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As a result, he forgot about it.
Lee Eun-sook threw a tantrum because of Gu Oppa's broken promise.
Gu Ran knew he was in the wrong, so he indulged her.
I coaxed her for a long time, making her delicious food for three days in a row, before I finally cheered her up.
Li Enshu is not a combat-oriented person; she is better suited for logistics. Her instructors usually require her to practice shooting, especially close-range pistol shooting, to ensure an accuracy rate within 20 meters.
Chapter 216 Heading to the Three Gorges
To practice shooting, Li Enshu would ask Gu Ran to go to the shooting range with her whenever she had free time.
Sometimes, the two would sneak out of school to hunt moose in the neighborhood.
Moose are a large deer, weighing over half a ton, and have a pair of very large antlers.
In China, it is a Class I protected animal.
But in the United States, it's a 'road killer' because it frequently veers off the road and causes accidents.
It is reported that 200 traffic accidents caused by moose occur every year in Alaska.
Because of its enormous size and slender limbs, when it is involved in a car accident, its limbs will be knocked down by the hood, and its body will slam into the windshield due to its huge inertia, often hitting the people in the driver's seat and causing serious injuries or fatalities.
Therefore, the American people are very disgusted with it.
In the United States, hunting it is not illegal, and this creature can often be seen in the mountains and waters around the Great Lakes.
That day, Gu Ran, Li Enshu, and Su Xi each carried a sniper rifle and went hunting in the mountains.
It's winter now, and there's been a lot of snow these past two days, with the snow layer being over a meter thick. The three of them, wearing windproof jackets, are traversing through the snow, which is very physically demanding.
Therefore, they did not live too far from the school.
As for why Susie was brought along, it's because she's a skilled shooter who consistently gets A's in shooting class, so she can teach the two of them.
At this moment, the three of them hid on a hill, lying in a place where there was no snow.
Li Enshu and Gu Ran each took a Barrett M82A1 sniper rifle and aimed at a moose a kilometer away.
The Barrett M82A1 sniper rifle is an anti-materiel weapon with an effective range of 1500 meters and a maximum range of 6800 meters.
The above data is from before the modification.
After being modified by those lunatics in the equipment department, this gun's power in all aspects exceeded the standard, and its maximum range exceeded 8000 meters!
"After this gun was modified, there will be almost no deviation when shooting within a kilometer. Of course, there are often mountain winds and air currents in the mountains, which may occasionally affect the bullet's landing point."
Susie explained to the two that when shooting at a large target like a moose, all they had to do was aim and fire.
Li Enshu aimed at the moose's head, while Gu Ran aimed at one of its feet. The two fired at the same time, and a deafening roar echoed through the valley.
Upon hearing the sound, the crows, squirrels, and other forest animals scattered in fright.
A moment after the shot was fired, the moose that was being targeted fell to the ground.
"Yay, I hit it!" Lee Eun-sook said smugly. She had blown the moose's head off with a single shot, and her pretty face beamed with joy. "Let's take it back and make braised meat. There's a pot of braising liquid in Norton's kitchen."
If it were Susie, that shot could have gone straight through the moose's eye, leaving the hide intact.
However, they weren't professional hunters; they were just there to practice their shooting.
Gu Ran's shot missed because moose feet are very slender, appearing as a tiny dot from a kilometer away.
Moreover, he practiced sniping not to snipe from a distance, but simply to familiarize himself with the weapon.
"If I want the bullet to travel the farthest distance, how should I shoot?" Gu Ran asked Su Xi.
Susie said, "Firing the gun with the muzzle pointing upwards at an angle of about forty degrees will allow the bullet to travel the farthest distance."
"Like a mortar?"
“Yes,” Susie said, giving an example. “Just like archery, in ancient battles, archers often hurled arrows into the air so that they could fly a greater distance and fall down to strike the enemy. Squads of archers could create a terrifying rain of arrows.”
"Then why not a 45-degree angle? Wouldn't that be the furthest distance of a parabola?"
"Because of the design of the muzzle, which is to be slightly upward, the bullet will follow a parabolic trajectory. So when you raise the muzzle to forty degrees, combined with the original upward tilt of the muzzle, the projectile angle of the bullet after leaving the barrel will be about forty-five degrees."
After listening, Gu Ran seemed to be deep in thought. He ejected a bullet and attached the Flying Thunder God mark to the bullet head.
Then reload the bullet, point the muzzle upwards at about a 40-degree angle, and fire.
Then, he closed his eyes and sensed the trajectory of the bullet.
The bullet flew through the air for more than ten seconds before finally coming to a stop.
Gu Ran couldn't say for sure the exact distance the bullet was from here, but it was definitely more than 10,000 meters away.
Seeing him fire, Susie warned, "Although the bullets can travel further, they have little killing power after traveling this far. Of course, if you're unlucky, an ordinary person might still be killed by the bullet, but it won't do any harm to hybrids or dragons."
"I know."
Gu Ran knew the difference between effective range and maximum range.
But he only needs the maximum range of a sniper rifle, not its lethality.
This was an inspiration he received in Siam last time: to attach the Flying Thunder God technique to the tip of a bullet and then use the bullet's impact point to teleport.
This is more flexible than attaching the technique to a kunai.
Moreover, bullets travel faster and farther than kunai.
If necessary, he can teleport instantly if he needs to use the Flying Thunder God Technique to travel.
For example, this sniper rifle has a maximum range of over 10,000 meters, or 10 kilometers. By using ten bullets to relay and teleport, it can reach a distance of over 100 kilometers in about three minutes.
It takes a regular helicopter half an hour to get to a place 100 kilometers away!
Therefore, Gu Ran plans to add this sniper rifle to his equipment inventory to increase his mobility.
In addition, he chose the AUG rifle for mid-range assault, while keeping the Glock pistol.
For Gu Ran, firearms were merely auxiliary weapons, used in conjunction with the Flying Thunder God Technique.
His current specialty is stealth assassination.
However, his recent assignments haven't given him a chance to prove himself.
After hunting a moose, Lee Eun-sook led everyone to see their spoils.
This moose weighs over 600 kilograms, and Li Enshu is too weak to carry it, so she has to ask Gu Ran for help.
"Do you really have to eat this thing?" Gu Ran was both amused and exasperated, but since he hadn't brought her a gift beforehand, he could only drag the thing back under Li Enshu's resentful gaze.
It would be difficult for him and Lee Eun-sook to finish the moose in a short time, so in order not to waste food, they invited the Lionheart Society members to have a get-together.
Fingel, from the student union's news department, shamelessly came to freeload off me.
However, his ability to liven up the atmosphere did make the Lionheart Society members, who were usually quite murderous, much more lively.
……
A few days later, Gu Ran received Norma's report, which contained information about the Zhang sisters' identities and Zhang Ronghua's information.
Previously, Zhang Fangfang and Zhang Xiaoyu became Gu Ran's prisoners and revealed a lot about the Zhang family in Nanyang.
Although it was only peripheral information, Norma still managed to find quite a few clues.
The Zhang family's influence extends throughout Southeast Asia and South Asia, including Malaysia, Indonesia, India, and Singapore.
The Zhang sisters have been doing things like kidnapping politicians, assassinating political enemies, stealing military secrets from Southeast Asian countries, and collecting scandals about politicians from various countries.
In short, they were all shady espionage activities.
In addition, they also run a shady human trafficking organization, engaging in human trafficking and organ trafficking in the Philippines, India, and other regions.
Gu Ran had previously reported this information to the Secret Party's Executive Department, and they had been investigating it for days.
However, the locations mentioned by Zhang Fangfang and Zhang Xiaoyu have both been moved.
Those locations still contain large pieces of equipment that couldn't be moved in time, including operating rooms and freezers containing human organs that couldn't be moved or that were damaged.
This proves the accuracy of the Zhang sisters' intelligence.
As for Zhang Ronghua, he is quite mysterious. All we can find is his age, which is already 85 years old.
Judging from his appearance, Gu Ran should be no more than fifty years old.
Zhang Ronghua left absolutely no trace of other useful information, such as family members, businesses, or whereabouts, which shows how extremely careful he was.
Therefore, the Secret Service has not been able to find any clues about this person for the time being.
Gu Ran believed that as the investigation deepened, this person would reveal more flaws.
The reason I didn't kill Zhang Ronghua directly last time wasn't because I couldn't, but because I wanted him to lead the way.
Gu Ran placed the Flying Thunder God Mark on him, and this mark cannot be removed.
If there's another opportunity, perhaps Gu Ran can use the mark on Zhang Ronghua to infiltrate the Zhang family's stronghold in Southeast Asia.
This is a hidden move, but also a brilliant move that will catch the opponent off guard!
……
February 12th, Lunar New Year's Eve.
In the blink of an eye, more than half a month has passed.
On this day, Gu Ran, carrying a large backpack, arrived at the Moniah in the waters of Kuimen and met up with Lu Mingfei, Caesar, and the other members of the 'Bronze Project' mission team.
As per Angers' mission assignment, Gu Ran joined the operation as a logistics medic.
When Gu Ran boarded the ship, he wasn't wearing a combat uniform, just a black leather jacket.
When the helicopter landed on the deck, Groups A and B, who were about to go into the water, were still working underwater. Only Professor Manstein, who was in charge of campus discipline, was there to greet them.
“As required, you will need to wear a medical personnel badge after boarding the ship.” Manstein said with a serious expression, holding a Red Cross armband, slipping it onto Gu Ran’s arm, and kindly fastening it for him with a safety pin.
Gu Ran looked at the professor with a dark expression: "By the way, I quite like this leather jacket."
A safety pin pierced the inside of my leather jacket. Is this jacket even usable anymore? The perfectly good leather is ruined!
“Oh God, no wonder I said the pin was so hard to pierce, it turns out it’s made of cowhide.” Manstein pretended not to notice Gu Ran’s dissatisfaction and patted the student on the back. “Alright, since we have some time, let me tell you about the ship’s rules. First of all, I am the captain of this ship…”
It took Manstein more than twenty minutes to explain one rule after another to the new student, Gu Ran, and to ask him to abide by them.