Exposing His Abilities

Over the wilderness beneath the black night.

A raging storm, flashing lightning and rolling thunder, bullets whistling through the air.

Kyle faced downward, accelerating continuously in free fall as the night wind whipped his trench coat with a loud flutter.

He had chosen to come with Steve to rescue the troops for two reasons. First, to test the strength he had gained after his transformation in real combat.

Second, there were plenty of military merits to earn and plenty of spoils to draw from. There was no reason not to come!

Steve, not far below, opened his parachute. Kyle also judged that it was time to deploy his and activated the parachute pack on his back. The two floated down toward the wilderness.

Rat-a-tat-tat!

They had barely descended to a height of twenty meters when the enemy soldiers below seemed to spot them and began firing continuously into the sky.

"I'll draw their fire!" Steve shouted. Afraid that the bullets might hit Kyle, he immediately controlled his parachute and dove down first to attract the gunfire.

As if I need you to block bullets for me.

Kyle shook his head with a smile. He drew the Nepalese Kukri from his waist with his left hand and swung it backward, cutting through the parachute cords strapped to his back!

They were still more than ten meters above the wilderness. Without the buoyancy of the parachute, Kyle began plummeting rapidly again.

Seeing this, not only Steve, but even the several German Soldiers below were dumbfounded.

"Is that guy trying to kill himself?"

The thought had barely surfaced in the German Soldiers' minds when Kyle fell from over ten meters up, rolled with the momentum across the muddy ground, and lightly rose to his feet again.

"My legs are a little numb. But it turns out I really can do it—things ordinary people can't." A faint smile appeared on Kyle's cold face. Without any testing or experiments, he had merely felt that he could do it and taken the risk.

With his physical abilities now beyond human standards, the hundreds of combat-skill cards were like keys finding a treasure vault, or a sports car finding an open highway. Together, they produced an unimaginable qualitative change.

"What are you waiting for? Shoot him!"

The German Soldiers were still staring blankly at Kyle. Only after their leader shouted a reminder did they hurriedly raise their guns and fire.

But Kyle reacted faster. Instead of retreating, he advanced, gripping his kukri in his left hand as he charged directly at the German Soldiers' gun barrels.

Thud!

Kyle suddenly stepped toward the front left. A spray of bullets grazed past his right shoulder and all struck the mud. When the German Soldiers frantically turned their guns left, he swiftly shifted to the right.

His left-right footwork was only meant to evade their firepower. What truly mattered was his exceptional speed!

A sprinter could run one hundred meters in around ten seconds, while Kyle needed only three or four seconds for the same distance!

By that calculation, the mere twenty or thirty meters between them could be crossed in a single breath.

Squelch!

Before they even had the chance to fire a second volley, Kyle closed in on the enemy soldiers. His hand rose and fell, and a bright diagonal blade flashed through the air with a piercing whistle.

The leader's eyes were still filled with terror. The barrel of the rifle in his hands snapped off and fell to the ground. Soon, a neat bloody line appeared across his neck, and his head rolled away from his body.

"Monster!"

The soldier behind the leader screamed in terror and tried to flee. Kyle stepped forward, reached out with his right hand to seize the back of the man's neck, and lifted his entire body off the ground with one hand.

"Let him go!" another soldier cried in panic, aiming his gun at the nearby Kyle. Before he could fire, however, a figure suddenly leaped down from above and stomped him beneath his feet.

"You really took your time." Kyle chuckled. He swung the soldier in his hand around in a full circle, then violently slammed him face-first into the mud.

"Kyle, your speed, your strength... what is going on?" Steve stood on the struggling german soldier, staring at him in utter shock.

Kyle's expression remained calm. He had never intended to hide his Super Soldier abilities from Steve. After all, if he wanted to display that level of strength, he would eventually need an explanation for the military.

"I didn't tell you because I only gained control of this power recently." Kyle sighed and seriously explained to Steve, "Do you remember my counterattack campaign ten days ago? In a warehouse at that large enemy base, I found a vial on the commander. I originally wanted to bring it back for the scientists to study, but the vial broke during my escape, and the liquid flowed into my wound."

Steve did not doubt Kyle in the slightest. He urgently asked, "Was the liquid pale blue?"

Kyle nodded and confirmed, "That's right. When the liquid fused with my blood, the pain made me pass out. After I woke up in the hospital, my body seemed to undergo an unprecedented mutation. My strength and speed both surpassed those of ordinary people."

"Kyle, congratulations. It seems you obtained the original Super Soldier Serum and successfully fused it with your body," Steve said happily.

"The original Super Soldier Serum?" Kyle pretended not to understand.

"Yes. The doctor originally worked in Germany's scientific department before escaping the research facility. I heard that some among the upper ranks of the German army had also used the original Super Soldier Serum. I never expected there to be one vial left, and for you to be lucky enough to get it." Steve sighed emotionally, genuinely happy for Kyle. After all, Kyle had given him the chance to undergo the Super Soldier experiment, and Steve had always felt guilty about it.

Kyle knew that the origin story he had fabricated for his abilities was somewhat crude. But given Steve's absolute trust in him, it was an easy lie to make believable.

Once Steve believed it and reported it to the military after they returned, the matter of Kyle being a Super Soldier would essentially be settled.

"I was worried about you before, but now you're a Super Soldier too. Combined with your far greater combat experience than mine, our chances of infiltrating the enemy factory and rescuing the soldiers have greatly increased!" Steve said excitedly.

"In that case, I'll take command of the infiltration operation." Kyle nodded confidently and said meaningfully to Steve, "First, I'll give you a simple lesson about the battlefield."

Before he finished speaking, Kyle raised his left foot and stepped forward, driving the head of the soldier Steve was pinning down completely into the mud pit.

The soldier's limbs thrashed even more frantically, mud spraying everywhere. Yet under the suppression of absolute strength, he soon suffocated to death in the earth.

"On the battlefield, don't show the enemy any mercy. Make every strike lethal. Killing may not always be justice, but killing the enemy is the military's justice," Kyle said coldly, his chilling aura dropping to freezing levels.

"I understand." Steve hesitated, then nodded.

No matter how strong his physique was, he was still a rookie who had never been on a battlefield. He needed some proper... no, some proper instruction.

"Then follow me. We're heading for the factory's front gate! Avoid enemy patrols whenever possible. If we can't avoid them, don't give them the chance to communicate. Close in and kill them immediately!"

After saying that, Kyle set off first toward the factory he had seen from the plane earlier, with Steve following closely behind.

The two quickly vanished into the night rain once more.

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