial dimension within n a specific period of time and should it exceed that time period, it would expand back to its original size.

The game cabin was only had a floor space of 10 meters squared and once the game was activated, the game cabin would utilize temporary spatial compression to increase the play-space but it was limited to only 12 hours per day. Therefore, a game cabin was not suitable for item storage.

Lin Huang brought the game ring along with him into the game cabin and the virtual game world appeared before him.

Lin Huang peeped into Lin Xin's temporary account which was still logged in.

Lin Huang was stunned because Lin Xin's had a really good stats in her account.

It did not matter if it was a fixed, moving or multiple targets before her, she did very well in all categories, even shooting at targets that would appear in random locations.

Lin Huang clicked a few buttons to look for records of actual combat she did in-game and was astonished by what he saw.

Though the accumulated points were not too high in the first few rounds, she did a lot better after that. She won the title of best player in most of the battles.

"With her physique, it was kind of unbelievable that she could achieve such a standard. She was born to become a gunmaster!" Lin Huang never knew that his sister was so talented.

After watching Lin Xin's performance, he logged out of her account and registered for a new account.

The game ring began to scan Lin Huang's body and recorded the information to create the new character.

After the registration was completed, the game user interface appeared once again.

Lin Huang noticed that there were no records found in the new account and it was not linked to Lin Xin's previous account.

When he was choosing the gun model, he chose the BlackEagle33 because he was good at it.

He held the gun in his hand. It was as if there were no differences between the one he was holding and the real thing.

Lin Huang then entered the training mode.

It began with fixed target shooting. His surroundings had automatically morphed into a shooting range and a target appeared before him, at a distance of 200 meters.

Lin Huang fired 10 consecutive shots and all of the shots hit the bullseye.

The next target appeared. Lin Huang lifted his gun and shot at it…

Lin Huang felt as if he was using a real gun. Even the bullet's trajectory and recoil force felt exactly like an actual Black Eagle33. He began to gain interest in this game.

After practicing his shooting for 20 minutes, Lin Huang morphed the BlackEagle33 into its sniper form.

When a different gun was used, the shooting range would change accordingly. The target was now located further, at a distance of 500 meters.

Lin Huang aimed at the target and activated the Life Power in his body causing a bullet to fire. The bullet penetrated through the virtual target in the center, forming a hole.

The second target immediately appeared. Lin Huang took aim at the second target and shot at it…

Lin Huang was done warming up after practicing his sniping for 20 minutes. He switched his firearm back into a pistol and started the next assessment.

The shooting range morphed once again. A moving target appeared at a distance of 200 meters.

Lin Huang pulled the trigger the moment the target appeared.

The second target was no longer moving at a constant speed. Still, Lin Huang fired.

...

After the shooting practice, Lin Huang went on with his sniper again.

After half an hour, he began the next round of training. The number of targets in the shooting range increased and had different movements assigned to each of them. Some of them were faster while some of them were slower. There were even targets that were not moving in a straight line…

However, all these did not scare Lin Huang. Shots were continuously fired and he hit all of the targets.

Soon, he entered a more difficult level. Fourth round – random shooting.

All the targets would randomly appear for mere seconds before Lin Huang's 180-degree view.

The level of difficulty of this assessment was quite high. When Lin Huang graduated from the Hunter Reserve College, he did not get full marks for his gun assessment because he had lost one mark in this category.

However, Lin Huang was confident that he could easily pass this assessment. His physique was not only stronger but the speed of his hands had also improved after he gotten his Life Seed Skill.

The 10-minute random shooting assessment ended very quickly. Lin Huang scored full marks and passed the assessment.

Lin Huang aced all four assessments perfectly. Lin Huang felt that it was reasonable for him to score full marks because of his strength and physique.

Upon completing this assessment, Lin Huang selected actual combat and chose a random battle to join.

The virtual environment in the game cabin quickly shifted to an actual combat map. There were a variety of buildings, different modes of transportation, and even the virtual passer-bys.

The opponents were randomly matched for several rounds and Lin Huang scored the highest in each round. He was undefeated throughout the rounds. After playing for a few rounds, Lin Huang finally discovered that the physique level of regular people was different from his. Since he was in a room filled with ordinary opponents, he was able to attack without so much as a single worry. The battle quickly became meaningless and unfulfilling for him.

"It seems like I have to enter the hunter rooms where I can battle with actual hunters as my opponents. I can only become stronger if my opponents are stronger than I am." Lin Huang looked at the time and it was nine o'clock at night. It was still early. He immediately logged out of the normal room and logged into the hunter's room…

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Chapter 90. Encountering A Pro

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"Authenticating hunter's identity, logging into the hunter room…"

"System's automatic detection shows player's combat level is iron-level rank-3. Iron battleground can be activated."

"Would you like to activate it?"

"Activate." Lin Huang nodded his head to confirm.

"Iron battleground activated!"

"Please enter your account ID."

"God of Gun." Lin Huang wanted an arrogant name.

"The ID has been used. Please choose another ID"

"God of Firearm."

"The ID has been used. Please choose another ID "

"Blast Master."

"The ID has been used. Please choose another ID "

"Simply a Newbie." Lin Huang finally decided to be modest since all the cool names are in use.

"Please confirm ID?"

"Confirm." He was sure.

"The iron battleground is segregated into the firearm zone and mixed battle zone. Please select your zone to begin combat."

"I choose the firearm zone." Lin Huang saw the advertisements for the mixed battle zone. There were a variety of weapons there but Lin Huang wanted to battle against stronger opponents instead. A virtual map then popped up onto the projected game interface, showing eight maps that were available for selection.

Lin Huang noticed that one of the maps had a combination of Chinese and western buildings. He found it interesting and chose that map.

"Confirm selection of Lijiang Tower"

"There will be two teams in the Lijiang Tower combat mode. Six players will be assigned to each team and players are distinguishable based on the color labels on top of the players' heads. Team members are white while opponents are colored red. The entire battle will take place over half an hour an the side with the highest amount of kills will win."

"You may auto-match with random players or invite online friends to play."

"Random matching." It was the first time Lin Huang played this game. He did not have any friends yet.

"Random matching completed. Please choose your weapon."

As usual, Lin Huang chose the BlackEagle33.

"Weapon selection completed. The map is now being generated."

Within a short while, the virtual environment before Lin Huang changed. The spacious game cabin was transformed into a night-time city environment.

"Welcome to Lijiang Tower!"

His team members appeared one after the other.

"Are there any first-time players?" A tall man glanced around and his gaze landed on Lin Huang's ID which was placed above his head.

The rest of them shook their heads. Lin Huang was the only one who raised his hand. "I just bought my game ring today."

Everyone suddenly seemed displeased. A new player could easily become a burden to the team in this game, an easy target for the opponents.

"Follow me then and morph your weapon to its rifle form and use automatic-fire." The tall man frowned when he saw Lin Huang holding a BlackEagle33.

"I'm not going to change anything. I'm used to attacking with the BlackEagle33." Lin Huang shook his head.

"Kid, just change it for the sake of the team. Don't be selfish. The speed and the shooting distance of that pistol is no match for a rifle. You're a newbie and you're not used to this game yet. Please don't be a burden to the team." The 40-year-old man was rude indeed. The ID above his head said, "Man in his forties is a flower in bloom".

"I'll try a few shots first. If I can't manage it, I'll change my weapon to a rifle." Lin Huang insisted.

"It's fine, stop talking about it. You're given two chances. If you die without a kill, you're changing your weapon."

"Okay." Lin Huang compromised.

He was confident with his technique. Although he might not be able to defeat all the players in the iron zone, he at least believed that he would not be killed twice and would at least get a kill!

"I'll bring him to the night market. The four of you please go to the courtyard." The tall man gave his instructions. None of them disagreed with him because truthfully, no one was willing to bring Lin Huang to the night market.

Lin Huang kept quiet. It was fine if no one was going to accompany him. He preferred wandering around on his own so he could familiarize himself with the map. Of all the people there, he did not think that it would be the tall man who would lead him there instead, especially after the heated debate about them wanting him to change weapons.

The player ID of the tall man was 'I'm the tall and mighty man'.

Walking behind the tall man, Lin Huang looked at his player ID and he furrowed his brows. "It's true that he's tall, but... Mighty? Was the word 'Mighty' referring to his performance in the game or something else?"

Brother Mighty did not know that Lin Huang was laughing at his player ID. He explained to Lin Huang as he walked, "Based Lijiang Tower's map, it seems that there are not many buildings here. The battleground is separated into two main areas. One is the courtyard, the area where the four of them are headed to now and the second area is the night market, where we're headed towards now. The courtyard has a better field of view with a bridge there while the night market has more shelters. With the way the night market is designed, the best weapon to use here would be a sniper rifle..."

Since Lin Huang was using a BlackEagle33, Brother Mighty told him to attack using its sniper form so he does not get killed so easily.

It was night-time and the virtual map was brightly lit.

Lin Huang observed his surroundings as he listened to Brother Mighty's explanation.

Although he knew that it was just a virtual scene in the game, he was hungry because of the many food stalls in the market.

He casually took a grilled squid from one of the stalls. The squid was still hot and it had a burnt aroma to it, it felt so real! He was astounded at how advanced this game was.

Lin Huang walked with Brother Mighty and together, they passed by several restaurants. He attempted to familiarize himself with the dynamics here. Just as he was walking out of a shop selling steamed buns, a gunshot from a sniper went off.

Brother Mighty's s head exploded and his body collapsed to the ground.

Lin Huang did not run away. Instead, he rushed out of the shop and activated Cloud Steps , moving around a short distance. He lifted his pistol and shot upwards, towards the high ground of the night market that Brother Mighty mentioned just now.

There was a woman wearing a tight, black leather outfit on the high grounds of the night market, using a skill similar to his. Lin Huang saw that she was using the same type of weapon he had – a BlackEagle33.

After a few consecutive shots, Lin Huang's expression changed. He would never have thought he would meet a pro in his very first battle and of all the zones, he had to meet her in the iron zone…

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