As for the third option...

To be honest, even Hu Tao and Dugu Tianfeng, after careful consideration, felt that this last option was actually the best of the three.

The only problem was that this last option required allowing the Devourers to attack some of their bases in the early stages. Even with pre-dug tunnels, many people would inevitably be captured by the Devourers.

Especially when large groups of Devourers attacked, there would definitely be no shortage of aerial Predator fighters. Even with tunnels, it was unlikely that many people would be able to escape!

Hu Tao and Dugu Tianfeng looked at each other, neither daring to make a decision. Choosing the first option was too risky, as it would be easy for the Devourers to find a way to deal with the war fortresses, leading to their complete annihilation.

The second option, a head-on confrontation, pitting the fortress groups against the Devourers and bringing the war into the open, would cause the Devourers to concentrate all their power on humanity. While both sides were消耗 (xiāohào, exhausting) each other, there was still a Controller ready to reap the benefits.

And the last one...

Seeing the two unable to make up their minds, Li Chenzhou didn't urge them. He knew that such a decision was difficult to make, especially for a military general like Hu Tao who cared about the common people.

If they chose the third option, at least in Hu Tao's view, he would bear an undeniable responsibility for those bases that would be breached and the people who would die inside!

"If... we let those guys in the council make the decision, what would they choose?"

After a long time, Hu Tao asked with difficulty.

"If they knew the whole situation, they wouldn't choose any of them!"

Dugu Tianfeng gently shook his head. He knew the people in the council quite well. He looked at Hu Tao and said,

"They would abandon all the civilians, exchange them for a few war fortresses, and then mobilize those civilians to dig a new underground base somewhere else that could accommodate the war fortresses before the Devourer army arrived!

Then, they would put all their clansmen and their affiliated families into the war fortresses and hide before the Devourers attacked. They might not reappear until the Devourers had destroyed all the exposed bases. They might even hide until... this reaping of the Devourers was over and they had all left. Then they would reappear to govern the world!"

"They... they couldn't possibly do that, right? If everyone else is dead, leaving only them, how will this world develop?"

Hu Tao asked tremulously.

"What's impossible about that?"

Dugu Tianfeng shook his head, then switched the screen to show the people in the small world working enthusiastically. He pointed and said,

"How many people do we have here? But do you think that if there were no one else, could we continue humanity with just these hundred thousand people?"

Looking at the screen, Hu Tao was silent, because... as long as the fortresses weren't discovered, with the people in the small world now, it seemed they could continue forever, and the population would continue to grow.

After all, most of the people inside were family members of the soldiers. The male to female ratio was about 6:4. Although there were more men, as long as they had enough mutated crystal cores, they could keep the fortresses running, and there wouldn't be any problems in the small world!

"Thought about it, right? We only have a hundred thousand people here, but how many people are there in those large families? Plus those small families that depend on them. With their wealth, as long as they can exchange for war fortresses, they can take those people into the fortress's small world and keep the fortress running for hundreds of years!"

Dugu Tianfeng sighed and said,

"So, as long as they get the war fortresses and know that the Devourer's branch nest has been destroyed by us, and the Devourers will call for reinforcements, then they will definitely make the choice I said, to protect their families!

As for those civilians... do you think those high and mighty lords have ever cared about them?"

"..."

Dugu Tianfeng's words left Hu Tao speechless. Not to mention those bigwigs, even Dugu Tianfeng himself didn't care about the lives and deaths of those civilians before. All he cared about were the members of the Avengers Alliance.

So, despite being unwilling to believe it, Hu Tao himself knew that Dugu Tianfeng was right. Those guys in the council were likely to do that kind of thing as long as they got the war fortresses.

"In that case! Then... we choose three!!!"

Hu Tao suddenly gritted his teeth and said with a ferocious expression,

"Then, we'll tell those people in the council directly that Little Li is actually the Controller's spokesperson, which is why he has war fortresses and other high-tech weapons! As well as magical potions like evolution serums!

Moreover, we'll modify this video a bit and say that those soldiers Little Li brought are actually sent by the Controller! He received the Controller's orders to take the Controller's army to destroy this branch nest of the Devourers!

In addition, Little Li was able to recover Base Three because of Little Li, because he's actually the Controller's sleeper agent. That's why those Blue Demons and zombies all withdrew on the third day, just to give Little Li a chance to establish his prestige. The battles in the first two days were just acting!!!

Furthermore, we have to tell those guys in the council to keep it a secret, otherwise, once Little Li's identity is revealed, they can forget about trading anything from Little Li!"

Hu Tao said a lot in a row, and hearing these words, Li Chenzhou and Dugu Tianfeng were shocked. Neither of them had expected that Hu Tao could come up with such a mature plan in such a short period of time.

Even the inexplicable withdrawal of the Blue Demons and zombies from Base Three was used by him, making his lie easier to accept.

As for the video of destroying the Devourer's branch nest, it was actually very simple, because those soldiers were all wearing combat uniforms and closed helmets, so you couldn't see who they were at all!

Moreover, although the Controller had existed for a long time, it had only just been exposed. The people of the Duoluo world didn't understand the Controller at all. Saying that the three thousand soldiers were the Controller's army, no one could say anything.

Originally, the performance of these three thousand soldiers didn't seem like soldiers from the Duoluo world. After training, the fighting power of these guys had increased more than tenfold? 138 Reading Network

As for the war chariots?

Li Chenzhou himself was a member of the Controller, so his war chariots, fortresses, and evolution serums all came from the Controller. You want them? Then you must trade with the Controller's envoy!

As for the Controllers themselves, who were enemies and even planned to slaughter the entire Duoluo world and prepare to destroy the Devourers with all their might, why did they suddenly give up slaughtering humans and instead want to cooperate with humans? Hu Tao also gave enough reasons...