Chapter 91: Fastest Draw and Fire Speed

Inside the Ark Gang's stronghold,

Zhou Yun played with the Pocket Long Juanfeng in his hand while watching the Ark Gang members drilling outside the window.

They were undergoing training, learning how to use firearms more professionally, how to fight with blades, and how to engage in street combat.

But to be honest, their training was truly

"Unbearable to look at." The winged figure within the Bai Guang silently commented: "They lack more professional training guidance."

Zhou Yun nodded in agreement; in military matters, he was an amateur.

But among the instructors teaching the Ark Gang members, Zhou Yun saw Lag.

The other instructors were mostly thugs from the Underhive.

Xiang Leina could probably only gather this group.

"Don't say that, Lag might be the most reliable one among them."

Xiang Leina said with a look of distress and exhaustion:

"At least he taught my people how to survive longer on the battlefield."

Zhou Yun had to nod in agreement on this point.

Lag might be useless in other aspects, but when it came to staying alive in the Underhive where the average lifespan was around thirty, the fact that he could maintain a face of a sixty or seventy-year-old man already proved his ability to survive.

Gangs in the sector rose and fell one after another, but Lag always survived in the lower ranks of the gangs.

Extremely useless, yet extremely hard to kill.

Xiang Leina sighed: "How have you considered what I just said?"

She had just told Zhou Yun two things.

One was that the Ark Gang was facing difficulties in fund allocation.

The other was asking if Zhou Yun was interested in joining the Ark Gang's management.

"You want to default on your debt!"

"You even want me to work for free!"

Zhou Yun extracted the key points in his own way:

"How dare you? Even the Hua Di Huang cannot default on my debt or make me work for free!"

Zhou Yun stared at Xiang Leina with wide eyes.

Xiang Leina's expression twitched slightly.

"It's not defaulting. We aren't out of money, it's just..."

Xiang Leina pushed the ledger in front of Zhou Yun:

"We are in a difficult situation too. Recovering the Warp Engine, destroying the Warp Engine, and those two issues—adding the three together, the Blood Coins I need to pay you are so many that they require allocation."

"You know these past few days, I am restructuring the entire Ark Gang to adapt it to the mission assigned by the Hua Di Huang, causing delays in various allocations."

Xiang Leina leaned close to Zhou Yun with an expression of apology and inner conflict:

"The money definitely exists. We aren't cooperating for the first time; do you not trust me?"

As she spoke, her gaze turned toward the Pocket Long Juanfeng in Zhou Yun's hand.

She had witnessed the power of this small brown gourd, which could release a very powerful hurricane.

"So, can we put this gourd aside for now?"

"Time, Xiang Leina." Zhou Yun rubbed his fingers together as he asked Xiang Leina.

"If you are in a hurry, come take over part of the Ark Gang's affairs; what I am facing right now is a complete mess."

Xiang Leina said with a bitter face.

The Ark Gang's current problem isn't a lack of money, but having money without knowing how to allocate it.

With the expansion of the Ark Gang, Xiang Leina's management of the gang had long reached its limit.

Plus, recently she had massively restructured the entire Ark Gang, needing to transfer a large amount of resources previously supplied for starship construction to other uses.

This involved countless resource and manpower allocations across multiple Underhive sectors; Xiang Leina really couldn't sort it out in the short term.

She very much hoped someone could lend a hand.

But she knew at a glance that Zhou Yun did not intend to join the Ark Gang's management.

After all, just thinking about Zhou Yun made her feel it would be exhausting and laborious.

Xiang Leina sighed and said: "Pay half first; I will pay you the remaining half within a month."

"There's no choice; money is needed everywhere right now. I plan to dismantle and sell the starship we built to get some funds."

"Fortunately, I still have the Upper Hive access pass you obtained; perhaps I can find a buyer in the Upper Hive."

A month.

The corner of Zhou Yun's eye twitched slightly.

It wasn't even certain that the planet Asford had a month of lifespan left.

As for selling that starship...

Zhou Yun had seen the starship data Xiang Leina obtained.

That vessel was buried in the desolate wasteland outside the Hive City; it was a Wanderer-class merchant ship manufactured many years ago.

Finding a buyer for this thing would not be easy.

"How about I do it?" The winged figure within the Bai Guang suddenly spoke up.

Zhou Yun paused, blinked his eyes, and asked in his mind: "What will you do?"

"I will handle these affairs of the Ark Gang. It's just the affairs of a small gang; I can finish them in thirty minutes."

Zhou Yun paused; this actually seemed feasible.

Even though the winged figure within the Bai Guang was not Sanguinius, he was certainly no mortal.

Even if it were just an ordinary Astartes, its mental capacity far surpassed that of mortals.

Matters that Xiang Xiang Leina could not sort out might appear very simple in the eyes of the winged figure within the Bai Guang.

Moreover, the Truth and Falsehood Divination Machine had confirmed that the winged figure within the Bai Guang was trustworthy.

Zhou Yun nodded slightly, looking at Xiang Xiang Leina: "Give me all the data, documents, and forms of your Ark Gang."

"Real or fake?" Xiang Xiang Leina paused for a moment, then joy appeared in her eyes: "I'll go move some over right now, and the two of us will together—"

"First, I said all of it."

"Second, you are not needed."

Zhou Yun shook his finger and said:

"Third, administrative processing services also require payment."

"If you can truly finish handling these matters and re-plan a complete material dispatch system."

Xiang Xiang Leina's tone paused; she stood up, opened the door, and led Zhou Yun to the adjacent room:

"You will discover that after the Ark Gang no longer needs to build starships, they actually have quite a lot of money."

Xiang Xiang Leina opened the door to the adjacent room and pointed inside.

The entire room was piled high with massive amounts of documents and forms, like a mountain range constructed of paper.

On the table in the center of the room, several data pads lay, constantly flashing with complex data.

Zhou Yun's expression remained unchanged; he strode into the room, and Xiang Xiang Leina followed closely behind.

She watched as Zhou Yun sat calmly behind the table and picked up the first document lying on top.

"Aren't you going to use some kind of miraculous technological artifact?" Xiang Xiang Leina couldn't help but ask.

"I will use my external brain." Zhou Yun chuckled lightly and replied.

He opened the document, allowing the winged figure within the Bai Guang to see through his eyes.

"Industrial raw materials from Sector Six can be transported to local factories via Corridor Twelve."

"The transport of steel and paste-wood from Sector Fifteen will mutually block the corridors; the transport should be arranged this way."

"The branch manager in Sector Thirteen is embezzling; the amount is approximately—"

"The Ark Gang's tax collection model for the Lower Hive can be changed; collect protection fees according to the method I specify."

"Let Xiang Xiang Leina calculate these two forms; the numbers correctly calculated will carry the corruption of the Lord of Ten Thousand Changes, and she is immune to it." Xiang Xiang Leina looked at Zhou Yun standing amidst the Ark Gang's documents with a completely bewildered expression.

These documents stayed in Zhou Yun's hands for only a few seconds on average before he finished processing them.

Furthermore, Zhou Yun would quickly point out the problems contained within and tell Xiang Xiang Leina how to correct them.

Later on, Zhou Yun even began processing several documents simultaneously, and the unprocessed documents in the entire room decreased at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Xiang Xiang Leina could not keep up with Zhou Yun's train of thought at all.

Zhou Yun, however, could coordinate with the winged figure within the Bai Guang; his reaction speed had been blessed by the Emperor's dark deathly intent in the Underhive, becoming extremely agile.

Less than half an hour later, the winged figure within the Bai Guang looked at the already processed documents, shook its head, and said:

"These matters... if Ji Li Man were here, he would probably finish processing them in just a few minutes."

"I have redesigned the Ark Gang's management system; this young girl Xiang Xiang Leina's previous design was too crude. Using my system will be much more efficient."

Zhou Yun said nothing, merely waved his hand, gesturing for Xiang Xiang Leina to look.

Xiang Xiang Leina's body trembled slightly; she looked at a few of the documents Zhou Yun had processed with disbelief, then glanced at Zhou Yun's new plan for the Ark Gang's material dispatch and his complete re-planning of the entire Ark Gang's management, feeling dizzy and overwhelmed.

The massive quantity of documents that had made her feel unable to cope had simply been processed by Zhou Yun.

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"I was wrong."

Xiang Xiang Leina held her head and said:

"I was previously dissatisfied that you called me an idiot; now I understand, I really am an idiot."

"I am truly stupid, really."

Xiang Xiang Leina's eyes were somewhat dazed.

"Look, you've shattered the Dao heart of that young girl." Zhou Yun glanced at the winged figure within the Bai Guang and said.

"How can this be my fault—hmm?" The tone of the winged figure within the Bai Guang suddenly paused.

Boom!!!!!!!

A deafening explosion suddenly rang out in the distance; an orange-yellow light flashed across the window.

An explosion.

Xiang Xiang Leina rushed to the window at her fastest speed, looking at the raging fires burning in the distance:

"This is... a factory?"

"Did the factory explode?!"

Long tongues of fire shot out from the factory windows.

The entire factory building was burning; workers fled in panic within the structure.

Gordon Wan, draped in a brown cloak, covered his face with a piece of scarlet cloth.

It extended one of its three arms, adjusted its cloak, and let the workers escape past its hand.

These workers were also the oppressed; Gordon Wan would not kill them. Following Gordon Wan...

The meaning of Gordon Wan's birth was not to oppress, but to resist.

It is the most exquisite killing weapon born within the Order, the symbol of the entire Order's will to resist.

It is born with superhuman sensory abilities and neurons capable of rapid discharge, allowing its reaction speed to exceed human cognition.

The nose hidden beneath the red cloth grants it superhuman olfaction, while a pair of eyes possesses unique infrared vision.

Its inner ears are highly developed, improving its balance and coordination.

From the moment of his birth, Gordon Van began receiving training from the Sect, learning marksmanship from the Commander's subordinates.

With its three arms, its shooting speed and accuracy were unmatched by anyone in all of Asford.

Its speed in drawing and firing was so fast it required only 0.3 seconds.

It was the Sect's weapon of slaughter, the most dangerous revolver among the Commander's subordinates.

It was the Liberator, the oppressor's nightmare.

And today, the oppressor it was about to confront was the criminal gang Ark Gang, which had entrenched itself in this area.

"Damn it! They actually dared to blow up the factory!"

The roar of an Ark Gang member rang out from not far away.

As an important factory, the Ark Gang had obviously stationed personnel to defend it.

The Hunxue Sect followers and kin brothers following Gordon Van had slipped in through the pipes.

Gunfire began to ring out.

Ark Gang members, brandishing automatic rifles, charged into the factory and engaged the Hunxue believers brought by Gordon Van.

Several Ark Gang members even fixed their gaze on Gordon Van, raising their guns at him.

Gordon Van gave them the chance to aim, but not the chance to pull the trigger.

Almost instantly, the heads of those Ark Gang members who had aimed at Gordon Van all exploded.

In their final moment, they only saw the Liberator automatic pistols smoking from the three arms of Gordon Van.

The trigger was pulled continuously; every time it fell, an Ark Gang member's head exploded, never missing a shot.

"Hold on! The Sect Leader will be here with reinforcements any moment!"

The Ark Gang members, in chaotic disorder, charged at the Hunxue Sect followers and kin brothers.

This disordered formation clearly showed they had not undergone rigorous training.

But the Hunxue Sect followers and kin brothers had received training from the Commander since childhood, fighting under the Commander's psychic link command in perfect order.

Gordon Van raised the Liberator pistol in his hand once more.

In the next instant, the head of the leader among the Ark Gang members exploded instantly.

The Ark Gang members were immediately terrified, standing stunned in place, and their ranks became even more chaotic.

Through the psychic link, Gordon Van signaled everyone to launch an attack——————

"Drop your weapons! Leave your cover!"

A sharp voice suddenly pierced all the Hunxue Sect followers and kin brothers present.

Almost all the Hunxue Sect followers and kin brothers stood up from behind their cover, simultaneously dropping the weapons in their hands.

"Fire!" This time, the sharp voice pierced into the minds of all the Ark Gang members.

They almost simultaneously raised their automatic rifles and fired at the Hunxue Sect followers and kin brothers.

The sobering Hunxue Sect followers and kin brothers hurriedly dodged, but many still died under the barrels of the Ark Gang members' guns.

Gordon Van moved his eyes, which possessed infrared sensing capabilities, looking toward the source of the voice.

A woman stood at the high point of the factory, her gaze burning as she watched all the Gene Stealers.

Gordon Van immediately understood; that was the Sect Leader of the Ark Gang, the oppressor among oppressors!

But this woman was currently hiding in the blind spot of his gun's aim; Gordon Van first needed to move to a position where he could shoot————

Hmm?

Just as Gordon Van had taken a few steps,

a man blocked his path.

That man's face was as stern as a lion deep in the forest, his golden hair fluttering in the hot wind inside the factory.

He held a Cartrell-type M36 laser rifle in his hand.

Gordon Van judged that this was the figure known in intelligence reports as "Ryan Russ"; this face was his commonly used Lion's Mask.

The reports said he was extremely skilled in marksmanship!

But Gordon Van was not afraid!

The three Liberator automatic pistols in his hand were light and small; their firing speed was extreme, completing a draw-and-fire in only 0.3 seconds.

But the Cartrell-type M36 laser rifle in Ryan Russ's hands was too heavy and too large; even the most exquisite marksmanship could not keep up with his speed.

Within 0.3 seconds, Gordon Van's three hands simultaneously completed the draw and pulled the triggers.

But no sensation of the trigger being pulled came to his hands.

He looked blankly as his three hands were pierced by three laser beams, turning to ash and vanishing into the air.

(End of Chapter)