Chapter 430 - The Skydiving Monkey of Godly Fists! (1/2)
The five special forces soldiers that had met countless battles in the past replaced their past activeness with silence. They shook their heads gently and sighed. It was really unexpected that the operation team leader sent by the higher-ups this time was so outrageously strong in his composite strength.
Having the strength of a fifteen-star martial artist at such a young age was already a major feat, yet he also possessed an operating power that embodied him into a nightmare for the royal mobile armor warriors.
This guy is totally a monster! Lu Han and Lu Chu looked at Qin Fen’s eyes and knew that he was more than a fifteen-star martial artist. The Red Lotus Phantom on the battlefield earlier was like a velvet colored lightning, restraining him would require more than dozens of royal mobile armors at one go for the capture to succeed.
“So?” Qin Fen smiled faintly at the demolitions expert nearby, Jay Terry, “Do you want to spar with me on demolitions techniques? Regarding explosives, I do have a little experience and have some understanding of the workings of explosive techniques.
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Jay Terry’s mind swayed and rattled like a pellet drum.
Everyone had read the information about Qin Fen. At first, they thought that it was just exaggerated for the interests of the new commanding officer’s respect. No one expected that the strength their commanding officer had performed was well beyond what the information is given.
Sparring explosion techniques with a certified explosives master? Jay Terry didn’t wish to experience the nightmares suffered by Lu Han and Lu Chu.
The thing about reputation was that although it was worthless in terms of monetary value, the emotional damage to have one’s reputation “destroyed” would still cause the person to lose sleep for countless nights.
Right now, everyone in the squad would rather believe that the information about Qin Fen was not detailed enough rather than dismissing it as an exaggeration.
This was a commanding officer that really came forward to carry out combat missions properly, not a slacker from the higher-ups who was only here for glory and achievements!
“I’m sure that everyone already has a better understanding of my abilities.” Qin Fen placed the magnetic disk on the table, “I also have a general understanding of everyone’s abilities, provided that the information given is true.”
In a brief moment, Qin Fen had demonstrated his powerful abilities twice in a row, causing the five battle-hardened soldiers to forget that their new commanding officer was three months late for duty and was listening intently to their new commanding officer.
“For this mission, I’m sure everyone has at least some understanding about it.” Qin Fen projected the information of the insect warriors and said confidently, “However, I am confident that I know insect warriors more than any one of you here as I have fought with them before. Therefore, to complete our current objectives, we must execute it in a way where we have to mislead them to think that we will not succeed so that our enemies will hold their ground without deploying the insect warriors. I’m sure that the higher-ups also have similar plans in mind. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have only chosen six people for this mission.”
Jessica Wehr nodded in agreement. Talented people were everywhere in the military. If one wished to annihilate a base, deploying great numbers of military personnel or even leveling the Sahara Desert with a ballistic missile would be the best option available.
Although the base may be sturdy enough to withstand one or two missiles, the military’s vast resources could allow for them to launch several more missiles.
However, the military did not opt for the bombing option this time and sent only a small spec-ops team instead. The intentions were clear — they didn’t want to alarm the target into evacuating with most of the useful information nor have them deliberately destroy it.
Even if the small team of six people was detected by the enemy from the base, the team may be mistaken for a skirmishing fireteam. As such, the enemy wouldn’t be as alarmed and might take them lightly.
“Since our objective is to prevent the opponent from acting too intensely, the best way is to make a direct assault!” Qin Fen slammed his fist directly on the target base shown on the projected map, “The opponent won’t be as alarmed when they identify only six of us. They might not even be surprised and hence unable to react accordingly when they realize our fierce assault abilities.”
Jessica Wehr nodded in agreement. Countless monitoring equipment should be installed around the perimeter of such a secretive base, making infiltration attacks the focus of their monitoring. A direct attack, however, would be a much better choice under such circumstances.
War was waged with unconventional strategies to surprise the enemy. This time, a very small number of elite soldiers were chosen to attack them head-on! Jessica Wehr’s evaluation of Qin Fen became more positive once again. This young man has a smart and clear mind with a proper plan of action. No wonder his squad was categorized as SS grade intelligence on the information given.
Qin Fen went through the main details of the operation quickly and concisely. As he put away the electronic map, he walked to the Red Lotus Phantom mobile armor nearby and said, “Everyone! Target! The Sahara Desert, Insect Warriors!”
The Sahara Desert is considered the Earth’s largest desert, encompassing most of North Africa. It was the largest area of wildland on Earth besides Antarctica.
Here, there were large numbers of dry and waterless basins. The highlands were even rockier and devoid of most flora. With steep mountains and undulating sand dunes, It was a seemingly never-ending sea of sand.
The high heat made the air so dry that one could see water evaporating into the air from afar. The entirety of the desert was surrounded by suffocating golden sands.
This was the Sahara Desert, the largest desert on Earth. Formed millions of years ago and almost devoid of life, even the Federation Army only stationed here for a short while with occasional launching of automated scanners to identify the presence of terrorists that might be building a training camp here.
In the quiet yet disturbing skies of the Sahara Desert flew a large military aircraft with thunderous, roaring engine noises. Due to its low altitude of less than a hundred meters from the ground, dust of sand clouds were formed behind the tail of the plane.
Rising up and down, the sand clouds resembled a recently awoken dragon that slumbered for millennia.
The five special forces soldiers on the plane clenched their fists and stared at the huge screen in front of the plane.
Flying at low altitude! It was a commonly known rule to forbid flying in extremely low altitudes, even more so when flying over oceans and deserts.
The Sahara Desert wasn’t as flat as the plains of Pingchuan. The desert was littered with countless sand dunes that were enormous and able to move. Furthermore, there were also countless rocky mountains littered all over the desert. One might even crash into the mountains by accident at normal flying speed.
If you fly at an ultra-low altitude with ultra-fast speed, you would still be horrified and drenched in sweat even if you were a battle-hardened special forces soldier.
The spirit of not being afraid of death was expected of a soldier. However, sitting in a plane flying in a suicidal manner only to be buried alongside the plane was unacceptable and shameful for Feng Lu as a soldier. Bitterness encroached his lips while he awaited his fate of dying in a crash.
Sixteen Mach! Feng Lu looked at the number displayed on the dashboard nearby and felt a sudden numbness in his scalp as his stomach began to twitch from the cold. For him to be able to fly freely over such number a of sand dunes at such speed was not an ordinary Royal pilot as recorded in the given information, but a super ace Royal pilot!
Jessica Wehr sat in silence as she gauged Qin Fen. This commanding officer that chose para dropping for site entry was extraordinary in his comprehensive abilities among the special forces soldiers. In order to avoid enemy radar detection, the flying low was indeed the best strategy.
It was also the riskiest strategy, of course. A simple mistake would cost the lives of everyone before the mission even began.
Beep… beep… beep…
The electronic map of the plane sounded a burst of warnings. Qin Fen’s face became more serious as he pulled back the joystick of the large fighter out of a sudden and turned the plane upwards sharply!
In the next moment, the plane was rushing toward the sky. Several special forces soldiers looked through the glass panes and saw the golden desert not far from below rolling into a storm. It was as if hundreds of thousands of huge pythons were mating in the sand, stirring and rolling the whole piece of golden land.
Traces of different colors of light then emerged from the golden sands!
Heavy-duty ground-to-air mobile armor armed with anti-air missiles, and more than a dozen Phantom fighters!
This wasn’t a high-tech experimental base, it’s exactly like an integrated military base of the Federation.
“Ready up!” Qin Fen assessed the situation solemnly, “When I’m done with these fighters that pose a critical threat to your mobile armors, you will jump down and begin the assault.”
Aerial combat? Jessica Wehr expressed shock in her eyes. The Phantom fighters from the Genesis Society have already shown that their pilots were definitely of royal-class caliber. Coupled with their newest all-terrain model of fighters, they make up a formidable air force.
On the other hand, there is only one huge transport-fighter on our side. A calculation by the latest computer of the probability of Qin Fen winning this battle would reveal a measly chance of one percent.
Whoosh…
More than a dozen whistles in the sky roared through the air. Ground-to-air missiles and the Phantom fighters began to roar at the weird giant fighter that encroached their territory mid-air.
“Small…”
Before she could finish her reminder, Jessica Wehr felt a sharp movement in the plane as it performed a barrel roll to avoid four anti-air missiles.
The huge body of the aircraft had not only declined the aircraft’s sensitivity but also limited its movements due to the huge area of force that may impact the stability and integrity of the plane structure.
There was once an ace pilot who tried to do a barrel roll with a large transport-fighter. As a result, the body of the plane was torn apart mid-air before it even completed the second three hundred and sixty-degree rotation due to its inability to withstand the pressure caused by the high speed.
The plane had already dodged seventeen missiles. Jessica Wehr began to believe in the words of her master. The simulated calculations of a computer will never succeed in assessing humans! Human beings possess unlimited potential as they weren’t bounded by numbers to be limited at a level forever.
The huge plane body had been flipped several times, yet there were no signs of damage. Jessica knew why this was the case. Qin Fen had put the wind, air friction, and control of the flipping angle into consideration when he was performing the barrel roll.
When everything was calculated, the plane could indeed maintain its structural integrity. However, Jessica’s computer had stated that such a person didn’t exist in this world.
None? Jessica Wehr smiled at the small supercomputer in her hand. If this thing possessed emotions, would it fry itself from shock the moment it witnessed the power of Qin Fen?
Feng Lu stared in awe at what he just saw. His initial worry and tension became elation and excitement! Sitting in this metal bird, Qin Fen only used the few missiles equipped on the plane and the Super Vulcan guns to take down seven Phantom fighters piloted by Royal Aces.
Lu Han and Lu Chu widened their eyes in disbelief. This was an experience of a lifetime, in which a miss in detail from a simple blink would cause a lifelong regret.