It turned out that technological sophistication and combat effectiveness were two entirely separate dimensions.
While leading Team A toward the crash site, Zheng Hao quickly made contact with the Enterprise soldiers and immediately broke out into a fierce firefight with them.
And at that very moment, Zheng Hao felt a distinct sense of strain.
Those people were strong!
And it was obvious to the naked eye!
Team B's smooth progress had led him to misjudge the situation, even giving rise to an assumption he never should have made—they could easily take these people out with their superior equipment and secretly seize that anomalous mother body.
However, Team B's advantage came from superior numbers: six against three, with a sniper supporting them from outside the battlefield.
Over here, the situation was completely different.
The enemy soldiers spread out in groups of three, using alternating fire to hold up their defensive line. Then he discovered a squad circling around to his flank.
Their tactical execution was so fluid it seemed effortless, without even the slightest pause or hesitation.
Their coordination was terrifyingly seamless!
The evenly matched battle quickly took a sharp turn for the worse after one of his team members was killed. Gunfire from every direction made him feel as though he wasn't fighting a ragtag group of ten men, but exchanging fire with a well-trained army.
These people definitely weren't Enterprise employees!
They were more like professional soldiers!
Just as his side was professional at exploring ruins, these people were equally professional when it came to war!
"Captain! These guys have way too much firepower! We won't be able to hold out much longer on our own—"
A team member who had been shot in the leg shouted in panic, firing his rifle at the distant dirt slope in an