Bang! Bang! Bang!
The moment Qin Ran rushed out of cover, a barrage of gunfire erupted from the rooftop across the street.
Yet beneath the Night Veil, Qin Ran moved like the nimblest of cats, his footwork agile and his body swift.
Bullets repeatedly grazed past him and struck the ground, kicking up clusters of dirt and sand as though chasing his footsteps, yet they ultimately gained nothing.
E- Agility, Mastery-level [Dodge], and the special effect [Mastery of Agile Footwork] allowed Qin Ran to display waltz-like elegance against a group of enemies with substandard marksmanship.
Amid the stunned gazes of those around him, Qin Ran easily scooped up the fallen police officer and, after several consecutive rolls, returned to Lestrade's cover.
"He needs a doctor!"
Qin Ran handed the wounded officer over to his colleague and gave a faint smile beneath the other's grateful gaze.
Within the limits of his ability, Qin Ran did not mind helping people on the same side.
"Th-thank you!"
Lestrade said stammeringly.
Then, without waiting for Qin Ran to react, he turned and glared viciously at the two-story building where Shuberk was hiding.
If it had not been for those explosives, how could he have ended up so humiliated that he had to thank an "amateur"?
Though his gratitude was sincere, that did not stop Lestrade from hating scum like Shuberk!
In truth, if the other side had not suddenly acquired those explosives, Lestrade would have captured them from the start instead of requesting reinforcements.
Even now, with Chief John's support on the way, Lestrade was not certain whether they could take down Shuberk in the building opposite.
After all, the enemy's firepower was simply too strong!
"Do we have to deploy the military?"
As soon as that thought surfaced in Lestrade's mind, he instinctively wanted to reject it.
However, reason told him that it was the best option.
"If we do that, every police officer here will lose face!"
Lestrade's eyes dimmed.
He could even imagine the newspapers' attacks on their "incompetence" tomorrow.
"Dammit!"
Lestrade slammed his fist into the ground, his face full of frustration.
"Things haven't gotten bad enough for us to give up yet!"
Qin Ran spoke as he looked at the Lestrade who had raised his head to look at him.
"Deputy Chief, if possible, I'd like you to tell me the details about the building opposite!"
"Maybe I have a way to resolve this!"
Qin Ran's words sounded modest, but his tone carried powerful confidence.
"You..."
Lestrade instinctively wanted to mock this "amateur" for overestimating himself, but remembering how Qin Ran had saved both him and his subordinates, he ultimately swallowed the sarcastic words.
Still, deep down, he did not believe Qin Ran had any solution.
That remained true even though Qin Ran had displayed exceptionally good Shooting earlier.
After all, the current situation was not something that superior marksmanship alone could solve.
Qin Ran easily saw through the other's thoughts.
The deputy chief before him was not someone good at hiding his expressions.
And people like that were usually easy to deal with.
One only had to find the right method!
"Have you lost even the courage to give it a try?"
Smiling, Qin Ran spoke again.
This time, Qin Ran's words rapidly turned the hot-tempered Lestrade's face red. He took a deep breath and began speaking bluntly.
"So what if I tell you!"
"Can you really solve something that more than ten of us have been unable to handle?"
"Shuberk has at least twenty men there.
"Every one of them has a firearm, and the number of explosives is unknown. But judging by the situation, there have to be at least a hundred sticks! And that bastard has blocked all the doors and windows on the first and second floors. If we want to get in, we'll have to start from the roof!"
"Dammit, don't let me find out who supplied that bastard with the connection, or I'll crush that bastard's balls!"
As he spoke, the deputy chief angrily slammed his fist into the ground again.
"At least twenty people, each with firearms? And an unknown number of explosives?"
Qin Ran narrowed his eyes. As he listened to the deputy chief's account, he calculated inwardly while examining the building opposite.
By moonlight, the Night Veil caused Qin Ran little trouble, allowing him to clearly see the situation across the street—the Shuberk men who had fired earlier had returned to the room to Reload, while three more men carrying reloaded guns appeared on the rooftop.
One of them even held an unlit homemade explosive.
Qin Ran looked at the three Shuberk men who had suddenly appeared, as well as the unlit homemade explosive.
Suddenly, an idea surfaced in Qin Ran's mind.
"Deputy Chief, can you handle one of the men on the rooftop?"
Qin Ran asked.
"Of course, but what about the other two?"
"Leave the other two to me!"
"And I have a fairly good idea!"
"They seem to have a lot of explosives! And with that much explosive... all it takes is a single spark for them to go boom and fly into the sky!"
Qin Ran cut him off and revealed his plan.
"Are you insane?"
"Do you know what you're saying?"
Upon hearing Qin Ran's plan, the deputy chief immediately shook his head.
In his view, this was completely impossible.
Not to mention the wide street, the height of that two-story building alone was enough to let the men on the roof turn any climber into a sieve.
"Of course I do!"
"And do you think there is a better way right now than letting me try?"
"Or are you planning to become everyone else's laughingstock?"
Qin Ran spoke with a smile as he looked at the other man.
"Fine!"
"But this is an action you volunteered for. It has nothing to do with us!"
The deputy chief gritted his teeth.
"Of course!"
Qin Ran was not surprised that Lestrade had agreed to his proposal.
Though they had only known each other for a short while, Qin Ran had already gained a rough understanding of the other man, who was poor at concealing his emotions.
"Then... let's begin!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Ran rolled out of cover. The [M1905] in his left hand and [Viper-M1] in his right rose simultaneously, then fired almost at the same time.
Bang, bang!
Bang!
After two consecutive gunshots came another shot.
Lestrade was no slower than Qin Ran.
The two men fired three shots, and all three hit their targets.
However, Lestrade was once again astonished by Qin Ran's Shooting technique, which seemed to fire and hit simultaneously.
In truth, Qin Ran had not fired at exactly the same time.
There had still been a slight sequence between the shots.
But the difference was minute and the speed was extreme, so to Lestrade, it naturally looked as though they had been fired simultaneously.
"Cover me!"
Qin Ran said to Lestrade.
After saying that, he placed the [Viper-M1] on the ground and sprinted toward the two-story building.
Lestrade immediately took a gun from one of his subordinates and aimed it at the rooftop.
But the sight he saw the next moment caused his muzzle to tilt involuntarily.
He clearly saw Qin Ran dash across the street at a speed faster than anyone Lestrade had ever known. Then Qin Ran leaped high, using both hands and feet like a monkey to climb onto the second-floor balcony.
The entire process took less than three seconds!
At that moment, two more of Shuberk's men appeared on the rooftop.
His surprise did not make Lestrade forget his duty.
The instant the two Shuberk men appeared, he fired.
"Cover him!"
The deputy chief shouted. Then, without even having time to Reload, he grabbed another reloaded gun from a subordinate beside him and fired across the street.
The other police officers also saw Qin Ran's movements and heard the deputy chief's shout. Without hesitation, they began providing support.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Amid the barrage of gunfire, the two Shuberk men who had just appeared were shot dead on the rooftop.
Taking advantage of that moment, Qin Ran climbed onto the roof and surveyed the situation there.
The roof's wooden boards had long since been torn away, exposing a huge opening with two ladders set side by side for Shuberk's men to go up and down.
Qin Ran saw Shuberk's men inside the room.
Naturally, those Shuberk men saw Qin Ran as well.
"Kill that guy!"
Such a shout came from inside the room.
Immediately afterward, Shuberk's men inside raised their guns and fired at where Qin Ran stood.
The instant they fired, Qin Ran rolled away.
At the same time, Qin Ran, who had long formed a plan, did not hesitate in the slightest. A [-II] grenade appeared in his hand, and after pulling the pin, he threw it into the room.
Then Qin Ran swiftly got to his feet and sprinted across the roof, leaping toward another rooftop seven or eight meters away.
Besides Shuberk's men, he had just seen a crate of homemade explosives that had been opened and was more than half used—just as he had predicted, there was a large quantity of explosives in the room.
The grenade would surely detonate those homemade explosives!
If he remained on the rooftop when that happened, he would simply be courting death.
Boom!
Just as Qin Ran landed on the opposite rooftop and rolled repeatedly to disperse the force, a massive explosion erupted behind him. An irresistible force propelled his body into further rolls across the roof.
And in that instant of rolling, Qin Ran could clearly see that the two-story building where Shuberk and his men were located had completely turned into a burning torch.
The enormous, dazzling blaze illuminated nearly half the night sky.
The firelight revealed the astonished faces of Lestrade and his subordinates in the distance.
They looked at everything before them in disbelief.
Qin Ran had succeeded?
Qin Ran had succeeded!
No one knew who began cheering loudly first, but soon everyone around joined in.
Even Lestrade wore an unconcealable smile.
Then, the next moment, they all thought of Qin Ran, the great contributor who had resolved this incident. Seeing that Qin Ran had yet to rise, they shouted and hurried toward the rooftop where he had landed.
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