Physics

When the first gunshot rang out, Tian Yuan had already reached the third floor of the Border Market, following a large group of officers.

The instant that string of gunshots crackled like firecrackers, the officers around them grew flustered and tense!

Most people without identification were forbidden to carry guns in this city. Just as the bald officer had said, the last time the police had encountered a shooting was more than a year ago.

"Stay calm! Hold your formation!"

Tian Yuan's steady voice brought the officers back to their senses. They quickly found cover nearby and surrounded their chief, then spotted the source of the gunfire through the windows.

The police cars were parked on the west side of the Border Market, twenty meters from the towering wall.

Everyone present, including the undocumented people hiding downstairs and waiting for the officers to finish their checks, could clearly see what was happening!

Three officers lay dead!

A tall and a short figure, a bloodied man and woman, quickly shot out the tires of every police car, leaving only one intact.

Then, under everyone's watchful eyes, the police car started up. Its shrill engine and flashing siren seemed to slap every officer in the face as it suddenly accelerated away from the wall!

Bang!

Tian Yuan couldn't suppress his fury. He slammed a fist into the flimsy, shoddy window in front of him, and the entire pane shattered into pieces!

Beside him, a young officer who looked like he'd only recently joined the Police Department shakily gripped his pistol in both hands and aimed at the receding police car, his finger already on the trigger.

But before he could pull it, Tian Yuan's hand—cut by the broken glass—came down hard across his face!

Smack!

The young officer was knocked to the floor, his gun dropping beside him. Clutching one side of his face, already red and swollen, he stared in disbelief at the chief who was best known for looking after his subordinates.

Tian Yuan roared.

"Fuck your ancestors! What did I tell you before we started this job? Did you take every fucking word as a joke? Nobody is to draw a gun when dealing with Feng Zi! Even if she gets so much as a scratch, everyone in the entire Police Department will pay for your stupidity!"

With that, he turned and strode downstairs.

"Contact the person in charge at the Police Department right away. Tell him to send more officers to search every community in Yuguang! We're heading to the station now. We can still catch the labor train to Yuguang before nightfall!"

Leaning against the wall with a cigarette in his mouth, Feng Yanyi had watched the whole show.

"Shouldn't you pay for that window before you go?"

Tian Yuan didn't stop. Instead, the young officer who'd been slapped picked himself up and followed the others out, then pulled a banknote from his pocket and handed it to Master Thirteen with a deeply aggrieved look.

After all the officers had left, Feng Yanyi turned to look at the police car that had disappeared into the vast stony wasteland. The worry in his eyes was no longer hidden.

She had shot and killed officers herself. She was challenging the limits of the Council's tolerance.

"Don't move, 626! Please, your shoulder's bleeding!"

"It's just a small wound. Nothing to worry about!"

"There's a first-aid kit in the car. Hold still. I'll bandage it!"

"That was fucking thrilling! Sneaking up on those bastards and killing them earlier didn't feel like much, but killing them in front of a crowd and then getting away? Totally worth it!"

"Don't swear! 626, turn the music off, p-please!"

"I know you're shaken and nervous after killing someone, Cripple. Don't be scared. This was self-defense. Every living thing has an innate right to defend itself!"

"I know. I'm not scared! But I need to stop your bleeding!"

Li Wei whistled, calming the emotions surging through him from the adrenaline rush. He didn't turn off the police car's stereo, only lowered the volume a little.

He rested one arm on the open window and kept one hand on the steering wheel, humming along with the music as he floored the gas and tore across the endless stony wasteland.

Feng Zi pressed her pale lips together and held Li Wei still, now that he had finally quieted down, then spread hemostatic medicine over the wound on his shoulder.

The bullet hadn't hit him; it had only grazed him, tearing away a small piece of flesh.

With unpracticed hands, Feng Zi wrapped a bandage around Li Wei's shoulder and finished it off with a bow. Li Wei glanced sideways at it, looking as if he thought it was a little too girly and wasn't entirely pleased.

Three notifications about player information flashed through his mind. Those three officers had clearly been fairly well-off, each with assets worth over a million. Together, they'd given him 49 experience points.

His experience bar now read [Experience: 135735.9/500000].

That tiny increase was barely a drop in the bucket compared to the absurd total, but it showed that those officers had enjoyed a comfortable life—certainly a better one than the laborers who received only thirty thousand in compensation after dying, and took home only half of that.

Keeping one hand on the steering wheel, Li Wei picked up the pistol from the police car's center console and examined it for a while.

"Having these guns will be a good thing for us."

It seemed Feng Zi had made a decision while bandaging him. She turned to Li Wei and spoke with grave sincerity.

"Though I don't know if this is where your talent lies, I want to try teaching you physics!"

Li Wei raised an eyebrow. Now that he understood this world's supernatural system, he knew Feng Zi's so-called physics wasn't just some ordinary set of formulas and facts.

In Liang Xincheng's memories, he'd gone to school, but it seemed that from elementary through high school, the curriculum had only covered the two core subjects of Chinese and math. There had been no other academic subjects.

If the other underground cities were like Sun City, with a clearly defined class structure, then knowledge was obviously a monopoly. Ordinary people from the middle and lower classes had no way to access that so-called "science."

"What can learning physics do for me?" Li Wei asked.

Feng Zi looked serious.

"My main field of study at the Central Physics Institute was the law of universal gravitation. If you can master it, you'll be able to intervene in the system of gravitational rules that currently sustains humanity's basic survival."

"F=Gm1m2/r^2?"

Hearing Li Wei recite the formula, Feng Zi's eyes widened. She couldn't hide her shock.

"How do you know that formula?"

Though it had been more than two years since he graduated and started working, long past his high school intellectual peak, Li Wei still remembered basic formulas like that.

Of course, he had a universal answer for Feng Zi.

"After you injected the key into my body, it appeared along with some other memories."

As expected, Feng Zi didn't doubt him at all.

"Then one of the 3.67 million samples used to create you must have been a physics researcher! The key awakened memories related to the field. This is good, 626! Knowing these basic formulas will be a huge help when it comes to truly mastering gravity!"