Chapter 36: The Devil Team!
Above the clouds, a ship, like a silver arrow shuttling through the heavens, pierced through the thick veil of clouds and sped towards the ground.
Inside the ship, four people had grim expressions. Their words were devoid of personal emotion, focused solely on the team.
A white man in a simple white robe embroidered with intricate silver patterns focused his deep, profound eyes and began his report.
"Mental scan successful. The opposing party is not using any mental shields. It is assumed they do not have a psionic controller. The Soul Lock Chain is not required. I recommend adopting Plan B for combat."
"The enemy's numbers are known to be a team of fifteen to twenty people. Excluding Daniels and the plot character piloting the ship, the maximum estimated number of team members is fourteen, with a margin of error of no more than one."
"What's strange is that four of them have extremely weak auras. Their five senses are shielded. We can't rule out a special ability, but I estimate..."
"There's a high probability it's a farming team."
"Dio, it seems your analysis is correct for now," said someone who looked like a girl of about fourteen or fifteen. They were dressed magnificently, with a delicate face and elegant demeanor, their long hair lightly tied up with an exquisite hairpin.
However, their Adam's apple still betrayed the fact that they were male.
Tiwa rubbed the faintly glowing energy crystal bracelet on his wrist, speaking in a low, soft voice, "From the intelligence we currently possess, the teams we could be matched against in a Team Battle should only be the Southern Flame Continent Team, the North Ice Continent Team, and the Celestial Team."
"According to information from the Celestial Team, they haven't received any members from Team China in a very long time."
"The other small teams have also never engaged in battle with Team China."
"Our team has never replicated a member of Team China."
"In that case..."
"I can conclude," Tiwa gently blew his bangs aside and continued, "that Team China is farming members."
The man in the black long robe, with a simple, ancient longsword at his waist, nodded. "Then Team China will have one or two members with overwhelmingly strong power."
"Arno," he turned his gaze to a muscular man in a special tight-fitting combat suit.
"Using your Muscle-Muscle Fruit to hold them off at the start shouldn't be a big problem."
"I need you to ride the Green Goblin's glider alone to lure the snake out of its hole."
After speaking, he turned his gaze back to the psionic controller, Dio. "You will eliminate the remaining combat personnel of Team China as quickly as possible."
Finally, the man in black locked his eyes on Tiwa.
"The Blackwater technology from *Alien: Covenant* is exceptionally effective for razing cities. We must get our hands on it."
Tiwa stopped touching up his makeup. "Understood, Captain!"
The man in black caressed the sword at his waist. "I will handle their strongest combatant."
"Now then... let us 'purify' this tumor that is Team China!"
"Yes!"
The Engineer's home world was a planet remarkably similar to Earth.
It was filled with vegetation, minerals, and water sources.
Unfortunately, ever since the synthetic human, David, returned the ship that was originally ordered to attack Earth back to the Engineer's home world and annihilated this place with "Blackwater"...
The spores of the entire planet became carriers for a virus that, upon inhalation, would produce an alien egg within the host's body.
From that moment on, all life on this planet vanished.
Until...
Meng Rui looked at the six thousand cryogenically frozen Earth colonists on the Covenant, and her anxious feelings were finally suppressed.
"Is David repaired yet?"
"St-still under repair," the newly freed Hei Mei answered timidly.
"It doesn't matter anymore..." Meng Rui stared at the progress bar on the screen. "In another twenty minutes... I will possess an..."
"Alien army!"
"Clack clack clack!"
The sound of footsteps came sprinting down the corridor.
A panting Yan Wei reported flirtatiously, "Cap-Captain, the Covenant has detected a small, drone-like, high-speed moving object approaching us from the northwest! Wh-what should we do?"
Meng Rui snorted coldly, pointing to the walkie-talkie at her waist. "I don't want to see you. Understand?"
"Yes!"
Yan Wei quickly forced a smile, lowered her head, and exited the room.
Pressing the walkie-talkie, Meng Rui blinked. "The vanguard has arrived. It's most likely bait. You go take a look."
"Mm."
The engine of the Green Goblin's glider let out a low rumble, interweaving with the sound of the wind.
Arno, dressed in a special tight-fitting combat suit, his muscle lines even more distinct under the glider's vibration, locked his gaze downwards, searching for Team China's possible hiding spot.
Suddenly!
Arno's peripheral vision caught a high-speed target on the ground!
Arno adjusted the glider, stabilizing it above Da Qiang. His voice was transmitted through the glider's amplifier: "Heh, you guy down there, shouldn't we have a good talk?"
Da Qiang raised his head and saw Arno in the sky. A provocative smile appeared on his face.
He didn't answer Arno's words. Instead, he suddenly stopped in his tracks and slammed his palm fiercely against a large tree beside him.
His strength was so great that the entire tree was snapped by his strike and crashed to the ground with a boom.
Da Qiang picked up the fallen tree, aimed at Arno in the sky, and with a loud shout, threw the tree like a javelin!
The tree spun through the air with a whistling sound, hurtling straight for Arno!
Arno's pupils shrank. He reacted instantly!
Under his control, the Green Goblin's glider pulled up sharply, narrowly avoiding the tree's attack.
The tree flew past beneath his feet and landed heavily on the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Da Qiang stood on the ground, his breathing steady, the flames of battle burning in his eyes.
He looked up at Arno in the sky, the corners of his mouth curling into a taunting smile. "Can you only fly up there? What a waste of those muscles!"
Da Qiang's taunt echoed across the empty plain. His figure on the ground appeared proud and powerful!
As soon as his words fell, Arno's figure had already leaped from the Green Goblin's glider at high speed, like a falling meteorite, hurtling towards Da Qiang with astonishing speed and power!
"Boom!"
With a tremendous bang, Arno's feet ruthlessly stomped on the spot where Da Qiang stood. The ground cracked under the immense impact, and dust flew up, forming a huge crater!
The dust billowed, temporarily obscuring the view, but everyone could feel that powerful force.
However, as the dust gradually settled, a shocking scene unfolded before everyone!
The muscular Da Qiang was actually holding Arno's feet with both hands, having taken the blow from the sky head-on without falling!
His legs were sunk deep into the ground, but his body still stood tall and straight, like an immovable mountain peak!
This scene left the newcomers of the Reincarnation Team dumbfounded. For the first time, they directly felt the power and terror of a Veteran!
Xiaoye Hui covered her mouth, her eyes wide. She gasped, her voice trembling slightly, "Are... are they still human?!"
(end of chapter)