Dou Zhanqiong, amidst the fierce battle, had actually been paying attention to Chen Gu's actions. Although he had refused to lead a team to cover Chen Gu, Chen Gu was, after all, the key to the entire mission, so, of course, he could not completely ignore him. But seeing Chen Gu dive headfirst into the swarm as soon as he emerged, Dou Zhanqiong could only sigh with resignation. As expected, he's completely without experience in facing the Insect Race in space combat; his chances look grim.
The swarm was massive. What a Star Armor should do is harass from the periphery, slowly eroding their numbers. Diving straight in would only lead to being overwhelmed by the swarm, almost certainly without exception.
Well, this mission has come down to nothing but fighting. So let's fight!
Dou Zhanqiong stopped paying attention to Chen Gu. He turned around, killed two Sky Spider Insects, and then fiercely fired a shot at a distant Space Wolf Insect. This Space Wolf Insect had been in full pursuit of the transport ship. Suddenly hit from behind, it turned around in anger to attack Dou Zhanqiong.
Chen Gu was surrounded by insects. Their sharp legs were more dangerous than colossal steel blades and could easily slice Chen Gu and his Star Armor in half with a single strike! However, if Dou Zhanqiong had happened to see everything that was unfolding at that moment, he would have exclaimed in disbelief, "Impossible!"
Chen Gu, amidst that dense thicket of insect legs, was as nimble as a fish in water. The insect legs kept striking down, yet Chen Gu, piloting his Mecha, always managed to dodge them by a hair's breadth. Many times, these evasions even possessed a certain beauty, as if both sides had rehearsed extensively to present a performance.
Inside his Star Armor, Chen Gu had activated his Second Energy Level mutated ability, Radiation Field. The insect legs around him, even the minute changes in their internal muscles and blood vessels, could not escape his perception. However, this ability only had a range of fifty meters. Since Chen Gu also had to pilot the Mecha, he constantly needed to make split-second responses, making the situation incredibly precarious. His Mecha seemed to dance on a knife's edge—extraordinarily tense and exciting!
Dou Zhanqiong battled a Space Wolf Insect and a group of Sky Spider Insects fiercely for seven or eight minutes. Suddenly, he inadvertently saw a Star Armor burst out from behind the dense pack of Sky Spider Insects! He recognized that Mecha. "Chen Gu?! He's... still alive? He broke out of the swarm's encirclement?"
The Sky Spider Insects were numerous. They served as adversaries for space fighters and Star Armors, tasked with protecting the Space Wolf Insects. The large bodies of the Space Wolf Insects put them at a disadvantage against nimble space fighters and Star Armors. Therefore, these Sky Spider Insects were densely clustered around the Space Wolf Insects.
Within the swarm, Chen Gu was mostly attacked by Sky Spider Insects. This was because he was too "insignificant"; the Space Wolf Insects disdained attacking him, as the Sky Spider Insects could handle it. Therefore, by breaking through the Sky Spider Insect swarm, Chen Gu had essentially also broken through the Space Wolf Insect swarm.
Directly ahead of him was an incredibly massive creature, far exceeding even the largest mothership currently developed by humanity—a Giant Bubble Flyer. And in the space between the Space Wolf Insects, the Sky Spider Insect swarm, and the Giant Bubble Flyer, several dozen injured Space Wolf Insects were slowly flying back towards the Giant Bubble Flyer.
Just as human warships have damage control departments, injured members of the Alien Insect Race also received treatment. Inside the Giant Bubble Flyer were "dispensing pools" used to treat the injuries of the Insect Race. These injured Space Wolf Insects were flying back to have their wounds treated.
Chen Gu's initial plan, as he had told Andrew, was to blow up the entire Space Wolf Insect swarm. However, while the Mecha troops were preparing for battle, Chen Gu keenly observed that the injured Space Wolf Insects would fly back into the Giant Bubble Flyer for treatment. He decided to go for something bigger.
Chen Gu quickly targeted an injured Space Wolf Insect. The thruster engines on his Mecha's back abruptly changed direction, angling him toward the injured creature. This particular Space Wolf Insect had been hit by a turret on the transport ship. Fortunately, it wasn't a direct hit to a vital spot, but nearly twenty percent of its body had been sheared off. It was now dragging its tattered body, struggling to fly toward the Giant Bubble Flyer. The pain from its wounds made it extremely irritable. Just then, a tiny thing has the audacity to pounce towards me—it's seeking death!
It flew into a rage, swinging its remaining legs at Chen Gu while arching its back. In its ovary-shaped organs, a murky glow of bio-energy was condensing; its Acid Energy Cannon was ready to fire at any moment.
Chen Gu, however, continuously shifted positions in the void. If Chen Zili were present, he would have exclaimed, "The Great Nine Techniques of Ancient Martial Arts!" Using his Star Armor, Chen Gu executed footwork from *The Great Nine Techniques of Ancient Martial Arts*. He naturally wanted to use the more powerful Nuclear Combat Technique, but a Mecha wasn't a biological body. Its movements required coordination with each of its engines. The Nuclear Combat Technique was too advanced. Even though Chen Gu had switched to Griffin Wester's memories, making him equivalent to a Third Energy Level Star Battle Instructor, he still couldn't use High-Energy Combat Art to manipulate the Star Armor and perform the Nuclear Combat Technique's footwork in such a short time.
However, Chen Gu soon found that *The Great Nine Techniques of Ancient Martial Arts* were more than enough! Faced with the Star Armor deploying *The Great Nine Techniques of Ancient Martial Arts*, the bewildered Space Wolf Insect missed with all its ferocious strikes. Chen Gu's constantly shifting position made it unable to lock onto him, leaving it clueless as to where to aim its Acid Energy Cannon...
If Chen Gu had looked back at his fellow Star Armor warriors, he would have understood why the Space Wolf Insects were so bewildered. The clever maneuver Dou Zhanqiong had executed at the start of the battle was practically the limit for these ordinary Mecha pilots. They didn't understand High-Energy Combat Art and were fundamentally unable to integrate true martial arts into their Mecha operations, let alone the complex footwork from *The Great Nine Techniques of Ancient Martial Arts*.
The Space Wolf Insects had never faced such an opponent. With their inherently low intelligence, they were momentarily dumbfounded, unsure how to respond!
SWISH! Chen Gu was suddenly within a few meters of this Space Wolf Insect. As it turned to bite him, it didn't realize Chen Gu had been waiting for this exact opportunity. He abruptly ascended, looped in mid-air, and landed steadily on the Space Wolf Insect's back.
At the same time, he switched his *The Past Lives of Four Hundred* memory to Milna Katerina.
Radiation Field activated again, and Chen Gu could clearly perceive the fifty-meter section of the Space Wolf Insect's body beneath his Mecha's feet.
He raised his energy chainsaw, sliced down, and opened a wide gash on the Space Wolf Insect's back.
Chen Gu was about to execute the next step of his plan when Radiation Field suddenly detected a violent fluctuation within the body of the Space Wolf Insect beneath him. Instantly wary, Chen Gu quickly abandoned his plan and soared into the sky.