I'm bombarding the Supernatural World with my firearms

Bullets danced through the air like willow catkins, once again enveloping those enemy soldiers emerging from their tents not far away.

These enemy soldiers completely ignored him, not even glancing at him before they died.

Although he used the Thompson Submachine Gun, it wasn't as impeccably accurate as initially, when 12 bullets could kill 12 enemies, but the efficiency had increased by who knows how many times; the notification sounds by Chen Miao's ear sprung up incessantly like bamboo shoots after rain.

"Ding, you have killed an enemy soldier, gaining 1 Experience Point."

"Ding, you have killed an enemy..."

Once he left this secret realm, there might never be such an easy place to gain Experience again, so he had to make the most of these remaining minutes to indulge in a killing spree.

To be honest.

Dealing with those unruly players had cost him quite a bit of time.

Fengtian City didn't have a city effect like Jingjiu City, where the Experience required for each level up for the players within the city was reduced by 30%; he was now a lv.2 Gunman, and to level up to lv.3, he needed a full 500 Experience Points.

Even with a perfect run through an F-level secret realm, it only damned earned him 100 Experience Points.

lv.0 to lv.1 required 100 Experience Points.

lv.1 to lv.2 required 200 Experience Points.

And lv.2 to lv.3 required 500 Experience Points.

So far across the entire Federation, the player at the top of the level Experience leaderboard was Lord Miao from Jingjiu City, at lv.67. Chen Miao couldn't even imagine what astronomical number of Experience Points would be needed for a single level up at that level.

He dared not even think about how powerful the city effect of reducing the Experience needed for each level up by 30% was at that tier.

Thinking about this.

Chen Miao sighed somewhat helplessly once more. Does traveling to another world also depend on luck? If he could have traveled to Jingjiu City, that would have been much more comfortable; he didn't dare to imagine that he could play around as a Capital Lord in his lifetime.

However, in fact, the city effect of Fengtian City was also quite decent – it wasn't as strong, but at least it didn't have any negative impact.

Through his deep understanding of this world over the past few days, he also found out that a unique city effect of a place called "Good Cat City" was—

"All players born in Good Cat City who choose a Supernatural Occupation gain 20,000 Star Coins when they reach lv.1, but can never break through level 10."

This city was also one of the 128 main cities, and the city effect it held was unique and exclusive to it.

How to say it.

This city effect wasn't mandatory but optional.

But every Supernatural Profession Player entering a secret realm in Good Cat City, without exception, had chosen to activate this city effect, and for a simple reason.

Yes, that's right.

This city effect did indeed make one stronger for the time being, but at the cost of having no room for advancement in the future.

They had no choice.

If you didn't activate this city effect, others would, and you'd find yourself unable to beat anyone in the secret realms, destined to die there, making any future potential for improvement useless.

Under compulsion, almost every player entering a secret realm within Good Cat City ended up activating that city effect.

Secret realms within Good Cat City were uniquely avoided by players from other cities across the whole Federation. For instance, in Fengtian City, many people from other cities would run to the secret realms within its bounds.

But not to those in Good Cat City.

They were too intense.

All being lv.3, one would find that the strength of Good Cat City's lv.3 players was on an entirely different level compared to those from other cities, overpoweringly dominating their peers, with a focus on the early game. In the early days of the world's Transcendentalization, players from Good Cat City were indeed far ahead for quite a while.

But as time passed, the advantage of Good Cat City gradually faded; Jingjiu City slowly rose to become the economic and power center of the whole Federation. Players from Good Cat City, unwilling to die in such internal strife, also left the city one after another, settling down in other cities.

It's just...

Players in Good Cat City quickly discovered a better path.

After being promoted to lv.1 and obtaining 20k Star Coins, they immediately left Good Cat City and headed to Broken Pot City, staying there for three years to switch to the Person of Leisure Profession, and then leisurely started their retirement life for the second half of their lives.

Slacking off temporarily feels good, slacking off for life feels great.

The only problem with this path is how to survive against numerous tough opponents who come out of secret realms with the Experience Points for leveling up to lv.1, without spending Star Coins to increase one's own strength.

...

Just as Chen Miao's thoughts began to drift, the sound of Hungry Monkey came from behind him—it seemed he had a sizable haul, as Hungry Monkey excitedly started to pull out a bunch of items from his bosom, preparing to explain them.

Seeing this, Chen Miao waved his hand, signaling for Hungry Monkey to start farming mobs first.

"Farm Experience Points first, we'll look at these items later."

Time was of the essence; the more Experience Points they could get, the better, aiming to level up to lv.3 as soon as possible. After leveling up to lv.3, they could undergo class advancement, which would unlock many more features and greatly strengthen his power.

For instance, Doctor Gou's "Sword Emperor" Profession is a third-stage advancement of the Swordsman Profession and is many times stronger than the Swordsman Profession.

Besides that.

There was another pressing matter to consider.

That was if the elders of the transcendentals who died in the secret realm were all guarding outside the secret realm, then if only he survived and came out, he would certainly face questioning and assassination. How to solve this problem was also an immediate concern he needed to address.

Regarding this issue, he had a rough idea.

After all, he had nothing to lose; in the worst-case scenario, he could flee to another city. He also wanted to become a Capital Lord in Jingjiu City, that is if he could afford housing there.

Jingjiu City welcomes every resident with fairness.

But only residents who have property in Jingjiu City or a residential lease contract of over one year can stay continuously for a year. All other residents will be expelled after three months.

Only after staying in Jingjiu City for a full year can one enjoy the city-state benefits it provides.

The housing prices in Jingjiu City have long been astronomical. Even a year's residential lease contract is outrageously expensive, and many tiny flats that are hardly inhabitable, spanning only three or four square meters, are also priced unimaginably high.

The market refers to them as—

"School District Houses."

As expected, he probably couldn't afford to go to Jingjiu City, nor could he become a Capital Lord.

But becoming a bandit in some remote small city should still be no problem.

...

"Alright!"

Hungry Monkey nodded vigorously, took up the hammer in his hand, and stood at the entrance of a military tent, mechanically swinging and smashing in repetition, a process both mechanical and imbued with a sense of violent beauty.

Chen Miao, on the other hand, was holding a Tao Wood model Thompson Submachine Gun, taking charge of the remaining military tents.

In terms of group attacks.

The Gunman Profession far outstrips fighters, especially a gunman who doesn't lack bullets and doesn't need to reload.

And so.

Until Chen Miao earned another 823 Experience Points and, with only 3 minutes left until the end of the secret realm, all the military tents suddenly went quiet, as if they'd run out of fuel, and no more enemies respawned.

The scene was silent for a full ten seconds.

Just as Chen Miao wondered if he had jammed the secret realm with his excessive force, a prompt suddenly sounded in his ear.

"Ding, congratulations to players Chen Miao and Hungry Monkey for perfectly clearing the F-grade secret realm 'Medal of Warfire'."