Baaaaaaaaaaaaa~~~~~~~~

Mehhhhhhh~~~~~

Baaaaaaaaaaaaa~~~~~~

“Being a sheep is such a pleasure.”

Along the steep, grass-covered hillside, sheep stood loosely apart from each other, eating grass, minding their businesses. A grew sheep, with the function name ‘CAST’, took a bite of the oily grass below it, and chewed it slowly, but every movement of its chaw resulted in a few purple sparks generated from its mouth.

“Grass tastes great,” CAST laid down onto the grassland. Suddenly, the land under it liquified and became the ‘water’ that appeared before. CAST rolled itself from side to side, whenever the liquid became too far from its contact, it remerged as the original grassland, “Shame that I can’t pet myself…”

A spark popped from CAST’s fur and disappeared into the air. It stopped rolling, its mussels tensed as if waiting for approaching danger. After a few seconds, CAST relaxed back on its back, “Well, Hetzer 1 failed. The surprise element is no longer there.”

System:__Hetzer01_black_box_recover_1

“Mehhhh~~~” CAST turned its head slightly sideways and took another bite of grass, “her power function was still active, of course, the Hetzer can’t handle her punch.” CAST rolled over again, with its belly facing the ground, “Based on her reaction speed, I should probably adjust the manoeuvrability higher. More armour? Meh! Increase the hunger factor a bit!”

System:__Hetzer_function_OpEN

CAST:[email protected]_CP1_>_699.99_01

CAST:[email protected]_CP2_+_69_01

System:[email protected]_complete

System:__Creating…

System:__Hetzer01.A1__complete

“Glop glop glop,” Tann finished her fifteenth can of energy drink of the day she, then she threw the empty can into a plastic bag that is filled with all the other drinks that she drank. She already had more than three heart attacks, busted more than a few thousand capillaries in her brain and her eye, but her recovery function was able to cope with all that.

“Now I can do whatever I wanted,” she laughed historically and pressed her left hand into her heart with force, “heart! Did you hear that? I’m going to drink as much as I want and you are not going die out like in the other world!”

Tann kept on laughing and popped open another Monster Energy. As she laughed, caffeine-filled, cloudy teardrops rolled down her cheeks. She rubbed away her tears and poured the green liquid down her throat.

“Ah!” Tann made a small gasp and leaned back against the unpainted concrete wall. She felt lucky that the ‘Northern Side’ have existed in her world.

Northern Side: Formerly acted as the Department of Foundation Studies of Qchong University. However, during Test Run 470 conducted by Tann and co, the Department of Foundation Studies was sieged by anti-government rioters and students were taken, hostage. During the police surrounding of the department, the rioters made use of the department’s lab and tried to create explosives, but, during this process, an accident occurred and the entire department was set on fire. Soon, the fire spread (with the help of Phurder who increase the combustion rate function) to nearby housings, resulting in heavy casualties. Thus, the ruin was regarded as the Northern Side both within the simulation and among the CREATORS.

Tann stood up and patted her butt to remove the ashes, then, she picked up her Nova and emptied and refilled its ammo chamber.

Cluck. BAM!

She fired at a broken window across the room which shattered completely by the powerful shotgun blast.

“Why did he force me to do a shooting test!” she said, pumping the empty shell out of the gun.

BAM!

She shot a concrete pillar, as a result, a large piece of concrete flew off together with a cloud of dust.

Cough. Cough. That was a bad move. Tann sneezed quietly and pumped another time.

“What should I shoot at this time,” she walked towards the broken window and looked outside. The street was still covered in dark ashes and broken glass from Test Run 470. Tann rested her gun on the window frame and shoot at the trunk of a dead tree.

BAMMMmmmmmmmmmm…

The blast of the gun echo through the ruins, like the cry of a ghost.

Click. Tann put on the safety and laid down her gun against the wall. Instead of reaching for new shotgun shells, she took out her keyboard, “The range is still too short.”

“Ummm…” she put her hands softly on the keys and pondered, “what’s the range increase function again?”

Suddenly, Tann realized something import: she didn’t know the function name for the shotgun.

“What is it again?” she rubbed her chin rapidly, “‘HeavysG’? No, no, no. ‘GsG’? Nah, that’s for pistols!”

She picked up the Nova in a panic, and searched for its label, “Here it is… Let me give it a try.”

#Function_cheats_enable_StuG_01

System:_Cheat_Enable_StuG_complete

“YAY!” Tann cheered.

#Function__01_range_

System:_Instant_Impact_complete

Tann swiped her keyboard aside and stood up with the shotgun again, she pointed at another window that is located more than thirty meters away and she removed the safety.

Click!

“Damn it,” Tann turned around and reached into an open paper box and took out a few red cylindrical shells. She pressed one of the shells into the feeder and pushed it in, then, followed the rest in with similar motions.

Clutch!

She held her breath and looked through the iron sight.

BAMMMmmmmmm…Clack!BAMMMmmmmmmm…Clack!BAMMMmmmmmm…Clack!Click!

After the muzzle smoke faded away, she searched for her results: the window remained intact with a few shell holes around it.

“What?” she breathed heavily.

BAMMMmmmmmm…

“What the hell?!” she loaded a few more shots into the gun, “The program is already changed!”

She sat back down and dragged herself the keyboard, “What are all the shotgun functions? I remember we played with them a lot before.”

The virtual monitor displayed all of the ‘StuG’ functions, Tann inspected them closely one by one.

#Function_(spread)_constant_01

System:_spreadpattern__off

System:_spreadpattern__on

“Aha, now you should be shooting where I aim at,” Tann said to the shotgun, she swung the barrel out of the window and pointed at a distant metal barrel.

As Tann pressed down the trigger, two explosions happened simultaneously, one caused the firing of the shell, while the other caused by the bullets hitting the barrel. Although it didn’t make sense for these two events to occur at the same time if we look at Tann’s programs we’ll get a better understanding. Firstly, she entered the code: #Function__01_range_. The term ‘ray’ stands for changing the bullets from being regarded as a moving particle to beams with ‘infinite speed’ that trigger with the first object that stands in the vector direction of the beam. However, this would not affect the damage of the bullet, instead, the bullets literally ‘teleport’ from the gun to the first barrier that the beam impact and its force are the same as being fired from point-blank range.

On the barrel the bullet holes scattered closely within a small circle. This is due to the ‘spread pattern’ function. Originally the pellets all travel linearly from the gun at many angles to the initial line, meaning that as they travel further, they become further apart creating a large spread. So, by change the spread pattern to a cylinder, the pellets no longer obey the normal linear motion, instead, they only spread to a fixed range, and then continues straight within that range, thus creating a cylinder shape as they travel to the target.

“Nice,” Tann fully loaded her weapon and walked back to her bags and equipment. She reached into her bag and took out a small monitor and pressed a button on its top left corner. A split-screen display of hallways appeared: Tann had installed CCTV cameras all over the building.

“Now, I just need to wait here my guest to…” she suddenly remembered something which caused her to reach into her pocket. In her hand, a small brass-cased pocket mirror appeared. Tann fixed the gaze of her orange eyes onto her reflection from the mirror. She held her breath, waiting for her hair to start turning blue again. For a split second, she felt as if her the light blue shades in her golden hair had turned darker, but the next second, everything remained the same.

Tann sighed and put the mirror back. She drew out the large handgun from its case and put it to her pistol holder on her waist and hang an ammo belt of shotgun shells across her chest.

Clutch!

“I can survive!”