76: Lord of War

The construction time for the command headquarters was two days. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Xiao had originally intended to fulfill his promise to Wang Si.

But on the second night after capturing Xi City, the system announced an event that left all transmigrators feeling incredibly conflicted!

[System Announcement: The King of War event will begin in eight hours. Enter the event panel to view detailed information!]

These were the system's exact words, but when he opened the event to check out this so-called King of War event, Li Xiao felt the system's deep malice.

The previous Spark Event could be considered the system encouraging transmigrators to fight against local forces, but this King of War event was a pure slaughter between "players," and it was intentionally goaded.

King of War, as the name suggests, meant the system wanted to select a king who was the best at fighting.

To this end, it set an incredibly tempting final prize: the person selected as the King of War would receive the unique hidden unit "Shadow Special Forces," as well as the blueprint for the blade ifv.

Shadow Special Forces—just hearing the name told you how badass it was. Just imagine those special forces movies you've watched: intelligence gathering, decapitation strikes, undercover reconnaissance, stealth infiltration.

Almost every special forces soldier seemed like an existence capable of holding off a hundred, a god of slaughter.

If you obtained this unit, you would have the chance to assemble a Shadow Special Forces team capable of delivering a fatal blow to the enemy; tell me, aren't you tempted?

And then there was that manufacturing blueprint for the blade ifv; the event interface showed that the blueprint was also unique, meaning the winner would become the sole manufacturer of the blade ifv.

You have to realize that Li Xiao and his team had gone through great pains to capture Xi City, only to gain the manufacturing rights for an Armored Personnel Carrier, yet the King of War event already offered the ability to manufacture a higher-tier infantry fighting vehicle.

This kind of reward could be said to be extremely tempting to anyone.

Unfortunately, it was also extremely deadly!

Because once you signed up to participate in the King of War event, you had to take part in the first round of the confrontation, and in the confrontation, the winner would advance, while the loser had only one outcome: death!

But to become the King of War, you had to be the last surviving winner, which meant you needed to go through several life-and-death challenges.

I'm afraid not many people possessed this kind of courage... Of course, every round you advanced would come with generous rewards and a chance to forfeit.

The event was global, and all participants' bases would temporarily be in a protection period until the event ended or the player was killed in action.

Li Xiao checked the rewards for the first round. Good heavens, it started with one million comprehensive resources plus 20,000 Star Coins, and five random equipment crates, with a guaranteed minimum of 200 anti-personnel mines or an M21 anti-materiel sniper rifle.

The rules for the first round were a one-on-one PK battle, where both sides selected 50 soldiers from their troops and could carry any weapons and equipment except for vehicles.

The system also promised to match opponents of a similar level based on the player's comprehensive strength to increase the players' confidence in the battle.

I have to say, the system really understood player psychology through and through. In reality, not many people were willing to risk their lives just for those resources, even if those resources and Star Coins were enough for an ordinary player to upgrade their base to level ten.

Because players were all afraid of encountering opponents with higher military rank ratings for their soldiers; no one dared to gamble, but now that there was a guarantee, there might be more gamblers.

But this became a difficult choice for Li Xiao, because he didn't know if anyone else possessed this Life Pool system. If the system happened to match him with another player who also had a Life Pool, then things would get interesting.

Before 7:30 in the morning, Li Xiao still hadn't decided whether to miss this high-stakes gamble.

Until he recalled the day before yesterday when they attacked Xi City, the team members who were killed by bombers, and the soldiers who had to pay with their lives to achieve victory because their weapons and equipment were backward.

He didn't want to be crushed to death by someone one day, and he didn't want to become cannon fodder for others.

And now, a chance to change the future was placed before him!

Li Xiao pressed the registration button, and he became one of the 1.1 million participants.

This world never lacked crazy gamblers, but most people still chose to survive by the skin of their teeth, and one-two-thousandth of the population that had transmigrated to this world would decide on a winner today!

At eight o'clock, the system transported him and his 50 soldiers out of the base according to the entry list Li Xiao had set.

Sometimes Li Xiao couldn't figure out at all whether he was in a game world or a gamified otherworld. Often, without realizing it, he would feel like he was playing a game.

But when bullets pierced through his teammates' bodies and their corpses disappeared before his eyes, he would feel that this was reality, a reality he couldn't explain for the time being.

It felt a bit like the first time he was transported to Hanhai Star; this time, Li Xiao appeared on a massive, giant ship.

There were many shipping containers strewn haphazardly across the ship, with some winding passageways left in between, and occasionally some wooden crates placed beside those containers.

He didn't know if the spot where they appeared was an open cabin at the bow or the stern of the ship; walking out would lead directly to the deck.

Di Yun's First Platoon, Zhao Feipeng's reconnaissance squad, Yan Yizhou's sniper team, and Leng He's machine gun team lined up neatly inside the cabin.

Li Xiao signaled for everyone to remain silent, and he walked out alone.

Outside, the sound of waves crashing against the hull was clearly audible, and the sun was high in the sky.

The sides of the deck were blocked by three-meter-high guardrails, and there were two crane platforms on each side in the middle of the ship, which looked somewhat like they were for assisting in moving containers.

The middle of the ship was slightly more spacious, and those containers divided the area into multiple passageways leading to the other end of the ship.

He could almost be certain that this was the PK battleground set up by the system, so his other opponent must be in the cabin on the opposite side.

Li Xiao was still gathering information when the sharp-eyed Zhao Feipeng discovered a side-hull passageway in a corner to the rear, which seemed to lead directly to the crane platforms in the middle of the ship.

"Feipeng, your reconnaissance squad take the crane platforms from this passageway. Everyone else, come with me to secure the entrances to each passageway!"

The ship looked very large, but spreading 50 people out made it seem slightly crowded.

Yan Yizhou quickly stepped on the wooden crates and climbed onto the containers. From here, he could see the situation at the left exit of the opposite cabin at a glance.

Just as Yan Yizhou was preparing to mount his rifle, the enemy on the opposite side had indeed already run out from the exit.

"Boss! There are people on the other side!"

At the same time Li Xiao heard this information, a prompt came from the system in his mind.

[Confrontation begins! Ten-minute timer. If no winner is decided within the time limit, both sides will be eliminated simultaneously!]

"Damn! This is forcing a bloody battle!"

Li Xiao couldn't care less. He was just about to tell Di Yun to organize the throwing of grenades, flashbangs, and other lethal weapons, but he didn't expect the opponent to strike first.

One after another, C4 explosives with ignited fuses were thrown out from behind various containers, and the earth-shattering explosions made the entire deck tremble.