Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 146: Unexpected Harvest, Deformed Egg, Train Station

Lin Feng frowned slightly. His hearing was much better than the other three women.

After becoming a second-level evolver, the overall improvement in his physical fitness has enhanced all his sensory organs.

The five senses, including vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, are at least twice as improved as at the first level of evolution.

There was even a vague, mysterious sixth sense that could give Lin Feng subconscious forebodings, such as a sense of crisis when danger approached...

Therefore, the faint wailing sound coming from the bombarded hill one kilometer away was extremely clear in Lin Feng's ears.

The other three women only noticed something strange, but Lin Feng could tell that it was the whimpering of a steppe wolf.

It was the same as the howling of the female wolf that was heard when we were chasing the ninth-level wolf leader. It was probably because the synthesized super weapon was too powerful and accidentally injured the wolf pack over there.

Chen Shanshan looked in the direction of the sound. Although her hearing was not as sharp as Lin Feng's, she could still vaguely hear the low roar from a kilometer away. So she hesitated and said:
"Would you like to go over and take a look?"

Lin Feng then informed everyone that the howling came from the steppe wolf:
"The noise isn't too loud. They've either already run away or are dying. The howl of a wolf can only be heard two or three kilometers away at most. It shouldn't attract other wasteland wolves."

"You can go and take a look."

Ding Yi pushed his glasses and nodded:

"It's okay to go over and take a look. Collect some evolutionary meat or the life essence of the wasteland wolves. This will help the divine dog accelerate its growth cycle and evolve into a first-level wasteland beast sooner."

The first task that the team needs to solve later is to collect the Wasteland Wolf Source Crystals.

According to Zheng Yanying, they would most likely have to enter the fifth floor below the ruins, into the tunnel connecting to the Taishan Shelter, where they would be threatened by deformed beasts.

The main reason is that human evolutionists are the most delicious food for them and are more attractive than deformed ones.

Therefore, when Lin Feng cannot help, the team members who are lacking combat power must find a safer way to explore and collect.

What Ding Yi wanted was to use the breath of the divine dog or the steppe wolf to cover up the smell on everyone's armor.

Especially Zheng Yanying and Shen Yue from the church team, because they were not wearing sealed armor, the aura of the holy spring on them was like a bright light in the dark night.

The power of the Holy Spring can also pose a certain deterrent to low-level mutants in the Feicheng Shelter. If they enter the narrow tunnel, it will become a signal for the mutants to start eating.

In other words, for the deformed beasts with the genes of the steppe wolf, the power of the holy spring is more like a threat that needs to be eliminated.

And they also have the power to eliminate it.

So it is necessary to disguise yourself.

There's no light source inside the ruins, and the distorted monsters' vision is essentially zero. Their long-range perception relies entirely on smell and hearing...

The sound is easy to control and if you are careful you won't make too much noise. The only thing you need to deal with is the smell.

Moreover, the deformed beast has the blood of the wasteland wolf and should be very talented in sense of smell.

On the way to the destination by bike, Ding Yi expressed his speculation and suggestions.

Lin Feng nodded, and then recalled a little joke that Father Su An had made:

"The Steppenwolf's sense of smell is very advanced, and it can even smell odors ten kilometers away. If we can bring the divine dog with us and enter the ruins together, we may be able to quickly find our target. We need the corpse of a second-level Steppenwolf."

Ding Yi thought about it carefully and considered the feasibility:
"We need to prepare a protective suit for the divine dog. After all, anything made of flesh and blood will be affected by genetic radiation. Furthermore, it can't make too much noise during exploration, lest it disturb the dormant deformed monsters."

Lin Feng nodded. This idea could be used as a backup plan. After everyone’s search was fruitless, he could try his luck with the magic dog.

As the saying goes, you raise a dog for a thousand days, but only use it for a moment.

It's time to test the value of the magic dog!

After the tricycle crossed the rugged mountain road and walked for about ten minutes to reach the hill where the smoke and dust had dissipated, Lin Feng quickly followed the whimpering sound and found the target.

In the shadow of several huge rocks at the foot of the mountain, there were several prairie wolves lying with blood all over their bodies.

Most of them were injured in the legs and body. Some were hit by shrapnel from the high-armor-piercing cannon and were bleeding profusely. Some were hit by flying debris and suffered fractures and internal injuries. In short, there were four Steppe Wolves in this group, and they were unfortunately accidentally injured by the explosion.

Lin Feng didn't immediately go forward to check. After all, under the pressure of his own aura as a second-level evolver, the steppe wolf, who only had the strength of an early first-level evolver, didn't even have the courage to continue to escape and struggle...

Stay there quietly, waiting for death to come.

Lin Feng's focus was on jumping to a high place and observing whether there were other wasteland wolves around.

Unfortunately, the other members of the wolf pack had already left decisively, abandoning their injured companion.

Or let them stay behind to cover the remaining wolves and buy time for the survivors to escape.

Mainly because, in their eyes, enemies of unknown origin are not only powerful, but also possess extremely terrifying and fierce attack methods...

The tribe had no power to resist at all and could only escape from this place by cutting off the chariot to save the king.

"Pity……"

Lin Feng lifted up the disassembled armor-piercing cannon and used the sniper scope on it to look at the nearby mountains and wasteland.

However, nothing was achieved.

The remaining members of the wolf pack simply fled.

At this time, Chen Shanshan walked forward with a titanium gun, intending to kill the four Wasteland Wolves that were injured to varying degrees.

Two of them are in the early stage of evolution of the first stage, and the other two are only in the late stage of strengthening. If they were in the past, they would definitely be a huge threat to the team.

In this era when everyone is an evolver, a few first-stage early-stage evolved wasteland wolves are really not enough.

After all, it's just a few volleys of bullets, and you don't even have the qualifications to engage in close combat.

Lin Feng was still thinking that he might encounter the revenge of a patriarch-level second-order wasteland wolf, so that he could complete the mission smoothly without having to take the risk of going into the tunnel.

At worst, there could be a few late-stage first-order, leader-level steppe wolves leading the pack in a counterattack...

In the end, nothing happened, and the plan to improve Chen Shanshan's strength fell through.

After Chen Shanshan easily dealt with the steppe wolves, the three women began to deal with them.

Among them, the two later-stage enhanced wasteland wolves are relatively simple, and the evolutionary meat of the hind legs and heart is enough. As for the first-stage early-stage wasteland wolves, it is necessary to remove the evolutionary meat and the remaining level nine enhanced meat, as well as fine steel wolf fangs, hard fur and other materials.

The fur of the first-level evolved wasteland wolf becomes very thick, especially the hard wolf hair on the surface. If an ordinary dagger cuts it a few times, the blade will become curled and severely worn.

By the time they finished the work quickly, more than an hour had passed.

Fortunately, unlike the rock wildebeest, the steppe wolf's dissection procedure is extremely complicated. Although it is five or six meters long, it weighs less than half a ton, and at most two hundred kilograms of edible meat can be scraped out.

The rest of the skeleton and internal organs were all buried under the rubble and sand, destroying all traces of the body.

When everything was settled, the unexpected harvest from this weapon power test was a total of 200 kilograms of early evolved meat and 600 kilograms of enhanced meat.

After dehydration, there will be 100 kilograms of evolved jerky and 300 kilograms of enhanced jerky.

Compared with the rock wildebeest of the same level, the meat yield of the steppe wolf is pitifully low, and it needs to eat meat to grow. It is obviously not suitable as a breeding species or a candidate for evolutionary path.

On the way back, Lin Feng fumbled with the wolf fangs in his hand. There were eight mutant wolf fangs above level ten, and the remaining forty were ordinary level nine.

When it comes to the first-level evolution, Lin Feng will definitely integrate them into the rifle to increase the power of the bullets. However, the improvement of the second-level orange weapons by the current eleventh and twelfth-level biological materials is almost zero, so there is no need to waste health points.

Lin Feng planned to weave them into a necklace and give it to Su Yueyue as a talisman.

The sunlight above is getting hotter and hotter. There are only six days left before the scorching sun arrives. It is necessary to complete the collection task as soon as possible, send Su Yueyue and the Wasteland Wolf Source Crystal away, leave the Taishan ruins, and return to Oasis Town.

Because the tricycle had to carry the wolf meat, everyone had to move forward on foot.

The main concern was that after returning to the camp, the smell of the Steppe Wolf's corpse would attract the attention of the Fallen Wolf Valley, so out of caution, they completed the autopsy on the spot in the mountains.

As the saying goes, even the smallest mosquito is still meat.

Moreover, a few portions of life essence squeezed out of a hundred kilograms of evolutionary meat can be sold for more than 20,000 points, and the evolutionary meat itself is worth four to five thousand points, enough to buy a new active electric car.

There are many evolvers in the team now, and the demand and consumption of evolution meat are not low.

Anyway, it was an unexpected gain.

While walking on the way here, Lin Feng was thinking about his subsequent plans while cleaning up the traces left along the way.

After walking ten kilometers and spending another hour, we finally arrived at the ruins of the Feicheng shelter and returned to the camp.

This weapon power experiment was delayed from the original two hours to more than three hours due to the accidental injury of Steppenwolf.

It was almost midnight, and it would be the fourth day since the mission began.

After returning to the camp, Lin Feng immediately put the evolved meat of the wasteland wolf, which was rich in life essence, into the freezer to keep it fresh at zero degrees, and then he could hand it over to Father Suan for processing.

It can also be counted as an extra achievement of the team. After all, fresh evolved Steppe Wolf meat is definitely better than Source Crystal, and is very suitable for experiments or surgery.

After finishing the tidying up, Lin Feng ate some evolved dried meat and fell into a deep sleep to recover his energy and condition as soon as possible.

Although the escort to the next negative fourth floor is not too stressful for Lin Feng, who has now evolved to the second stage, it is always beneficial to retain more strength as a trump card.

This requires Lin Feng to be able to accurately and quickly snipe the third-level deformers, rather than dragging it into a tug-of-war and using a large number of artillery shells to destroy them.

Sustainability of firepower is Lin Feng’s biggest trump card.

After a quick two-hour nap, the rest of the camp team members also took turns to rest. Lin Feng's team arranged two people to take turns on duty to ensure the safety of the camp.

Soon, when Lin Feng woke up, everyone outside was ready to enter the ruins again.

The personnel arrangement for this trip was once again led by Zheng Yanying. In addition to Lin Feng himself, sisters Chen Shanshan and A Lian continued to participate.

However, what surprised Lin Feng was that among the three people who remained on the surface, Liu Qian actually stood up, carrying a high-quality AK rifle, and wanted to join the action.

In this way, only Liu Mingfei, Liu Qian, and another acolyte of the church, Zhou Hong, were left in the camp, and the defensive force was somewhat insufficient.

But now Lin Feng has become a second-level evolver. Among the wanderers present, even the Saviors do not dare to attack him easily.

So don't worry too much about surface safety.

It was Liu Qian's initiative to join that surprised Lin Feng a little.

When she followed him and tested the power of the weapons, Lin Feng felt that something was wrong with her.

He probably realized something and decided to join the battle, and wanted to work hard to become stronger.

Lin Feng nodded and agreed.

As a result, the Wasteland Wolf Origin Crystal Collection Team remained at six members, with Lin Feng replaced by Liu Qian. Therefore, their combat effectiveness naturally plummeted.

"Please be careful, especially when entering the contaminated areas on the left and right. Look where you are stepping to avoid accidentally entering the source of the pollution."

Before getting ready to go, Lin Feng spoke up to remind them.

Now he no longer needs anyone to cover him.

Chen Shanshan and Shen Yue returned to the team to get down to business.

Without Lin Feng's protection, everyone would have to face the dangers lurking in the dark alone.

Chen Shanshan nodded seriously. When Lin Feng was not around, she was the captain of the team and needed to take on the responsibility of command.

Zheng Yanying weighed the war hammer in his hand:

"Don't worry, I'm here."

Everyone then set off and entered a cave not far away.

At this moment the sunlight refraction project is still ongoing.

Therefore, it is basically impossible for the mutants to launch a surprise attack on the negative first and negative second floors, and the mutants on the lower floors cannot rush to the negative second floor through the tide of mutant monsters formed by the riot.

The scorching sun curse contained in the sunlight is more deadly than artillery to the distorted monsters formed by pollution. Once it is exposed to the sun, its true form will be revealed and it will boil into a pool of blood.

Therefore, before transporting the equipment out of the military factory, it is necessary to keep the sunlight refraction device operating.

At this time, the Salvation Army people had been waiting for a long time.

Bai Ye led his main force to the fourth floor of the ruins and left two team leaders to pick up Lin Feng.

Everyone then entered the shelter.

After walking more than 20 kilometers in one breath and arriving at the third floor below ground, we could see the entrance to the fourth floor below ground in the distance, with flickering lights.

Lin Feng immediately called everyone together and continued to move forward.

Although there are still some aberrations remaining on the negative third floor, without the summons of the third-order aberration king, they are scattered in the corners and gradually dormant, so they do not pose much threat to everyone.

I ran another ten kilometers in one breath and finally arrived at the place where I came from, four floors underground.

At this time, the Salvation Army under Bai Ye was thoroughly cleaning up the remaining deformed tissues on the ground.

Those deformed limbs that were blown to pieces or flew away were scattered all over the ground, but the flesh and blood inside were not really dead and were slowly wriggling and crawling.

Like slime mold, it searches for other pieces of flesh around it, merges together, and forms a new deformed monster.

This is also why they are difficult to kill.

After Lin Feng said a few final words to Chen Shanshan, he walked forward to join the Salvation Army under the leadership of the team leader.

Looking at the Salvation Army's main road going away, Zheng Yanying took a deep breath and spoke calmly:
"Let's go too. We walked around the left side last time, so let's go to the right side this time."

"Stay in groups of two and proceed carefully."

"Because the third-order aberration was killed, and with the sunlight shining brightly, the mental pollutant mutterings are much milder now. If you encounter the mutterings in your head and they become more severe, immediately evacuate along the same route you came from. Don't rush forward to investigate out of curiosity."

"The mental impact of a third-level pollution source is very serious for you, who are in the early stages of the first level. You may even experience mild hallucinations and illusions."

"Follow me now!"

After the search operation was launched here, Lin Feng also followed the main force of the Salvation Army and went deep into the negative fourth floor.

Unlike the fierce battles on the three levels above, without the leadership of the third-level distortion king, the distortions on the negative fourth level became unusually quiet.

Bai Ye, wearing light armor, explained:

"This is the deep ruins under normal circumstances. Without the hordes of deformed monsters formed after the riot, most of the deformed monsters will stay quietly in a corner and enter a dormant state to conserve energy."

"After all, the energy supply in the entire restricted area of ​​the ruins is actually very low. The aberrations have to curl up like snakes and hibernate in order to survive the years under the scorching sun."

Lin Feng nodded. It seemed that the subsequent operations would be completed smoothly and he would not have many opportunities to escape.

After all, at present, only the third-level distortion king has the strength and qualifications to let Lin Feng take action personally, and the other second-level distortions are simply vulnerable.

Even a flame of over a thousand degrees from a flamethrower can easily drive away or burn a second-order aberration to death.

A group of more than ten people successfully walked through the negative fourth floor and arrived at the entrance of the negative fifth floor.

Just standing at the stairs, Lin Feng felt a strong mental shock, and the mumbling and whispering in his mind that had been completely suppressed began to ripple again.

For a second-level evolver, even getting close to the source of pollution is not a big deal.

The higher the level of evolution, the stronger the resistance to genetic radiation and mental pollution.

Just like before, Bai Ye could calmly fight against the third-level distortion king.

At this moment, Bai Ye also noticed something strange.

It was soon discovered that the thermos bomb that was thrown at the beginning took advantage of the special terrain of the stairwell and caused a lot of blood and wounds on the third-order deformer who had nowhere to hide.

After losing the control of the mutant, these flesh and blood containing third-order mutant cells began to instinctively devour and collect the limbs of other mutants nearby, where flesh and blood were flying everywhere, in order to survive.

At this moment, the original pieces of meat have merged and deformed into a dark red meat ball, clinging to the wall.

The surface of the ball of flesh was still wriggling, and it was contracting and expanding to breathe, much like a fleshy egg.

Bai Ye frowned slightly and immediately arranged five first-stage late-stage team leaders to deal with it with flamethrowers.

The flamethrowers began to aim at the meatball, releasing blazing, fiery flames.

"This is the process of incubating a new aberration, and it's a third-level aberration king. Based on the scale of the original third-level pollution source, the more third-level aberration cells there are, the less incubation time and biomass required."

"A seed like this one will take at least ten years to develop. If the supply of energy and biomass is insufficient, it will remain dormant for the rest of its life."

Bai Ye spoke slowly, his expression extremely solemn:

"It's also called the Deformed Egg. It usually only appears in the bottom three layers below the negative sixth layer. Besides the restricted area of ​​the ruins, it has another name..."

"Deformation Hive!"

"I heard that at the bottom of the Feicheng Shelter, during the great battle that year, a Level 3 Evolved King lost an arm or a leg. There are also exaggerated reports that a King had actually perished there."

"Anyway, there are a lot of deformed eggs inside, so you must be careful when you go there."

"The Hunter team accidentally touched the Abnormal Egg, which led to the awakening of the third-order aberration. Not only did they suffer heavy casualties in their own team, but they also caused great harm to us."

Looking at the big ball of flesh burned by flames, the deformed creature inside, which had begun to take human form, let out a terrible scream.

Lin Feng nodded, and the mumbling in his head suddenly became several times louder, with the sound being sharp and shrill.

After dealing with the occasional deformed eggs, everyone successfully reached the negative fifth floor, only one level away from the negative sixth floor.

Seeing that the destination was not far away, the team couldn't help but quicken their pace.

At this time, Lin Feng discovered that there was an unfamiliar but impressive building on the right side of the main road on the fifth floor below ground.

It turned out to be an old-fashioned train station!

Above the building, there are four big characters "Feicheng Railway Station". However, due to its age, several parts of the sign have rotted away.

Lin Feng asked in surprise:
"Could it be possible that the tunnel leading to the Mount Tai refuge on the negative fifth floor has railway tracks, allowing trains to transport supplies and personnel?!"

Bai Ye glanced to the right and nodded:

"Behind the station are two railway tunnels that lead to the subway next door. After all, each large shelter can accommodate four to five million survivors, so there will definitely be a need for communication between them."

"Two railways are considered too few. Normally, a population of four to five million would be considered a medium-sized prefecture-level city in the old Earth era. These two railways can only carry a few thousand people back and forth, or thousands of tons of supplies. Clearly, this is not enough."

"It's quite dangerous in there now. Back then, after Steppenwolf captured Tarzan's refuge, he fought his way here..."

Lin Feng nodded. At first, he thought that the underground tunnel on the fifth floor below ground was just a tunnel, at most like a mountain tunnel on a highway, which could allow traffic to pass through the two shelters.

I didn’t expect that a railway system was built directly. It is worthy of being a large shelter under the rule of a third-level king. It is like an underground kingdom with complete facilities.

Bai Ye reacted at this moment and realized why Lin Feng cared about the stations and tunnels that normal evolvers, especially the second-level evolvers, were afraid to avoid...

Then he continued with a hint of deep meaning:

"You still want to collect the second-level Steppe Wolf Essence Crystal? Is the church ready to kill us?"

Lin Feng frowned slightly. He was also aware of the Savior Army's plans and intentions, but the gap between the two was too big before, and some things could not be said openly.

Now that the relationship is equal, it is natural to exchange views and opinions with each other:

"You should know the strength of the Li family better than I do."

Bai Ye shrugged:

"Of course I know, but I didn't expect the church's strength to decline so much, and to play the trump card that should have been kept as the main card..."

"Isn't there no way out?"

Lin Feng shook his head. The Salvation Army could infiltrate the fifth floor or the farm village to understand the Li family's actions, but they might not be clear about the strength of the Holy Spring Cult.

"There should be other preparations, but I'm responsible for collecting the essence. As for other matters, I'm not from the church, I'm just paid to do the work, so I don't know much about it."

"The bishop is a bit old."

"I'm afraid this action was instigated by the church. They're trying to solve this problem of the Li family before anything goes wrong."

"Kill the chicken to get the eggs, and change the cage to get the bird."

After listening to Lin Feng's words, Bai Ye was thoughtful. He looked at the man beside him and slowly spoke:
"I need half of the industrial technicians in the farm village."

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes slightly:

"Even if the church and the Li family perish together, we will not negotiate with the Wanderers. This is the bottom line."

Bai Ye smiled:
"But I'm talking to you, Captain Lin."

(End of this chapter)