Chapter 60: Human-shaped Fierce Beast

The X Squadron was established for only seven days.

The “X” actually represented the first pinyin letter of the word “fierce,” translating to the meaning of the Fierce Beast Squadron.

Lian Ruixue, standing outside the command center, climbed into the transport helicopter with crisp and decisive movements. She then ordered the pilot to take off and fly toward the frontmost part of the frontline. Inside the cargo hold, sixteen team members sat solemnly in their fixed seats. As a Special Forces unit, they were not fully armed as people might imagine; instead, they wore only tactical camouflage uniforms.

Lian Ruixue, with her hands behind her back, stood in the center of her subordinates. The shaking of the transport helicopter did not affect her in the slightest.

“Everyone, the X Squadron has been formed for only a short seven days. You are all elites from various Special Forces units. Those who could participate in Project X have already proven that you are the outstanding ones among them. To appear in the X Squadron today means you were one in a hundred. You should understand what I mean. Without experiencing the torture of life and death, you are not qualified to be in the X Squadron.”

Lian Ruixue’s voice was not loud, but everyone could hear it clearly. “Seven days is a long week for ordinary people, but for us in the X Squadron, it is so short that many of you haven’t even grown accustomed to your abilities yet.”

“This mission is simple. We will use combat to verify your abilities and prove that Dean Ren’s reasoning is correct. We are the heroes of the country and the people.”

The transport helicopter hummed and reached the frontmost part of the frontline in no time. The place had turned into a slaughterhouse for Fierce Beasts. The soldiers stationed here were only offering sporadic resistance. Every time a gunshot rang out, it would trigger a large-scale attack by the Fierce Beasts, and then silence would return amidst the screams.

On the battlefield below, the ground was full of mangled soldier corpses. Occasionally, one could see the bodies of Multi-legged Insect Beasts and Green-red Flame Wolves. The Magic Ape Beast lying defeated in front of the trench was likely the greatest achievement on the entire frontline.

Lifeless tanks lay on the battlefield, emitting thick black smoke.

Lian Ruixue watched all this coldly. Having received Special Forces training since childhood, she had learned to kill at the age of nine and had entered battlefields abroad by eleven. By thirteen, the number of people who died by her hands had reached dozens. At fifteen, she became the King of Special Forces Soldiers, and at seventeen, she took command of the Ninth Squadron, the strongest Special Forces unit in the country.

To her, dead people were no different from dead ants.

After killing people since the age of nine, it was difficult for human emotions to appear in her eyes.

The appearance of the transport helicopter and its humming sound caused the faces of the Fierce Beasts below to become restless. The Leaf Sac Beasts opened their leaf sacs, and beams of light shot out.

Lian Ruixue stood at the rear hatch of the helicopter. Without even needing a parachute, she jumped directly out. The sixteen members behind her, looking like cold machines, followed suit, jumping out of the rear cargo hold without parachutes and falling freely toward the ground.

Several light balls successfully hit the transport helicopter in the air, turning into a burst of fire mid-air before falling toward the ground.

The morning wind blew cool against her face. Her tactical camouflage uniform rustled in the wind.

The transport helicopter’s flying height had not been very high, only a little over one hundred meters. Landing on the ground happened in the blink of an eye.

Just as she was about to crash onto the ground, Lian Ruixue, who had her eyes closed, suddenly opened them. Her tactical camouflage uniform was torn apart by sudden expansion, hanging on her body in strips. The resistance from her back allowed Lian Ruixue to brake sharply in the air, hovering suspended.

A pair of transparent, elf-like wings appeared on Lian Ruixue’s back. With their flapping, she could fly freely in the air. Covered in tiny, faint purple scales in her Fierce Beast Form, she hovered in the air with her arms crossed. Her transformation did not leave her naked like Zhou Liming’s; instead, she wore a black vest made of special material. This vest was highly elastic, would not tear easily, protected her important female body parts, and prevented her from being exposed.

Among the sixteen members who followed down, two, like Lian Ruixue, stopped in mid-air by revealing their muscular wings after entering their Fierce Beast Form.

With a loud “bang,” the other fourteen members who lacked the ability to fly entered their Fierce Beast Form the moment they hit the ground. Like cannonballs, they crashed heavily into the mud below, forcefully smashing a pit and raising a cloud of dust. For them, who had entered their Fierce Beast Form, this impact force seemed insignificant. They stood up from the pit they had created and calmly surveyed the entire battlefield.

“Move out on your own!”

Lian Ruixue did not arrange any tactics. For her teammates in their current forms, all tactics were redundant. Freedom allowed them to exert their maximum combat power.

Upon receiving the order, the X Squadron members scattered with a whoosh. Like beasts locking onto prey, they appeared before their targeted Fierce Beasts in the blink of an eye. The Genetic Modification of their Fierce Beast Genes allowed them to use this special ability when entering their Fierce Beast Form.

“Die!”

One member had bone blades growing on his ribs. His scales were rough and iron-blue in color, covering his whole body like a thick layer of armor. After transforming, standing two meters and forty-five tall, he was the tallest in the entire X Squadron. He targeted a Leaf Sac Beast. The bone blade on his rib swept through, passing through the Leaf Sac Beast’s body without any pause.

With a “mmph” scream, the entire back of the Leaf Sac Beast split open. It only had time to let out a roar before collapsing and dying.

The opened back revealed a large amount of internal organs flowing out. Blood dyed the soil, and the entire Leaf Sac seemed to have lost its life, with its blue light constantly fading.

Lian Ruixue stared at the Magic Ape Beast. Diving from the air, she left a trail of afterimages. Her white hand instantly transformed into a bone blade. The high-speed impact force, combined with the sharpness of the bone blade, sliced through the neck of the Magic Ape Beast. The tough skin of the powerful Magic Ape Beast could no longer protect its life. Where it passed, a blood streak appeared, and then jets of blood sprayed out.

Perhaps the sharpness of the bone blade was not as extreme as gunfire bullets, but only Lian Ruixue knew how great her strength had become now. Not to mention flesh and blood, the bone blade could even cut through the armor of armored vehicles. How could ordinary people understand the surging power of Fierce Beast Gene Modification?

For team members in their Fierce Beast Form, weak Multi-legged Insect Beasts could often be resolved with a single slash or stab.

Another member with flight ability hovered in the air, then made a climbing motion in the sky. Pointing his back toward the large Boneback Beast below, a meat tube like a missile launcher appeared on his back as it moved. Amidst a roar, a beam of green light shot out, rushing toward the Boneback Beast below.

“Moo…” with an angry roar, the powerful Boneback Beast lost a large patch of Bone Spurs on its back in that green beam, becoming bloody.

Injured, the Boneback Beast finally went crazy, crashing sideways along the frontline. Everywhere it went, whether people or other weak Fierce Beasts were all trampled into a pool of flesh paste. Like a roaring tank, it collapsed the defensive fortifications and buildings on the frontline.

With a booming sound, it advanced toward the distant city.

Inside the command center, Peng Chunhua and the others, witnessing all this, seemed petrified, unable to imagine what they were seeing.