Zhao Chen effortlessly crushed the heads of several Zerg attempting to close in on him as if they were mere fruit.
The students from both academies behind him were terrified by this sight.
Zhao Chen glanced at the weapons crate, pulling out a rocket launcher that was already pre-loaded with five rocket projectiles.
He aimed at several larger Zerg in the distance and fired the rockets without hesitation.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Explosive fireballs erupted one after another. The targets at the centers of the blasts were no longer visible, and the surrounding Zerg suffered heavy casualties from the shockwaves.
What followed was Zhao Chen's weapons showcase as he used every weapon in the crate.
Under such terrifying firepower, Zhao Chen alone killed hundreds of Zerg.
Just then, six Shuttles landed beside the wrecked starship, their hatches opening.
"Quickly board and evacuate!" A female soldier wearing Powered Exoskeleton Combat Armor jumped down from one of the Shuttles and began organizing Xue Xiaoxiao and the others for evacuation.
Hearing the voice, Zhao Chen frowned and turned to look at the female soldier. "Chu Xuan?"
The 'female soldier' opened her helmet, revealing Chu Xuan's face. "What is it?"
Zhao Chen stepped forward, pointing at Chu Xuan. "Why did you come down here!"
"I'm a soldier. I should do what I can! And you never said I couldn't come down." Chu Xuan straightened her posture and blinked at Zhao Chen.
Admittedly, Chu Xuan in her female-style Powered Exoskeleton Combat Armor had a unique charm.
"You..." Since Chu Xuan had already taken matters into her own hands, Zhao Chen had no time to scold her now.
He pointed at Zhao Wan'er and Xue Xiaoxiao nearby and ordered, "You two, immediately take the teachers and students from both academies onto the Shuttles and evacuate to the starship first.
Prioritize the wounded and female students."
"What about you?" Zhao Wan'er asked worriedly, looking at Zhao Chen.
Zhao Chen pointed at the people continuously pouring out of the wrecked starship. "One batch isn't enough to evacuate this many people. I'll organize the defense here."
Seeing the concern on Zhao Wan'er's face, Zhao Chen instinctively wanted to pat her head, but his armored hands were covered in Zerg fluids. He could only withdraw his hand awkwardly.
"You go up first. I'll be there soon," Zhao Chen said.
Zhao Wan'er hesitated for a moment, then nodded firmly. Ignoring the Zerg fluids on Zhao Chen's armor, she punched it twice. "Brother, I'll be waiting for you on the starship!"
With that, Zhao Wan'er turned to help carry the wounded onto the Shuttle.
The fully loaded Shuttle took off again, returning to the starship.
The remaining teachers and students from both academies continued waiting on-site for the next evacuation opportunity.
"Commander, a large number of 'zerg cocoons' have appeared in the sky and are descending toward your position. The starship can only intercept a portion of them. Please be extremely careful!"
At that moment, a reminder from the bridge of the T3 Blizzard-class Light Interstellar Battlecruiser sounded in his ear.
Zhao Chen looked up at the sky. On the other side of the T3 Blizzard-class Light Interstellar Battlecruiser, within the cloud layer, fleshy zerg cocoons emerged like meteors, plummeting toward the wrecked starship where Zhao Chen and the others were.
"Mecha squad, watch the sky!" Zhao Chen warned over the communication channel.
"Black Knight Squad One understands, using missiles to intercept!"
"Black Knight Squad Two..."
"..."
The Black Knight Mecha Squad noticed the incoming zerg cocoon meatballs from the sky, and missiles from the mechas launched one after another to intercept these falling cocoon meatballs.
Boom boom boom boom
Fireballs exploded in the air one after another. After shattering those zerg cocoon meatballs, the resulting fragments fell like raindrops around the starship wreckage, even landing on the faces of the teachers and students from both academies.
This caused some students to feel nauseous.
"Such terrifying combat capability for an Interstellar Combat Mech..." A teacher who had studied Interstellar Combat Mechs, now noticing these never-before-seen mecha models, couldn't help but be shocked by their combat capability.
"With such firepower configuration, it's already no less than a small T1 Interstellar Destroyer; it's just that due to size limitations, the ammunition capacity can't compare to a starship.
But it far surpasses most known T2-class Light Interstellar Combat Mecha." Another teacher also exclaimed in amazement.
Just as they were marveling at these black Interstellar Combat Mechs that had saved them like heavenly soldiers, a loud crash came from the ship hull of the starship wreckage behind them. The starship armor was smashed into a dented hole.
It was a meatball cocoon that hadn't been intercepted.
The 'meatball cocoon' suddenly unfolded, revealing several long legs, looking like a spider, with a mouth full of fangs at the front.
"This is the T2 combat-level ground combat unit of the Interstellar Zerg, the zerg spider!" an old professor shouted in terror.
Now fully expanded, the T2 zerg spider immediately began searching for its target, quickly locking onto a female teacher. It opened its bloody maw and lunged to bite.
At this moment, the surrounding T2 Black Knight-class Light Interstellar Combat Mechs were engaged in combat and couldn't provide support to this area in a short time. Firing missiles would also endanger the teachers and students from both academies around the starship wreckage.
"Teacher Qin!" Senior Su Lan cried out.
Teacher Qin kept firing the laser rifle in her hands, but the pitiful firepower of the laser rifle couldn't penetrate the T2 zerg spider's carapace.
Suddenly, a figure stepped in front of Teacher Qin.
Teacher Qin looked in surprise at the man wearing powered exoskeleton combat armor before her. From what Student Su Lan had just said, this was a student from their North Star Starship Military Academy, here to rescue them.
"Zhao Chen, be careful! This is a T2 zerg spider, ordinary weapons can't penetrate its carapace!" Senior Su Lan shouted loudly.
If weapons can't penetrate it, then let's try fists!
In the next second, Zhao Chen threw a punch. His extreme speed made it so that almost all the teachers and students from both academies present could only see a blur of his fist.
Crack!
A sound similar to steel plate breaking was heard.
The teachers and students from both academies looked in astonishment at the man wearing powered exoskeleton combat armor.
They saw that his fist had directly pierced through the carapace at the head of the T2 zerg spider, with half his arm buried inside.
The T2 zerg spider began convulsing continuously, green fluid flowing from its mouth and the wound.
"Really can't take a hit." Zhao Chen said somewhat disappointedly as he twisted off the T2 zerg spider's head and tossed it aside like a ball.
Unfortunately, it landed right at the feet of a boy, who screamed and jumped up, only to be caught in a princess carry by another boy beside him. The two stared at each other in stunned silence...
Buzz... Buzz... Buzz...
At that moment, the ground beneath Zhao Chen's feet began to tremble, as if an earthquake had struck.
"Watch out... Zerg are burrowing through subterranean zerg tunnels!" Teacher Qin instinctively shouted.
But soon, a professor cried out in terror, "This... this isn't the movement of zerg tunnels... Oh no... beneath our feet... beneath our feet... there's something huge!"
Suddenly, a massive horn emerged from beneath the feet of a T2 Black Knight-class Light Interstellar Combat Mech, lifting it high into the air before slamming it back down to the ground.
Then, a colossal beast, towering over twenty to thirty meters tall, appeared before everyone's eyes. It resembled a giant beetle!
Even the imposing frame of the T2 Black Knight-class Light Interstellar Combat Mech seemed like a child standing before an adult in comparison.
"That's an Zerg T3-class ground combat unit, a T3 Thunderbeast!"