The Imperial Ape had bitten off its own tongue. This wasn't fatal, but it meant it could no longer speak and, as a result, the interrogation was again interrupted.
The Mecha soldiers of Base Six were standing by in their designated area. Over five hundred Mecha soldiers had gathered and Ji Xinghe was there too. Nobody stopped him, and nobody told him what he should be doing. All he could do was wait anxiously like the other Mecha soldiers.
Indeed, Ji Xinghe was very nervous. He saw over five hundred Mecha soldiers and two hundred and seventy Mechas in the hangar. This was a formidable military force that a living base should not have, indicating that Base Six harbored far more Mechas for war than this.