Xu Ye's head felt like it was splitting apart.
His vision cleared, and Yang Chang's silver figure came into view again.
He's like a demon... Xu Ye grumbled inwardly.
Shen Xinghai watched from the side, taking pleasure in his misery, though he said, "You can't think first and then dodge. Bullets travel faster than sound. Especially at close range, you have to dodge first and think afterward, unless you have a special Sequence Talent."
"Train your instincts," Jian Fang added. "An Awakened can't rely solely on Sequence Talents. You need other abilities too. Otherwise, if an enemy counters your talents, you can easily end up dead."
"From now on, try not to reveal your abilities to others, either."
"Some rules in Restricted Zones also restrict Sequence Talents, so we often fight with firearms or weapons like swords."
"In fact, every year, more Awakened die to firearms than are killed by enemies."
"Firearms?" Xu Ye was taken aback.
He had assumed that people at Shen Xinghai's level would have nothing to fear from firearms.
Yang Chang laughed. "Don't underestimate firearms. They were what allowed the Great Xia Federation to endure back then. In particular, during that long stretch after Heavenly Dao Distortion appeared but before the first Awakened emerged, firearms developed at incredible speed. That was what preserved human civilization."
"Almost every power secretly controls some kind of large-scale firearm."
"Sky City has the Crimson Eye, but its main purposes are defense and surveillance. In secret, it also has a starship. Supposedly, a few shots from its cannons could wipe out an entire city."
"Besides that, to kill an enemy, you also need to understand certain patterns, such as regional and individual variations in Sequence Talents. But that's a little more complicated."
Xu Ye was astonished.
Yang Chang chuckled. "Looks like