So I asked Chu Qi if there were other aiming methods that didn't require breathing.
"Holding your breath while shooting? You can't last long like that," Chu Qi shook his head.
"...You assume I'm a dead person, without breath, how would I aim?" I rephrased the question.
Only then did Chu Qi understand that the users of these guns would be Yin soldiers, not humans.
Chu Qi thought for a moment, "No, if you don't breathe, you can't find this kind of dynamic rhythm. Unless you give up standing shooting, or when you need to stand, you put the gun on the shoulders of your comrades in front."
I nodded, "That works. We can't equip all of them with such advanced weapons. The gunmen would stand in the back rows, trying not to be exposed to the enemy's sight. This would also avoid enemy suspicion."
The shooting problem was solved, and the remaining task was to gain the recognition of the underworld before putting them into production.
I was personally quite satisfied with this weapon, and I guessed Xiao Yanwang and the others would be too. I directly left the sixteen dolphins for Shen Xingyue.
Just as I was about to leave Sabia to meet Xiao Yanwang, Shen Xingyue stopped me, "Wait a moment, come with me. I'll give you something to defend yourself with."
Chu Qi thought Shen Xingyue was going to do something intimate with me. He grinned and didn't follow us upstairs, carrying the G98 and waiting in the courtyard.
Shen Xingyue and I returned to her office. I asked what gift it was.
"In such a hurry to leave?" Shen Xingyue frowned.
"...Aren't there outsiders waiting!" I said with a sheepish smile.
"Outsiders... you spend all day with Instructor Chu, I'm the outsider here, aren't I?" Shen Xingyue pouted.
"Aren't you my fiancée? How can you be an outsider!" I said.
Shen Xingyue pursed her lips into a smile, leaned down, and took out a delicate wooden box from a drawer under her desk. She opened it, revealing an antique dagger, about forty centimeters long, with an exquisite scabbard and hilt.
"What's this for?" I picked it up and frowned, "My swordsmanship... you might as well give me a gun. Besides, this thing, by the looks of it, is just a craft, it's not even sharpened, is it?"
"You don't really think I'd give you an antique weapon, do you? Take a closer look," Shen Xingyue said with a smile.
I picked up the "antique dagger" from the box and quickly discovered the trick. The tip of the dagger was a fake "point" that could open and close, revealing a circular hole inside. Its weight was not that of a dagger; it was very heavy. I tried pressing a button on the hilt, and with a click, a magazine popped out from the rear of the dagger!
It turned out to be a dagger gun. The magazine had a liquid crystal display showing a remaining capacity of thirty rounds.
"Wow, this is custom-modded!" I exclaimed. It was weak on the outside and strong on the inside, a wolf in sheep's clothing.
"I asked the comrades in the engineering department to specially craft this for you," Shen Xingyue said casually while sipping her coffee.
"Thank you, my little fiancée. You're so thoughtful," I said with a smile.
"It's because you're so bad at fighting," Shen Xingyue pouted. "The spare magazines are in a hidden compartment beneath the box. There are only five magazines in total, so use them sparingly. The bullets are for small-caliber shots, which are hard to come by and require approval."
"Uh... where's the trigger?" I asked.
Shen Xingyue took the dagger back, "There are two handguards, one dragon and one tiger. The tiger's head is the safety switch, and the dragon's head is the trigger. You use it like this—"
Shen Xingyue held the front of the hilt and placed her index and middle fingers on the two handguards of the dagger.
"You can press the safety first, then pull the trigger, or you can press them simultaneously. But each shot requires you to press the safety once, so it can only be semi-automatic, not full-auto."
If she hadn't said anything, I wouldn't have even known that handguns had a full-auto function, which would make it an assault rifle.
Since there was no magazine loaded, Shen Xingyue directly shot into the air. *Click, click.* Two crisp sounds, accompanied by the shots, the tip of the dagger split into two halves and then quickly closed back into a pointed shape after the shot, which was quite discreet.
"Considering you might get captured in the underworld," Shen Xingyue continued, "I also had the designer add a self-destruct program for you."
Shen Xingyue picked up the magazine, turned it upside down, and showed me the tail end of the magazine. "There's explosives installed here. Rotate it ninety degrees, then pull out this small ring, and after three seconds, the magazine will explode. The explosive force isn't very strong, but it's enough to destroy the internal structure of this dagger gun, preventing enemies from copying its shooting mechanism."
I nodded vigorously. "That's exactly what I was worried about. You've thought of everything. Thank you for your trouble, Xingyue."