Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 479 - 472: Competition between Gun and Arrow

Chapter 479: Chapter 472: Competition between Gun and Arrow

"Am I really supposed to betray my own sense of justice for those called family ties?" After a long silence, Luoya couldn’t help but ask.

"Justice?" Cheng Ziang almost laughed.

"Isn’t it, then?" Luoya was quite dissatisfied with his attitude. "We clearly stand against each other, as good and evil. Just because he’s my brother, my family member, I can’t harm him, and why is that?"

"Ha-ha..." Cheng Ziang couldn’t help but let out a cold chuckle.

"What are you laughing about? Am I wrong in saying this?" Luoya said with a furrowed brow.

"Firstly, you’re not Theron, neither are your brother nor us the people of the Church Court, so we’re not rivals. Secondly, your brother’s not a bad person. You’ve probably never chatted with the pair of Bobulu sisters living with you. They’re the ones your brother saved from the Judgment Legion. If he’s not deemed kind for that, then what is? Yes, your brother indeed killed many people during his missions but your hands aren’t clean either. Dare you say you’re truly kind?"

Cheng Ziang looked her straight in the eye. Whether due to guilt or not, Luoya didn’t dare to meet his gaze, she averted her eyes, bowing her head, unable to look at him.

"What you call justice is merely self-consolation. You’ve never understood your brother. Just because you hurt him, you lie to yourself, saying he’s a bad person and you’re the good one, so it makes your conscience feel a bit better, right?" Cheng Ziang continued to question.

Luoya continued to remain silent.

"There are countless people your brother has helped and rescued. They won’t be quantifiable even if you used a hundred fingers. Try telling them that Luo’er is evil and you’re the good one, I think none of them will give you a pleasant face. Young, yet self-righteous, resorting to violence in the name of justice. Is this who you are, and your obstinate reason?"

Though Cheng Ziang didn’t mean to mock her, Luoya’s behavior was indeed childishly naive, enough to make him find it ridiculous. Using a standpoint as a cover, and good and evil as a shield, this won’t work with the Advance Team.

Luoya is not with Theron, so she really doesn’t have a reason to be responsible for Theron, and the Advance Team has never been battling for the Judgment Legion, so her so-called stance and good and evil don’t exist at all.

Just as he stated, Luoya was just trying to hide her own guilt in this manner, which was also why she was stuck in an impasse with Nina.

After slightly calming his emotions, Cheng Ziang gave her a cold look, then turned to leave. If Luoya continued to be this naive, his words of persuasion were useless. If she keeps on comforting herself, she’s not going to listen to anyone, meaning everything spoken was void.

In the five days that followed, Luo’er remained lying in the water tank inside the pyramid, undergoing treatment. To be honest, all members of the Advance Team were constantly worried about Ilanadale’s medical technology. The priest, however, kept asserting that they must heal Luo’er’s injuries before performing the awakening ceremony. If it hadn’t been for this, Cheng Ziang rather preferred them to awaken Luo’er, then take the arriving airboat back to Yazhi City, and then return to Earth for treatment.

It was raining continuously over those five days, everyone felt as if the dampness was saturating their breath. In these conditions, only the Elf Race native to Divine Wood Town can reside, while even Elves like Nina, who lived abroad for a long time, found it hard to tolerate.

Five days later, the queen convened nobles from various city-states to discuss a collaborative matter. Although she had unilaterally agreed to cooperate with the headquarters, to radiate the effect to the whole territory, she still needed to gain the consent of various city-states.

In the meeting, there were nobles who questioned the Earth people’s advancement. In their opinion, Ilanadale’s Kedal metal can easily penetrate Earth’s most advanced armor, which meant the technology of Ilanadale was no far behind Earth’s, and even surpassed it in some areas.

At such suspicion, Cheng Ziang was speechless. Living in solitude in the mountains for too long, they hadn’t seen much of the world. They might be called nobles, but they were even more rustic than some country bumpkins.

To alleviate everyone’s doubts, the queen, on Cheng Ziang’s suggestion, decided to hold a contest using Earth’s weaponry and Ilanadale’s for a trial, to see who came out on top.

In such a competition, whose result was evident even without participation, none of the Advance Team exhibited any anxiety. Because when talking about weapons, Ilanadale might take two hundred years or more just to catch up with Earth.

A vacant lot outside the city was chosen for the competition. It was one of the rare open areas in Divine Wood Town that could hold large-scale competitions. Upon hearing about the contest, many Elves who had caught wind of it flocked to the field, wanting to witness the grandeur of Earth’s weaponry.

Cheng Ziang got the confiscated weapons back from the queen because he believed that these weapons were basically enough to compete with Ilanadale’s.

The first test was shooting speed, which made the Advance Team somewhat speechless already, because any one of their automatic weapons could totally outperform the ones on the other side in terms of speed.

Ilanadale sent a female Elf, a grown-up looking one filled with mature charm. Judging by her appearance, Cheng Ziang figured she must be over three hundred years old.

She was in fancy light Elf armor, holding a recurve bow up and approached. A careful look would see, her bow was actually similar to Luoya’s but with finer materials and more fancy decorations.

Not far away, behind a mound, several elves were ready, they were to throw targets made of straw into the sky, and the competitor had to quickly hit these targets in a short time.

As the command for the competition was given, the first Elf archer immediately drew five arrows from the quiver around her waist, holding them tightly between her fingers.

Cheng Ziang could see that this was a classic style of archery. Modern earthly people believe that archers are long-distance professionals, so once caught in close combat, they end up defenseless. But the ancient books tell them that archers are a frightening force, not afraid of close combat at all, as they could fire several arrows in a second and turn their close attacking enemies into porcupines.

The current Ilanadale was in Earth’s ancient state. The archer fired arrows swiftly. As the straw target flew into the sky, she hit the target with the arrow in her hand accurately and quickly, eliciting a cheer from the crowd.

Hearing the cheers of the crowd, the female Elf showed a confident smile, then scornfully glanced at them, turned around and walked off the field.

"Using automatic rifles is too cheap," said Cheng Ziang as he picked up the confiscated Lee-Enfield Rifle from the ground and turned his head to ask, "Who can go for this?"

"I will!" Baiyue stepped forward and took the Lee-Enfield Rifle.

Baiyue, who had become accustomed to bolt action over the years, had developed muscle memory, which allowed her to perfectly demonstrate the firing speed of a Lee-Enfield. Moreover, she needed such an opportunity to show Nina her abilities.

Before shooting, she bargained with the Elves whose task was to throw the targets through an interpreter. The Elf archer shot five targets, she hoped to double that.

Having received permission, she began to load the Lee-Enfield Rifle, which was one of the few rifles that could hold ten bullets at a time in World War II. But to hit all ten targets, every shot needed to be spot on.

As it was a rapid-fire round, she didn’t venture to shoot from a greater distance. Those Elves would throw the targets at a point not more than ten meters away from her, she had to hit those targets quickly.

Taking a deep breath, Baiyue placed her middle finger on the trigger, held the bolt with her index finger and thumb, and prepared to shoot.

"Start!"

At the command, the straw targets were thrown into the sky. Baiyue immediately loaded and shot the first target. Then, she quickly loaded again and continued to shoot the second target...

Baiyue’s shooting skills were impeccable. Ten shots, ten hits, and the time taken was similar to that of the Elf archer, but the number of targets was doubled.

Almost all the Elves present were stunned by the sight, unable to utter a word for a long time. To make the effect more shocking, Cheng Ziang had Baiyue pick up the Luo’er AK rifle, and had the interpreter inform the Elves to throw all the targets up.

With the command given again, Baiyue raised her automatic rifle and began shooting at the targets in the sky. As it was semi-automatic, she didn’t have to worry about shooting speed at all. Each target that flew up was hit and even exploded on contact.

When the dust settled, the field broke into even louder cheers. These Elves were seeing the power of firearms for the first time and were awestruck by its speed and power.