American Horror Story

Chapter 26 New Home and Shooting Training

Luke's latest residence is located at 45 Riverside Street near the Las Olas Pier. It is a fairly spacious independent property with four rooms and a small yard.

The most convenient thing is that there are not many residents nearby, which is very suitable for hiding some secrets or having a hearty fight without being reported to the police by neighbors for disturbing others.

Philemon bought this place about three years ago, but he has never lived here in all these years. Although Mrs. Fran was reluctant, she let him move out for safety reasons.

Luke also moved in with an armory, which contained three brand new, unopened SR-3s for replacement. In addition, there were three Mossberg 47 shotguns and two of the pistols that Luke had heard of the most in his previous life - Smith & Wesson M3.

The arsenal is also filled with a large amount of ammunition and explosives, highlighting the sense of firepower security.

After counting the firearms, Luke closed the small door of the armory, carefully picked up a bottle of sealed, water-like substance from the table next to him, and placed it on his bedside.

[Holy Water No. 2], if calculated by the total energy value, can purify a rank 2 dark creature. Of course, unless it is controlled and unable to move like the Tooth Fairy, it is difficult to exert its full power.

This is the holy water ration that Philemon promised to increase the regular donation to the church in exchange for, mainly used to let Luke guard against non-physical monsters. This thing has a shelf life of one month and is replaced regularly every month.

After all, they are just an ordinary family. Apart from these self-defense supplies, all they can leave for Luke is a nine-digit bank deposit. Those boring and cold numbers are really chilling.

The first morning away from home, I missed my mother’s breakfast and little Chloe’s good morning.

Luke put on his gun bag, took his AR-47 and M500, and went to the shooting range for training today.

After leaving home, he changed his mount from a yacht to a Dodge Viper, which was the same model that Fox drove in the previous life movie "Assassin's League", but the color was not bright red, but mainly black, with only a red mark running through the entire car, looking like a mysterious beast.

The 8.0-liter V10 engine gave this American muscle car plenty of power, and soon Luke drove out of the city.

Crossing the wide road and passing a lush green hill, feeling the moist air and warm temperature outside the car, an idea suddenly arose in Luke's mind - this place should be a good place to grow leaves, and the harvest will be very good.

Taking back the unrealistic idea in his mind, Luke stepped on the accelerator, sped away with a strong push on his back, and soon reached his destination.

The Heywood Shooting Gallery was recommended by security captain Gerald. It was opened by his comrades after they retired. The Imperial Bastion Squad also often plays with guns here.

Probably because it was opened by retired soldiers, the people who come here are retired soldiers and gun enthusiasts. The shooting gallery is not as clean and bright as the gyms you usually go to. You can smell the pungent smell of gunpowder as soon as you enter the door. A muscular man with an unshaven beard greeted him. He was the owner of this place, Ledson Haywood.

Gerald had made the announcement yesterday, and Ledson knew that he was a big money sponsor, so he personally acted as a coach and provided training.

Luke's main training purpose was the pistol. As for the shotgun, with his experience gained from rifles, he just needed to have the hand to use it. After all, it was always used in close combat, and the requirement for marksmanship was not high. He just needed to point the muzzle at the enemy.

The Haywood Shooting Range originally did not allow people to bring their own guns, but with Luke's excellent knife skills, Noel easily gave up his principles. This is the power of the weapon ranked first on the weapon list - the US knife.

Ledson taught Luke the CARS shooting posture, which is also called the center axis relock system. This shooting method is used by Keanu Reeves in "John Wick".

CARS is about the control of the gun, giving a feeling of unity between man and gun. When holding the gun, you stand sideways, with your legs apart and your knees slightly bent. The overall shooting posture is closer to a fighting posture. This sideways stance can maintain front and back stability, reduce the projection area of ​​the front and back to the enemy, and at the same time, you can move with flexible footwork.

Ladson first roughly explained to Luke the different shooting posture changes, troubleshooting, reloading, and CQC close combat techniques, so that he could have a preliminary understanding of this set of shooting techniques. After Luke was familiar with this set of tactics, Ladson began to let him start target shooting according to the most basic posture.

This is how you improve your marksmanship. After you master the most basic principles, it all depends on bullets.

Once the bullets are used up and there can be no significant improvement in a short period of time, you can only rely on actual combat to continue improving.

Luke had spent the entire morning in the shooting range, and even his muscles, which had been adjusted by the [Gun Mastery (Rifle)] proficiency enhancement, were a little sore at this time.

After all, he was not using the small water pipe provided by the shooting gallery, but the M500 revolver, which is famous for its large recoil. Although this gun is powerful and can kill a head with one shot, the recoil is also known to everyone who has used it.

If it weren't for dealing with supernatural creatures, this thing would really feel a bit flashy.

We had a simple lunch outside at noon. We had other plans in the afternoon. Luke had an appointment with the dentist to have his wisdom tooth removed.

At Luke's strong request, the tooth was not cut open but was extracted as a whole.

The operation went very smoothly. Although the doctor said during the initial physical examination that it was worthy of a doctorate degree, Luke's private dentist was no ordinary doctor. He had supervised dozens of doctoral students.

The small wisdom teeth are not worth mentioning.

Luke carefully put the tooth into a suede bag and went home to rest. After all, he was still an ordinary human being and had just been anesthetized, so it was not suitable for him to go out.

The next day, Luke moved his arms. The muscles that had been sore from the recoil of the pistol had not fully recovered yet, and he still felt some soreness when he exerted a little force.

I'm not feeling well today, so I'll take a day off.

Through his father's connections, Luke contacted a studio that specialized in micro-carving and planned to borrow their tools and manpower to carve the magic circle on the teeth.

The array is complex and the teeth are small, but the method is simple.

Luke first drew the magic circle that was firmly imprinted in his brain. With his expert-level painting skills, although he could only achieve the best effect when painting in a horror and weird style, he had no problem drawing such a simple pattern.

After the pattern was drawn, the studio's artist copied it one-to-one into the computer, making a huge pattern, and then reduced it as a whole according to the size ratio of the teeth.

The designer also needs to determine the carving method based on the shape of the teeth and anchor the specific position of the magic array on the teeth.

After all the preparations are done, the staff will firmly fix the tooth under the laser head. The laser, which is as thin as nanometer level, moves back and forth on the tooth, and the dazzling red light rotates intermittently.

The carving of the magic circle is very delicate, and the fixing device below adjusts the position of the teeth little by little, allowing the laser to smoothly fall on the fixed position of the teeth, so as to perfectly complete the task assigned by the sponsor.

More than half an hour later, the laser went off, the humming of the machine stopped, and Luke's tooth, which had just been removed yesterday, was already carved with complex pictures and lines.

(End of this chapter)