Didn't you go to Teyvat to earn money to support me?

Shen Liang charged toward the three soldiers amidst the gunfire! He raised his foot and delivered a powerful knee strike to one of the soldiers, the force of which sent him flying. Clearly, several of his ribs were broken. When he landed, he was too weak to resist and could only struggle and crawl on the ground.

As for the remaining two, Shen Liang dodged the barrage of bullets and leaped high into the air, grabbing a soldier's head like an eagle snatching a chick and slamming him against a nearby car. The car immediately sounded its alarm, and he used his strength again to smash the windshield and trap him inside! He then turned and kicked the last soldier who was lunging at him, twisting him to the ground. He caught the rifle that the soldier had dropped in mid-air and smashed it against the soldier's knee with one hand!

Blood splattered onto his delicate face. Ten seconds passed, and in those ten seconds, all three soldiers were unable to get up again. He moved his wrist, glanced at himself in the rearview mirror, frowned, and wiped the blood away.

We mustn't scare Rosalia and the others... though they're unlikely to be scared.

"Kaslana Gunfighting?" Anna was shocked. Although she could probably achieve that speed, Shen Liang didn't even use a gun. He achieved this feat entirely with his physical strength!

"Are you Lady Cecilia's illegitimate son?"

Chapter 121 The Self-Cultivation of a Sister-Complex

Yes, only the child of the strongest Valkyrie could possibly possess such formidable power even as a male.

Although it's impossible for the Schariac family to have boys, he is, after all, Lord Schariac, so who knows? Plus, with Kaslana's gun-fu skills, he's inevitably connected to Siegfried as well.

Kaslana Gunfighting is theoretically only achievable by those who have inherited the Kaslana bloodline. Apart from Sirin and Kiana, there probably aren't any left. This martial art, which treats guns as extensions of the limbs, requires extremely high flexibility. When fighting, the body must move around, attacking from all directions. People without the Kaslana bloodline would have to break all their bones and muscles to make it impossible.

Could it be that Lady Cecilia desperately wanted a son and resorted to IVF? Yes, the Shaniat family's inability to have daughters is a matter of bloodline; there's no reason why IVF couldn't correct that.

Now it makes sense that Shen Liang, who is clearly a boy, has such good looks! After all, Lady Cecilia is the most beautiful woman in the Shaniat family!

Shen Liang never expected Anna to have imagined so much in such a short time. He replied, "It was taught to me by Senior Sister Kiana. It's supposedly a secret of the Kaslana family that's not passed down to anyone. But she said that if she doesn't pass it on soon, it will be lost. She forced me to learn it... Because of this, I've broken almost every bone in my body."

It's true. With the Transformation of the Sea Moon, he had the means to learn Kaslana's Gunfighting Technique. Even if he broke a bone, it could be repaired in less than a day. So, he endured unbearable pain from Kiana and managed to learn about 70-80% of it... but it wasn't necessarily unbearable pain for ordinary people.

In fact, human resilience is beyond imagination. The fundamental reason why most people are afraid of pain and injury is that they do not have enough conditions to recover. Once people know that even if they have injuries, they can be healed quickly and without leaving any sequelae, then these injuries are not worth mentioning.

Because you get immediate feedback, you know that "there is always a reward for paying the price of pain," while most people's efforts and suffering yield no results. Shen Liang was well aware that bending his bones would greatly improve his flexibility, a result he could even directly experience, so he didn't actually feel much pain.

Men are the kind of species that go crazy once they see results.

"Every single bone was broken?" Anna was speechless; just thinking about it made her heart ache. But then she thought of other things. If bones were broken and then healed, according to medical theory, wouldn't that... stunt growth?

Then she felt even more heartbroken.

But this feeling of heartache didn't last more than half a minute. Then she saw Shen Liang dragging a soldier by the leg to the vicinity of the campfire. The soldier's head was scraped raw on the ground, and he was groaning in pain, whimpering as if begging for mercy. Without any emotion, Shen Liang raised his boot and stepped on the soldier's face, grinding it casually. Then he took out a photo of Bronya and Seele from his pocket and spoke indifferently.

"Where are the people up there?"

Anna felt a pang of pity watching the young soldier being tormented by Shen Liang, but she still dutifully translated. The soldier, terrified, immediately rattled off a string of words. Anna hesitated, just about to translate, when she saw Shen Liang suddenly stomp down, crushing his nose to pieces!

“No need for a translator, I understand English,” Shen Liang said coldly. “Tell him that if he continues to beg for mercy without saying anything useful, I’ll put his face on the fire and roast it, and I guarantee he won’t die before he’s cooked.”

Anna took a deep breath and decided to dutifully translate the words.

"I don't know her! I really don't know her! I haven't been here long, I don't know any ladies like you, how could I not remember such a pretty little girl!" the soldier cried out. "Let me go, I don't know her!"

Shen Liang sneered, and then the soldier let out an extremely violent scream! Accompanied by the crackling sound of flames roasting, Anna almost shuddered!

"He really doesn't know him!" Anna was so angry she could barely speak. "Mr. Pandora, you too..."

“How do I know he’s not lying to me?” Shen Liang’s voice was devoid of emotion. Anna was about to retort when he said, “Besides, he already lied to me just now.”

"Did I lie to you?"

“There’s no way he’s only been here a few days, because he’s not a local, he’s a mercenary,” Shen Liang said. “He speaks English, not Elsa, and their weapons are all from different countries and they’re not organized at all. That’s what mercenaries are like, and they don’t even let anyone know which organization they’re from. He says he’s only been here a few days, but how could a mercenary take over the Elsa rebels’ defenses in such a short time?”

Anna was stunned. She had never dealt with so-called mercenaries before. She was the eldest daughter of a collateral branch of the Shaniat family, of noble birth. Although becoming a Valkyrie meant protecting a region, she had never interacted with these war hyenas. She had never even considered what Shen Liang had seen through at a glance.

"Brother has finally remembered everything the teachers taught him." Rosalia smiled with satisfaction. "This is what makes a truly outstanding graduate of Cocolia Orphanage. In terms of theoretical knowledge, brother should be second only to sister Bronya."

"Yes, my brother's total score in academic subjects is the highest in the orphanage."

What kind of academic subjects are taught in your orphanage?

Shen Liang walked towards the second soldier. The black mercenary screamed in terror and desperately tried to crawl into the car. Shen Liang shot and broke his thigh bone, his tone chilling: "Anna, translator, tell him that if he still says he doesn't know, I'll break all four of his limbs and feed them to the dogs. Anyway, there's a third person. Even if the third person dies, I'll find someone else. I can always find someone I know, right?"

Anna translated the message, and the black mercenary clearly lost his nerve. After all, someone who would rather die than submit wouldn't be a mercenary. He stared at the photo for a long time, and just as Shen Liang was about to make his move out of impatience, he finally shouted in a hurry. He spoke so fast that he couldn't understand what he was saying. Fortunately, Anna translated in time, saving him from further suffering.

"He said he remembered. He had indeed seen those two thin, underdeveloped girls at the shelter. Major Smith had tried to capture them for fun, but they escaped. They actually knew how to use guns! We weren't paying attention and lost several of our men! We don't know where they went. We're mercenaries; we got paid to guard this place and couldn't just follow them!"

The clue is broken.

But Shen Liang's eyes grew even colder. "Who is Major Smith?"

“Our squad leader is stationed in the mall downstairs. They probably didn’t hear us firing here, otherwise they would have come up here already!” the black mercenary pleaded. “Let me go! I’ve told you everything! I didn’t lie!”

"I have another question. Since you know so much about this, you were there when my sister was attacked by Smith, weren't you?" Shen Liang asked him in English, her tone calm.

The black man nodded hurriedly, but he immediately realized something was wrong and a look of despair appeared on his face.

“Then you also had designs on my sister,” Shen Liang grabbed his head and twisted it off with a blank expression, “Then you deserve to die, you all deserve to die.”

After killing the third person as well, Shen Liang wiped his hands and looked at the dark underground shopping mall. The rest of the team were inside; they had all participated in harming Bronya and Seele, and they would all die.

Now that his physical abilities had been proven, there was no need to continue hand-to-hand combat. Shen Liang activated the light screen, took out a grenade launcher, and casually fired a single-soldier incendiary grenade at the underground shopping mall. Since the map showed that the underground mall only had one entrance and exit, he didn't need to go inside at all.

He just needs to stay at the exit.

He activated the light screen and set up a machine gun behind the sandbag bunker built by the mercenaries at the exit of the passage.

"Rosalia, you're in charge of loading the ammunition."

"Lilia, you're in charge of protecting us from stray bullets."

The two sisters responded cheerfully and skillfully found their places. Under Anna's incredulous gaze, the three siblings simultaneously revealed chilling smiles on their delicate, even cute, faces.

Chapter 122 He's No Longer Human

What is a heavy machine gun?

Weighing over 25 kilograms, with a rate of fire exceeding 300 rounds per minute, belt-fed ammunition, a kill range of 1,000 meters, and the power to suppress an entire position with a single machine gun, capable of penetrating even light armor.

The 6P51 heavy machine gun, a coaxial machine gun mounted on an infantry fighting vehicle, was placed heavily on sandbags, aimed at the exit of the underground tunnel, and the crisp, pleasant sound of the metal belt turning was heard.

Shen Liang waited until the first mercenary who escaped from the billowing black smoke appeared, then he pulled the trigger.

In an instant, the heavy machine gun, with a theoretical rate of fire of 750 rpm, fired with a very rhythmic sound! Like a storm of metal, it swept directly towards the entrance of the passage!

The first mercenary to escape was blown up before he could even react—literally blown up. Many people misunderstand the power of heavy machine guns in the game because their rate of fire and magazine capacity create unstoppable firepower; if they also dealt high damage, the game would be unplayable.

But in the real world, heavy machine guns exist to make you lose all your fun! There is no resistance in front of a heavy machine gun; no bulletproof vest can withstand a single shot, and it fires at least ten rounds per second! The bullets from a heavy machine gun are as long as a hand, and just a hit to the waist is enough to easily cut a person in two.

Shen Liang's support was only seventy meters away from the entrance of that passage. What does seventy meters mean?

A mercenary was hit by an armor-piercing round, a direct hit. The high-speed spinning bullet didn't tear him apart directly, but instead penetrated and struck his spine. Then, the armor-piercing properties activated, and the bullet exploded, quickly erupting into a ball of scarlet, high-temperature flame at his wound!

The simple explosion blasted him into a mangled mess, and a gruesome rain of blood drenched the others, threatening to shatter their fighting spirit in an instant. This is one of the uses of heavy machine guns; once they come into play on the front lines, their destructive impact on morale is unimaginably devastating.

A sweeping gun barrel cut through the air as two mercenaries, trying to use a flowerbed beside the underground passage as cover, watched in despair as the flowerbed exploded in front of them. Concrete and marble were no different from tofu in front of the 12.7mm Kord-6p51; the full-power round cleanly and decisively pierced through the flowerbed and the soil, snapping a cypress tree in half. The cypress tree trembled and fell onto the two mercenaries' unseeing corpses.

"Ughhhh!" Finally, someone reacted. Although they were mercenaries who had fled because of the underground fire, their military skills still prevented them from pointing their guns at each other. Some of them were frantically swinging their AKs in the smoke before they could even see the enemy. This cheap and sturdy weapon was the first choice for most mercenaries.

Bullets swept back and forth, kicking up clouds of dust as they struck Shen Liang's cover. Rosalia grabbed the AGS-17 grenade launcher beside her and fired several grenades toward the tunnel entrance. The violent explosions blew the entrance apart, and screams echoed throughout the underground mall.

"You idiot Rosalia, Smith might have been killed by that grenade you just fired!" Lilia retorted loudly.

“We have heavy machine guns set up outside. If he had any brains, he wouldn’t be the first to rush up. Mercenaries have no backbone. He’s probably inside preparing to surrender right now!” Rosalia said indignantly.

Shen Liang thought so too. The underground shopping mall was only about a thousand square meters in total, and the flammable range of a single incendiary bomb would definitely leave all the soldiers inside with nowhere to run. But Smith certainly wouldn't be the one running out to his death now; he was the captain of this squad and would definitely be the last one to come out.

So Shen Liang put down the heavy machine gun, intending to wait for the smoke to clear before entering the field to find Smith.

But those of them, hiding behind cover, didn't notice that a sniper rifle had silently peeked out from a neighboring apartment building. A white mercenary, his face hunched over with a red scarf, wearing sunglasses, was peering out of his scope at Shen Liang, who was clearing ammunition belts behind a sandbag.

The sniper scope's view was crystal clear; in his eyes, there were four girls with angelic faces and devilish methods. Shen Liang's long black hair and delicate features made her stand out. Even Asians sometimes mistake one for another, let alone Europeans who are unfamiliar with Asian faces.

But he didn't hold back, even when the target was a beautiful young girl.

"You son of a bitch... Valkyrie." The mercenary stared at Shen Liang's face and muttered softly, "Trying to take my life, Smith... are you kidding me?"

Upon seeing the teleportation screen that Shen Liang had opened, he knew that the person he was about to deal with was definitely not a normal person!

Having been a war hyena who had fought on various fronts around the world for more than 20 years, Smith had seen things that normal people could not imagine.

There are some truly supernatural phenomena in this world, and some humans capable of creating them. Having spent so many years in the mercenary world, Smith finally found a clue leading to the supernatural realm from some scattered hints.

These humans who can create supernatural phenomena are called "Valkyrie"!

They are extraordinary individuals, long-lived, and even possess supernatural abilities. They are all women, yet their combat prowess is enough to defeat a group of armed men. They operate in secrecy, never appearing in society, and any incidents involving them are deliberately erased by governments around the world.

They are the vanguard.

Smith wasn't sure if the other three besides Shen Liang were Valkyries, but he knew very well that if he didn't kill Shen Liang now, even if the other three were ordinary people, he wouldn't have a chance to escape.

The Valkyrie is made of flesh and blood, and she doesn't even have a bulletproof vest... Can she withstand a headshot from an SSG-3000?

The sniper rifle's crosshairs aligned with Shen Liang's mind. Smith smirked. The four women still hadn't spotted him. They were waiting for him to emerge from the underground passage, never imagining that, as a mercenary, he was so undisciplined that he'd taken a nap in a bedroom of an apartment building. Therefore, his firing position was flawless. All he had to do was pull the trigger, and that petite, long-haired beauty would bid farewell to this beautiful world.

Lilia was arguing with Rosalia about whether Smith had been mistakenly killed, but suddenly a sense of fear welled up inside her!

She tackled Shen Liang to the ground in an instant, and almost simultaneously, Rosalia grabbed Shen Liang's foot and pulled him down forcefully!

Beast instinct!

Both Rosalia and Lilia possess unimaginable intuition. Even though Shen Liang is far away from them, they can still vaguely sense his condition, and this ability can also be used to detect danger.

At the Cocolia Orphanage, only Rosalia and Lilia possess this level of intuition. The two sisters are born with a telepathic connection; if one falls and breaks a bone, the other will feel the pain. This ability is not uncommon among twins; there are quite a few recorded cases of twins with telepathic abilities.

But they developed this telepathy into intuition. Years of military training honed their instincts to be comparable to, or even surpass, those of wild animals. Their sixth sense was far more effective than bulletproof vests, which was the fundamental reason why they could repeatedly survive on the battlefield despite their playful, mischievous antics.

But telepathy is still just telepathy; since the killing intent was directed at Shen Liang, the two sisters reacted a beat too late. The bullet, unstoppable, whizzed past, striking Shen Liang's right arm and severing it.