Firearm Expert

Hadn't Captain Kai told them to find an opportunity to make their move themselves?

Suren certainly wouldn't hold back. The people from Green Street were already at a disadvantage, and handing the initiative to the enemy would be no different from waiting to die.

The instant the thought arose, a flash of frost flickered across his face and vanished.

"Heh heh."

Suren gave a vicious laugh inwardly and released the shotgun in his hand.

In that instant, time seemed to slow. The long gun descended through the air at an extremely sluggish pace.

At the same time, however, his hands moved with lightning speed to the grips of the two pistols at his waist.

Before the shotgun even hit the ground, the two pistols were already in his hands.

Draw, aim, pull the trigger!

The entire motion was smooth and fluid, without the slightest hesitation. He was so fast that people could only see a fleeting blur of his hands.

Just as the members of the Steam Party were still enjoying the pleasure of playing the hunter, and just as Captain Kai and the others were racking their brains for a way to break the deadlock without success, the entire Tube Building suddenly rang with thunderous gunshots.

"Bang!"

A deafening explosion.

Listening carefully, however, one would discover that it was actually two overlapping gunshots.

The shotgun lacked the range and accuracy to kill the two gunmen upstairs who were aiming at his head with a single shot, but large-caliber pistols could do it!

Suren's Dual-Wield Weapon Mastery let him accurately aim at two targets at the same time. His Advanced Firearm Mastery made his draw so fast it was incomprehensible, even faster than the two snipers whose fingers were already resting on their triggers.

After the gunshots rang out, two heads exploded, splattering the area crimson.

In that instant, time seemed to freeze.

The gunshots had come far too abruptly.

So much so that the seventy or eighty people in the entire Tube Building were left standing there in a daze.

No one had expected a "newcomer" to suddenly launch a deadly attack under such circumstances.

After Suren pulled the triggers, his neural reflexes had already been pushed to their limit. His two pistols were still spitting tongues of flame when he used the recoil from the bullets leaving the chambers to fall backward.

Throughout the entire process, his face wore an almost numb calm.

Taking advantage of the moment when everyone was stunned, he slammed his foot against the ground and rolled with the momentum, breaking away from the crowd.

At almost the same moment, Kai, a professional, also reacted. He cried out inwardly, What an opportunity!

Without the slightest delay, the muscles in his legs suddenly bulged with veins. His entire body was like a spring compressed to its limit, and with a whoosh, he shot forward.

Seizing the initiative in the battle for their side was also Kai's intention!

However, most of the enemies had been watching him before, leaving him no chance to strike first.

Suren's two shots not only broke the deadlock but also relieved some of the pressure on Kai and created an opportunity for a counterattack. As long as Kai had room to maneuver, he could unleash an astonishing speed that the enemies would be unable to track even after turning their guns toward him, breaking open this dead end!

The newcomers had yet to understand what had happened, but in the next second, the gunshots ignited a great battle.

For a time, nearly a hundred firearms on both sides fired furiously at each other, like summer thunderclaps, deafening everyone.

Bang, bang, bang, bang!

The muzzle flashes illuminated the Tube Building. The violent shaking sent shattered stones raining down from the surrounding buildings, while the floors and load-bearing pillars exploded like tofu under the dense hail of bullets.

Kai charged forward, instantly drawing away most of the firepower.

Even so, the people from Green Street were still on the verge of death as they faced the enemy firing down at them from above. Apart from a few veterans who reacted in time to roll away from the bullets and barely retain the ability to return fire, the newcomers almost immediately became live targets. One bloody hole after another burst open across their bodies, and they fell dead where they stood.

Under such firepower suppression, even Suren, who was already several meters away from the crowd, felt immense pressure.

He had fired the first shot and drawn quite a bit of fire. Even though his reactions were as swift as a leopard's, the rain of bullets still forced him into a sorry state.

During that brief roll, he clearly felt the scorching wind of several pellets graze past him. Despite his astonishingly fast reactions, some of the scattered pellets still struck his body.

But at least he had survived.

Suren hid behind a thick stone pillar and took several heavy breaths.

Under a barrage of random gunfire, even the best movement technique was useless. His back was dotted with bloody holes left by iron pellets.

However, since he hadn't died immediately, the ferocity in Suren's eyes grew stronger and stronger.

Holding the two pistols, he counted down inwardly: Five, four, three...

As expected, before five seconds had passed, the gunfire suddenly died down by more than half.

He knew this was the gap after the heavy firearms had emptied their first magazines.

Suren's gaze sharpened abruptly, and he shouted inwardly, Now!

Without the slightest hesitation, he charged out again!

An ordinary person would surely be thinking about self-preservation in such a situation.

But Suren knew very clearly that if he didn't kill all these Steam Party bastards, there was no way he would leave the Tube Building alive today!

Although Captain Kai was very strong, he had no chance of victory against the enemy's two professionals.

If Kai really died, Suren's only outcome would be death as well!

Therefore, Suren held no hope of luck. Even if he wasn't the enemy's main target at the moment, he still had to take the initiative and attack.

Suren circled out from behind the stone pillar. Although it looked as if he barely aimed, his hands were already firing in alternation.

Yet these shots, which appeared to be random fire, struck an enemy upstairs every time the muzzles spat flame, sending someone tumbling to the ground.

If someone observed carefully, they would discover that these weren't merely hits. They were almost all fatal shots, striking the heart or the head.

At that moment, Suren stood with both pistols in hand and frost covering his face. He was like a god of death descending upon the battlefield, mercilessly harvesting the enemy's lives.

One revolver held six rounds, the other eight. In a mere 2.4 seconds, fourteen bullets harvested twelve or thirteen lives!

Distinguishing positions by sound and analyzing the trajectories to determine the enemies' locations—this was the miraculous Advanced Firearm Mastery. It was an incredibly wondrous sensation, as if the firearms were part of his arms, and the bullets he fired were pulling along invisible threads.

Wherever his thoughts reached, the bullets had already arrived.

When Suren had charged out earlier, he had already judged the approximate positions of the dozen or so gunmen. The instant they entered his field of vision, they were locked on. There was no need to waste time aiming again, and firing was as smooth as breathing.

However, bullets were ultimately limited.

No matter how strong he was, he only had two guns.

His success was purely because Kai had restrained most of the firepower and the people from the Steam Society had been caught off guard. But the enemies were still gangsters who had survived by living on the edge. How could they give him the chance to reload and fire again?

Suren understood this clearly. He had only one chance to fire a volley.

After this burst of gunfire, he rolled away again without hesitation. As he emptied the spent casings from the cylinders, he had already taken cover behind another sturdy stone pillar.

He was less than ten meters from the entrance to the Underground Chamber.

In the next second, ammunition poured down like a torrential rain onto the stone pillar. Suren curled his body as tightly as possible to avoid being hit by the bullets.

"Tat, tat, tat, tat!"

The gunfire left his eardrums aching. Shattered stone and bullet fragments whipped past him.

At this moment, clarity returned to Suren's eyes.

The members of the Steam Party weren't ignorant of quality either. Upon seeing the superb marksmanship Suren had displayed, every one of them was greatly alarmed.

Apart from the "Steel Gorilla" Sith, who wasn't afraid of bullets, no one dared to expose themselves carelessly. They all hid behind cover while firing.

It was too damn frightening. Every shot was a headshot. Anyone would feel a faint ache in their skull after seeing it.

"Red Hair" Kuntu cursed furiously, seemingly questioning the man who had provided the wrong intelligence. "Damn it, how could there be a 'Firearm Expert' among those Cross Society bastards? Didn't you say that apart from Kai, none of them posed a threat? What the hell is going on now?!"

"Firearm Expert" was the exclusive title of an Advanced Gunner.

Throughout the entire Outer City, aside from the few renowned "Firearm Masters," this was already the pinnacle of gunner combat power that an ordinary person could reach.

There were only a handful of such gunners among the three major gangs. Yet now, an unknown newcomer was actually a "Firearm Expert"?

But which "Firearm Expert" hadn't become a veteran gunner after decades of feeding bullets into their weapon?

He clearly didn't look very old. How had that newcomer trained such marksmanship?

Was he a freak?

Kuntu cursed furiously inwardly.

Originally, the Steam Party's two professionals joining forces against Kai had made the plan foolproof. They had been on the verge of success, but an unexpected variable had suddenly appeared!

A gunner of this caliber absolutely could not be underestimated. Otherwise, he would pose an extremely lethal threat even to professionals.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Kai also managed to catch his breath. Delight flashed across his face as he retreated explosively, taking cover behind a stone pillar as well. That position happened to let him see Suren.

The two exchanged a glance, and the shock in Kai's eyes was impossible to conceal. He had known that Suren's marksmanship was decent, but he had never imagined it could reach such a level!

His own team had actually been hiding a "Firearm Expert"?

However, now was not the time to discuss that.

Suren also gestured to him, pointing toward the nearby "Underground Chamber entrance."

Kai understood instantly. The enemy had the high ground, so it was impossible for them to charge out. Even with Suren's astonishing marksmanship, it would still be difficult for him to kill the enemy's two professionals.

Their only way to survive now was to flee underground into the Underground Chamber. Perhaps they could hold out until reinforcements from the gang arrived.

But the enemy didn't give them much of a chance to catch their breath.

Bullets couldn't break through the load-bearing pillar for the time being, but flames could still burn them!

Suren had only known that Kuntu possessed the ability to control flames, but he had never seen it before.

In the next instant, he experienced the methods of this pseudo-professional firsthand!

The vast bottom of the Tube Building suddenly lit up with dazzling red light.

Suren sensed the danger and glanced over from the corner of his eye. He saw flames erupt from the mechanical flamethrower mounted on Kuntu's arm. The moment the flames touched the air, they transformed into a small fireball. In the blink of an eye, the fireball rapidly expanded in the wind, becoming a gigantic fireball roughly ten meters in diameter!

This wasn't a simple blaze. It was an area-of-effect spell created by the Fire Control Art!

"Alchemy: Incendiary Burst Round!"

Before the fireball even reached him, Suren felt as if the air had been burned dry. Even breathing caused a searing, stabbing pain.

Not good!

Suren realized inwardly that something was wrong. Without an Alchemical Implant, there really is still a significant gap between my combat power and that of a genuine professional...

He had been suppressed by the gunfire and hadn't dared expose himself, failing to notice that Kuntu had already approached so closely.

This fireball was impossible to evade.

Suren was decisive to the extreme. Before the red light appeared, he had already replaced the weapon in his hand with a strangely shaped firearm.

It was none other than the famous gun, Three-Headed Ghost!

In this situation, he planned to endure being severely wounded and burned head-on in order to fire an Alchemical Bullet at Kuntu. Only by gambling on the resolve to leave both sides injured could he possibly create the slightest chance of turning this desperate situation around.

But just as the crisis reached its peak, a figure suddenly charged toward him through the flames!

"Huh?"

Seeing that it was Kai, Suren immediately realized what he intended to do.

In the instant he finished thinking, he felt as if a leopard had slammed into his stomach, sending his entire body flying backward at high speed.

So fast!

At almost the same moment, flames that blotted out the sky and covered the earth surged forward like a tsunami, crashing violently into the two of them.

Using the force of the impact, the two were sent flying even faster. After a booming burst of flames, they fell directly into the pitch-black Underground Chamber.

Seeing Suren and Kai fall into the entrance, Kuntu roared, "That bastard is injured! Chase them! We absolutely can't leave him alive!"

How could he not know that Kai had certainly suffered severe injuries from that attack? This was absolutely the best opportunity to kill him.

Without the slightest hesitation, twenty or thirty members of the Steam Party filed into the Underground Chamber after them.

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