Marvel: The Alchemist Just Wants a Peaceful Life

As Zhao Weike spoke, he picked up the makeshift sniper rifle that Sherlock had created and began to fiddle with it.

To be honest, Zhao Weike wasn't particularly skilled at sniping. He was better at close-quarters assaults like those in the John Wick movies. But now that he was forced into this situation, he had to bite the bullet and do it even though he wasn't good at it.

Fortunately, the sniper rifle that Sherlock made is top-notch in both accuracy and materials. Not only does the accuracy of the entire gun reach the nanometer level, but the vibranium material alone puts this gun at the pinnacle of sniper rifles.

Even the depleted uranium rounds that were originally intended for tank artillery were forcibly reduced to a 7.62mm caliber by Sherlock, which greatly reduced the difficulty of Zhao Weike's sniping.

Upon hearing Zhao Weike's statement, Sherlock, who had been in a relaxed state, couldn't help but frown. When Zhao Weike raised his gun, Sherlock cursed irritably.

"Hold!"

With that angry curse, Sherlock decisively sat up and slammed his hands on the ground. Before Zhao Weike could react, a huge and thick metal pipe extended out from the bushes.

boom!

With a deafening roar, Zhao Weike was astonished to find that the elegant villa in the woods in his scope had instantly turned into fragments. As flames erupted, all sorts of debris flew into the air.

Before Zhao Weike could even react to what was happening, Sherlock on the other side opened fire again.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Five consecutive loud bangs left Zhao Weike completely dizzy. It took him a long time to recover. With a look of utter disbelief, he turned to Sherlock, who was sitting on the 155mm howitzer beside him, and roared at him.

"Sherlock! What the hell are you doing?!"

"Sniping! Didn't you say that we can't engage in close combat, and can only snipe from a distance?"

Sherlock's reply was quite indifferent; he even shrugged at Zhao Weike with a nonchalant expression, completely ignoring the bewildered look on Zhao Weike's face after hearing his words.

She glanced at the 155mm howitzer lying flat under Sherlock's butt, then at the sniper rifle in her hand, a masterpiece of craftsmanship, arguably the world's most powerful and accurate, and then at the villa that had long since been reduced to a giant crater, its foundation long gone.

His entire face contorted in pain as he pointed at the massive, flattened howitzer beneath Sherlock's buttocks and roared at Sherlock.

"You call this sniping?"

"Single shot, with a scope, one shot kills, what else could it be but a sniper rifle? At most, it's just that my sniping skills aren't good enough, and I fired a few more shots. What's the problem?"

"????"

Hearing Sherlock's theory, Zhao Weike felt as if his cerebral cortex had been smoothed out, and he stared at Sherlock with a completely bewildered expression.

Honestly, he originally thought that Sherlock's twisted logic when educating Anna and Mindy was just a morbid musing, but he never expected that Sherlock would actually put it into practice!

And then they put it into practice with such confidence!

Looking at the sniper rifle in his hand and then at the 155mm howitzer under Sherlock's butt, Zhao Weike felt for a moment as if he were holding a fire poker.

Seeing Zhao Weike's bewildered expression, Sherlock jumped off the cannon, made the huge howitzer behind him disappear without a trace, and then patted Zhao Weike on the shoulder and said to him.

"Don't be so surprised, this is Chinese-style sniping."

"?"

As Sherlock said this, a huge question mark slowly appeared above Zhao Weike's head. What the hell is this "Chinese-style sniping"? Sniping is divided into Chinese and Western styles?

Why didn't I know this when I became an assassin? Did my instructors not tell me during my training?

Seeing Zhao Weike's innocent and somewhat foolish look, Sherlock sighed helplessly and explained to him with a mischievous grin.

"Western-style sniping emphasizes precision and efficiency. It requires calculating wind speed and gravity, with the goal of killing the target with a single bullet. Both firearms and bullets are developing in this direction."

As Sherlock explained, Zhao Weike nodded blankly. Although he wasn't a professional sniper, he still understood the basics of sniping.

However, Sherlock's next words completely shattered Zhao Weike's understanding of sniping.

"As for Chinese-style sniping, the main idea is that as long as the power is great enough, you and the cover will fly together! Take the mission just now as an example. Western-style sniping requires you to consider the trajectory of the bullet, wind direction, humidity, and even whether the bullet can penetrate the enemy's armor and bulletproof equipment."

But for Chinese snipers, it boils down to this: "Just fire a whole magazine over that area first."

"?????"

Clearly, Zhao Weike's doubts did not disappear with Sherlock's explanation; on the contrary, they only increased.

After a long while, he took a deep breath and said to Sherlock with a serious expression.

"This isn't sniping, this is artillery fire!"

Faced with Zhao Weike's dilemma, Sherlock rolled his eyes in annoyance and pointed at the target opposite him, which had already been reduced to fragments.

"Just tell me if it's easy to use or not, that's all!"

"..."

Chapter 665 People Arrive at the High Table

While Sherlock and Zhao Weike were engaged in an extremely naive debate about whether Chinese-style sniping should be considered artillery fire or sniping, Jaina was also providing assistance to Anna as agreed with Sherlock.

Jaina naturally participated in the meeting between the High Table and Sherlock, and understood the High Table's thoughts. Therefore, although she was providing assistance to Jaina's side, she could not do so openly.

So Jaina, being extremely clever, only did one thing.

The bounty was increased for a father and daughter who had similar experiences to Anna.

This simple matter was enough to speed up Anna's investigation into the so-called X organization.

The reason is simple: in fact, there are 'defectors' in the X organization almost every year. This family is known for its jealousy, xenophobia and all-out killing. Internally, it adopts an extremely perverse training system for all members.

In other words, if members of the organization marry each other, their children will be pre-selected and trained to be assassins, while the children of those who marry outside the organization will also be automatically pre-selected as assassins and will need to return to the organization at a certain age to receive assassin training.

However, this is also the problem. Those who marry within the same family are relatively easy to deal with, since they have been brainwashed to a relatively high degree and have no aversion to their children becoming killers; in fact, they feel it is a matter of course.

However, those who marry outside the marriage do not think that way, especially after having a wonderful childhood. No parent would want their child to step into the dark and bloody world of society.

In the eyes of the X organization, such a situation would be considered a betrayal, and would trigger an internal manhunt.

Anna's situation was like this: Anna's mother was a member of the X organization. She had Anna after falling in love with her father, but neither of her parents wanted Anna to enter the world of assassins, which led to that tragedy.

And such 'tragedies' are not rare; they occur almost every few years.

This time, there happened to be a father and daughter in a similar situation to Anna's. Jaina's purpose in increasing the bounty on the father and daughter was actually quite simple: on the one hand, to make the father and daughter famous so that Anna could conduct her investigation; on the other hand, to force the father and daughter to seek refuge in the Continental Hotel.

If the father and daughter can get into the Continental Hotel, Anna can quickly make contact with them and naturally obtain information about the X organization.

As for the suspicions on the High Table, they are easy to explain. Jaina could simply explain that her family had some grudges against that assassin father, and seeing his name on the list would justify increasing the bounty.

After all, Jaina's Antonio family was already at odds with the Bernhard family, which had been expelled from the family, and the X-Organization, as a branch of the Bernhard family, had been causing trouble for Jaina and her family for quite some time.

At such a time, kicking someone when they're down is perfectly reasonable, legal, and justifiable!

Of course, even if the High Table doesn't believe this explanation, Jaina could easily explain it as a deal between herself and Sherlock.

As for the details of the deal, it was very simple: he would help Anna resolve her differences with the X organization as soon as possible, and Sherlock would help him achieve a goal—fair, just, and reasonable.

As for the High Table's veiled desire to preserve the X organization as much as possible? Jaina didn't care, and didn't even need to care. She only needed to slap the High Table in the face with the result of Sherlock and Zhao Weike's 'assassination' to solve most of the problems.

It's worth noting that Sherlock was the first person to use a 155mm howitzer to flatten an assassination target since the High Table was founded.

With someone like that on your turf, who would feel at ease? It's better to speed things up and get him out of here cleanly.

As for the hatred between the X Organization and Anna? And that unequal 24-hour war?

Stop joking! Things that are destined to be unavoidable are better off ending as soon as possible! The longer it drags on, the more unpredictable the consequences will be. Who knows what you'll do if you really annoy Sherlock, that living devil, and suddenly find him pointing a 155mm howitzer barrel at your face in the middle of the night?

Of course, Jaina wasn't stupid; she would never reveal a single detail about the Guardian Cross, named Gabriel, to the High Table.

Heaven knows whether Jaina's excuse was particularly clever, or whether the High Table was genuinely afraid of waking up one day to find Sherlock's 155mm howitzer barrel already stuck in their bed.

Surprisingly, those at the High Table tacitly approved Jaina's actions in accelerating the war between Jaina and the X Organization, and even sent an Arbitrator and a 'Witness' over at an extremely fast pace.

As a result, Anna and Mindy received a message from the father and daughter that very night, and they had a thrilling fight at the Continental Hotel. Anna and Mindy even almost faced trial for violating the Continental Hotel's rules.

The next morning, after the two of them got ready, looking exhausted, the first thing they saw when they arrived at the hotel lobby was Zhao Weike sitting in a booth, and Sherlock sitting next to Zhao Weike eating.

Upon seeing Zhao Weike, both Anna and Mindy felt a sense of guilt, as if they had been caught doing something wrong by their parents.

No one could have imagined that the two people who caused such a ruckus at the Continental Hotel last night would act like timid and hesitant children who had made a mistake, reluctantly walking up to Sherlock's side.

It wasn't until the two of them arrived near Zhao Weike that they noticed two other people sitting opposite Zhao Weike and Sherlock.

A man and a woman sat in their seats. The woman wore a strange mask on the lower half of her face, had exaggerated eye makeup, and her hair was neatly combed. She exuded a cold aura.

Sitting next to this woman was an Asian man with slicked-back hair, wearing sunglasses, a gentle smile, and a suit jacket over a white turtleneck sweater.

But what really caught people's attention was the thing in the man's hand: a well-maintained walking stick for looking out over the valley!

Most importantly, although the cane looked no different from an ordinary cane in the man's hands, the sound of the cane touching the ground clearly indicated that there was something special about it!

Most importantly, judging from this man's actions, it seems that his eyesight is not very good.

Such a bizarre scene left Anna and Mindy at a loss for how to react. After exchanging a glance, they obediently walked over to Zhao Weike and called out to him.

"Master!"

Facing Anna and Mindy, Zhao Weike remained silent, his eyes fixed on the masked woman opposite him. Anna and Mindy could even sense the tension between Zhao Weike and the woman.

Chapter 666 Giving Master Ye a Little Shock

Watching Zhao Weike and the strange woman confront each other, Anna and Mindy, the two girls, subconsciously began to feel nervous.

Just as the two girls were exchanging glances, discussing whether to help their master strike first and kill the strange woman, Sherlock put down his cutlery, wiped his mouth with a napkin, and then spoke to the two girls who were starting to get nervous.

"Alright, Anna and Mindy, let me introduce you. The woman wearing the mask is an adjudicator from the High Table, not a judge. It doesn't matter what she's called, just remember that she's from the High Table."

As for this blind Master Ye, he was also a member of the High Table Society, serving as a witness to this operation. Of course, your master and I were also among the witnesses.”

"Hey! My name is Kane! Not Master Ye! You're so rude, young man!"

In response to Sherlock's introduction, Kane on the other side laughed first, and with a smile, he refuted Sherlock's introduction, as if he was enjoying the show.

Sherlock's introduction successfully brought an end to the tense confrontation between Zhao Weike and the Arbitrator, causing the Arbitrator to subconsciously glance in Sherlock's direction and frown slightly.

To be honest, both Sherlock's way of addressing Evena Anna and his way of addressing Kane Nayeh's master left the Arbitrator completely baffled.

However, because of Sherlock's identity, the Arbiter didn't say much. After Sherlock finished his introduction, he turned to Anna and Mindy, glanced at his watch, and said to the two of them.

"According to the agreement between Mr. Sherlock and the High Table, for the next 24 hours, the High Table will not intervene in the war between the two of you and the X organization, regardless of the outcome of the war."

However, according to the agreement, Mr. Sherlock and Mr. Zhao Weike will not provide you with any assistance.

After speaking to Anna and Mindy, the woman turned to Sherlock and spoke to him in a calm tone, as if she were reciting something.