10: Questions about the flowing years

The enemy lost two more men, leaving only three soldiers and two players who could fight. Li Xiao decided not to give them a chance to breathe and was about to order Di Yun to launch a direct assault.

But before he could speak, a shout came from the electronics store.

"Big brother outside! I know I was wrong, brother, and I'll never dare to come to Wu Feng Town again. Please, big brother, give me a way out!"

The person speaking sounded about thirty years old, his voice trembling, clearly terrified.

Li Xiao coldly reprimanded, "Now you know to fear death? Why didn't you think of this when you pulled out your gun earlier?"

"Big brother, we were forced into it. The nearby resource zones are either heavily guarded by Black Hawk Empire troops or other players have ganged up. We finally found someone alone, but we didn't expect you to be such a big shot."

"Right, right, right, actually we just wanted to collect some resources to upgrade, and we didn't want to kill everyone just now."

The two players in the electronics store spoke in timid and soft tones, not daring to say anything defiant.

Li Xiao hesitated whether to kill or release them, as they were two human lives.

It was important to remember that the two billion people who had transmigrated were not just from their Sheng Long Republic; foreign players accounted for at least seventy percent.

If they killed one today and another tomorrow, this internal strife would only benefit foreign players in the long run.

"Oh, really?"

Li Xiao hadn't made a decision yet, but Liu Nian spoke first.

"You didn't have that look on your face when you were ganging up on us earlier. I think keeping you around would only cause trouble!"

With that, Liu Nian actually led his two subordinates and charged in. Seeing this, Li Xiao had no choice but to order Di Yun to attack.

"Fine! If you won't let me live, I'll take someone down with me before I die!"

Seeing Liu Nian launch a direct assault, the two players inside also started fighting back desperately. Bullets from both sides sparked off the ground and walls in the dark night.

However, the enemy only had three pistols and two rifles left, and their suppressive fire was far inferior to Li Xiao's side.

Twenty meters from the electronics store, Di Yun directly broke through, relying on his health, which was several times higher than the enemy's.

Although he performed a series of tactical maneuvers, he still took five or six shots, but in exchange, Di Yun had a face-to-face firefight opportunity with the enemy's only infantryman.

The enemy soldier saw Di Yun charging right at him and could no longer worry about the distant gunfire. He rushed out from behind cover and sprayed bullets at Di Yun.

Three consecutive bullets hit Di Yun's chest and abdomen, but only caused less than two hundred health points of damage. At the same time, Di Yun raised his gun and fired, also three bullets, instantly killing the opponent.

Seeing that the soldier who had charged in had taken so many shots and was still alive, the two players' faces turned ashen, but they still remembered to pick up their pistols and retaliate.

But by this time, with Di Yun's interference, Zhao Feipeng and Liu Nian's two soldiers had already charged in simultaneously.

Within ten seconds, gunshots exploded like firecrackers. Ten seconds later, the electronics store fell silent.

Li Xiao stood in front of the two players' corpses, somewhat dazed. As a scout, Zhao Feipeng's close-range marksmanship was very accurate; both players were shot in the head by rifles.

However, they were not wearing bulletproof helmets, and a rifle headshot's damage already exceeded one hundred points.

Moreover, their base had not been upgraded, and their health was still the initial one hundred points, so they died on the spot.

"Did I just kill someone?"

"At most, it's self-defense!" Liu Nian walked over and said calmly, "Now everyone has transmigrated to this deadly world, and no one's life is guaranteed from one day to the next."

"If you don't kill them, they will try every means to harm you!"

Li Xiao looked at Liu Nian's tough and calm face, without the slightest hint of guilt.

As the two corpses slowly turned to dust and disappeared, Li Xiao sighed. Perhaps Liu Nian was right; it was just survival of the fittest.

The two players had roughly over two hundred bullets, along with about one hundred points each of steel and fuel. As for rare minerals, there were only about ten points.

It seemed they had come to Wu Feng Town for rare minerals as well.

"Lao Xiao, may I call you that? I have a question, I don't know..."

"I know what you want to ask."

Li Xiao, who was cleaning up the battlefield, heard this and seemed to have already anticipated it.

"You want to ask why my soldier took more than ten shots and didn't die, right?" Li Xiao pointed at Di Yun.

Liu Nian nodded, "He suddenly charged in just now, which really surprised me. Twelve shots, three to the head, five to the chest and abdomen, four to the legs—even five hundred health points would have been depleted."

From Liu Nian asking that question, Li Xiao could guess that he probably didn't know about the Life Pool, which further supported his speculation that the Life Pool on him might be a unique case.

"Liu Nian, although the system calls this the world of the Reverse Fire game, we cannot really play it with a game attitude. We must treat it as a real battlefield, so we cannot be constrained by game rules."

"So?"

"It means you can use greater imagination!"

"Damn it! That was a lot of nothing." Liu Nian could already tell Li Xiao was talking nonsense.

Li Xiao shrugged, "I can only tell you that much."

After saying this, he thought to himself, 'Am I supposed to tell you that I have a highly suspected BUG-like Life Pool setting?'

After splitting the two hundred-plus resources with Liu Nian, Li Xiao took Di Yun and Zhao Feipeng back. He still had to investigate the Transit Yard tonight.

By the time they returned to the base, it was already past midnight. Li Xiao immediately used a conscription order, and this time, an infantryman and a machine gunner appeared.

The machine gunner should be a new unit type that appeared after the base upgrade. In addition to standard gear, he used a QBJ25 squad light machine gun, with two feeding methods: a seventy-five-round drum and a one-hundred-fifty-round box magazine.

Because it used 7.62mm machine gun rounds, a single shot could deal about forty points of damage to the chest with standard armor, and three shots could kill a private.

Of course, this was slightly inferior to a rifle, but machine guns always win by volume, and their frontal suppression was very obvious.

With four combat-ready troops, Li Xiao's courage grew significantly. They headed straight for the Transit Yard under Zhao Feipeng's lead.

At two in the morning, Li Xiao and his group arrived near the Transit Yard.

This site should have been newly opened by the Black Hawk Empire. The cleared trees and soil were piled up around it, and a dirt road connected to the highway, well-hidden under the cover of the forest.

If it weren't for Zhao Feipeng's direct search, it might not have been discovered.

At this time, only a few searchlights monitored several important positions within the Transit Yard; the rest of the area was dim and unlit.

However, from Zhao Feipeng's night vision scope, sentry posts were placed everywhere within the Transit Yard, and there were also two patrol teams of about fifteen people each.

But what attracted him most were the boxes of food and ammunition, and the rows of stacked fuel in the freight yard.