As the abilities of the Xieshen Yiuweng dissipated, everything taken from the System Mall vanished into nothingness.
The Baowei Shenpao Gatling Gun disappeared.
The steel skeleton frame of the lower half of the colossal mecha vanished, its armor fading into an illusionary projection.
The upper half tilted backward, crashing onto the mountain behind it.
Due to the widespread impact of the Baowei Shenpao's powerful shockwave, the mountainous area for several kilometers around the colossal mecha was stripped bare, like a shaved head.
Trees were snapped in half, the earth churned, and wave after wave of ravines were carved out.
From the air, it looked like a conspicuous, hollowed-out crater.
The Small Miracle Lei Ying Mecha and the exoskeleton armor also vanished from thin air.
Ye Ying, tightly hugging the unconscious Gu Ya, climbed from the tilted cockpit floor.
Bai Ying, however, had been flung to the ceiling, her hands gripping a cable, suspended in mid-air.
On the display screen in front of the cockpit, the crippled Black Star army rapidly reassembled,
sweeping in like an overwhelming tide!
Ye Ying stared blankly for three seconds, then immediately calmed down, her eyes clear and her expression resolute.
She shouldered Gu Ya, caught Bai Ying in mid-air,
and her arms transformed into mechanical limbs, preparing to blast open the mecha's cockpit to escape.
But Bai Ying rushed forward and stopped her, "Going out now will only lead to our capture."
Ye Ying calmly stated, "But we can't just sit here and wait to die."
Bai Ying looked at the mecha's control panel, thought for two seconds, then quickly ran to it. Her small, tender hands rapidly tapped on the holographic keyboard, speaking with unemotional calmness,
"I'll awaken the mecha's power system, and Mother will pilot it."
Ye Ying paused for a second, "Mother?"
Bai Ying's hands didn't stop. She turned to Ye Ying, her brows furrowed, and forcefully squeezed out a very awkward and slightly sinister "smile."
If this could be called a smile, it was surely the ugliest in the world.
But on Bai Ying's cute little face, it didn't seem out of place at all; instead, it had a touch of strange cuteness.
Ye Ying didn't dwell on it for long. She hurried to the pilot's seat, pulled Bai Ying into her embrace, and sat down steadily, cooperating with Bai Ying's operations.
With their four hands,
they rapidly "played" a profound melody.
Bai Ying's initial attempt failed. She directly grabbed a spare communication line, plugged it into her neural interface, and entered the program internally for modification.
Ye Ying, through the normal startup sequence, repeatedly tried to awaken the mecha.
Outside, the re-formed Black Star army had already flown above the colossal mecha.
However, without Lai Jing Fan Nan's command, no one dared to open fire.
Compared to a dead god-level powerhouse, capturing Gu Ya alive held more value.
Those five strangely shaped mechas had now crash-landed.
They stood in five directions around the colossal mecha, forming a pentagon.
All of them unfolded their chest armor, revealing the giant equilibrium containment tanks embedded in their chests.
Within the equilibrium containment tanks, the greenish liquid emitted a faint green light.
These green lights shone upon the colossal mecha, continuously suppressing the Xieshen Yiuweng.
Lai Jing Fan Nan's colossal flagship mecha slowly flew above the colossal mecha and hovered steadily.
The head armor of the flagship mecha unfolded.
Lai Jing Fan Nan, a robust and tall figure clad in the highest Black Star commander's uniform, pure black with gold inlays, slowly emerged from the mecha, looking down condescendingly at the colossal mecha.
He flicked off the cloak draped around him, revealing a short, golden scepter in his hand, and spoke with arrogant contempt, "Gu Ya..."
The flagship mecha's public address system amplified his deep, resonant male voice to its maximum.
The tens of thousands of Black Star mechas surrounding him seemed to be shaken by the sound, their exhaust plumes subsiding.
Within a hundred-kilometer radius, only his voice remained.
"Gu Ya... you utter scoundrel..."
"Your pathetic defeat will be made into a living specimen, permanently preserved in the Great Black Star Museum for my people to curse and condemn for generations to come."
"Your family will be captured by me and tortured to death before your very eyes!"
"Your nation, Xian Xia, will also surrender to my Great Black Star Empire!!"
"I will let you live until the day this world is firmly in my grasp."
Saying this, Lai Jing Fan Nan slowly clenched his left hand into a fist.
"And you will die in despair at the moment I ascend to the world throne."
"This is the consequence of provoking my Great Black Star Empire!"
Inside the colossal mecha's cockpit,
Ye Ying's brows furrowed in anger, her entire body trembling.
Bai Ying closed her eyes and asked faintly, "Who is speaking?"
"Lai Jing Fan Nan," Ye Ying hissed fiercely, "Commander-in-Chief of the Black Star Empire."
"No wonder he would say such shameless things..." Bai Ying murmured softly.
"Mother, you are angry..."
Ye Ying said coldly, "Yes! I wish I could kill him right now!"
Bai Ying closed her eyes, also putting on an angry expression, and said softly, "I have learned anger. Anger makes me stronger."
"I don't understand why..."
"Perhaps it is the innate talent of conscious life forms..."
"Mother, I have successfully modified the colossal mecha's startup program. Start the mecha as I instruct."
"First, activate the dual bridge frequency resonance button, second, activate the class-energy rectifier beam, third..."
Ye Ying followed Bai Ying's instructions, rapidly and precisely pressing the buttons.
Outside,
Lai Jing Fan Nan continued to exhibit his linguistic talent, delivering a passionate and rousing speech.
"Gu Ya! You are, after all, merely an insignificant stone on the path of my Great Black Star Empire's advancement."
"Even with your immense divine power, you are too insignificant and incapable before my Great Black Star Empire!"
"No one can stop the wheels of the Great Black Star Empire from crushing the progress of the world!"
"My empire will ultimately ascend to the pinnacle of the world!!"
"The world will achieve great unification under my command—!!"
"BOOM—!"
As the Commander-in-Chief finished speaking, tens of thousands of mechas simultaneously erupted in fervent exhaust plume surges!
The sound acted like a powerful stimulant, electrifying the hearts of every Black Star pilot!
"Good!!!"
"The Commander-in-Chief is right, no one in the world can defeat the Great Black Star Empire!"
"Long live the Great Black Star Empire!! Long live Commander Lai Jing!"
"Long live!!!"
"Long live!!!"
"Long live!!!!"
Everyone was immersed in the excitement and elation brought by the speech.
Suddenly, the colossal mecha's rear propulsion systems roared to life with a burst of flame!!
The massive surge of energy whipped up dust into a sandstorm!
The sandstorm surged skyward, obscuring the deep pit on the ground.
The colossal mecha slowly straightened its body within the sandstorm, revealing its immensely large head!
Just its upright posture matched the height of Lai Jing Fan Nan's flagship mecha!
The colossal mecha's head-mounted beam cannon array suddenly fired lasers at Lai Jing Fan Nan!
"VROOOM—!"
Two heavy defense mechas rapidly flew in, blocking the path, and deployed their beam shields.
The lasers were refracted by the shields, scattering into countless beams of light.
Lai Jing Fan Nan remained standing, calm and composed.
Because the enemy was too close to Lai Jing Fan Nan, all the Black Star long-range mechas dared not fire indiscriminately.
The close-combat and defense mechas, however, swarmed forward,
one group attacking the colossal mecha, while others protected the Commander-in-Chief, forming a solid shield formation.
Ye Ying and Bai Ying did not wish for prolonged combat.
With Hai Yang dead and Gu Ya unconscious, there was no need for them to engage the Black Stars here.
The previous attack was Ye Ying's release of her inner rage.
At this moment, the two simultaneously maneuvered the mecha.
The colossal mecha's rear propulsion systems were pushed to their maximum,
breaking through the encirclement of the Black Star enemy units and escaping towards the sky.
As they reached a safe distance, enemy mechas with rear-mounted firepower, which had followed closely, unleashed their ultra-high-lethality weapons.
The continuous attacks struck the colossal mecha's rear, causing continuous explosions of fire.
After more than ten minutes of heavy bombardment, the colossal mecha's rear billowed with thick smoke and slowly descended towards the mountain.
At this moment, Ye Ying and Bai Ying,
having already taken the unconscious Gu Ya, had entered the escape pod.
Utilizing the power energy recharged by the colossal mecha, they charged the emergency escape pod,
piloting it into a dimensional space.
There were still ten dimensional space instruments left by Gu Ya. Based on the escape pod's volume and mass, each instrument could maintain a dimensional space for half an hour.
By continuously utilizing the dimensional space instruments,
Ye Ying and the others finally flew out of the Black Star army's radar scan range, completely escaping and heading into the Sea of Nothingness.
Gu Ya also slowly opened his eyes at this moment, asking weakly,
"Ying... how are we?"
Ye Ying handed over piloting control to Bai Ying, then hugged Gu Ya. Tears of joy welled in her eyes as she gently wiped the blood from Gu Ya's lips and eyes, saying with relieved laughter, "Don't worry, we've escaped."
"Hai Yang was killed by Bai Ying, and our mission was a success."
Gu Ya nodded weakly and said faintly,
"Let's go to the Golden Power Nation. There, we will stir up a wave of counter-attacks against the Black Stars."