Lord of Illusions City
Chapter 588 The Best Time to Retreat
Unlike Lin Qiang's brothers, these child soldiers always obeyed Lin Qiang unconditionally. They didn't even ask questions about Lin Qiang's orders, turning around and leaving the RV.
Subsequently, one of the child soldiers straddled a motorcycle and drove into the distance, while the other child soldiers, as before, went around in different directions to deliver Lin Qiang's orders.
Therefore, Duan Lei saw that after several men in black rode motorcycles around, the previously distinct groups of men in black returned to their previous state, no longer wary of each other.
And the Devourers began to step forward and control the giant zombies, causing the balance that had been tilting towards the villa to begin to stabilize again.
This was naturally because Lin Qiang had reissued the order to no longer defend against the Devourers, preparing to truly unite with the Devourers again. Lin Qiang wasn't stupid; he could see the problem that Duan Lei couldn't.
This isn't to say that Lin Qiang is smarter than Duan Lei, but rather because Duan Lei had never truly come into contact with the Devourers and naturally didn't have much understanding of them.
But Lin Qiang was a collaborator of the Devourers, so he knew that there was a hierarchy among the Devourers, and it was quite strict.
Therefore, after seeing that the Devourers were not guarding against his child soldiers and the changes in the giant zombies in the field, he guessed that this was because the high-level Devourers had been sniped by the villa.
Therefore, he not only issued an order to his child soldiers to no longer guard against the Devourers, but also ordered the Devourers to control the giant zombies and eliminate the enemies of the villa!!!
The Devourers' orders were originally to cooperate with Lin Qiang, which meant that although Lin Qiang was not a Devourer, he also had similar secondary permissions to the high-level Devourers. As long as his orders did not conflict with the orders of the high-level Devourers, these low-level Devourers must carry them out!
In fact, Lin Qiang still didn't have a deep understanding of the Devourers. After all, the Devourers were only temporarily cooperating with Lin Qiang and couldn't reveal too much information about themselves to him.
The remaining Devourers' orders were to cooperate with Lin Qiang, so as long as they didn't encounter other high-level Devourers, the remaining Devourers would never disobey Lin Qiang's orders, even if Lin Qiang asked them to die.
In other words, these Devourers were now Lin Qiang's most loyal subordinates, even more loyal than those child soldiers, because they were not afraid of death at all!!!
Therefore, if Lin Qiang had just ordered a retreat and taken these Devourers with him, using their ability to control zombies, he could have risen rapidly in a short period of time.
Whether Lin Qiang used the Devourers to gather zombie hordes to collect mutated crystal nuclei, or let them command the zombie hordes to attack bases, or even return to attack the villa base, were all good choices.
As long as he wasn't unlucky enough to encounter a higher-level Devourer, there wouldn't be any problems. Unfortunately, Lin Qiang didn't know this and missed this opportunity in vain!
As the Devourers began to control, the battlefield situation changed again. Fortunately, they had already consumed almost everything before, so Lin Qiang's side couldn't achieve better results.
In the end, with Duan Lei's command and the cooperation of Fatty and others, the giant zombies were finally completely annihilated. Even the zombie horde that Li Yunshan's team had painstakingly collected was turned into corpses, and even Li Yunshan and the others were seriously injured.
Fortunately, with Tian Ya's rescue and Fatty and Duan Xue's cover, they were finally rescued. Moreover, they were in zombie form themselves, so they definitely didn't have to worry about infection. Even the injuries on their bodies could be quickly recovered by devouring life! The only loss was the zombie horde!
So, after several attacks, the villa side could be said to have not lost a single soldier or general—if you don't count those who surrendered.
And Lin Qiang's side lost everyone except the child soldiers and the remaining survivors. Even in terms of numbers, they were much smaller than the villa side!
The child soldiers and the Devourers combined numbered only about a thousand. Although the motorcade they had used to surround the entire villa was still there, it seemed a bit ridiculous to try to surround the huge resort villa with just these thousand people.
Therefore, Lin Qiang no longer used the encirclement method. When the last giant zombie fell and the battle ended, Lin Qiang summoned all the child soldiers and Devourers back to the entrance of the villa.
At this time, Xiao Ya also completed her task and was carried back by Tian Ya with a tired face. This Nether Corpse King, who could once make countless men tremble with fear, was only at level three after all and didn't have such a strong mental power yet.
Being able to persevere to the end was already Xiao Ya's extraordinary performance with her unyielding spirit. Seeing Xiao Ya's pale little face, Duan Xue, feeling distressed, quickly took her and carried her back to the chariot.
"What other tricks do these guys have up their sleeves? Why haven't they retreated yet?"
Outside the car, looking at Lin Qiang, who was still staying here, Fatty asked a little depressed. Just now, in order to rescue Li Yunshan and the others, he had to activate his taunt skill, and as a result, he was surrounded and trampled by seven or eight giant zombies! It was like playing whack-a-mole!
Although this guy was thick-skinned, being trampled on by seven or eight zombies as huge as the Hulk was definitely not a good experience! Now Fatty had a desire in his heart, hoping that when he leveled up again, he would get a skill like Duan Xue's.
"There must be something else!"
Duan Lei nodded and said:
"Because he knows we still have a trump card. If all his strength was what we saw, he would have retreated before when the giant zombies couldn't hold on any longer!"
"Then what do we do? Retreat now?"
Fatty asked, rolling his eyes.
If they were to retreat, now would be the best time, because all the enemies were at the main gate. They only needed to teleport the people they wanted to take away into the car, and then slip away directly from the back door.
As for the other warriors, they could just tell them that Duan Lei was only taking people away in batches, and even Fatty, Tian Ya, and Duan Xue could stay here to serve as a reassurance for those warriors!
"No need! It's good to see what this guy's trump card is! Besides, if we don't persevere to the end, we'll always feel a little unwilling!"
Duan Lei shook his head and replied without hesitation...