Several uninjured professionals gritted their teeth, helped up Gong Shuxu and Ma Shuwen, and said to Chen Gu, "Take care of yourself." Then they fought their way out together.

Once they broke through the swarm, the formidable nature of the professionals became apparent again. Elton carried Gong Shuxu, Lisa carried Ma Shuwen, and another named Chao Wanghou covered their retreat. The group sped away, faster than the swiftest horse.

A normal person would never have been able to run so fast with two injured people slowing them down.

Chen Gu was in a very passive position, trying to delay the battle on his side. Once a professional Fell and transformed into a Mutant, they would undoubtedly become very strong. Moreover, Boles, a Pneumatic Grenadier, unleashed a plethora of attacks in this planet's atmosphere.

The insects started to mutate as well!

Already particularly fierce and ferocious, they became even more terrifying. Not only did their size increase yet again, but their bodies also sprouted densely packed keratin spikes, and their strength was greatly enhanced.

They began to attack those insects that had not been contaminated, and a massive battle commenced.

By this time, Chen Gu was quite certain: Boles's target wasn't them, the professionals. In comparison, he valued this insect swarm far more!

But that bastard Boles kept harrying him. Now huge, with formidable strength and a myriad of mutant skills at his disposal, Chen Gu found himself unexpectedly suppressed, unable to find a chance to escape!

After a while, as Boles forced him to retreat step by step, rage welled up within Chen Gu. With a loud roar, his body began to swell.

CRACK, CRACK, CRACK...

Accompanying the sounds of his bones growing, Chen Gu swelled to a height of five meters!

This is probably my limit in this state, he felt. But it's enough. His immense frame brought with it dozens of times more strength. The Riverwash Sword in his hand seemed like a toothpick, yet Chen Gu dared not discard it.

Fighting a Mutant directly made it very difficult to avoid contamination.

Fortunately, the twenty-meter crimson sword-fire was still usable. He struck Boles heavily with his sword.

The crimson sword-fire surged. A large number of scales erupted on Boles's body, and he actually managed to forcefully block Chen Gu's sword strike. However, the tremendous force still sent him staggering back continuously.

Seizing the advantage, Chen Gu unleashed Nuclear Rampage with his massive body!

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM...

Despite his greatly reduced agility due to his enlarged size, making Nuclear Rampage seem like a laggy, frame-skipping version without its usual lightning-fast continuity, it was still too rapid for Boles to react. He was bombarded repeatedly by the crimson sword-fire, retreating again and again. By the time Chen Gu finished this wave of attacks, Boles had been pushed back several hundred meters.

With a great roar, Chen Gu raised his sword, and the crimson sword-fire, now over twenty meters long, surged forward again. Boles let out an infuriated howl and slammed his fists heavily onto the ground, yet he dared not abandon a defensive stance.

But unexpectedly, Chen Gu did not press his attack; instead, a layer of pale blue energy ripples began to emanate from his body.

Boles paused for a moment. His intelligence had declined after his mutation, but he quickly realized: This guy is trying to escape!

Weren't you the one who swelled up your body to fight me to the end?! Why are you running, you treacherous human scoundrel!

Boles let out a furious roar and charged forward. A few hundred meters was nothing for such a behemoth, but the energy ripples surrounding Chen Gu were already collapsing inward and about to disappear.

Boles raised his hand and struck the empty space forcefully. A sudden, massive air pressure differential appeared around Chen Gu. With a BOOM, the vibrating energy ripples swayed unstably.

Chen Gu's head buzzed, and blood gushed from his nose, but the energy ripples contracted inward, taking him along as he vanished on the spot.

ROAR—

Boles, impotent with fury, roared several times. He straightened up to look at Elton and the others still sprinting furiously across the distant wasteland, then scanned the entire battlefield. Although the Mutant insects were more formidable, the ordinary Insect Race members were vast in number. He abandoned the chase and turned to plunge into the insect swarm.

Chen Gu had judged correctly: Boles valued the insect swarm more. As long as he possessed a massive Mutant insect swarm, he would be nearly invincible on this planet. Everything else could be slowly dealt with after he controlled the swarm.

「...」

Chen Gu, dizzy and disoriented, fell from midair. With a thud, his head smacked on a rock, shattering a stone the size of a washbasin, before his body slowly contracted to its normal size.

His Quantum Teleportation had carried him further than Elton and the others, landing him ahead of them.

Ma Shuwen saw Chen Gu suddenly appear from midair and drop down, and she noticed his body had originally been very large.

She was momentarily speechless, then asked Gong Shuxu, "What... what profession is he exactly?"

Gong Shuxu didn't know how to respond and said stiffly, "I don't know either."

Ma Shuwen was puzzled but did not ask any more questions.

Only when everyone else ran up to Chen Gu did he slowly roll over and sit up. Boles's interference in the final moments of the Quantum Teleportation had taken a heavy toll on him. I'm afraid I won't be able to use my Quantum Wizard skills for a short while, he felt.

"How are you feeling?" Chao Wanghou asked with concern, reaching out to help him up.

Chen Gu waved him off and stood up by himself. Still feeling a bit dizzy, he said, "Let's go, fast!"

Behind them, the chaotic battle of the swarm had reached its peak, with insects of all sizes attacking and tearing at each other, and Boles flashing in and out, subduing a giant insect each time.

The professionals fled, utterly disheveled and in disarray.

They didn't stop until they had run for over a hundred kilometers, finally pausing to catch their breath. Elton, wiping sweat from his brow, asked incredulously, "When did Boles Fall?"

Everyone noticed that Gong Shuxu's face looked rather unsettled.

Boles was military, and this incident had resulted in his severe injuries—he was at the Sixth Energy Level! This matter would be difficult for Marshal Bai to explain to Aviloya.

Chen Gu had also recovered by now, but he remained silent. The Great Actor Chen had discovered a very serious problem plaguing him: he was hungry! Ever since turning Isabella Wu's page, he seemed afflicted by something akin to a binge-eating disorder, often feeling famished. And when hunger struck, his eyes would practically turn green; he had to eat his fill immediately, otherwise, the feeling could even start affecting his rationality.

His eyes scanned everyone as he asked, "Does anyone have any food?"

"Yes." Several people replied, reaching into their military backpacks and pulling out a few packs of individual military rations.

It was the same kind of latest individual military ration Chen Gu had eaten at the cave outpost: nutritionally complete and extremely calorie-dense. A single palm-sized piece could satisfy the needs of a fully armed warrior engaged in high-intensity combat for three days.

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