122: Empire conspiracy

"Chang Zhan!"

Li Xiao could not care less about the Major General and hurried over.

Chang Zhan's chest was riddled with bullet holes, his bulletproof vest was shattered, and the helmet he wore was also full of gunshot marks.

Looking at Chang Zhan's information panel, only a few dozen HP remained, and it was still dropping at a rate of several points per second. Watching Chang Zhan, his pupils were showing signs of dilation, and his breathing was extremely shallow.

"Medic! Where is the Medic! Hurry and save him!"

Under Li Xiao's roar, a special operations team member following Ling Chao hurriedly ran over. This Shadow team member, equipped with battlefield medical specialization, immediately took out a red first-aid bag, quickly retrieved a pre-prepared adrenaline shot, and stabbed it directly into Chang Zhan's arm.

With that one injection, Chang Zhan's bleeding status stopped. Li Xiao let out a big sigh of relief; if this had been delayed by another ten or twenty seconds, his first ally would have died.

As the Medic used the bandages, painkillers, and first-aid kit that Li Xiao had pulled out to treat Chang Zhan, the dark-skinned man's eyes finally regained their luster.

"Captain... Captain Li, am I... am I still alive..."

"Yes! You are still alive!"

Li Xiao held Chang Zhan's hand; he had experienced many battles, but he had never been as nervous as he was today.

"Is... is the target dead?"

Chang Zhan asked in a thread-like voice. Li Xiao looked back and smiled bitterly, "Brother, you are truly dedicated. That old Major General is almost out of breath too."

"Quick! Quickly kill him for me... otherwise, the lives of so many brothers will have... have... been sacrificed in vain..."

"Alright! I will arrange it for you!"

Li Xiao had the team members carry Chang Zhan out, then walked over to the Major General. Ling Chao asked, "How should we handle him?"

"Of course, execute him!"

As Li Xiao said this, he drew his Type 05 pistol and aimed it at the bloody, mangled head that was desperately trying to crawl out.

Bang!

This 9mm bullet ended a life, and the deceased became the first high-ranking official of the Black Hawk Unit of the Black Hawk Empire with the rank of General that Li Xiao had killed.

"Let's go... the enemy reinforcements are almost here!"

This place was only about twenty kilometers from Weixing City, and the battle had been going on for over ten minutes; the Black Hawk Unit should be arriving any second.

Li Xiao turned around, preparing to walk out of the hangar, when suddenly a flash of inspiration hit him. This guy was a high-ranking officer with the rank of General, after all; would he have anything valuable on him?

Thinking of this, he inexplicably turned back, pulled away the corpses of several junior officers, and dragged out the old Major General's body.

After glancing at the face that was no longer recognizable, Li Xiao pinched his nose and began to search the pockets.

"Upper pocket... nothing."

"Lower pocket... also nothing..."

"Trouser pocket... ah, got it!"

Li Xiao felt the last trouser pocket and pulled out a card and a USB drive.

"Oh! A Star Coins card!"

Seeing these two items, Li Xiao was instantly overjoyed. A Major General this big probably had quite a substantial private treasury, and who knows what good stuff might be on this USB drive.

However, Li Xiao didn't have time to look, because he had already heard the sound of the autocannons from the IFVs in the distance.

As the two helicopters took off, Li Xiao could see a large number of armored vehicles on the national highway, their lights flashing, racing toward the airport, with countless tracer rounds mixed with numerous bullets flying toward them.

Li Xiao and Chang Zhan each sat in the back seat of an armed helicopter, flying toward Xi City.

As for Yue Ge and the other two team members, because there wasn't enough room, they had to retreat on foot to the location where they had stored the meng hu off-road vehicle and return on their own.

Half an hour later, when the two armed helicopters landed at the base, everyone was stunned.

"Good heavens! Where did these armed helicopters come from!"

"This is amazing!"

Ling Chao parked the helicopter directly in front of the command center.

After jumping off the helicopter, Li Xiao hurriedly called over Zuo Fei's medical team to provide continuous treatment for Chang Zhan. This guy was currently his contact with Tian Yu; if he died, who would he ask for payment?

Seeing Chang Zhan being taken into the command center, Li Xiao finally breathed a sigh of relief. He looked back at Ling Chao and noticed him sighing, so he asked, "What's wrong?"

"These two armed helicopters have less than one-third durability left, and their ammunition is completely exhausted. We don't have professional flight vehicle maintenance personnel, which is a real shame."

Upon hearing this, Li Xiao checked the helicopter's information panel again and found that the status was still "Hijacked."

"This is really a bit of a white elephant..."

Li Xiao could still get autocannon ammunition, rockets, and anti-tank missiles from Nangong Yan, but there was nothing to be done about the flight vehicle itself.

He asked Ye Ming and Jiang Lang, who were currently leading a team in Xi City to collect resources. These two Engineers, who had reached the rank of F-class Captain, could only repair light armored ground vehicles; they weren't qualified for flight vehicles yet.

Never mind for now; they wouldn't need it for the time being anyway.

While Chang Zhan was still undergoing treatment, Li Xiao ran to the second-floor bedroom to start checking the items he had obtained from the Major General.

First was the Star Coins card. Li Xiao had originally thought that a Major General should at least have a million or so Star Coins.

As it turned out, damn it, there were only a little over one hundred thousand. It was a complete waste of Li Xiao's excitement.

Next, he brought over the laptop that had appeared back when he had a Level 1 base. Last time, unlocking the quadruple rocket launcher, mortars, and this time upgrading the military factory and unlocking the blade ifv all relied on this laptop to analyze and inject data.

After inserting the USB drive into the laptop, a file popped up. Li Xiao took one look at it, and his back immediately turned cold; a terrifying shadow instantly enveloped his entire brain...

[Empire Military Order No. 106: In view of the rapid development of the Transcendent's military strength, which has seriously damaged the Empire's global united front. The Imperial Central Intelligence Department hereby issues instructions to all first and second-line combat commands: Effective immediately, you may cultivate and foster puppet forces among the Transcendents through forms of coercion and inducement. You are permitted to provide unconditional support to these puppet forces with higher-level weapons, equipment, and funds within a certain range. Control them to launch civil wars against key Transcendent forces within their respective jurisdictions and collect important intelligence...]

"Holy crap! Isn't this just cultivating puppet troops?!"

Li Xiao panicked. If the Imperial intelligence departments in various regions really used this method to exploit people's greed and infiltrate battle teams, the threat to the entire player community would be extremely fatal.

Although he wasn't afraid of assassination by traitors or moles, that didn't mean his team's core members wouldn't meet a tragic end.

Among these billions of transmigrators, Li Xiao dared to say that there were definitely a large number of people who wouldn't be able to resist this kind of temptation or threat to their lives and would betray the transmigrators.

Especially some reckless fools who lacked strength but wanted to grow big and strong; they would definitely take the bait.

Should he make it public... Li Xiao was very hesitant. If he made it public and spread the word, it would definitely save countless players.