Chapter 5 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Boom!!!

The falling landing craft was not the only one destroyed. When it hit the ground, it crushed another landing craft that did not manage to take off in time. No one knew if the soldiers inside the craft had made it out in time or not.

Vooosh!

Boom, boom! Krashhh!!

At that moment, the battlefield was filled with the clamor of shells ripping through the air and various explosions. A series of landing crafts touched down on the planet’s surface, and a large number of mechanized infantry rushed onto the battlefield. However, a few landing crafts had also been shot down before they could even land.

On the brutal battlefield, casualties were not only on the human side. The giant, plasma-firing bugs suffered even heavier casualties. Earth Federation’s warplanes were darting around in the air, and their energy cannons boomed continuously, blasting those massive insects into the sky in a spray of green blood as well as torn limbs.

“Stay with me! Find a place to take cover!” Qin Hao brandished his robotic arm. As a veteran, he had a duty to guide the new recruits around him in adapting to the battlefield, and the first step was to survive it now.

Duff!!

Qin Hao jumped and was the first to land into a massive crater, which had been blown out by a plasma bolt. While it was not considered absolutely safe, the chances of surviving there were greater compared with being exposed in the open!

“Shhusssh!” Qin Hao subconsciously touched his back, where he would have hung his electromagnetic rifle, but unfortunately, there was only a large sack of food in its place.

“Damn!” Qin Hao cursed silently. Even though food was important on the battlefield, it was obviously not as reassuring as a firearm.

“B-Boss… what should we do?” The ones who followed Qin Hao the closest were the mess cooks. They were plump and did not look like proper soldiers, but their luck had been really good, as none of them had been killed on the cruel battlefield yet.

Aside from the few cooks by his side, Qin Hao counted and found that there were four or five new recruits beside him. Although these people were combatants, because it was their first battle, all of them were white from fear and at a loss of what to do. If they had not been fortunate enough to follow Qin Hao, they would have been bug food a long time ago.

“Let’s wait and see!” Qin Hao was still relatively calm. It was always like that during the initial landfall. The battlefield would be chaotic. The landing had to take place for some time, and the aircraft needed to completely suppress the bugs first. Only then would the landing soldiers be able to assemble and receive an effective command.

So now, all Qin Hao and the rest had to do was stay alive and wait until the battlefield cleared before they did anything else.

“But weren’t our orders to take the beach? Aren’t we doing nothing by lying down here—” A recruit pointed at his battlefield recorder on his shoulder and asked.

Booom!!! Before the recruit could even finish talking, a bomb dropped by a friendly aircraft exploded not too far away from the crater. The violent explosion killed a large number of giant beetles, while the blast kicked up a large amount of soil. The flying dirt and debris then knocked the recruit, who had just gotten up, back down onto the ground.