Ashen God
Chapter 135 - 134: Do as One Pleases

Chapter 135: Chapter 134: Do as One Pleases

If it weren’t for necessity, Zhang Yanhang definitely wouldn’t use this M9 military pistol; he just used it in the initial stages of cleaning up Raccoon City. Later, he felt that the M4A1 rifle, with its larger magazine capacity, suited him better. In fact, if possible, he would have preferred to equip himself with a machine gun, but the problem was that there were none in the gun store.

Moreover, it wasn’t just the gun store that lacked machine guns—all the police stations did, too, so Zhang Yanhang could only continue to use the M4A1 rifle for the clean-up.

If he could get a machine gun, he would immediately replace the M4A1 rifle, given his current strength, holding a machine gun would be pretty easy for him, and even dual-wielding them wouldn’t be a problem.

Zhang Yanhang thought that if he had time in the future, he might look up machine gun blueprints to see if he could manufacture one through alchemy.

But even if he solved the machine gun issue, ammunition was another problem, as most of the bullets he found in Raccoon City were 5.56MM caliber NATO rifle bullets.

There are many machine guns that could fit this caliber, but they are mostly light machine guns, such as the MG36 and the M249 squad automatic weapon, both of which could fit the glass magazine Zhang Yanhang previously obtained.

But the MG36, rather than being a light machine gun, is more like a rifle that has been slightly modified and renamed—it has a thickened barrel and a bipod for support, but otherwise, it’s virtually indistinguishable from a regular rifle. The largest magazine it can hold is the hundred-round glass magazine.

The problem is that the glass magazine can also be used directly on the M4A1 rifle. So, if Zhang Yanhang were to get an MG36 light machine gun, there wouldn’t be much difference, and it might not even be worth it.

Then, there’s the M249 machine gun that also uses 5.56mm bullets. Its issue is similar to that of the MG36. It can handle two types of ammo feeds—one is a hundred-round magazine, yes, the glass magazine, and the other is directly loading from an ammo belt, which normally can carry two hundred rounds.

So, if Zhang Yanhang doesn’t manufacture an ammo belt, even if he were to produce an M249 machine gun, there would be no point—he might as well continue using the glass magazines.

But if he were to consider the ammo belt, there came another problem—would the manufactured belts need to be reusable? If not, it would be too costly and wasteful, but if they are to be reused, manually loading the belts would be too inefficient, so he would have to manufacture a separate loading machine for the ammo belts.

The more Zhang Yanhang thought about it, the more troublesome it seemed, and it would require a lot of Energy Value and time. But in the Ashen World, he simply didn’t have the luxury of time. So, he thought it might be better to wait and see if he could find a ready-made machine gun later.

Moreover, compared to light machine guns that can only use 5.56MM caliber bullets, what Zhang Yanhang really wanted was a heavy machine gun with a larger caliber.

Only when using heavy machine guns with larger calibers could the inflicted damage truly change. Otherwise, using bullets of 5.56MM caliber, the damage between rifles and light machine guns would be practically the same.

But, manufacturing heavy machine guns of larger calibers would render all the 5.56MM caliber bullets he found useless; he would have to alchemically create new bullets.

However, if Zhang Yanhang had to manufacture all the bullets himself, given his current low Energy Value limit, he could only describe it as having the ambition but not the strength, for his Energy was simply insufficient.

Due to these various reasons, Zhang Yanhang concluded that if he wanted to manufacture a machine gun and also ensure the necessary logistical support, it would likely be very difficult to succeed.

After briefly inspecting the details of the M9 military pistol, Sun Jiaming started pulling the trigger, but found that it simply wouldn’t move. He thought that for such a well-made replica, it shouldn’t have such flaws.

As Zhang Yanhang pondered over the heavy machine gun matters, Sun Jiaming kept pulling the trigger next to him, making clicking noises. After struggling for a while, Sun Jiaming finally gave up and asked Zhang Yanhang, "Why can’t I pull the trigger on this pistol?"

"You mean the pistol won’t shoot? That’s normal. Look at the top of the grip, there’s a black knob there—it’s the safety. Turn it and it will unlock, allowing you to shoot," Zhang Yanhang offered a bit of guidance on the pistol to Sun Jiaming, then continued pondering about heavy machine guns.

"This pistol can really fire? How powerful is it? It won’t break the glass, will it?" Sun Jiaming had been aiming at the wall while pulling the trigger; if the power was low, he wanted to try shooting at glass.

"The power? It’s quite low. Here, try shooting it at my hand," Zhang Yanhang responded.

Although 9mm bullets indeed had low power, breaking glass would definitely not be a problem, and Zhang Yanhang didn’t want to damage public property, as that would involve compensation—even though it wasn’t much, he figured if it came to paying, it would still start in the triple digits.

Of course, if no one noticed, then Zhang Yanhang could use alchemy to quietly repair it, but that would be quite troublesome. So, it was better to let Sun Jiaming shoot at his hand—after all, he wasn’t afraid of bullets. Thus, he extended one hand toward Sun Jiaming.

"Is the power really that low? Is it shooting BBs?" As Sun Jiaming noticed Zhang Yanhang’s thick equipment, he even got the impression that it could withstand real bullets. While speaking, he turned the safety and pulled the trigger aimed at Zhang Yanhang’s palm.

Bang!

The moment he pulled the trigger, Sun Jiaming immediately felt a huge recoil pulling his forearm back, and along with it, a loud gunshot rang in his ears, even catching a faint whiff of gunpowder that trailed behind.

"Holy shit!" Even a fool would have understood by then, so Sun Jiaming quickly realized what he was doing—he was shooting his classmate with a real gun! "Wait, I shot my classmate with a real gun?! Holy shit!"

Realizing something was off, Sun Jiaming quickly turned to look at Zhang Yanhang, but Zhang Yanhang calmly handed him a distorted, deformed brass bullet, "See, I told you the gun doesn’t have that much power. It really is quite low."

Sun Jiaming looked at Zhang Yanhang, his gaze complex, "I know you’re an Awakener, but can Awakeners really show off like this?"

Zhang Yanhang, expressionless, just shrugged, "Sorry, but an Awakener can really do whatever they want."

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