Chapter 242: captain josh

When he heard this question, the Mariana Captain stopped for a moment in surprise. “So you already noticed me, well, that saves me the trouble of explaining”.

“Now, surrender and bow before the great Thor before thunder strikes you to pieces. Tell me what your mission is, immediately! My patience is limited, act fast before I get angry and change my mind”.

Hearing this, the soldiers were stunned. “What the hell? You just hit 5 of our comrades unconscious and you want us to surrender”.

“Are you nuts?” Clark finally asked.

“Hmph, it seems that you will not learn until you are spanked”. He snorted before grabbing his sword more tightly and rushing forward.

Dickson and Clark reacted immediately. The former lumbered forward with his enormous shield encompassing his front as he bashed forward heavily at his swift target.

To the soldiers that were still a little stunned, this just felt like a movie. A moment ago, this strange man was wreaking their defense, another moment, he was asking them to surrender, now, he was rushing at them again.

“What the heck?”

Despite the doubts in their hearts, one thing was clear, this man was not their ally, so he was their enemy. They quickly recovered as they all formed tight battle formations and swarmed at their target.

From the first attack, Clark already deduced that his opponent was a 3rd rank high-grade soldier, but he was still astonished by his strength.

If he was not mistaken, this man before him had the same peak strength as General Oxford when he was still a 3rd rank high-grade soldier. This made him perplexed, why would such a strong person target them?

Though a lot of thoughts were revolving around his mind, he knew that at this moment, cracking this man down was the priority.

You’re a 3rd rank high-grade soldier, right? Well, if I and Dickson can’t withstand you, I have dozens of soldiers behind me. I don’t believe that you can trash us all.

With that mentality, Clark and Dickson clashed with the swift stranger, making snow fly about from the shockwaves stirred from their battlefield.

The captain who called himself Thor, though he already prepared himself for it, the strength that was exerted by this group to suppress him still shocked him.

He had experienced this feeling only when he was fighting simulated battles with the Mariana special ops secret units. He felt like he was not fighting individual soldiers, but rather a well-coordinated mechanical catastrophe.

As the battle raged on, he began to discover that his targets were slowly getting the hang of suppressing him.

Seeing this, his eyes narrowed as he switched to the 2nd phase of his plan. He finally brought down the enlarged muzzle machine gun that was resting in his left shoulder, he felt a burden leave him immediately after doing this.

This was not all. He quickly gave a new order through his implant as the gift that he prepared for his targets roared to life.

Accompanied by large booming sounds, the Spartan/Daland allied soldiers were shocked to see fire erupt from the distance. Before they could react, red and blue energy beams were already falling at them swiftly.

“Come on, this is my gift for you!” Thor shouted excitedly.

…

30 minutes later, the battle was still raging on but dozens of soldiers were already lying about unconscious.

Something that remained noteworthy to Clark was that Thor refused to kill a single soldier among them, he only beat them up ruthlessly to the point of no resistance before knocking them unconscious.

Though he did not know this stranger, this act alone made him feel some goodwill towards him, but he was still determined to take him down.

After fighting for dozens of minutes, they already sustained various injuries. Thor himself was already bleeding on the nose and various parts of his body, he was not invisible Afterall.

Facing the attack of dozens of soldiers, it was inevitable that he would be overwhelmed.

Despite this fact, the Spartans who were more enthusiastic about strength felt a deep reverence for him. They fought harder seeing this, as they did not want to depict themselves as weak.

Boom!!

Clark was thrown back again from the sharp blow of Thor’s sword as his figure shuttled backward from the momentum. Before he could land, his opponent’s machine gun already shut dozens of bullets at his armor.

He did not take this lying though, as he carefully positioned himself and retaliated with a nicely placed sniper shot.

The bullet hit Thor on the face. Though his armor materialized to weather the damage, the impact of the bullet still transferred to his face, making blood seep from his nose.

He staggered backward, trying to stabilize himself but he was not allowed to do so as a large shield bashed at his face next, followed by a sword.

After attacking him, Dickson used his downward momentum to kick him as he hit the floor and rolled away in the snow. Thor quickly stood up the next moment and leaned on his sword.

Both sides tacitly stopped to rest for a moment, as they were all exhausted from the intensity of the battle.

“Hehe, that was some nice fighting there. How about we come to a stop here, I can be magnanimous enough to accept the result as a draw”. Thor shamelessly proposed again.

Clark sharply cut him off. “You’re dreaming”.

“I’ve discovered you long ago, but I originally thought that you were some random mountain climber. This ambush proved me wrong. Without knowing your identity, don’t even dream of leaving here intact”.

“Yeah, I need to know why a strong soldier like you is going after us”. Dickson also added curiously.

The others did not speak, but they looked at their target with alert expressions on their faces. Diana, Anna, and Benny were the ones coordinating the offensive against this stranger.

The past 30 minutes was the first time that they encountered a situation where they were completely led by the nose. This Thor kept on toying with them, making them look like some amateurs.

If Clark and Dickson were not here, Thor could completely steamroll them without breaking a sweat.

The thought of this alone left them ashamed, they had to fight harder to keep their dignity intact. They never felt so embarrassed before, they felt like pupils being spanked by their strict teacher.

This thought only made their face grow redder.

Ahh!!

They shouted to borrow imaginary strength from the void as they started the battle again, prompting the exhausted Thor to smile bitterly before preparing himself to welcome them.

Clark grasped his spear and dived into battle again, trying hard to restrain the movements of this strong enemy.

The fight became a battle of attrition that continued for another 20 minutes. 30 soldiers became unconscious before Thor finally lost the ability to fight, they felt like he was a boss monster.

He continually coughed out blood as he lay down powerlessly on the floor, but a faint smile was still on his face. Diana bet that he was still smug of his achievement despite his current state.

Though there was a great divide between the 3rd rank and 2nd rank high-grade soldiers, fighting against so many elite soldiers was still too much of a stretch for him.

As soon as they confirmed that he was incapable of fighting further, Dickson directly fell on the snow to rest his aching muscles.

He felt like all his veins and blood vessels were just tempered in an extremely hot furnace. He felt drained of all strength. If exhaustion was tangible, then this was it.

Though Clark badly wanted to lie down on the snow to rest his burning body also, he knew that interrogating this stranger before him was the priority. He had a lot of questions in his mind.

“Who are you and why are you fighting us?” He asked in a stern tone.

“Why should I tell you?” Thor asked with a chuckle. After he lost his ability to fight, he suddenly seemed like a completely different person to Clark. He could not pinpoint the difference, but he knew that it was there.

“You really want to know why?” Clark asked with a strange smile on his face.

“Yes”. He answered matter of factly.

Clark slowly brought his bag down and opened it. “Before coming to the great Himalayan ranges, I once watched the video compilation of the legendary Jack Bauer’s torture techniques”.

“I found them interesting, so I secretly bought the full set of torture equipment. I never thought that they would have any use, but it seems that I was wrong…”

“My name is Captain Josh, I’m the leader of the Everest surveillance team of Mariana”. The man suddenly spoke out.

“Umm, what? Wait…, you said what?” Clark was stunned.

The captain shrugged. “That’s what you want to know, I don’t have the willpower to hide anything from you, so why hide it?”

“I am not afraid of injuries and pain sustained when battling, but I hate torture. Instead of suffering myself for a lost cause, I choose the safer option of telling you directly”.

“…” Clark was suddenly speechless. “Really?”

“Then why are you coming after us, or do you have the same target as us?” He asked suspiciously.

“I don’t know nor do I have any target. My surveillance team discovered unusual movements in the Everest, so we decided to come after you to know what exactly was happening?”

“So, why will a captain like you come? I don’t believe that Mariana has so many soldiers that they can send a Captain like you so nonchalantly into danger, what are you after?”

“I’m an explorer, I like exploring and I was curious to know your group, so I followed”.

“From your tone, why do I feel like you did this to brag?” Clark was suspicious again. From the battle, he knew that this guy did not necessarily harbor evil intentions, that is why he spoke so harmoniously with him.

“Sigh, you’re really perceptive. Yeah, my cousin thinks that I’m incompetent to be relegated to the role of mere surveillance team head, so I went after you guys to prove myself to him”.

“Really? Then what made you a surveillance team head?”

“That’s a long story. It’s basically because I’m too handsome. My superior’s wife got attracted to me, I couldn’t do anything about it, I’m not a mind controller, so my boss started targeting me”.

“I lost my position, got demoted bit by bit, and here I am”.

“…” Clark was completely short of words.

Unknowingly to him, he was already feeling a sense of closeness with this stranger. He laid down beside him as they faced the gloomy atmosphere carelessly to recover their strength.

He knew that he should not easily believe strangers, but he felt that Josh did not lie. So, they just laid there, talking about each other’s lives before they finally fell asleep from exhaustion.

It was already evident that they could not get to the shelter today again, so they just built a camp there to spend the night.

Diana and the other soldiers were alert after the battle, but seeing their leader’s interrogation soon turn to a buddy’s conversation, they succumbed to their exhaustion also and fell asleep.

What a day this was!

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