Everyone faced the enormous creature, whose size could already rival a T1 small Starship!

They all felt a sense of overwhelming pressure.

“Alert: T2 Black Knight Mecha Second Squad, Mecha #3 pilot unconscious.” The communication auxiliary combat system’s alert sounded in his ear.

Zhao Chen glanced at the enormous Thunder Beast, a giant insect. He first ran towards the T2 Black Knight-class Light Interstellar Combat Mecha whose pilot had been knocked unconscious after the attack. He tried to open the hatch, but it wouldn't budge.

“It must be that heavy blow just now that deformed and jammed the hatch!” Chu Xuan’s voice came from beside him. She had run over to Zhao Chen’s side at some point.

At this moment, the Thunder Beast was closing in, seemingly having taken this Mecha as its prey.

“Black Knight Mecha Second Squad, provide immediate support!” From the Bridge of the T3 Blizzard-class Light Interstellar Battlecruiser, which was constantly monitoring the ground situation, an order was immediately issued to the Mecha Second Squad.

Currently, the Black Knight Mecha First Squad and the Black Knight Mecha Third Squad were both facing large swarms of insects. Any slight movement could lead to them being unable to suppress the surging insect swarms.

But, coincidentally, at this very moment, dozens of T2 Spider-Insects simultaneously dropped in the direction the Black Knight Mecha Second Squad was responsible for.

Charlotte, on the Bridge, frowned. There were simply too many of these insects, as if they were inexhaustible.

However, the T3 Blizzard’s Starship weapons could not directly fire on the ground; their power was too great. Even a slight misstep could lead to accidental injury to Zhao Chen and others while eliminating the insects.

The Commander’s safety was paramount. Just as Charlotte was about to order the Black Knight Mecha Squad to prioritize the Commander’s safety, Zhao Chen’s voice sounded in the communication channel.

“Leave this Thunder Beast to me. You all continue with your combat missions.” As soon as Zhao Chen finished speaking, his hand once again pressed on the hatch of that T2 Black Knight.

Only this time, he wasn't trying to open it, but rather using force with his fingers to pry the hatch open.

Creak, creak...

Chu Xuan watched in astonishment as the Mecha hatch gradually deformed and twisted, while also looking at the veins bulging on Zhao Chen’s neck.

What kind of monstrous strength was this?

He could actually pry open a Mecha with his bare hands?

Although she hadn’t seen this model of Mecha before, it was clearly a T2 Mecha!

Bang!

A piece of the hatch flew out, like a dagger, directly piercing into the body of an insect in the distance. The insect struggled a few times and then fell still.

“Huff, huff, huff...” Zhao Chen gasped for air. This Mecha hatch was indeed difficult to pry open.

With the Mecha hatch now open, he could see the unconscious female crew member in the pilot’s seat. Blood was seeping from her head, indicating she had suffered a head impact, which caused her to lose consciousness.

Fortunately, there was no danger to her life.

Zhao Chen carefully carried the female crew member out and handed her to Chu Xuan, who was standing nearby: “She’s in your hands!”

“Ah... what about you?” Chu Xuan sensed that Zhao Chen had something in mind. The next moment, Zhao Chen climbed into the T2 Black Knight.

Fortunately, the cockpit space was large enough to accommodate him wearing his single-soldier exoskeleton combat armor, though it was a bit uncomfortable.

Zhao Chen restarted the Mecha.

The Mecha began self-diagnostics.

Aside from the Mecha’s armor being severely damaged and the back armor missing, everything else was normal.

It could still continue to fight.

“Good thing I learned a bit of Mecha piloting skills before.” Zhao Chen showed an almost crazed expression as he looked at the Thunder Beast, which was now very close.

He immediately controlled the Black Knight to fire all its remaining small missiles.

Boom, boom, boom!

The small missiles exploded on the Thunder Beast’s body, creating bloody holes, but it was clear that this Thunder Beast had strong defenses; these few small missiles alone could not kill it.

Instead, the Thunder Beast was enraged. It roared and charged towards Zhao Chen’s Mecha, each step like an earthquake.

Zhao Chen raised the laser autocannon.

Bang, bang, bang, bang!

A barrage of fiery bullets landed on the Thunder Beast’s body, but the Thunder Beast’s tough chitin armor made the laser autocannon’s attacks largely ineffective.

Seeing the Thunder Beast about to charge right in front of him, Zhao Chen simply detached the two laser autocannons and activated the T2 Black Knight’s only melee weapon.

The Black Knight Lightsaber!

An obsidian-colored Lightsaber extended from the T2 Black Knight’s arm armor.

Zhao Chen maneuvered the T2 Black Knight to charge rapidly towards the Thunder Beast.

Like a warrior rushing towards a beast!

Behind them, the teachers and students of the Two Academies watched this scene, growing tense.

Su Lan clenched her hands, biting her red lips, worrying for a man for the first time.

Half a minute later!

Only the sound of a heavy object hitting the ground was heard.

The Thunder Beast’s head fell to the ground, and its remaining body slumped powerlessly to the side.

The pitch-black Interstellar Mecha, its entire body covered in green fluid, slowly walked back within the defensive line.

After a few steps, it directly crashed to the ground, kicking up a large cloud of dust.

“Cough, cough, cough...” Zhao Chen crawled out of the large hole he had torn in its back.

This T2 Black Knight was finally too severely damaged to continue fighting.

“Commander, the second batch of shuttles is preparing to land. Please prepare for immediate evacuation!”

At this moment, Zhao Chen received good news.

Six returning shuttles in the air landed again.

“Senior Su Lan, quickly evacuate the people!” Zhao Chen shouted.

Su Lan had been staring foolishly at Zhao Chen’s figure, but at his shout, she immediately snapped back to reality and began arranging the evacuation of the second batch of people.

Soon, the six shuttles were almost completely filled with people, but there were still about fifty to sixty people remaining on the ground.

They would need the shuttles to make one more round trip.

“Chu Xuan, Senior Su Lan. You two board first!” Zhao Chen told Chu Xuan and Su Lan to board first.

But both Chu Xuan and Su Lan firmly shook their heads.

Su Lan said firmly: “I will be among the last to leave!”

Chu Xuan raised her head and said confidently: “I am Imperial Army. The teachers and students haven’t fully evacuated, so how can I leave?”

Seeing their stubbornness, Zhao Chen said no more.

“Black Knight Mecha Squad, contract your defensive perimeter. Hold on for three more minutes, and we can retreat!” Zhao Chen shouted in the communication channel.

“Commander, there are too many insects around. We can handle the large ones, but the small ones are everywhere and are really troublesome,” the Mecha Squad Leader said.

“Leave the small insects to me. You just handle the large ones.” Zhao Chen said, glancing around. He happened to see a very thick steel pipe in the wreckage of a Starship. He walked over and directly tore it down.

Tearing apart a T3 Starship with bare hands, Zhao Chen was probably the first person to do so.

“All of you, hide in this area, understand?!” Zhao Chen told Chu Xuan and Su Lan, as well as the last batch of teachers and students from the Two Academies, to hide in a corner.

This corner was against the Starship wreckage and had only ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) one opening, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Zhao Chen stood alone, carrying the steel pipe, at the ‘opening’.

He checked his C-class mission.

【Killed Insects: 829】

【Mission Time Limit: 3 minutes 11 seconds】

There was still some distance to a thousand.

“Come on, more little darlings. I haven’t had enough fun yet.” A hint of bloodthirsty madness appeared in Zhao Chen’s eyes.