Chapter 174 The Devourer's Base

"Boom boom boom boom..."

A series of dense impacts sounded, and the monitoring screen turned completely white, obscuring everything. Even so, everyone's eyes remained fixed on the screen, awaiting the outcome of this concentrated attack.

Moments later, the white light gradually faded, and the screen slowly returned to normal, revealing that the previous stadium had completely disappeared, including the beam cannons mounted on the steel frames.

These beam cannons were meant to defend the stadium, but the appearance of the war fortress was too sudden, and it opened fire immediately upon arrival, leaving the Devourers below with no time to react.

However, despite the complete destruction of the stadium, the faces of those in the central control room showed no joy.

Although the stadium was destroyed, the Devourers' underground base remained largely unscathed.

Beneath the stadium, a circular lid, resembling a giant egg buried underground, had appeared. It was also made of life metal. At this moment, no sign of damage could be seen on the lid. Its surface shimmered with a silvery-white light, somewhat like an energy shield.

"This is the Devourers' real base. That silvery-white substance on the surface seems to be able to withstand our beam weapons."

Li Chenzhou said, looking at the base below. He then took control of a beam cannon himself and fired a shot at the "egg."

As expected, when the energy beam struck the "egg," the silver light flickered, dissipating the beam cannon's energy into nothingness...

"Try physical weapons?"

Duan Lei asked.

"No need to try, it's useless!"

Li Chenzhou shook his head. He was now certain that the silvery-white shield was an energy shield. The war fortress had an energy shield, so Li Chenzhou knew very well that this type of energy shield could not only withstand energy beams but also physical projectiles. Basically, as long as the energy wasn't depleted, it could withstand all types of attacks.

Of course, the energy shield wasn't invincible. Its resistance value had an upper limit. If that limit could be broken, even a large amount of energy would be shattered instantly. However, it was clear that relying on the war fortress alone wouldn't work, at least not a single war fortress.

The previous attack was already the saturation output of all the weapons on the war fortress. Since it failed to break the shield in one go, continuing to attack would only result in a mutual depletion of energy.

Although Li Chenzhou had plenty of slaughter points and wasn't afraid of consumption, the Devourer base below had a space channel, so they were probably even less afraid of consumption. Therefore, Li Chenzhou wouldn't fight them head-on.

By this time, the white light had completely dissipated, and the area below was silent. The Devourers showed no reaction, as if they hadn't noticed anything.

"It seems they don't want war right now!"

Duan Lei said, looking at the base below.

"Since they don't want it, then we need to be more proactive! Should we call Fatty and the others over?"

"What? Fighting side by side again?"

Li Chenzhou looked at Duan Lei and said with a smile.

"Yes! Fighting side by side!!!"

Duan Lei also smiled.

"Alright! Call them over!"

Li Chenzhou nodded. Duan Lei immediately used the war fortress's communication system to contact Fatty and the others in their fortress, telling them to bring Tian Ya and come over immediately!

Afterward, Li Chenzhou gathered Luo Hong and others who were close to him and said,

"You've seen it. The Devourers I told you about are right below us. They've even built a base. We'll find a way to get inside this base and see what's in there."

"I'll go with you!"

Luo Hong said immediately.

"I'll go too!"

Ding Ning also spoke.

Ding Ning had originally come here just to see people off, as he was going back to the prison to guard it, even if he was the only one left.

But after hearing that Li Chenzhou was going to wipe out the Devourers in Qing City, Ding Ning stayed behind. He wanted to see what the Devourers were!

Now he had seen them, and they were formidable enemies. So, he stayed. He was a soldier, and since humanity had enemies, he naturally couldn't stand idly by.

Li Chenzhou was, of course, happy to have Ding Ning stay. He was worried about having too few people!

However, when he heard Luo Hong and the others volunteer, Li Chenzhou shook his head.

"I don't need you to come along. This time, we're infiltrating, not destroying the place. We're mainly going to check out the situation inside. We don't need too many people. You have other tasks! And your tasks are very important and very troublesome!!!"

"What tasks?"

Wang Yuanqiang asked.

"The same thing I've been doing these past two days."

Li Chenzhou replied,

"I told you before that I want to gather human survivors, not just from Qing City, but from other cities as well. And, according to the current situation, we need to speed up the process.

But... you saw it just now, there's a Devourer base down there, so I need to stay here. The task of gathering survivors from other cities will have to be done by you.

I'll give each of you a war fortress. You can go to the surrounding cities separately, and you can choose which ones to go to. When you get there, do what I did before, integrate the bases around the city, and gather all the survivors.

Of course, things might not be so smooth in other cities. After all, you're here, and when people see you enter the fortress, people from other bases won't think too much. But in other cities, you won't have that advantage."

"Boss, in that case, we can ask the survivors here. Not all of them are from Qing City. Some of them came to Qing City for business trips or work! They happened to encounter the apocalypse and got stuck here!"

Duan Lei suddenly said,

"We can look for survivors like that and take them back to their cities. Having locals with us, whether they have familiar people there or not, will make it easier to talk to people!"

"Yeah! That works."

Li Chenzhou nodded and then looked at Luo Hong and the others.

"In short, I want results. As for the method, you can figure it out yourselves. Anyway, your task is to integrate one city per person. The more people, the better. Of course, you also need to differentiate. Not everyone is acceptable. Just use our base in Qing City as the standard."

"Alright! But I need to bring a few people. I probably can't do it alone!"

Luo Hong spoke first.

"No problem. You can choose the people yourselves. Anyway, my requirement is one war fortress per person. Just bring the people back when the time comes!"

Li Chenzhou nodded and then looked at Kong Xiang and Wang Yuanqiang, as well as the other leaders who were also in charge of military affairs and life, and said,

"You guys need to separate and each be responsible for one city. You can't be together anymore. Of course, you can also choose some people you're used to working with to help you!

Also... one more thing. When you get to other cities, if there are any strange phenomena or powerful creatures in those cities, don't act rashly. Report the information back immediately! We'll handle it!"

"Alright!"

Luo Hong and the others nodded together, their eyes full of excitement. Soon, they would all have their own war fortresses...