35: Cherish life, stay away from...

With the three newly added Engineers, Li Xiao brought out fifteen people this time. Yang Chao, Du Ziteng, and a communications Engineer remained at home. Wu Feng Town and Banshan Steel Factory continued to be covered by Jiang Lang and another Engineer.

Because Li Xiao had a vehicle, he shuttled Yun Dongliu and Liu Nian's troops back and forth until dawn, when the forty-five-person team was completely hidden within the buildings next to Xi City High School's football field.

Tianba Squad entered the city much faster than Li Xiao had imagined. By nine o'clock, these nearly one hundred and fifty people were already brazenly distributing weapons at the school gate and entering.

Their imposing presence scared the students and teachers, causing them to scatter and flee, almost attracting the Black Hawk Patrol.

"It seems they are still quite cautious, only bringing half their forces. Lao Xiao, what's the plan now?"

Li Xiao glanced at his watch and said calmly, "Yun Dongliu should be almost ready. Di Yun, go up!"

"Understood!"

For this kind of transaction, a large number of people would only serve as targets for the opponent. Therefore, only one agile and sufficiently tanky person was needed.

For this, Li Xiao distributed three thousand of the remaining four thousand-plus health points from the Life Pool to Di Yun, letting him go up with sixteen thousand health points.

"Go! You better be honest with me!"

Di Yun grabbed Nie Hu's collar and walked down towards the teaching building.

At this moment, Nie Hu's head was covered by a kraft paper bag. From the sound, it seemed his eyes were blindfolded and his mouth gagged inside.

He was also wearing a military overcoat and was tightly bound. It was still very hot on a summer morning, and sweat dripped continuously from beneath the paper bag.

Di Yun kept close behind Nie Hu, holding the large-caliber pistol Li Xiao gave him, pressed against the back of Nie Hu's head.

The moment Di Yun and Nie Hu appeared, all of Tianba Squad immediately raised their guns and aimed at him.

A middle-aged man in a beige jacket with a scruffy beard walked out from the crowd. He stared intently at Di Yun, the veins on his arm bulging as he gripped his gun.

After a long while, he finally said, "Go call your Commander out! A mere grunt isn't qualified to negotiate with us!"

"Do you think you're in a position to make demands?" Di Yun said disdainfully, "As soon as my gun fires, your son, who doesn't even have a Level 4 Base, will be splattered all over the place. Stop with the nonsense! If you've brought the Star Coins, then let's quickly make the trade. I still need to go back to sleep!"

Di Yun's words instantly maxed out the anger of Nie Ba, the leader of Tianba Squad. At this moment, the muscles on his face began to twitch.

"Cowards who fear death will never achieve anything great!"

Nie Ba turned around and gave a look to the person next to him. A subordinate stepped out and walked ten meters in front of Di Yun, then tossed a black card.

Di Yun snatched the card, activated the screen display switch on it, and after seeing the number twenty thousand, he covered his earphone and said, "Boss! Star Coins confirmed!"

"Very good! Hold still!"

Nie Ba saw that Di Yun made no move to release his son and said coldly, "What! Still not letting him go!"

"Don't be so impatient. I'm not dozing off right now, isn't waiting an extra minute still waiting?"

As he spoke, an all-terrain vehicle drove onto the grass from the stadium gate. Inside the car was Corporal Scout Zhao Feipeng.

Zhao Feipeng drove the all-terrain vehicle behind Di Yun, who immediately stepped onto the vehicle, but Nie Hu remained under his gunpoint.

At this minute, everyone in Tianba Squad grew anxious, grabbing their guns and about to rush forward. Di Yun quickly shouted, "Hey, don't rush! This car can only seat two people, so one person has to stay. If you take another step forward, I don't mind giving Young Master Nie a few peanuts!"

"Everyone, hold still!"

Nie Ba hastily stopped everyone. That all-terrain vehicle indeed could only seat two people. He already clearly knew that the opponent had considered all factors, including the thoughts of Tianba Squad.

Having successfully reined in the crowd, Di Yun immediately signaled Zhao Feipeng to start the all-terrain vehicle and accelerate out of the stadium. At the same time, over a hundred players from Tianba Squad also opened fire frantically after Nie Hu was out of the opponent's absolute hit range.

In an instant, hundreds of bullets densely flew towards Di Yun and Zhao Feipeng, but being in motion, they actually only took one or two hundred bullets.

Among them, over a hundred bullets hit the all-terrain vehicle, while Di Yun took the remaining majority of bullets for the less-health Zhao Feipeng. The two of them escaped Tianba Squad's firing range in just a few seconds.

"First Squad, stay! Second and Third Squad, block the school gate and walls! Everyone else, chase them!"

Nie Ba no longer cared to wonder why Di Yun, who had taken one or two hundred shots, didn't die, and why the vehicle didn't explode. He rushed with dozens of his subordinates to Nie Hu, who was still bouncing in place.

"Son, you've suffered! You're safe now!"

Nie Ba tore off the kraft paper bag and pulled back the cloth covering Nie Hu's face. However, what he saw was not Nie Hu's excited eyes of survival, but a pair of pupils contracted to the extreme, filled with terror.

"Son, what's wrong?"

Nie Ba removed the tape from his son's mouth, and Nie Hu almost screamed at the top of his lungs, "Dad! Run! I have a bomb on me..."

Boom!

Everyone, including Nie Ba, had barely reacted to his words when a flash of light appeared in their eyes.

A small mushroom cloud rose into the air, and the explosion's shockwave, carrying the stadium's turf and countless body fragments, scattered around like a fairy scattering flowers.

Watching the screen full of kill notifications, Li Xiao said contentedly to Ye Ming, "You've made a huge profit again this time."

Yes, Li Xiao had Ye Ming strap five C4 plastic explosives to Nie Hu. This amount of explosive was enough to instantly kill low-ranking soldiers within a ten-meter radius, including players with a fully upgraded Level 5 Base.

"How exhilarating, how exhilarating! I'm truly amazed, Lao Xiao, are your soldiers gods? Why do your soldiers, and even your vehicles, not die after taking so many bullets?" Liu Nian was almost a fanatic of Li Xiao.

"Because I'm invincible, hahahaha!"

As the two spoke, gunfire also erupted at the school gate, mixed with the sound of heavy machine guns and occasional rocket launcher explosions.

"It seems Yun Dongliu's side has succeeded. Let's go, Liu Nian, let's collect the spoils!"

There were nine players who came with Nie Ba, plus the captain and his son, making a total of eleven.

Li Xiao recovered seventeen thousand points of steel, twenty thousand points of fuel, and six thousand points of rare minerals from them. As for Star Coins, there were only a paltry one or two hundred.

It seemed the twenty thousand Star Coins Li Xiao extorted had completely drained Tianba Squad.

"Tsk tsk... Nie Ba probably never imagined, even in death, that his dozen or so members and a force of over a hundred people would be gone in an instant."

Liu Nian looked at the bodies strewn across the ground and said with a sigh.

Li Xiao shrugged, "That's why, in another world, every step must be taken with extreme caution. This really isn't a game where you can just restart if you die."

"No, I think it should be: Cherish life, stay away from C4!"

"Hahahaha!!!!"