Chapter Forty-Five
“Take them down,” Erik shouted.
He fired a burst into the chatty mutant, strangely satisfied by the spray of red blood that erupted from the target’s chest. The enemy weren’t Navigators.
They were the twisted humans his team had traveled across the Solar System to find. He could beat anything that was mostly human.
If it bled, it would eventually die.
Jia and the other soldiers opened fire, and their massive barrage cut through the advancing mutants. The enemies staggered back, now covered in wounds. Unlike Erik’s team, it was obvious from the bloody holes that the enemy pressure suits weren’t designed to take small arms fire.
That made sense. They’d likely never expected to have to deal with other humans, but it also meant the fight had been over for them before i
