"First, we need to know why you surrendered in pretense," Zhanhuo·Ji said.
Gu Ya said softly, "Entering the enamel city prison, that's all I can say."
"That's easy," Zhanhuo·Ji said calmly. "As long as you commit a serious crime in the Black Star Empire. The enamel city prison is divided into three areas, holding different criminals."
"Serial murderers, arsonists, fraudsters, robbers, etc., are held in the first prison area. The minimum sentence for those imprisoned there is life imprisonment. It's a mixed bag of people with no humanity, and people are assassinated every day. New prisoners, without the protection of a faction, would rather die than live."
"The second prison area holds war criminals captured by the Black Star Empire from all over the world. Generals, guerrilla leaders, and even leaders of small countries can be seen there. People who enter the second prison area are secretly executed within a month to three years."
"The third prison area is the most mysterious. Legend has it that it is a dead zone isolated from the world, and even the prison guards never leave the prison for life. Those who enter there do not even leave their corpses behind."
After listening to Zhanhuo·Ji, Gu Ya understood everything in his heart.
"Mu Ye·Xingchen will most likely be imprisoned in the second area," Gu Ya thought to himself.
"Also, no matter what crime you commit, you will first be imprisoned in the first area to await trial, the duration of which is uncertain. Therefore, very few prisoners can survive to enter the second area."
In other words, for Gu Ya to find Mu Ye·Xingchen, he had to commit a crime significant enough to get him to the second area, survive the first, and then find Mu Ye·Xingchen before he was executed.
"The most crucial point," Zhanhuo·Ji said, solemn and deep, "to prevent certain prisoners from escaping through technological means, everything in this prison is built entirely according to ancient models. There are no electronic devices at all."
"Are you sure you want to go in there?" Zhanhuo·Ji looked at the 19-year-old youth with some concern.
Gu Ya nodded calmly.
"Good, I can send troops to cooperate with you," Zhanhuo·Ji said calmly.
Gu Ya said calmly, "That suits me perfectly, and it's good for you too. Why not do something that benefits both of us?"
Shu Feizhang, who had been looking down and sending messages, looked up and said calmly, "I have finished reporting the situation here. The tens of thousands of Xianxia troops stationed in the outer seas will arrive to support us soon."
"We can use this window of opportunity to help Gu Ya implement his plan. When Xianxia and your army break into the city, repel Lai Jing·Fan Duo, and retake the city, Gu Ya will also be taken away by the Black Star Army."
"It can be said to be a triple win."
Gu Ya and Zhanhuo·Ji both nodded in agreement.
"Without further ado, let's proceed with the plan."
More than ten minutes later, Gu Ya flew the Thunderstorm Nebula to the edge of Shan Hai City, followed by three hundred mechs from Zhanhuo·Ji's troops.
Lai Jing·Fan Duo's troops were still rampant in Shan Hai City.
In the nearly one thousand square kilometers of Shan Hai City, a terrifying "ruin road" several kilometers wide divided the city from south to north, right through the middle.
Except for the Xingchen Ruling Tower, the tallest building in the city center, which was still relatively sturdy and intact, all the buildings on the "ruin road" had collapsed.
That enormous beast mech was coiled beneath the towering Xingchen Ruling Tower, looking down at the city with a predatory gaze.
The commander in charge of this operation, named Ang Jin·Buba, asked Gu Ya, "How do you plan to attack?"
"You help me hold off the alien mech army, and I'll deal with that beast mech," Gu Ya said calmly.
"You alone? Can you do it?" Ang Jin·Buba was somewhat worried. "That beast mech is one kilometer long, four hundred and eighty meters tall, and has a wingspan of two kilometers. Its high-temperature plasma beam cannon in its mouth can melt anything."
"I can!"
The Thunderstorm Nebula shot out deep blue flames and rushed upwards.
After Gu Ya emerged from his consciousness world, he had excitedly summoned the Thunderstorm Nebula.
If he could use such a powerful mech in reality, let alone the Black Star army, he could fight against aliens with advanced technology.
But reality had given Gu Ya a slap in the face. Although the Thunderstorm Nebula retained all its offensive weapons, its internal parts, spare parts, and structural assemblies were entirely products of this world.
"Black Hole Curvature Engine," "Anti-Matter Matter Aggregation Annihilation Reactor," "Void-Twisting Gigaton Cannon"—these transcendental and unconventional equipment and weapons existed only in imagination, being too advanced and monstrous for the current world.
"Perhaps they will be invented in the future. Then humanity can truly break through the planetary barrier and fight in outer space."
Putting away his fantasies, Gu Ya controlled the Thunderstorm Nebula and had already flown in front of the beast.
The enormous scale of this beast mech surpassed Gu Ya's imagination once again.
Just the two antenna-like tentacles on its head, responsible for receiving and transmitting communication and radar signals, were larger than the Thunderstorm Nebula.
Compared to it, the Thunderstorm Nebula was like a mosquito to a fierce tiger.
But so what? Just the thought of fighting this behemoth was enough to excite him, let alone defeating it!
"Activate mech fusion," Gu Ya said faintly. The steel inside the cockpit softened into a gel-like substance and enveloped Gu Ya's entire body.
If the human brain could not instantaneously receive an astronomical amount of code information, then it would use technological means.
The Kunpeng 3 system equipped by the Thunderstorm Nebula had a super-large capacity for storage and memory, which could fully accommodate such a massive amount of code information!
The moment the fusion with the mech was complete, Gu Ya immediately activated [Machinery God's Gaze].
Two blue circular program code patterns appeared before the Thunderstorm Nebula's sharp gaze, like two magic arrays that enhanced vision.
Countless program codes related to the beast mech poured into the backend storage like a tsunami.
[Star Blueprint], in conjunction with the mech system, desperately analyzed the logic and meaning of those codes.
Just as Gu Ya was preparing for battle, the arrogant and colossal beast mech discovered the Thunderstorm Nebula.
It tilted its massive head upwards, opened its huge mouth, and roared, "Haaang—!"
Black engine oil, like drool, was sprayed into the sky with the air cannon, and a corrosive black engine oil rain instantly descended upon the ground.
"It has this move too?"
A few drops of black engine oil landed on the alloy body, emitting wisps of thick smoke. Gu Ya, feeling the pain, instantly became alert and controlled the mech to fly into a building to avoid the corrosive rain.
The beast mech would not let Gu Ya escape. It opened its mouth and fired a spherical black cannon at the building Gu Ya had fled into, "Boom!"
The steel and concrete wall of the building was instantly penetrated, creating a molten hole.
The Thunderstorm Nebula quickly dodged into and reappeared among the buildings. The three mech pilots responsible for firing weapons in the beast mech had cold and sharp eyes, constantly locking onto the Thunderstorm Nebula's movements.
"Fly into the air!!!"
As the three mech pilots shouted in unison, the five mech pilots responsible for controlling the beast's movement operated quickly.
The beast mech unfolded its sky-obscuring wings and flapped them violently, making the ground tremble!
Terrifying torrents of energy erupted from hundreds of jet ports on the beast's limbs and abdomen, blowing away everything on the ground and stirring up dust storms as high as the sky.
The beast mech slowly lifted off!
"Found him! This little mosquito dared to challenge the 'Lai Jing's Fury' mech alone! I'll make him wish he'd never been born! Fire!!!"
"Haaang—!" An incredibly thick and bright black cannon was sprayed from the beast's mouth!
It blasted diagonally downwards through countless collapsed skyscrapers, hit the sky where the Thunderstorm Nebula was, and finally struck the bottom of a building, directly piercing the foundation buried deep underground.
A terrifying hole several hundred meters in diameter, pointing diagonally downwards, appeared on the ground!
The Thunderstorm Nebula flew out from the ruins of a building adjacent to the massive pit.
Having narrowly escaped death, the beast's back armor then flipped open, revealing countless beam cannon barrels extending from its body. They locked onto the Thunderstorm Nebula's flight path, and countless black lasers were fired!
At the beast's spine position, a series of explosions sounded, "Bang! Bang! Bang......" One by one, heat-seeking missiles broke out of their shells and shot towards the sky. In mid-air, they adjusted their angles and fired at the Thunderstorm Nebula.
In just a few dozen seconds, the sky and ground were filled with lasers and missiles, a dense black wall pressing down on the Thunderstorm Nebula!
"A cannon against a mosquito, that's hilarious," Gu Ya joked, not panicking at all.
[Star Blueprint] had already parsed all the codes of the beast mech. It was time to counterattack!
Facing the overwhelming, wall-like missile swarm and laser rain, the Thunderstorm Nebula fearlessly charged forward!