83: Battle Royale?

As soon as they entered the forest, they were met with intense gunfire, but because Li Xiao had set the enemy command center as their target, the off-road vehicle convoy would not stop to retaliate before reaching their destination.

When the convoy penetrated one hundred meters into the forest, an unexpected situation occurred; dense explosions erupted one after another wherever the troops passed, and the forest area on the virtual sand table flickered with fire and filled with smoke.

The Brown-haired Man had actually planted a large amount of remote-controlled C4 explosives in the forest, causing a series of explosions as the convoy passed through, affecting almost every vehicle.

The explosions continued all the way to the base gate, and the Brown-haired Man laughed loudly, "Heh heh! Let's see how you get out of this forest!"

Li Xiao said nothing; not only was he not the least bit nervous, but he even felt like having a cola.

As someone who had been using C4 explosives to cause trouble for the past two months, Li Xiao was all too familiar with the power of a single C4 explosive. Having spent so much time messing around in the forest, he knew, even without thinking, that the opponent must have been setting traps.

So, what kind of traps would be set? The first thing that came to Li Xiao's mind was roadside explosives; this type of high explosive, requiring only one or several detonators with blasting caps and fuses connected, was the best weapon for destroying vehicles and fortifications.

Next were anti-personnel mines, but anti-personnel mines have poor power, and since the opponent was an eighth-level base, he estimated there wouldn't be too many of them.

Therefore, it was most likely that the opponent had planted a large amount of C4 explosives. When Li Xiao first transmigrated and used C4 explosives, he knew that the power of a single C4 explosive was just enough to destroy a civilian off-road vehicle, which was two thousand points of vehicle damage.

This meant that a military off-road vehicle with one million durability points would need to be hit by five hundred consecutive C4 explosives to be destroyed.

Not to mention whether the opponent had five hundred C4 explosives in his base before participating in the event, even if he did, the fast-moving off-road vehicle convoy would not be hit by every single piece of C4 explosive.

Even if you equipped every C4 explosive with a remote control device and had each soldier responsible for controlling one, you could only manage to hit the first two or three vehicles; what would you use to blow up the rest?

Otherwise, when attacking Xi City, Liu Nian would not have pulled thousands of soldiers to crazily slap C4 onto the tanks.

Of course, or perhaps one could place the entire convoy into the explosion zone, where each vehicle would only be hit by a portion of the C4 explosives. Li Xiao thought that the guy on the other side surely wouldn't have managed to plant five hundred C4 explosives near the position of every single vehicle, right?

If he really had that many explosives and had actually set them up that way, Li Xiao would have nothing to say.

Facts proved that not so many coincidences could happen to the Brown-haired Man. When the smoke cleared, Li Xiao's off-road vehicle game pieces still existed and continued to advance toward the base command center.

When passing through the open space in front of the gate, the off-road vehicles were hit by some anti-personnel mines again, but unfortunately, the damage was negligible.

Seeing this scene, the Brown-haired Man's mouth was open wide enough to fit two fists. Li Xiao thought his worldview must have collapsed at this moment.

"What the fuck!!!!!"

The Brown-haired Man let out a roar of impotent rage, and then he saw Li Xiao's game pieces withstand the firepower of his hundreds of men, forcibly charging to the model representing the command center and beginning a massacre.

The forty-something men were firing wildly as if they had activated an invincibility hack, with grenades, flashbangs, and smoke grenades flying everywhere in the base.

During this, Li Xiao's troops were also bombarded by peripheral mortars, but unfortunately, the enemy only had a dozen or so shells, which could not stop their advance at all.

After several minutes of fighting, the Brown-haired Man's entire army was wiped out, and he could only watch helplessly as the game pieces piled C4 explosives onto his command center.

Although C4 explosives deal two thousand points of damage to vehicles, they deal a massive five thousand points of damage to buildings.

Li Xiao's troops did not even need to use heavy machine guns to "scratch" his command center; they just piled four hundred explosives all over it.

"Friend, I think we can say goodbye now!"

Li Xiao waved to the Brown-haired Man, watching with a smile as a half-meter-high mushroom cloud rose from the small building model.

"I'm going to kill you!"

The Brown-haired Man roared in despair and suddenly pulled out the pistol from his thigh holster, firing at Li Xiao. Bullet after bullet flew out of the muzzle at high speed, only to hit a transparent air wall when crossing the central axis of the sand table.

The kinetic energy of the warheads achieved nothing other than creating a slight ripple on the air wall, and then they clattered onto the virtual sand table.

[Malicious attack action detected. Contestant has violated the rules. Confrontation failure automatically determined!]

Before the two of them could react, the system suddenly announced the result of the confrontation, and then Li Xiao watched as the Brown-haired Man turned into dust.

Li Xiao never expected the system to have such a restriction, and he secretly felt relieved. In fact, he had not been scared when he saw the other person raise his gun.

It was the appearance of this air wall that truly surprised him. He had previously had the thought of shooting and killing the opponent first if he could not win, but now it seemed that even if his Life Pool effect had not taken effect, he would have been erased by the system even if he had struck first to eliminate the opponent.

Teleported back to his base by the system, Li Xiao breathed a sigh of relief. Although the third round had been close, it had shaken his mindset a bit.

If the next round was still based on theory, and even more purely theoretical than the wargame simulation, then he would truly be at his wit's end.

However, to his surprise, the content of the final round was released in advance.

The survivors of the third round would be simultaneously teleported to an island; players would need to find vehicles and weapons on this island to evade the pursuit of the Black Hawk Empire troops and become the last survivor.

Li Xiao checked his Life Pool: six hundred thousand points. This was the total damage he could withstand, so what reason did he have not to participate in the final round of the competition?

The Shadow Special Forces and the blade ifv were within reach, and he would absolutely not miss out on them.

Because the third round lasted a long time, Li Xiao waited for two full hours before seeing the message that the third round had ended on the event panel.

At this moment, only sixty-four contestants remained, with dozens more having withdrawn from the final deathmatch.

Soon, Li Xiao was teleported away from his base by the system, and when he opened his eyes again, what lay before him was a hot and barren land.

Behind him was the vast, boundless ocean, and before him, a long-disrepaired road cut through the wilderness, leading into the distance. The midday sun illuminated this seemingly abandoned barren island in a golden hue, and gusts of hot wind blew, making him feel dizzy and mentally exhausted.

Occasionally, some houses would appear by the roadside, but more often there were abandoned, rusted vehicles, and sometimes a small hut stood atop the bare rocky mountains in the distance.