Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded

Ding Yi stood on top of the ruins, observing with a nervous expression, silently praying that Lin Feng could successfully and safely escape the giant beast's pursuit.

But for Lin Feng at this moment, what was truly troublesome was not being clear about the progress of his team members' tasks.

He was worried that Chen Shan Shan would arrange for people to come and support him, causing the speed of harvesting the injured horse herd to become abnormally slow.

In that case, he would have to continue to keep the rock armor giant beast behind him occupied.

However, as the escape progressed, what surprised and worried Lin Feng was that the latter's speed, as it chased wildly all the way, not only did not show any signs of decreasing, but instead became more and more adapted to this urban ruin.

It was already able to use the damaged streets to increase its speed of movement.

Even a chieftain-level rockhorn horse possessed high intelligence, and this chieftain-level, with a higher stage of evolution, had at least the average human level of intelligence.

It was very clear that only by solving the nearby humans could it ensure that its rockhorn horse clan would no longer be ambushed and disturbed.

Especially the latter, the frightened rockhorn horse herd actually had a greater impact on the migrating team.

It caused many rockhorn horses to lose their direction or become scattered on the wasteland, eventually dying of hunger and thirst.

So the human in front of it must die.

This was also an important reason why the chieftain-level rockhorn horse relentlessly pursued him.

Simply hunting a few rockhorn horses would not attract its attention, but disturbing the entire migrating herd with continuous artillery fire and disrupting the team's pace...

...would make the chieftain-level rockhorn horse furious.

And Lin Feng, who had been sprinting for more than ten kilometers through the urban ruins, could already clearly feel his physical strength rapidly declining.

At this moment, the Scorching Sun Forbidden Zone was also constantly approaching.

The huge sun in the east was about to shine on this area, evaporating all moisture.

Lin Feng could withstand the fifty-degree sun and the sixty- or seventy-degree surface environment, running at a steady speed of ten kilometers per hour.

But to maintain a speed of more than eighty kilometers per hour, equivalent to twenty meters per second, and constantly pay attention to the giant beast behind him, occasionally using the water gun to tickle it, even a first-order intermediate evolver could not last long.

In the corner of Lin Feng's eye, the system was reminding him that due to the rising ambient temperature and continuous strenuous exercise, his physique was constantly declining, and his life value was also beginning to decrease.

The ventilation fan of the combat uniform was buzzing, only able to alleviate the rise in body temperature to a certain extent.

But the accelerated metabolism and the effect of adrenaline, coupled with the rolling heat waves scorched out of the ruin surface, had already made Lin Feng's body red and his veins bulging.

Drenched in sweat, he took out the water bottle from his backpack, unscrewed the cap and drank it all in one gulp. After replenishing the water, he took out a ball of fourteenth-level evolved meat paste cake, stuffed it into his mouth, and swallowed it whole.

Slowing down, replenishing energy, his condition improved somewhat.

But at this moment, Lin Feng suddenly felt the trembling from the ground, constantly approaching, and the vibration frequency also suddenly accelerated a lot.

Turning his head to look...

He saw that the rock armor giant beast, which was originally accelerating slowly, suddenly accelerated and rushed over.

The speed was so fast that it had exceeded its original speed of eighty kilometers per hour, but broke through to one hundred kilometers, or even more than one hundred and twenty kilometers.

The stride length and stepping frequency of the four hooves had greatly increased in an instant.

Looking at the giant beast in a frenzied state, constantly magnifying in the reflection of his pupils!

Lin Feng secretly thought it was bad, the other party saw his exhaustion and weakness, and planned to seize this key opportunity to launch a final surprise attack.

Directly throwing away the empty bottle in his hand, Lin Feng also began to enter a state of eruption, using overdraft life value as the price, so that the pace instantly accelerated.

From the original eighty kilometers per hour, increased to one hundred and forty kilometers, the thin figure shuttled through the urban ruins, walking into the original community internal road.

Using the collapsed and piled up stones on both sides to obstruct and delay the rock armor giant beast's pursuit pace.

But these gravels, in the eyes of the galloping giant beast, are not an obstacle at all, the two thick horns eight meters wide in front of the head, like a roadblock sweeper, swaying left and right, forcibly opening a road in the rubble pile.

After accelerating the pursuit for several minutes, Lin Feng's limit burst had gradually exhausted, but the giant beast's speed of one hundred kilometers per hour behind him did not drop at all.

This is the most critical stage of physical competition.

And Lin Feng, whose evolutionary level is far behind, as the weaker party, his physical strength declined significantly faster than the second-order evolved rock armor giant beast behind him.

Lin Feng gradually realized that he could not get rid of the giant beast by relying on the cover of the ruins in the city to circle around, but would instead fall into the other party's pursuit rhythm due to the factor of physical exhaustion.

The fast and slow speed of progress does consume more physical strength.

He must find a solution as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng immediately changed direction, shifting forty-five degrees east, no longer delving into the city ruins, but instead heading towards the distant, rising mountains.

Continuing for another four or five kilometers, he finally entered the Laoshan Scenic Area.

The tourist road carved around the mountain became a shortcut for Lin Feng to quicken his pace.

However, the rubble piled on the road, as well as the slopes and consecutive sharp turns, became the biggest obstacle for the Rock Armor Beast behind him to accelerate.

A large body meant clumsiness, and at high speed, it was only suitable for straight-line acceleration.

Previously in the city ruins, the giant beast could ignore the obstacles of piled rubble, but now, on the mountainside, a slight carelessness on the sharp turns would cause it to fall into the valley.

This was even more dangerous for the giant beast.

Fortunately, with its rich experience, it slowed down in time, but it was a pity that it was about to catch up with the human, and now it could only continue to bite down and not let go.

Although Lin Feng could easily change direction, the continuous uphill climb still consumed a lot of physical strength.

Fortunately, after only a few kilometers, the main vein of the mountains appeared before him.

The towering and precipitous Jufeng Mountain was beckoning to Lin Feng.

After speeding up, he arrived at the foot of the mountain in a few minutes. Looking at the collapsed archway and the damaged and rusted ticket machine, Lin Feng, without time to sigh, climbed up the broken steps inside.

He climbed hundreds of meters in one breath, reaching the mountain path. This place was already difficult for the giant beast behind him to climb.

After all, the dangerous places were only four or five meters wide.

A slight carelessness would cause it to fall.

But after Lin Feng climbed two hundred meters, looking back, the Rock Armor Beast was still chasing relentlessly, squeezing through the narrow steps, closely following behind.

Helpless, Lin Feng could only drink water and eat meat to replenish his strength while continuing to climb.

Fortunately, when he reached the mountainside at seven hundred meters, two familiar steep staircases, less than two meters wide, appeared before him, in his memory.

One was a shortcut up the mountain, but it was more dangerous, and the other was a gentle upward slope, but the journey was long.

Lin Feng had taken the dangerous path up and the gentle slope down back then.

And the choice now was still the same.

Climbing up the seventy-degree staircase, he came to a narrow gap.

At this moment, it was full of dry weeds, only about half a meter wide, barely enough for an adult to pass through.

Lin Feng squeezed into it sideways.

Looking back, he could see the Rock Horn Beast reaching in with its front feet, also trying to squeeze in.

But obviously, the giant beast, having chased to this point, had reached its limit. If it went further up, it would be difficult to find a foothold, and it could only let out unwilling roars.

It even continuously used its huge horse horns to strike the two boulders in front of it, trying to destroy the foundation and push down the obstacles in front of it.

Feeling the slight tremors in the mountain under his feet, Lin Feng dared not relax his vigilance and continued to climb upwards.

Soon, he came to a platform below the summit, where a huge character for 'longevity' was carved on the rock wall behind him.

The traditional character for 'longevity' was more than ten meters wide, and on the other side, there were many small characters for 'longevity'.

The Laoshan coastline has a group of Taoist palaces, and longevity is also the pursuit of the Taoists here.

It was just that the red paint that had been applied in the past had long since fallen off and disappeared.

The distant palace and Lao Tzu statue had also decayed and disappeared, leaving only a foundation of rock slabs.

Time leaves no trace, and the sea turns into a wasteland.

No matter how brilliant a civilization, it is all fragile in the face of time.

Chip discs storing massive amounts of files will be distorted and damaged in a few years, making them unreadable.

Books recording written knowledge will also yellow and age after a dozen years, losing the information on them.

Even industrial plastics that were once non-degradable, white garbage, can only last for hundreds of years. In just a thousand years, they will disappear without a trace…

In the end, only the most primitive recording methods can carry civilization and pass on the past.

The character for 'longevity' engraved on the boulder has become the only remaining trace of human civilization here…

And in the Old Earth period, there were also cave paintings tens of thousands of years ago, recording the primitive life of prehistoric humans.

Now, six thousand years later, looking at the bottom of the character for 'longevity', there is a string of small characters that have been faintly weathered by nature:

XXX was here.

Lin Feng couldn't help but smile and pulled out his dagger.

He carved: Lin Feng was here.

And noted: Wasteland Era, Millennium.

Completing everything, Lin Feng clapped his hands, intending to find a shady place to rest.

Turning around, looking at the vast land behind him, the azure sea in his memory had turned into a boundless wasteland.

And further back, he could see a clear boundary between light and dark, a high wall composed of a brighter, hotter light, constantly approaching.

That was the Scorching Sun Forbidden Zone.

The light of the third sun enveloped the area.

Lin Feng squinted his eyes, the sunlight was unusually dazzling.

Just as he was about to turn his head to avoid it, a figure seemed to float past within the Scorching Sun Forbidden Zone, more than twenty kilometers away.

Lin Feng was stunned, a sense of fear of the unknown swept through his body in an instant.

He looked up to continue watching, but there was no trace.

In order to see more clearly, Lin Feng continued to climb upwards, and after passing through a narrow tunnel entrance, he came to the summit of Laoshan Mountain, the top of Jufeng Mountain.

Here, the elevation difference from the dried-up seabed was nearly one thousand five hundred meters.

Enough to see things twenty kilometers away clearly.

But before Lin Feng could stop to look out…

Beneath a boulder carved with the words 'Laoshan' at the top of the mountain, a dense array of Chinese characters appeared:

To you, the one who comes later

A thousand or ten thousand years from now

New humans or new civilization of Earth

……

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