Spy-x-War Showdown
Chapter 226 - 225: The Greatest Harvest

Chapter 226: Chapter 225: The Greatest Harvest

Xiao Ran looked at Yang Yi with her beautiful big eyes, very cute and adorable as she asked, "What did you say?"

"I said, tell me what you’re good at. I want... that, that, cough cough, I want to know how skilled you are, is that okay?"

Yang Yi carefully watched the very cute Xiao Ran. He always thought Xiao Ran was beautiful—there was no question about that—and yet quite straightforward, the kind that, despite being beautiful, was never artificial. However, he had never seen such a cute side to Xiao Ran before.

Yang Yi sensed danger and immediately corrected himself.

Xiao Ran started to laugh, then slowly said to Yang Yi, "Really, if it weren’t for the fact that you’re injured right now..."

Yang Yi didn’t need to wait for Xiao Ran to finish her sentence; with a grin, he interjected, "I was just joking, really, just a joke."

Xiao Ran rolled her eyes, looking not cute at all, and then said with pride, "Smart of you."

After forgiving Yang Yi, Xiao Ran stood up and pushed Yang Yi’s wheelchair, saying, "Then let’s give you something to see."

Xiao Ran pushed Yang Yi through a somewhat messy bedroom, where underwear was strewn about.

"Don’t look. I just haven’t had time to tidy up, that’s all."

Yang Yi immediately looked away.

After passing through the bedroom, Xiao Ran pushed Yang Yi in front of a door. Although they were in her own house, Xiao Ran still keyed in a code on the door’s keypad before opening it.

The room was about ten square meters, filled with gun cabinets brimming with guns.

Seeing yet another pile of weaponry, Yang Yi couldn’t help but ask, "Why do you all like to keep a bunch of guns at home? Can you really use so many?"

Xiao Ran, extremely proud, declared, "For a super skilled marksman, this is the best collection. I wouldn’t expect a dummy who can’t even shoot to understand."

Leaving Yang Yi at the doorway, Xiao Ran boasted, "Let me show you my treasures!"

Having said that, Xiao Ran picked up a handgun from the rack, held it in one hand as if aiming, and loudly proclaimed, "MK23, magazine capacity expanded to 15 rounds, uses A475 type .45 bullets, with a silencer, red dot sight, green laser, heavy barrel, thickened grip with custom finger grooves and, add to that, a fingerprint lock, only I can use it. Isn’t it beautiful?"

Yang Yi was stunned and exclaimed, "Beautiful? You call this big hunk of metal beautiful?"

Xiao Ran suddenly looked towards Yang Yi, her voice cold as she said, "What did you say?"

Murderous aura!

Yang Yi swallowed hard and replied, "It’s stylish, for sure, but doesn’t adding so much to the gun make it heavy?"

Xiao Ran coldly stated, "One thousand seven hundred and twenty grams."

"One point seven two kilograms, isn’t that heavy?"

Xiao Ran put the gun down and said irritably to Yang Yi, "It’s not heavy! Not heavy at all for me! What’s the matter, you have a problem with my baby?"

Yang Yi immediately said, "No problem, as long as you like it, what could I possibly object to? Cool, this gun is cool!"

With a snort, Xiao Ran placed the pistol on the designated gun rack and then picked up a rifle that was stored separately in the gun cabinet, loudly declaring, "The HK417, with a Leviathan magazine expanded to a capacity of 35 rounds, fitted with a 24-inch barrel, .338 caliber, retained fully automatic fire capability, extended Picatinny rail, and a Zeiss RZ8 12x42mm scope, the whole gun weighing 4.7 kilograms."

Yang Yi immediately said, "Great gun! Great gun! Really a great gun!"

Xiao Ran gave Yang Yi a sidelong glance and suddenly asked, "What’s so great about it?"

Yang Yi opened his mouth and said, "Uh, great just means great; a beauty with a big gun is even better!"

Xiao Ran sighed and then put the rifle back in the cabinet. She then said to Yang Yi, "How come you know nothing about guns?"

Yang Yi helplessly said, "Could you think about it, you know what the situation is like in the country, how could I play with guns?"

Xiao Ran shrugged her shoulders and said, "Alright, then how do you plan to be a spy? What kind of spy doesn’t know how to use a gun? Haven’t you even learned how to use one? I find it astonishing. If you want to be a spy, couldn’t you go and learn properly?"

Yang Yi said helplessly, "Of course I want to learn, but where can I learn? Given my situation, could I even enter a spy school? Please, could I go to a spy school run by some country or could an intelligence agency take me in for proper training? And even if there was a school willing to teach me, could I go there? Regardless of which country’s training facilities I attend, would I dare to go? Why do you think I’ve tried everything to learn skills that a spy should possess instead of going to a real spy training place? It’s because I can’t go, I can’t manage it; I can only be self-reliant."

Xiao Ran shrugged her shoulders and said, "You have a point, you got into this half way, and your situation is quite special. So what have you learned? What did you learn in prison?"

Yang Yi said seriously, "I learned a lot from vocal coaches, I learned how commercial espionage is done, and I learned even more in prison. I picked up fighting, assassination, picking locks, poisoning, acting, deceiving, stealing, along with many, many skills and little tricks. I learned how people in the underworld survive, but the biggest thing I gained in prison was a change in mentality."

"What kind of change?"

"In prison, I went from being an ordinary person living in a peaceful environment to someone ready to fight at any moment, a desperado. I learned how to sleep with one eye open, how to gauge if someone is hostile toward you. Most importantly, I learned that I must always stay vigilant. Believe me, if it wasn’t for the vigilance I developed in prison, the one who would have died at the subway station would have been me, not the assassin."

Xiao Ran let out a breath and said, "Sounds like you’ve learned quite a bit, but you just don’t know how to shoot."

"It’s not that I can’t, just that I’m not proficient because I’ve never had the chance to practice. But as long as I can practice, shooting won’t be a problem for me."

Looking at the confident Yang Yi, Xiao Ran smiled and said, "It looks like you’re quite confident."

"Of course, I don’t think marksmanship will be a problem for me. In fact, I already know how to practice. A very skillful person showed me a shortcut, and I believe that as long as I practice, shooting will no longer be my weak point."

Xiao Ran’s smile grew wider, but her expression seemed to be mocking.

"A shortcut? Tell me, what is this shortcut?"

Yang Yi said without hesitation, "Shoot fifty thousand rounds in a month, only with a pistol, and you have to shoot accurately too. I don’t think this will be a problem for me."

Finally, Xiao Ran burst into laughter, laughing for a long time before she finally said, "Alright, that really is a shortcut. I believe you, that definitely won’t be a problem for you."