Chapter 26 - Self-Rescue Manual of a Villainess

Chapter 026: Preparing to Kill The golden light floated quietly in front of Nan Yin. "Can Yin, what exactly have I acquired?" Nan Yin curiously extended her hand and prodded at the sphere of light in front of her. It was smooth, like cotton candy. "Let me see..." Nan Yin immediately heard Can Yin's voice in her mind, but soon after, she sensed a note of confusion in her tone. "Is this really a martial arts technique?" Nan Yin paused slightly, the woman had plainly spoken of it as a martial arts technique, had she extracted it incorrectly? And it had turned golden, even if it was a dud, it should at least... However, when Nan Yin saw what she had extracted, even she, who had lived for two lifetimes, was taken aback. "Can Yin! What's going on? Why did I extract this?" Nan Yin was completely at a loss. At this moment, the screen in front of Nan Yin displayed a line of sparkling golden text: "Congratulations, you have extracted the top-level martial arts technique 'Gunfighting' from world a318." Gunning fighting? Gunfighting!? Nan Yin was completely stupefied. At the same time, a phrase involuntarily surfaced in her mind: "The principle of bullet curving is to give it a horizontal acceleration at the moment of release, causing the bullet to curve through high-speed wrist shaking." What the hell? Why did she extract this ridiculous martial arts technique that was only a joke among her followers on the internet? Can Yin even said it was a top-tier technique in some world. This must be a joke, right? After hearing Nan Yin's inner voice, Can Yin has also begun to hesitate. She had just come into contact with this so-called system not too long ago, so she too wasn't sure if the system was playing some kind of joke on Nan Yin. Maybe... the system was inherently humorous, which is why it came up with such a joke? "Well... host, you don't need to worry, although gunfighting sounds funny and unreliable, its nature is actually very useful! Isn't it great to make bullets curve?" Can Yin tried to defend the system that had saved her. But Nan Yin wasn't having it: "What are you talking about? How can bullets curve? If they can, then all the scientific foundations humanity has striven for over the centuries would be overthrown, wouldn't they?" In theory, gunfighting is possible. At high enough speeds, bullets can deform, and differences in pressure around the bullet can cause it to follow a special trajectory, like an arc or a skipping stone... When the wrist shakes with a great enough force, and the bullet leaves the barrel at a speed faster than light, it could even traverse time and space to kill enemies. With no wind as an example, assuming the initial speed of a handgun bullet is 400 meters per second, and assuming that at this moment, Nan Yin wanted the bullet from her handgun to go past a person in front of her and hit a target behind him. If the distance between the two was considered as three meters, to deviate the bullet by 20 centimeters within these three meters would require a lateral movement speed of 26 meters per second. That's a throw with a speed of 100 kilometers per hour... ... Wait, if she could punch with that speed, why would she need a handgun? She could just single-handedly take on a tank with her fist? "Honestly, I think the explanation of the bullet being accelerated by magic due to sonic squats is more reasonable than a quick shake of the wrist!" Nan Yin rubbed her forehead speechlessly. Just as Nan Yin and Can Yin were engaged in a fruitless debate over whether gunfighting could be realized, the system might have heard Nan Yin's dissatisfaction. As a water droplet sound rang by Nan Yin's ear, another light screen lit up in front of her. "Gunfighting": The top-tier martial arts technique of world a318, came from a firearms grandmaster who accidentally joined the engineering department. In world number a318, the advent of firearms brought a new mode of warfare to humans, but at the same time, it eliminated ninety-nine percent of all cold weapons. Any martial arts became pale and weak in front of firearms - it took decades to train a martial arts grandmaster, but a commoner who had received basic training and held a pistol could possibly kill a martial arts grandmaster. Under such circumstances, some martial artists were not resigned to their era ending like this, so the wise people among them proposed a new theory - that is to create a new martial arts system centered around firearms. These martial artists thought very simply: before firearms, there had been so many weapons throughout the thousands of years of human history, and they had been tamed by them, creating respective weapon systems. Weren't primitive bows and arrows and later crossbows all similar long-ranged weapons? If so, this rule should not be broken with the coming of the age of gunpowder. Thus, a group of martial artists who were the first to come into contact with firearms led the way to establish a martial arts system unique to this new weapon called "firearms", and gradually propagated it over the following two hundred years... This is "gunfighting". Nan Yin was stupefied as she read the lengthy explanation about "gunfighting". It seemed that "gunfighting" is actually quite remarkable? It wasn't a laughingstock among the followers on the internet? But although the background of "Gunfighting" is quite remarkable, it can't change its fundamentally ridiculous nature! A martial arts system centered around firearms? Isn't that just ordinary marksmanship... When Nan Yin found the specific description of "Gunfighting" according to Can Yin's guidance, she... almost kneeled to the system on the spot. "Gunfighting": A new martial arts technique created by martial artists from a certain parallel world based on the new system of firearms. Its aim is to ensure that martial arts is not left behind with the advent of firearms - people who have learned gunfighting will have a new understanding of the use of firearms. ... In the midst of a plethora of words, Nan Yin only extracted one bit of key information from it: that is, those who have learned "Gunfighting", no matter how lamentable their firearms ability was previously, will mysteriously become a firearms expert thereafter - never missing a shot, truly a master in every sense of the term. Gunfighting allows learners to understand firearms from a new perspective and dance with firearms - transforming them into new organs. That was the original intent of gunfighting. Nan Yin: ... Having read this far, Nan Yin could resist no longer and had the urge to kneel before the system, who would have thought that ordinary firearms could evolve into such... unique martial arts techniques? But the advent of firearms is indeed a devastating blow compared to ordinary cold weapons, and a martial arts system formed for firearms... it's not surprising that it has become the most powerful skill. However... her firearms talent was already high in her previous life, or else she wouldn't have been able to join such a special force, so the question is, how can her talent for firearms be further improved? Nan Yin shook her head, well, what will be, will be. Maybe the system picked this martial arts technique specifically because she excelled in firearms? What? You say Nan Yin is overthinking? What else can she do? She can't exactly pull out Can Yin and that Celestial Pivot for a beating and then threaten to give her a new martial arts technique, right? Don't be ridiculous. If Nan Yin really had such strength, she would have shattered the void and returned to her previous world long ago. ……………… When she came to her senses from the system space, Nan Yin realized she had been standing at the entrance of the gun shop for quite some time. Glancing to the side, Nan Yin saw Fuhu Zhengsi standing dutifully by her side. True to his training as an assassin, his patience and composure surpassed even her subordinates from her previous life. Now that she had the martial arts technique, the only thing Nan Yin needed to worry about was Xia Yi Yi. Whether it was for the mission or for her own personal reasons, she had to save Xia Yi Yi. But before that... Nan Yin thought of the large amount of funds she needed for her plan. "Fuhu, let's go grab something to eat first. Prepare to stay up late tonight," Nan Yin said calmly. Fuhu Zhengsi's eyes lit up at her words, and he immediately asked, "Miss, is there a mission tonight?" "A mission? Kind of," Nan Yin nodded slightly, then she raised her head to gaze at the bustling central city of Tianzhou in the distance. "Tonight, prepare to kill."