Liu Feng, covered in blood, slumped exhaustedly in the driver's seat.
His left arm lay on the floor, blood dripping rhythmically from the severed sleeve.
"Liu Feng!!!" Gu Ya rushed over, unbuckled his seatbelt, and embraced him.
Liu Feng weakly raised his head and grinned at Gu Ya. "Heh, brother, you're not looking much better than me..."
"Damn it! You hold on for me!!!" Several people worked together to lift Liu Feng out of the cockpit.
To prevent the Black Star Army from returning, they quickly took Liu Feng and flew to the foot of a mountain hundreds of kilometers away.
Finding a spacious and flat area, Gu Ya purchased a frontline mobile field hospital and all surgical supplies from the system store. He also bought a bionic surgeon and two bionic nurses.
This cost him twenty thousand system coins.
The metal gate of the field hospital closed heavily, and the warning sign turned red, with three large yellow characters, "In Surgery," lighting up.
Gu Ya gazed at the rectangular operating room, three meters high, five meters long and wide, then turned to look at the mountains of mecha wreckage on the Gobi Desert. A surge of anger suddenly arose. He strode quickly to Honglian Zhiwu and delivered a hard kick to her beautiful face.
A clear shoe print was left on Honglian Zhiwu's skin, which had a slight blackish pigment.
"Hehe, why not kill sister with one sword? Wouldn't that be more satisfying?" Honglian Zhiwu, clutching her face, half-lay on the ground, looking up at Gu Ya with a smiling gaze, seemingly unfazed by being kicked.
"Bitch!" Gu Ya glared at her fiercely.
Qiao Weiwei walked over tiredly, tugged Gu Ya's sleeve, and said, "Lifang's and Liu Feng's mechas are destroyed, and Liu Feng is still in surgery. What do we do?"
Gu Ya pondered for a few seconds before replying, "Liu Feng needs to rest after surgery. We can't take him back to Xianxia; the bumpy journey will affect his recovery. You go find a satellite mecha immediately and notify Xianxia City for rescue once you have a signal."
"That doesn't seem right," Qiao Weiwei said worriedly, glancing at Honglian Zhiwu. She whispered, "This woman is very cunning. She might secretly call for reinforcements, and you won't be able to fight alone then."
Ultimately, Qiao Weiwei was sent away by Gu Ya. As she left, she muttered reluctantly, "Isn't he just an ordinary mecha pilot? Just attach a bionic prosthetic limb to his severed arm, and it'll be fine. Is it worth risking everyone's safety? This Gu Ya is really something!"
After sending Qiao Weiwei off, Gu Ya and Lifang sat by the entrance of the operating room, waiting for the surgery to end.
Lifang had always heard that Gu Ya possessed void technology but had never seen it in person. This time, he finally witnessed it and was very excited, asking in a low voice, "Captain, where did you get that awesome technology? Or were you guided by a master? Can you teach me? When I visited Taona, I suddenly conjured a large bouquet of flowers in front of her. Wasn't that cool! She'll definitely be happy then, and her recovery will be faster when she's happy!"
"Born with it," Gu Ya coldly refused. After a pause, Gu Ya added, "Taona probably doesn't like flowers. You might as well give her some money."
"Ah? How did you know?" Lifang sounded somewhat surprised.
Gu Ya ignored him and stood up, walking towards Honglian Zhiwu.
The starry night was brilliant, with countless sparkling white dots slowly flying through the sea of stars. These were light pollutants caused by the near-Earth debris field reflecting sunlight. Under the obstruction of this debris, humanity could no longer gaze upon the starry sky.
Around them, apart from the operating room's lights, there was only a small bonfire, with no other light sources.
Honglian Zhiwu, curled up on the ground, shivered from the cold. Seeing Gu Ya approach, she still managed to cast a seductive glance at him. "Xiao Ya Ya, can you be kind and give your sister a blanket? You don't want me to freeze to death in Xianxia, do you?"
Gu Ya kicked her in the stomach and said coldly, "Bitch. Why were you looking for me? What did you want to do with me after finding me?"
Apart from Liu Feng's injuries, this question was Gu Ya's biggest concern. After the Battle of Xianxia City's defense, Gu Ya knew that a part of the reason for the Black Star's invasion of Xianxia was because of him.
They wanted to capture him to complete some unspeakable secret research.
This also related to his father's research, and perhaps he could learn some secrets about the Black Star from her.
But obviously, Honglian Zhiwu was not someone easily persuaded. Even tied up with ropes, she still managed to shift into a more comfortable lying position, looking at Gu Ya mockingly, her eyes telling him, "What can you do to me if I don't talk?"
"How about this, give me a blanket, and I'll tell you," Zhiwu said, blinking playfully.
"Freeze then!" Gu Ya said menacingly and walked away, contemplating that he needed to learn some interrogation techniques and methods for future use.
With the most advanced bionic surgeon at the helm, the surgery surprisingly lasted for seven hours. It wasn't until the sky was dimly lit that the operating room door finally opened.
Seeing Liu Feng still under anesthesia, Gu Ya felt a surge of self-blame.
Truth be told, in Gu Ya's heart, he had always felt responsible for Rui Zi's death, as he, the captain, had failed to protect his teammates.
Now Taona was injured, and even his best brother, Liu Feng, was hurt.
A sense of fear stemming from his own lack of strength washed over him.
Yesterday, facing only three hundred enemy mechas, they had fought so fiercely.
"Right!" Gu Ya suddenly thought of something. He quickly gave a few instructions to the bionic surgeon and nurses, then instructed Lifang to keep a close watch on Honglian Zhiwu. He even bought a cage and locked Honglian Zhiwu inside.
Lifang looked confident, patting his chest and promising, "Don't worry, Captain! I guarantee the mission will be completed!"
Gu Ya was going back to the combat zone to inspect the Black Star mecha wreckage.
The energy shields covering the Black Star mechas could withstand missiles and beam cannons. The missiles from Wuji Zhihong and KuNue had failed to heavily damage or destroy their mechas.
If KuNue hadn't possessed future space weapons, this battle would have been even more brutal.
Honglian Zhiwu, locked in the cage, smirked and put on a pitiful look, whispering, "Where is Xiao Ya Ya going? I'm afraid that sorghum stalk boy will bully me if you're not here. I'm not married yet~"
Her words only made things worse. Gu Ya bought a larger, more sealed cage and placed it outside the small cage.
Regardless of her frantic shouts from inside, Gu Ya turned a deaf ear, summoned Ku Nue, and flew towards the combat zone.
After flying for a full half hour, Gu Ya returned to the combat zone.
Overnight, the fires on the mecha wreckage had extinguished, and they were no longer smoking. They lay on the reddish-yellow earth like a large patch of black stones.
Gu Ya approached a relatively well-preserved enemy mecha and examined it carefully.
He had already planned what he wanted to investigate on the way.
The first was the Black Star's energy shields, and the second was Ku Nue's space weapons and the damage they inflicted on the enemy mechas.
After all, after being touched by the spatial energy shield, the enemy mecha was torn in half like a photograph, offset by a few centimeters, yet it didn't break apart, and the damaged mecha didn't explode. This future technology was too strange, and it might be possible to research and use it in actual combat.
"Then let's study the first issue first, the energy shield of the Black Star mecha that blocks long-range weapons."
Calming himself and activating his unique full mental concentration, Gu Ya quickly entered the mecha repair state.
As Gu Ya disassembled parts from one enemy mecha after another with specialized tools, the secrets of the Black Star mecha were gradually revealed to him.
As the sun set once again, the starry sky reappeared, and the earth was plunged into darkness. Gu Ya finally finished dismantling one enemy mecha wreckage.
Looking at the tens of thousands of parts scattered on the ground, and then at the small object inside the mecha,
Gu Ya sighed wearily and shook his head.
"I didn't expect Black Star's mecha technology to have advanced to this extent."
With no time to rest, Gu Ya once again dove into the mecha wreckage.