21. Fighting Ghosts

The operation had started.

From here on, they would give all their might to eradicate the alien monsters and reclaim the Meersyn Coast area.

Jed was nervous before, but he was eerily calm once his thought was all about Devour. Which wasn’t entirely good, as he lost concentration right at the start and was almost being run over by a sharp-toothed fungi-like alien.

“Get to the back, loser! You and your three percent are too far out in front!” Ryan Tanner shouted at him, his rifle firing shots at the smaller alien monster.

“I’m four percent now!” Jed yelled back, heavily offended.

Not far from their bickering, a senior soldier with curly hair commented, “For crying out loud, why do we have to babysit the rookies? At least, stand someplace out of our way and observe.”

Both rookies heard it clearly through the communication device that also connected to their masks. It was bitter, but they have yet to prove anything of worth.

“Listen up.”