41: Life pool abnormality (Please add to your collection)

Li Xiao's subsequent twenty to thirty soldiers took advantage of the chaos to sweep indiscriminately. They didn't need to consider whether Di Yun and the others might get hit by their own fire—they just kept shooting.

This situation was unexpected by the Black Hawk Unit Commander. The troops stationed on the second defense line, near the barracks dormitory building, could only advance to provide reinforcements.

At that moment, two more rockets came from afar, blocking the reinforcing troops while Yan Yizhou and Xiao He continuously provided suppressing fire.

Another minute passed, and the first defense line was directly taken by Di Yun and his team, with over a hundred Black Hawk soldiers falling in battle.

Li Xiao's side suffered heavy losses in the first wave, with eleven casualties. Di Yun's assault team was luckier—after a round of intense shooting, they still had about half their health left.

Such close-quarters, desperate tactics would leave anyone bewildered, just like the remaining seventy to eighty Black Hawk soldiers hiding in the barracks dormitory built from prefabricated panels.

Using the cargo piles in the Transit Yard for cover, Li Xiao's troops temporarily halted to rest, treat wounds, and prepare for the final showdown.

At this point, Li Xiao remembered that they had already wiped out two companies of the Black Hawk Unit, so the Life Pool should have over twenty thousand health points. Adding that to the troops now would make things even more stable.

However, when he opened the real-time display of the Life Pool, which he had previously turned off, he was shocked to find that the pool actually had over forty-seven thousand health points, and the vehicle durability had skyrocketed by over two hundred thousand!

"Holy shit! What's going on?"

Li Xiao scratched his head. The combat effectiveness of those two companies wasn't high, and their ranks were mostly privates, with a dozen or so officers. Their total health definitely didn't exceed twenty-five thousand. He had originally kept four thousand health points for survival, meaning there were now over eighteen thousand extra health points out of nowhere.

Where did this health come from? Just as he was puzzled, he suddenly noticed the Life Pool flicker twice, adding another two hundred health points!

"Huh?"

Li Xiao quickly looked around at the corpses. The Black Hawk Unit soldiers on the ground were already dead, with no one clinging to life.

"Weird!"

After thinking for a while without figuring it out, Li Xiao simply decided not to worry about it. After all, extra health was a good thing.

Now with forty thousand health points, Li Xiao felt even more confident. He directly added fifteen thousand health points each to Leng He and the other two machine gunners.

Adding to their original four thousand, their health cap reached nineteen thousand points. Although the machine gunners had each been shot during the earlier charge, their overall health was still over eighteen thousand.

"Leng He! You'll lead the charge in the upcoming attack. Di Yun's assault team doesn't have much health left and will cover you from behind. You have a hundred and fifty rounds each—make sure to take out as many enemies as possible!"

"Yes!"

"Understood!"

After arranging the attack sequence, Li Xiao opened the Trading Center and spent five hundred Star Coins to buy a hundred grenades, distributing them to the remaining twenty to thirty people present.

"The dormitory prefab is only thirty meters away. Even a woman could throw a grenade right in their faces. Everyone, get ready!"

At the same time, twenty to thirty grenades had their pins pulled. At Li Xiao's command, amidst a series of clicks, all the grenades activated their fuses and were thrown into the air.

Most of these grenades landed under the first-floor eaves, with a few falling onto the second-floor balcony. Following this was a series of explosions. The entire dormitory building was instantly shrouded in black smoke, and countless steel pellets and shrapnel turned the insulated panel doors and walls into honeycombs.

"Again!"

The second wave of grenades flew over. This time, the doors and windows were blown apart. The Black Hawk soldiers inside couldn't withstand the pressure and immediately returned fire, but they were quickly suppressed by Yan Yizhou's sniper team from afar.

Soon, the third wave of grenades fell. Taking advantage of all the Black Hawk troops dodging the grenades, Li Xiao's troops, having thrown their grenades, all charged out.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!!!

As the last batch of grenades exploded, it was too late for the enemies to rise and return fire. Leng He and Di Yun had already closed in, with three heavy machine guns directly suppressing the seven or eight doors and all windows on the first floor. Anyone who showed their head didn't escape.

At this point, the soldiers charging from behind kicked open the doors that had been destroyed by the grenades. The machine gunners rushed in, enduring the dense gunfire inside, and unleashed a furious barrage.

The enemies on the second floor, seeing the first floor breached like this, all ran to the balcony to attack from above, but the balcony's angle made it difficult for them to deal effective damage.

By the time they tried to defend the stairway, Di Yun's assault team had already pushed through the gunfire and made their way up.

Just then, Li Xiao, from a distance, saw an enemy with a Major's rank insignia suddenly jump down from the balcony. He quickly shouted, "Quick! Don't let that Major escape!"

The first to react was Zhao Feipeng, who was providing support on the periphery. Seeing the other jump down, he immediately drew his pistol and fired repeatedly.

But the Major rolled upon landing, dodging all of Zhao Feipeng's bullets, then drew his own pistol to return fire. Zhao Feipeng clearly couldn't react in time and was hit several times.

Zhao Feipeng's instinctive dodging gave the Major a chance to flee. He endured a few bullets from two soldiers trying to block him, circled around a cargo pile stacked with grain, and headed for the barbed wire fence.

Feeling he had lost face in front of Li Xiao, Zhao Feipeng angrily gave chase, but the Major's legs were no joke—Zhao Feipeng simply couldn't catch up.

Meanwhile, Yan Yizhou and Xiao He, on the periphery, each managed to hit the Major once. Unfortunately, with a thousand health points, the Major didn't die and fled straight south.

Still unwilling to give up, Zhao Feipeng ran to Yan Yizhou's side, hopped on an All-Terrain Vehicle, and chased after the Major.

Back at the Transit Yard, the battle had already ended. In the final wave, due to the strong suppression from Leng He and the two other machine gunners, the Black Hawk Unit couldn't leverage their firepower advantage and was completely wiped out.

Li Xiao had Di Yun lead the team to clear the battlefield while he took the first step to inventory the supplies.

After sweeping all the supplies, Li Xiao's backpack now contained four hundred bags of rice, two hundred bags of flour, and three hundred and fifty cans of braised beef.

There weren't many vegetables, roughly enough to feed his own troops for about three weeks.

In terms of ammunition, they only seized twenty thousand rifle rounds, ten thousand heavy machine gun rounds, and four hundred grenades.

"Sigh..."

Li Xiao sighed. He felt this battle was somewhat of a loss—eleven casualties in exchange for four hundred points and these supplies.

Half an hour later, Zhao Feipeng returned, hanging his head in dejection.

"Boss! That guy got away."

"It's fine. Just a Major—killing him wouldn't have been that rewarding anyway."

Li Xiao comforted him, "From now on, you and your scouts will be stationed at this Transit Yard. Keep an eye on movements from Xi City at all times. This will serve as our forward outpost."

Zhao Feipeng straightened up, "Don't worry, Boss!"

The Transit Yard was merely a material storage point for the Black Hawk Unit, with no resource reserves, so it only held tactical defensive value for him.