"Hey, this is bad! Retreat, retreat! That Gu Ya has angered it!" Lan Jing shouted in alarm.
All the mechs surrounding the black mech activated their reverse thrusters and moved back.
Only Ye Ying remained suspended above the black mech.
"Hey, pilot Ye Ying! Try to reason with Gu Ya! Aren't you a couple! Hurry and let him escape!" Tao Na also yelled in panic.
Ye Ying ignored them and restarted her Nightingale, flying towards the head of the black mech with an explosive burst.
"They've both gone mad! Nobody go closer! Wait for the elite squad arranged from above!"
"We can't just abandon them! They're still so young!"
"How can we save them!? The current situation is to protect ourselves and wait for support!"
At this moment, the black mech was like an inflated pufferfish, swollen and covered in sharp spines.
"Ye Ying, distract it! I'll attack from below!" Gu Ya said gently and softly, unable to use a sinister tone when facing Ye Ying.
"Okay! Do you have a way?" Ye Ying asked.
Gu Ya paused for half a second and said, "Others might not be able to, but I can."
The Brilliant Blue Swordsman swung his blade twice more at the bulging section of the black mech's waist.
"I've already told you it's useless! Its armor is indestructible!"
"Is this kid really Wang Shangmeng's disciple? Why isn't he listening to advice? He doesn't seem very bright either!"
Tao Na stared anxiously at Gu Ya's mech, "Gu Ya, you mustn't die!"
"Hahahaha..." Xu Jie's deafening, raucous voice returned, "You fell for it! Die!"
Everyone knew what it was about to do.
As expected, the armor at the bulging section of the black mech's waist suddenly opened, and two giant hands shot out, grabbing at the Brilliant Blue Swordsman!
To everyone's surprise,
Gu Ya didn't escape, nor did he resist.
He allowed the giant hands to grab him obediently!
"Die! Be my nourishment! I won, hahahaha..."
The Brilliant Blue Swordsman was enclosed by the two giant hands and was swiftly retracted into the bulging part.
"It's over, it's over! Gu Ya's been caught inside!" Lan Jing exclaimed in great alarm and immediately shouted at Ye Ying, "Ye Ying, he's beyond saving! Retreat!"
Ye Ying clearly saw what had happened to Gu Ya, but Gu Ya's words, "Others might not be able to, but I can," echoed in her mind.
Ye Ying believed that what Gu Ya said, he could definitely do!
The Brilliant Blue Swordsman, caught inside the black mech, was almost instantly retrieved by Gu Ya into the [Void Package].
The giant hands suddenly gripped empty air.
Gu Ya summoned his exoskeleton and shot out like a sharp sword through the gap between the giant hands, quickly gripping the inner wall of the armor.
The two giant hands retracted into the darkness beside him, almost brushing against his body.
Only a vast, empty circular passage remained.
Gu Ya, with a calm and composed expression, activated his exoskeleton's thrusters and flew into the passage.
"Where are you? Why can't I catch you?" Xu Jie's disappointed, pained cry echoed again.
"Gu Ya, what did you do? Why, why, I clearly caught you!"
As Gu Ya flew, he pressed his hands against the inner wall of the armor.
The flight caused sparks to erupt as his metal glove scraped against the inner wall.
At the same time, Gu Ya activated his mechanic skills.
Seconds later, the full scan of the black mech was complete, and several complete three-dimensional structural diagrams were saved into [Star Structure Blueprint].
Among these were: mechanics, communication links, electrical circuits, energy conduits, armor layout, and more.
The most important among these was the location of the black mech's cockpit.
Once he entered the cockpit, he could confront Xu Jie directly.
And kill him from the inside!
"Gu Ya, Gu Ya, Gu Ya..." Xu Jie's sickening mechanical voice transmitted from all directions, "Where exactly are you? Where are you! I clearly caught you!!!"
From the periphery, everyone watched the black mech's movements.
Ye Ying had also ceased her attack.
The black mech, which had been restlessly active moments ago,
now fell completely silent, as if lost in deep thought.
Muffled murmurs emanated, subtle and disordered.
Those far away could not hear clearly, but Ye Ying heard them perfectly. Her heart relaxed slightly; Gu Ya was safe, he had truly done it!
"Gu Ya, Gu Ya, Gu Ya..." Xu Jie's voice shifted from pain to anxiety, "Where are you, where are you..."
Then from anxiety to impatience: "Gu Ya! Un... *static*... insect! Come out, come out!"
Then from impatience to rage: "Gu Ya! Come out and die, ahhh! I will crush you, just like crushing a... stinky bug..."
...
Outside the Leihai War Zone,
Inside the command center of the Black Star Alliance's Star Sinking Army vanguard, a super-large mech.
Honglian Zhiwu stared grimly at the holographic image.
That little guy named Gu Ya had appeared before her again.
Last time, the arrival of reinforcements had caused her to miss the opportunity to capture Gu Ya.
This time, he had come to disrupt things again.
"What's Xu Jie's situation?" Honglian Zhiwu asked.
A scientist said heavily, "A passage has been urgently established. The experimental subject seems to have broken through its emotional barriers and is gradually recovering its perception of the outside world."
"It has even broken through the language ability barrier we set up."
Honglian Zhiwu frowned and asked, "What happened? Why?"
The scientist shook his head and said, "We're not sure. Perhaps it's due to hatred. Hatred stimulates its brain to secrete hormones that suppress the 'barrier'."
"Currently, this is all the information we can obtain through one channel."
Honglian Zhiwu nodded and said to the male adjutant behind her, "Dispatch more troops, speed up the progress on the main battlefield, we must recover the experimental mech. We need to figure out how he did it; it might be helpful for the Commander's research."
The male adjutant nodded, turned, and left in silence.
...
Gu Ya was currently flying inside the black mech.
It was complex and intricate in here; without the [Star Structure Blueprint], he wouldn't be able to navigate at all.
The only good news was that after a complex processing procedure, Gu Ya finally found a route leading to the cockpit.
At his current speed, it would take about 10 minutes to arrive.
At this time, on the periphery,
a small squad was rapidly flying towards this location.
"Three more mechs have arrived! Are they reinforcements?" a mech pilot said.
"Probably. The elite mech mechanic team sent from above should be them."
This squad flew quickly over the black mech from above, made a detour, and landed steadily in front of the black mech.
A high-pitched female voice came from the leading orange-brown mech: "Wow! What a strange little guy! Hahaha! Black Star's aesthetic has really regressed to this extent."
"Sister Liang, stop joking and get to work. I don't want to spend another minute on the battlefield," a gentle male voice came from another bright white mech.
"Xun-mei, are you confident?" a steady female voice came from another milky-white mech.
"I don't know, let's see first!" a cheerful voice came from the orange-brown mech.
It found a spot with fewer sharp spikes and landed quickly.
With a burst of steam, the cockpit armor opened,
and a woman, not tall, wearing a loose, dark blue work uniform and a dark blue baseball cap, jumped out.
"I-I've seen her in the news! She's the most powerful mech mechanic in Zhuoyuan City... Liang Xun!" a mech pilot suddenly exclaimed.
"What? It's Master Liang Xun! My goodness, I've seen two master-level figures today! Oh, right, Gu Ya doesn't count."
"Liang Xun? She's the sister of the legendary mech mechanic Liang Yuwei? Their whole family are mech mechanic experts!"
Liang Xun stood on the black mech, scratching her head and smiling sheepishly, "Hahaha! My elder brother is the amazing one, I'm nothing."
"You're too modest, Master Liang Xun! In the war two years ago, you dismembered and reassembled hundreds of enemy mechs for our army's use! You made indelible contributions to the victory of the war! We all saw it!"
Liang Xun laughed heartily and said, "Compared to my elder brother, I'm just a tiny pebble next to a mountain."
"Enough talk, I need to get to work."
Liang Xun squatted down, took out a double-ended open-end wrench from her tool bag, and tapped the black mech's armor.
Then, she crouched down again, placed her ear against the armor, and tapped it twice more with the wrench.
After listening, she stood up, her expression becoming solemn.
"How is it, Master Liang Xun? Any clues?" a mech pilot asked urgently.
"Don't talk, Master Liang is analyzing!"
"Master Liang, do you need us to do anything?"
Liang Xun frowned, pouted, her lips moved slightly, and then she pursed them again, saying, "This is difficult, hehe."
"Master Liang, what's going on with this mech? Is it difficult to handle, or impossible to handle?" a mech pilot asked cautiously.
Liang Xun looked up, smiled slightly at the mech pilot who asked, and said, "It's made of attack resonance material. Unless it's destroyed from the inside, no one can open it."
"What does that mean, Master Liang? In other words..." that mech pilot asked urgently.
Liang Xun nodded and said, "Any attack will be harmonized by the material with the same energy frequency. It won't have any effect."
"It's like, a... welded shut for the pilot..."
"A coffin."