Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 178 Lin Feng lv22, the consumption and choice of evolution
After eating a whole piece of level 20 evolved jerky, I had to eat one kilogram this time to feel the same fullness as last time.

Lin Feng knew that after being promoted to level 21, his body's needs had increased again, or in other words, the original level 20 jerky was no longer as stimulating to the level 21 evolutionary cells in his body as before.

Just like drinking milk diluted with water, as the energy density of the milk increases, the original milk flavor will become weaker and weaker in comparison.

This also gave Lin Feng an intuitive data to measure whether 300 kilograms of evolved dried meat could support the subsequent evolution to a higher level of consumption.

Twenty-level one is enough to eat one piece, so the next twenty-level one may cost two pieces.

If it is in combat mode, you need to pay twice as much, which is more than four yuan.

This consumption rate is not low.

The rebellion is likely to last for several days. When the enemy understands the situation and decides on action, they will not launch a mass offensive all at once. Instead, they will send small reconnaissance teams to harass and assassinate Lin Feng personally.

Only when all these efforts have failed will they make a final attempt.

Therefore, for the church, as long as they can delay and prevent the second-level strongmen of the Li family and others from breaking into the driver's cab of the Oasis and seizing the command of the Oasis, they can just do a good job of defense.

Once the Oasis warship passes the fork in the road and enters the territory of the Zhuma Temple, the temple knights will naturally come to provide support.

In this way, avoiding high-intensity fighting, reducing casualties and delaying time is the real strategy of the Holy Spring Cult.

Even though his own combat power and combat experience were far inferior to those of the Li family's head who had risen to prominence through hard work, and the other village leaders...

But as the defender, as long as you can make good use of the advantages of terrain and identity, you can make up for the lack of combat effectiveness.

Let the balance of victory tilt again.

In addition, Lin Feng can protect Shengquan Village and liberate the church's combat power, Father Suan.

At the same time, the church restricted the major villages, sent late-stage evolvers to land in the oasis, and provided continuous reinforcements and support. Now the church can be said to be sure of victory!

From the current perspective, Lin Feng’s joining gives them at least a 70% chance of winning.

But such a victory came at the cost of Lin Feng's hard work in attracting firepower, and he had to withstand the joint attack from the top leaders of the three major villages.

By then, in addition to potential second-level evolvers, there will definitely be a large number of late-stage evolvers who will attack Shengquan Village.

Therefore, the consumption of evolutionary meat will only increase day by day and double.

In addition, we have to reserve food for Chen Shanshan, so the 300 kilograms of dried meat we have on hand may not be enough.

While eating the piece of meat in his hand, Lin Feng started to upgrade the level 20 armor-piercing cannon and high-explosive rapid-fire cannon on his waist.

At the same time, several mutated Wolverine fangs were integrated into the alloy wolf heads of the two guns to increase the armor-piercing ability of the shells, so as to target the Rock Horse armor equipped by the rebels.

This upgrade consumed twenty health points in one go. For Lin Feng now, this was nearly one-tenth of his health, which was considered a significant overdraft.

Fortunately, after eating the evolutionary meat, this part of the consumption was quickly recovered and did not cause too much impact.

After eating a whole piece, Lin Feng, in high spirits, went to the freezer, opened it, and saw five portions of pure source essence and three portions of wasteland wolf source essence remaining inside.

Take out three of them, and while they are in perfect condition after eating the evolution meat, quickly start the next level of evolution.

After taking it in one breath, the intense stimulation was even stronger than the double dose before, but the body's reaction became weaker and weaker, as if drug resistance had been developed.

This time, the time required to complete the absorption of the life essence and transform into the twenty-second level evolutionary cells was even faster than the last time it transformed into the twenty-first level.

It only took about ten minutes.

If it weren't for the fact that after he got up, the upper limit of his physical strength had broken through again and reached thirty tons, Lin Feng would even have doubted whether he had truly completed the transformation.

Fortunately, the improvement in his physique and the system's prompts proved that Lin Feng had become a powerful evolver of level 22:
"Lin Feng, lv22/29"

「生命值：300，体质：300，精神：299；lv22各属性上限300」

"Super Power Awakening: The Power of Brand"

"Power of Branding: Exclusive Equipment; Forced Upgrade; Assembly and Synthesis; Accelerated Upgrade"

"Item upgrade limit increased to level 22!"

"You can consume 10 health points to upgrade the lv21 machine gun, lv21 rapid-fire cannon, and lv20 source filter."

After the evolution, although Lin Feng could feel the increase in strength, compared with the last time, the peak state after the evolution did not last long. A familiar feeling of hunger soon came over him.

It reminded Lin Feng of the burning hunger in his stomach and the cold and weak hands and feet he felt when he first woke up.

The piece of evolutionary meat that was eaten before has been completely digested during the evolution process. The speed at which the powerful physique of level 22 is consumed is visibly fast.

Lin Feng frowned slightly. At this moment, he was in a state of combat. Every tissue and every cell in his body was running at high speed.

There is even a faint airflow phenomenon on the surface of the body, and the body temperature rises rapidly.

As the air conditioning in the car cooled down, heat waves were emanating from the body surface, distorting the light.

From a distance, it seems to have formed a barrier with the surrounding space, causing ripples.

However, in this state, the nutrients and energy stored in Lin Feng's body were rapidly consumed in seconds.

A one-kilogram piece of level 20 evolved meat cannot last very long. Only flesh and blood of the same level, or higher, can meet the needs of level 22 cells.

If they continue to fight on an empty stomach, activating the twenty-second level cells with thirty tons of power to burst out with strength, they will start devouring from the nineteenth level cells in their bodies, eating their lower-level counterparts bit by bit to maintain their condition.

It starts with the energy-storing fat cells, then some less important organ tissues, the appendix, gallbladder, and even the reproductive system.

At this point one half of the body will gradually eat the other half.

Until it finally burns out.

When it really comes to this, every extra second will place a huge burden on the body and mind, continuously overdrawing vitality and evolutionary potential.

Therefore, second-level evolvers are often in a calm state, reducing their body metabolism to the lowest point to reduce energy consumption.

The reason is the scarcity of wasteland resources.

The harsh living environment, coupled with the lack of technology and the small number of survivors, have resulted in today's human civilization being unable to support so many evolvers.

Especially the high-level evolved strong ones.

Lin Feng quickly retracted his strength, allowing this powerful body to calm down, but the hunger in his stomach was like a raging flame, continuously burning his stomach and intestines.

I want to scrape out the last bit of nutrition from it.

When Lin Feng was in this state, he looked at the data appearing in his eyes and found that all three attributes had dropped slightly. As his hunger increased, they decreased by one, one, and one.

But once the value drops to a certain level, the rate of decline will slow down.

The original upper limit of 300 points dropped to around 270 points, and the decline was very small. Although the state was no longer declining at this moment, the power bursting out of the body was no longer as continuous and invincible as before.

It seems that most second-level evolvers usually maintain this "sub-healthy" state to reduce their demand for high-level evolutionary meat.

In fact, when it reaches the lowest point, the evolutionary cells in the body rich in source essence will no longer proliferate and divide, and will enter a dormant state.

Normally, it uses level 19 cells to maintain its activities.

In order to verify his guess, Lin Feng immediately opened the freezer, took out a piece of level 17 evolved meat, tore off a little bit, and put it in his mouth.

Sure enough, for him who is now at level 22, the evolved meat that is five levels lower has become as bland as water.

Not only does it have little nutritional value, but eating too much will also affect some of the second-level evolved cells in the body, causing them to continue dividing and proliferating, replacing low-level cells below the second level.

Lin Feng tried levels 18 and 19 again.

Fortunately, these two levels of evolutionary meat provide a slight sense of fullness, allowing the nineteenth-level cells, which make up the majority of the body, to no longer feel hungry. If one simply wants to maintain a normal semi-dormant state, one can rely on a few pounds of first-stage late evolutionary meat, but to return to peak form and enter combat mode, one must definitely eat evolutionary meat of the same level.

After understanding the different needs of his current body, Lin Feng took two pieces of level 20 evolutionary meat and went to the transport vehicle next door to prepare to upgrade the bullet production machine.

But you have to brand it first.

While eating the evolved jerky, Lin Feng was branding the large-scale integrated production machine in front of him.

The branding speed was very fast. After it became an exclusive equipment, Lin Feng could clearly feel a surge of information emerging in his brain.

Clearer information than the system's display.

It will allow Lin Feng to have a more intuitive and in-depth understanding of this production equipment.

This may be one of the benefits of branding.

In other words, the branded object becomes more closely connected to itself, creating a spiritual connection of belonging between them.

Lin Feng, who had only evolved to the first level before, had a low spiritual attribute and had no obvious feeling for these subtle changes. But now that he had become a second level evolver, he was able to keenly notice this after trying to brand him.

At the same time, he also discovered that this kind of spiritual bond and connection also has a limit.

It will put a certain strain on your spirit.

However, with his current strength of level 22 and 299 spiritual attributes, it is not a problem for him to just brand a few pieces of equipment.

Unless he branded crazily without any scruples, he would be overloaded and mentally depressed.

Now that he had branded the bullet production machine, Lin Feng chose to expand the caliber of the product and upgrade it, consuming ten health points.

He continued to eat the evolved jerky, barely making up for the lost health and status.

However, this upgrade takes a bit of time.

The upgrades of large equipment are relatively slow, such as the upgrades of trams in the past. The reason why the tank was upgraded so quickly this time was because Lin Feng's evolution level was raised.

An evolution level of twenty, upgrading level fourteen equipment is naturally not worth mentioning.

Since there was still a long time to wait for the upgrade to be completed, Lin Feng left the transport vehicle and returned to the wolf armor vehicle.

This time, he ate a piece and a half of evolution meat in one go, and finally restored his condition to its peak.

But Lin Feng felt that it would only last about a day at most.

That is to say, at level 22, at least one and a half pieces of level 20 evolutionary meat must be consumed every day, otherwise it will be in a weak semi-dormant state.

At level 20, half a block is enough, but at level 21, one block is needed.

Then, it is estimated that the next twenty-three levels will require at least two pieces of daily consumption.

Three hundred pieces of evolved jerky are only enough for Lin Feng to sustain for less than five months, and this is only in a non-combat state.

Once the battle begins, I'm afraid that the energy in my body will be burned madly at a rate of two per hour.

Before the battle, you have to eat at least five pieces of jerky and ten pounds of meat to meet the needs of the second-level cells in your body.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng frowned slightly and looked at the freezer.

Next up is Chen Shanshan's cross-level evolution. We have to leave her with a reserve of 100 kilograms of evolutionary meat to ensure the combat effectiveness of the guards around her.

Although the Rock Horse Warrior is a defensive biological armor, its speed is not low. Although it can't easily reach hundreds of meters per second like the Steppe Wolf, it can at least reach a burst speed of hundreds of meters per second, and can easily approach in one encounter.

At that time, Chen Shanshan's protective role will be particularly important to Lin Feng, who needs to concentrate and aim.

In order to ensure her combat effectiveness, she must be provided with sufficient evolutionary meat, or her strength must be improved by one or two levels, and her evolutionary level must be further improved to become a level 21 evolver.

However, in this case, Lin Feng himself would have to maintain his strength at level 22.

Because there are not many second-level source materials left, there are only five left.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng sighed and decided to wait until the two cannons in his hands were upgraded to level 22 to see the power of the assembled cannons and whether they could ensure the safety of himself and his team before considering whether to continue evolving them.

According to the previous rules, the equipment synthesized from two level 22 branded weapons should have a maximum level of 27, which is comparable to the late stage of the second stage.

Even if it is only level 26, it is enough to pose a threat to Li Hao, the head of the Li family and a mid-second-level evolver. If he is lucky, he can even kill him directly.

Therefore, the weapon's lethality should be sufficient.

On the contrary, it is difficult to gain an advantage in close combat even when wearing power armor.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng suddenly felt dizzy and a little tired.

So I decided to take a short break and wait until all the branded weapons and equipment were upgraded before considering the next move.

We hurried back from the Feicheng shelter, and it was already the morning of the seventh day.

In other words, Lin Feng had not had a good sleep for nearly seven days and seven nights. He only took a short break and slept for two or three hours in the camp outside the shelter.

Although staying up all night is nothing to a second-level evolver, if one wants to maintain a high-pressure combat state, the energy consumption will be huge.

Especially the last time he entered the ruins, he went deep into the train station tunnel on the negative fifth floor and faced the early and middle stage second-level zombie wolves and fought with them.

The subsequent departure was also in a hurry.

It took a total of two days and three nights, and I didn't sleep for sixty hours. After returning, the trivial matters in Oasis Town were also quite exhausting.

Now that everything is arranged and planned, Lin Feng also needs a good sleep to restore his mental state.

Lying in the back seat of the chariot, Lin Feng fell into a deep sleep.

Six hours later, it was twelve noon.

Lin Feng was awakened by a loud noise.

It turned out that it was A Ming and Liu Qian, who first brought a few new recruits and planned to form a second escort team.

There were eight people in total, seven men and one woman, all of them were weathered ninth-level enhanced humans with dark complexions and calloused hands.

If one has survived in the wasteland for at least two or three years, he is considered experienced.

After all, more than 30% of new survivors do not survive the first month, but as long as they live for more than half a year and adapt to the wasteland environment, the mortality rate will drop sharply.

An open recruitment like Lin Feng's, with the title of a second-level strongman, can attract many top-level wastelanders who are ambitious and motivated to become stronger.

There are even some permanent residents of the Fifth Village who want to come and follow the Second-Level Evolver.

A huge interest group is gradually forming around the second-level evolvers.

Since Lin Feng did not recruit middle-class evolvers in Oasis Town, and only selected potential seeds from the 50,000 to 60,000 wastelanders, it did not have much impact on the Oasis.

After the leading savages leave, a large number of people will quickly fill their gaps.

Lin Feng just glanced through the car window and then lost interest. He turned to look at the display in the corner of his eye:

"Level 21 armor-piercing cannon upgrade completed!"

"Level 21 High-Explosive Rapid-Fire Cannon Upgrade Completed!"

"Level 21 Bullet Production Machine Upgrade Completed!"

(End of this chapter)