21: New function of the life pool!

Di Yun yelled and quickly pulled Li Xiao into the drainage ditch. Immediately, a wave of fire swept over their heads, and the violent explosion sent countless stones flying, leaving scars on everyone.

After the explosion, when Li Xiao looked up again, the scene had already turned into scorched earth. The three infantrymen who were picking up vehicle debris from the road were killed instantly.

“Damn it!”

Li Xiao almost spat out a mouthful of old blood. This one wave directly wiped out a day’s worth of his refreshed troops. Was this the crushing power of air superiority?

As he spoke, the armed helicopter opened fire again. The fully automatic 20mm autocannon under its nose fired continuously, and with just a dozen rounds, it blew up his minivan parked not far away.

“Quick! Everyone scatter and retreat into the forest!”

Seeing that things were going badly, Li Xiao quickly ordered everyone to retreat from the highway into the forests on both sides.

The armed helicopter had an overwhelming advantage over infantry; only by hiding in the forest could they avoid its attacks.

Soon, the armed helicopter opened fire again, and several more rockets flew towards them.

This time, the new machine gunner following Zhang Shuang was a step too slow and was killed by a rocket in the drainage ditch.

After completing its third attack, the armed helicopter flew over their heads. Li Xiao and the others successfully retreated into the forest, but the woods near the highway were sparse, and the armed helicopter could still see them. So, it continuously circled above them, raining down ammunition.

Those armor-piercing incendiary rounds were being thrown at Li Xiao and his men’s backs as if they were free, even igniting the dry leaves in the forest.

“Oh my god, big brother pilot, I was wrong. I promise to shoot and move next time, okay?”

This armed helicopter was clearly targeting them, as they had been causing trouble in this area all morning.

Although they hadn't left any survivors, the Black Hawk Empire must have detected the anomaly here through other means and sent this helicopter to deal with them.

The sustained attack from the armed helicopter had left the remaining eight of them in a sorry state, all with injuries.

Li Xiao looked at the armed helicopter above him, secretly annoyed. If only he had a short-range anti-aircraft weapon like an RPG, that birdman in the sky wouldn’t be so arrogant.

As if sensing Li Xiao’s defiance, the armed helicopter’s wing once again emitted a piercing shriek. This time, it launched an anti-tank missile!

“Boss, watch out!!!”

As soon as he heard the missile launch, Di Yun realized something was wrong and immediately lunged, tackling the rapidly running Li Xiao to the ground.

Boom!

The explosion was deafening. Li Xiao felt a wave of heat wash over him, followed by sand and dirt covering his face. At the same time, he felt a burning pain in his calf, and then this pain seemed to bore into his heart, making him dizzy.

“Cough, cough… Damn your ancestors!”

Li Xiao cursed in pain, but deep down, he was relieved, because he hadn’t been blown to death.

He struggled to sit up from the ground and saw Di Yun lying beside him, covered in blood and gasping for breath. He asked nervously, “Di Yun, how are you? Are you alright?”

“Boss… cough, cough… Don’t worry, I’m fine!”

Li Xiao quickly checked Di Yun’s health. When he saw that he only had less than three hundred health points left, he couldn't help but gasp.

Di Yun had 7,100 health points! The missile landed about ten meters in front of them, and it hadn't even directly hit him, yet the damage was already so powerful.

If Di Yun hadn’t blocked the force of the explosion, he estimated he would have been gone.

At this point, Li Xiao looked at his leg again. A shrapnel had hit his calf, and it was bleeding. He quickly took out two bags of bandages he had saved for himself from his backpack and gave them to Di Yun.

With the bandages applied, Di Yun’s health began to slowly recover, and Li Xiao breathed a sigh of relief.

Today was truly a bloody lesson. He only blamed himself for being too engrossed in grinding points, completely unaware that the armed forces and equipment behind the Black Hawk Empire troops he ambushed could crush him as easily as an ant.

The armed helicopter was still circling overhead. Li Xiao helped Di Yun continue to run. Ahead was a denser forest, and the rest of the personnel seemed to have already run into it.

Although the armed helicopter was most likely equipped with far-infrared imaging devices, Li Xiao was surprised when it gave up the chase after they entered the dense forest.

After finding a place to rest for a while, Li Xiao shared a field ration with Di Yun, and they ate some to replenish their strength.

But at this moment, Li Xiao suddenly noticed that the values in his life pool in his vision were somewhat off. He remembered that before being attacked by the armed helicopter, he had accumulated over six thousand health points and over fifty thousand vehicle durability points.

But now, his health was only a little over four thousand points.

Could it be…?!

Li Xiao was shocked. He was certain that he had never allocated health points to anyone, and Di Yun, who had shielded him from damage, had lost six thousand health points.

Moreover, Di Yun had only shielded his front at the time, and the shockwave generated by the explosion, even with side damage, was difficult for an ordinary person to withstand.

So, he had a bold guess: the health from the life pool had offset the damage he had taken.

“Holy crap! If that’s true, if I pour millions of health points into the life pool, wouldn’t it be almost impossible for me to die?”

Thinking of this, Li Xiao seemed to immediately emerge from the shadow of being massacred by the helicopter.

“Let’s go, Di Yun, we’ll head back first.”

It was over twenty kilometers, and Li Xiao and Di Yun walked until dusk before returning to base. Fortunately, despite the disarray, the other eight people also returned safely.

In the cafeteria, Li Xiao said to everyone, “Brothers, I’m very sorry. Because of my mistake, our base suffered four casualties. I swear here that I will never make the same mistake again!”

After Li Xiao finished speaking, the faces of everyone in the cafeteria once again showed confident expressions.

Within a single day, not only did four people die, but he himself almost lost his life. Li Xiao couldn't help but rein in his somewhat inflated ego.

Surviving in a strange otherworld was far more dangerous than he had imagined, even if it seemed like a game world.

Of course, today’s situation wasn’t completely without Harvest; at least he now knew another function of the life pool.

After dinner, Li Xiao returned to the second floor of the command center and opened the Spark Event interface. Because the afternoon was wasted on the run, he only got a little over two hundred thirty points.

“I wonder if this total score is considered a lot or a little?”

Thinking of this, he casually opened the national channel as well, randomly entering a chat channel, and found that players were all discussing the Spark Event.

“Brothers, I’m not very talented, I killed twenty-one and earned seventy points!”

“Wow, seventy points! I only ambushed one patrol today and got a little over ten points.”

“Hmph, it’s always ‘the bolder the person, the greater the yield.’ I directly raided a police station this morning. Are you convinced or not?”

“Holy crap! The brother upstairs is fierce! A police station has dozens of people!”

“Sigh, it’s a shame that it takes five points to exchange for one resource box, and twenty points to exchange for an equipment box.”

“Are there any handsome guys in Shangshui City looking to team up? I’m fair-skinned, beautiful, and flirtatious, and only three resource boxes per night…”

“The slut upstairs is raising prices indiscriminately! Just now there was a girl who only wanted two boxes!”

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