Shen Shi’s appearance surprised all the human warriors.
Upon hearing Shen Shi’s words, the warriors felt even more ashad.
Especially those human warriors standing before Shen Shi, who had just lost the training match, each hung their heads in silence.
"Raise your heads! Stand at attention!" Shen Shi amplified his voice.
"Yes, sir!" All the warriors stood up straight.
As for the Worren, including their previously loud Guard Commander, they were now lying flat on the ground, filled with extre fear and anxiety.
"Answer loudly." Shen Shi looked at the warriors before him and said in a deep voice, "Why did you let a group of captives boast in front of you?"
"Reporting, sir!" The squad leader’s face flushed, yet he still had to speak loudly, "Because we lost the training match!"
The rest of the team mbers behind him reacted similarly.
On the awareness platform, everyone’s emotions are often harder to conceal.
Besides, in such a setting, recounting their failures before the Commander-in-Chief, who has provided them with powerful equipnt and led them to multiple victories, how could they not feel ashad?
Especially when they saw the Worren who beca so fearful after the Commander’s arrival.
These warriors felt they had tarnished the honor of both the Commander-in-Chief and humanity.
However—
In response to his answer, Shen Shi raised an eyebrow.
"Is it just because of that?"
"..."
This squad leader and many warriors didn’t quite grasp Shen Shi’s aning; thus, they were stunned.
"You lost a training match, and you forget it was your effort and sacrifice that led to victory, forgetting that those before you are just defeated captives?"
Shen Shi indeed felt sowhat disappointed.
But he understood that it wasn’t the warriors’ fault; these warriors just hadn’t fully adapted to interstellar warfare, adapted to fighting different interstellar races.
Their understanding of war and captives was still rooted in Blue Star’s conflicts.
Yet, interstellar wars with different races differ from Blue Star’s various countries and forces.
Empathy has been weakened to the extre.
"You’ve only been undergoing interstellar forces training for a few months. Is losing in a training match really embarrassing?" Shen Shi amplified his voice, "Or do you think if it were you who were captured, the enemy would respect your individual strength because you lost in a training match? Respect the premise of ’equal equipnt’?"
So warriors seed to gradually understand what Shen Shi wanted to convey.
They either appeared thoughtful or their faces remained flushed, feeling ashad for different reasons.
"I push you to train with all your effort just hoping you can fully utilize the power of your equipnt, hoping for a higher survival rate on the battlefield, hoping you can defeat stronger enemies. It’s not for you to respect a group of defeated captives!"
Shen Shi looked at everyone, his voice growing ever louder.
The emotions conveyed were even more resolute.
"Rember, interstellar warfare differs entirely from any of our past wars. Here, only a genuine victory matters!
If we lose, even if our enemies are just a foolish, weak alien race that can be crushed with a single finger, we will still lose everything! Don’t expect to gain any respect; the enemy will only mock us for having strong individual strength yet charging at their gunpoints with shabby shields! Do you understand?"
"Understood!"
The squad leader in front of Shen Shi and all the observing warriors stood straight and shouted their response with maximum volu.
Including so captains who ca over upon hearing of Shen Shi’s appearance.
They also felt a bit guilty at this mont.
Originally, they permitted those Worren captives to boast like that, thinking their experience and strength were indeed greater, aiming to motivate the warriors to keep striving.
But now they’ve realized.
How could they justify the powerful equipnt brought by the Commander-in-Chief, justify the comrades who sacrificed on the battlefield?
The identity of the victor! Belonging to them but not just to them!
Sotis, people just need a shift in mindset to realize how absurd their past beliefs were.
And Shen Shi, at this mont, turned to look at the Worren Guard Commander nad Feiji.
"Due to your foolishness, I’ve decided on a different way to motivate your training of our warriors—if you lose ten tis, you’ll be made into a battery."
"Thank you for your rcy."
Feiji trembled all over, his heart already filled with regret.
But he dared not utter any struggling words.
Not being made into a battery on the spot was already the greatest rcy.
His regret was only because he initially assud that this entire race was equally foolish; yet now, it seems, the fleet’s highest commander is evidently a true Interstellar Commander—had he known this earlier, he never would have adopted such a posture.
But regret holds no aning.
As for a promise?
This is also what Shen Shi aims to convey to the warriors.
A promise to captives holds no aning, for humanity neither needs their gratitude nor their respect. Moreover, such a promise may only garner their mockery.
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