59: This wave is inhuman

"Understood!" Upon receiving the order, Liu Nian immediately issued commands to each combat squad leader: "All units, advance to coordinates... immediately!"

The forces Wu Chong had sent to ambush him were the main strength of the Night God Squad. Now, with Ren Hao dead, the Night God main force was completely lost. They no longer had enough vehicles or high-ranking troops to stop the Xiaoyao Squad.

"Dammit! A thousand elites couldn't even destroy one base! To think I trusted him so much!"

Wu Chong slammed his fist onto the table in his base headquarters. Beside him, Xuan Yu quickly stepped forward, her elegant brows furrowed in a look of distress.

"Chong Ge! Ren Hao has already died in battle; that shows he did his best. Those who escaped back said that Li Xiao's troops are too strange. Their vehicles simply can't be destroyed, and his men won't die even after being shot hundreds of times. This has already exceeded our understanding."

"Is this Li Xiao exploiting a bug? Or is he just flat-out cheating! If the system is powerful enough to transport two billion of us here, can't it just ban his account and wipe him out?!"

Wu Chong roared hysterically. Xuan Yu wanted to offer comfort, but found herself speechless. She didn't know if this was a gap in strength or if Li Xiao had found some sort of loophole.

But time didn't give them much chance to think. Chaos suddenly broke out within the Night God Squad. Everyone was saying that the Xiaoyao Squad had invaded their resource zones, and batch after batch of Engineers were being ruthlessly killed.

Seeing these messages, Xuan Yu suddenly realized the truth, but it was already too late: "Chong Ge, that four-thousand-man unit from Xiaoyao Squad didn't go south this morning at all. They waited in Bridge Town for two hours, and now they've turned back to attack our resource zones!"

"It seems Li Xiao set a trap on purpose. I should have realized sooner!" Hearing Xuan Yu's words, Wu Chong felt like his insides were about to explode with rage. He had played such a good hand of cards so terribly.

"What do we do now?! Should we send troops to counterattack?"

Wu Chong shook his head. "Sending troops now would play right into his hands. Once we engage their main force, Li Xiao will take the opportunity to launch a sneak attack on our home base."

"But if this continues, all our resource points will be occupied. Over time, the squad will fall into unrest," Xuan Yu couldn't help but worry.

"Let him occupy them for a couple of days. Let me think of another way..."

On the other side, Li Xiao didn't know that Wu Chong was worried about the safety of his home base. His plan was to occupy all of Night God's resource points to force them into a decisive battle.

However, even after Liu Nian effortlessly captured five of Night God's major resource towns, Night God still remained motionless.

"This Wu Chong really can endure, can't he!"

Li Xiao was somewhat impressed. If they still didn't come out, he would have no choice but to have his troops search the eastern region base by base.

"Haha! Lao Xiao, we're incredibly rich now! We've occupied all the major resource zones in the east, west, and north of Xi City. The resource refresh rate has far exceeded our squad's collection capacity!"

Liu Nian excitedly reported the news to Li Xiao after tallying the reserves of the resource points under their banner. Li Xiao, however, was indifferent. He only had so many Engineers; no matter how large the reserves were, he couldn't get them all, so it was essentially useless.

However, this was great news for the squad, as it meant they could recruit more solo players to join.

But none of that was the priority right now. He wouldn't be at peace until Wu Chong's main force was eliminated.

Because Chang Zhan hadn't been active in the east, he didn't understand the situation there and couldn't help him pin down the Night God Squad's location.

Left with no choice, Li Xiao had Liu Nian lead the troops to start clearing them out one by one, destroying every Night God Squad base they encountered along the way.

"This move is vicious, but effective!" Yun Dongliu said in the squad's command channel. "If more and more bases are destroyed while Wu Chong does nothing, the Night God Squad will soon fall into internal strife. And if they come out to save them, then we can wipe out his main force and slowly find Wu Chong's home base."

"That's only one part of it. I have an even more ruthless method!" Li Xiao said at this time.

"What method?"

Qin Luming and Liu Nian asked in unison.

Li Xiao gave a mysterious smile. "You'll find out in a bit!"

Worried that Wu Chong might still have moves to make, Li Xiao didn't have the First Platoon follow them, instead leaving them at the base to focus on recovering.

He had Zhao Feipeng take him to rendezvous with the main force.

By now, Liu Nian had already sent out several small units to scout ahead, while the main force followed behind to clear the targets.

They soon found the base of a Night God Squad member. The player immediately surrendered and begged for mercy, and Li Xiao had him brought over.

This Night God member was a man in his thirties. Perhaps sensing his end was near, his expression had become somewhat vacant.

Li Xiao walked up to him and asked, "Do you know where the base of your Team Leader Wu Chong or the Deputy Leader is?"

The man replied with a sob, trembling with fear, "Big brother, please spare me. I only joined the squad to get some resources. I really don't know anything about the high-level affairs. Usually, the assembly points are in the resource zones. I truly don't know where their bases are."

"Fine, since you don't know, forget it. But please do me a favor and post a message in your squad channel. Say that we are currently sweeping the eastern part of Xi City, and anyone who knows Wu Chong's whereabouts can be granted amnesty and allowed to join the Xiaoyao Squad!"

"Huh?" The player was stunned. Li Xiao stared at him and said coldly, "Now. Right this instant!"

"Yes, yes, yes!!"

The man hurriedly and clumsily posted the message Li Xiao requested in the channel. After finishing, he asked cautiously, "Big brother, what if... what if no one knows the Team Leader's whereabouts?"

Li Xiao patted the man's head and smiled. "What do you think?"

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!!!!

Without any warning, Zhao Feipeng walked over and fired several shots directly into the man's head, killing him on the spot.

Yun Dongliu and the others nearby felt their hearts tremble, their expressions turning grim.

Liu Nian and Qin Luming glanced at each other, both seemingly seeing the same word in the other's eyes: Ruthless!

Li Xiao turned to look at everyone. "Don't think I'm being cruel. Having him post that message in the squad channel is to accelerate Night God's internal collapse. If I let him live, he would tell others that they can save their lives even without talking..."

"Then what if someone actually knows and tells you?" Yun Dongliu asked curiously.

"What's the use of keeping someone who betrays their own? You don't actually think I'd let them join the squad, do you?"

*Hiss...*

Everyone gasped. Was Li Xiao's move this time just completely inhumane?

With Li Xiao's demonstration, the various combat squads of the Xiaoyao Squad became much faster at searching and processing.

If it was a solo player's base, they would offer greetings and recruitment propaganda. If it belonged to the Night God Squad, they would interrogate them and then blow up both the person and the base.