Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded

Carrying the level 18 evolution serum, Lin Feng quickly returned to the camp outside the cave.

This evolution serum, nearly three hundred milliliters, contained a rich source of essence, derived from the evolution meat of a leader-level Rockhorn Horse.

If divided equally into two portions, it could become two level 17 evolution serums.

Enough for two Tier 1 intermediate-stage evolvers to achieve late-stage evolution.

But only by ensuring the improvement of one's own evolution level first can the greatest benefit be obtained.

After all, the core combat power of the team is not even Lin Feng himself, but the two gun cannons he upgraded, with firepower far stronger than gun-wielding ability users of the same level.

Bringing the evolution serum into the war chariot, the original level 9 purification extraction filter had now been upgraded to level 10:

"Nanoscale Essence Filter lv10, Red Quality, Imprinted"

"Basic Attributes: Maximum Pore Size 90 nanometers, Tier 1 Genetic Impurity Filtration Rate: 100%; Usable Times 1; Can Consume 5 Life Points to Upgrade"

"Evaluation: Can perfectly filter alien genetic impurities from Tier 1 life essence, obtaining pure essence to achieve flawless evolution; Tier 2 life essence filtration is limited and requires a maximum pore size less than or equal to 10 nanometers to completely filter impurities."

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes, then poured the life essence from the evolution serum in his hand into the nanoscale filter to completely filter out the Rockhorn Horse gene fragments inside.

After obtaining a pure level 18 life essence, he would then upgrade the filter, saving the one life point needed to refresh the usage count.

Based on the calculated reduction of ten nanometers in pore size with each upgrade, it would need to be upgraded to level 18 to effectively filter impurities from Tier 2 essence.

And when Lin Feng absorbed the Tier 2 life essence of the Rockhorn Horse in ten hours, he would have to use an level 18 filter to achieve flawless evolution.

As for the current level 18 evolution serum, although direct consumption would not have a significant impact on the body, because Lin Feng himself was already a Tier 1 evolver, and the Tier 1 evolution cells in his body could handle foreign cells of the same level on their own, unaffected by their genetic pollution.

But as a precaution, Lin Feng always used filtered pure essence for each evolution, anyway, it only required one life point to restore durability and refresh the usage count, the cost was almost zero.

After collecting the pure essence, Lin Feng first ate a piece of level 18 evolution jerky to restore his condition, then poured the filtered large cup of life essence and drank it directly.

Glug, glug…

A heat flow began to radiate from the stomach throughout the body.

Giving Lin Feng a feeling of energy sinking to his dantian and circulating throughout his body, like spiritual energy flowing within him.

But in reality, it was a large number of level 16 cells in his body, stimulated by the level 18 essence, beginning to divide, proliferate, and evolve to level 17.

While the level 17 evolution cells at the core fully absorbed the essence, transforming into level 18.

And so on, driving the evolution of the entire physical body.

Closing his eyes to rest for a moment, Lin Feng successfully completed the transformation, becoming a powerful level 18 evolver:

"Lin Feng, lv18 / 19"

"Life Value: 140, Physique: 140, Spirit: 139; lv18 attribute cap of 140"

"Superpower Awakening: Imprint Power (Imprint equipment enhancement upgrade speed slightly increased)"

"Item upgrade limit increased to lv18!"

"Can consume 5 life points to continue upgrading lv17 Machine Cannon, lv17 Rapid-Fire Cannon, lv11 Essence Filter"

This evolution took less than half an hour.

Mainly because the small-level evolution within the stage didn't have much improvement, it just made the foundation of the late-stage evolution more solid, laying a good foundation, while the strength limit broke through to eight tons, and the overall strength improved further.

After completing everything, Lin Feng immediately upgraded the level 17 Armor-Piercing Cannon and Rapid-Fire Cannon next to him.

Spending ten life points at once, his fully-fledged state after just evolving became somewhat weak again.

Lin Feng quickly ate half a piece of level 18 evolution meat.

Besides the need to purify the Tier 2 essence, the reason why Lin Feng was eagerly upgrading the filter was also because of a thought deep in his heart:

That was, could the evolution meat of a Tier 3 Aberrant King also be squeezed out to obtain the so-called Tier 3 essence?!

If possible, even if Lin Feng couldn't use it now, he would definitely need it after passing through the Mount Tai Ruins next time, one year after the global migration of the wasteland.

After all, judging from Lin Feng's current evolution speed, he would definitely be able to advance to the late stage of Tier 2 in less than six years, and then, like Bai Ye, he should consider advancing to Tier 3 and establishing his own King's City.

And if the Tier 3 pollution source in the Mount Tai Ruins could help Lin Feng evolve to Tier 3, then the value of the essence filter in his hand…

That would not be something that could be simply measured with points!

Even millions or tens of millions of points could not be exchanged for the influence of a Tier 3 King.

Even if Lin Feng couldn't use it now, as long as he could obtain even a little bit of Tier 3 essence, it could become one of his biggest trump cards in the future.

After his wings were fully formed, taking it to the guild for trading could at least earn him several million points.

After all, a portion of Tier 2 early-stage level 20 life essence could be sold for two hundred thousand points, and pure essence would be a million points, so wouldn't pure Tier 3 essence be hyped up to tens of millions?

To be precise, its value could no longer be simply measured by points and currency, because the attached pure attribute allowed it to have more additional value.

For example, the protection of a Tier 3 King, or to win over some large forces to support him.

Even the Tier 1 and Tier 2 pure essence in Bai Ye's hands could be attached to various conditions to obtain favors that exceeded the price itself…

Others could naturally imitate it.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng swallowed the jerky in his mouth fiercely, accelerating the upgrade of the nanoscale essence filter.

Cooperating with the attached attribute of the imprint, the upgrade speed of the filter was faster than the armor-piercing cannon and rapid-fire cannon, averaging only ten minutes per level.

After more than an hour, the filter, which had become level 16, began to slow down in upgrade speed, mainly because the grade was gradually approaching Lin Feng's evolution level, so it was not as fast.

At this time, Lin Feng had already eaten three large pieces of jerky to restore the life points consumed by the upgrade.

And multiple consumptions and restorations had also affected his mental state, so he put away several imprinted equipment, spread out the rear seat cushions, and planned to take a nap.

It was currently less than one-thirty, and there was still an hour and a half until three o'clock, just enough to catch up on some sleep.

Although the biological clocks of all humans in the wasteland beneath the oasis were disordered, in the long run, it had a great impact on the body.

Mainly because of intermittent sleep, the nerves remained tense for a long time, greatly affecting one's mental state.

Over time, some would have neurasthenia.

This was also the reason why the foundation of evolvers from the wasteland was weaker than that of evolvers cultivated by other family forces.

Fortunately, Lin Feng, who had just woken up not long ago, had not had such an experience, and after visiting the upper-class residential area of the oasis, he also realized the importance of regular routines.

The church provides such good living conditions for the upper citizens in order to cultivate their spiritual power. They even built a garden and provided a large number of musical instruments to meet their spiritual and cultural needs.

They try to extend the observation time of the Moonlight Ritual as much as possible.

Although Lin Feng didn't know what spiritual power was for, as one of the three basic attributes, it must be very important.

Taking the currently known principles of evolution as an example, second-order evolutionaries solve the problem of physical immortality. They have unlocked the genetic shackles of cell aging and can achieve physical immortality, just like the famous cancer cell "HeLa."

However, the reason that limits the immortality of second-order evolutionaries is the loss and decline of their spiritual consciousness.

The consciousness condensed by memory will disappear.

Even humans with the most developed brains will lose most of their memories as they grow and age. Alzheimer's disease, also known as senile dementia, is a prime example.

However, the longest-lasting way to preserve information in this world is the most primitive form of stone carving, which can last for tens or hundreds of thousands of years.

Lin Feng had seen a large number of time records and warnings to future generations left by the first survivors six thousand years ago on the top of Laoshan Mountain.

The more advanced the recording method, the shorter the preservation time and the worse the effectiveness.

This is equally fatal for life forms. The more memory is lost in the later stages, the more it is no different from being a living dead.

Therefore, most long-lived creatures in nature are either sluggish and dull in their actions, or they have not evolved rich neurons at all, and are just low-level life forms without brains.

For example, the five-hundred-year-old Greenland shark, or fungal aggregates, and the so-called "immortal" jellyfish.

This kind of low-level coelenterate animal, with only a few reflex nerves throughout its body, doesn't even have self-awareness. It's only slightly more advanced than a sponge. Calling it a mass of moving flesh is even a bit of a compliment.

If you want to truly achieve immortality, you must alleviate the aging and decay of the brain, the high-energy-density organ that carries consciousness, under the increase of time entropy.

As for the solution, Father Su'an had already hinted to Lin Feng, which is the evolutionary path of a third-order king, directly integrating his own memory and information into the genes.

Using genes to carry one's own consciousness.

This can also well explain why there is gene radiation around the third-order king, and the leaked blood tissue will cause serious gene pollution, forming a forbidden area of life.

As for how to integrate one's own consciousness and memory into the genetic body, although Lin Feng currently has no clue, he can basically be sure that it is related to the spirit among the three basic attributes.

So now paying attention to maintaining a good mental state is only beneficial for future evolution and has no disadvantages.

Moreover, the third-order aberration to be fought later, although only a third-order king who has been contaminated, is at most around the late second-order in strength, but after all, it carries the name of a third-order. It is definitely not as easy as the cleaning work on the upper three floors, which only requires moving your fingers and pulling the trigger.

It is still necessary to nourish the spirit and be ready to fight.

Lin Feng, who had fallen asleep groggily, was awakened by Chen Shanshan who came in after a nap of more than an hour.

She rested earlier, returning to the dormitory car at twelve o'clock.

She woke up after sleeping for more than two hours, and seeing that there were only twenty minutes left before three o'clock in the morning and evening, she hurried to wake up Lin Feng.

The moment he opened his eyes, a series of reminders jumped out of the corner of his eye. The two imprinted gun cannons had been upgraded to level 18, and the source matter filter had also been successfully upgraded to level 17.

Lin Feng got up and asked Chen Shanshan to clean up first, while he checked the equipment attributes after the upgrade:

「Armor-Piercing Cannon lv18, Red Quality, Imprint」

「Basic Attributes: Damage 150, Effective Range 2 kilometers, Killing Coverage 12 meters, Remaining Tungsten Core Armor-Piercing Shells 350; Upgraded to Host Level Limit」

「Additional Attributes: Bullet Recovery 1 / 1h; Space Magazine 350 rounds; Area Damage (Coverage Radius 12 meters, Center 2 meters Damage 160); Firepower Coverage (Six rounds per second for five seconds); Armor-Piercing Shells (Armor-Piercing Ability increased by 100%, Damage + 10)」

「Note: Can be freely switched back to lv9 Fine AK」

「Note: The current basic damage has reached the upper limit of the second-order red quality. The next upgrade will continue to strengthen the bullet damage, and the benefits will be reduced」

After this upgrade, the basic damage was successfully increased to 150 points, which is equivalent to the life value limit of a level 19 existence. In the future, the damage of the shells cannot be continued to be strengthened.

However, the damage is enough. With the additional ten points of armor-piercing shells, the current maximum damage reaches 160, which is invincible under the second order and unstoppable.

When Lin Feng evolves to level 19, he can choose to increase the shell recovery speed or expand the ammunition reserve.

However, Lin Feng prefers the former.

If one shell can be recovered per minute, it is more useful than expanding the reserve by fifty shells.

Because it is rare to fire all three hundred shells in one breath, but it is too slow to recover.

One shell per hour, only twenty-four shells per day, not enough for Lin Feng to open firepower coverage for five seconds. After a few bursts, you have to wait two or three days to recover.

And if one shell is recovered per minute, it is sixty shells per hour, and it can be fully recovered in six hours.

After checking the level 18 armor-piercing cannon with extreme damage, Lin Feng immediately checked another rapid-fire cannon of the same level:

「Rapid-Fire Cannon lv18, Red Quality, Imprint」

「Basic Attributes: Damage 110, Effective Range 2 kilometers, Killing Coverage 6 meters, Remaining Explosive Shells 3500; Upgraded to Host Level Limit」

「Additional Attributes: Bullet Recovery 1 / 1s; Space Magazine 3500 rounds; Area Damage (Coverage Radius 6 meters, Center 1 meter Damage 110); Extreme Speed Pursuit (Automatic Mode Ten rounds per second)」

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「Note: Can be freely switched back to lv9 Precision Pistol」

Unlike the fifty rounds of ammunition increase of the armor-piercing cannon, the rapid-fire cannon directly increased by five hundred rounds under Lin Feng's imprint enhancement.

The amount of increase in one upgrade is more than the ammunition reserve of the entire armor-piercing cannon.

With such a huge amount of ammunition, even if the damage is only a little over one hundred, it is enough to make up for its lack of damage.

And what Lin Feng ultimately wants is a full four thousand rounds of ammunition to cope with the aberrant monster tide on the negative four and five floors of the ruins.

Their numbers are in the thousands, a dark mass. Without sufficient ammunition, if something goes wrong, such as the riot of aberrant bodies this time, Lin Feng must first ensure that he can safely withdraw from the ruins and kill his way back to the surface.

Therefore, the number of ammunition in the space magazine has become a crucial attribute.

Lin Feng stared at the rapid-fire cannon in his hand and suddenly realized that the so-called space magazine, the expansion space inside, is actually the same principle as Ding Yi's previous analysis of Bai Ye's space ability.

The source of the space magazine is the vacuum bubble zone caused by the rapid burning of the granular gunpowder in the bullet body after the bullet is fired, which pushes the bullet forward.

Although this part of the area will soon be filled with the explosive gas of the gunpowder, there is indeed a vacuum area at the rear when the pressure generated by the explosion pushes the bullet forward.

This can be clearly seen from the vacuum cavity formed by the low-pressure area at the rear of the bullet when the bullet is fired underwater.

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes slightly. If the gun is because of the vacuum area generated during the bullet firing process, so that the original magazine is upgraded to a space magazine... …

Then, as long as a vacuum area is designed on other items and equipment, can an additional space reserve attribute also be upgraded?

Thinking of this, Lin Feng slowly raised his head and looked at the level 17 rock horse chariot around him.

A bold plan slowly emerged in his mind.

But then Lin Feng thought again that creating an expanded reserve space on an electric vehicle with an already low payload didn't seem very useful, since adding more stuff would also increase the weight of the reserve box.

Because what was currently lacking was more abundant power.

Rather than payload space.

Perhaps in the future, when a better power system is found that can travel at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour, the extra reserve space on the chariot will have practical significance for use.

For example, on the Green War battleship, upgrading a super-large capacity expansion space to store fresh water resources would be both safe and convenient.

An occasional flash of inspiration was again rejected by Lin Feng. After checking the two guns, he continued to spend five more points of life value to upgrade the level 17 filter…

After doing everything, Lin Feng immediately got up and walked out of the car, putting on his sealed battle armor.

At this time, Chen Shanshan was already ready, and Shen Yue on the opposite car also yawned while raising her shield, walking towards the two.

At 2:50, the three continued to set off, heading towards the cave entrance at the foot of the mountain.

Upon arriving inside the cave, the four Salvation Army members who had previously followed the three to clear the first basement level continued to follow this time, already waiting at the entrance.

Mainly because the flamethrowers in their hands were only suitable for close-range burning; beyond twenty or thirty meters, the effect would be greatly reduced. Therefore, they were very suitable for dealing with suddenly attacking Aberrants in the dark space below the third basement level.

However, during the clearing operation, the Aberrants, seized with terror, ran faster than anyone else. As soon as the door opened and there was any noise, they would immediately flee.

Keeping far away from the humans emerging from the light.

At this time, Lin Feng's guns were needed to provide long-range firepower strikes to clear all the remaining Aberrants.

Only then could the Salvation Army members safely and fully transport machine tools and production lines.

Otherwise, with more than 80% of the personnel engaged in transportation and the remaining 20% on guard, it would be difficult to cope with even one or two hundred evolved Aberrants.

The most important thing was to prevent their attacks from damaging the machine tools and production lines.

Protecting the equipment was more important than killing the Aberrants.

This was also why Lin Feng was needed to clear most of the Aberrants in the upper three levels.

When the sunlight refracted by the focusing mirror was aimed at the entrance to the next level, there was no light on both sides of the main road. Don't think that the Aberrants have been driven away now; once they launch an attack later, it will cause immeasurable losses.

The significance of military industrial production is the foundation of the rule of a first-class force, alongside the food and evolution provided by the Rockhorn Horse industry, ranking as one of the three major foundations.

Respectively representing weapons, food, and the constituent personnel of the force.

Therefore, military industrial equipment must not be lost.

Of course, Bai Ye's arrangement for Lin Feng to clear the Aberrants was also to check and assess his strength, to see if he was qualified to be invested in advance by the Salvation Army, ensuring the smooth transport of equipment.

Led by the Salvation Army squad leader, Lin Feng and the others walked through the clean and bright first basement level and entered the slightly dim second basement level.

Through the refraction of the spotlight at the staircase entrance, the brightness of the space on the second basement level was roughly able to see objects three or four hundred meters away, equivalent to dusk at sunset.

The residual warmth of the beam above also dropped sharply from five or six hundred degrees on the first basement level to two or three hundred degrees.

Lin Feng felt the environmental changes and frowned slightly.

The attenuation of external sunlight was so rapid that he estimated that by the time they reached the third basement level, the effect would be less than one hundred degrees.

Furthermore, after penetrating the humid mist in the air, the brightness and temperature of the beam would be attenuated again.

It seemed that the third basement level was its limit.

Even the decisive battle originally planned for the fourth basement level might be brought forward to the third basement level.

Lin Feng saw from afar that the main force of the Salvation Army was currently gathered at the entrance from the second to the third basement level, building the third focusing mirror.

"Let's go. The leader has explained our mission. There are a bit more remaining Aberrants on the second basement level this time, covering a full five square kilometers, in the dilapidated hibernation pod areas on the left and right."

"The number is no less than three hundred, of which there are more than thirty Tier 2 Aberrants."

"Our mission is to clear them as much as possible, at least two hundred or more, especially the Tier 2 Aberrants. The more you kill, the better."

After walking down the steps and arriving at the second basement level, the Salvation Army squad leader at the head of the team spoke to everyone:

"The mission time is nine hours, that is, before twelve noon of the daytime. The time is still a bit tight. Let's start quickly, starting from the left!"

After speaking, he began to lead the three team members behind him, as well as Lin Feng and the others, towards the residential area on the left.

In addition to flamethrowers, the Salvation Army also had a bright searchlight that could illuminate a hundred meters around, which was very suitable for building inspections and improving efficiency.

As for Lin Feng, he only needed to be responsible for opening fire directly as soon as there was any movement, in order to seriously injure the Aberrants.

With the cooperation of several people, the speed of the sweep became faster and faster.

During this period, when approaching corners, they also encountered counterattacks from four or five Tier 2 Aberrants, but under the rapid bursts of the rapid-fire cannon and the huge damage of the armor-piercing cannon, they were all seriously injured before rushing within fifty meters of Lin Feng.

Especially the level 18 armor-piercing cannon, with a damage coverage of twelve meters in radius and a shell damage of a full 160, was able to effectively kill the flesh and blood Aberrants.

If it were replaced by a Tier 2 evolver wearing battle armor, it would not be so easy to seriously injure them, at least requiring precise hits to the opponent's torso.

The true killing power of the armor-piercing cannon, under Lin Feng's several damage enhancements, has seriously overflowed, and is specially prepared for killing leader-level and chieftain-level Rockhorn Horses.

As the most defensive wild beasts, they are covered in nearly half a meter thick of pottery-steel rock armor, with a hardness comparable to titanium alloy, even the level 18 armor-piercing cannon is somewhat insufficient in damage.

Upgrading the heavy cannon to this standard, in other words, apart from the Li family's Rockhorse armor, there simply does not exist an evolved life that can withstand the armor-piercing cannon.

As Lin Feng killed all the way, circling the second basement level and walking three or four laps, from three o'clock in the morning to eleven o'clock in the morning of the daytime, he finally killed more than two hundred and fifty Aberrants!

Among them, there were more than forty Tier 2 Aberrants, already completing the established goal.

The remaining Aberrants have been playing hide-and-seek with everyone. Continuing to hunt them down is of little significance.

Finally, the group of seven rested near the entrance to the third basement level, and the squad leader in the late first tier went down to report the completion of the mission.

Soon, Bai Ye followed behind him and returned to the second basement level, walking towards Lin Feng, who was sitting against the wall.

"You've worked hard. Go find Marie for the Source Essence. Take a good rest next, remember to replenish your nutrition and restore your state."

"Due to the attenuation of light on the third basement level, a large part of the area is still in darkness, with thousands of Aberrants remaining, including a Tier 3 Aberrant King…"

"At three o'clock in the afternoon, we plan to try to see if we can completely leave it behind."

"At that time, your firepower support will be crucial!"

After speaking, Bai Ye reached out and patted Lin Feng on the shoulder:

"Don't worry, whether or not we kill the Tier 3 Aberrant, as long as we clear the third basement level, your share of the chieftain-level Rockhorn Horse life Source Essence will definitely be offered."

"As for now, go and rest!"

Lin Feng nodded and then got up.

Following the squad leader and the other four, he returned to the surface.

Obtaining the level 19 life Source Essence from Marie again, this will also be before his promotion to the second tier…

The last evolution!