43: Can you be so tanky that you can take off (Please add to your collection)

In this event, it still costs five points per resource box, but the quantity of steel and fuel has increased from one hundred to five hundred, and rare minerals have also become two hundred and fifty.

The resources to upgrade to a level eight base are ninety thousand steel, ninety thousand fuel, forty thousand rare minerals, and ten thousand Star Coins. This amount of resources was too large; even though Li Xiao desperately wanted equipment boxes, he had to compromise.

After opening thirty steel boxes, thirty fuel boxes, and twenty rare mineral boxes, he was still four-sixths away from the upgrade.

Li Xiao rubbed his hands over the last equipment box. Last time, opening a drone had helped him a lot, and in the end, he had to crash it into Nie Hu at the critical moment to save Yun Ying.

This time, he hoped he could get another one; at the very least, it would save a lot of trouble during routine guard and reconnaissance duties.

As the equipment box disappeared from before him, a gun appeared in Li Xiao's backpack.

As soon as Li Xiao saw its fist-sized muzzle brake and a barrel with a diameter twice that of a rifle, he knew this was an anti-materiel sniper rifle.

M21 Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifle: A large-caliber semi-automatic rifle used to counter enemy light armor or fortified targets.

The gun has a capacity of ten rounds and uses 12.7mm armor-piercing incendiary rounds or armor-piercing high-explosive incendiary rounds. Its effective range against armored fortifications is eight hundred meters, and its effective range against clustered living targets is two thousand meters.

What Li Xiao found terrifying was that the damage this anti-materiel sniper rifle dealt to a human target under standard protection was as high as two thousand points. This meant that, in principle, anyone with a rank below Lieutenant Colonel would basically be finished on the spot if hit directly.

And the damage it dealt to vehicles was even more terrifying—fifteen hundred per shot. With just one shot, a civilian off-road vehicle would be practically scrapped.

The fierce tiger h9 military off-road vehicles soon to come off the line in Li Xiao's military factory wouldn't even last a single magazine against it.

"Badass!"

Li Xiao could only use those words to describe it. This gun came with one hundred rounds of armor-piercing high-explosive incendiary rounds. Even if you weren't hit directly by it, the scattered fragments from the explosive incendiary rounds would still cause significant damage.

When he handed the M101 to Yan Yizhou, this guy, who was usually taciturn and comparable to Yun Dongliu, actually blurted out a curse and immediately decided to sleep with it from then on... In Xi City, inside the command center building of the Black Hawk Empire's Xi City Composite Regiment, a man wearing the uniform and rank of a Major of the Black Hawk Empire stood before a desk, looking somewhat disheveled.

Behind the desk, a middle-aged man with slightly graying temples was looking at him with a grim face; on his shoulders, he remarkably wore the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Flicking the ash from his cigar, the Lieutenant Colonel said in a deep voice, "A Mechanized Infantry Battalion! Over three hundred men, completely wiped out by an enemy that could at most be considered a reinforced platoon! Is your head as a Commander filled with nothing but manure?"

"Regiment Commander! I have followed you for six years; do you think I would be that stupid? It's just that the squad that ambushed us this time... they were toxic."

"Toxic! What do you mean toxic?" The Lieutenant Colonel had a look of disbelief on his face.

"Regiment Commander, it's like this..."

The Major explained a lot with both words and gestures. After a while, the Lieutenant Colonel said half-doubtingly, "For such a thing to happen, it seems necessary to send someone to investigate!"

The Lieutenant Colonel picked up the phone on the desk with his right hand and dialed a number.

"Please have Battalion Commander Zhang Tian of the 3rd Composite Battalion come here!"

The Lieutenant Colonel put down the phone, thought for a moment, and said in a deep voice, "I will report this matter to the Brigade Headquarters. You are temporarily suspended pending investigation! Get out!"

The Major looked helpless and walked out dejectedly. A moment later, another Major walked in. This thin-faced officer with sharp eyes walked up to the Lieutenant Colonel and saluted, "Regiment Commander, you were looking for me!"

"Zhang Tian! Something happened to the infantry battalion over at the Transit Yard, but the situation is a bit complicated. I need you to send people forward to scout!"

"Yes! I'll go right away!"

...At night, Li Xiao stood at the terminal of the military factory's modular production line. In front of him was a fierce tiger h9 military off-road vehicle with a grass-green camouflage paint job.

From the model provided by the military factory, the fierce tiger h9 already looked very majestic and overbearing, but now that the actual vehicle was before his eyes, its presence was even more powerful.

The heavy bulletproof steel guard plates at the front and the square, thick hood could practically be said to fit every man's aesthetic.

The brand-new twenty-two-inch run-flat tires were covered with dense anti-skid treads, giving one great confidence.

Of course, the most important thing was the rotating machine gun mount on the roof, which was equipped with bulletproof steel plating.

"Leng He! Mount the heavy machine gun!"

The fierce tiger h9 did not come with its own machine gun; players had to mount light or heavy machine guns themselves according to their needs.

Li Xiao had six or seven MK48 Heavy Machine Guns. He had two thousand rounds of 12.7mm machine gun ammunition that he had accidentally seized from the Tian Yu Militia Organization last time, and he had bought another three thousand rounds from the Trading Center.

Now that Leng He had mounted the heavy machine gun and loaded five thousand rounds of machine gun ammunition, it was incredibly fierce.

For this first fierce tiger h9, Li Xiao planned to have Di Yun, Leng He, and three other infantrymen with fifteen thousand health points form an assault vehicle team. In future battles, he would use them to break through enemy lines; they would be absolutely ferocious.

Of course, that wasn't all. Li Xiao then added one hundred and ten thousand durability to this vehicle, and in an instant, this military bulletproof off-road vehicle became incredibly tanky.

"Tsk tsk... if I had used this vehicle to charge the first line of defense during the day today, I'd consider it my loss if a single person died!"

The night passed without incident. When Li Xiao woke up early, he found that the system had given him several messages. Upon opening them, he saw that Liu Nian had already recruited four or five people; most were level four, and one was level five.

He hurried to greet these new members in the team channel and immediately distributed the first welfare bonus. He still had over eight thousand Star Coins left, so he could still afford it.

After handling these matters, Li Xiao began to consider the resource issue. Ninety thousand points for a single resource for a level eight base was truly no joke.

If he couldn't secure a large resource zone and fully utilize his seven Engineers, then his current perceived advantage would not be maintained. Last night, while browsing the chat channel, someone mentioned they had upgraded to a level six base by relying on a resource zone captured by their team.

So he called Zhao Feipeng over and told him to go to the northern suburbs of Xi City to see if there were any large resource zones that could be captured, so that everyone in the team could get a share of the spoils... In the afternoon, on the national highway, an armored convoy was on the move. Leading were two military off-road vehicles and two Armored Fighting Vehicles equipped with one heavy machine gun and two coaxial light machine guns.

The second echelon consisted of five Armored Personnel Carriers, also mounted with a heavy machine gun on top, followed by an Armored Command Vehicle equipped with antenna receivers and various communication devices, as well as two more Armored Personnel Carriers.

The twelve vehicles moved rapidly northward in a grand procession, their exhaust fumes filling the lanes.