Chapter 1126
The Predator was a race born to fight . They had a lot of experience and talent be it in solo fights or group fights .
After repeated hindrances from the humans, the Arbitrator had realised that the situation on Uplos was probably about to go out of his control, so he did not hesitate to issue the order to deploy three smaller sub-ships to accelerate ahead to Uplos in advance .
Thanks to their size, these three sub-ships could shuttle through smaller and more unstable wormholes that acted like shortcuts . Of course, this also meant taking a huge risk .
It was for this reason that the Predators on the sub-ships were not very important Predators . Each sub-ship carried fifteen people, twelve of which were combat personnel and scouts, while three were researchers . The role of the researchers was to activate the defensive line of the Uplos asteroid belts, so as to prevent the humans from forcibly invading with a large fleet of spaceships .
Two of the three sub-ships met with accidents while travelling through the unstable wormholes, and only one arrived on Uplos ahead of schedule .
As the first batch to arrive on Uplos, their main job was to investigate and stabilise the current situation . After they discovered that the humans had no intention of invading en masse with large-scale fleets, their biggest worry was put to rest .
After communicating this information with the main ship, the arrogance of the Predators caused this advanced batch to attack on their own initiative . They intended to clean up the "parasites" on the planet . Although this advanced batch consisted of only the most basic soldiers among the Predators, they still thought that it should not be a problem for them to solve the complications caused by the humans if they acted together .
And that was how this assault happened .
The Predators obviously regarded all humans as enemies, so in the battle plan of the Predators, this was a fight where they had a disadvantage in numbers . Therefore, there were two key elements to this battle:
First, they would eliminate the leader first to lower the morale of the enemies .
Second, they needed to create mass chaos! Just as cavalries in the cold weapon era broke up and collapsed army formations, once the situation turned chaotic, the enemy would not be able to organise an effective resistance, and the overall situation would be decided .
The Predators executed the battle strategy faithfully . They first focused fire and ambushed the strongest person on the battlefield, then threw the corpses of the sentries whom they had killed and skinned in order to create chaos . They left half of their numbers behind to disperse the crowded spots with shoulder cannons from a distance, while the other half rushed into the battlefield in invisible states, killing the humans with melee weapons and creating more panic . . . .
Strictly speaking, the plan was perfect and had no loopholes . However, the raid by the Predators only managed to cause a great deal of panic to the native humans .
The biggest variable was the group of contestants .
When Sheyan was fighting with Tom the skull man, the rest of the contestants were also on full alert because the strength of the Ten Strongest test subjects had gained their recognition and they had to be prepared in case the test subjects attacked them by surprise!
These experienced veterans had all seen this kind of situation before where the enemies ambushed them when they were about to win . Therefore, although no one knew beforehand that the Predators would assault them, the contestants were all prepared - they were just wrong on the identity of the assailants . Under such circumstances, it was within reason that the advantage would shift bit by bit in the human's favour over time .
Five minutes and seventeen seconds after the battle began, Sheyan and Ronnie joined hands to kill the first Predator . Before he died, he tried his best to activate another standard Predator device: a mini hydrogen nuclear bomb mounted on his right hand, which ended up being chopped off by Ronnie .
On the seventh minute and eleventh second, the second Predator fell in the hands of Paul and Pokan . Before his death, the Predator self-detonated successfully . The area shone with a terrible light and a mushroom cloud rose fifty meters around the spot . The Traveler test subject happened to be within range of the explosion and unfortunately died .
On the ninth minute and eighth second, Dardanian caught a Predator alive by using his Vine Ent with the help of everyone else .
In the end, the native humans suffered heavy casualties, while on the side of the contestants, Paul lost an arm . Fortunately, the contestants were only wounded and none had died . The first assault of the Predators ended in complete failure .
These powerful creatures had no intention at all to fight to the death . When they realised that they were going to lose, they quickly retreated by dispersing into the jungle even though they had lost four companions . Their invisibility device played an important role during their retreat as it made them very difficult to trace . It was amazing that they were just the basic soldiers among the Predators, yet they had the discipline to retreat immediately when things did not go according to plan .
When the battle was over, Sheyan took a deep breath, but he still felt a strong sense of crisis . If autumn had arrived, would winter be far behind? If the vanguard had arrived, would the main army be far behind?
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Like a boiling pot of porridge, the human camp gradually calmed down .
Sheyan and the other contestants did not leave, but prolonged their stay temporarily . They needed to analyse the previous battle and summarise some basic information about the Predators and their combat capabilities .
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