“It’s best if you don’t understand what we’re talking about!”

Hu Tao said to Grey Bear with a smile, “This isn’t suitable for soldiers!”

“Aren’t you a soldier too?” Grey Bear retorted.

“I’m different! For a long time, I have to represent the military and haggle with those guys from the council. I’ve become a slippery old fox! Even one person like me is too much for the army. You guys should forget about it!” Hu Tao shook his head and said with a wry smile. “If those council guys weren’t always trying to cut military spending and put the money meant to save soldiers’ lives into their own pockets, I wouldn’t want to become like them!”

“Alright! Enough with the extra words, let’s study this first…”

“Extra? Seriously!” Just as Hu Tao was about to finish speaking, Li Chenzhou suddenly shouted, “How could we forget something so important?”

“What’s wrong?” The three of them looked at Li Chenzhou, their expressions grave. Especially Grey Bear, Li Chenzhou had even openly talked about using the Duoluo world as a battlefield against the Devourers. What could be more important than that?

“The fish!” Li Chenzhou said, looking at Grey Bear.

“Fish?” Grey Bear looked confused.

“The fish I caught in our world! It’s in the car!” Li Chenzhou said seriously.

“…”

Hu Tao and the others were speechless. Big brother, we’re talking about fighting the Devourers, and you’re making such a big deal about forgetting a fish at a time like this???

“Could it be… you caught… a fish that can fly, enter space, like the Kunpeng, thousands of miles big, capable of swallowing a Devourer warship in one bite, saving all of humanity?” Hu Tao swallowed hard, looking at Li Chenzhou as he asked.

“Of course not!” Li Chenzhou shook his head. “It’s just an ordinary tuna, with only a slight mutation. It’s good material for sashimi. I don’t think the Duoluo world has this kind of tuna, right? We should actually be grateful. Normally, deep-sea fish like tuna die because of atmospheric pressure once they’re caught. That’s why we never get to eat them fresh! But now, the tuna’s vitality has been enhanced, and it won’t die out of the water. So, you’re in for a treat! Hurry, tell those people over there to bring the fish over!”

“No…” Hu Tao, Dugutianfeng, and Grey Bear stared blankly at Li Chenzhou. After a few seconds, Hu Tao couldn’t help but say, “Xiao Li, how big is your heart? We’re talking about the Devourers, and you’re worried about your fish dying and not being tasty?”

“In our world, a great man once said, ‘We must despise the enemy strategically and take the enemy seriously tactically!’” Li Chenzhou said with a smile, “Lao Hu, Dugu, do you know what your biggest weakness is when facing the Devourers? I can tell you, it’s this weakness that has kept you on the defensive, hiding underground for so many years!”

“Biggest weakness?” Hu Tao and Dugutianfeng looked at each other. Then, Dugutianfeng looked at Li Chenzhou and said, “Mentality?”

“Correct!” Li Chenzhou nodded forcefully. “It’s mentality, or rather… habit! The Devourers have been rampant in your world for countless years, and you grew up in that environment! There’s an animal called an elephant in our world. It’s huge and has two long tusks. When it goes crazy, it can stomp an adult man into mincemeat! But in our world, elephants are basically domesticated. They’re quite docile and very smart, able to do things according to human commands. And the only thing humans use to control them is a chain that’s very thin for an elephant, so thin that it could easily break it! When elephants are small, people use this chain to lock them up, because they’re still small and can’t break free no matter how hard they try! And after a long time, they believe that this chain is unbreakable, so when they become adults, they still believe that they can’t break free! Therefore, they will always do the work that humans ask them to do under the guidance of that chain. Even at night, when there is no one guarding them, and only that thin chain that they can break with just one lift of their leg is there, they will not try to break it. They will still honestly wait for dawn and continue yesterday’s work under the command of humans!”

As he spoke, Li Chenzhou looked at Hu Tao and Dugutianfeng. “What do you think? Does it feel familiar after hearing that?”

“Are you saying that we are actually like those elephants that have been locked up by chains since they were young?” Hu Tao asked.

“Yes!” Li Chenzhou nodded. “Before I left, we had already destroyed a Devourer stronghold. At least in my opinion, the Devourers are not that scary! Perhaps the Devourers do have great strength and can conquer so many worlds, but based on the current strength of the Devourers in the Duoluo world, they are not invincible. In fact, they are simply vulnerable! It’s like the situation I mentioned earlier, where humans all go to sleep at night, and only use a very thin chain to lock up the elephant, but the elephant still won’t break free. And you are the same. The strength of the Devourers remaining in the Duoluo world is not enough to control the entire Duoluo world! But because you have long been accustomed to believing that the Devourers are invincible, you have not truly resisted!”

“That’s not true, we…” Hu Tao seemed to want to defend his world, but Li Chenzhou interrupted him as soon as he opened his mouth. “You did think about resisting, like Dugu’s forces, and organizations like Remnant Soul, but… your resistance has always been just an idea, you have never tried to turn it into action! Such resistance is not really resistance at all. Lao Hu, you said before that my arrival gave you a hope of seeing success, so you decided to cooperate with me with your people. But, think about it carefully, without me, with just the army of your Duoluo world, would you have been able to take down the Devourer stronghold we attacked before?”

Hu Tao and Dugutianfeng had watched that battle from beginning to end, so he silently weighed it in his heart. He found that if he only used the army of the Duoluo world to attack that Devourer stronghold, although the process would not be as smooth as last time, and some people would be lost, he was sure that he would definitely be able to take that stronghold!

When he realized this, a trace of confusion suddenly appeared in Hu Tao’s eyes. Yes, with their strength, they could also take down the Devourer’s stronghold, but why did they not take this step until Li Chenzhou appeared?