Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded

After the departure of Lin Feng's team, the main force of the Salvation Army, led by their leader Bai Ye, also successfully escaped to the staircase leading to the surface cave.

The faint sunlight spilling in from outside the cave entrance was neither hot nor bright, yet it became a terrifying ray that the mutated creatures desperately avoided.

The scorching light from the three suns in the sky, after shining into the cave, only retained one-tenth of its original brightness.

However, for the mutated creatures below the fourth level of the ruins, it was as unbearable as facing the sun directly.

So, the moment the team members stepped onto the staircase, the mutated creatures rushing from behind slammed on the brakes, stopping outside the beam of light shining from the cave entrance.

From a distance, a group of mutated monsters stood in the dim shadows, gathered outside the circle of light, staring intently at the humans walking up the stairs.

Like the devils in hell, unwillingly watching human souls ascend to heaven.

Several first-order mutated creatures tentatively extended an arm to test the waters.

As a result, the mucus-covered arm was quickly scorched by the light, which was only about thirty degrees, creating a burst of white mist, and the mutated cells in the mucus died miserably under the sunlight.

As a tearing pain came from the arm, this young mutated creature was about to pay a heavy price for its ignorant behavior.

By the time it retracted its arm, the radiation erosion from the ultraviolet rays had already damaged the mucous membrane on the skin's surface and continued to invade the flesh and bones.

The sunlight was like millions of tiny needles, piercing the biomembrane of the mutated cells, shattering the fragile, stitched-together chromosomes inside like a stream of particles.

This led to the fundamental death of the cells.

Eventually, the entire arm's cellular tissue ruptured and festered under the sunlight's radiation, becoming a pool of grayish-white blood that splattered on the ground.

A hoarse, painful hiss came from its mouth, but the time left for it was short. Having lost an arm and become extremely weak, it had already been targeted by other mutated creatures.

Now that it hadn't caught enough prey, the consumption of this long-distance escape had to be replenished with other food, such as injured mutated comrades.

However, the vast majority of the mutated creatures were still staring intently at the fresh humans struggling to climb the stairs.

That was the deliciousness they craved.

The members of the Salvation Army team, especially the main force from the sixth level below ground, had been running for their lives all the way, covering a distance of nearly fifty-five kilometers.

Farther than a marathon.

Except for the leader, Bai Ye, the burden on the others was no lighter than that of Lin Feng's team in their battle armor.

To sprint more than fifty kilometers in one breath, even with the evolutionary strength of a late-stage first-order, they were already exhausted and at the end of their ropes.

If it hadn't been for that mysterious person at the cave entrance earlier, who had lent a hand at the critical moment...

At least half of the members of the Salvation Army would have been caught by the powerful mutated creatures behind them and ultimately buried in this flood of monsters.

Fortunately, at this moment, everyone had arrived at the cave entrance, bathed in the long-lost warm sunlight.

Leader Bai Ye stood at the entrance of the first level below ground, reaching out to help the team members over the last step and into the cave on the surface.

She looked down and saw the ignorant mutated creature, injured by the sunlight, directly severing an arm.

She also saw those powerful second-order mutated creatures, the Corruptors, and the leading third-order mutated creature, nearly four meters tall, surrounding the pillar of light at the staircase entrance, all stopping in their tracks.

Highly evolved, although it was composed of already contaminated third-order cells, it had also initially developed a certain degree of intelligence and was very clear about how much damage the outside sunlight could inflict on these monsters bred from darkness and pollution.

So, this third-order mutated king only stood at the edge where the pillar of light shone, raising its head and using the newly grown, tender buds and the light-sensitive eyeballs at the ends of the spores on its face and body to stare intently at the departing humans.

Especially the white-haired female with the greatest strength among these humans.

Bai Ye lowered her eyes slightly and borrowed a small round mirror from a female teammate.

Then, using the refraction of light, she reflected the light from the cave entrance onto the third-order mutated creature.

As with the previous test, the sunlight in the mirror pierced through the darkness, directly burning a patch of grayish-white smoke on its body, sizzling.

But this third-order mutated king remained unmoved, seemingly wanting to test its own tolerance to the outside sunlight.

It was just a pity that the fear originating from the contaminated genes outweighed the nascent self-awareness in its brain...

It was just a pity that the faint sunlight reflected, after shining to a more distant place, due to the scattering of light, coupled with the absorption of the dark environment, as well as the mist and water molecules in the humid air in the depths of the ruins, and so on...

Greatly affecting the brightness of the reflected light.

So, after exceeding a hundred meters, the light attenuated to the point of being invisible, naturally posing no threat to the mutated creatures.

But this also gave Bai Ye a flash of inspiration.

She looked at the round mirror in her hand, lost in thought.

On the other side, Lin Feng and the others took off their level-three helmets, walked out of the cave, and came into the sunlight.

After the three suns hung in the sky, especially with the huge scorching sun about to arrive behind them, the scorching light it released shone directly down.

The bacteria and mucus on the battle armor were instantly scalded to death, revealing a cloud of white smoke.

The temperature of the titanium alloy surface rose directly from the original twenty-odd degrees to forty or fifty degrees, and the mutated cells, which had originally adapted to the low-temperature, humid environment of ten-odd degrees, were completely killed in the harsh surface sun like boiling tides.

Lin Feng and the others breathed a sigh of relief, passed through the wanderers' camp gathered at the cave entrance, and returned to their team's four combat vehicles two hundred meters away.

Seeing the team of six return safely, the four who remained at the vehicle camp also breathed a sigh of relief.

They were worried that the first exploration would run into problems.

This would have a great impact on subsequent missions.

If they could all return safely, then they would naturally have great confidence in subsequent ruin search operations.

After the six returned to the camp, they immediately took off their sealed, heavy battle armor and placed them on the flat ground to continue to be scorched by the scorching sun for all-round sterilization.

As the scorching sun approached, the surface temperature of the Mount Tai ruins was also gradually increasing, because the intensity of the light shining over was becoming increasingly hotter.

This was also a good thing for the people who needed to go down to explore the ruins.

Although the Scorching Sun Forbidden Zone was about two hundred kilometers away from the Mount Tai ruins, the Mount Tai ruins were already on the edge of danger when looking at the entire safe area.

In less than ten days, it would be shrouded by the scorching sun.

So, although the direct sunlight was not enough to form a self-immolation curse for surface life, it was extremely deadly to the mutated monsters in the ruins.

Lin Feng observed the changes in the mucus on the battle armor, especially the gaps in the tread of the combat boots.

They were still stained with some of the mutated creatures' blood and contaminated flesh.

Under the direct sunlight, these sources of contamination were rapidly decaying and dying into blood at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Ding Yi walked over, followed Lin Feng's gaze, saw the changes on the battle armor, and immediately asked about it.

Lin Feng took the bottle of ice water she handed over, drank it all in one gulp, and then took a piece of late-stage evolved jerky, tore it apart, and swallowed it in order to recover his state as soon as possible.

This exploration of the ruins had encountered all kinds of sudden changes, and then they had escaped from death all the way, which was actually very draining on everyone's state.

Lin Feng's personal attribute panel showed that all three basic attribute values had fallen.

Therefore, even though the late-stage evolved jerky was extremely precious, with only a hundred pieces in the refrigerator, its recovery effect was very rapid, and each piece could restore twenty points of health.

It was much faster than mid-stage enhanced meat.

Now was the time to eat it!

As for the remaining two hundred kilograms of level fifteen evolved meat, it could be left to Chen Shanshan.

At this moment, the girl sat under the erected tent, eating meat and drinking water, recovering her condition as quickly as Lin Feng.

Staring at the cold, hard piece of meat in his hand for a long time…

Coming back to his senses, Lin Feng slowly began to describe his bizarre and离奇 underground experience.

At this time, Liu Qian also came over to listen, somewhat curious about the underground ruins.

At first, everything was fine, like watching a movie, but after the two women heard about the situation on the negative fourth floor, their faces all showed a few traces of shock.

Especially when Lin Feng talked about the strange source of pollution, the omnipresent unknown danger made Ding Yi and Liu Qian feel a chill down their spines just listening to it.

Then, on the main road, they encountered ordinary Abberations, Abberation Aggregates, and attacks from Tier 2 Abberations…

Lin Feng began to vividly describe how the Abberation flesh could not be killed by guns and cannons, even if it was blown to pieces, it would continue to squirm and crawl slowly on the ground, re-fusing with other cracked pieces of flesh to form a new Abberation monster.

Thinking of such a strange scene, Liu Qian's face turned pale with fright. Ding Yi, who was beside her, pushed up her glasses and asked:

"So, can only Holy Spring Water be used to stop the re-fusion of Abberation cells and kill them all?"

Lin Feng nodded:

"That's right. Holy Spring Water can be seen as penicillin, a higher-level existence than Abberation cells, capable of killing these Abberations like an immune system."

"Besides that, burning them with fire also works. The Salvation Army used flames to burn them directly, turning the Abberations into coke, so naturally, they could not be revived."

After speaking, Lin Feng also told the brain-evolved woman beside him the principle of Abberation pollution that Zheng Yanying had introduced.

Ding Yi narrowed her eyes, nodded slightly, and looked at the battle armor that Lin Feng had been staring at before. Under the direct sunlight, wisps of white smoke appeared on the titanium alloy modules on the surface of the battle armor:

"So, in addition to fire, external sunlight should also have a killing effect. The ultraviolet rays in the light, or the energy from the restricted area, are equally deadly to Abberation cells."

Lin Feng swallowed the chewed meat paste in his mouth:

"It's a pity that the outside world's eyes can't shine inside, and the temperature in the underground floors, especially below the negative third floor, will drop sharply to a dozen degrees. Even burning torches can't last too long…"

"Moreover, the humid and foggy ruins environment at the bottom makes it difficult to burn the Abberations to death unless gasoline or alcohol is used."

"We can only rely on the protection of the Holy Spring Lord to speed up the search as much as possible."

"It's just that now…"

Lin Feng then briefly complained about the explosion that occurred at the end of the underground and the chain reaction of the Abberation riots:

"This group of Salvation Army must have caused a great disaster!"

Ding Yi frowned slightly:

"Doesn't that mean that the collection of Barren Wolf Origin Essence cannot be completed during this period? Those Abberations will probably continue to wander in the upper three floors. If you want to enter it, you have to face the threat of Tier 3 Abberations…"

Lin Feng sighed lowly. This was exactly what he was worried about. He didn't know what the Salvation Army had done below to lure the monsters from the bottom floor up.

The reason he chose to save them was to cooperate with them afterward.

To see if they could solve this Tier 3 Abberation.

Relying on Lin Feng's six-person team alone, even if they tried their best, they could not do anything to this level of monster.

If the two sides cooperated, even if they could not kill this Tier 3 Abberation King, they could force it back below the negative fifth and sixth floors, so that it would no longer interfere with Lin Feng and others' mission to collect Origin Essence crystals.

"Let's talk about it then. If it doesn't work, let's go to Meteor Wolf Valley to try our luck, or the refuge on the right east side of the mountain range."

Lin Feng slowly opened his mouth.

The danger of going to Meteor Wolf Valley to scavenge was no less than facing a Tier 3 Abberation. The tribal chief-level Barren Wolves were even more cunning and dangerous, which was the worst choice.

It was just that the Abberation riots in the refuge ruins and the appearance of Tier 3 Abberations were far beyond everyone's previous expectations. If the plan could not keep up with the changes…

Then you must adapt to the situation.

Or put aside the grudges and prejudices between the two sides.

Before the arrival of the Scorching Sun Restricted Area, cooperate to complete their respective goals and tasks.

After listening to what Lin Feng said, Ding Yi had a whim.

After Liu Qian left the two of them and returned to the dormitory car, busy creating empowered Holy Water hollow-point bullets, Ding Yi slowly opened her mouth in a low voice:

"Liu Qian's ability is related to the Scorching Sun Restricted Area. Can her ability be used to dispel the Abberations in the ruins?"

"Or let her absorb a certain amount of Scorching Sun light, and then inject it into weapons or ammunition, so that it can have a special attack effect like Holy Spring Water?"

"According to the principles and levels of evolution, the power of the Holy Spring Lord is stronger than the Tier 3 source of pollution, and the curse of the Scorching Sun is even more terrifying than Holy Spring Water, and it has a greater impact on Abberations…"

"If we can use the power of the Scorching Sun curse…"

After listening to what Ding Yi said, Lin Feng narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking about the possibilities.

Tier 1 Evolvers already have a certain resistance to the Scorching Sun curse. As long as it is not long-term concentrated irradiation, it will not accumulate to the point of triggering the spontaneous combustion curse.

It was different from Su Yueyue's situation. When she was exposed to the Scorching Sun irradiation, she had just woken up from the refuge and was only five or six years old, and may not even have had initial strengthening.

As an ordinary person and too young, subsequent treatment was very棘手, and it was impossible to help her achieve evolution by拔苗助长, which led to the Scorching Sun curse becoming deeply rooted in her bones.

Now, it even requires the integration of different King genes to suppress the Scorching Sun curse in her body in order to prolong her life.

For Liu Qian, it would be much easier. As long as she didn't continuously withstand the Scorching Sun irradiation after focusing the light like the Oasis people's Moonlight Ceremony, there would generally be no problem.

At the beginning, Lin Feng had taken a few glances at the Scorching Sun Restricted Area from close range on the top of Mount Lao, and even accidentally caught a glimpse of the existence of a suspected Yang Sin. Apart from the needle-like stinging pain, it didn't really have much impact.

But what Lin Feng was worried about was obviously not this.

If Liu Qian was exposed to more contact with the Scorching Sun, even if it was maintained within a certain safe range, there was a high possibility that she would be continuously eroded by the Scorching Sun energy over time, deteriorating into a spontaneous combustion curse.

Not to mention losing her life, if she developed into a believer of the Scorching Sun God Sect, it would be a great threat and destruction to the team and the human gathering place.

What's more, Liu Qian had already shown her worship of the Scorching Sun when she was at the end of her rope.

If she was to believe in the Scorching Sun and become a believer of the Scorching Sun God Sect, it would definitely be a disaster for the team.

Ding Yi saw the tangled expression on Lin Feng's face and realized what he was worried about, and then added:

"This is just a suggestion. If there are other ways to solve it, such as cooperating with the Salvation Army, there is naturally no need to risk letting Liu Qian contact the Scorching Sun."

Lin Feng hmmmed and then lowered his voice and asked:

"How is Yueyue's situation?"

Ding Yi looked up at the armored transport vehicle next to her. Su Yueyue was inside:

"I sent some jerky and water. She fell asleep with the Divine Dog after eating. There haven't been any major problems for the time being."

"If the priest Su An is anxious, he should send someone to pick her up. Don't worry too much."

Lin Feng nodded and looked at the time. It had been exactly twelve hours since they set off, and it was noon on the second day:

"Okay, let's make lunch first. We'll rest for eight hours and wait until nightfall today."

Ding Yi then got up, used the fully charged battery to start the electric stove, and began to stir-fry.

She bought a lot of seeds and seedlings in the shops of the guild's agricultural village, and had already planted them in the cultivation box, so that she could achieve vegetable and fruit freedom in the future.

Besides the seedlings, there were also some cheap bean potatoes, a mutated potato containing a large amount of starch, which the students and children of Holy Spring Village ate.

The bean potatoes were cut into chunks and stewed with evolved jerky, seasoned with a bit of spices, comparable to the old potato stew with meat, and a fragrant aroma filled the air.

At this time, Lin Feng had recovered most of his strength after eating half a piece of late-stage evolved meat.

Chen Shanshan was also similar, but both of them were in a somewhat depressed mental state.

As for A'Lian and A'Ming, their condition was very poor. After drinking water and eating meat, they were still exhausted.

After washing their bodies with water, they went into the dormitory car and fell asleep directly on the bed, telling them not to call them for lunch.

Now there was air conditioning in the car, which could lower the temperature to below thirty degrees, making it very comfortable to sleep.

At this time, Zheng Yanying from the opposite side came over. Her condition was also somewhat depressed, and her mood was low.

Mainly due to the overexertion of mental power, and worries about the upcoming mission, her face was full of sorrow.

As for Shen Yue, this guy ate a big meal after coming back, entered the church's chariot, and began to snore and sleep.

"Everyone's condition is not very good. Our bodies and spirits were drained during the final escape. I plan to take a nap and consider what to do next at twelve o'clock day and night," Lin Feng took the initiative to say.

Zheng Yanying nodded and looked at the time on her watch:

"We spent nine hours completing the thirty kilometers in the first half of the trip, and explored inside the negative fourth floor. In the second half, it only took one hour to run back to the surface cave from the depths of the negative fourth floor…"

"The first experience operation took a total of ten hours. If it weren't for the mutant riot at the end, this operation would have been perfect."

"Mainly because of the Salvation Army guys…"

It only took one hour to return thirty kilometers, which greatly exceeded Lin Feng's expectations. This speed translates to about eight or nine meters per second. Subtracting the few minutes of rest along the way, it can exceed ten meters per second.

Although for a first-order early-stage evolver, they can easily run at a speed of thirty meters per second.

But at that time, they were carrying a hundred kilograms of armor and had already walked the thirty kilometers to the negative fourth floor. If everyone hadn't eaten and drank enough to prepare before departure, they wouldn't have been able to withstand such a long time of fully armed action.

Being able to maintain a speed of ten meters per second later had already overdrawn everyone's potential.

It was a pity that the perfect first underground operation ended hastily due to the influence of the Salvation Army.

If it weren't for the other party's leader having the strength of a second-order evolution, Lin Feng estimated that Zheng Yanying, who was extremely angry, would have already stepped forward to argue.

Now, they can only hold it in their hearts and greet the wandering forces' ancestors for eighteen generations.

Although they were angry, the situation of mutant proliferation had already occurred. In order not to affect the subsequent action plan, Lin Feng could only open his mouth to appease them:

"It's no use saying more now that things have come to this. Complaining won't solve the problem. We have to drive the third-order mutants back to below the negative sixth floor…"

"And to accomplish this, relying on the six of us is tantamount to a fool's dream. We can only seek cooperation."

Zheng Yanying frowned slightly, somewhat unwilling:

"You mean, we still have to join hands with that Salvation Army to cooperate?"

Lin Feng took a deep breath and nodded:

"Their purpose is only the military factory, to find a few machine tools that can produce weapons, or a complete production line, but these are not necessities. Even if they can't complete it, they can just leave after the Lieyang Forbidden Zone arrives…"

"But we are different! Oasis Town and the Church need us to complete the mission, and the sooner the better, preferably within a week."

"It has already taken us most of the day to reach the ruins. Now that ten hours have passed, a day has already passed."

"If we don't solve the mutants staying on the upper three floors as soon as possible, we don't know when we will re-enter the ruins next time. Do you want to joke about the Church's victory or defeat, and the lives of tens of thousands of permanent residents in the entire Oasis Town?"

Zheng Yanying was speechless by Lin Feng.

How could she not be clear that the Church could not provide support now, and the only ones who could help were the Salvation Army.

Although they caused the trouble.

But to solve the problem, they had to rely on their strength.

Taking a few deep breaths to calm her mood, Zheng Yanying asked in a deep voice:

"Is this the reason you saved them?"

"Do you know what the biggest difference between the wandering forces and us is?"

Lin Feng frowned slightly:

"Belief? Strength?"

Zheng Yanying sneered and slowly opened her mouth:

"No, it's that in their eyes, there is never morality or kindness, let alone the idea of caring about the world and wanting to save the survivors…"

"Not to mention Holy City, just take Oasis Town as an example. It has been attacked by wanderers several times in history. These hyenas are like the pirates of the medieval Old Earth, plundering everything, including the permanent residents of the village."

"Turning them into slaves or food for the team."

"Some forces that do all kinds of evil are even more crazy than the lunatics of the Lieyang Divine Sect. Don't look at them restraining themselves now, they are just afraid of our Church's identity."

"Once they are confident that they can keep all of us, they will not hesitate to attack, eat the evolved meat on your body, and then play the other women to death before throwing them into the pot."

"You think the living conditions in Oasis Town are harsh, that's because you haven't been to the real wasteland. Except for the Land of Order, this world is still a jungle…"

"A literal jungle."

After Zheng Yanying finished speaking, she looked at the wandering gathering place in the distance through the gap between the vehicles, her eyes cold.

In the education she received, in the cognition formed, there are almost no normal people among the wasteland wandering forces.

Of course, it is also difficult for normal people to survive.

At this time, two members of the Salvation Army walked out from the cave at the foot of the mountain behind the wandering gathering camp.

A woman as tall and strong as Zheng Yanying was holding an umbrella, following behind a woman with snow-white skin and short silver hair.

Seeing the two women, Zheng Yanying's pupils shrank.

As a combat nun, the internal data of the Church's combat guard system contains investigation reports on the major wandering forces in the territory.

There is a special detailed introduction to the leaders of the five forces that split after the disintegration of the Salvation Army.

And one of the five leaders is the appearance feature of short silver hair, and the skin is unusually snow-white, with a slightly morbid beauty.

Her name is Bai Ye.

She was once the number one beauty in the City of Salvation.

The last time the Church recorded her appearance was more than thirty years ago, at an relic auction outside Holy City.

Because many precious prehistoric treasures were unearthed, it attracted all the strong people within a radius of thousands of kilometers, as well as some wandering forces.

At that time, her appearance caused a small sensation with her stunning beauty.

It is rumored that she was an evolver during the Old Earth period, and she also suffered from leukemia before realizing her evolution, so she has an appearance that is obviously different from others.

But the real reason she is famous is not because of that unparalleled beauty.

Beauty is worthless in the wasteland, at best it becomes a private possession of someone in a high position of power.

And in the wasteland wandering forces, the reason why Bai Ye is so famous is her evolutionary strength that can be compared with beauty.

More precisely, it is her awakened ability…

It is one of the rarest abilities.

The ability named Space Control!

And Bai Ye, with the potential of space abilities, is also the most promising candidate to be promoted to the new third-order under the current third-order kings.

In the Hunter Guild's issued list of late second-order evolvers, she ranks in the top three.

Known as the Queen of Space.

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