Physics

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

The moment that string of firecracker-like cracks echoed through the air, the surrounding officers became flustered and tense!

In this city, the vast majority of people without identification are forbidden from carrying firearms; just as that bald officer had said, the last time they encountered a shooting incident was over a year ago.

"Steady! Maintain formation!"

Tian Yuan's steady voice brought the officers back to their senses. They quickly found cover nearby, shielding their police superintendent in the center, and then peered through the windows to locate the source of the gunfire.

The police vehicles were parked on the west side of the Border Market, twenty meters away from the towering ramparts.

Everyone present, including the undocumented residents of the Border Market who were hiding downstairs waiting for the police sweep to finish, could clearly see what was happening there!

Three officers lay dead!

One tall and one short, a bloody male and female figure quickly shot out the tires of all the police vehicles, leaving only one intact.

Then, in full view of everyone, they started the police car. The screeching engine and flashing siren felt like a slap to the face of every officer present as the vehicle accelerated violently and sped away in the opposite direction of the ramparts!

"Bang!"

Tian Yuan could no longer suppress the rage in his heart. He punched the fragile, inferior window glass in front of him, and the entire pane shattered into pieces instantly!

Beside him, a young officer who looked like he had just joined the force was trembling, gripping his pistol with both hands and aiming at the fleeing police car, his finger already resting on the trigger.

However, before he could press it, Tian Yuan—his hand already cut by the broken glass—slapped the young man hard across the face!

"Smack!"

The young officer was knocked to the ground, his gun falling from his hand. He clutched his visibly swollen cheek, looking in disbelief at the superintendent known for being the most protective of his subordinates.

Tian Yuan roared.

"Damn your grandmother! What did I say before we started this mission? Did you treat my words like farts? No one is allowed to draw their weapons when facing Feng Zi! If she even loses a patch of skin, our entire department will be buried along with you, you idiot!"

With that, he turned and walked quickly toward the stairs.

"Contact the person in charge at the station immediately! Tell them to send reinforcements to search every community in Yuguang! We're heading to the station now; we might still catch the evening labor train to Yuguang!"

Leaning against the wall with a cigarette in his mouth, Feng Yanyi watched the scene unfold and gazed at Tian Yuan's retreating back.

"Aren't you going to pay for that window before you leave?"

Tian Yuan didn't stop, but the young officer who had been slapped, having climbed up from the floor and joined the departing group, pulled a banknote from his pocket and handed it to Master Thirteen with a look of grievance.

After all the officers had left, Feng Yanyi turned to look at the police car that had vanished into the vast gravel flats, the worry in his eyes no longer hidden.

By personally killing the officers, she was challenging the Council's limit of tolerance toward her.

"Stop moving, 626! Please, your shoulder is bleeding!"

"Just a minor wound, nothing to worry about!"

"There's a medical kit in the car. Stop moving, let me bandage it for you!"

"That was fucking exhilarating! I didn't feel much when I snuck up and killed those scumbags before, but killing them in front of a whole crowd and just driving off? Totally worth it!"

"Don't use foul language! 626, turn, turn off the music!"

"I know you're panicked and nervous after killing someone, Cripple. Don't be afraid; this was self-defense. Every living creature has an innate right to self-preservation!"

"I know, I'm not afraid! But I need to stop your bleeding!"

Li Wei whistled, calming the emotions stirred up by the adrenaline rush, but he didn't turn off the car stereo, merely turning the volume down a notch.

He rested one arm on the lowered window, gripped the steering wheel with the other, and hummed along to the melody while flooring the accelerator, racing across the endless gravel flats.

Feng Zi bit her pale lips, held down the restless Li Wei, and applied the hemostatic medicine to his shoulder wound.

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

Feng Zi clumsily wrapped the bandage around Li Wei's shoulder, finishing it with a bow, which made Li Wei glance at it sideways, looking somewhat dissatisfied as if he thought it was a bit too girly.

Three player notifications flashed in his mind in succession. These three officers clearly had some wealth; each of their assets exceeded a million, contributing a total of 49 experience points.

His experience bar now read <strong>[Experience Points: 135,735.9/500,000]</strong>.

This growth was like a mosquito bite compared to that exaggerated total, but it showed that these officers lived quite well—at least better than those laborers who only paid out thirty thousand upon death, half of which was taken as fees.

Holding the steering wheel with one hand, Li Wei picked up the pistol from the center console and examined it for a moment.

"Having these guns is a good thing for us."

Feng Zi seemed to have made a decision while bandaging him. She turned to look at Li Wei and said solemnly.

"Although I don't know if your talent lies here, I am going to try to teach you physics!"

Li Wei raised an eyebrow. After understanding the extraordinary system of this world, he certainly wouldn't mistake the "physics" Feng Zi spoke of for ordinary formulas or textbook knowledge.

In the memories belonging to "Liang Xincheng," he had attended school, but the knowledge taught in schools—regardless of level—seemed to focus only on language and mathematics; other academic subjects were non-existent.

If other dungeons were like Sun City, with a clear class structure, then knowledge was clearly a monopoly, and the average lower-to-middle-class person had no way to access this so-called "science."

"What's the use of learning physics?" Li Wei asked.

Feng Zi's expression was very serious.

"My main area of study at the Central Physics Institute was the Law of Universal Gravitation. If you can master it, you can intervene in the gravitational rule system that currently maintains the basic survival of humanity."

"F=Gm1m2/r^2?"

Hearing that string of formulas spill from Li Wei's mouth, Feng Zi widened her eyes, the shock in her gaze impossible to conceal.

"How do you know this formula?"

Although he had been out of school and working for over two years, long past the peak of his high school intelligence, Li Wei still remembered such a fundamental equation.

Naturally, he had a universal answer for Feng Zi.

"It appeared along with some other memories after you injected the key into my body."

As expected, Feng Zi did not doubt this in the slightest.

"There must have been a physics researcher among the 3,670,000 samples used to create you! The key triggered memories related to this field, which is a good thing, 626! If you understand these basic equations, it will be a tremendous help in truly mastering gravity!"