Chapter 150 They Are… Mining?

This time, the Devourers finally reacted. Just as Li Chenzhou's war chariot drove down the slope, countless small holes suddenly appeared on the Devourer base facing them. Behind each small hole was a Devourer, holding a beam gun and firing at the chariot.

The Devourers were now using real beam guns, not stun guns. It seemed they had no appetite for Li Chenzhou and his team, wanting only to kill them.

However, the chariot's energy shield had already been activated. The energy beams that struck the vehicle body only created white ripples and did not cause any real damage.

This was just like when the War Fortress had attacked the Devourer base, except the attacker and defender were reversed.

Moreover, although all the shots were blocked by the shield, the Devourers continued to attack relentlessly. They knew that the shield was not permanent; each neutralized energy beam or resisted energy beam consumed an equal amount of energy from the shield.

Therefore, in this kind of battle, both sides were essentially competing for energy reserves, just like in conventional combat, where both sides competed for ammunition!

Looking at the depletion of his Kill Points, Li Chenzhou couldn't help but feel fortunate. Fortunately, his chariot could directly convert Kill Points into energy. As long as his Kill Points weren't exhausted, the chariot's energy shield would last forever.

Otherwise, if he really had to compete with the Devourer base for energy, this chariot would definitely lose. No matter how much energy a chariot could store, how much could it be? The other side had a spatial channel providing them with a constant supply.

Of course, Li Chenzhou had no interest in wasting time and energy with the Devourers here. Seeing that the Devourers had finally begun to attack him, he chose to continue downward.

So, the chariot sped down the slope. Seeing that Li Chenzhou wasn't retaliating at all, the Devourers panicked. Not only did they increase the intensity of their attacks on the chariot, but after realizing that they couldn't deplete the chariot's energy shield in a short time, the Devourer base cracked open two more large exits. Several cage fighters flew out from inside and crashed directly into the chariot!

"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."

Seeing the cage fighters, Li Chenzhou immediately activated the chariot's beam cannons. In an instant, several beam cannons flipped out of the chariot and immediately fired.

At this distance, the fighters had no room to evade. All six fighters were hit by the beams, turning into burning fireballs before exploding, sending debris flying everywhere...

Cage fighters were only for capturing people, and their energy shield generators were relatively large. To save space, these fighters were not equipped with energy shields and naturally couldn't withstand the chariot's beam cannons!

While blowing up the fighters, Li Chenzhou's chariot did not stop for a moment, continuing to rush downward at full speed. The fact that the Devourers were trying to stop them meant that they didn't want him to go down there.

Li Chenzhou didn't know what was below, but he knew that he had to do whatever the enemy didn't want him to do, regardless of whether it was beneficial to him or not!

Seeing that the fighters had failed to stop Li Chenzhou, several more holes opened up at the bottom of the Devourer base, and a dozen chariots rushed out, crashing onto the ground before charging upwards to meet the chariot.

At the same time, the main cannons on the Devourer chariots fired energy beams at Li Chenzhou's chariot.

The Devourer chariots were somewhat different from Li Chenzhou's, but they were still chariots. However, these chariots were more like a combination of armored vehicles and tanks, with the body of an armored vehicle and a beam cannon about thirty centimeters in diameter mounted on top.

Most importantly, the bodies of these chariots were also shrouded in a faint blue-white light. Obviously, these chariots also had energy shields.

In other words, it wouldn't be easy to deal with these chariots; at least, they had to deplete their stored energy first!

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Just then, countless energy beams suddenly descended around the advancing Devourer chariots, completely submerging them in a sea of white light. It was the War Fortress in the sky providing support.

Li Chenzhou immediately controlled the chariot, charging towards the mountain wall on the side. The chariot used its momentum to climb the wall, speeding horizontally along the wall, bypassing the area enveloped in white light.

At the same time, the War Fortress began to launch a fierce attack on the Devourer base, with white energy beams raining down on the base's surface, preventing the Devourer base from sending out any more reinforcements.

Because the energy shield was a single unit, once activated, it would cover the entire Devourer base. Under this continuous attack, the Devourer base didn't dare to remove the energy shield like before, unable to send out any more chariots or fighters to stop Li Chenzhou.

The chariots they had sent out earlier had all fallen into the huge craters created by the War Fortress. Hong Li was very smart; he knew the principle of energy shields, so he didn't plan to use powerful firepower to deplete the chariots' energy. His target was the ground. Chariots were still chariots, and they had to move on the ground. He would create a big pit and see how they would drive!

Li Chenzhou hadn't expected Hong Li to be so quick-witted, immediately taking action and choosing the most appropriate method when he saw the Devourers trying to stop Li Chenzhou's chariot.

Now, those Devourer chariots hadn't been destroyed, but they had all fallen into the pits, unable to get out for the time being. The Devourer base was under constant attack from the War Fortress, so it didn't dare to remove the energy shield and couldn't send any more troops to stop Li Chenzhou.

"Whew! Good thing I was interested in energy shields and studied them a bit!"

Seeing Li Chenzhou's chariot continue speeding downwards, Hong Li in the War Fortress also breathed a sigh of relief, patting his chest and maximizing the War Fortress's energy shield to prevent the Devourer base from counterattacking.

The energy shield was a defensive shield made of pure energy. When activated, only energy beams made of pure energy could be fired from the inside out. Other materials could not pass through the energy shield, except for living beings. The energy shield was ineffective against living beings.

"What the heck is this?"

When the chariot finally reached the bottom of the Devourer base, Fatty looked at the huge pillar below the Devourer base and asked in a daze:

"Are they… mining for oil?"

Below the Devourer base was a pipe with a diameter of three or four meters that went straight down, disappearing into the ground. The material of the pipe didn't seem to be the living metal that made up the Devourer base, but a dark red substance. The outside of the pipe was also glowing with the light of an energy shield, looking a bit like those balloons that kids like to stick on plastic pipes…