Chapter 152 Free Devourers

It took Li Chenzhou nearly half an hour to deploy all the tanks into the city. By this time, the Devourer city finally began to mount a defense.

Countless fighters flew from the depths of the Devourer city, and on the ground, a large number of strange tanks advanced from all directions. The energy cannons mounted on the tanks continuously bombarded the war fortresses in the air.

Indeed, because the war fortresses were advancing deep into the city, the first targets of the Devourers' counterattack were the war fortresses!

Previously, because they had not encountered any resistance, the war fortresses had not activated their energy shields in order to conserve energy, or rather, Slaying Points. Li Chenzhou had only allocated a small number of Slaying Points to each war fortress.

Moreover, these war fortresses were not fully equipped; they only had half of their weapons, and no defensive capabilities at all, because Li Chenzhou never intended to keep these war fortresses intact. They were meant to be expendable.

Now, after encountering the Devourers' counterattack force, the war fortresses activated their energy shields, as their Slaying Points had not yet been exhausted.

However, because they were only operated by AI, only a few of the energy cannons on the war fortresses targeted the fighters and tanks, while the other energy cannons continued to fire randomly at the city.

Because they didn't have much energy, the war fortresses that encountered the blocking forces quickly ran out of energy. However, all the war fortresses, before their energy was completely exhausted, suddenly charged towards the ground...

"Boom!"

War fortresses had self-destruct capabilities, and the power of their self-destruction was enormous. After the first war fortress crashed into the ground, it immediately emitted a deafening roar, and a huge mushroom cloud instantly rose in the city.

When the smoke cleared, the war fortress had completely disappeared without a trace, not even wreckage could be found. In the place where it disappeared, a huge pit with a diameter of four or five kilometers appeared. The original buildings, the Devourers, and the ground blocking forces were all completely annihilated in the violent explosion...

This was why Li Chenzhou didn't put people in the war fortresses. An AI was just a program; it wasn't afraid of death and would completely follow Li Chenzhou's orders.

But if it were people operating them, it would be different. Until faced with a true life-or-death situation, it was impossible to determine whether a person was truly unafraid of death.

Following the self-destruction of the first war fortress, explosions began to sound one after another. Each war fortress crashed into the city when its energy was exhausted, using its self-destruction to turn a section of the city into a blank space, and destroying the Devourer teams that had come to stop them along with it.

The self-destruction of dozens of war fortresses was definitely powerful, especially since this was happening in the Devourers' city. Moreover, behind these war fortresses were over a million warriors and hundreds of thousands of tanks rampaging through the city.

For a time, the Devourer city truly became a scene of utter hell. Countless Devourers fled in all directions on the ground, only to be slaughtered in an instant by tanks that appeared from nowhere.

"Xiaoya, ask Xiaoxin, aren't the Devourers all under the control of the Mother Empress? Why is it so chaotic?"

Li Chenzhou asked, looking at the city below.

The current Devourer city was no different from a human city in the early days of the apocalypse: extremely chaotic. In Li Chenzhou's view, the Devourers were all unafraid of death and had a strict hierarchical system.

He originally thought that when they began their attack, all the Devourers would attack the warriors in an organized manner, but he didn't expect their reaction to be almost the same as humans.

"Xiaoxin said that the Devourers in the city are different from those Devourers fighting us. They are 'free-range' Devourers, created by the Devourer Mother Empress by imitating humans!

These Devourers all have their own autonomous consciousness, just like us humans. Because the Devourer Mother Empress thinks our human brains are very special, she has enslaved countless human worlds. In those worlds, she has seen too many novel things, so she hatched these free Devourers.

These free Devourers have been living freely in this city since they hatched, unlike those Devourers who grow up under the control of the Mother Empress or the Mother Nest.

In this way, these Devourers will have a stronger sense of freedom, and their growth potential will be higher. Most of the current Devourer Mother Nests are selected from among these Devourers.

Because when these Devourers become Mother Nests and lead their own fleets, they have more ideas, and their efficiency is higher. Xiaoxin was also a free Devourer who grew up in this city!"

"So, this is the Devourers' talent reserve center?"

Li Chenzhou seemed to understand a little.

In short, the Devourer Mother Empress felt that the Devourers she normally hatched, although also intelligent creatures, were relatively rigid due to her control and would only passively execute orders.

And these so-called free Devourers, the best of them, after growing up, not only obeyed the Devourer Mother Empress's command, but also had some of their own ideas, making them more efficient in completing tasks.

It was like officers in the army. When two armies were sent to attack the enemy, one would directly charge and fight head-on, forcibly destroying the enemy.

The other would use various tactics, such as ambushes, sneak attacks, and sowing discord.

Then, the second type would definitely be more efficient, and would also reduce a lot of casualties on their own side. What the Devourer Mother Empress wanted to cultivate were such Devourers: Devourers with their own ideas who knew how to adapt to the situation.

"Good idea, but too bad, you won't have a chance!"

Looking at the city below, a sneer appeared on Li Chenzhou's face as he controlled the war fortress to fly towards the central area of the city.

The Mother Empress should be there, and the ultimate goal of Li Chenzhou and the others this time was to kill the Mother Empress. As for the other Devourers in the city, even if all the Devourers in the city were killed without killing the Mother Empress, it would be useless.

However, after hearing Xiaoya's words, Li Chenzhou stopped deploying those Devourers hatched by Xiaoxin. Originally, after deploying all the soldiers, he wanted to deploy these Devourers as well, so that they could each control a Devourer army in the city and cooperate with them to attack the Mother Empress's nest.

But now it seemed that there was no need to control these Devourers below. Letting them be in such chaos was actually beneficial to him. So, these Devourers hatched by Xiaoxin would be temporarily kept, and perhaps they could be of greater use after encountering the Mother Empress...