Crime Hunt Files: Bloody Angel

Pushing open the door of the shooting club, a cyberpunk sci-fi city isolated from the real world comes into view.

Neon lights with blue and pink as the main tones are everywhere. The complex decorative elements of pipes, steel structures, and mechanical devices combine to create a sense of visual layering in the space, which makes Catharina's eyes light up.

She followed Bai Jianan to the front desk and read silently on the LED screen behind the receptionist.

From top to bottom, there are not only the common pistol shooting, rifle shooting, and archery, but also real-life CS, field simulated hunting, youth shooting courses, and even Olympic shooting experience classes.

“The business is really comprehensive.”

Suddenly, the screen flashed, and the next page of the advertisement was the ranking of a shooting competition held a month ago.

At first glance, all ten names on the list are pseudonyms.

The ID ranked first is Red-crowned Crane, followed by Gun God Xiao Shao.

……

Dare he be more obvious.

While the receptionist was looking down, Catharina nudged Bai Ji'an with her elbow.

Sure enough, after taking a quick look, Bai Jianan asked the young man about the time of the next competition.

"In a week. It happens every 1st of the month."

Catharina pulled Bai Ji'an over and whispered, "You're not going to come, are you?"

She just took a look and found that this was not an ordinary shooting range. It used real guns and live ammunition that had been registered, and an ID card was required to enter and exit.

If they get a place in the competition, their names will be posted on the wall. Even if they use a pseudonym, the staff will be able to verify their real identity. How can they stand this?

"I'm just asking."

He can tell which of two things is more important.

Catharina was skeptical about Bai Ji'an.

Ever since she knew He Wei, she could now identify all of Bai Jianan's behaviors that he couldn't understand when they lived together.

Now, someone seems to have appeared halfway and wants to compete with him for the prize. For him, the severity of the matter is comparable to the matter of finding the "Spade".

Catharina sighed helplessly and decided to give up observing Bai Jianan and find some fun to change her mood.

"Bro."

Catharina was leaning on the bar with her hands folded, exuding a faint scent of Tiffany & Co diamond perfume.

The young man was stunned by the bright and three-dimensional facial features. Then, he half lowered his head shyly, under the orange hat, and his pair of small, focused eyes secretly glanced at Bai Ji'an.

This is... Catharina couldn't help but chuckle, took a step forward and took Bai Ji'an's arm, and said coquettishly: "Honey, I want to try the 999 single meal."

Bai Jianan frowned unconsciously and took out the card from his inner pocket and gave it to her.

"Go row it yourself."

Just let go now and spend as much as you want.

How could Catharina miss the great opportunity to eat, drink and use Baiji'an?

She snatched the bank card from his fingers and blew him a passionate kiss.

"It's so kind of you."

Bai Jianan closed his eyes and secretly shook off goose bumps all over his body.

When the guy at the front desk took the bank card in disappointment, Catharina remembered the question she wanted to ask just now: "What is the origin of this red-crowned crane?"

It seems that many people have asked the same question. The young man smiled bitterly: "Actually, I don't know either."

"Don't you have competitions every month? Are you new here?"

"No, this ranking is indeed updated every month, but the people on it may not come to the competition every month."

"what do you mean?"

"Well, to put it simply, it's more of a list of the gods than a ranking list. It's the total ranking of all the shooting competitions that have taken place since the store opened."

"So how long has your store been open?"

One or two years cannot be counted as being on the list of the gods.

"Fifteen years."

"Fifteen years!" Catharina looked around in surprise, "Your decoration doesn't look like it was renovated?"

"Yes, it was three years ago. I started working here after the renovation and reopening."

"You've been working here for three years and you haven't seen a red-crowned crane?"

The young man shook his head and said, "My three years are nothing. Our manager has been here for ten years and has never seen him."

Catharina turned her head and looked at Bai Ji'an, then said, "So mysterious!"

"That's right. I haven't come here since then. I guess he thinks there's no rival here and it's boring."

"Aren't you curious?"

The young man glanced around subconsciously, and nodded after confirming that it was safe: "Curiosity, everyone is curious. But there is no information about him in the museum. Maybe it's too long ago, and the previous customer registration books were destroyed by the boss because they took up too much space. Or maybe..."

"what?"

"We all privately guessed that the red-crowned crane was the boss himself. He deliberately created a perfect dummy and fake results to attract more competitive challengers to sign up for the competition and make more money."

Hearing this, Bai Ji'an raised the end of his eyebrows slightly.

It only takes a few seconds for the employees to betray their boss.

No wonder the ancients often said that even a hero cannot resist the temptation of beautiful women.

Catharina, who had been accustomed to getting information from people everywhere for many years, reached out her hand to take a mint candy from the tray and put it in her mouth, asking as if chatting, "Does this trick work?"

“Yes!” The young man turned around and pointed at the second place “Gun God Xiao Shao”: “It’s him. He comes here every month just to break the record of the red-crowned crane.”

"So how long has he been here?"

After thinking for a moment, the young man said firmly: "Five times, five months."

Catharina looked up and saw that the 100 rings were full. The score of the first place Red-crowned Crane was undoubtedly 100, while Shao Lingyun's score was 73.

"Five months and still can't get a perfect score? It's just 10 bullets, is it really that hard to surpass?"

“不是！”小哥赶紧解释道，“不是10发子弹全部命中十环，是100发！50发固定胸环靶、50发移动人形靶。而且两个50发又分成25发手枪、25发步枪。”

……

It was clearly Chinese characters, so why did both of them start to not understand what they were saying?

After a moment, Catharina asked in disbelief, "So one point for each shot, and if you don't hit the ten rings, you don't get any points?"

"It's not that strict. Nine and ten rings each count as one point."

"With such perverted rules, is there really someone coming?" Catharina couldn't believe it.

"Of course! The prize pool is so huge, especially for the first place. If you really want to make it, I guarantee you won't have to work for 20 years!"

Catharina followed the signs all the way to the shooting area upstairs. She had not yet recovered from the shock.

It was the first time she saw someone playing like this. There were 100 guns, divided into pistols and rifles. Not to mention how much money a game would cost, how could she dare to do it with just a pair of hands and no experience in handling real guns?

Suddenly, Catharina understood.

She turned her head to look at Bai Jian, only to see him twitching the corners of his lips and saying, "It seems that the contestants who come to participate in the competition every month are not only not short of money, but are also familiar with real guns."