[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-bear-school-astartes":3,"chapter-bear-school-astartes-bear-school-astartes-chapter-384":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Bear School Astartes",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1620214,2087,"Chapter 384. Gunfight","bear-school-astartes-chapter-384",384,"\u003Cp>After learning where the dream he was pulled into actually was, Lann decided to first check out the Hunter Workshop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First of all, it’s very close to the chapel, which makes it convenient to visit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Secondly, the old man who kept chattering in the dream and even tried to entice him to inject Yanyan’s Blood into himself...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann always felt that he was a difficult and dangerous guy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the end of the last dream, when he came out, he couldn’t remember what happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, understanding a bit more could make things smoother if he needs to take action in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann found the elevator on one side of Oton Chapel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This ladder operated by a mechanism looked like a platform, and it would start automatically when you stepped on the raised section in the center, lifting the rider up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann ascended a distance of six or seven floors on the ladder, and upon looking down, he was on the same level as the ground floor of another tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rooftop and the foundation being on the same plane was very characteristic of a Mountain City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along the way, there were several nondescript beast-like patients who had hidden in this tower at the start of the Hunter’s Night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this didn’t stop the plague from spreading; without enough incense, they couldn’t hold out, and soon all turned into hairy humanoid beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few patients held simple weapons like sabers and pitchforks, and in the corners of the tower, there were beast-like patients wearing top hats and wielding rifles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These posed no real challenge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention their muddled minds now; even if they were clear-headed, they wouldn’t cause Lann much trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gap in basic abilities can be supplemented with firepower, but a few single-shot rifles can’t really talk about suppressive fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann easily dealt with these beast-formed patients using the Lady of the Lake’s Sword and the small throwing knives at his waist, and then he prepared to venture into the darkness inside the tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at that moment, the sound of metal gears turning came from within the dark of the tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the Demon Hunter entered, his scalp tightened suddenly, and instinctively, without thinking, he dodged out of the stone door frame!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next moment— \"Crash!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like the pelting rain of a torrential downpour, bullets clattered against the tower walls, with fragments of mercury bullets and broken wall pieces scattering everywhere!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bodies of beast-formed patients that Lann had dealt with were suddenly like they were brushed over again by an iron brush, their already plague-thinned bodies shaved down another layer!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A hand-cranked Gatling... Tsk, it really fits with the era’s backdrop.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann clicked his tongue, standing outside the door frame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The prototype of the Gatling machine gun appeared in the mid-nineteenth century, which fits the Victorian style architecture of Yan’an well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was originally an invention by a doctor, designed to cause massive casualties on the battlefield instantly to terrify enemy troops into surrendering, thus reducing overall war casualties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, since the doctor wasn’t a sociologist, he didn’t realize that for any normal country or power, after being stunned by a new technology, their thought wouldn’t be ’no more resistance.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But rather ’if you have it, I must have it too.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A new technology can gain an advantage in a single battle, but in larger fields, its effects are indeed limited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, an invention that was supposed to reduce casualties on the battlefield instead ignited an arms race in the firearms field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that Lann, in his time in Yan’an, had never seen a weapon of this grade and therefore hadn’t included it in his tactical plans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But faced with unexpected ferocity of firepower, the young man remained unflustered, without instinctively breathing rapidly or thinking erratically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the contrary... his eyes were rational and calm, as if he had already witnessed fiercer gunfire and knew precisely how to handle such a situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Interstellar Warriors are enhanced soldiers of the Interstellar Era, and the Sons of the Emperor’s superb swordsmanship is merely a habit and inclination within the legion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As part of the overall Interstellar Warrior cohort, they were also top-notch in gunfights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann pulled up a corpse of a beast-formed patient from the ground beside him and threw it from one side of the door to the other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, the hand-cranked Gatling inside the room swept across following the corpse crossing the doorway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The body was blasted into pieces by the string of mercury bullets, scattering like a torn doll, and the patient operating the gun realized he’d been fooled in less than a second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the scorching line of gunfire again swung back to Lann’s side, carrying a momentum seemingly determined to shoot through the tower wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gap in between lasted less than half a second, but for Lann, it was already a big enough tactical gap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his hand, an already-prepared Alchemy Bomb was reversed into the door in this gap by Lann.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young man didn’t even bother to look back; he simply took action after silently counting down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nearly simultaneous with his movement, the Dancing Star alchemy bomb exploded into a dazzling white light inside the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The role of stun grenades in street alley gunfights is indisputable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann let just a sliver of clothing show from outside the door right before the bomb exploded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, the line of fire from the hand-cranked Gatling swept towards it accordingly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gunman, in the final moment before getting blinded, saw the edge of Lann’s clothing and naturally assumed the target had begun sprinting and relocating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after the flash exploded, Lann was only halfway exposed within the door frame; his steps did not move at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The series of bullets from the hand-cranked Gatling merely grazed the air next to him, all missing their mark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A small throwing knife prepared in his hand whizzed directly into the gunman’s forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gunfire ceased after that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the support of tactical thinking and tactical training, he counter-killed the opposing firepower suppression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an old man sitting in a wheelchair, who had modified the hand-cranked Gatling onto his wheelchair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann stepped up to the wheelchair, examined the heavy machine gun for a moment, and ultimately decided not to store it in his Alchemy Pouch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Hunter’s Pistol in Margaret’s hand could be seen as a ’pricey and impractical toy’ by warlocks. But if this item appeared on a battlefield, no nation’s generals and kings would likely refuse it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann didn’t want to escalate the war intensity in the Magic World to that extent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This old man must have bled a lot to accumulate these mercury bullets.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann clicked his tongue at the ammo box placed on the old man’s wheelchair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Insufficient blood quality, compensated with ammunition quantity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And within this prolonged night, the old man’s ammo box was already nearly empty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, the dawn representing peace never came, until everyone here was infected with the beast plague.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lann didn’t linger; he started to explore beneath the foundation of the tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wooden beams and walkways inside the tower were mostly decayed, fitting Erin’s statement that the ’Hunter Workshop has long been hidden and sealed.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Lann were an ordinary Yan Nan Hunter, he’d likely face the risk of breaking a leg, jumping down these beams one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But luckily, the skills learned from the Ninja proved to be seamlessly applicable in this scenario.\u003C\u002Fp>",1244,"2026-06-06T10:40:07.942Z",1,"novelbin.me","6fd8c8dfd5d92ec27533546379c465665ef7c444d71e8a1b8b0602325de4ffd1","bear-school-astartes-chapter-385","bear-school-astartes-chapter-383",1043,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fbear-school-astartes-cover.jpg"]