Struggle in the Steam Age

Chapter 11: Guns and monsters

   "Anne Oakley." Lawrence raised his eyebrows excitedly after seeing the name, because according to the information given by the previous mirror, if the price was too low, he could only summon some ordinary people in history.

   And this time he seems to have heard of the name, which means that the person summoned this time can bring him more power than the ancient Greek warrior in the last time.

   At the same time, his previous experience reminded him of all the materials he had read in his two lifetimes, so after frowning and thinking about it, he finally remembered the introduction of this lady he had read when he was browsing the Internet:

   Annie Oakley is an American. She started to practice marksmanship at the age of five. At the age of 16, she challenged and won the famous sharpshooter and her future husband Frank Butler. Later, she became a star of the Bison Bill Circus. She was good at using pistols and rifles for stunt shooting, such as hitting a coin that was tossed 27 meters away.

Her marksmanship later became a legend in the Western United States. Even this name, Annie Oakley became a synonym for various free tickets, because Oakley had the shooting stunt of punching through the playing cards thrown in the air, and was punched by the ticket inspector. The tickets are like the poker cards she shot.

   Thinking of this, Lawrence immediately began to communicate with the four small black flowers. Sure enough, except for one of the two skills, riding is special shooting, and the talent is dynamic vision and agility.

   "This—" Lawrence was lost in thought when he saw these four choices. Except for the riding skills that he didn't use for the time being, he was very interested in the remaining three items.

   But after a minute or two of serious thinking, he chose the skill of special shooting. Soon a yellow fruit wrapped in a white mist fell into his hand.

   Lawrence once again watched Anne Oakley's life, and the clear parts of those memories were all related to shooting. As he watched these memories, a lot of skills were instilled into his mind, and at the same time a slight flow of heat began to flow in his body. After a few minutes, the heat flow disappeared, and he had absorbed the knowledge.

   After another glance at Jianmu's phantom, Lawrence left Jianmu Space. As soon as he came out of the space, he drew the pistol from the left armpit holster, and then took out the bullet inside and loaded it into a rubber-made inert practice bullet.

   When everything was ready, he began to practice according to the movements in his memory. He was a little jerky at first, but more and more later. After only half an hour, Lawrence completely mastered this set of shooting methods.

   "Huh—" After the exercise, Lawrence took a long sigh of relief and took out a handkerchief from his jacket pocket to wipe the sweat off his head, put the live ammunition back, put the pistol away and sat back on the chair.

"It seems that this kind of technique still needs some talent to support. Now I can at most shoot down coins that are tossed 15 meters away with a pistol. If it is farther away, there will be a high probability of missing the target." Lawrence leaned back on the chair. Thinking. "This is because I have had a lot of shooting experience before, and at the same time I strengthened my body to do it now."

   "But this level of shooting is enough, at least for me now." Lawrence subconsciously put his hand on the table and tapped the table with his index finger slowly. Before coming to Eagle Fort, he followed his adoptive father in the church to learn a lot of common sense related to transcendence, one of which is that most low-level transcendent creatures can be destroyed with bullets.

   Just like even if there are extraordinary powers in this world, most of the people are ordinary people. Those extraordinary monsters are not as powerful as gods.

   For example, the most common goblins in the wild in various places, even an ordinary person can win in one-on-one hand-to-hand combat without losing courage. And if there are enough guns and ammunition and a strong house, as long as they are not attacked, two or three armed people under the cover of the house are enough to repel the small group of goblins with less than a hundred people.

   And this is the most important use of firearms: they smoothly flatten the difference in combat power between humans and those low-level monsters that occupy the majority of monsters.

"The biggest problem I face now is to join the expedition to explore the underground ruins." Lawrence thought, "As the largest city in the White Eagle Federation, the ruins on the edge of the city cannot be too dangerous, otherwise It has long been dealt with by the strong men of the Federation."

"But it is impossible to say that there is no danger at all. Even the expedition team in the era of such advanced technology in the last life reported that someone was injured or even killed. Then the ruins in this world with extraordinary power will only be more dangerous. ."

   "But if you want to integrate into this world to master extraordinary power, then this opportunity must not be given up. So now I can only choose this option that can improve my level in the shortest time to ensure that there are no surprises during this inspection."

   As for the dynamic vision and agility just now, from a long-term perspective, it is indeed more useful than shooting technology, but after weighing the pros and cons, he found that at this time, only the option that can improve combat effectiveness in a short time can gain more benefits in subsequent expeditions.

   "It would be great if you could have it all." Lawrence sighed softly, and then quickly adjusted his mood. After all, the current golden finger is enough to guard against the sky, and he should know that it is enough.

"Hey, our college students, the meal is ready, come down and eat." While he was sitting in the chair thinking, the hearty voice of Aunt Susan downstairs passed through the wooden door along the corridor and passed into the room. .

   "I'm here." Lawrence recovered from his thoughts, UU read www.uukanshu.com and then put on a coat to cover the holster under his arm and walked downstairs.

   This world is similar to the world before Lawrence in many places. For example, there are 12 months in a year, 30 days or 31 days in a month, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. Except that the moon is blue, everything is not much different from the previous world.

  When he went downstairs, Lawrence glanced at an old wall clock placed at the corner of the stairs. This is also the most precious wealth left to this tavern by the husband of Aunt Susan, a former sergeant of the White Eagle Federation, sacrificed before the Sixth Civilization Expedition.

   The wall clock shows that it is five o'clock in the afternoon, and most of the workers have not yet finished get off work at this time. So when Lawrence walked downstairs, he found that the tavern was empty. Only in the corner were a few people who were not at work sitting there playing poker.

"Awesome pie." After taking the plate of pie and grilled asparagus from the bar counter, Lawrence sat at a table and ate. Just after taking his first bite, he was heartfelt to the counter. Aunt Susan who checked the barrel later said.

This is not just out of courtesy. After the first bite, Lawrence felt that the crispy pie crust was penetrated. Lawrence tasted the successful combination of mushrooms, cheese, onion and chicken flavors in the filling, making the whole pie become very delicious.

   "Ah, that's good." Aunt Susan washed her hands in the basin in the corner, "Do you want another one, I think you ate a lot for breakfast today."

   "No need." Lawrence smiled and shook his head. The meal this morning was mostly a sequelae of the strengthening of the body. By night, his appetite returned to a normal level. "I think this morning may be because of not eating dinner yesterday plus injury."

  

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