48 Hours a Day

Chapter 993: Aiming Assistance

Zhang Heng jumped off the fire ladder with his stun gun on his back. He then lowered himself in front of the window in the corridor, raised his head, and looked downstairs.

In a split second, he ducked again. Almost as soon as he lowered his head, a bullet shattered the glass in front of him and hit the painting display wall behind him, leaving a hole behind. During the previous fight in the bar, Red’s hand was pinned on the table before she could grab the gun to shoot Zhang Heng. After that, she tried to grab the gun with her other hand, but it was a failed attempt too. In the end, she resorted to assassinating Zhang Heng. Unfortunately, she did not get to showcase her marksmanship.

During this battle, Zhang Heng witnessed for the first time the marksmanship of the emergency response team members. It seemed the baseball cap boy’s marksmanship had reached the peak of Lv 2, and he was close to getting to Lv 3. With more than decent reflexes and accuracy, Zhang Heng realized that the enemy’s aiming speed was quicker than his.

It was not something a human could pull off. Zhang Heng was now located on the fourth floor of the elementary school building. The entire floor had more than thirty windows facing the side. Even if the boy figured out that Zhang Heng had left the rooftop in advance, locking on to Zhang Heng and firing at the right window so quickly was still impossible.

Thinking about his enemy’s unbelievable aiming speed, Zhang Heng was more inclined to think that the boy must’ve employed some sort of technology to improve his aiming speed. In order to confirm this conjecture, Zhang Heng quietly changed his positions and performed a quick squat while silently calculating the time in his heart. The result was the same as the last time. Not long after he squatted, he saw a bullet flew past his ear.

His accuracy and shooting speed was inhuman, but that didn’t worry Zhang Heng one bit. After confirming his deduction, he continued downstairs.

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The boy, on the other side, was leaning against the flowerbed, hiding his body entirely in the bushes. He stared at the teaching building in front of him intently and continued communications with No.7 and No.5 via headset.

“Where have you been? I met the target in the school. We have engaged in a shootout, and he has me trapped in the teaching building.”

The voice from the other side of the headset sounded a little dissatisfied.

“You have already started shooting at him? Didn’t the captain ask you to wait for us?”

“Well, you guys were too slow. I checked the map, worried he might move to another street through the school. So, I decided to go after him alone. He fired at me first, so I’m just fighting back.”

“Did you manage to hit him?” another voice asked.

“No. I must say that he is capable of moving extremely fast. Even my assisted aiming program can’t catch up with him,” the boy in the baseball cap blinked.

If someone was standing close enough to him and got a good look at his face, they would see a strange blue light glowing from the corner of his left eye. Looking to be a contact lens, it was a military device secretly developed by a weapons company under the Shengtang Morgan Group. It featured a built-in micro-motion sensor that allowed him to capture moving targets in a very short time.

This was also the reason why the boy had such swift aiming speed. His marksmanship was remarkable as well. With this device, he was confident enough to fight with the world’s best shooter. Zhang Heng was, after all, just a courier to him. If his captain didn’t warn him, he would’ve rushed into the building without waiting for No.7 and No.5.

“Wait for me. I just killed a courier on my side, but I didn’t find the thing we wanted on him. Estimated time of arrival at your location in 5 minutes,” No.7 said.

“Same here,” No.5 concurred.

“You guys might have to move faster. I’m afraid the battle would be over by the time you guys arrive,” the boy licked his lips.

The moment he hung up, he saw Zhang Heng moving around the third floor to the second floor. Unfortunately, Zhang Heng had an absolutely rapid movement speed. Even with the help of the assisted aiming program, the boy still failed to hit the target.

“Tsk... Tsk... It seems like he is really strong!” the boy in the baseball cap praised, “but...it’s a pity that you met me tonight.”

The next moment his assisted aiming device issued an early warning. Immediately, the boy in the baseball cap quickly aimed his gun at the top of the stairs on the first floor. Without thinking twice, he pulled the trigger, and bullets poured out of the gun with smoke.

This time, the target was not as lucky as before; his head was blasted by the bullet. Right after the shot, the boy felt that something was not right. He realized that the “person” he had fired at was just a coat that hung behind the wall of the stairs. When the wind blew at it, the coat flew up a little.

There was cold sweat on the enemy’s forehead. He realized that he might have made a fatal mistake. After he fired his gun, Zhang Heng quickly rushed out from the south side of the teaching building.

He then quickly lifted the stun gun in his hand and calmly pulled the trigger.

From the beginning, Zhang Heng never paid much attention to the so-called assisted aiming device. Even though the boy had successfully used this little device to improve his aiming speed and did something inhuman, Zhang Heng figured out that the little device had a fatal flaw.

That fatal flaw was its aiming speed was too fast. The baseball cap boy’s aiming speed had exceeded his judgment and reaction ability. In this case, the gunner did not have the time to finish processing his thoughts before pulling the trigger.

This might not be a problem in ordinary combat, but it would be fatal if he encountered a master.

All these times, the assisting aiming device was the thing that was leading him. Once Zhang Heng figured out the mechanism of the assisted aiming device, he could easily use it against the boy. And this was what did. He used the coat and window to trick the baseball cap boy successfully and completed this counterattack.

The stun round accurately hit the boy’s shoulder, and the anesthesia immediately began to release into his body. However, before the process was completed, the boy gritted his teeth and pulled the stun round out of his shoulder. When he wanted to hold the gun, he found out that he could no longer control his arm.

So the boy quickly used his other hand to grab the gun. But, unfortunately, Zhang Heng had gotten to him by that time. He then saw Zhang Heng abandon the rifle in his hand, draw the blade from his waist, and slashed his gun in half.

Upon seeing that, the boy in the baseball cap recalled the wounds left on Red’s body. His instincts told him that he should now distance himself from Zhang Heng immediately.

However, his body was out of his control. The boy in the baseball cap wanted to stand up, but he failed to complete such a simple action. In the end, his feet went soft and fell to the ground. The last thing he saw was Zhang Heng picked up the stun round on the ground and inserted it into his leg, releasing the remaining anesthetics into his body.