"My comrades, our weapons... just as we planned: kill the bugs on sight, kill any human on sight. If we encounter personnel from other teams, kill them too! The bottom line is, everyone fight to survive. First, clear out everything and everyone nearby, then we head towards the rally point of the Sixth Mobile Strike Force... Operation begin!" Everyone raised their respective weapons. {Benevolent Man Who Benefits Others} Tyrant naturally hefted his ridiculously oversized Pulse Cannon. Compared to that, Zero Point’s Gauss Sniper Rifle seemed less flashy, but the man silently cradled it, his cool demeanor lending him an undeniable aura of style.

Then there was Wang Xia, who had armed himself with numerous plasma-based weapons, each about the size of half a fist. He strapped all these bombs, landmines, and time-delayed explosives to his body until he looked completely laden with gear. Fortunately, these plasma weapons were incredibly stable, impervious even to severe heat burns or violent impact; otherwise, the sheer power of the ordnance strapped to him would have annihilated them all instantly.

Next was Luo Gandao’s Cartoon Bear robot. This time, he hesitated not at all, quickly scrambling into the cockpit. He then retrieved a multi-barrel machine gun provided by Zheng Zha and lifted it from the ground. While the exterior design of the Cartoon Bear was unimpressive, the articulated fingers on its hands were exquisitely crafted. Holding the heavy rotary cannon, it didn't appear clumsy in the slightest; instead, it agilely shot out from the ramp of the drop transport ship.

"Everyone, make sure you have your Dragon Crystal necklaces secured.

If you notice your necklace’s white light indicating insufficient power, return to me immediately. I will recharge the necklaces for everyone... Also, watch out for bugs potentially ambushing from below. {Benevolent Man Who Benefits Others} Be wary of attacks from the micro-nukes... Kill everyone except the seven of us!" Zheng Zha stated quietly to the others. Simultaneously, he drew the Saber Hupo from his dimensional ring. The moment this overwhelmingly cool weapon appeared, the entire transport bay seemed suffused with a flow of crimson light. Everyone involuntarily shuddered slightly before Tyrant and Zero Point calmly exited the transport compartment.

Outside the ship bay, the environment was shrouded in gloom.

For some unknown reason, the cloud cover on this planet was exceptionally thick and dense, preventing much sunlight from reaching the ground. Thus, the current lighting resembled the dimness of six or seven in the early morning, yet the area was exceptionally noisy, with soldiers constantly pouring out of the drop transports.

It was evident that most personnel deployed in this landing operation were only newly trained recruits, with many soldiers wearing eager smiles, showing no concern for the impending conflict, as if they were simply out for a tour or playing a war game.

Zheng Zha stepped out of the bay just as this group of Federation soldiers sprinted past them. Even the other three members of their squad ran off toward the distance. Tyrant immediately leaned close to Zheng Zha’s ear and whispered, "A rabble. Are these what they call an army?" {Benevolent Man Who Benefits Others} Chu Xuan stood behind Zheng Zha and remarked calmly, "Nothing surprising. The human world in this era is vastly different from ours. There is only one unified Earth government here, and large-scale warfare hasn't occurred in ages. The military is less an army and more of an extraterrestrial colonization corps. That’s precisely why this initial deployment resulted in such catastrophic casualties—it was played out like a children's game. The so-called high command of this era... truly foolish mortals..." (That depends on who you compare them to, {Benevolent Man Who Benefits Others} do you think everyone is like you?) Zheng Zha, Tyrant, and the others thought silently, exchanging glances before both chuckled aloud.

At that very moment, a middle-aged officer with the rank of Lieutenant noticed their group of seven, especially the Cartoon Bear, which looked far too bizarre—such a contraption simply shouldn't be present on a serious battlefield.

Therefore, he walked directly toward them.

The officer approached their position and coldly began, "Report your—" Before the man could finish his sentence, a flash of red light erupted from Zheng Zha’s hand. The officer, standing three meters away, dazedly reached toward his chest. The moment he touched it, his body slowly split open starting from his sternum, followed by a gout of dark blood spraying high from his lower half. He was cleanly cleaved into two pieces... "Let’s begin. Show no mercy! If you want to live, kill everyone who sees our weapons! Zhan Lan... scan the distribution of the Sixth Mobile Strike Force to the south..." Zheng Zha roared. Simultaneously, he pushed off the ground, shooting forward like an arrow toward the two soldiers still stunned behind the officer. His Hupo Saber flashed horizontally before it even reached them, slicing through both soldiers from the chest. Still clinging to a semblance of life, they began to wail madly, their upper bodies convulsing and struggling on the ground. (Forgive me. If there is a world after death, I will come to apologize to you all...) Zheng Zha ignored the scene below, raising his gaze toward the distance. "Zero Point, see over there? Near the hull of that transport ship—it looks like two embedded reporters. I recall from the movie plot that embedded reporters always broadcast live... Zero Point, eliminate them!" Concurrently, Tyrant had already aimed his tube-type pulse cannon at the dense formation of soldiers farther away. He roared and pulled the trigger. A pulse wave erupted over half a meter from the muzzle, launching countless tiny projectiles at near-invisible speed directly toward the target. The soldiers on the outermost edge were torn into fragments almost silently. Next, behind the initial wave, the terrifying firepower of the pulse cannon instantly shredded over fifty soldiers in that section, leaving them strewn across the ground. Only a few managed to roll into shallow craters for cover. Immediately, sounds of chaos erupted from all around them, and stray bullets fired by some of the surrounding soldiers began to pepper their location.

{Benevolent Man Who Benefits Others} The Cartoon Bear robot, positioned on the far edge, bore the brunt of the initial volley. Chu Xuan had managed to embed the Dragon Crystal necklace into the robot’s frame, which was now being powered by the Cartoon Bear’s internal energy storage system. Consequently, the robot's defensive shield was the most robust among them, second only to Zheng Zha himself. As bullets struck the Cartoon Bear, a semi-transparent shield shimmered into existence, deflecting every round.

The Cartoon Bear seemed to strain as it raised the multi-barrel machine gun, {Benevolent Man Who Benefits Others} but it hesitated for a long moment before pulling the trigger. After several seconds, its head finally swiveled around. "Moni..." Zheng Zha sighed lightly. He said, "Luo Gandao... attack! Until this horror movie world ends, I will not inject any more internal energy into your unit. Do you understand? Every bit of energy is precious now. If you don't want to be killed by these soldiers when your power runs out, start fighting with your weapon immediately..." "Pew!" Just as Zheng Zha finished speaking, the Gauss Sniper Rifle in Zero Point’s hands roared its fury. The rifle tore through the air with terrifying speed, the very air seemingly split in its wake. By the time everyone recovered their focus, a half-meter-diameter hole gaped in the hull of the transport ship. Beyond the opening was a gruesome mess of flesh and blood. At such close range, the Gauss Rifle round left no intact corpses; the two reporters and their photographic equipment were pulverized. The only recognizable human parts left were their lower legs... Luo Gandao finally pulled the trigger on his multi-barrel machine gun. Zheng Zha noticed a soldier in the distance shouldering a weapon resembling a rocket launcher, while another soldier beside him was loading a red warhead into it. This scene was intensely familiar to Zheng Zha; in the movie's plot, this was almost the ground mobile unit's only heavy weapon, a stark reflection of the Federation government's uneven technological development. Yet, the power of this singular heavy weapon was astonishing—a single shot could flatten everything within several hundred square meters. Luo Gandao aimed precisely at the two soldiers attempting to deploy the micro-nuke.

The firepower of the multi-barrel machine gun couldn't match the exaggerated might of Tyrant's pulse cannon, {Benevolent Man Who Benefits Others} but within a kilometer, it was more than capable of tearing human bodies apart. Before those two soldiers could fire the micro-nuke, they were lifted into the air by the massive stream of cannon rounds, killed by the heavy fire before they even hit the ground.

"Tyrant, Zero Point, attack all transport ships. Do not let a single one leave our sight... Wang Xia, use your plasma grenades. We must end this fight within one minute... Zhan Lan, find any hidden soldiers nearby; leave no living soul. Also, monitor the distance of the approaching bug swarm. Chu Xuan... please take care of all the remaining wounded soldiers!" Zheng Zha bellowed at his comrades. Simultaneously, he activated his lightness skill and leaped upward. Under everyone's gaze, he raised the Hupo Saber and brought it down fiercely onto the transport ship behind them. This vessel was beginning to ascend, currently about two meters off the ground. As the blow landed, the transport ship slowly parted down the middle. The strike, including its energy trail, split the entire ship into two sections. Then, the wreckage exploded violently behind them. The resultant fire and shrapnel sprayed outward. Semi-transparent shields instantly rose around the group, and behind them... a towering inferno raged. (To be continued) Jump to