Chapter 89: The Gunsmith Master’s Test

If the game Gunsmith Master is not tied to the Imperial Heart Ring, multiple accounts can be created. One ring allows up to ten accounts.

Lin Huang had not expected Lin Xin to be interested in the game, otherwise he would have bought two rings from the start.

After taking the ring from her, he returned to his room and summoned the game pod.

The reason Gunsmith Master was so expensive was mainly because the game pod itself cost a fortune to build.

From the outside, it looked like a tiny room of only about ten square meters, no more than two and a half meters high. In reality, however, it used space-compression technology, and the interior was vast, spanning tens of thousands of square meters and rising to nearly a hundred meters.

This space-compression technique was called temporary space compression. It was a newly developed technology from the past few years, not yet widely used.

In essence, temporary space compression simply compressed a base space for a limited period of time. Once the limit was exceeded, the space returned to its original state.

That ten-square-meter chamber was the base space. After the game was activated, the pod’s temporary compression would also activate, though it could only run for twelve hours at most each day. If the time ran out or the game’s activation was shut off, the compressed space would shrink back to its original base size.

For that reason, the pod’s compressed space was not suitable for storing items.

Carrying the ring, Lin Huang entered the game pod, and a virtual interface automatically appeared before his eyes.

The temporary account Lin Xin had created had not been logged out, and Lin Huang could not help but open it to take a look.

That glimpse left him a little stunned. Lin Xin’s data was unexpectedly good.

Whether it was fixed-target shooting, moving-target shooting, multi-target shooting, or random rapid fire, the data were all excellent, and the system’s evaluations were all top marks.

Lin Huang even opened the combat records to inspect them, and they were equally impressive.

Although her first two or three matches had not earned high scores, she improved from one match to the next, and in nearly every round she could claim the title of best player.

“With her current physical condition, to reach this level is truly unbelievable. She’s born to be a gunsmith!” Lin Huang even watched several recorded clips of her matches, and after finishing, he could not suppress a gasp of admiration.

He truly had not expected his younger sister to possess talent in this field.

After watching Lin Xin’s performance for quite some time, Lin Huang finally exited her account and created a new one of his own.

The ring began automatically scanning Lin Huang’s body data and recording his information for the new account.

Once the account was created, the interface appeared again.

Lin Huang checked it and saw that the new account’s data were completely blank, with no connection at all to Lin Xin’s account.

When selecting a gun model, he chose the Black Falcon 33, the weapon he handled most naturally.

The model felt almost identical to the real thing, with no noticeable difference.

After choosing his firearm, Lin Huang began stepping through the training modes one by one.

He started with fixed-target shooting. The surrounding virtual environment automatically transformed into a shooting range, and a target appeared two hundred meters away.

The moment the target appeared, Lin Huang raised his gun and fired. Ten shots rang out in quick succession, all striking the bull's-eye at the center.

A second target rose, and Lin Huang again raised his gun and fired.

What he found remarkable was that the model gun’s firing sensation was practically no different from a real one, including the bullet trajectory and recoil. It was exactly the same as when he had used the Black Falcon 33 before. That meant training here was no different from real training, and this only deepened his enthusiasm for the game.

After twenty minutes practicing in pistol form, Lin Huang switched the gun into sniper form.

As the firearm changed, the shooting range changed immediately as well, and the targets moved out to five hundred meters.

Lin Huang took aim, his internal life-force surging rapidly. A black bullet shot out like lightning, punching a hole straight through the center of the virtual target.

A second target was immediately raised again, and Lin Huang took aim and fired once more.

After another twenty minutes in sniper form, Lin Huang finally finished warming up. He switched the gun back to pistol form and entered the next test.

The range shifted again, and a moving target appeared two hundred meters away.

The moment the target appeared, Lin Huang pulled the trigger.

The second target was no longer moving at a steady pace, but Lin Huang still raised his gun and fired, striking the bull's-eye.

The third target changed speed, at times fast and at times slow, but Lin Huang still fired without the slightest hesitation, and again hit the center.

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After pistol training ended, Lin Huang began sniper training.

Half an hour passed, and the training moved into the next round. More targets appeared on the range, all moving in different ways. Some were fast, some slow, some near, some far, and some were not even moving in a straight line.

Yet none of this could stop Lin Huang. Gunfire rang out one after another, and every target was struck in the center.

The test soon entered its fourth and most difficult stage: random rapid fire.

All targets would appear at random within a one-hundred-eighty-degree arc before Lin Huang, each lasting only one second. There were no advance cues for either the interval or the position of appearance.

This stage was extremely difficult. When Lin Huang had graduated from the preparatory hunter academy before, he had not received a perfect score on the firearms assessment precisely because he lost one point here.

But Lin Huang believed he could pass this assessment with ease, not only because his physical condition had improved, but also because the enhancement from his life seed had greatly increased his hand speed.

On the range, targets appeared at random, near or far, each lingering for only a second before shattering on their own.

The ten-minute random rapid-fire assessment ended quickly. This time, Lin Huang did not lose a single point and passed perfectly.

He completed all four assessments in flawless fashion, though Lin Huang felt that, given his current physical condition, passing perfectly was only to be expected.

After the assessment, Lin Huang entered the combat interface and chose random battle.

The virtual environment of the pod rapidly shifted into a combat map, with various buildings, vehicles, and even virtual passersby.

After several random-match battles, Lin Huang ranked first in points every round and was not even hit once. After a few matches, he finally realized that ordinary people and himself were indeed not on the same level. Entering a match against ordinary opponents was simply an unchallenged crush, and that made him feel a little bored.

“It looks like I still need to go to the hunter division. Only by fighting those stronger than myself can I become stronger,” Lin Huang murmured. He glanced at the time; it was only a little past nine in the evening, far too early for sleep. At once, he exited the ordinary division and logged into the hunter division.

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Seeing that some readers had questions about the currency, I should explain it here. Credit points are only the most basic currency, the money used by ordinary people. Hunters trade with one another using life crystals. One one-year life crystal is worth one hundred thousand credit points. I introduced the life-crystal setting from the very beginning of the book; I simply had not used it as currency at that time.