Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded

The electric cart, having left Oasis Town, slowly advanced on the gravel slope to the right of the main road.

Due to the twenty-to-thirty-degree incline, its speed decreased by more than half when going uphill, leaving it with a mere two kilometers per hour.

This was a major flaw of electric carts without a power reserve system.

In other words, electric carts with solar power were merely basic modes of transportation and lacked off-road capabilities for the wilderness; they could only remain in Oasis Town, traveling on the flat Oasis Avenue, keeping up with the main group.

Such carts were also known as powerless electric carts, large in size but light in weight, with low kinetic energy.

To increase power, relying solely on real-time electricity generation from solar panels was far from sufficient; extra energy sources had to be added to increase input power.

Therefore, the battery serving as a power reserve was the last and most expensive piece of the puzzle to complete an electric cart.

A small battery installed on a bicycle could upgrade it from a human-powered bike to an electric bike, easily breaking through twenty to thirty kilometers per hour.

Back when Lin Feng and his group finished their wolf hunting mission, they were attacked by a motorcycle squad from Farm Village while transporting the spoils of twenty-one wolf carcasses to Holy Spring Village to turn in the mission.

Fortunately, the distance between the villages within Oasis Town was close enough that Lin Feng pedaled furiously, reaching a speed of over twenty yards, and managed to escape with the help of the Holy Spring Village guards.

Otherwise, if the journey had exceeded a few kilometers, Lin Feng's armored tricycle would have been riddled with holes.

In the face of electric propulsion, human power was insignificant.

Even earlier, when setting off on the wolf hunting mission, Lin Feng had seen evolved beings leading their wasteland hunting teams, driving small four-seater electric carts at speeds of fifty to sixty yards, speeding away from the turtle-paced Fifth Village and rushing into the wilderness.

At that moment, he yearned for it from the bottom of his heart.

And now, seeing the powerless electric cart struggling to climb the slope, Lin Feng had already secretly decided that once he returned, he would buy at least ten sets of batteries to install in the cart, giving it a speed of no less than thirty to forty yards.

So it could freely roam the wasteland.

After creaking and groaning their way over the hundred-meter-long slope, the downhill journey was much easier, but to prevent violent bumps and loss of control, the experienced Liu Mingfei chose to descend diagonally, avoiding large piles of rocks, and slowly made their way down.

After successfully descending, they continued for another kilometer before encountering their collaborative hunting target, Duncan's team.

Behind their electric cart, they towed two flatbed trailers, one piled high with supplies covered with black cloth, and the other carrying the special iron cage Lin Feng had seen before, but both the cage and its surroundings were filled with supplies.

Their electric cart was larger than Lin Feng's team's, and even with so much stuff being towed, their speed was not slow at all, indicating that their power was very strong.

Lin Feng estimated that they should have installed energy storage batteries, but not too many, just enough to provide some extra boost.

After the two sides met, Lin Feng stepped out of the passenger seat and stood on the iron plate walkway on the side of the cart, waving his hand:

"Hey! You guys lead the way?"

Although Lin Feng already knew the location where the wasteland beasts gathered based on the map given by Father Su An, this was the team's greatest reliance and secret, and the basis for conducting hunts independently in the future.

There was no need to reveal it.

A detailed map like this, in the desolate wasteland, was like a signal light guiding the way, more valuable than batteries.

After hearing Lin Feng's call and inquiry, Lisa, from the passenger seat of Duncan's team's electric cart, opened the car window and said to Liu Mingfei and Lin Feng:

"Follow us, that group of Rockhorn Horses has advanced dozens of kilometers, we need to hurry now!"

After speaking, their driver floored the accelerator and advanced quickly at a speed of three to four kilometers per hour.

Fortunately, Lin Feng's team's electric cart had upgraded solar panels, and after repairs, had a maximum speed of five kilometers, barely able to keep up with Duncan's team's pace.

Lin Feng returned to the passenger seat, with Ding Yi, Liu Qian, and Chen Shanshan sitting in the back row, along with the divine dog, curled up under the seat, fast asleep all the way.

Looking at the electric cart in front, Liu Qian put away her wasteland hunting notes and said:

"The fastest speed of Rockhorn Horses can reach thirty to forty kilometers per hour, equivalent to about ten meters per second, but this speed can only be maintained for three or four kilometers at most, and is used to escape from predators."

"The normal migration speed of the entire group is generally only less than two kilometers per hour, advancing half a meter per second."

"Mainly to take care of the cubs and newborns in the group, and at the same time, this speed consumes the least amount of physical strength."

Lin Feng nodded, Chen Shanshan had briefly introduced this knowledge when hunting the level nine Rockhorn Horse:

"The direction Duncan's team is heading is consistent with the wasteland beast gathering place indicated on the map."

"Looks like we're on the right track."

Then Liu Qian suddenly asked:

"They seem to have a lot of supplies, a team of six people, just to hunt a group of Rockhorn Horses, do they plan to stay for ten days or half a month?"

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes slightly, he seemed to have subconsciously overlooked this question, now looking back and thinking carefully, it was indeed a bit strange:

"Are you saying that they actually already knew about the existence of the wasteland beast gathering place, and the previous words were just excuses?"

"Looking at it this way, they didn't treat us as real partners, just as someone to use."

"However, this wasteland beast gathering place also has an underground water source, it has been discovered for a long time, indicating that they have survived in the wasteland for more than six years, or they got the news from elsewhere."

Judging from Old Duncan's aged appearance, Lin Feng was more inclined to the former.

The other party was a wasteland team that had accumulated more than ten years of experience and abundant supplies.

And in Liu Qian's rhetorical question, there was another meaning, that the other party had other concealments, and obviously the purpose of this trip was not just to hunt Rockhorn Horses.

No matter what they wanted to do, Lin Feng's team had to be prepared in advance.

Chen Shanshan, reminded by Ding Yi, gradually understood the strangeness of the situation, and became nervous when she thought that the group had entered the no-man's land of the wasteland after leaving Oasis Town.

"Do I need to put on the battle armor?"

Chen Shanshan asked in a low voice.

Lin Feng turned his head and looked at the most important trump card in the team, thought for a moment, and shook his head:

"Wearing the battle armor will reduce flexibility, not for now, wait until we reach the destination and then act accordingly."

Then he made arrangements:

"When the time comes, Ding Yi and Liu Qian, you two, assist Chen Shanshan in putting on the battle armor in the cart, ensuring that the assembly can be completed within half a minute. Outdoor actions will be handled by me and A Lian, Liu Mingfei and A Ming, stay in the cart to guard the cart."

After speaking, Lin Feng looked at everyone.

Mainly to see A Lian and A Ming's opinions.

A Ming, lying on the bed, nodded.

Through A Lian's introduction, A Ming understood the actual combat power in the current team, of which only Captain Chen Shanshan, Lin Feng, and A Lian were the only three.

Liu Mingfei and the injured himself counted as half, although they both had level nine enhancement levels, one lacked experience, and the other was not in good condition, not to mention Ding Yi and Liu Qian, who could only serve as logistical support personnel.

Therefore, although they had the trump card of the Evolver, Chen Shanshan, they didn't have the support of the Four Great Villages' agreement, nor did they recruit any additional powerful level nine wasteland hunters.

Most of their points were used to build this self-powered electric vehicle. Apart from Chen Shanshan, the strength of the other team members had improved very little.

So the situation was not optimistic.

This outing was not a sure thing.

Lin Feng's arrangement was similar to what he had expected, to try not to expose Chen Shanshan's existence and keep the Evolver card for emergencies.

For example, encountering an attack by a Rank 1 male Rockhorn Horse, or if the Duncan team in front had malicious intentions.

Only then could the fully armed Evolver exert the best effect of reversing the situation and saving the day.

Before that, no matter how difficult the hunting was, as long as their lives were not in danger, they had to be patient.

Even if it meant missing the valuable opportunity to capture a Rockhorn Horse alive!

Even if they were short on manpower, and he and Liu Mingfei had to fill in, they couldn't easily use Chen Shanshan.

Obviously, Lin Feng also understood this principle.

With everyone agreeing, Lin Feng looked at the youngest girl in the team and signaled her to be patient with his eyes.

The more important the trump card, the more it should be saved for last.

Time passed by, and the electric car, with its durability fully restored, moved slowly and steadily on the rugged wasteland surface.

The experienced Liu Mingfei maintained a distance of about 100 meters from the car in front.

This allowed them to keep up with the Duncan team in time, and also prevented them from revealing too much information about their team due to being too close, or being unable to react in time to a surprise attack.

They traveled like this for more than ten hours.

During this time, they crossed mountains and ridges, taking turns in three shifts.

Lin Feng slept for eight hours and drove for eight hours.

Until the afternoon of the next day, a majestic mountain range appeared in front of them, very abruptly.

From left to right, it was like a chasm, hundreds of kilometers wide, with no end in sight, making people feel hopeless.

Detouring would take too long, and it was not certain whether there were roads in other places that could cross the mountain top.

Lin Feng checked the map. The eight or nine kilometers ahead were the gathering place of the beast herd in the bay.

And where they were currently located was the seabed in front of the former annular peninsula land.

On the right was a mountain range, which was a tourist scenic area in the old Earth. The mountain range stretched for dozens of kilometers, and the most famous one was called Laoshan, which was also the highest peak of the main peak.

Lin Feng remembered coming here when he was young.

At that time, Laoshan had an altitude of more than 1,100 meters and was known as the No. 1 Mountain on the Sea. Climbing to the top of the mountain, you could see the endless blue-green sea, which was magnificent.

Now, only the cracked seabed where everyone was traveling, the broken fish bones, and the weathered human buildings on the pier in the distance remained.

Naturally, everyone couldn't rush towards the mountain range.

The average altitude of the Laoshan scenic area was also four or five hundred meters. Adding the drop of the current seabed, it was nearly a thousand meters to climb up.

Moreover, the beast herd gathering place was no longer near Laoshan, but in the coastal bays on the left and right sides.

They needed to choose a direction to cross this sloping high wall in front of them.

Lin Feng looked at the car in front, which had already stopped.

At this time, old Duncan in the driver's seat and Lisa in the passenger seat both opened the door and got out of the car, looking around with binoculars. The two whispered something and quickly came to a conclusion.

Lisa walked to the back of the car, waved her hand, and said to Lin Feng's team:

"Go to the left, where the former city was. The height difference is not big, and there is a road directly to the shore!"

"Just follow us!"

Lin Feng nodded and waved to show he understood.

Liu Mingfei released the brakes and started the car.

As the team moved towards the coast, a huge slope appeared in front of them, and the self-powered electric car became more and more difficult to drive.

The land that had originally emerged from the sea was hundreds of meters high. Now that the seawater had evaporated on a large scale, exposing the cracked seabed, the height difference was as much as two or three hundred meters, and the maximum slope was even forty or fifty degrees.

Lin Feng's team's self-powered electric car was stepping on the accelerator to the point of smoking, and it was also stumbling, unable to travel even dozens of meters in half a day.

In the end, Lin Feng had no choice but to take Ding Yi, Liu Qian, and A Lian with him. The four got out of the car and walked to the back.

He and A Lian were responsible for pushing the car directly. The nearly one-ton strength of a level nine enhancer made a significant difference when pushing.

Ding Yi and Liu Qian were responsible for pedaling the two tricycles. The tricycles were storing two hundred kilograms of water tanks and other supplies. After being pedaled by manpower, they could greatly reduce the electric car's forward burden.

As for the Duncan team in front, they also started pushing the car.

Lisa led three people, walked to the back of the car, two pushed the electric car, and two pulled the trailer.

Lin Feng noticed that the male teammates beside her were all wearing standard desert camouflage combat uniforms, and he became more and more certain of the other party's former military identity.

At this time, Lisa noticed Lin Feng's gaze and waved her hand to give a special reminder:

"The Rockhorn Horse herd is just ahead. They should be gathered in the valley below. Everyone, work harder, we'll be there soon!"

Lin Feng nodded:

"Understood! Cheer up!"

It was quite easy to push at first.

But as the electric car climbed the slope, the terrain became steeper and steeper, and they could only go up diagonally, making the original five-hundred-meter-long slope more than a kilometer long.

Lin Feng called out the one-two-one slogan to adjust the team's pace and make everyone's strength work together.

Finally, after a difficult climb lasting half an hour, both sides crossed the bank embankment almost at the same time and then landed on the top of the original land.

Standing on the top of the ring island mountain, Lin Feng could even feel the gentle breeze blowing, carrying a hint of saltiness.

Crossing the chasm, the temperature on the top of the mountain was lower.

"The humidity of the air is very high. In some corners of the rock wall, in the dark depths facing away from the sun, it is still wet…"

At this time, Ding Yi walked over covered in sweat, but with an uncontrollable excitement on her face.

She was holding a fresh wild grass in her hand, with dark wet mud still clinging to the roots and her hand.

The wild grass swayed stubbornly in the breeze…

That was a touch of green that only oases have.

Representing the most precious thing on the wasteland,

New life…

At this time, a low and drawn-out roar came from the bay valley below everyone's feet.

Lin Feng looked back and saw that in the distant rift valley, hundreds of Rockhorn Horses and other mutated wasteland beasts were gathering in groups from all directions.

They were all heading towards the depths of this bay basin.

The howling sound just now was made by a huge Rockhorn Horse with a large body, as tall as three meters and seven meters long.

It took the lead, squeezing away other small mutated wasteland beasts, and opened up a road deep into the rift valley below for the tribe behind it.

This was a powerful leader-level Rockhorn Horse, probably evolved to the late stage of Rank 1, above level sixteen!

Such a magnificent migration scene also made everyone who had pushed the car to climb the slope and reach the top of the mountain feel excited.

Sweeping away the previous hard work.

In addition to excitement, they marveled at the tenacity of life.

Life will always find its own way.

And next, it was hunting time.

Forcing myself to write another chapter!