55: Playing hard to get

"Chang Zhan?" Li Xiao frowned. He and Chang Zhan had reached an agreement for mutual defense and intelligence sharing, but whenever Chang Zhan reached out, it likely meant nothing good.

Li Xiao took the satellite phone: "This is Li Xiao!"

"Captain Li, it's really difficult to find you. I had to be transferred twice!"

"Haha! Big Brother Chang Zhan, is there something urgent that you're looking for me so late?"

"It's like this." Chang Zhan didn't beat around the bush and said directly, "My reconnaissance unit reported that several small groups of your outlander units have been lingering near the Transit Yard since yesterday. Because their behavior was somewhat strange, they reported it to me. Considering you just attacked a large squad, it's possible that remnant forces are seeking revenge, so I'm notifying you in advance."

"What? Someone is actually targeting me?"

Li Xiao was very surprised. He had always had Yang Chao station people at the Transit Yard, but there had been no reports of suspicious targets.

"It seems the alert range is still too small, and there are too few patrol sentries."

Chang Zhan added, "My people followed one of the units and found a base coordinate. As for whether it's useful, that's up to you."

Li Xiao muttered to himself. The fact that someone was already targeting his base meant this was something he absolutely could not take lightly.

"Thank you so much. This is life-saving information. I must deal with this matter immediately. Next time we meet, I'll definitely treat you to a good meal in Xi City."

"Alright, you said it yourself."

Hanging up the call, Li Xiao immediately called for Yang Chao and told him to expand the search range of the second platoon's patrol sentries by another two kilometers outside the Transit Yard.

At the same time, he added permanent hidden sentries in the four directions of the base. In addition, he re-checked the deployment of the anti-personnel mines.

He had never stopped producing these anti-personnel mines, and so far, he had over a hundred of them. He deployed these anti-personnel mines on the paths the enemy would inevitably take in all four directions.

Regardless, these mines had friend-or-foe identification features, so his own movement in and out wouldn't be affected, but if the enemy came on foot or riding all-terrain vehicles, they would definitely be in for a rough time.

After re-arranging the base defense, Li Xiao called for Zhao Feipeng, and they took the reconnaissance squad and rode the meng hu off-road vehicle straight to the target base.

Actually, when Li Xiao discovered that the base coordinate was located in the eastern part of Xi City, he already had an idea.

Among the current competitors, the Night God Squad was clearly the most capable of contending with the Xiaoyao Squad.

Two days ago, the Night God Squad was scared into giving up the chemical plant; Wu Chong must be unwilling to accept this and would want to find an opportunity to crush the Xiaoyao Squad.

Li Xiao also felt that the reconnaissance unit appearing at the Transit Yard this time was suspicious. It looked like continuous reconnaissance to lock down the area. Wu Chong couldn't possibly have discovered the Xiaoyao Squad's assembly point from that time in such a short period.

Then, the only remaining possibility was that someone had inadvertently leaked or sold the information.

Thinking of this, Li Xiao felt it was necessary to have Liu Nian establish an anti-undercover surveillance organization. Otherwise, as the squad grew larger, such major intelligence leaks would occur frequently.

If he failed to detect it even once, the result could be annihilation.

In the middle of the night, Li Xiao and his team arrived at the outskirts of the target base. To avoid alerting the enemy, they parked two kilometers away and proceeded on foot.

On the way, the sharp Zhao Feipeng immediately discovered the enemy's hidden sentries concealed near the base. Seeing that they couldn't proceed further, they had to retreat and look for another opportunity.

This surveillance lasted from the night until morning. Only after Zhao Feipeng saw the hidden sentries return to the base were they able to approach the base.

This base was surprisingly a Level 6 base. Li Xiao immediately judged that this was likely a core member of the Night God or some other large squad.

After all, Level 6 bases were still in the minority; in Li Xiao's squad, only about twenty had just upgraded.

There was no movement in the base for the entire morning, but Li Xiao spotted the silhouette of the base owner through his binoculars. This guy had stayed in the command post all morning without leaving.

It wasn't until noon that an Engineer squad in the base set off in a civilian off-road vehicle, and that player also followed the vehicle and moved towards the south.

Li Xiao and his men immediately gave chase. However, because there were many player units in the area, they were afraid of arousing suspicion and didn't dare to follow too closely, so they lost them for a while.

Fortunately, they eventually found the player's trail near a cement plant.

There were many Engineers working inside the cement plant, numbering one or two hundred. After Li Xiao sent the information about the cement plant to Yun Dongliu, he quickly received confirmation that this was a resource zone occupied by the Night God Squad.

Then, without a doubt, that reconnaissance squad was acting on Wu Chong's orders.

"Alright then, I happen to be bored. Since you want to raid my home, let's see who's tougher!"

Li Xiao secretly pondered a countermeasure in his heart.

The next day, before Li Xiao had even gotten up, Li Le ran over to report that the Night God Squad's reconnaissance unit had indeed appeared near the Transit Yard again. Zhao Feipeng, who had been on standby at the Transit Yard, asked whether they should annihilate this unit.

After thinking it over, he suddenly made a bold decision. He walked out of his bedroom and said to Li Le, "Tell Zhao Feipeng immediately to let the scouts in; do not stop them! Also, notify the Tian Yu Militia Organization and have them help me closely monitor the activity in the eastern and northeastern directions!"

"Yes!" Li Le recorded the order and turned to leave quickly.

Actively exposing the base's location was a bold idea of Li Xiao's. He couldn't find Wu Chong's main base right now, so he could only wait for the fish to take the bait by using stillness to control movement.

In a luxurious bedroom within a villa on the east side of Fengyu Lake, Wu Chong was leaning against the headboard, shirtless, puffing on a cigarette. His well-developed pectoral muscles were covered in dense chest hair.

In his arms, Xuan Yu, with her wavy hair draped down, nestled against Wu Chong with a flushed face. One of her slender hands stroked that dense hair, and her snow-white, long, and slender legs kept rubbing against Wu Chong's lower abdomen.

The two were being intimate, when suddenly, a private message popped up in Xuan Yu's field of vision, containing only a coordinate and the character "≥ 7".

Seeing this message, Xuan Yu immediately sat up, revealing a pair of perfect breasts.

"Chong Ge, Li Xiao's base might have been located!"

"What? Really? That's great!" Wu Chong hurriedly threw away his cigarette butt and asked, "How certain are you?"

"Almost one hundred percent. It's a base that is at least equal to, if not greater than, Level 7."

"Was the reconnaissance unit discovered?"

"That wasn't mentioned..."

Wu Chong lay back down. "That's a relief. There's no time to lose. We must assemble our troops and take action by tomorrow night at the latest. As long as we take out this freak, the Xiaoyao Squad will definitely be leaderless and collapse on its own!"