“Lu Yun actually looks pretty handsome when he’s serious…”
An Ran muttered the words almost unconsciously, immediately drawing inquisitive looks from the other women.
“I-I was just saying,” she quickly explained.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Under everyone’s watchful eyes, it took Lu Yun less than five seconds to finish shooting.
He emptied all eight rounds from the magazine, and every one of the ten high-speed moving targets came to a stop.
Click.
Lu Yun lowered the pistol, his expression calm.
For a moment, silence fell over the shooting range.
Only the blazing summer sun and the occasional hot breeze broke the stillness as everyone struggled to process what they had just witnessed.
“That’s… it?”
“I think he hit every target.”
“How is that possible? He was using a pistol!”
“Wait, that doesn’t make sense. The magazine only held nine rounds, and he never reloaded. How did all ten targets stop?”
“The targets must have malfunctioned.”
Whispers spread through the crowd.
After convincing themselves it had to be equipment failure, many finally relaxed.
Not far away, the special forces soldiers frowned.
“Did the targets break?” Li Erniu muttered.
He Chenguang shouted toward the range.
“What’s going on? Did the targets malfunction?”
A strange, slightly trembling voice came from the operators in the distance.
“N-No… they’re working fine!”
“What? Impossible!”
Wang Yanbing refused to believe it and personally walked over to inspect the targets.
When he returned a short while later, his expression was blank with disbelief.
“What’s wrong?” Lei Zhan asked suspiciously.
“Uh…”
Wang Yanbing glanced at Lu Yun before taking a deep breath.
“Thunder God… you’d better prepare yourself.”
“Hm?”
Lei Zhan frowned even deeper before shouting impatiently,
“Report the score!”
A loud voice rang out from the target operators.
“Lu Yun—nine bullseyes and one nine-ring hit… Total score: 99 points!”
“…”
Dead silence.
The entire range fell completely quiet.
Everyone stood frozen.
Using a UC2 pistol to score 99 points on moving targets?
That was simply impossible.
“Impossible! The scoring must be wrong!”
“What the hell?!”
A moment later, the entire crowd exploded into chaos.
Nobody wanted to believe it.
Every soldier stared at Lu Yun in shock.
The eighteen women were equally dumbfounded.
Their mouths hung slightly open as they looked at him as though they were seeing a completely different person.
Even the elite soldiers were stunned.
Lei Zhan’s expression changed dramatically.
“You lost.”
Lu Yun’s calm voice finally broke the silence.
Li Erniu shook his head repeatedly.
“Impossible. That’s not realistic. Something has to be wrong.”
“Quick! Let’s check the targets!”
Yan Wang shouted.
Everyone rushed over, including the women.
Only Lu Yun remained where he stood, calmly watching them, secretly enjoying every second of it.
After several minutes…
“The targets aren’t damaged…”
Old Fox exclaimed in disbelief.
“Every shot was a bullseye except the last one, which scored nine rings.”
Even Yan Wang, an expert sniper, couldn’t hide the tremor in his voice.
“But there were only nine bullets. How did he hit ten targets?” He Chenguang asked in confusion.
“Look over here!”
Wang Yanbing suddenly shouted.
Everyone hurried over.
On the tenth human-shaped target, there was a bullet hole squarely in the center of the face.
Directly in front of it stood the ninth target, perfectly aligned in a straight line.
At that instant, realization dawned on everyone.
Leng Feng exclaimed,
“The ninth bullet penetrated both targets! It scored a perfect ten on the ninth target, then continued into the tenth. After losing momentum, it dropped slightly and hit the tenth target for nine rings!”
“Damn… these were moving targets!”
“How incredible do your reaction speed and calculations have to be?”
“That’s insane!”
“If he’d been using an assault rifle, wouldn’t he have scored one hundred points with nine shots?”
“He’s a monster!”
“But he clearly doesn’t even know much about firearms. How can he be this good?”
The soldiers erupted into discussion.
The disdain on their faces had completely vanished, replaced by genuine astonishment.
The women exchanged stunned glances.
“Lu Yun… is actually this skilled?”
Soon everyone returned, having confirmed that the targets were perfectly functional.
The score was real.
Lei Zhan walked over and asked in a deep voice,
“How did you do it?”
Lu Yun smiled faintly.
“It’s simple. Control the firing angle, calculate the wind speed and gravity, account for every external factor, determine the bullet’s drop and remaining impact, and then every shot becomes accurate.”
Everyone stared at him blankly.
It sounded ridiculous…
Yet they had witnessed the results with their own eyes and couldn’t argue.
Inside, however, Lu Yun was laughing.
He had made the explanation up on the spot.
The real credit belonged to the system.
A max-level pistol mastery skill really was overpowered.
He then walked over to the women and handed the pistol back to Ye Cunxin with a grin.
“I told you my pistol could shoot down airplanes. Believe me now?”
Ye Cunxin rolled her eyes.
“So you were pretending earlier?”
Lu Yun looked innocent.
“No. It really was my first time using a pistol.”
She snorted.
“As if I’d believe that.”
He didn’t bother explaining further.
Instead, he handed the empty magazine back to An Ran and teased,
“An Ran, how about giving me this magazine? I’ll give you a present in return someday.”
An Ran glared at him, snatched the magazine back, and huffed,
“In your dreams.”
Watching the two banter back and forth, Lei Zhan’s face darkened.
But there was nothing he could say.
He had truly lost.
This wasn’t an unfair defeat.
Even if they competed again, he knew the result would be the same.
Lu Yun might be a notorious playboy, but his pistol marksmanship was unquestionably top-tier.
At the very least…
He was far from being completely useless.
Just then, Lu Yun turned toward him.
“Lei Zhan, you lost. Time to honor your promise.”
Without a word, Lei Zhan turned and walked away under everyone’s gaze.
A short while later, his heavy voice echoed through the military district loudspeakers.
“I, Lei Zhan… am a loser.”
“I, Lei Zhan… am a loser.”
“I, Lei Zhan… am a loser.”
After the three announcements, his voice continued to echo throughout the military district.
For a long time, no one spoke.
Everyone’s emotions were complicated.
Lei Zhan—the legendary “Thunder God,” one of China’s most famous special forces soldiers, a man who had slain countless enemies on the battlefield and struck fear into hostile forces overseas—
Had never before suffered such humiliation.