Chapter 167 - Bullet
translator: xiin
editors: apricot & juurensha
Floating City.
The last day of the Autumn Festival was full of noise and excitent. Looking down Floating Tower from on high, flowers, the sll of food and incense, and small fireworks that let out white plus of smoke swirled through the fog.
Wu Jin waited obediently inside the clinic and took so ti to look through his terminal.
Zoe received a reply from him and was finally relieved after Wu Jin had disappeared and couldn’t be contacted for three days.
Wen Lin had sent Wu Jin quite a few articles from the Star Blog.
as well as the activity.
The front page for the support station was very colorful and fancy.
Wei Shi swept a glance over it and comnted coolly, “The colors are ssy.”
Wu Jin was awed by Station Support Brother Wei.
The suspension car drove through the crowded comrcial streets, the dark blue natural lake, the scattered manors and villas by the lake, and finally ca to a stop outside a huge building.
The building was brightly lit, and the thick steel and titanium composite material insulated all visitors from the outside world. Before getting out of the car, Wei Shi helped Wu Jin put on a pure white mask. His own mask was a silvery blue.
Wu Jin’s breath caught.
The silver blue mask only represented one thing in Floating City.
The crown, the throne, the king.
Wei Shi opened the door of the building for Wu Jin.
The guard at the door was stunned, then stood up at attention and saluted solemnly. The flush on his face almost seed to overflow his cheeks.
Wu Jin could clearly understand that the entire Floating City wasn’t just submitting to the King’s power; it was more like an admiration for the strong. At this ti, his mind was still full of scenes of the big boss leaving the R-Code Base, hijacking a star ship, and leading hundreds of genetically modified humans to slaughter their way into Floating City––
The two of them walked all the way to the ground floor, and the interior door of the building opened.
Wu Jin was stunned on the spot.
The interior was ablaze with lights.
Densely packed weaponry, bullets, drugs, and unknown equipnt were all arranged together. A tall machine gun stood against the strong background light. Countless shelves stretched all the way across his field of vision, displaying a wide range of firearms. They ranged from weaponry that existed at the beginning of the 20th century to all across an entire millennium. There were blunderbusses, handguns, hand cannons, light nuclear weaponry, laser blades––
Wei Shi looked back.
Beneath the light and shadow, surrounded by firearms and his lover’s gaze, all of it made his heartbeat speed up.
This was actually a military armory.
The ground was covered with scarlet carpeting.
Wei Shi reached out a hand.
Their palms clasped.
As the two of them walked past the first few rows of display shelves, their field of vision suddenly opened up. Battle tank units were stacked up on the landing platforms, and it was clear that there was an entire military armory buried underground. The calibration and maintenance robots flashed with green lights as they went up and down in the elevators. The elevator displayed floor numbers ranging from B147 to 29 above the ground; it was endlessly deep.
Wei Shi led Wu Jin deeper underground.
The man’s palm was slightly damp. Wu Jin stealthily rubbed against it quickly. It must be that he himself was nervous! It definitely couldn’t be the big boss––
From B120 were piles of ammunition casings.
Wei Shi bound a bullet and tossed it to Wu Jin, “Prefabricated shrapnel with effective killing force. Its peak use period was in the 20th-22nd century. After that, it was used by retired police and military.”
Wu Jin inspected the bullet. After high-speed impact, the shrapnel that exploded from the bullet was enough to destroy the human body.
Wei Shi spoke slowly, “The first bullet I got from the R-Code Base. Take it.”
Wu Jin quickly put it away solemnly, holding it in his hand.
Wei Shi handed over a second bullet. It was about the size of a thermos bottle, “Tank piercing bullet. Its explosion ignites a high-energy tal spike that penetrates through armor and causes a secondary strike. It can destroy the operator inside the tank.”
Wu Jin’s eyes opened wide. His heart beat faster as he touched this killing weapon.
Wei Shi: “On the day of the R-Code defection, a tank piercing bullet penetrated the supplies vehicle I had hijacked.”
Wu Jin stilled.
Wei Shi described the situation calmly, “I climbed out of the car, broke two ribs, and sniped down the cannon operator.”
Without waiting for Wu Jin to co back to his senses, Wei Shi had already tossed over a third bullet, “Photon gun bullet. Self guiding, used for eliminating nuclear magnetic interference environnts. There’s no way to defend against it in a dium-range snipe. Six years ago, I used it to break through the last Federal border line before reaching the Azure Cosmos.”
The fourth bullet.
“A handheld lightweight armor-piercing round. Assault cannon bullet.”
“Assaulted and captured this city.”
“Floating City.”
Beneath the strong lights, the man looked straight at the dazed Wu Jin.
“Where we’re standing, 147 floors in total, isn’t just an underground warehouse.”
The sound of machinery bood out!
The ceiling above them separated. Moving up––each floor split apart one after another, the partition boards retracting. Wu Jin was astonished to discover that the middle of the entire armory was an endless patio that surrounded a shock-absorbing platform, backup power devices, and an anti-pressure protective shielding network.
This couldn’t possibly be just a sky light.
Wu Jin quickly did the calculations, the entire ‘patio’s resistance was 200 mPa upwards––
Wu Jin suddenly opened his mouth, “A guided missile launching channel?!”
Wei Shi nodded.
“The last bullet.”
“Four years ago, the interstellar cruise missile was launched. To protect the city.”
Wu Jin looked up.
Countless robotic arms were assembling two more backup guided missiles.
Above them was the skylight that extended out to the vast sky. The five bullets represented the start, the turning points, the ups and downs of Wei Shi’s life. They represented the brave and glorious achievents that Wu Jin had never seen before.
From holding a gun for the first ti, to mutiny, to becoming a real leader, to taking over Floating City.
Wu Jin looked at Wei Shi. His blood followed along the trajectory of his 26 years of life and boiled with passion.
The legend that he’d missed while he was locked away and separated behind a wall in the R-Code Base.
Two pairs of eyes t and collided together fiercely.
Like the tempered barrel of a gun.
Wei Shi looked deeply at Wu Jin, and his pupils were almost dark enough to swallow up all the light around them, “All of my battle achievents are here.”
“Are you willing to accept them, and let all my glory belong to you?”
Wu Jin’s heart seed to want to jump out of his chest.
Tens of thousands of stars hung high in the sky. There were countless missed opportunities that eventually beca a fateful encounter.
He moved his lips.
His response was like an oath.
“I’m willing.”
Juurensha: !!!! Such a cool proposal! It fits them so well!
xiin: absolutely the best novel proposal EVER. and it’s so tailored for the two of them... i love it i love it i love it i love it~ no cliches at all!
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