Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded

The special empowered bullets have double the firing rate, double the effective range, and +20% base damage.

This allows the level 9 AK, which originally only had 50 points of damage, to break the limit of a rifle and reach 60 points.

Comparable to the power of a level 10 boltgun.

The only problem is that the bullet head is too soft. The copper-clad steel core can only penetrate a dozen centimeters into the rock layer before it shatters into pieces due to the enormous impact force.

Other than the recoil becoming greater, there were no other problems.

Afterward, he also conducted empowerment experiments on handgun bullets, which also produced corresponding effects, but the effective range was much shorter, only less than 100 meters.

A level 3 ordinary handgun can currently only be upgraded to level 9 at most, and because it was not imprinted after level 7, its various attributes are even inferior to Lin Feng's imprinted level 9 precision handgun.

Fortunately, the power hasn't decreased much. When paired with empowered bullets, it can deal 60 points of damage within 100 meters.

After completing the experiment, Lin Feng earnestly instructed on the way back:

"There are 400 rifle bullets and 300 handgun bullets. Prioritize empowering the rifle bullets first, ensuring that Liu Mingfei and the other two have twenty empowered bullets in their rifle magazines as backup."

"Because the optimized AK rifle can only withstand a maximum of twenty empowered bullets."

"After completing the initial task of sixty bullets, continue to empower the remaining bullets depending on the situation."

Liu Qian nodded. The fact that her useless superpower could still be used in this way swept away her previous low mood.

She became cheerful, with a light in her eyes:

"Currently, my ability allows me to empower about thirty bullets a day. I can complete the task in two days."

Holding another empowered bullet in her hand, Liu Qian gave a rough estimate.

Lin Feng hummed in agreement. This speed was completely sufficient.

After all, the power of the empowered bullets is obvious to everyone. It's equivalent to each person having twenty small-caliber grenades, armor-piercing rounds that hit exactly where they're aimed.

If they encounter the Rockhorn Horse herd again, even if Lin Feng doesn't take action, the remaining six members of the team can easily kill several early-mid stage Rank 1 Rockhorn Horses.

And for the subsequent ruins mission, whether they encounter unknown underground monsters or other ruins exploration teams, the seven members of the team will possess extremely strong long-range striking capabilities.

They won't have to rely on close combat to solve every danger they encounter.

After the three returned to the camp, the time had already reached 5 PM. In another hour, it would enter the night cycle.

Lin Feng would also follow Father Su'an to the oasis to witness the lives of the upper citizens.

Inside the camp, Liu Qian quickly completed today's empowerment task for the remaining rifle bullets.

Feeling somewhat tired, she ate some dried meat and walked to Lin Feng's side, looking at the Rockhorn Horses that were gradually recovering in the two large iron cages, and slowly said:

"Have you guys ever wondered why there are two large iron cages in Holy Spring Village? Looking at the welding joints and paint, they seem to have only been made a few days ago…"

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Ding Yi, who was feeding the Rockhorn Horses in the iron cages with plant tuber residue.

These ground fiber scraps were all sent by monks dispatched by Father Su'an.

Although the Holy Spring Village cafeteria has meat, the staple food is still starch paste, derived from the tubers of various plants.

Including the familiar seabuckthorn roots, as well as the mutated potatoes and sweet potatoes grown on the farm.

From this, it can also be deduced that the industrial cycle of Rockhorn Horse farming in the farm village is as follows:

First, plant various high-yield plants, then extract starch liquid from their fruit tubers, and feed the remaining coarse fibers that humans cannot digest to the Rockhorn Horses.

The feces discharged by the Rockhorn Horse herd can then provide a continuous source of fertilizer for crop cultivation.

Sunlight is the energy source for the entire system, and a large amount of water acts as the energy transfer medium, thereby realizing a stable industrial cycle.

So these iron cages for raising Rockhorn Horses should only appear in the farm village. Holy Spring Village, a place for teaching and educating people, suddenly has two sturdy iron cages…

Could it be that Father Su'an foresaw in advance that his group would capture live horses?

Or were these iron cages not originally equipped for Rockhorn Horses?

Under Liu Qian's reminder, Lin Feng fell into deep thought.

At this time, Ding Yi finished feeding a cart of tuber forage, covered the iron cages with gray cloth again, and walked to the two of them:

"Perhaps it's related to the bounty mission that Father Su'an released earlier. The twenty-odd corpses of Wasteland Wolves that we brought back should have something that Su'an needs."

"Biological research, or evolution cells?"

Ding Yi's words awakened Lin Feng.

From the current perspective, the active cells in the mutated wolf fangs were the evolution cells of the Wasteland Wolf clan.

If they were absorbed or implanted into the body, in a sense, it would be the same path and method as using Rockhorn Horses to obtain life essence and initiate cross-rank evolution.

Then the purpose of Su'an's research is self-evident.

To obtain the evolutionary path of the Wasteland Wolves!

But this doesn't seem to be of much use to the Holy Spring Church. After all, the church has a mature and complete Holy Spring evolutionary path, which is not only more stable than mutated wild beasts, can obtain sufficient life essence, but also has higher evolutionary potential.

Unlike the Rockhorn Horse path in the farm village.

Evolutionists who achieve cross-rank evolution through them may reach their limit after evolving to the late stage of Rank 1.

If they want to go further, they have to hunt the chieftain-level Rockhorn Horses with great strength, which is almost an impossible challenge.

Analyzing this, a flash of inspiration suddenly struck Lin Feng's mind, and he recalled the words that Father Su'an left a few hours ago.

The Li family in the farm village has expanded its ambitions and crossed the line somewhat.

In addition, the farm village's control over evolution meat even restricts the Wasteland Hunting Guild in Fifth Village, which would rather spend more to exchange for the evolution meat in their hands.

Could it be that Su'an's research on Wasteland Wolves is to deal with the Li family in the farm village?

Legend has it that the head of the Li family once killed a chieftain-level Rockhorn Horse, thereby evolving to the second stage and establishing a farm village that lives by raising Rockhorn Horses.

And the Wasteland Wolves have always been the Rockhorn Horses' mortal enemies.

As predators, the Wasteland Wolves' mouthful of refined steel fangs are a sharp weapon for breaking through the Rockhorn Horses' rock armor.

This could be seen when Lin Feng was only a level 4 enhancer and used wolf fang bullets synthesized from refined steel wolf fangs to successfully kill a level 9 female Rockhorn Horse.

Originally, the Holy Spring Church planned to take action against the Li family, and the breakthrough point was the Rockhorn Horses' predator, the Wasteland Wolves.

As for now, with his self-developed horse-taming techniques as a foundation, the Holy Spring Church has more cards to play.

They can even make the Li family of Farm Village retreat, obediently, without resorting to direct confrontation.

That's why Father Su'an places such importance on horse-taming techniques.

Analyzing this far, Lin Feng felt he had initially deciphered the overt and covert struggles enveloping Oasis Town.

Lin Feng then shared his reasoning and analysis with the other three women present.

Ding Yi, Liu Qian, and A'ming were all intelligent and could offer some suggestions.

The three women nodded at Lin Feng's analysis, indicating it was likely accurate.

In the end, Ding Yi couldn't help but sigh:

"It seems that beneath the seemingly peaceful and tranquil Oasis Town, undercurrents are surging and struggles are constant."

A'ming looked up at the massive Oasis warship and smiled before adding:

"The village is just overt and covert struggles; the real battles are all up there."

Lin Feng glanced at A'ming, thoughtfully.

Her words further strengthened Lin Feng's determination to not become an Oasis citizen.

He didn't want to get involved and be caught in the vortex of the struggles above, only to die an unknown death.

The situation in Oasis Town was not peaceful, and Lin Feng was well aware of his limitations. He was just a lucky person who had just evolved to the mid-stage of Tier 1. In the grand scheme of things, especially in the eyes of the Oasis upper echelons, he was insignificant.

Therefore, regarding the choices he would face next,

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At this moment, Lin Feng had a general judgment.

Not long after the four finished discussing, a cultivator hurried over to inform Lin Feng that Father Su'an wanted him to prepare to go to the Oasis.

"No weapons are allowed on the Oasis. Please remember to leave all weapons behind, Mr. Lin."

The cultivator reminded him.

Lin Feng nodded. Anyway, no one else could use the imprinted machine gun except him, so he took it off and gave it to Ding Yi for safekeeping.

Before leaving, he specifically instructed:

"When Chen Shan Shan and the others return, tell them I'll be back soon. Protect the Rockhorn Horses and the incubation pods."

Under the gaze of the three women, Lin Feng followed the cultivator towards the Holy Spring Village church.

At this moment, Father Su'an was inside, handling the affairs of the village. Seeing Lin Feng approaching, he slowly said:

"It's almost time. Let's go."

Then, Lin Feng followed behind Su'an, leaving the village and heading towards the Oasis warship.

The warship, which looked massive from a distance, only appeared larger up close.

Lin Feng increasingly felt his own insignificance.

The entire warship was over two hundred meters long, about thirty meters wide, and had an average height of twenty meters.

Looking up, it was like a small aircraft carrier, capable of carrying thirty to forty thousand people without any pressure, traveling on the wasteland and barren lands.

But the Oasis certainly didn't have that many people.

The five villages under the warship alone certainly couldn't support that many upper citizens.

On the way to the Oasis, Father Su'an also introduced Lin Feng:

"Currently, the Oasis has over ten thousand permanent residents, of which only five hundred are first-class upper citizens with upper citizen status, and another fifteen hundred family members."

"Because family members have equal rights, they are also classified as second-class upper citizens, generally the wives and children of first-class citizens."

"Most of them come from the first batch of residents when the Oasis was first built. Over time, they have been occupied by the families of the other three major villages except for Holy Spring Village. Currently, there are very few evolvers from the Fifth Village who can rise to become upper citizens."

"In addition to these two thousand people, among the remaining eight thousand, there are about a hundred church members, and the rest are Oasis servants."

"They are mainly responsible for the daily maintenance of the Oasis, such as cleaning pipes, wiping dust off the photovoltaic panels, and serving the lives of the upper citizens."

"These people are actually family members from several villages. After becoming evolvers, they can choose to board the Oasis and become a servant."

"If there is a shortage of Oasis upper citizens, they will be selected from the servants, or the servants can accumulate enough merit points and choose to be directly promoted to upper citizens."

Lin Feng nodded. It seemed that there were quite a few residents on the Oasis, over ten thousand people, only slightly less than the total number of people in the five major villages below the warship.

However, the real first-class upper citizens only numbered five hundred, accounting for only 5% of the entire Oasis and 2.5% of Oasis Town. The number wasn't that large.

But they weren't the real higher-ups. The family heads of the three major villages, as well as the guild of the Fifth Village, and the most powerful church, were the real power holders of Oasis Town.

While he hadn't boarded the Oasis yet, Lin Feng asked a question he had always had in his mind:

"When did the Oasis warship appear? Why does it maintain such a slow speed and stay so close to the Scorching Sun Forbidden Zone behind it? Isn't it dangerous?"

Father Su'an paused, then turned his head and said slowly:

"The warship was transferred here from the Holy City a hundred years after the Wasteland Era. As for the specific reason, I hadn't yet believed in the Lord of the Holy Spring at that time. It should be that the Holy City encountered a severe food crisis that year and had to send the affiliated warship, along with its citizens, to other regions to alleviate the food burden."

Saying that, Father Su'an said meaningfully:

"And the Oasis's arrival here, maintaining a close distance to the Scorching Sun Forbidden Zone, naturally has another important reason."

"But you don't need to understand it for the time being."

"When you can truly stand out in Oasis Town, you will naturally understand the responsibilities we bear."

Lin Feng nodded, seemingly understanding.

The history of Oasis Town was six hundred years old.

It had circled the Earth a hundred times.

And it was advancing closely to the Scorching Sun Forbidden Zone, the reason was naturally related to the Forbidden Zone behind it.

Since he wasn't qualified to understand for the time being, Lin Feng dispelled the idea of exploring further.

Regardless of the reason, the location of Oasis Town was somewhat dangerous. Lin Feng planned to embark on a journey to the Holy City when he reached the late stage of Tier 1.

Big cities had more abundant resources, and naturally more opportunities. Staying in Oasis Town might prevent him from advancing to Tier 2 for the rest of his life. So, people still had to look up and move forward.

Soon, the two arrived at the foot of the Oasis warship. On the right side of the ship was a long staircase for boarding.

Next to a few pairs of giant treads seven or eight meters high.

After climbing a hundred steps, they arrived at the fifteen-meter-high entrance of the warship, where guards were responsible for watching the door.

A mid-stage Tier 1 evolver.

The other party obviously recognized Father Su'an and greeted him respectfully. He only asked Lin Feng to register his identity information before letting him pass.

When Lin Feng showed his Special Hunter license, the guard's eyes clearly lit up, and his attitude became more amiable.

The two smoothly entered the interior of the Oasis warship.

But the situation inside was quite different from what Lin Feng had imagined.

Hot, noisy, crowded…

This was Lin Feng's first impression of the Oasis warship.