Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded

Wolf Ao still remembered when his intelligence had just awakened, when he became an evolved beast.

At that time, it didn't have this name yet. The Wolf King Ao named it Wolf Leap because, during a hunting expedition, it relied on its thick hind legs to accelerate its charge and leap across a wide, rapid river that spanned fifty to sixty meters.

It successfully intercepted a herd of herbivorous mutated beasts led by a Chieftain-level North American Yak.

Because Wolf Leap made a great contribution, it was granted the evolved meat of the Yak Chieftain, absorbed the source essence within, and successfully advanced to a Second-Order Gray Wolf.

After that, Wolf Leap repeatedly performed miraculous feats by using its jumping advantage, rising to the top of the Five Great Wolf Generals, evolving to the twenty-ninth level of the Second-Order limit.

It was only one step away from becoming a Third-Order King Beast.

But at that time, the Wolf King Ao was at the height of its power, radiating light and dazzling like the sun.

As the first batch of Third-Order King Beasts on land, the Wolf King was not only powerful but also the recognized and undisputed leader of all branches of the wolf clan.

At that time, all terrestrial evolved beast clans faced a major problem: most of the rich and fertile lands on Earth were occupied by humans, the strongest at the top of the food chain.

In particular, the resource-rich fields were once the habitats of other wild beasts.

If the evolved beast clans wanted to further expand their living space, they had to reclaim their habitats from humans.

Therefore, under the pressure of survival, the wolf clan, living in the harsh and frigid lands of the far north, had to move south in large numbers, preying on humans while occupying the fertile tropical regions.

To face the former sole overlord of Earth, the beast clans could only rely on the power brought by evolution.

They were widely distributed, migrating dozens of kilometers to different regions every day, making it easier for them to absorb source essence and promote their own evolution compared to humans clustered in cities or clinging to villages.

However, ordinary First-Order evolution could only barely withstand small-caliber bullets. Rifle bullets could still kill evolved beasts if they hit the head or heart.

Although Second-Order evolution had greatly improved, being able to ignore ordinary bullet shots and even withstand the bombardment of small artillery shells, they could still be seriously injured or killed by human heavy firepower, such as tank cannons, howitzers, or even small missiles.

The only evolved beings that could break through layers of firepower and kill humans were Third-Order King Beasts.

Their evolutionary focus may have differed, mainly in two directions: defense and offense. For example, the Pig King living in Asia absorbed the characteristics of large herbivores such as elephants, rhinos, and camels, making its defense astonishing.

The Wolf King's evolutionary direction was naturally offense, and it had no obvious shortcomings in other aspects, belonging to a balanced existence.

But regardless of which direction they chose, Third-Order King Beasts all had one common trait: an incredibly powerful recovery and self-healing ability.

Even if they lost a hand or foot, they could repair it in an instant.

Although they couldn't achieve the mythical 'regeneration from a drop of blood,' conventional weapons in human military technology simply couldn't kill a Third-Order King Beast.

Not to mention that as Third-Order life forms, Third-Order King Beasts also possessed another characteristic: gene radiation.

Moreover, as the level of evolution continued to increase, the range and intensity of radiation also increased exponentially.

The larger the range covered, the more beneficial it was for the beast clan to defeat humans.

After all, as long as a Third-Order King Beast took one step forward, enveloping human territory in its own gene radiation energy, humans entrenched on the front lines would suffer both physical and mental torment within a few days.

The cells and genes in their bodies would mutate, becoming twisted and deformed, and their mental state would also be greatly tortured, gradually becoming muddled or turning bloodthirsty and furious.

Therefore, the beast clans needed to concentrate all resources to cultivate Third-Order King Beasts to lead the rise of their race.

But if the Wolf King Ao could go a step further, increasing its evolutionary level by one, the effect would be an exponential increase of 2*2=4.

Moreover, increasing the upper limit of strength could continuously suppress human counterattacks.

Therefore, concentrating all resources to continuously enhance the strength of the leader had almost become the consensus of all beast clans.

This was a realistic need for survival. Only the strongest could break the deadlock and support a piece of sky for the reproduction and survival of the race.

It was also the inevitable result of the leader promoting it for their own benefit.

Otherwise, if multiple kings were born in a clan, it would be fine if the evolutionary levels and strengths were very different, but if they were evenly matched, then mutual exclusion and infighting would almost certainly occur.

Moreover, killing an existence of the same level could also greatly increase one's own strength.

Therefore, at that time, under the leadership of the Third-Order Wolf King, the wolf clan was constantly capturing territory and forcing back humans, and its reputation was growing. Even if Wolf Leap wanted to become a new Third-Order King Beast, it had to restrain its ambition and travel to various battlefields for the Wolf King Ao, braving a hail of bullets to fulfill its duty as a Wolf General.

At this moment, the mushroom cloud floating in the distance reminded Wolf Ao of the artillery strikes encountered during the attack on the human Federation's capital city.

That was a great battle that laid the foundation for the situation in North America.

The beast clan, as the attacking side, was mainly composed of the astonishing wolf clan led by the Wolf King Ao, and it was accompanied by as many as a million evolved beasts of the Second Order.

They surrounded the capital city, located in the northeastern bay, and, together with several Third-Order King Beasts attacking from the sea, planned to capture the human capital and thus strike at the morale of the human counterattack.

A national capital has a very special significance in the human social system, and the fall of a national capital means that the country is on the verge of destruction.

Therefore, in that battle, both the beast clan and the humans tried their best to defeat each other.

On the human side, they used all means except nuclear weapons, including terrifying white phosphorus bombs and rocket bombs that could wash the ground with artillery fire.

But in the end, all of them had little effect.

The evolved beast clans used flying and burrowing methods to infiltrate everywhere, constantly attacking human bases from within.

Using this method, the enemy was among us and we were among the enemy, preventing humans from using destructive weapons.

In that battle, Wolf Leap fought on the front line, constantly breaking through human defenses and killing human Second-Order evolvers with its own twenty-ninth level strength.

At that time, the Wolf King Ao also made a promise that whoever could be the first to break into the base and defeat humans would be granted the next Third-Order King Beast promotion spot.

In addition to encouraging his subordinates, the main reason was that at this time, the wolf clan, under the leadership of the Wolf King, had already occupied two-thirds of North America, and the vast territory was enough to support a new Third-Order King.

At the same time, the Wolf King Ao, who had advanced to the mid-stage of the Third Order, also needed an early-stage subordinate to assist him in guarding a large territory.

Therefore, Wolf Leap spared no effort to capture the capital and take the top spot.

Everything was as he hoped. The land beast tide of millions, with the assistance of the sea beasts, successfully captured the capital city, which was heavily guarded by humans.

But before Wolf Leap could welcome his path to Tier 3, the humans, disregarding the hundreds of thousands of survivors within the capital city, directly used a nuclear bomb to try and kill the visiting beast race leader, Wolf King Ao.

It was a neutron bomb specifically targeting living organisms, extremely powerful, especially in its ability to kill living forces, capable of eliminating enemies hidden in shelters.

And the epicenter of the explosion was not far from Wolf Leap, about six or seven kilometers away. Fortunately, it found a shelter to hide in, and with the self-healing ability of its Tier 2 body, even if severely injured, as long as it wasn't killed on the spot, it could still save its life.

But Wolf King Ao, the intended target, was not so lucky.

The center of the nuclear explosion was only one kilometer away from him, even with his powerful physique, moving five hundred meters before the nuclear bomb landed…

It was still only one and a half kilometers away.

The intense explosive light scorched the earth.

The fireball was two to three hundred meters in size!

The temperature instantly heated up to several hundred degrees, and even the surrounding air was blown away!

At that moment, the Wolf King endured the bombardment of neutron beams strong enough to penetrate all gene protein chains, and in the scorching light, his whole body's blood was heated to a boil in hell!

However, even after such a cruel and fierce attack, when the fire of the nuclear explosion dissipated after more than ten seconds, and the echo of the loud noise阵阵 came from the rising mushroom cloud…

Wolf King Ao's hundred-meter-long figure still stood proudly outside the center of the explosion, like a high wall that would never fall.

The nuclear bomb did not kill the Tier 3 Wolf King, and after the explosion, he quickly led the surviving beast race to leave the devastated capital city and continue to pursue the humans.

When Wolf Leap saw this scene, it was first deeply shocked by the power of the nuclear explosion, and then, after seeing the figure of Wolf King Ao, a trace of disappointment flashed in its eyes, but it quickly hid it.

It knew very well that under such an explosion, even if it was ten times stronger, it would have no chance of survival.

Only a Tier 3 King Beast could withstand it.

After this, Wolf Leap completely put away its thoughts and settled down to lie dormant.

The mushroom cloud rising from the nuclear explosion that year, and the majestic figure of Wolf King Ao, remained in its mind, even in the wasteland era thousands of years later, when it heard the familiar loud noise and saw the mushroom cloud, it was still vivid in its memory.

After Wolf King Ao perished together with the Tier 3 human king in the Mount Tai Refuge, Wolf Leap, as the strongest of the five Wolf Generals, snatched the guardianship of the Wolf King's Tomb from the other four Tier 2 late-stage chieftain-level giant wolves.

From then on, relying on the radiation energy of the Wolf King's body and the wolf packs that constantly came to Meteor Wolf Valley to prolong its life, Wolf Leap lived longer than any other Wolf General.

Except for not truly advancing to Tier 3 King Beast, it had become the king of the wolf clan.

So it renamed itself Wolf Ao, and regarded the original name Wolf Leap, given by Wolf King Ao, as a kind of shame.

It was a pity that although the Wolf King's consciousness was still there, it had turned into a pollution seal and could not leave.

In addition, Wolf Ao was old and had no chance to become a Tier 3 Beast King in this life, so he could only guard the Wolf Tomb for the Wolf King and cultivate the next generation.

And now, Wolf Ao was also coming to the end of his wolf life, and had to rack his brains to make his descendants become Wolf King candidates.

So it quickly locked its target on the human settlement closest to the Mount Tai ruins: Oasis Town.

As the uncrowned king, Wolf Ao had become accustomed to putting himself in the role of the Wolf King, full of arrogance and ferocity, and simply looked down on forces without a Tier 3 king to guard them.

Like this kind of medium-sized settlement back then, under the leadership of the Wolf King, seven or eight were breached and slaughtered in a row, and even human Tier 3 kings were occasionally captured.

At this moment, the nearly ten thousand wolf troops led by Wolf Ao, although not as grand as in the past, but a mere medium-sized settlement, with only one twilight Church High Priest, plus other Rockhorn Horse pathway evolutionaries, Wolf Ao simply didn't take it to heart.

As long as it released the terrifying aura of a Tier 2 late-stage, level 29 evolved beast, nine out of ten Tier 2 evolutionaries would be directly scared out of their wits and have no intention of fighting.

Even when encountering Rockhorn Horse pathway evolutionaries, the latter, due to the natural suppression of the natural enemy relationship, did not even have the courage to resist.

Wolf Ao still remembered that Li Hao, this little guy, came to beg him for help back then, to take down the Tier 2 mid-stage chieftain-level Rockhorn Horse together.

He got the biggest benefit back then, and now it was his turn to pay it back with interest.

Wolf Ao thought this way, until the huge sound coming from his ear, and the slight trembling of the earth, followed by the slowly rising mushroom cloud…

The scene that had been vividly remembered and frightened him in the past reappeared in his mind.

It was still just a level 29 evolved beast, without the ability to resist human's powerful weapons.

"Clan Father, should we continue?"

A son's inquiry came from the side.

A giant wolf of Tier 2 early-stage, more than ten meters tall, asked in a slightly trembling tone.

Pulled back to reality, Wolf Ao looked at the yellow-black mushroom cloud floating three to four hundred meters high in the distance, gradually dissipating.

Although not as shocking as the nuclear explosion back then, it was enough to seriously injure or even kill him, now that he was old.

"Don't chase too closely, we'll hide twenty kilometers away from Oasis Town and wait for the Salvation Army to make a move."

"Isn't that White Night guy also going to attack Oasis Town? Let her go and test the waters first, we'll be the oriole behind, reaping the benefits!"

After saying that, Wolf Ao turned around and led the wolf army back into the wasteland, waiting for the best time to strike.

At this moment, Lin Feng, who had finished testing the level 27 Thermomelt Extermination Cannon next to the Oasis Avenue, was also dumbfounded as he looked at the small mountain in the distance that had been blown in half.

The mountainside was directly melted for the most part by the violent explosion, and the upper half of the mountain top was crumbling.

Within five meters of the explosion center, the rocks and soil were burned into rolling red-orange lava by the 5,000-degree high temperature, and quickly solidified into a layer of obsidian as the temperature rapidly decreased.

Within twenty meters nearby, the 500-degree high temperature turned the gravel desert into black scorched earth.

And outside twenty meters and within fifty meters, it was a barren area after being swept by the explosive heat wave.

The entire mountainside was deeply sunken by more than ten meters, and boulders seven or eight meters in size were shattered or melted on the spot, with debris flying hundreds of meters away.

With the appearance of the gap, the top of the mountain began to collapse in a chain reaction, and the small mountain of white rice was immediately cut off by twenty meters, becoming uneven.

And hundreds of meters away, the people of Oasis Town, who witnessed this scene with their own eyes, were not only shocked, but also speechless, and at the same time, they looked at Lin Feng, who was being supported not far away, with different expressions.

The priest from the Church had a mixed expression of joy and worry.

And the high-level executives of the three local families were ashen-faced, only Li Mingquan, sitting on the chariot, seemed thoughtful.

Xu Wan Shuang, as the representative of the Hunter Guild, was delighted and was already considering whether to seek Lin Feng to serve as the protector of the Hunter King candidate of the guild.

As for the other permanent residents and wastelanders, they were truly eye-opening.

What they saw today could be used as a topic of conversation in the future,

Even vividly passed down from generation to generation…

Yesterday, I drove on the highway for fifteen hours, 1550 kilometers, from 7 am to 10 pm. Today, I was cleaning during the day, and finally, I can code some words at night.