Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded

The approaching figures were several Mutants, or more accurately, Corruptors clad in battle armor.

This was why they were able to break through the outermost wall of fire, enduring the flamethrowers wielded by Salvation Army members that could spew flames of over a thousand degrees.

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes, his reaction speed actually faster than the others.

Almost at the same moment Chen Shanshan issued her warning, he had keenly locked onto the enemies attacking from the flank.

Unfortunately, the Corruptors launching the attack weren't coming from the same direction.

They were very clever, knowing that the humans' firepower could only target one direction at a time, so they chose different directions to strike simultaneously, greatly increasing their chances of success.

Fortunately, Chen Shanshan's perception ability came into play.

She foresaw the danger and warned them, giving everyone half a second more to react.

Shen Yue raised her shield, protecting Lin Feng in front.

Chen Shanshan, beside her, held a titanium spear, while her other hand drew the Demonbane Holy Flame from her waist.

The two Salvation Army squad leaders behind them also raised their shields, fulfilling their duty to protect the gun-wielding ability evolver in the center, while their flamethrowers were ready to be activated at any moment.

All of this happened within a second.

Lin Feng, closely guarded, looked left and right.

On the left, an early Stage Two Corruptor was attacking, clad in advanced battle armor, covered with two to three-centimeter-thick alloy plates, highlighting its extremely high defensive capabilities.

On the right, two Corruptors were lunging, one an early Stage Two, the other a late Stage Two.

The stronger one was wearing power armor, not ordinary battle armor, as Bai Ye had mentioned before, making it look slimmer, but its height was over two meters, making it look powerful and swift in the armor.

As power armor, its defense was also the highest.

Their target was Chen Shanshan, located on Lin Feng's right, the weakest point in the defensive formation.

In terms of threat level, the armor-piercing cannon definitely needed to be aimed at the right side.

The left side, with only one Corruptor, could be dealt with using just the rapid-fire cannon.

But often, such seemingly reasonable solutions are the most unreasonable choices.

What Lin Feng needed was to completely eliminate the threat, not just temporarily remove the danger.

Although there was only a one-word difference between the two,

the meanings were vastly different.

The Corruptors had to die.

Otherwise, if they were only driven away, they would face the same threat in the next layer of clearing.

So, Lin Feng decisively crossed his hands.

The armor-piercing cannon in his right hand locked onto the only target attacking from the left, ensuring a one-hit kill!

The rapid-fire cannon in his left hand roughly aimed at the right side, seeking only a repelling effect, temporarily blocking their attack.

In fact, even without considering completely killing the Corruptors, Lin Feng would have made the same choice.

Because the enemies on the right were attacking faster, lunging from over forty meters away, past the wall of fire, to twenty meters in front of them in just the blink of an eye.

In another two blinks, they would be upon them.

In this situation, if Lin Feng fired the armor-piercing cannon at the two Corruptors attacking from the right, the impact and shrapnel damage from the exploding shells would definitely affect Chen Shanshan, who wasn't holding a shield.

The latter was only wearing a level sixteen battle armor, with a defense level of just over a hundred, so although the damage from the armor-piercing cannon would be reduced to only sixty or seventy after ten meters, it would still cause some damage.

Especially the destruction of the hardened glass visor of her level three helmet, which would greatly affect Chen Shanshan's vision.

So, in this short tenth of a second, Lin Feng made the most correct decision.

As he crossed his hands, his fingers pulled the triggers, and shells were fired towards the targets.

Boom! Boom! BOOM!

But this didn't mean that the early Stage Two Mutant died in the explosion of the armor-piercing shell.

Polluted and assimilated by mutated cells, unless it was torn to pieces or burned to ashes, even if its entire chest was blown through, it could grow back vigorously after a period of recovery.

The Mutant's seemingly unsolvable proliferation and self-healing abilities allowed them to launch attacks unscrupulously.

Of course, except for the higher-level power of the Holy Spring, or the power of the curse from the Scorching Sun.

Because these higher-level energy radiations than a Stage Three King would directly destroy the genetic information of the mutated cells, leading to their proliferation failure.

Like being infected with a deadly virus, the Mutants would quickly die from systemic ulceration and respiratory failure.

So, Lin Feng directly pulled the trigger twice.

The two armor-piercing shells with 160 points of damage, the previous one only broke through the Corruptor's hard chest armor, and the latter one pierced through its damaged chest and triggered the fuse explosion when it touched the inner layer of the back armor.

A muffled bang was heard!

The entire armor-piercing shell head completely exploded inside the body of this early Stage Two Corruptor, releasing all the damage inside the target.

A perfect hit!

As for the destructive effect after the explosion, it directly cut off the possibility of this Corruptor escaping.

Its grayish-gray degenerate pupils flashed with a hint of fear and panic.

Then the explosion in its chest caused its entire body to tear apart from the middle.

A burst of flames directly blew the Corruptor in half, turning it into a dismembered corpse.

The entire torso naturally fell apart, turning into charred cooked meat, scattered all over the place, while the head rolled ten meters away, and the hands and feet were scattered everywhere.

A Corruptor whose flesh didn't rot and who was immortal for thousands of years died like this.

If it could continue to live, it might have been able to collect enough Stage Three contamination sources in the future to become a Stage Three Mutant King.

Unfortunately, under Lin Feng's decisive shooting, it died in the initial battle.

However, Lin Feng, who had completely killed a Mutant, didn't relax.

When he chose to use the armor-piercing cannon to kill the one on the left first, he already had enough confidence to kill this Stage Two Mutant with one hit.

So, after pulling the trigger twice, he immediately swung his right hand back to the right, and the whole person also shifted to the right, so that both guns were aimed at the right side.

The previous rapid-fire cannon had fired more than ten shots in a row, barely stopping the enemy's attack on this side.

As Stage Two Mutants, one early and one late, they cooperated very well, constantly swaying left and right, changing direction, trying to avoid the grenade bursts fired from the muzzle of the rapid-fire cannon.

Although these grenade bursts with only 120 damage were only slightly stronger than hand grenades, simply hitting one or two wouldn't break through their armor.

The killing effect caused wouldn't be as serious as an armor-piercing cannon, which could seriously injure with one hit.

But after being hit, it would interrupt the Corruptor's attack rhythm, and although the damage from the grenade bursts was low, the shock wave and vibration would also affect the flesh and blood inside the armor, causing muscle tissue damage and the severe pain of fractures.

In addition, considering the experience of their kind on the left, the Corruptors, who still had a trace of sanity, knew very well that they couldn't be hit.

However, Lin Feng never thought of hitting them.

The meaning and role of the rapid-fire cannon was fire suppression, and the important task of a one-hit kill was left to the armor-piercing cannon.

So, with the threat from the left eliminated, Lin Feng immediately moved behind Chen Shanshan and targeted the two Corruptors coming from the right, jumping and dodging to create distance.

The Tier 2 late-stage Corruptor had already jumped to within ten meters of the four-person formation. One more lunge, and it would be upon them.

The armor-piercing cannon's power would definitely affect the team members in the formation, so Lin Feng chose to use the rapid-firing cannon, aiming at its chest and neck, while his right hand's armor-piercing cannon locked onto the other Tier 2 early-stage Corruptor, which was covering its comrade's attack.

As the trigger was pulled again,

the rapid-firing cannon shattered the late-stage Corruptor's neck, the weakest point in the powered armor.

To enhance the single soldier's armor's flexibility, unlike heavily armored battle suits, the close-fitting armor didn't add extra protection to the joints.

Including the neck, which lacked a neck guard.

This allowed super-soldiers wearing the armor to quickly respond to enemies from all directions, such as above, the sides, and the rear.

Bulky battle suits, on the other hand, could only look up at a fifty-degree angle and had a horizontal field of view of only one hundred and eighty degrees when turning their heads left and right.

Lin Feng used this weakness to defeat the late-stage Corruptor clad in armor.

The armor-piercing cannon fired from his right hand directly hit the early-stage Corruptor's chest, shattering its thick chest armor. The resulting explosion instantly severely injured it, knocking it to the ground.

However, the crisis wasn't over. A few rapid-firing cannon shots had only shattered the late-stage Corruptor's neck armor; their power was far from enough to seriously injure or kill it.

At that moment, its figure paused in mid-air before landing less than five steps away from the right side of the formation. One kick, and it could pounce on Chen Shanshan on the far right.

But the girl didn't panic. With her rich combat experience, she was already used to this kind of life-or-death struggle.

Especially after eliminating her fear of Aberrations and the ruins, these monsters were essentially no different from the walking dead zombies in old movies.

Even a Tier 2 late-stage Corruptor was just a more powerful Infected.

Moreover, Lin Feng had already created an opening for her in advance. Although Chen Shanshan was young and inexperienced, her combat intelligence was by no means low.

She was even the strongest in single combat in Lin Feng's team.

After the rapid-firing cannon destroyed the enemy's neck armor, she realized that this was the key to killing the Corruptor.

It was also the opportunity Lin Feng had created for her.

In the instant the Corruptor paused for less than 0.2 seconds after being hit, it kicked off again, launching an attack on Chen Shanshan, who was more than half a head shorter than it.

The girl immediately gripped her titanium spear tightly in her right hand, aiming at the enemy's armored chest to prevent it from getting closer. Then, she raised her left hand, which had been preparing the Demonbane Holy Flame, and aimed at the target's already bleeding neck.

The Tier 2 late-stage Corruptor obviously hadn't realized the danger, because melee weapons had extremely limited damage against Aberrations. Even if it was pierced by the titanium spear, it wouldn't affect its pounce.

As long as it killed the human Evolver in front of it, it could kill the real target…

directly tearing apart the humans who possessed heavy firepower and posed a great threat to the Aberrations.

It didn't even need to kill them. As long as it could break through the armor and let the other party be contaminated by Aberrant cells, it could still make them lose their combat power.

However, two consecutive 'bang, bang' sounds rang out!

The Tier 2 late-stage Corruptor hadn't even reacted when it felt dizzy in its degenerated eyes, the scene spinning continuously, eventually settling on the wet surface.

Chen Shanshan decisively used the level 17 Demonbane Holy Flame in her hand, aiming at the Corruptor's neck. Two shots directly blasted its armored head several meters away.

The body, which had lost its neural control, instinctively flailed forward before heavily collapsing to its knees.

After eliminating the enemy, Chen Shanshan gasped for breath, raised her titanium spear, and kicked the Corruptor's headless Tier 2 Aberrant corpse away.

The crisis was temporarily resolved. Lin Feng checked the surrounding situation.

The Salvation Army's burning line, which had been breached, had regrouped to resist the Aberrations surging in from all directions.

Fortunately, no more armored Corruptors appeared.

Only they could withstand the thousand-degree flames, cross the isolation layer, and attack the supporting troops in the rear.

While Lin Feng had everyone take a temporary rest, he raised the muzzle of the rapid-firing cannon and aimed it at the distant Aberrant tide, suppressing their offensive.

But at this moment, fierce fighting sounds and the roar of explosions suddenly came.

Looking in the direction of the sound, he saw a silver-haired, girl-like figure fighting another afterimage in the light not far away.

The light pillars emitted by the focusing mirrors behind them had weakened to dozens of degrees, and their destructive power had been severely reduced, but when shone on that afterimage, it still emitted bursts of white smoke.

That is to say, this Aberrant monster could actually withstand the radiation of the blazing sun and fight Bai Ye, a late-stage Tier 2 Evolver, to a standstill!

Lin Feng frowned slightly. Without thinking, he knew that this powerful monster, emitting white smoke all over its body and constantly being burned by the Blazing Sun Curse…

was the Tier 3 Aberrant Overlord that caused this Aberrant riot and prevented everyone from delving deeper into the ruins!

It was also the first being Lin Feng had encountered that could be considered a Tier 3 Overlord.

At this moment, the battle between Bai Ye, the late-stage Tier 2 Salvation Army leader, and the Tier 3 Aberrant Overlord was so fast that most Tier 1 Evolvers couldn't even see it clearly.

Tier 2 Aberrations possess a speed of one hundred meters per second, which is the limit for Tier 1 Evolvers.

Therefore, even if the physical strength of a Tier 3 Aberrant Overlord was far from comparable to a true Tier 3 Overlord, it was enough to crush a group of late-stage Tier 2 Evolvers.

Now, its speed was so fast that only an afterimage remained. Among the people present, only Lin Feng, a late-stage Tier 1 Evolver at level 19, could barely see the exchanges between the two sides.

Because the speed was too fast, the bodies of these powerhouses themselves were the strongest means of attack.

Tens of tons, or even hundreds of tons, of force, coupled with lightning-fast speed…

even bare-handed, the power of a fist attack could be comparable to a cannonball.

At this moment, the Tier 3 Aberration was still gaining the upper hand under the Blazing Sun Curse, becoming the one initiating the attack.

Bai Ye, floating in mid-air with blue light flashing in her eyes, could only defend passively because she lacked a speed advantage.

Circles of energy ripples appeared around her.

Like ripples on the water's surface, but now appearing in the air.

The energy forming the fluctuations had slightly distorted space, because the Blazing Sun's rays, when passing through Bai Ye, didn't refract but bent the entire beam.

Like flowing air, the spatial abilities released by Bai Ye caused the space around her to continuously expand.

It was by adopting this measure that the Tier 3 Aberration's attacks all ended in vain.

Whenever it rushed to Bai Ye's side and launched an attack, the space between it and the target would inexplicably shift.

The claws that should have grabbed Bai Ye suddenly appeared on the other side, causing the attacks to miss every time.

In order to kill the target, the Aberrant Overlord had to increase its speed, wanting to cross the layers of spatial vibrations and reach the other party before the target could react.

However, Bai Ye wasn't passively taking a beating.

The stainless steel thermos flask floating around her was even more powerful than Lin Feng's armor-piercing cannon. As long as one hit, it could seriously injure the Aberrant Overlord's flesh and blood body.

However, achieving a precise hit is not a simple matter.

The speed of the Aberrant King is already fast enough to leave afterimages.

Lin Feng compared it to his own maximum speed, which is currently around 100 meters per second, but he can't maintain that for long, as it's limited by factors such as the environment and physical strength.

Based on this, he roughly estimated that the Aberrant King's attack speed is more than twice his own.

And at a speed of 200 meters per second, it's already approaching the speed of a regular bullet, so the Aberrant King can easily dodge any long-range attacks.

Especially with Bai Ye's attack method, which requires ensuring that the explosive damage doesn't affect herself while also hitting the target, she can only throw it remotely.

Even at its fastest, the speed is only a little over ten meters per second, which, in the Aberrant King's perception, is no different from a snail's pace.

Lin Feng took a deep breath and looked around.

Behind him, the two squad leaders were thoroughly burning and finishing off the corpses left behind by the Corrupted Ones, as well as the severely injured one.

Otherwise, in a few days, these remains and fragments would re-aggregate and stick together, forming a new Tier 2 Aberrant.

Or they would be devoured and fused by other Aberrants, increasing their evolution level.

In short, allowing them to continue to exist would lead to endless troubles.

Fortunately, the Savior Army's fuel tanks never lack liquid hydrogen fuel. As the flamethrower nozzle released raging flames, the chunks of flesh and tissue crackled and popped.

Countless aberrant cells were dehydrating and turning into charcoal.

A total of three armored Corrupted Ones attacked…

Lin Feng still remembered the information provided by Bai Ye that the military factory was discovered by a hunter squad, but they also suffered heavy losses that time.

It was likely due to an attack by a Tier 3 Aberrant King, which ultimately led to the deaths of two Tier 1 late-stage Special Hunters and one One-Star Hunter below Sub-Level Six.

Then, the three Corrupted Ones that perished here should be the result of that group of relic hunters being corrupted.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng immediately arranged for Chen Shan Shan and Shen Yue to establish a defensive formation on the spot, protecting him in the middle of the formation.

Because next, Lin Feng was about to carry out a long-range sniper attack on the Tier 3 Aberrant King in the distance.

He needed to concentrate all his attention on the situation, finding the flaws that the Aberrant King inadvertently revealed.

The two women nodded and immediately huddled together.

The two Savior Army squad leaders who had finished burning the remains also came over to ensure Lin Feng's safety.

As Lin Feng raised the armor-piercing cannon with both hands, using the scope on top to lock onto the fierce battle two hundred meters away…

After taking a deep breath, he held his breath and focused all his attention, locking onto the afterimages flashing in mid-air.

Although the speed of the Tier 3 Aberrant King is fast, that is only during the attack. Its speed in a normal state is not fast enough to leave afterimages.

Especially when dodging Bai Ye's thermos bomb, the sudden stop plus the change of direction and restart takes about a second.

It's definitely enough to deal with the incoming thermos, but it's the perfect time for Lin Feng to strike.

After all, the armor-piercing cannon in his hand has a muzzle velocity of over one thousand meters per second, and the distance from the target to the muzzle is only about two hundred meters.

So the attenuation in the middle can be almost ignored.

It would only take about 0.2 seconds for the armor-piercing cannon to accurately hit the Aberrant King.

However, even during the process of stopping and changing direction, the time the Aberrant King's figure stagnates would not exceed 0.1 seconds.

To accurately hit the target, he can only predict in advance, judge the final position where the Aberrant King will stop, and then pull the trigger and fire the armor-piercing cannon in advance.

Lin Feng recalled when he was still a college student on Old Earth, he often played shooting games that had the concept of predicting in advance.

But those were all maps that had been played thousands of times, and he knew exactly where the enemies would appear.

Reality doesn't have that kind of situation.

Lin Feng needs to accumulate enough experience by observing the battle between the two sides to establish a set of action models for the Tier 3 Aberrant King.

Fortunately, this process is very fast.

Thanks to the nineteenth level of evolution, although Lin Feng hasn't directly become smarter, the flexibility and reaction speed of his brain has increased tenfold compared to before.

Only in this way can he match his powerful physical body.

In just a few tens of seconds of battle, he has figured out the general movement habits of this Tier 3 Aberrant, and then verified it several times successfully.

Lin Feng, who was already prepared, held his breath.

Until he saw Bai Ye seize the opportunity and throw out a stainless steel thermos.

It contained a large amount of hydrogen-oxygen mixture, and once ignited and detonated, not to mention the explosive power of the flames, the shrapnel damage from the shattered stainless steel cup alone would be enough for the Aberrant King to suffer.

The previous battle between the two had already left the Aberrant King covered in injuries, but each time he dodged in time, so he wasn't directly hit.

But this time is different, locking onto the Tier 3 Aberrant King, not only is there the stainless steel thermos flying at high speed with the blessing of spatial power.

There is also Lin Feng, who is waiting patiently like a cold and venomous snake two hundred meters away, pulling the trigger.

The giant cannon in his hand fired six armor-piercing shells in a row within one second.

That's right! A full six shells!

Lin Feng activated the firepower coverage attribute in advance, being able to fire six shells in one second to ensure the hit rate of the attack.

With such a long and patient preparation, it would be too wasteful to only fire one armor-piercing shell.

Although Lin Feng has always used the armor-piercing cannon as a final, decisive sniper…

But who says sniper rifles don't have automatic mode?

Barretts can even fire automatically in reality.

It would be stupid not to use a cheat when you have one.

As these six armor-piercing shells successively hit the figure of the Tier 3 Aberrant King as it suddenly stopped…

Only a series of violent explosions were heard!

BOOM! x7

The soaring flames directly engulfed the figure of this Tier 3 Aberrant King.

And the buildings within a twenty-meter radius of where it was located were all turned into ruins.

This was the amazing strike caused by six armor-piercing shells and a thermos bomb together.

The entire Sub-Level Three shook!

The aftermath of the explosion caused the tide of aberrant monsters, which had been stirred up by the Tier 3 Aberrant King, to scatter in an instant.

A large number of Aberrants fled in panic, some running to both sides, and some returning to Sub-Level Four along the original route.

And Bai Ye, who was closest to the explosion, was also affected, with the shockwave sweeping her to the ground. Fortunately, she reacted in time and didn't fall, barely stabilizing her figure.

Looking at the target of the attack in front of her, which had turned into ruins and was filled with thick smoke…

The explosive flames reflected on her face.

An expression that usually didn't have much fluctuation also revealed a hint of surprise and fear.

She had never thought that the heavy cannon in Lin Feng's hand, which was only slightly weaker than the stainless steel thermos, actually had an automatic burst mode…

Such strong firepower was difficult for even herself to resist.

It was enough to wipe out a second-rate wasteland force in an instant.

If he were to advance and become a Tier 2 Evolver…

Then how heaven-defying would this weapon ability be?

Under the illumination of the flames, Bai Ye slowly came back to her senses.

Looking at Lin Feng, who was still shooting to finish off the enemy,

Her expression was solemn…