Gong Shuxie immediately slapped his chest and assured them, "Rest assured, leave it to us. It's not like we're making it compete in the Beasts' Combat Championship. For an Energy Gathering Mechanical Species, just transporting it won't be any different from any other giant beast."

That very afternoon, the team from the Imperial Forest Club arrived—a group of true professionals. However, Gong Shuxu was too nervous to let them handle the creature. Using the equipment they brought, he personally helped secure the Combat Rooster into a sturdy cage.

Along with it, Chen Gu also went inside.

Gong Shuxie knew a bit about the situation, but his colleagues were at a loss. However, upon seeing the Combat Rooster, they shook their heads and casually remarked, "Why would anyone raise an Energy Gathering Mechanical Species? They eat so much and can't compete. It's just a waste."

"The key issue is that Energy Gathering Mechanical Species are temperamental and not very intelligent. They don't obey their owners' commands. Other than hunting for materials, they're pretty much useless."

"Maybe the thoughts of the rich are just different from ours, haha."

"And with those shackles on, what kind of rich person could it be?"

The Combat Rooster, in its cage, heard these discussions and let out a dissatisfied growl. Chen Gu gently stroked it to calm it down.

During this time, the Combat Rooster's intelligence had rapidly increased, and it had begun to roughly understand what the people around it were saying.

As a super lifeform that had once fled the battlefield but still held onto its pride, it felt quite dissatisfied with the way these people looked down on it.

Gong Shuxu asked his third son, "Is this cage reliable?"

At this, Gong Shuxie and his colleagues swelled with pride. They eagerly began to explain, "You can rest easy. This is the strongest cage we have ever built."

"It has six layers of defense, inside and out. Even the champion-size behemoths from the Beasts' Combat Championship would never be able to escape."

"The innermost layer is a super-tough flexible polymer, followed by a layer of dense alloy mesh. On the outside, there are armor alloy plates thirty centimeters thick. Additionally, there are three layers of super-pressurized ionization in between. It is impossible for anything alive to escape from it."

"Our Imperial Forest Club has transported over a hundred giant beasts without ever having an accident."

The group boarded a Landing Craft, preparing to enter Capital Star, with Gong Shuxie and his colleagues following along. The process was slow and took several hours. Chen Gu lay down in the cage and fell asleep.

Outside, Gong Shuxie and his colleagues took turns on duty. The high-tech cage allowed real-time adjustments to the super-pressurized ionization layers, which could be tailored to different beasts with different settings.

One colleague, after keeping watch for a while and feeling somewhat weary, stood up to pour a cup of coffee. As he turned around, he inadvertently flipped a switch.

The settings for the super-pressurized ionization layer began to rise...

The Combat Rooster felt somewhat uncomfortable in its cage, grunting twice. It looked over at its owner, then thought it perhaps unnecessary to trouble its owner over such a trifle, especially since its owner had a temper too.

It endured for a moment, but the discomfort intensified. Raising its head to look around, it finally located the source of its discomfort—the walls enclosing it.

Fury began to build in the Combat Rooster's heart. It raised a claw, from which a red glow emanated, and then it clawed at the wall.

Gong Shuxie's colleague had just poured his coffee and was humming a pop tune on his way back. He arrived beside the cage only to hear a CRACK! Suddenly, a giant metal claw appeared, less than two centimeters from his nose!

That is to say, had he been just a tad faster, the claw would have pierced right through his head. Or to be more precise, since the claw was bigger than his head, it wouldn't have pierced it; rather, his head would have exploded like a watermelon.

Cold sweat streamed down his temples.

Then it dawned on him. "The cage is broken!"

With a scream, he alarmed everyone. Gong Shuxie and the others ran over frantically. "What?!" They all saw the claw that had penetrated the cage!

"This…"

The Combat Rooster pierced through the "wall." Feeling a bit relieved but still somewhat agitated, it withdrew its claw and scratched at another wall.

CRACK!

CRACK!

CRACK!

Gong Shuxie and his colleagues stood outside, dumbfounded, watching as their supposedly impregnable cage was punctured again and again, creating large holes.

"Run!" someone shouted. "That terrifying mechanical behemoth is going to break out!"

Gong Shuxie turned and ran, only to collide head-on with his own father.

The old man, after all, was at the Sixth Energy Level and incredibly robust. Gong Shuxie, a mere mortal, was bounced right back and fell flat on his rear.

"What's the panic!" the old man scolded. Gong Shuxie scrambled up, using his hands and feet. "Dad, we need to go! The Energy Gathering Mechanical Species is about to break out..."

Gong Shuxu grabbed him by the collar and pulled him back, while the Combat Rooster continued its relentless destruction of the surrounding walls.

He asked coldly, "Didn't you guarantee that not even a champion-level behemoth could escape?"

Gong Shuxie said helplessly, "This thing, it's beyond the overall champion's level! Stop talking, Dad, let's hurry up and leave."

Gong Shuxu called out, "Chen Gu, control your pet!"

Chen Gu had already woken up and shouted from inside, "Knock it off!"

The Combat Rooster whimpered as if complaining to Chen Gu: I'm not causing trouble; there's something off about this thing.

Then, to Gong Shuxie's surprise, the rampaging Energy Gathering Mechanical Species actually calmed down and stopped trying to break through the cage.

This is impossible! An Energy Gathering Mechanical Species... how could it be so obedient?! This defies all common sense...

But the fact was, the Combat Rooster had calmed down. Inside the cage, Chen Gu thought of the terrible consequences this "little accident" could cause: We're still unable to enter Capital Star for the time being, right?

"Yes..." Gong Shuxu also felt helpless.

He glared fiercely at his son. "Go check it out! What's the matter?!"

He knew the Combat Rooster well. Though volatile, it was highly intelligent, far surpassing the average behemoth, and wouldn't throw a tantrum without good reason.

Moreover, he was somewhat disappointed in his son. Although Gong Shuxie and his colleagues had boasted greatly about the strength of this cage, he doubted it could truly contain the Combat Rooster.

They would have been able to enter Capital Star smoothly as long as there were no complications on their way.

And yet, such an incident happened at this very moment.

Gong Shuxie called back his colleagues, still shaken. Upon inspection, they found the source of the problem: the voltage in the super-pressurized ionization layer was too high. This had caused discomfort to the Energy Gathering Mechanical Species inside, so it went berserk.

A few colleagues whispered among themselves, "How high did it go?"

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