"Practice."
This was the answer that Maude had thought of in advance.
Not much explanation, simple and crude.
Thor was a little surprised and looked at Maud's expression carefully.
In the world of pirates, it is very common to use other people's lives to practice one's own actions.
Just like when he asked Maud to kill Watt who came to his door with his own hands in order to let Maud bid farewell to the past.
But he didn't expect that Maud would take the initiative and originally planned to give Maud some more buffer time.
It was a matter of time anyway. Thor had no objection, but he also gave Mod a warning.
"Use at your own risk."
The words are concise and concise, which is a reminder and a disguised agreement.
As for Red's life and death, to Thor, it is not even as important as what he eats tonight.
"clear."
Maude was delighted.
With Thor's statement, he can let go and do this.
As for the possible consequences of killing Red, he had already been mentally prepared when he got the information from Sunny.
It's just that Red's pirate group may come to take revenge.
But as long as you do it cleanly, you don't have to worry about the consequences.
Three days later, the moon was dark and the wind was high.
Maud hid in the shadows above the building. While setting up [Usopp], she looked silently at the end of the alleyway with the faint light.
From the corner at the end to where he was hiding, it was about a hundred meters away.
Under the premise of ensuring accuracy, although the firing range of a smoothbore flintlock gun is far inferior to that of a rifled flintlock gun, it is exactly within a hundred meters.
However, considering factors such as aging, Moder planned to take action only when Red was within the 60-meter shooting range.
A full eight hours have passed since I watched Red walk out of the alley in the evening.
In the evening, there were passers-by coming and going in the alley, so there was no suitable time to shoot.
But now that the night is dark, there are basically no passers-by in sight, so there are less worries.
As long as Red comes back at this point in time, Maud will pull the trigger decisively.
Time passed slowly, and the moon was hidden behind the dark clouds.
The visibility in the alleyway is extremely low. If it weren't for the few lights hanging on the wall, it would be completely dark.
Maud waited patiently.
Tens of minutes later, before the Red people showed up, the voice came first.
Maud suddenly cheered up and looked at the end of the alley.
After a few breaths, two figures walking side by side walked into the alleyway.
"two… !"
Maude cursed secretly.
The smoothbore flintlock gun only had one bullet, and after firing one shot, it took some time to reload the second bullet.
This means that even if he successfully kills Red, the other person will have enough time to find cover, and at the same time determine the location of the projectile based on the sound of gunfire and the direction of the blood spattered by Red.
Do you have no choice but to give up?…
However, Sunny said that Red's pirate group would go to sea at noon tomorrow, and it was impossible for Mod to take action during the day because there was no cover advantage brought by night during the day.
In other words, if you miss this opportunity, you won’t know when the next time will be.
Maude frowned.
As the two people walked step by step, the time left for him became more and more urgent.
Maud, who was hesitant at this time, never noticed the gaze that was secretly paying attention to him.
Chapter 16: Some people are born extraordinary
Should you give up or continue
Maude tightened her grip on the gun handle and frowned deeply.
He didn't want to give up this opportunity that he had been waiting for for many days, and at the same time, he didn't want to take the risk of doing something he was unsure of.
During the battle between heaven and man, Red and his companions had already entered the eighty-meter shooting range.
In just a few seconds, Maude tried to find a reason to convince herself.
He raised his head and glanced at the sky, feeling a sense of luck in his heart.
Risks and benefits coexist.
It's okay even if one person is left alive, as long as they are not discovered.
With the darkness of the night and the jagged buildings around, it was highly possible to escape in time.
After reading this, Maude had made a decision.
Even if the timing doesn't work out, it's still too early to give up.
He took a deep breath and held his breath as he stared at the two figures approaching step by step.
Seventy meters.
Maud's index finger was on the trigger.
Sixty meters.
Maud's index finger exerted a little force.
Fifty meters.
Maud held her breath.
Just when he was about to shoot, Red suddenly quickened his pace and walked towards the wall.
Maud's eyelids twitched and he almost shot directly.
After seeing the next scene, Maude's suddenly accelerated heart rate slowly dropped again, and her index finger slowly left the trigger.
In the alleyway, Red was holding on to the wall, bending over and vomiting filth at the base of the wall.
His companion patted Red on the back and said something to Red sideways.
The dark clouds in the night sky suddenly dispersed a little, and the moonlight passed through the gaps, projecting into the alleyway like lights.
Maude looked at the two figures coming together, and a bold idea suddenly came to her mind.
"This angle... No, it's a little bit worse."
Maud stood up slowly and moved to another sniper point a few meters away.
Immediately, he lay down halfway, holding his breath and pointing the muzzle of his gun at the two figures in front of the alley wall.
An expected gun line went straight through the side of Reid's neck from top to bottom, and finally stopped on the forehead of Reid's companion.
"It works!"
The murderous intent in Maude's eyes flashed away, and her index finger pressed the trigger hard.
boom!
The deafening sound of gunfire suddenly resounded over the alley.
The next second, there were two sounds of heavy objects falling to the ground in the alleyway.
Red fell to the ground, his eyes wide open and his mouth moving like a goldfish lacking oxygen.
A bloody hole was made on the side of his neck, and a line of blood was thrown out from it, forming a small arc and falling to the ground.
As for his fierce-looking companion, he was lying aside without making a sound.
The bullet that passed through the side of Red's neck, after its residual force weakened, accurately penetrated into the center of his eyebrow, killing him on the spot.
After a while, people who were awakened by the gunfire looked out the window.
Suddenly, many noises sounded in the night.
But Maude had already left the sniping spot, and went downstairs as nimbly as an ape, heading towards the weapons store.
Tens of meters away from the sniper site, Thor stood in the shadow of a building.
His aura seemed to merge with the night, and even if you looked closely, you could easily see him as a sculpture.
Looking at the two corpses in the alleyway from a distance, Saul suddenly said: "What do you think after reading this?"
"Puzzled, and... unwilling to believe."
Sunny's doubtful voice came in time from another shadow a few meters away.
She walked out of the shadows, unlike Thor who looked at the corpse in the alleyway, but looked at the empty sniper point with disbelief.
The face that had been traversed by knife marks was now full of indescribable shock.
"When Maude took the musket from Jesus cloth, I saw him playing with the gun. His technique looked very unfamiliar, and he also turned the gun over and over. It was like he was coming into contact with this type of gun for the first time. "
"So I would rather believe that he fired the bullet with a pistol instead of a musket. How on earth did he do it?"
Sol glanced at Sunny who seemed to be shocked.
He could understand how Sunny felt.
Because he's been through this before.
Some things cannot be changed even if you are unwilling to do so.
Human beings have been divided into classes since they were born.
Some people are born in poverty, and some are born in wealth.
Some people are born with extraordinary talents, and some are born with ordinary talents.
"Sunny, there is no shortage of monsters in this world. Some monsters are born to use knives, and some monsters are born to use guns."
"Then I still want to... continue to learn how to shoot?"
“…”
Sol frowned slightly, as if he saw a shadow of his past in Sunny.
Seeing Sol's silence, Sunny looked negative.
"I have no talent for learning swordsmanship, and my poor physique is not suitable for specializing in physical skills. In the end, I had to make do with learning guns."
"When Jesus praised me for my talent, I thought I had found the right path."
"But it turns out that the me in Jesus' eyes at that time was different from the Maud in my eyes now."
Sunny was denying herself, and even the darkness of the night couldn't hide her frustration.
Thor sighed: "This kid Maud's qualifications are indeed beyond my expectations, but when it comes to using guns, I don't think you will be worse than him, even though he can walk faster than you now..."
"Is this comfort?"
"Even if I'm full and full, I won't do such a thankless thing."
"It's really a comfort."
“…”
Sol shook his head and looked at the lights in the night, meaning something.
"Sunny, this road is longer than you think. It will even be so long that you will feel despair firsthand. And you and Maude have only just walked an insignificant part of it."
"You have to know that when I was young, I originally wanted to become a world-famous swordsman, but I am just like you in using swords... Hey, don't leave? My Memoirs of a Hero have just begun. , come back!"
Seeing Sunny walk away without looking back, Sol's wrinkled cheeks shook several times.
"This little girl... I don't know if she listened to what she said."
Sol looked up at the night sky, and the past memories brought out by Sunny became increasingly clear.