62: Shuffle

Her signature voice came through the squad channel.

"Fellow teammates, Team Leader Wu Chong has unfortunately perished. I will temporarily assume command of the squad. All teammates, from now on, restrain your troops and prepare to accept the reorganization by the Xiaoyao Squad."

"What?! The Xiaoyao Squad!"

"Why do we have to join the Xiaoyao Squad? They killed so many of us!"

"Exactly! The base of my friend was blown up by them!"

"Xuan Yu, you betrayed the squad! You are not fit to be the Team Leader!"

"We want a change in leadership!"

...

As soon as Xuan Yu finished speaking, many people in the squad voiced their opposition.

But Xuan Yu seemed to have anticipated this outcome. She spoke methodically, "The former Team Leader Wu Chong, due to his personal selfishness and impulsiveness, provoked the Xiaoyao Squad first, leading to devastating losses for our squad and the complete loss of our resource zones. Therefore, fundamentally, the responsibility for the deaths of many of our members lies not with the Xiaoyao Squad, but with Wu Chong!"

As soon as she finished speaking, someone in the squad immediately chimed in agreement.

"Right! Wu Chong sent elites to ambush the Xiaoyao Squad's Team Leader, but he never told us junior captains. He clearly treated us like outsiders!"

"Wu Chong was treating us as cannon fodder!"

"I fully support Miss Xuan Yu!"

"Disband the Night God Squad. I haven't wanted to stay for a long time!"

"The Xiaoyao Squad is now dominant. As Transmigrators, it's already hard for us to get by; we need to stick together!"

If Li Xiao were in the squad channel, he would surely be astonished by Xuan Yu's ability to steer public opinion. Her dominance and adaptability, capable of changing the tide of public sentiment in just a few sentences, were terrifying to contemplate.

Li Xiao was still waiting for the Night God Squad's decision, when Liu Nian arrived leading a bearded man in his thirties.

Before they even got close, Li Xiao smelled a strong, pungent odor of alcohol and frowned, asking Liu Nian, "Who is this guy?"

Liu Nian kicked the man and said irritably, "Tell the Team Leader yourself!"

"Tell?" Li Xiao was slightly puzzled. He walked up to the man but had no recollection of ever seeing him.

When Liu Nian said that, the man actually started crying, his voice sounding like a cattle auctioneer. Li Xiao quickly waved his hand to stop him: "Stop, stop, stop. I really don't have time to listen to you wail right now. What exactly do you need to confess?"

The man sobbed as he spoke, "Team Leader, I really didn't mean to leak the information. That night, I was just too happy. I drank too much... Do you know how miserable my life was before I joined the squad..."

Upon hearing about leaking information, Li Xiao roughly understood the situation. Seeing the man unable to explain clearly, Liu Nian took over, "Let me explain for him. This fellow raided two bases with the main force. After returning, he upgraded his base and still had a lot of money left, so he planned to go into the city to spend. Good heavens, when he got to the bar, he drank heavily and got completely drunk. Then, the people from the Night God Squad managed to trick the location of our assembly point out of him."

Liu Nian spoke, clearly agitated, and kicked him again.

"Then the Night God Squad gave this information to Wu Chong, and the next day Wu Chong gathered a group of elite troops to raid your home."

"So that's how it was..."

Li Xiao secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He had suspected there was a mole in the squad and had been hesitant to say certain things in the squad channel. It turned out this guy had been the one leaking the news.

Otherwise, he wouldn't believe Wu Chong could find his base so quickly, considering how difficult it was even for him, with Chang Zhan's help, to find a base.

"How should this person be dealt with?" Liu Nian asked.

Hearing that he was to be dealt with, the man was instantly terrified and threw himself at Li Xiao's feet, shouting, "Team Leader, I know I was wrong! I'll never dare to drink again! I really didn't leak it on purpose! Don't kill me!"

Li Xiao sighed, "Forget it. He didn't release the information intentionally. However, this guy has a weak backbone and is timid. He's not suitable for the squad. Just expel him directly."

"Understood!"

Liu Nian nodded, turned around, and cursed, "You got off easy!"

Hearing that he was only being kicked out of the squad, the man became instantly overjoyed and repeatedly shouted, "Thank you, Team Leader! Thank you, Team Leader!"

A while later, Li Xiao received a voice message from Xuan Yu. By then, Li Xiao saw that her public profile information had already changed to Team Leader. He knew Wu Chong must be dead.

Because a Team Leader is required to give a week's notice before stepping down, with a twenty-four-hour handover period, Xuan Yu becoming the Team Leader within a few hours could only mean Wu Chong had breathed his last.

As for the cause of death, Li Xiao could guess it with his little finger, but it no longer mattered to him.

Although he knew Xuan Yu was probably not a good person, he needed her to control the Night God Squad right now to ensure the Xiaoyao Squad maintained its dominant advantage in Xi City!

"Captain Li, as you wished, Wu Chong is dead. I can now integrate the Night God Squad under your command." Xuan Yu's tone was steady; Li Xiao couldn't detect any hint that she was the woman who had just killed her own leader.

"You may proceed. After the squad merger, the combat teams reorganized from the original Night God Squad will still be commanded by you. However, I hope you are sincere. Remember, we are facing more than just our own people!"

"Whatever I say now is meaningless. We'll have to wait and see over time."

Wait and see... Li Xiao's thoughts suddenly shifted onto a high-speed lane.

[System Prompt: The Night God Squad has successfully merged into this squad! The original squad is immediately disbanded!]

The integration of the Night God Squad also sparked heated discussion in the Xiaoyao Squad channel. Just as Li Xiao and the other executives had predicted, all sorts of issues arose, including the compression of resource allocation, squad integration problems, and pre-existing grudges between members.

But these were problems that arose in every merger. Fortunately, Qin Luming and Liu Nian were already experienced in squad management, so Li Xiao didn't need to worry too much.

After the Night God Squad merged, the number of members in the Xiaoyao Squad instantly soared to over three hundred and fifty people. Now, apart from the Southern Squad and a few surrounding small squads of a few dozen people, they had no rivals left in Xi City.

Li Xiao pulled Liu Nian, Yun Dongliu, Yun Ying, Qin Luming, and the newly joined Xuan Yu into a group chat to assign the next tasks.

To Li Xiao's surprise, Xuan Yu was older than all of them, already twenty-seven years old, yet her ability to analyze situations was exceptionally unique.

"Although I have just joined and have no say in the squad's future action plan, given the current situation, I believe the Xiaoyao Squad should focus on recuperation and steady development while simultaneously contacting the southern squads to establish a unified front for the players in Xi City."

Xuan Yu spoke neither subserviently nor aggressively, possessing the demeanor of a strong career woman.

However, her appearance made Liu Nian feel some pressure. He quickly asked, "We aren't attacking now, are we just going to wait for them to get fat?"

"Forgive my bluntness, but the Xiaoyao Squad's decisive and ruthless actions recently have already made the surrounding players uneasy. If we continue fighting, I fear those small squads might band together or even merge. You must remember that our current numbers do not even account for twenty percent of the active players in Xi City."

"This..."