Chapter 277: Lifting A Stone Only To Drop It On One’s Own Foot
Tong Youyou caught sight of Xiao Fei’s envious and jealous look, powerless to do anything about her, and felt secretly delighted inside: You still want to compete with me for him? You’re not quite there yet!
After dealing with this little girl from the General Hospital in front of her, Tong Youyou carefully took Chang Ning’s pulse.
The pulse beating strongly and powerfully under his skin—this guy was sturdy like an ox.
He didn’t seem like a patient just discharged from the hospital at all; it was hard to imagine that Chang Ning had fainted from exhaustion not long ago.
Generally, patients just discharged from the hospital feel weak in the body because although the illness is cured, the physical consumption from fighting the disease hasn’t been replenished.
But Chang Ning’s pulse showed that he was as if he hadn’t been sick at all—this kind of situation was very rare.
It indicated that Chang Ning’s recovery speed was several times stronger than that of ordinary people.
Tong Youyou’s suspended heart finally settled; even though she was already used to Chang Ning’s physical quality, she still couldn’t help but worry about this annoying guy.
“Recovery is good; you can’t push yourself like this in the future.
Even the best body can’t withstand you wasting it like this.”
Tong Youyou put down Chang Ning’s wrist and said caringly.
“It was all to complete the mission; next time I’ll try to be careful.”
Facing Tong Youyou’s concern, Chang Ning didn’t say anything to her about duty; he could only assure her that he’d be careful next time.
After all, Tong Youyou was caring about him; there was no need to make a big deal out of it.
Xiao Fei watched the two chatting happily and felt anxious inside; she couldn’t interject for the moment and could only watch dryly.
“Are you shooting guns?”
Tong Youyou first looked around and discovered Lone Wolf B team training the female soldiers with guns, speculating that these female soldiers might all be from the General Hospital.
“Yeah, do you want to give it a try?”
Finally finding a chance to interject, Xiao Fei immediately invited her.
If her medical skills couldn’t match Tong Youyou’s, if her marksmanship couldn’t either, then all these years of practicing shooting would have been for nothing!
“I’ll pass.”
Tong Youyou’s refusal only made Xiao Fei more eager; how could she possibly let go of the opportunity to defeat her love rival?
“You’re already here; it’d be such a pity not to try, and since you’re working in special forces, not playing with guns would seem a bit out of place.”
Seeing Xiao Fei persuading so enthusiastically, Tong Youyou’s heart began to itch.
Just as she was about to agree, she suddenly felt something was very off.
Why was Xiao Fei so insistent on having her shoot?
Given Xiao Fei’s attitude toward her, shouldn’t she wish for her to leave the shooting range immediately?
There was something twelve points wrong here!
“Why don’t you give it a try?”
Seeing Tong Youyou standing still, Chang Ning spoke up.
For him, teaching one person like Xiao Fei was teaching, and teaching two including Tong Youyou was also teaching; it was all convenient anyway.
It wasn’t like the system’s explanations of various tactical maneuvers; just simply stating the precautions would do.
“Alright then, I’ll try.”
Seeing that Tong Youyou had decided, Chang Ning led her to the shooting position, picked up the rifle on the table, and carefully explained the precautions for shooting and demonstrated.
With Chang Ning demonstrating on the side, Tong Youyou listened attentively.
After confirming she had no issues, Chang Ning handed the gun to Tong Youyou.
Xiao Fei stood by watching Tong Youyou’s clumsy appearance, starting to fantasize in her heart about crushing her opponent later.
Sitting next to Tong Youyou, Chang Ning said softly: “Ready?”
“Mm.”
Tong Youyou involuntarily began to feel nervous; such emotions hadn’t appeared on her for a long time.
Every time she interacted with this guy Chang Ning, this kind of emotion would arise—how annoying!
She didn’t like things outside her control.
Just like now, she clearly had no mastery of shooting at all, yet upon hearing that guy’s invitation, she ghostily agreed.
This time she was definitely going to embarrass herself.
“Hoo~”
She let out a long breath, forcing herself to relax.
Following the steps Chang Ning had taught earlier, she turned off the safety and chambered the bullet.
Next was aligning the eye, sights, and target in a straight line.
In her field of vision, the chest target a hundred meters away was only the size of a finger.
How could this hit the ten ring?
Previously, watching Chang Ning and the others practice, with ten bullets each hitting ninety-plus rings, she thought it was simple.
Only when she tried it herself did she realize it was so difficult.
If Chang Ning knew what Tong Youyou was thinking, he would surely be amused.
Having no experience with firearms, wanting to hit the ten ring on the first try—only a genius girl like her would dare to think that!
“Bang~”
Tong Youyou followed Chang Ning’s instructions, steadied her breathing, placed her index finger on the trigger, and gently fired.
“Not bad.”
After the gunshot, Chang Ning raised the binoculars; he was also curious how many rings the genius girl could hit.
“Eight ring. Hitting this score on your first try means you have some talent.”
“Unfortunately not the ten ring.”
Hearing Chang Ning’s praise, Tong Youyou felt secretly pleased inside, but she was still not satisfied with her performance.
With her competitive personality, she always had to do things to the best of her ability.
A mere eight ring—how could she be satisfied?
“That’s already very good; most new recruits don’t hit your score on their first shot.” Chang Ning said.
He understood this competitive girl in front of him; she didn’t need comfort, just telling her the truth would do.
“Most?
By service length, I’m a veteran soldier.” Tong Youyou said.
“Dr. Tong, we’re civilian staff; it’s not shameful if our marksmanship isn’t good. How can we compare to soldiers like Chang Ning who train on the training ground every day?”
Xiao Fei wasn’t kindly consoling her love rival; she was laying the groundwork for her next move.
As she spoke, she picked up another gun, lay prone at the shooting position, and with Tong Youyou, sandwiched Chang Ning between them on left and right.
“Chang Ning, trouble you to call out my target.”
After Chang Ning agreed, Xiao Fei fired several shots in a row.
In Chang Ning’s target calls, Xiao Fei’s scores were either eight rings or nine rings, with one shot hitting the ten ring.
With things developing to this point, Tong Youyou finally understood why she had felt something off from the start—it turned out she had been schemed against.
Xiao Fei was relying on her good marksmanship to outdo her and make her embarrass herself in front of Chang Ning.
Not only Tong Youyou reacted; Chang Ning did too.
“Xiao Fei, be honest with me: did you already know how to use a gun before?”
After more than ten shots, every one was either eight or nine rings, and the bullet impacts were very concentrated.
In terms of marksmanship alone, Chang Ning would believe if someone said Xiao Fei was a veteran soldier from a field unit.
Clearly, he had been deceived; what Zhang Wuji’s mother said was indeed true.
Women, especially beautiful women, deceive without batting an eye.
Chang Ning’s words pulled Xiao Fei out of the pleasure of thrashing her love rival.
Oh no, got carried away and discovered!
What to do now?
Would Chang Ning dislike me?
No need to wait for Xiao Fei’s answer; her unnatural expression exposed everything.
“What are you doing this for?
If you said you knew how to shoot, would I not have brought you?”
Chang Ning vaguely sensed why Xiao Fei had hidden that she knew how to shoot; he remembered Xiao Fei had strong connections.
“Sorry~ I won’t deceive you anymore.”
Looking at the pitiful Xiao Fei, Chang Ning couldn’t bear to blame her, especially since he wasn’t angry anyway.
What big deal was it? Was he a petty person?
“It’s fine; I’m not angry.”
Seeing Chang Ning didn’t seem angry, Xiao Fei’s face turned from cloudy to sunny, very happy.
But she was happy too early; Tong Youyou hadn’t forgotten that she had been schemed against.
“Xiao Fei is right; since we’re working here, having terrible marksmanship really doesn’t make sense.
So, Chang Ning, can I trouble you to teach me shooting from now on?”
At these words, Xiao Fei was greatly shocked inside: Oh no, she’d lifted a stone only to drop it on her own foot!
Now she could only pray that Chang Ning wouldn’t agree to Tong Youyou’s unreasonable request.
