Lord of Illusions City
Chapter 704 Time to Pick Up the Pace!
Fatty asked in surprise.
"That's right!"
Duan Lei nodded affirmatively:
"If what the instructor said is true, once the Devourers obtain enough cosmic essence, they will become invincible. Therefore… we absolutely cannot allow them to obtain enough cosmic essence.
To achieve this, we must, as we are doing now, go to other worlds to find the locations where the Devourers are absorbing cosmic essence, and then stop them from absorbing it, which is obviously not very likely.
We have no way of knowing which world possesses cosmic essence. Even if we did, we couldn't get there quickly enough and find the location where the Devourers are absorbing the cosmic essence in that world, and then stop them. We simply can't do that.
So, the only path before us is to enter their lair and eliminate them before they become invincible!!!"
Hearing Duan Lei's words, everyone's faces were solemn. Originally, all their preparations were for defense, even to the point of bringing the Duoluo world along. But because of the news brought by the instructor, they were going to abandon defense and take the initiative to attack?
Everyone looked at Li Chenzhou, waiting for him to make a decision!
"Fight over there?"
Li Chenzhou narrowed his eyes. He really wanted to call the instructor back and ask about everything so he would know what to do next, but he also knew that if Li Yingning didn't want to appear, he wouldn't be able to find him.
"Then let's fight! In any case, I don't want to sit still and wait for death!"
Li Chenzhou didn't hesitate for long before making a decision.
In fact, he could also choose to hide and ignore the Devourers.
If you absorb the cosmic essence and we can't defeat you, no problem, I just won't fight you, right?
As long as he had the war fortress and the small world, Li Chenzhou could start making preparations now!
The cosmic essence here could allow the small world to rise to level nine, or even become a real world. Li Chenzhou could completely focus on absorbing it here, regardless of the cosmic essence in other worlds. The Devourers could absorb as much as they wanted.
After that, Li Chenzhou only needed to take enough people, drive the fortress, and hide, without fighting the Devourers. Even if the Devourers really conquered this world and used it as a pasture, it wouldn't have much to do with them.
With the small world and enough population, and by using evolution potions and other commodities to exchange for enough slaughter points in the Duoluo world, Li Chenzhou could completely achieve self-sufficiency, and wouldn't have to worry about resources for hundreds of years.
But if he did that, it would be equivalent to admitting defeat completely, and he would no longer have the ability to fight against the Devourers. And the other humans in this world would all become livestock raised by the Devourers!
He was, after all, a transmigrator, and he had a system. How could he just give up like this? Therefore, even though attacking the Devourers now was a bit early for Li Chenzhou, and he wasn't prepared at all, Li Chenzhou decided to take a gamble.
But before that, Li Chenzhou had to make some preparations!
They could only enter the Devourers' lair through this spatial channel, and the Devourers would definitely know of their arrival. So, when they got there, it would only be a head-on battle.
Although the Slaughter Mall had items such as cosmic battleships that could be used for space travel and even combat, they were extremely expensive, and Li Chenzhou didn't have enough manpower to operate them.
Therefore, Li Chenzhou planned to go to the Duoluo world first, tell them about the cosmic essence, and see what their reaction would be!
As for here, Li Chenzhou planned to leave behind twenty billion slaughter points, which would be enough for them to last for a while. In any case, it seemed that the Devourers didn't have any new tricks, because they didn't dare to leave the location of the spatial channel!
"Little Lei, hold on, I'll go to the Duoluo world to find some reinforcements!"
Li Chenzhou said to Duan Lei, having made up his mind, and then looked at the others:
"You guys help Little Lei here. Remember, do whatever he says!"
"Understood, boss!"
Fatty, Tian Ya, Hong Li, and the others all agreed in unison.
Then, Li Chenzhou opened the control panel of the fortress and transferred twenty billion slaughter points into it.
And the next problem was to first determine the world level, and then leave.
Now, the Devourers' attacks were still constantly landing on the war fortress's energy shield, continuously consuming Li Chenzhou's slaughter points. Of course, the war fortress's counterattack was also continuous. Balls of fire would appear in the air from time to time, formed by the explosions of the Devourers' fighter jets!
These weren't unmanned fighter jets. Each fighter jet had a Devourer piloting it. Since the start of the battle, at least three or four hundred fighter jets had been shot down, which naturally meant that three or four hundred Devourers had died.
The Devourers didn't want to use the lives of these Devourers to pile up the numbers. Although the Devourers piloting the fighter jets were the lowest level of Devourers, similar to slaves, it still required the consumption of life energy to create such Devourers.
However, for the sake of the cosmic essence, the Devourers couldn't care so much. As long as they could reclaim the cosmic essence, they could withstand any loss. What was lost was only life energy, and after absorbing enough life essence, the Devourer race would achieve an evolution in their life form!
This was also why Li Yingning said that if the Devourers obtained enough cosmic essence, humans would no longer be able to defeat them. The Devourers were originally advanced life forms, with both technology and individual strength being quite powerful. If their life form evolved again, this universe would indeed no longer be able to find a life form that could match them.
Li Chenzhou looked at the constantly exploding fireballs outside, wondering how to determine the level of these guys. Because of the energy shield blocking them, they couldn't sense the level of the Devourers inside the fighter jets at all!
And if they wanted to capture one alive, they would have to release the energy shield, but the Devourers were continuously attacking the war fortress, and releasing the energy shield was no different from courting death.
"Boss, are you going to capture one?"
Duan Lei asked, looking at Li Chenzhou:
"How about I try to control one!"
"No! When the energy shield is activated, even if you can control them, you won't be able to let them in! Even with teleportation, they have to enter the shield first."
Li Chenzhou shook his head.
The war fortress's teleportation ability could only take effect within the range of the energy shield. That is to say, even if those Devourer fighter jets outside were controlled by Duan Lei, they would have to enter the energy shield before they could be teleported into the fortress.
So, if they wanted to know the level of the Devourers, they had to think of another way…