Killer Training Camp - Chapter 30 The Sniper Case
As soon as the sound of gunshots went off, Zhan Zhao darted to the balcony to draw the curtains. Several daring guests followed suit, pulling down all the curtains such that the ballroom became a fully enclosed room.
Bai Yutang turned and rushed into the lift while instructing a few slightly panicky guests, "Call the police! No one is too leave this room until the police arrive! It safer to stay inside in this current situation!"
Just a hair of a moment before the elevator doors shut, Zhan Zhao ran into it as well.
"Cat, what do you think you're doing?" Bai Yutang questioned while holding
a gun in one hand and removing that pesky tie with another. He then randomly
shoved it into one of his pockets.
"I'm coming with you!" Zhan Zhao declared while pulling out his gun. Ever
since Bai Yutang gave him that pocket-sized Remington, he always kept it on
him.
Bai Yutang winked at Zhan Zhao in amusement and said, "You better stay
focussed later. Cat. Don't hit me or shoot yourself in the foot!"
Rage!!
"Stupid White Mouse! I'll shoot a hole through you right now!" Zhan Zhao said as he took his aim indignantly.
Bai Yutang hurriedly grabbed hold of his hand, "Be good, Kitty! What's going to happen to you for the next half of your life if I'm injured?"
"Die!" Zhan Zhao raised a foot to kick him, but Bai Yutang dodged it. Just then, the elevator doors opened with a 'Ding'.
Rage!!
"Stupid White Mouse! I'll shoot a hole through you right now!" Zhan Zhao said as he took his aim indignantly.
Bai Yutang hurriedly grabbed hold of his hand, "Be good, Kitty! What's going to happen to you for the next half of your life if I'm injured?"
"Die!" Zhan Zhao raised a foot to kick him, but Bai Yutang dodged it. Just then, the elevator doors opened with a 'Ding'.
The two immediately kept away their smiles and ran to the building opposite.
Meanwhile, back in the ballroom, everyone was in shock from the sudden disaster.
The ill-fated man that was shot in the shoulder still laid on the ground in pain. Ding Zhaohui crouched down to help him up while Zhaolan reached over and applied pressure to his bleeding shoulder. The action elicited a yelp in pain from the man.
"Bear with it!" Zhaohui comforted him before turning to look at Bai Jintang who had a dangerous look on his face.
Bai Jintang nodded at him and Zhaohui took out his phone and dialled for the police.
All of a sudden, Jon cried out, "Doctor..."
Everyone's attention instantly fell on him, only to find Dr. Wilson twitching a little as he held his chest before stiffening and falling straight to the ground.
"Doctor... Ah!" Jon fell to his butt, shaking like a leaf, he muttered, "H-He's not breathing! Not breathing..."
"Calm down! It's just a sudden myocardial infarction1!" Gongsun said in a cold tone. He had walked up to Dr. Wilson's side when he ordered, "Help him lie down."
(lilies: stupid Gongsun with your medical jargon tsk tsk)
Perhaps, Gongsun's calmness had an influence on the rest as several
guests stepped forward and awkwardly tried to help the old man lay on his
back.
Gongsun undid Wilson's collar and the people who came to help, "Two of you stay behind and prop both his legs up. The rest of you move back, he needs sufficient room to breathe."
They immediately did as he said.
Then, Gongsun lowered his head, leaning his ear against Wilson's chest. After listening carefully for a moment, he got back up and reached out his hand to feel around the heart area. Once he found the spot, with his left hand pressed flat against Wilson's chest and his right hand closed into a fist, Gongsun pumped the chest rhythmically.
Professor Wilson suddenly jerked and started panting after a cough. Gongsun began rummaging through the professor's shirt pocket and quickly pulled out a bottle with a few capsules in it. After taking a glance at the label on the bottle, Gongsun took one capsule out and opened it. Then, with his head lowered, he said to Wilson, "Open your mouth and lift your tongue."
Wilson seemed to have regained his consciousness somewhat and he opened his mouth as told.
With a hand on Wilson's jaw, Gongsun carefully poured the contents of the capsule under Wilson's tongue and said with a sigh of relief, "Swallow it."
With the medicine in his mouth, Wilson closed it. Gongsun undid the professor's cuffs and felt the latter's pulse with his left while keeping an eye on the watch in his right.
Half a minute later, Wilson appeared much better. He sent Gongsun a grateful look but the other only said to him indifferently, "Lie down and don't move."
Then, he got up and went to a corner without looking back.
Everyone in the hall heaved a long sigh of relief and the tense atmosphere eased up significantly.
Though Bai Jintang was standing a distance away, his eyes were glued on Gongsun, following his every action, never leaving the latter's figure for even a second.
Sensing his gaze, Gongsun glared daggers at him in return.
Bai Jintang suddenly took a sip of the glass of champagne in his hand. His lips slowly came into contact with the edge of the glass, and the golden liquid gradually flowed through his lips...
Gongsun cursed at him internally, "Ruffian2!" He's really got to hand it to Bai Jintang. How could he make such a simple action look so "obscene".
On the other side, Bai Jintang watch his Gongsun turned away from him, his ears turning bright red and scolded the latter internally as well, "Damn it, he's so sexy regardless of the angle!"
By the time Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao rushed to the top floor, all they saw was a slightly ajar door to the roof, creaking rhythmically as the wind blew.
The two of them stood on either side of the door.
Gently pushing the door open, Bai Yutang burst through it, into the roof, with Zhan Zhao following closely behind.
The rooftop in the middle of the night was cold as ice and just by the fence facing the hotel, was a man lying on his stomach.
The two of them exchanged a look and ran over quickly.
The man was already dead. Blood was flowing out of his empty left eye socket as the body laid on the floor littered with shattered glass shards. All of this indicated that Bai Yutang's shot penetrated straight through the thermal sniper scope.
Although the night was dark with barely any light around, Zhan Zhao was still able to tell that this "Killer" was really young. Or at the very least, he didn't seem to be more than two years old which made Zhan Zhao rather confused.
Bai Yutang's body suddenly tensed up and he watched the door to the roof alertly.
Zhan Zhao was familiar with every habit Bai Yutang had. Whenever the latter sensed danger, he would behave as he was doing now——like a leopard with his muscles all taut and ready to pounce and rip apart his prey.
Seeing him that way, Zhan Zhao couldn't help but feel nervous as well. Bai Yutang waved his hand at Zhan Zhao signaling for the latter to keep calm and not make a fuss. He then pulled Zhan Zhao to the side of the roof to hide behind a raised pipe.
In the darkness of the night, there was a glint of alert and excitement shining in Bai Yutang's watchful eyes that were on the door. Zhan Zhao suddenly recalled Qi Jiaqi's evaluation the day they were at the prison——The Exorcist.
Which was true! Ever since they were young, as long as he had Bai Yutang by his side, he would feel like there was nothing to be afraid of. It was only now that Zhan Zhao understood why he was so brave. It was because that person had never given him the chance to learn what being afraid feels like.
Just as those random thoughts ran through his mind, there was the faint sound of footsteps coming from the door. Who on earth would come to the rooftop at this time? Both Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao stared fixedly at the door.
As the sound of the footsteps grew louder, a beam of light from a flashlight shone into the rooftop, and the two immediately held their breaths.
"W-Who's up here?" a trembling voice asked. Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang exchanged a look of puzzlement.
At the time, that man had already stepped onto the roof.
That man was in a black police uniform with a flashlight in one hand and a gun in the other.
Police??
"W-Who's there?" that policeman asked. The light from his torchlight was already shone on the body lying on the fence. His voice trembled even harder than before as he made his way towards the body while shaking like a leaf.
"Mommy aaaAAAaaah!" the little cop screamed in shock and fell onto his butt when he saw that the dead man's face was all bloodied up.
Bai Yutang frowned and scolded, "Useless."
"W-Who was that?" that policeman asked. Hearing the strange sound, he raised his gun in shock and pointed it at the pipes.
"Don't shoot, we're policemen too," Zhan Zhao shouted at that little policeman when he saw the impatience on Bai Yutang's face.
"P-Police? What... proof do you have?" the little policeman asked with a shaky voice.
Bai Yutang got up and walked towards him with swagger.
"D-Don't come... or I'll shoot..." the little policeman warned while retreating backwards as he aimed his gun at Bai Yutang frantically.
Unfortunately for him, Bai Yutang ignored his warnings and continued heading straight for him.
"I-I'll shoot..." The little policeman took his aim and tried to pull on the trigger as hard as he could, but for some reason, he couldn't do it.
"Ah~~!" he screamed in pain and the gun that was in his hand was now in Bai Yutang's.
Bai Yutang opened the revolver and checked that the magazine was fully loaded with six bullets. He then reached for the policeman's police ID from the pocket on the latter's blazer. When he opened it and compared the picture on the ID to the person, other than the exaggerated facial expressions, everything else matched up.
"Bai Chí?" Bai Yutang read the policeman's name with a little difficulty. Who's kid was he? Why would his parents give him such a silly3 name??
"Un..."
Zhan Zhao had also come up to the two of them and flashed his policed ID at the little policeman, "Don't be so nervous, we're all policemen."
Bai Chí stared blankly at Zhan Zhao's ID and opened his mouth in surprise but was unable to utter a single word.
Bai Yutang asked him, "Why did you come up?"
"Urh..." Bai Chí answered while scratching his head awkwardly, "I-I'm on my first street patrol today..."
Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao both nodded at the same time in understanding——as they had expected.
"Just now... I heard a gunshot while I was patrolling downstairs and then a gun fell... so I came up to take a look," Bai Chí blushed slightly as he spoke before looking up to meet Zhan Zhao's eyes again, "Your police ID states that... you guys are from the S.C.I. team?"
Zhan Zhao gave him a gentle smile and introduced, "I'm Zhan Zhao and this is Bai Yutang."
Bai Chí's face immediately turned beet-red as stared at Bai Yutang in horror with his mouth agape and muttered, "Y-You're that... Captain... Bai?"
Amused by his reaction, Bai Yutang put Bai Chí's ID back into his pocket, raised the gun in his hand and asked, "Do you know why you couldn't pull the trigger?"
"Erhm..." Bai Chí shook his head in confusion.
Bai Yutang removed all the bullets and handed the empty gun back to Bai Chí. He then scoffed, "Next time, remember to unlock the safety!"
...
The atmosphere in the ballroom was unusually heavy. Ding Zhaohui and Ding Zhaolan took care of the wounded while waiting for the ambulance to arrive.
To everyone who was held in the closed room, every second felt like an eternity. Bai Jintang walked up to Gongsun's side and was just about to say something when someone interrupted him.
"Today's a really unlucky day, Mr. Bai."
When he turned around, Bai Jintang was greeted with the sight of a wealthy old man in his fifties with several besuited young men following him.
"I apologise for the scare, President Pang," Bai Jintang politely offered his apologies to the old man but he didn't sound like he was saying sorry at all. The man standing before him was Pang Ji, a well-known wealthy landowner whose family mainly runs the nightclub business in S City. Bai Jintang had already done some investigations on the man and he wasn't very fond of him.
"Hoho, for something so unfortunate to happen when the Bai Group just opened... Could it be some kind of foreshadowing? Seems like S City isn't a fortuitous place for you, Mr. Bai," Pang Ji said with a proud expression on his face before looking at the group behind him, "Well then, I'll be taking my leave first everyone. It's not safe around here."
The crowd got a little fidgety and several people looked like they wanted to follow suit.
Pang Ji turned around in satisfaction but stopped just as he was about to leave. His eyes fell on Gongsun, who was quietly sitting on the sofa and asked amiably, "Are you leaving too? Do you want to follow along?"
Pang Ji had originally thought of asking Gongsun because the latter had just calmly saved Dr. Wilson hence his actions should have a certain influence on the other people present. If he leaves, many people would surely follow! Moreover, Gongsun didn't seem to have a good relationship with Bai Yutang.
Gongsun lifted his head to give Pang Ji a look of disdain before sighing as he said leisurely, "How could I do that?" Then, he glanced at Chen Jiayi and Fang Jing who were also calmly sipping on their on the sofa and continued, "Even the ladies present are this calm and composed, as a man, how could you be so scared that you want to run away with your tail between your legs?"
"Pfft..." the twins who were this close from exploding, they were already about to pull out their guns, couldn't help but burst into fits of laughter. The other guests present, especially the male guests, also puffed out their chests as they stood tall and proud.
And at this time, the timely sound of the police sirens could be heard coming from downstairs.
Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao, who were leading that little policeman, Bai Chí, out the building happened to bump into Ai Hu and the Major Crimes team.
"Captain!" Ai Hu called out to Bai Yutang, he was ultimately unable to change the way he called the latter, while he skipped over happily.
“How's it like upstairs?" Bai Yutang asked about the situation in the ballroom before anything else.
"The wounded and the one with the heart attack have already been sent on the ambulance. As for the rest, they were dispersed after we took down their names," Ai Hu replied, "Fortunately, there were no deaths."
Bai Yutang nodded with a frown, "There's one dead on the rooftop."
"Oh right, did you find the murder weapon?" Zhan Zhao inquired.
"That was what I was about to tell you guys about," Ai Hu got all serious as the police officer next to him handed him a sniper rifle that had been badly damaged by the fall.
"A Barrett M82A1?" Bai Yutang could feel a headache coming up. It's one of the most widely used sniper rifles, but still, it wasn't easy for the common masses to get their hands on it.
"This case should probably be handed over to the S.C.I. team," Ai Hu remarked suddenly.
"What?" Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were stunned by his words.
Ai Hu said while shaking his head, "This is already the fourth assassination by sniping this month."
...
As the night slowly deepened, the darkness encroached into every piece of land, fear was lurking in the turn of every corner.
Taking in the view of the city while standing at the top of it, the city felt like a giant machine that's constantly running with no end in sight.
Di～～～～～
The computer screen flashed on again as an email flew in.
Let the sins of the dead be exposed to the world; let there be nowhere to hide the grotesque; let the filthy hypocrites have a taste of the devil's sickle.
Closing the display, the person in the darkness spread open their arms in the silence, enjoying the feeling of being one of kind. And laughter filled the night sky.
And now the woeful sounds of actual pain
begin to break upon mine ears; I now
am come to where much wailing smiteth me.
I reached a region silent of all light,
which bellows as the sea doth in a storm,
if lashed and beaten by opposing winds.
The infernal hurricane, which never stops,
carries the spirits onward with its sweep,
and, as it whirls and smites them, gives them pain.
————————《Divine Comedy》The Second Circle. Sexual Intemperance4.
Gongsun undid Wilson's collar and the people who came to help, "Two of you stay behind and prop both his legs up. The rest of you move back, he needs sufficient room to breathe."
They immediately did as he said.
Then, Gongsun lowered his head, leaning his ear against Wilson's chest. After listening carefully for a moment, he got back up and reached out his hand to feel around the heart area. Once he found the spot, with his left hand pressed flat against Wilson's chest and his right hand closed into a fist, Gongsun pumped the chest rhythmically.
Professor Wilson suddenly jerked and started panting after a cough. Gongsun began rummaging through the professor's shirt pocket and quickly pulled out a bottle with a few capsules in it. After taking a glance at the label on the bottle, Gongsun took one capsule out and opened it. Then, with his head lowered, he said to Wilson, "Open your mouth and lift your tongue."
Wilson seemed to have regained his consciousness somewhat and he opened his mouth as told.
With a hand on Wilson's jaw, Gongsun carefully poured the contents of the capsule under Wilson's tongue and said with a sigh of relief, "Swallow it."
With the medicine in his mouth, Wilson closed it. Gongsun undid the professor's cuffs and felt the latter's pulse with his left while keeping an eye on the watch in his right.
Half a minute later, Wilson appeared much better. He sent Gongsun a grateful look but the other only said to him indifferently, "Lie down and don't move."
Then, he got up and went to a corner without looking back.
Everyone in the hall heaved a long sigh of relief and the tense atmosphere eased up significantly.
Though Bai Jintang was standing a distance away, his eyes were glued on Gongsun, following his every action, never leaving the latter's figure for even a second.
Sensing his gaze, Gongsun glared daggers at him in return.
Bai Jintang suddenly took a sip of the glass of champagne in his hand. His lips slowly came into contact with the edge of the glass, and the golden liquid gradually flowed through his lips...
Gongsun cursed at him internally, "Ruffian2!" He's really got to hand it to Bai Jintang. How could he make such a simple action look so "obscene".
On the other side, Bai Jintang watch his Gongsun turned away from him, his ears turning bright red and scolded the latter internally as well, "Damn it, he's so sexy regardless of the angle!"
By the time Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao rushed to the top floor, all they saw was a slightly ajar door to the roof, creaking rhythmically as the wind blew.
The two of them stood on either side of the door.
Gently pushing the door open, Bai Yutang burst through it, into the roof, with Zhan Zhao following closely behind.
The rooftop in the middle of the night was cold as ice and just by the fence facing the hotel, was a man lying on his stomach.
The two of them exchanged a look and ran over quickly.
The man was already dead. Blood was flowing out of his empty left eye socket as the body laid on the floor littered with shattered glass shards. All of this indicated that Bai Yutang's shot penetrated straight through the thermal sniper scope.
Although the night was dark with barely any light around, Zhan Zhao was still able to tell that this "Killer" was really young. Or at the very least, he didn't seem to be more than two years old which made Zhan Zhao rather confused.
Bai Yutang's body suddenly tensed up and he watched the door to the roof alertly.
Zhan Zhao was familiar with every habit Bai Yutang had. Whenever the latter sensed danger, he would behave as he was doing now——like a leopard with his muscles all taut and ready to pounce and rip apart his prey.
Seeing him that way, Zhan Zhao couldn't help but feel nervous as well. Bai Yutang waved his hand at Zhan Zhao signaling for the latter to keep calm and not make a fuss. He then pulled Zhan Zhao to the side of the roof to hide behind a raised pipe.
In the darkness of the night, there was a glint of alert and excitement shining in Bai Yutang's watchful eyes that were on the door. Zhan Zhao suddenly recalled Qi Jiaqi's evaluation the day they were at the prison——The Exorcist.
Which was true! Ever since they were young, as long as he had Bai Yutang by his side, he would feel like there was nothing to be afraid of. It was only now that Zhan Zhao understood why he was so brave. It was because that person had never given him the chance to learn what being afraid feels like.
Just as those random thoughts ran through his mind, there was the faint sound of footsteps coming from the door. Who on earth would come to the rooftop at this time? Both Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao stared fixedly at the door.
As the sound of the footsteps grew louder, a beam of light from a flashlight shone into the rooftop, and the two immediately held their breaths.
"W-Who's up here?" a trembling voice asked. Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang exchanged a look of puzzlement.
At the time, that man had already stepped onto the roof.
That man was in a black police uniform with a flashlight in one hand and a gun in the other.
Police??
"W-Who's there?" that policeman asked. The light from his torchlight was already shone on the body lying on the fence. His voice trembled even harder than before as he made his way towards the body while shaking like a leaf.
"Mommy aaaAAAaaah!" the little cop screamed in shock and fell onto his butt when he saw that the dead man's face was all bloodied up.
Bai Yutang frowned and scolded, "Useless."
"W-Who was that?" that policeman asked. Hearing the strange sound, he raised his gun in shock and pointed it at the pipes.
"Don't shoot, we're policemen too," Zhan Zhao shouted at that little policeman when he saw the impatience on Bai Yutang's face.
"P-Police? What... proof do you have?" the little policeman asked with a shaky voice.
Bai Yutang got up and walked towards him with swagger.
"D-Don't come... or I'll shoot..." the little policeman warned while retreating backwards as he aimed his gun at Bai Yutang frantically.
Unfortunately for him, Bai Yutang ignored his warnings and continued heading straight for him.
"I-I'll shoot..." The little policeman took his aim and tried to pull on the trigger as hard as he could, but for some reason, he couldn't do it.
"Ah~~!" he screamed in pain and the gun that was in his hand was now in Bai Yutang's.
Bai Yutang opened the revolver and checked that the magazine was fully loaded with six bullets. He then reached for the policeman's police ID from the pocket on the latter's blazer. When he opened it and compared the picture on the ID to the person, other than the exaggerated facial expressions, everything else matched up.
"Bai Chí?" Bai Yutang read the policeman's name with a little difficulty. Who's kid was he? Why would his parents give him such a silly3 name??
"Un..."
Zhan Zhao had also come up to the two of them and flashed his policed ID at the little policeman, "Don't be so nervous, we're all policemen."
Bai Chí stared blankly at Zhan Zhao's ID and opened his mouth in surprise but was unable to utter a single word.
Bai Yutang asked him, "Why did you come up?"
"Urh..." Bai Chí answered while scratching his head awkwardly, "I-I'm on my first street patrol today..."
Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao both nodded at the same time in understanding——as they had expected.
"Just now... I heard a gunshot while I was patrolling downstairs and then a gun fell... so I came up to take a look," Bai Chí blushed slightly as he spoke before looking up to meet Zhan Zhao's eyes again, "Your police ID states that... you guys are from the S.C.I. team?"
Zhan Zhao gave him a gentle smile and introduced, "I'm Zhan Zhao and this is Bai Yutang."
Bai Chí's face immediately turned beet-red as stared at Bai Yutang in horror with his mouth agape and muttered, "Y-You're that... Captain... Bai?"
Amused by his reaction, Bai Yutang put Bai Chí's ID back into his pocket, raised the gun in his hand and asked, "Do you know why you couldn't pull the trigger?"
"Erhm..." Bai Chí shook his head in confusion.
Bai Yutang removed all the bullets and handed the empty gun back to Bai Chí. He then scoffed, "Next time, remember to unlock the safety!"
...
The atmosphere in the ballroom was unusually heavy. Ding Zhaohui and Ding Zhaolan took care of the wounded while waiting for the ambulance to arrive.
To everyone who was held in the closed room, every second felt like an eternity. Bai Jintang walked up to Gongsun's side and was just about to say something when someone interrupted him.
"Today's a really unlucky day, Mr. Bai."
When he turned around, Bai Jintang was greeted with the sight of a wealthy old man in his fifties with several besuited young men following him.
"I apologise for the scare, President Pang," Bai Jintang politely offered his apologies to the old man but he didn't sound like he was saying sorry at all. The man standing before him was Pang Ji, a well-known wealthy landowner whose family mainly runs the nightclub business in S City. Bai Jintang had already done some investigations on the man and he wasn't very fond of him.
"Hoho, for something so unfortunate to happen when the Bai Group just opened... Could it be some kind of foreshadowing? Seems like S City isn't a fortuitous place for you, Mr. Bai," Pang Ji said with a proud expression on his face before looking at the group behind him, "Well then, I'll be taking my leave first everyone. It's not safe around here."
The crowd got a little fidgety and several people looked like they wanted to follow suit.
Pang Ji turned around in satisfaction but stopped just as he was about to leave. His eyes fell on Gongsun, who was quietly sitting on the sofa and asked amiably, "Are you leaving too? Do you want to follow along?"
Pang Ji had originally thought of asking Gongsun because the latter had just calmly saved Dr. Wilson hence his actions should have a certain influence on the other people present. If he leaves, many people would surely follow! Moreover, Gongsun didn't seem to have a good relationship with Bai Yutang.
Gongsun lifted his head to give Pang Ji a look of disdain before sighing as he said leisurely, "How could I do that?" Then, he glanced at Chen Jiayi and Fang Jing who were also calmly sipping on their on the sofa and continued, "Even the ladies present are this calm and composed, as a man, how could you be so scared that you want to run away with your tail between your legs?"
"Pfft..." the twins who were this close from exploding, they were already about to pull out their guns, couldn't help but burst into fits of laughter. The other guests present, especially the male guests, also puffed out their chests as they stood tall and proud.
And at this time, the timely sound of the police sirens could be heard coming from downstairs.
Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao, who were leading that little policeman, Bai Chí, out the building happened to bump into Ai Hu and the Major Crimes team.
"Captain!" Ai Hu called out to Bai Yutang, he was ultimately unable to change the way he called the latter, while he skipped over happily.
“How's it like upstairs?" Bai Yutang asked about the situation in the ballroom before anything else.
"The wounded and the one with the heart attack have already been sent on the ambulance. As for the rest, they were dispersed after we took down their names," Ai Hu replied, "Fortunately, there were no deaths."
Bai Yutang nodded with a frown, "There's one dead on the rooftop."
"Oh right, did you find the murder weapon?" Zhan Zhao inquired.
"That was what I was about to tell you guys about," Ai Hu got all serious as the police officer next to him handed him a sniper rifle that had been badly damaged by the fall.
"A Barrett M82A1?" Bai Yutang could feel a headache coming up. It's one of the most widely used sniper rifles, but still, it wasn't easy for the common masses to get their hands on it.
"This case should probably be handed over to the S.C.I. team," Ai Hu remarked suddenly.
"What?" Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were stunned by his words.
Ai Hu said while shaking his head, "This is already the fourth assassination by sniping this month."
...
As the night slowly deepened, the darkness encroached into every piece of land, fear was lurking in the turn of every corner.
Taking in the view of the city while standing at the top of it, the city felt like a giant machine that's constantly running with no end in sight.
Di～～～～～
The computer screen flashed on again as an email flew in.
Let the sins of the dead be exposed to the world; let there be nowhere to hide the grotesque; let the filthy hypocrites have a taste of the devil's sickle.
Closing the display, the person in the darkness spread open their arms in the silence, enjoying the feeling of being one of kind. And laughter filled the night sky.
And now the woeful sounds of actual pain
begin to break upon mine ears; I now
am come to where much wailing smiteth me.
I reached a region silent of all light,
which bellows as the sea doth in a storm,
if lashed and beaten by opposing winds.
The infernal hurricane, which never stops,
carries the spirits onward with its sweep,
and, as it whirls and smites them, gives them pain.
————————《Divine Comedy》The Second Circle. Sexual Intemperance4.
1. Heart attack↩
2. Written as '流氓' which is often used to mean indecent/pervert/lecher. Please take note I guess 'cause I'll be using Ruffian for this term whenever it appears because I have a chuuni brain that’s thinks ruffian sounds more bad boy-ish lol. ↩
3. Sounds similar to idiot in Chinese just that the second word of 'baichi' is the first sound while in the case of this character it's the second sound. I will be typing his name as Bai Chí to make that differentiation I guess↩
4. This excerpt was taken from here. I'm not sure if I stopped at the correct part though lol↩
Please feedback to me in the comments below if you find any typos or terrible grammar, etc that you think I should change. Or maybe you think my interpretation is completely off lol Help me help you have a better reading experience ahahah what a tongue twister XD
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2. Written as '流氓' which is often used to mean indecent/pervert/lecher. Please take note I guess 'cause I'll be using Ruffian for this term whenever it appears because I have a chuuni brain that’s thinks ruffian sounds more bad boy-ish lol. ↩
3. Sounds similar to idiot in Chinese just that the second word of 'baichi' is the first sound while in the case of this character it's the second sound. I will be typing his name as Bai Chí to make that differentiation I guess↩
4. This excerpt was taken from here. I'm not sure if I stopped at the correct part though lol↩
Please feedback to me in the comments below if you find any typos or terrible grammar, etc that you think I should change. Or maybe you think my interpretation is completely off lol Help me help you have a better reading experience ahahah what a tongue twister XD
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Your translation is amazing; so readable and fun! I hope you continue!
ReplyDeleteYour translation is the bestest! I really really really hope you continue! 💜
ReplyDeleteYour translation is the best one out there. It is obvious you put a lot of care into it. I for one do not mind waiting for something this good. Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteWaitin fr the next chapterrrr,,, hope
ReplyDeleteu continue lilliess ❤❤❤ thank uuu sooo much fr the beautifully translated chapters.. 👍👍👍
Man I love your translation!!!! Thank you for your effort. Stay safe and healthy.
ReplyDeleteI love your way of translating and retelling this story!
ReplyDeleteYou are really talented in it and I can only hope that you continue your hard but stunning work :)
Keep up and stay healty XD
I love your translations!! Thanks so much!
ReplyDelete"...that this "Killer" was really young. Or at the very least, he didn't seem to be more than two years old which made Zhan Zhao rather confused."
ReplyDeleteI think you are missing a word here? Or something is missing here
How can a sniper be 2 years old?
btw.. thanks for the translation