Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 1368 - 779: Bloodthirsty Sharks
Chapter 1368: Chapter 779: Bloodthirsty Sharks
The training mechanism for the Alliance’s Interstellar Warriors is actually quite clear.
At the core, is the ’Interstellar Soldier Training Base’, also known as the New Blood Base.
The New Blood Base ’selects’ young people from various parts of the Alliance to enter and undergo training. The location of the base is actually not fixed, with different locations each term, but
the training generally lasts around one year.
This process is actually Gu Hang using Gift Points to screen and train the candidates.
The trained Interstellar Warriors then undergo different genetic seed implantation surgeries based on their personalities, talents, and preferences — although there are only four options. The most gifted go to Phoenix and Yellow Springs Seagull; the most explosive personalities go to Blood Shark; the most steady go to Spear of the Dragon King; those who are left accept the ’substandard infinite genetic seeds’ and go to Furyflame and New World Torch.
The four groups most controlled by the Alliance – Phoenix, Yellow Springs Seagull, New World Torch, and Furyflame – all their new recruits come from the New Blood Base.
Blood Shark and Spear of the Dragon King are a bit different. They each have their own home planet, and while under the Alliance’s jurisdiction, the Alliance greatly respects their Battle Group traditions. If they want to recruit locally, they can.
They have tried local recruitment before, and the Alliance did not place any restrictions or obstacles.
However, they quickly gave up.
Humans are inherently lazy, and so are the Emperor’s Angels.
Self-recruitment requires a lot of effort, not to mention the massive costs, with no guarantee of surgical success; with great difficulty, even if a few succeed, their quality is nothing to boast about.
Previously, it’s understandable that new recruits might be inferior. You can’t expect the newly made Interstellar Warriors to have the combat power of veterans. That’s unrealistic; even the harshest Battle Groups need to allow for growth time.
However, since accepting the New Blood provided by the Alliance, this ’primitive’ way of recruiting new soldiers has become intolerable.
What the Alliance provides has a high surgical success rate, over 95%; the quality is high, almost plug-and-play, even if not at veteran levels, close enough; the probability of breeding elites is high, those exceptionally outstanding quickly stand out in the entire Battle Group, becoming key personnel.
After enjoying these benefits, who can bear to painstakingly recruit New Blood themselves?
Previously, the traditionalists within Spear of the Dragon King and Blood Shark could still voice their opinions, advocating reducing the proportion of New Blood acceptance from the Alliance. But as the concentration of Alliance People in the Battle Groups increased, with now over 40% being Alliance People, the complete Alliance integration of the entire Battle Group could no longer be stopped.
In these two Battle Groups, the upward channels for Alliance People have already been opened.
Xie Hong is one of the outstanding ones among them.
He was among the earlier batch of Alliance People to join the Blood Shark Battle Group, participated in the later stages of the Iron Armor War, and stood out in a very short time.
However, initially, the conservative faction within Blood Shark was still quite large. Xie Hong’s promotions within the Battle Group were not smooth, even though he produced impressive combat achievements and displayed cold and fierce command skills befitting of the Blood Shark Battle Group’s temperament. Despite this, he couldn’t rise very high, only reaching an average sergeant role, leading about ten subordinates.
It wasn’t until the ceiling within the Blood Shark Battle Group was removed that he ascended rapidly, directly becoming the commander of the Ninth Company.
In his company, the proportion of Alliance People was as high as 90%.
This time, coming to execute a mission on Wuji Star was his first time leading a team as a company commander, and he was determined to make it sharp and beautiful.
With seventy warriors, they rode to the closest location. The driver opened fire, sweeping nearby enemies before they all rapidly disembarked, charging towards the nearest foes.
The Blast Bomb Gun in their hands roared, and the enemies before them were instantly cleared away.
Then, they collided head-on with a mixed team of Interstellar Warriors.
Both sides had similar numbers and encountered each other suddenly and head-on.
After a brief exchange of gunfire, they plunged into close combat.
The Blood Sharks wielded fierce melee weapons like Power Axes, Chainsaw Axes, and Mjolnirs, silently and ruthlessly initiating a slaughter.
Xie Hong personally led the charge, his jetpack swiftly sending him into the enemy ranks. The explosive projectiles flying all around mostly missed; the most dangerous was a plasma gun’s ray, which he observed, and at the critical moment, he dodged, avoiding a lethal shot just before the trigger was pulled.
If it didn’t kill me, wait for your death!
He raised his hand, a precise explosive shot hit his hand, destroying the plasma gun — direct shooting might not be fatal either.
The power of the Blast Bomb Gun is ferocious, hitting it on a normal person wouldn’t leave a complete limb; using armor-piercing bullets, it could even destroy some light vehicles. However, in the internal war of Interstellar Warriors, the firepower of the Blast Bomb Gun couldn’t ensure the enemy’s death unless a dense barrage of bullets overwhelmed the armor.
As he rushed forward, Xie Hong didn’t need the Blast Bomb Gun anymore.
Within the enemy ranks, he instead used them as cover.
He wielded a well-crafted Chainsaw Axe in one hand and a Power Sword in the other, nearly unstoppable within the enemy group.
No one could withstand even a single clash against him. His brutal attacks always struck a split-second earlier.
By killing the enemy first, wouldn’t there be no need to dodge their blades?
It seemed reckless, yet the more intense the fury, the colder and more precise his judgment.
When he killed the seventh enemy, he finally encountered a somewhat challenging opponent.
By then, the scene was mostly cleared. The Blood Sharks excelled at this kind of sudden assault, their merciless and ruthless raid quickly obliterating the enemy.
The main reason is still their opponents, who were really not prepared to face such a harsh challenge and should not have been easily caught off guard in close combat by the Blood Sharks.
Any battle group in this world, under equal numbers, would find it hard to withstand the fierce assault of the Blood Sharks.
Even those new-founded groups wouldn’t fare much better.
For those slightly weaker, even with twice the number, they could be overwhelmed.
This current group exemplifies that point.
Finally, standing in front of Xie Hong, seemed to be the Champion Company Commander of a certain group. Knowing the situation was beyond salvaging, in despair and anger, he raised his sword and approached Xie Hong, who was clearly the strongest.
Even if facing death, even if trading life for life, he wanted to take him down with him before dying.
But at that moment, Xie Hong contrary to his previous fierce attitude, fought in a relatively conservative manner.
After exchanging a few moves, that Champion Company Commander suddenly felt a pain in his waist.
It was a precise sniper explosive round, hitting the armor on his waist.
It didn’t penetrate the armor, but the pain was inevitable.
He thought it was bad, thinking Xie Hong would take this opportunity to attack, which would truly be difficult to handle.
Yet he saw that troublesome opponent stepping back several paces instead.
He became even more desperate—at this moment, at least thirty blast bomb guns were aimed at him, intermixed with a few plasma beams.
Instinctive sword dance, attempting to deflect the bullets. But no one was there to share the defense, no cover, his swordsmanship no matter how exquisite, couldn’t withstand the combined fire of over thirty Interstellar Warriors, unharmed.
He could only grit his teeth through the constant impacts, trying to find an opponent to trade lives with.
However, his plan ultimately turned into nothing under a flank burst of a hot melt gun.
Only then did Xie Hong step forward a few paces, and after confirming the target’s death, coldly commanded in the channel to continue forward.
When you can gang up and turn someone into a beehive, why insist on challenging alone?
In this battle, more than sixty opposing Interstellar Warriors were slain, while eleven of their own fell in battle.
Quite a dramatic exchange ratio.
But the subsequent battle was relatively not as easy.
Interstellar Warriors are still strong, their reactions very swift.
The name of the Blood Sharks was also established in the Iron Armor War, everyone knows these bloodthirsty sharks are extremely difficult to deal with.
The more than a hundred remaining Interstellar Warriors quickly built some fortifications around the interior of Wuji Palace, bringing up heavy firepower and adopting a flexible defensive strategy. With the aid of elite Auxiliary Army units, the crossfire was set up meticulously, clearly determined not to engage in close-quarters combat with the Blood Sharks.
Once the Blood Sharks got close, they would decisively let the Sun Guard’s elite cover the retreat, taking the main force back to another defensive node.
Through this method, layer upon layer of resistance, Xie Hong’s advance was finally obstructed.
In the subsequent battle, they killed about twenty more enemy Interstellar Warriors, while the elite guard of Yinbasim suffered unnumbered casualties. Yet, the Blood Sharks paid the price of twelve casualties.
This casualty ratio was not as exaggerated as before.
If they forcefully attacked, his remaining less than fifty men might be completely spent, yet they could probably win.
But a pyrrhic victory was clearly not the result he wanted.
He could only restrain his restless mindset, waiting for reinforcements.
He was not exactly fighting alone.
This wait eventually brought Marshan.
The two of them, while exchanging a few words, were well aware of each other’s capabilities in action as old classmates.
In the training at the New Blood Base, although Xie Hong was excellent back then, in overall assessment, he was not as outstanding as Marshan.
Those generally considered the best among the new blood would go to the Phoenix and Yellow Springs Seagull. The fact that Marshan could quickly rise among them to Company Commander indicates his level.
With a sigh, next, they would see how Marshan would conduct this battle.
But this didn’t mean the Blood Sharks would retreat from the stage.
These fifty men were still a most sharp blade. When the opportunity arose, they could deliver the enemy their most lethal blow.
A moment later, the hundred warriors of the Yellow Springs Seagull had already lined up in formation, launching the attack…
