Chapter 137 The Power of the Controller

"Boss, these guys have some serious firepower!"

Li Chenzhou hadn't planned on interfering while Duan Lei commanded the War Fortress against the Controllers. Duan Lei was better at commanding than he was. But soon after the battle began, Duan Lei looked at Li Chenzhou with a solemn expression.

"What's the situation?" Li Chenzhou quickly asked.

"Boss, look at this!" Duan Lei pointed to the War Fortress's data display. "The energy consumption is too fast. The attack power of those landing craft is much stronger than the Devourers! At this rate, we definitely can't win!"

"Energy consumption?" Li Chenzhou looked at the data, not quite understanding. He turned to Duan Lei again.

"Our current energy consumption is about seven or eight times what it was when we fought the Devourers! But the energy beams hitting our energy shield are clearly not as numerous as when we fought the Devourers."

Duan Lei knew what Li Chenzhou was thinking and explained, "So, that means the weapons these Controllers are using are far superior to the Devourers and even to what we're currently using. In other words, we're at a disadvantage in terms of overall strength!"

As he spoke, Duan Lei looked into the distance. "Besides, there are only a dozen or so landing pods here right now. We don't know if they have any other reinforcements. If they do, we won't be able to hold out at all once those reinforcements arrive. So, I suggest we retreat!"

"Retreat back to our world?" Li Chenzhou asked.

"Yes!" Duan Lei nodded. "We should retreat now and abandon this place. We can go back to our side and defend there. The space channel isn't big; at least these landing pods can't get through. If we can make them give up these landing pods, that would undoubtedly be to our advantage. Otherwise, if we fight here, I don't think we have a single chance of winning."

"Going back won't work either!" Before Li Chenzhou could answer, Xiao Ya suddenly shook her head. "The Controllers are actually very strong, and they haven't focused all their attention on us yet!"

Hearing this, Li Chenzhou, Duan Lei, and the others all looked at Xiao Ya.

"Brother, look!" Xiao Ya pointed to the city below. "Right now, the most important thing for the Controllers is to wipe out all the Devourers here. Only by completely destroying the Devourer race can the Controllers truly be at ease!"

As she spoke, Xiao Ya looked at Li Chenzhou and suddenly sighed. "Actually, the Controllers have been monitoring this city of the Devourers all along. Because to them, their only enemy is the Devourers! They don't care about any other enemies besides the Devourer race!"

"Then why didn't they destroy the Devourers? Based on the previous battles, if they could come here, they could have destroyed the Devourer Mother a long time ago!" Duan Lei frowned and asked.

"Because of me… because the Devourer race restrains the Controllers!" Xiao Ya replied. "Before the Mother was destroyed, they didn't dare enter here at all. Only after you killed the Mother just now did they dare to enter this spatial rift!"

Speaking of this, Xiao Ya turned to look at Duan Lei. "Xiao Lei-gege, do you know why the Controllers' attacks aren't as dense as the Devourers' attacks, but consume so much more of our energy? Because the Controllers' attacks are infused with the power of this universe's rules.

"The reason they call themselves Controllers is because they control the rules of this universe! In other words, this space is helping them in our battle against them! So, we definitely can't beat them.

"Even if we return to our world, it will be the same. In fact, we will fail even faster than we would here! This is just a spatial rift; the rules aren't complete, and many rules are even missing. So, the Controllers' advantage isn't that obvious yet.

"If we return to our world, the rules of our world will be controlled by them. We won't be able to fight them at all. They can even use natural disasters like hurricanes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes to wipe us out! Even the sky will send lightning to strike our War Fortress!"

"Crap!" Grey Bear was covered in cold sweat. "How does that not make them sound like gods?"

"In this universe, they are gods, especially after the Devourers are wiped out!" Xiao Ya looked at Grey Bear and said.

"When I was in the Duoluo World, I fought them. I didn't notice that they could control the rules of the universe at that time?" Li Chenzhou asked, "They just controlled a creature called Blue Demons and a large number of zombies!"

"Because they were afraid of being detected by the Devourers!" Xiao Ya replied. "Once they manipulate the rules of the universe, the Devourers will discover them. The Mother was still alive then, so of course they didn't dare!"

"Since the Controllers can control the rules of the universe, why were they still afraid of the Mother?" Duan Lei asked.

"The Controllers control the rules of the universe, or rather, the rules of heaven and earth. So, they are actually like gods. Because they can also control the rules of life and death, they are also immortal. As long as they are not killed, they are almost immortal."

Xiao Ya replied, "And in this universe, the only ones who can kill them are the Devourers, because the Devourers can devour everything, including the rules of heaven and earth. And what the Controllers fear most is the Mother and her ten thousand Devourer Guards!"

As she spoke, Xiao Ya pointed to the landing pods attacking the War Fortress in the distance. "Think about when they appeared? It was immediately after the Mother died that they came in. Because they immediately wanted to take this opportunity to wipe out all the Devourers here, ensuring that not a single Devourer Guard was still alive.

"As long as the Mother and the Devourer Guards are all dead, the Controllers still have ways to deal with the other Devourers. That's why they didn't let any of the Mother Nests escape just now, because they were afraid that there were Devourer Guards hiding among them."

"Damn it, so we're actually helping them do the dirty work?" Grey Bear cursed in frustration, then looked at Xiao Ya with a glimmer of hope and asked, "Xiao Ya, can we... really not beat these Controllers?"

"Of course we can!" Xiao Ya looked at Grey Bear, then at Li Chenzhou, Duan Lei, Fatty… Xiao Ya looked at each of these people who had been with her and protected her since Qing City, then smiled, a very sweet smile.

"What the Controllers fear most are the Devourers, and we happen to have a Devourer here. So, of course we can defeat them, and we will defeat them here, and make the Controller race disappear completely, because… someone once said that this universe does not need to be controlled!!!"