Chapter 165: The Superhuman Soldier's Debut

Pfft!

A muffled thud of a weapon piercing flesh sounded, silently transmitted in the quiet cosmos.

The Ripper charging at the front hadn't even had time to swing its sharp bone blade before being cut in half by high-speed rotating armor plates.

The dark green bodily fluid instantly condensed into ice crystals in the vacuum, scattering outward.

One strike succeeded!

This sight lifted the morale of all surviving Federal soldiers!

"Well done! Captain!"

"Hahaha! This thing isn't all that! Looks scary, but it's actually fragile!"

"Brothers! Attack! Avenge our warship!"

Eight hundred soldiers launched a counterattack simultaneously.

They were like a group of provoked hedgehogs, firing all the "spikes" on their bodies with great force.

In an instant, countless warship wrecks, controlled by their telekinesis, turned into a sky-full of "shells" that bombarded the biological mechs from all directions.

Those Rippers clearly hadn't expected that these seemingly weak humans still possessed such formidable counterattack ability.

Caught off guard, they were instantly knocked flat by this barrage of "debris rain".

Some were smashed straight into pulp by massive steel beams.

Some had their limbs severed by sharp armor plates.

Some were skewered like candied haws by twisted pipes.

In just a brief encounter, the Rippers that had charged forward lost nearly one-tenth of their number.

"Roar!"

The remaining Rippers let out angry howls, flapped their wings, nimbly dodged the incoming debris, and quickly closed the distance to the Federal soldiers.

They were about to engage in close combat!

Using their sharp bone blades, they would slice these humans to pieces!

"The enemy is in close range! Activate telekinetic shields and attack freely!"

Wang Yu commanded calmly.

All soldiers instantly gathered telekinetic energy before them, forming layer after layer of transparent, sturdy shields.

Clang!

A Ripper's bone blade slammed hard onto a soldier's telekinetic shield.

That bone blade, capable of cutting alloy armor, could not advance another inch.

Meanwhile, that soldier seized the opening in the attacker's strike, telekinetically controlling a nearby deformed metal rod like a snake emerging from its hole, precisely stabbing into the gap of the Ripper's compound eyes.

"Pfft!"

The metal rod pierced straight through its brain.

That Ripper's body stiffened, then floated lifelessly in midair, completely devoid of vitality.

For Federal soldiers who had undergone super-telekinesis gene modification, close combat was not a disadvantage but rather their strongest fighting style.

Their physical prowess far surpassed that of ordinary people.

Their brain reaction speed was comparable to a computer.

More importantly, they could use telekinesis to control multiple weapons simultaneously, attacking the enemy from various tricky angles.

One soldier blocked an enemy's frontal attack with a telekinetic shield while controlling two armor fragments to ambush two other Rippers from behind.

One female soldier condensed her telekinesis into countless tiny "needles", instantly piercing a Ripper's carapace and utterly destroying its neural center from within.

Some soldiers even took flight, using the abilities granted by their superhuman genes to move swiftly across the battlefield, felling enemies with punch after punch.

This was no longer a battle.

but a one-sided massacre.

The eight hundred Federal soldiers formed an impregnable position.

They were like a gigantic meat grinder, mercilessly crushing any Ripper that drew near.

Although, occasionally a soldier would be injured due to excessive telekinetic drain or being surrounded by multiple enemies, causing their shield to shatter.

But immediately, a nearby comrade would reach out, pulling them to the center of the formation for protection.

Casualties were not absent.

In the fierce battle, more than ten soldiers succumbed to severe injuries.

But their sacrifice resulted in the deaths of over five hundred Rippers!

A casualty ratio of several tens to one!

This is a record that would make any commander proud!

Inside the King Insect-class Mothership.

Commander Ka La Fa, observing the battlefield through the screen, 'watched' this brutal melee.

Its massive brain, which had previously been fluctuating, now fell into an eerie calm.

This was the stupor brought on by extreme shock.

What it had sent out was the Empire's most elite ground unit, the Ripper legion.

Each Ripper could easily slaughter all the natives of a primitive planet.

But now, this elite legion, facing these human soldiers, behaved like a group of infants just learning to walk.

They were easily slaughtered in droves.

"This... this isn't real..."

In Ka La Fa's consciousness, for the first time, an emotion named 'fear' arose.

It finally understood what kind of civilization it was facing.

This civilization possessed technology far beyond what they had assessed.

This civilization had an army composed of "Supermen".

And it, like an idiot, led the expeditionary force and slammed straight into it.

This isn't an expedition; it's a suicide mission!

"Commander! Our fleet losses have already exceeded eighty thousand ships!"

"The dispatched Rippers… are also on the verge of total annihilation!"

"We… we are nowhere near their match! Their warships and soldiers are like monsters!"

The terrified thoughts of the junior commanders surged like a tide, completely drowning the last shred of luck Ka La Fa had.

It knew the war had already been lost.

It was lost in a complete mess.

If they kept fighting, the expeditionary legion of four hundred thousand warships would likely all be buried in this unfamiliar star system.

Should we retreat?

A humiliating thought surfaced in Ka La Fa's mind.

"No! We cannot retreat! The Empire will not allow the defeated to survive!"

But soon, the instinct to survive overwhelmed the fear of the Empire.

"As long as the green hills remain, we need not fear lacking firewood! If I can live to go back and bring this civilization's intelligence to the Empire, I still have a chance to atone!"

Ka La Fa quickly found a grandiose justification for his cowardice.

At that moment, Qin Hao silently observed the entire battle.

He did not act.

Because he knew this war was the Human Federal's "coming‑of‑age rite."

The Federal's army needed a truly brutal victory to prove itself and build confidence.

And his task was not to be a babysitter.

But rather… to secure more leverage for the Federal's future.

"System, lock onto that King Insect-class Mothership and begin data duplication."

A flash of brilliance flickered in Qin Hao's eyes.

"I want to know all the technical data of these bio‑warships."