"Welco to the Gunman Trial Ground, the S-level trial ’I Am a Sharpshooter’ is about to begin. The trial rules are as follows..." Within a shooting range, a cold, synthesized electronic voice emanated from the light screen.
Li Xiu carefully morized the rules; although it’s an S-level trial, the rules were astoundingly simple.
Li Xiu only needed to stand at the designated spot, use the provided gun from the Trial Ground, and hit the target.
However, each shot by Li Xiu was required to hit the bullseye; there were ten targets in total. Such a trial should pose no difficulty for Li Xiu.
When it cos to controlling the trajectory in space, there’s hardly anyone in the world who surpasses Li Xiu.
Indeed, the initial shots went smoothly. With a semi-automatic pistol in hand, Li Xiu could precisely hit the bullseye of the first five targets, even as the distance extended progressively from 100 ters at the start to 500 ters by the fifth shot, with no deviation whatsoever.
But as soon as the sixth target appeared, Li Xiu’s expression beca serious.
Li Xiu knew the difficulty of the upcoming targets would increase, but he hadn’t expected it to be this challenging.
He had predicted moving targets, or even those that move rapidly with various obstacles, or with extrely tight ti constraints.
It turned out that his predictions were naive; it was no longer about difficulty, but that Li Xiu found it impossible to hit the target.
The sixth target didn’t move, had no obstacles, and the ti limit remained unchanged—just another 100 ters away.
Don’t underestimate those extra hundred ters; through previous shots, Li Xiu had deduced that the semi-automatic pistol provided by the Gunman Trial Ground had a maximum range of just over 500 ters. This range was the furthest possible, not the effective distance.
In other words, the bullets from this gun couldn’t reach the target’s position; even with Li Xiu’s accuracy, hitting the target, let alone the bullseye, was impossible.
Earlier, Li Xiu tried injecting his Light Energy into the pistol, but the pistol acted as if it were insulated against Light Energy, unable to utilize the Light Energy on it, nor could he extend the bullet’s range using Light Energy.
Faced with such seemingly fatal rules, Li Xiu remained calm, scrutinizing the Gunman Trial Ground and constantly devising strategies in his mind.
Bullets are not arrows; even if Li Xiu fired bullets skyward, they couldn’t ride the wind to the target.
"Could it be that there’s only information on A-level Gunman Trials in the records, with no insights on S-level Gunman Trials? It seems that trial takers who participated in S-level trials likely didn’t survive." Li Xiu pondered over the gun in his hands, seeking a way to make the bullet traverse that improbable distance.
His position was fixed, he couldn’t advance forward, and the bullet’s range couldn’t reach the target. Unlike arrows, bullets have a fixed kinetic energy and cannot be supplented, so there’s no way to have the second bullet catch up and supply energy to the first one. After much thought, Li Xiu concluded there’s probably only one solution.
Li Xiu glanced at the countdown that was almost over, then focused his gaze on the first five targets.
The five earlier targets, despite being hit, remained in place and weren’t retracted.
The targets consisted of a target sheet hung between two poles; Li Xiu noted that the top ends of the poles had a protruding segnt.
With his gaze fixed on the target, Li Xiu moved his feet, then suddenly tossed the automatic pistol like a boorang.
The pistol spun through the air towards the first target, astonishingly hooking onto the pole, spinning upon it.
A bang rang out; the pole trapped the trigger, firing a bullet, which incredibly hit the bullseye of the sixth target.
The recoil from firing the bullet ejected the pistol from the pole, but unfortunately, it landed near the target due to insufficient force.
Li Xiu had done all he could; there was truly no way to retrieve the pistol back to his hand. Without a new pistol, he would fail this trial.
But besides this, Li Xiu indeed had no other thods.
The bullets and pistol were entirely unaffected by Light Energy, offering no additional tactics; Li Xiu had contemplated every possibility, hitting the bullseye wasn’t difficult, yet having the pistol return was unachievable.
"They surely wouldn’t prevent from having a pistol for the subsequent trials, right?" Li Xiu felt that even for an S-level trial, surely there would be so way to survive, since the trial’s purpose wasn’t to kill.
"S-level Gunman Trial failed... Trial Taker elimination in progress..." The cold electronic voice suddenly emitted from the light screen, shocking Li Xiu: "How could the trial not be completed! Apart from losing grip on the pistol, there’s simply no other way to extend the reach beyond five hundred ters to hit the six hundred ters distant target!"
But there was no ti to ponder why the trial wasn’t completed; Li Xiu’s imdiate response was to unleash all his Light Energy frantically, his gaze fixated on the Trial Seeker’s Bracelet as it emitted a dangerous glow.
That was all he could do now. Through nurous trials, he had wondered whether it was possible to remove the Trial Seeker’s Bracelet on his wrist, but even Divine Position Level power struggled to break or remove the bracelet.
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