The Plan

It was already four o'clock in the afternoon when David returned home. He toyed with the small Mimicry Monitor in his hand, calculating how he should handle the situation he was facing.

In truth, all he had to do was hand the video footage in his possession to the police, or send it to Gallen, and both Mr. Steer and Jeremy would be finished.

However, David currently needed a period of dormancy. His strength was increasing rapidly; as long as he was given time, with the help of the Shadow Servant and a large amount of credits and resources, he believed he could become an Armored Warrior as quickly as possible.

Once he became an Armored Warrior, he would have the ability to protect himself.

Of course, he also had another option: to take matters into his own hands and kill Mr. Steer.

When he thought of this plan, a cold, murderous intent flickered in David's eyes.

The David of today was no longer the person who had first arrived in this world, nor was he the predecessor who was easily deceived. After merging with numerous Knowledge Light Orbs related to combat, his mind had experienced thousands of dangerous battles.

In the illusions, he had been injured nearly a hundred times and had been on the verge of death over a dozen times; the number of Zerg and Armored Warriors he had killed was beyond count.

Although they were illusions, those were real experiences within his soul. Beyond the mastery of combat knowledge and abilities, they brought David a lingering influence.

At the very least, when he thought of killing someone now, he did not feel the fear he once had; instead, he felt an urge to act immediately.

Naturally, this change would also allow him to better adapt to surviving in this world.

"For Father, for little Edie, and for my stepmother Bertha, Steer cannot stay alive!" David was resolute in his heart. Once he thought of this plan, he decided on it.

Mr. Steer wanted to kill him, kill Hans, control little Edie, make Bertha lose her husband, and make little Edie lose his father. Regardless of Mr. Steer's identity, David would not allow Mr. Steer to destroy his life or harm his loved ones.

Killing Mr. Steer, who had two bodyguards by his side at all times, was not an easy task.

But David possessed an advantage that others did not: he held Mr. Steer's daily travel schedule.

As long as he seized a single opportunity, David could make Mr. Steer regret it for the rest of his life.

David pulled up Mr. Steer's recent travel schedule again, searching for any such opportunity.

Unfortunately, it seemed that because Mr. Steer had recently noticed he was aging and saw wrinkles on his face, he had reduced his travel plans. Aside from staying at the Steer Hotel to work, he basically had no plans to go out.

As for entering the Steer Hotel, David didn't even consider it and gave up on the idea.

He summoned the Shadow Servant, placed his hand on it, and had it open his attribute panel.

Name: David Kerr
Strength: 3.07 (1)
Agility: 1.9 (1)
Physique: 3.07 (1)
Spirit: 3.4 (1)
Literature (3% Proficient), Mathematics (5% Proficient), General (51% Entry), Body Technique (1% Proficient), Long Sword Mastery (5% Entry), Electronic Warfare (98% Mastery), War Hammer Mastery (83% Proficient), Sniping (20% Proficient), Shield Mastery (50% Proficient), Heavy Axe Mastery (70% Proficient)

If anyone else were to see this long list of abilities, it would be enough to blind them.

In particular, each of these combat abilities required an ordinary person to undergo years of tempering and constant growth amidst life-and-death situations to achieve.

The only ability he currently possessed that could threaten Mr. Steer was, needless to say, sniping.

Don't be fooled by the fact that his Sniping was only at the 20% Proficient level; through the illusions, he understood why Sniper Armored Warriors were considered a special existence among Armored Warriors—their attack power was the most terrifying.

As long as a Sniper Armored Warrior could create distance, they were a nightmare for their enemies.

Of course, once a Sniper Armored Warrior was engaged in close quarters, they became their own nightmare.

Although he was not a Sniper Armored Warrior and could not get his hands on a specialized sniper rifle, he knew of a place that had sniper weapons with power equivalent to, or even greater than, those used by Sniper Armored Warriors.

That place was the city defense weapons on the walls of Peilan City. As the walls protecting the safety of Peilan City, the authorities had installed various powerful city defense weapons on them.

Heavy Laser Cannons, Anti-Aircraft Rapid-Fire Cannons, Gauss Cannons, and Energy Shields—and, of course, a more conventional weapon: the Long-Range Sniper Cannon.

The Long-Range Sniper Cannon had a range of up to five thousand meters and used the same Level 1 ammunition as Sniper Armored Warriors, only this Level 1 ammunition was much larger.

The purpose of this weapon was to target individual Zerg approaching the city defenses, operated in coordination by an optical computer and professional snipers.

Unlike Sniper Armored Warriors fighting in the wild, the city defense Long-Range Sniper Cannon had a fixed emplacement, with the city wall absorbing all the recoil. The attack only required the operator to control it via an optical computer from a slightly distant, safe location.

Those who had a talent for sniping but could not become Armored Warriors would mostly choose to become operators of Long-Range Sniper Cannons.

Other city defense weapons would leave almost nothing intact when attacking Level 1 Zerg, which reduced the potential profit.

But the Long-Range Sniper Cannon was different; it utilized penetration for its attacks, making the damage more concentrated and causing less destruction to the Zerg's carcass.

Every time a Long-Range Sniper Cannon attacked a single Zerg target, it brought revenue to the city. Furthermore, the fired Level 1 ammunition was recovered by specialized personnel using professional scanning equipment, making the Long-Range Sniper Cannon the most frequently used weapon in the city's defenses.

If it weren't for the Sound Isolation Device at the edge of the city, the firing sound of the Long-Range Sniper Cannon would be audible to more than half the people in the city.

The first thing David thought of was the Long-Range Sniper Cannon. Of course, he would absolutely never use his Electronic Warfare ability to attack the city defense system.

Not to mention that if he were discovered, it would almost certainly be a capital offense; even if he just caused a malfunction in the city defense system, the consequences of the weapons being unusable for even a short time could be catastrophic.

Besides, don't let his 98% Mastery in Electronic Warfare fool you; he was powerless against such mature military defense facilities.

This was simply not a confrontation on the same level. The military used the most advanced equipment, much of which was incomparable to civilian tech and contained numerous technologies unique to the military.

For David to think he could challenge the military's defense system with just a Medium Server would be an act of overestimating his own capabilities.

Once he triggered the military's professional Electronic Warfare Specialists, he would have nowhere to hide.

David wanted to manipulate the Long-Range Sniper Cannon directly from a physical level. In this regard, as long as he could get onto the city wall, or even without climbing it, as long as he was within ten meters of the Control Optical Computer, he could have the Shadow Servant operate the Long-Range Sniper Cannon.

A bold plan rose in his heart, and he began to search for relevant information from various places.

After finishing his practice of the Eighteen Forms of Body Technique in the evening, he did not go straight to sleep but instead went to the server room.

Putting on the Virtual Helmet, he entered the virtual world and then proceeded to manipulate and modify the data once again.

He filled the virtual world with the information he had found one by one, and soon a section of the city wall appeared, standing twenty meters high.

At a distance of 4.6 kilometers from the city wall, a massive building appeared.

If anyone were to see this building, they would recognize it as the Steer Hotel.

David copied the blueprints of the Steer Hotel directly from its secure server and reconstructed the Steer Hotel in the virtual world.

At the very top of the Steer Hotel was Mr. Steer's massive luxury office, which meant there would be no buildings obstructing the line of sight between the city wall and Mr. Steer's office.

In Peilan City, high-rise buildings were rare, and the Steer Hotel was one of the tallest.

Next was to retrieve the weather information; at a distance of 4.6 kilometers, he needed favorable weather to achieve precision.

David input the weather forecasts for the next few days into the Medium Server and included the officially released Satellite Cloud Flow Map.

In the virtual world, he calculated the weather conditions for each of the next three days, including temperature, humidity, wind speed, and other aspects.

David then used this scenario to conduct the ballistic calculation and analysis training he had been practicing; although the distance was greater, the calculation method remained the same.

It was not until his Identity Bracelet reminded him again that he emerged from the virtual world.

This reminder from the Identity Bracelet was because the time for him to fuse another Knowledge Light Orb had arrived; twenty-four hours had passed since the last fusion.

Although there were only two unfused Knowledge Light Orbs left, David did not want to waste a single moment.

The two remaining Knowledge Light Orbs within the Shadow Servant were Long Sword Mastery (80% proficiency) and Spear Mastery (99% proficiency).

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