Chapter 625: Chapter 189: Fighting to Survive (Part 2)
The high temperature couldn’t cause the cocoon the slightest bit of damage. The Insect Mother was using its burning skill so brazenly precisely because it had that much confidence in the cocoon.
The moment the cocoon broke, the coward bug soldiers inside stopped crawling out.
The Insect Mother, whose defenses had been broken, went berserk. Repairing the cocoon would cost a lot of energy. On the Mechanical Planet, anything even remotely edible had basically been eaten up. These two people weren’t even enough to fill the gaps between its teeth. To gain more energy, it would have to go outside, which went against the plan they’d agreed on.
But in front of survival, Insect Men were a selfish race by nature. Of course it chose to live, so the saboteurs had to die.
The furious Insect Mother blinked behind Flame King and kicked it flying.
Ji Heng controlled the Mecha, twisting around midair.
He had just raised his arms to block when the Insect Mother punched one corner of the Mecha askew. Punch after punch, Ji Heng’s chest felt tight, his head was spinning, and he was completely out of it.
The viewers in the livestream had been focused on Black Wing the whole time, because the tracking instruments were locked onto Black Wing.
By coincidence, from this angle, they could see the tragic state of both Mechas.
There were too many Insect Men in the repair bay. The fact that Black Wing hadn’t fallen yet was already it giving everything it had. It had just deployed a lot of weapons and had no strength left to fight back.
Coward bug soldiers were crawling all over its body.
"This is too brutal, stop, stop, my heart hurts for Ji Heng, hurts for the Mecha."
"Watching this match, I’m about to have a heart attack. Before I went to sleep, they said Wu Qingqing was dead. I wake up and Ji Heng is getting beaten into a pulp."
"Can’t someone go save them?"
"If they don’t have the strength, there’s nothing anyone can do."
"Who are you calling weak? He’s not even twenty-five yet and has been fighting the Insect Mother for over ten minutes. His points shot up by several thousand. Who else could pull that off?"
"Su Xiaocai, duh! Their coach can do it. Heh, vegetables need more practice. If Su Xiaocai can do it, why can’t they?"
"Do you know how many people there are in the Ten Stars System? After all these years, only a monster like Su Xiaocai came out of it."
"Easy for you to run your mouth when it’s not your waist on the line. Not every genius can become a Su Xiaocai, stop talking crap."
Ji Heng bit his tongue, the pain sobering him up a lot. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Black Wing about to be completely submerged by coward bug soldiers. He couldn’t collapse now.
"Liang Zai, restore the unit."
"Got it."
As soon as the command was given, a dazzling red light flared across the Mecha’s surface, and the unit began rapidly absorbing energy.
Flame King raised its arm, pressed it against the Insect Mother’s head, and fired an overclocked signal round.
Half of the Insect Mother’s head vanished into thin air, and granulation tissue began slowly growing back.
Ji Heng’s eyesight was sharp; the counterattack seemed to have a chance. He ignored the Insect Mother and instead slid toward Black Wing at high speed.
Black Wing’s Mecha cockpit had already been breached.
The person inside the cockpit was wielding their Mechanical Limbs in desperate resistance when help finally arrived. "Quick, over here."
Ji Heng tore off the coward bug soldiers that had dug into the cockpit and reached his hand inside.
Even when he himself was in deep danger, Ji Heng was still thinking of saving people.
That scene moved a lot of people. Maybe this was the romance between comrades-in-arms—so long as you weren’t dead, no one wanted to abandon a teammate.
The Mechanical Limbs soldier pushed forward with all his strength, but he was still a step too slow. A tentacle blocked the cockpit from outside; the Insect Mother had actually recovered again.
The moment it appeared nearby, all the coward bug soldiers scattered, not daring to compete with it.
Flame King and the Insect Mother stood on opposite sides of Black Wing. The instant their gazes met, Ji Heng rushed to intercept.
The Insect Mother knew the Flame King Mecha in front of it wasn’t easy to deal with, so the unlucky target became Ji Heng’s teammate.
A barbed hook pierced into the Mechanical Limbs soldier’s thigh. The Space Battle Suit was punctured, and a shrill scream echoed through the repair bay.
The Insect Mother jabbed again in provocation.
The blade of Insect Slaughter swung out at the same time. The Insect Mother’s tentacle swept sideways, trying to knock away this weapon it utterly loathed.
But Insect Slaughter was locked firmly in Flame King’s hand. Ji Heng was pissed now; his body moved faster than his thoughts, and just like Wu Qingqing, he entered a state that surpassed his limits.
"Get lost." Man and insect clashed again, except this time Ji Heng also had to shield someone.
"Bro, can you still move? I’ve got a job for you."
Black Wing could no longer be piloted. The Mechanical Limbs soldier’s lower body was drenched in blood. Dragging his broken body, his Mechanical Limbs turned into a shield, bracing hard against the hole in the cockpit, not adding to Ji Heng’s burden.
Then he tore open an emergency patch strip and slapped it over the rip in his suit, plugging the pressure leak.
"Alright, say it."
"Do this with what you’ve got..." That was the information Liang Zai provided.
Enduring the searing pain, the Mechanical Limbs soldier followed the instructions and secretly released all of Black Wing’s coolant. The action was done quietly, out of the livestream’s camera angle.
"These Mechanical Limbs have so many functions."
"If it’s a Su Family product, it’s gotta be premium quality. I’m done watching the match, I’m going to sleep. Tell me when they win."
