Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 162 Gun King, Gun Devil, Agent Plan

After hearing Zong Shiyue's reminder, Lin Feng, who had originally disdained the pile of "garbage", stopped and turned to walk towards the pile of groceries.

Chen Shanshan, who was walking behind and helping to push the cart, noticed that the cart in her hands suddenly stopped, so she leaned over to check the situation.

I saw Lin Feng, who was originally pulling the front of the car, walking towards the pile of debris at the entrance of the shelter. The total value of those garbage was less than 100 points.

Because of its size and weight, it is not as big as the same wolf bones and source materials, so it is not even worth carrying. In the hands of Lin Feng's team, which now has tens of thousands of points, it is no different from garbage.

However, since Lin Feng showed some interest in her, Chen Shanshan stopped and turned to come to his side.

The evolved meat, alloy wolf bones, fine steel wolf skins, etc. in the carts were now emitting bursts of white smoke under the influence of the sunlight.

The metal skeleton and wolf hair themselves were fine, but the mucus on them was purified by the sunlight, which saved Lin Feng and others the trouble of cleaning them later.

The most affected part is the evolved meat. Many black charred spots appear on the surface of the 1.5 tons of evolved meat, as if it was directly corroded and carbonized by concentrated acid and dehydrated into ash.

It looks very weird from the outside.

But fortunately, it does not affect the extraction of the life essence inside. One to five tons of evolutionary meat is enough to squeeze out eight portions of level 20 evolutionary agents and three portions of level 24 evolutionary agents.

Its value will reach an incredible level after it passes through a picometer-level filter to filter out pure source material.

According to preliminary estimates, the number of points is as high as tens of millions.

In addition, Lin Feng's original backpack also contained five portions of second-level wasteland wolf evolution meat containing level 20 source essence. The biggest gain of this trip was worth a total of 20 million points.

This amount of points is enough to form a second-rate force in the wasteland, operate dozens of different types of vehicles, and support hundreds or even thousands of people.

But if converted into an evolution agent, it would only have the capacity of a small box.

It can be seen that in order to cultivate a second-level evolver, especially a powerful evolver in the middle and late stages of the second level, the resources required are enough to feed thousands of people.

In the extremely barren wasteland, one can only rely on cultivating forces and accumulating resources step by step. Just like the Li family in Oasis Town, it may take several decades to cultivate and support a second-level evolver.

If you want to break through quickly, you can find another way, risk your life to enter various restricted areas of ruins, get extra huge rewards, and don't miss any chance to grab all the opportunities you encounter!

For example, now, Zong Shiyue’s unexpected discovery.

When Lin Feng walked up to the pile of debris and got closer, as a second-level evolver, he also sensed an unusual feeling coming from inside.

Weak energy radiation.

It is very similar to genetic radiation, but much weaker, and can survive for a long time under the sun. It is obviously not an ordinary thing.

Following his feelings and Zong Shiyue's instructions, Lin Feng searched in the waste pile and finally found the source of the radiation energy.

A pure copper shell that is about two fingers thick and about thirty millimeters thick.

Thirty-five millimeters in diameter and about fifteen centimeters in length.

Shell casings from some kind of anti-aircraft gun and rapid-fire machine gun.

The outside is covered with gray-black iron sand, which not only emits radiation that is difficult for ordinary people to detect, but also has magnetism.

Lin Feng wiped off the layer of fine iron sand on the surface, placed the shell in the palm of his hand, and after observing it for a while, frowned slightly:
"Could it be a depleted uranium round? Uranium ore alloy is added to it to increase its hardness and specific gravity, thus improving its penetration."

In the old Earth era, depleted uranium bombs were a powerful weapon in the military's arsenal. They were known for their extremely high armor-piercing ability, but also because of their inherent radiation effect, they could kill one thousand enemies but injure eight hundred of their own.

One of the attack aircraft equipped with depleted uranium bombs has its machine gun installed right below the cockpit, which means that the pilots of this aircraft are exposed to huge amounts of radiation from the depleted uranium bombs under their seats all year round.

This makes these pilots very susceptible to cancer, especially problems in the lower limbs.

The radioactive shell casing in Lin Feng's hand may be the depleted uranium weapon left over from that era.

The half-life of uranium 235 is as long as million years, and now less than years have passed at most. If this is really a depleted uranium bomb, it is not surprising that there is still trace radiation remaining.

But Lin Feng quickly rejected this idea, because after he touched the radioactive shell and felt the influence of the radioactive energy inside...

Because the blood circulation in the palm of the hand is affected by the radiation from the shell casing, platelets begin to gather there.

The reason is naturally the magnetism of the radiation shell.

But with this kind of magnetic strength, even a strong magnet cannot stop the flow of blood.

The hemoglobin iron in platelets accounts for 67% of the iron content in the human body, but the total amount of iron in the entire human body is only four to five grams. On average, there are only to micrograms of iron in each liter of platelets.

One microgram is equal to one thousandth of a milligram, and a milligram is equal to one thousandth of a gram.

On average, there are almost zero platelets in a liter of blood.

Therefore, the source of the influence on the aggregation of platelets at the moment is not the magnetism of the shell, but the radiation energy in it!
Lin Feng frowned.

Only the high-energy radiation of a third-order king can influence and control elements on this microscopic scale.

Lin Feng took him to the flesh and blood box opposite which contained Zong Shiyue's origin. At this moment, Zong Shiyue also felt the abnormality of the shell casing. His figure gathered beside the black box, and his expression gradually became solemn.

After thinking for a moment, he slowly spoke:
"I remembered..."

"No wonder it looks so familiar."

Lin Feng's mouth twitched:
"I remembered something, don't be a riddle man."

Zong Shiyue sighed and turned to look at Lin Feng:
"Don't you feel familiar? He's the originator of your awakened firearms ability, the first third-level king to prove his way with a gun..."

Lin Feng was stunned for a moment, then said in surprise:
"Can the ability of firearms actually lead to an evolutionary path?"

Previously, Lin Feng had always believed that it was difficult to move forward to the third level due to the small sample size, limited research progress and results of special abilities.

For example, the firearms ability, in the early to middle stage of the second level, has a combat power comparable to that of the early third level. If it is promoted to the third level and becomes an extremely powerful gun king, wouldn't it surpass other third-level kings and be invincible at the same level!

So if a third-level gun king really was born, he would have become famous in the wasteland long ago. How come there is no news at all?

When Lin Feng raised the question, Zong Shiyue smiled and replied:
"Because in the era of great strife, those who survived might not be the strongest, but they were definitely the most cowardly. Only by learning to conceal one's weaknesses and endure, can one survive to the end."

"Gun abilities are the strongest type of offensive abilities. Before level three, you can easily challenge opponents of higher levels. After reaching level three, you can also challenge multiple opponents of the same level at the same time."

"That gun king of the past successfully transformed himself in the flames of war, and from then on, he became the talk of the town, invincible and insolent."

"But he can overpower those of the same level and challenge five or ten third-level kings. But what if there are twenty, thirty, or even hundreds of third-level kings?"

"He could have become a god, but he died from his blind arrogance. After becoming a thorn in everyone's side, he naturally had no chance of survival."

Lin Feng took a deep breath. So, the shell casing in his hand that was emitting a faint radiation was the relic of the Gun King.

"If a gun master can advance to the third level, then why hasn't a second one been born since? Moreover, the existence of a Gun King has become a taboo..." "The third-level essence left in the body of the first-generation Gun King who was killed should have been treated as a third-level king and preserved."

"Given the value and function of this thing, it wouldn't be lost after this, right?"

Zong Shiyue nodded and slowly said:

"To hunt down the Spear King, we mobilized over thirty third-tier kings, six of whom were mid-tier third-tier kings, and two were late-tier third-tier kings."

"And here, there are half of the beast kings."

"At that time, having just been promoted to the middle stage of the third stage, there was only a 34th-level Spear King who could directly confront the six middle-stage beings. If it weren't for the intervention of the two Heavenly Kings, I'm afraid that in the future, a great Spear God above the third stage would have emerged..."

"That battle took place in central and western Asia. I didn't participate in it, but I heard it was so brutal that it melted a large area of the desert, forming the Black Crystal Land."

"That is, the magma that melted the sand and rock cooled and formed an obsidian region hundreds of kilometers long. From then on, no grass grew, and it was like a hellish demonic land."

"This powerful gun master, also known as the Gun Demon by later generations, rose to prominence in just a few years, slaying countless mutant beasts. However, due to a disagreement, he also opened fire and destroyed entire human bases, killing millions of the already scarce survivors of the disaster."

"After the Gun Demon died, the two Heavenly Kings who attacked him divided up the third-level essence in his body."

"These two Heavenly Kings, who were born from humans and evolved beasts respectively, only have half the essence, so they can't give birth to a true new Gun King. We can only absorb and learn from them at the third level, or cultivate multiple gun-powered people. I hope that one day, a new king will be born from this group of people."

At this point, Zong Shiyue's tone changed:
"But at the time, everyone hoped to quickly decipher the laws of Tier 3 evolution and its future direction. Furthermore, the Gun King was a leader among Tier 3 masters, so this Tier 3 Essence was used for experimental research."

"I heard that the top leaders of the Evolutionary Alliance have set up a research project specifically for this purpose, called the Agent Project. They intend to use artificial breeding to study the evolutionary pathways of the third stage and above..."

"They used third-order cells to create artificial humans."

"And let the research results be used to manage the Earth and deal with various crises encountered along the way after the Wandering Earth Project is launched and the alliance's top leaders enter hibernation."

"I'm not qualified to participate in the agent plan. I only know that the results of this research have opened up a new evolutionary path above the third level. These agents all possess the strength of a third-level king and can help humanity survive."

"So after the Gun King's death, the third-level essence in his body was used as raw material for the agent plan."

"Thousands of years ago, I heard that there were agents carrying the Spear King's Essence, still active in the wasteland."

"However, with the failure of the Wandering Earth project and the Earth's mistaken entry into the Fiery Sun Forbidden Zone, the agents gradually disappeared from the wasteland."

"According to my calculations, Earth may have encountered a major crisis back then, such as an alien invasion or an asteroid impact, and a large number of third-level agents died in response to the crisis..."

"After that crisis, the wasteland we see today was formed."

After Zong Shiyue finished speaking, Lin Feng was stunned for a while.

I never thought that a small radioactive shell would reveal so many prehistoric secrets. Although Lin Feng was also from that era...

But he, who was only in the middle stage of enhancement, had a vision that was completely different from that of the high and mighty third-order kings, and the things he saw were in two completely different worlds!

If a secret like this had not been preserved to this day by the best of that era, it would probably have been covered up by the long river of history and become an unsolved mystery for future generations.

Zong Shiyue saw Lin Feng's surprise and disbelief, and explained:

"I know this is a bit far-fetched, because even I only knew about this plan by chance back then. Many mid-level third-level kings didn't even know about it."

"If I hadn't seen this bullet casing and recalled the Gun King incident, I wouldn't have remembered the formulation and implementation of the agent program back then."

"The key is that after the Gun King fell, the remaining Essence was launched as a research project."

Lin Feng nodded:
"If agents are artificial beings, and are created using Essence Catalyst, then what is the difference between them and normally evolved Kings?"

"The agent disappeared later. Could it be that he has been integrated into various major forces, or even become the ruler of many royal cities?"

Zong Shiyue seemed to be thinking:
"Although I don't have a deep understanding of the agent plan, I do know some things, such as that agents are born with multiple abilities and can absorb multiple types of energy."

"And theoretically, the lifespan of agents is infinite. They don't age or die of old age."

"But correspondingly, they are also infertile and will not have offspring. Moreover, from the moment they are born, the upper limit of their evolution is almost locked in their programming."

"We can only use genetic radiation to promote the growth and evolution of the survivors in the shelter, or allow the barbarians living in the settlement to awaken various superpowers and become evolvers..."

"So, after their mission is over, agents who are unable to produce offspring have little value in becoming the rulers of a first-rate power. Most of them are searching for the meaning of their own existence, or wandering aimlessly in the wasteland at will."

Lin Feng's pupils shrank slightly, and then he reacted:
"So, in addition to protecting the safety of the refuge, the Agent Program also assists the Evolution Alliance leaders in cultivating and extracting evolutionary genes?"

Zong Shiyue nodded:

"Yes, it is precisely because of these factors that agents become the candidates who best meet the interests of the top leaders. They will not steal the power and status of the top leaders like other third-level kings do."

"They are more suitable to be the apostles of the gods and shepherd all living beings on their behalf than the saints who are the shepherds of the gods today."

As he spoke, Zong Shiyue narrowed his eyes slightly:

"So I suspect that the top power in the north, the ultimate producers of the giant corporate alliance, have a large number of shelter agents developed during the Old Earth era."

"But these are not what we need to consider right now. If you want to take the path of becoming an independent third-level king and complete the final transformation to become a transcendent..."

"Then this shell casing left behind by the Gun King is an important clue."

"According to my calculations, this shell has appeared no more than five thousand years ago..."

Lin Feng was stunned for a moment, then he understood:

"So this means that it's not a relic of the first generation Gun King, but rather a remnant of the agent who later integrated the gun essence..."

"If we can find it, we can reclaim the life essence of the Third-Rank Spear King!"

Zong Shiyue hummed:

"Go and ask where it came from."

Lin Feng nodded.

The shell casing in his hand at this moment is more important than the second-level source material and fine steel wolf bones in the cart!

So he walked out of the cave, looked at the camp of wanderers gathered at the cave entrance, and slowly raised the golden bullet shell in his hand:

"Who offered this!?"

　I was attending a classmate's wedding and didn't have time to check.