Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
“Report!”
“Come in!”
After a simple response, Qin Fen stepped into the best VIP room of the recruit tournament. Five pairs of eyes filled with different intentions fell upon Qin Fen.
In the blink of an eye, goosebumps exploded all over Qin Fen’s body as the true energy in his body started circulating involuntarily; he didn’t need to urge it. Qin Fen had entered his combat state.
“Oh!?” A look of surprise flashed past Will’s eyes. The five major generals were not civilians. There was a natural ferocity rooted deep in their bones. If any ordinary person saw them, their first response would be to lower their head; afraid to meet everyone’s gaze. To everyone’s surprise, this young man’s first response was to fight.
Okosa sized up Qin Fen from top to bottom. This young man truly surprises everyone a bit every time. Not just recruits, but even the seasoned veterans who had actually gone to the battlefield could not stand comfortably under the eyes of these five people, let alone surge with battle intent. Does this young man feel uncomfortable if he doesn’t give everyone some surprise?
Zhao Huzi raised the corner of his eyebrows at the four generals. His thick beard could not hide his triumphant smile. Did you see that? This is the quality of our East Asian recruits!?
Will deliberately turned a blind eye to those provocative eyes of Zhao Huzi and slowly swirled the wine in his glass. “East Asian recruit, Qin Fen, I have talked with General Zhao, hoping that our American recruits can have a comprehensive spar with East Asian recruits. That was the only reason why the mobile armor squad sparred with you yesterday. And today, our aerial combat team came to learn that you single-handedly defeated the Napoleon Aerial Combat Team of Europe.”
Okosa, carrying the wineglass, let out a cold snort. Obviously, mentioning the Napoleon Aerial Combat Team at a time like time was to lay a stepping stone for the American aerial combat team to become famous after they defeat Qin Fen.
Will, glancing at the silent Okosa, pursed his lips with a faint triumph. “Our American kids want to exchange aerial combat skills with you. However…”
Will focused his gaze at the hanging right arm of Qin Fen and lightly shook his head. “But it looks like it’s inconvenient to you now. If you think you need to postpone, I can talk to those kids.”
Trying to goad me? Qin Fen smile. Although this kind of means was very simple, the time and location used were just right. If he were to refuse the challenge in front of other military region generals, how would the East Asian Military Region have any face left? Even if his hand was injured, he, at the very least, could not lack the courage.
Will smiled lightly. When they first encountered Qin Fen, they had suffered a defeat. And today, yet again, they had been defeated in the sniper tournament. If Qin Fen refuses to compete or suffers defeat in the hands of the aerial combat team, it would seriously affect his aura of power. Even if the body could heal to fight in the martial arts tournament, his mood would still be affected.
Once the aura of power of a martial artist is broken, he would often suffer a great loss in his strength, especially for a martial artist like Qin Fen, who was taking the firm and fierce road.
“Qin Fen.” Zhao Huzi caressed his thick black beard. “You are injured and you don’t need to force yourself. The American aerial combat team wants to fight fairly with your complete strength, they don’t want to bring shame to themselves by winning dishonorably.”
Hearing this, Will pursed his lips into a sneer. There isn’t any gentleman agreement in warfare. Who is going to care about fairness and unfairness? A good soldier is the one who forces his opponent into a disadvantage and suppresses him, striving for victory.
“General.” Qin Fen lightly nodded and smiled. “I would also like to see the strength of the American aerial combat team. However, enjoying it all alone is not as good as enjoying it with others. I wonder if the Generals are interested in watching the battle together?”
Will raised his eyebrow. His eyes widened and his mouth was agape. There was an extremely surprised look on his face. What does this want to do? Not only has he accepted the challenge, but he also invited everyone to watch the battle!? Is he so sure of winning?
Hearing this, a ripple appeared in the red wine in Okosa’s hand. As a martial artist of his level, the red wine in his hand should have been as calm as a lake. Such a situation could have only happened if he had been greatly surprised.
Zhao Huzi stared blankly at Qin Fen. Does this kid even know what he is doing? Is he planning on doing something that would surpass others’ estimates? Is that why he is such at ease? If the participant loses in front of generals of various military regions, he would not only end up losing his face alone, but even the general of his military region would lose his face on the spot!
“General?” Qin Fen called softly, waking up the surprised Will. “What do you think?”
“Haha…” Will forced a laugh as he spread his both hands and shrugged his broad shoulders. “Okay.”
Okosa quietly observed Qin Fen. This teenager’s way of doing things is really surprising. He isn’t leaving any leeway for himself. By inviting Generals to watch the match, it is equal to pushing both sides to the edge of a ten thousand feet tall cliff. Whoever lost would fall straight down the cliff! An insignificant recruit dares to gamble with an honorable general. Such an act of courage is rarely seen in recruits. Even if it was done by a veteran, it would make everyone cluck their tongue in contempt.
“Alright then, let’s go!” Zhao Huzi stood up and said in a gruff voice. “Suddenly, I am looking forward to this exchange.”
Will slowly stood up, gazing at Qin Fen’s back. What a terrifying young man. Not only does he have extraordinary courage, but his thoughts are also extremely meticulous. He actually used such a radical method to come up with a counterattack. If an honorable general was afraid to take up the invite of an insignificant soldier, then, his side would be the one losing courage instead. If a soldier refused to fight, it would only affect him alone. But if a general refused the invite, then it would affect the morale of the entire American recruits.
The eyes of African and West Asian Generals flickered with playful smiles. Will had been forced to a cliff by an insignificant soldier. One could even say that he had even lost the first half of the battle.
The Generals of the five military regions were going to be watching the battle!
The American aerial combat team was amazed by the few spectators on the huge grandstand.
The audience was small, but the pressure they gave was far heavier than when the grandstand was filled with tens of thousands of spectators.
Generals watching from the back of the stage and watching from the grandstand were two different concepts.
Even the few recruits of the aerial combat team of West Asia and Africa were clear that these generals had also appeared on the gambling table! Whether it was Qin Fen or the American aerial combat team, neither side could afford to lose. This was not a win-lose case for anyone.
The American recruits could not afford to lose, but how could Qin Fen lose as well? If he lost in the hands of the American aerial combat team, it would be equal to losing three times in a row. Even his firm and fierce temperament would suffer a serious blow.
Nobody could afford to lose! But only one side could win.
God knows when the recruits of African and West Asian aerial combat team had clenched their fist together. Their eyes were filled with envy when looking at the American aerial combat team.
Qin Fen was injured, this was such a good opportunity! The aerial combat could not be compared to sniping, almost everything in this battle required the use of both hands.
The effect of using both hands was not as simple as one plus one equals two! And using just one hand wasn’t as simple as lowering his strength by half, it may limit his strength to thirty percent or even lower!
Such a good opportunity was too good to pass! Everyone on the field knew that this was the best chance to defeat Qin Fen!
The man who could defeat the Napoleon Aerial Combat Team by relying on his both hands was absolutely invincible in the recruit tournament in his heyday. The American Aerial Combat Team could only pray that Goddess of Luck was their mother, only then would they have any chance of winning.
But now!? As long as the God of Misfortune wasn’t the father of the American Aerial Combat Team, the American Aerial Combat Team had already won.
As Qin Fen sat inside the flight simulator, the cabin door slowly closed itself with the sense of modern science and technology. With one hand, he gently fiddled with various instruments inside the cockpit.
Meanwhile, the members of the American Aerial Combat Team glanced at each other before they sat inside their respective flight simulators.
One on one!? Even the Napoleon Aerial Combat Team that had a true ace pilot had been eliminated! Even if Qin Fen could only use one hand, he might not lose to others in a one-on-one situation.
Although it was very shameless to gang up on him, everything was fair in war. The American recruits hypnotized themselves over and over again, suppressing their martial artists’ pride.
Looking at the pilots choosing their fighters on the projection screen, Will was surprised to discover that his palm had become a bit sweaty.
Surprised!? Will lightly shook his head. Am I afraid to lose? Impossible! Even if he is an ace pilot, he has zero chance of winning against this aerial combat team by piloting with just one hand.
Qin Fen chose the Specter Fighter, his favorite fighter and the one he was most familiar with.
Specter Fighter!? Okosa’s eyelids twitched fiercely. Is this the rumored Specter Fighter that defeated the Napolean Aerial Combat Team?
The countdown of battle slowly started to beat. Ten… nine…. eight…
Zhao Huzi unconsciously crossed his hands as he flickered with faint worry. It’s truly forceful to make him participate in aerial combat with just one hand.
Three… two… one.
“Fight!”
Fighter jets at the two airports roared almost at the same time as the powerful drive furnace quickly pushed the fighter jets of both sides on the runway.
“How…?”
Will spread his ten fingers as he suddenly grabbed the back of the seat before him forcefully. To his dismay, the first fighter jet to take off didn’t belong to the able-bodied pilots of American Aerial Combat Team, but to Qin Fen who was piloting with just one hand!
The expression of African and West Asian pilots changed simultaneously at the sight of this. So fast!? Is Qin Fen truly injured!? Is he really using just one arm to pilot!? How can he achieve such a speed!?
Impossible! African and West Asian recruits gazed at each other with frustration. The take-off was simply perfect. Much to everyone’s dismay, a one-handed pilot was actually faster than the pilots using two hands.
“Good!”
Zhao Huzi, unable to contain his excitement, punched the back of the seat in front of him, smashing it into pieces with his tyrannical strength immediately.
“General Zhao.” Will took a deep breath, trying to maintain his smile. “This is just take off, the true…”
BOOM!
A sudden loud explosion from the projection screen interrupted Will.
On the screen, amidst the huge ball of fire in the sky, one could vaguely see the American Military Region flag. The vanguard position of the entire flying squad was now completely vacant.
“What the hell happened?” Will stared at the projection screen in a daze. The vanguard has been shot down just after the game had started!? Is Qin Fen really flying with one hand!?
Will turned his gaze to the picture-in-picture on the screen, where the video from the cockpit was being broadcasted.
“This…”
Will stared at the picture-in-picture projection on the screen in a daze. Having seen many big events as a General, Will was rarely surprised in day to day life. But Qin Fen’s performance continued to marvel everyone again and again.
One hand! Indeed he was flying with one hand! His hand speed didn’t seem fast and amazing enough to have an advantage over the American Aerial Combat Team. Just like Qin Fen, the hands of the American Aerial Combat Team were so fast that they were leaving after images.
But on a closer look, Will noticed the difference between both sides. There weren’t any wastage movements in between Qin Fen’s fingers, nor was there any wastage in the moving distance. Every time his fingers were near the edge of touching the buttons, he would push the buttons without a shred of hesitation.
Whereas the hand speed of the American Aerial Combat Team may be fast, but every time they pushed the buttons, they would do so by pushing them right in the middle.
Just this tiny bit of gap had changed the course of the battle and had become fatal!
Will furrowed his brows tighter and tighter. Qin Fen wasn’t just pushing the buttons just around edge confidently, his piloting skills had reached a whole new level. Just like martial arts had their own martial arts level, every skill had a level of its own! Similarly, aerial combat operations had a level of its own.
Qin Fen had already entered the realm of domain in aerial combat! Any pilot who could enter this level of aerial combat no longer pursued the so-called hand speed. For such pilots, there was no difference between operating with two hands and operating with one hand.
This was truly the level of an ace pilot! Will’s pupils constricted to the size of pins. Qin Fen’s piloting skills are no different than the skills of the true ace pilot of America! No wonder this kid invited everyone to watch the battle. His piloting skills had already broken away from the low level where there is a difference between one hand piloting and two hand piloting.
Slowly, Will shut his eyes closed and stopped looking at that fierce and blood-seething aerial combat on the screen.
Now, everything was meaningless. No matter how fierce the aerial combat was, no matter what kind of cooperation the American Aerial Combat Team pilots pulled, no matter what kind of aerial combat skills they displayed, no matter how much they increased their attack power, the battle only had one conclusion! And that was the complete annihilation of American Aerial Combat Team by Qin Fen single-handedly, literally!
If they wanted to change the outcome, either they had to come up with an ace pilot who had the same aerial combat skills as Qin Fen, or pray that the Goddess of Fortune was the mother of the American team.
Okosa pursed his lips in ridicule as he took pleasure in others’ misfortune and turned his gaze at Will, who had closed his eyes, awaiting the fate of being defeated to befall. You kicked an iron plate, didn’t you? You didn’t expect Qin Fen’s aerial combat skills to have already broken away from the lowest level, the level that solely pursued hand speed, right?’
Zhao Huzi, on the other hand, was grinning like a Cheshire cat. Even his thick beard was unable to cover that big grin on his face. We won! Qin Fen’s skills have actually reached this level, it’s truly surprising!
The West Asian General and the African General glanced at each other as they heaved a sigh, shaking their heads. They might not specialize in aerial combat, they might not have reached that level, but they still had the most basic eyesight. Qin Fen’s skills had reached such a level that an aerial combat team formed of recruits could not defeat him.
What if we attack with both aerial combat teams? West Asian and African General sunk into deep thoughts. If we lost…
Suddenly, a series of explosions resounded before the faces of West Asian and African Generals turned green! They looked at each other, perplexed. They could not believe what they were seeing on the screen.
They… they… they only lost a single fighter, how in the bloody hell did the entire American Aerial Combat Team get annihilated? What the hell did the Specter Fighter do?
Their fighters exploded!
Sitting in their cockpits, the American recruits stared blankly at the huge ball of fire in the sky. What the hell just happened? How the hell did we lose when we had just gained the upper hand?
Zhao Huzi threw his head back hard. What the hell just happened? What in the bloody hell did he do?
Will opened his eyes and lightly heaved a sigh. How did we lose? Does that matter? What we should really reflect is not this aerial combat, but the moment we met Qin Fen in the VIP room. That was the root of our defeat.
From the beginning, Qin Fen’s right arm was the landmine of the entire aerial combat. That right arm of his had confused everyone, luring everyone into his trap.
Did I goad him? Will sneered. At that moment, Qin Fen was excited to receive the goading in his heart, wasn’t he? At that moment, a kid like him actually resisted the excitement in his heart and maintained such a light expression on his face!
“We lost.”
Will stood up and clenched his hands around his waist. This time we have lost completely, not just in aerial combat but also in psychological warfare. An honorable general lost to a recruit.
If this was a true battlefield… Large beads of cold sweat emerged on Will’s forehead as he stared at Qin Fen who just walked out of the cockpit. I f this kid joins the army, his future might be truly limitless.
The American recruits walked out of the cockpit hanging their heads in frustration. Each and every one of them looked at Qin Fen with a dumbfounded look in their eyes. How the hell did we just lose? Was it a system failure?
Okosa, on the other hand, was smiling very happily. It wasn’t just that the American Aerial Combat Team that had lost. Before the match, Qin Fen had already pushed both sides at the edge of the cliff. Whichever side that lost would have their momentum of their entire team participating in the tournament affected.
A General was the banner of this battle! Will lost this time, and when he was personally supervising the whole thing nevertheless. This incident would certainly spread to the American recruit camp and cause a chain reaction.
As the African and West Asian generals looked at each other, they received the message conveyed by their eyes, “The hegemon position of the American recruits had completely collapsed for this recruit tournament. A new hegemon will emerge in this tournament. Each military region has the chance to become the new hegemon, especially the East Asian recruits! Qin Fen, who has personally pushed America down the throne, will very likely lead East Asia and climb the peak of recruit tournament.”
“Kid!”
Zhao Huzi rubbed his hands vigorously. If it wasn’t for the fear of affecting Qin Fen’s recovery, he would have long given Qin Fen a bear hug and patted his shoulders hard.
“In the future, as long as you don’t do anything that would be in serious violation of military law, if anyone dares to provoke you, you can come directly to me, I will bear anything for you!” Zhao Huzi was extremely happy. Winning this aerial combat competition wasn’t so simple. Its significance was far-reaching. Naturally. as a General, he could see through it.
“Kid.” Will, sorting out his uniform, lightly raised his thumb. “You are truly something. I can’t wait to watch you compete with African and West Asia’s aerial combat team as well as their mobile armor squad.”
Hearing this, the faces of West Asian and African generals immediately sunk as they glared fiercely at Will. They could not wait to eat him alive.
Will maintained a gentleman’s smile as he responded to the major generals of two military regions. His eyes flickered with a meaning that both generals could understand, “I, Will may be the loser, but I will drag you down with me before my death! You want me to be your stepping stone!? Dream on!”
