Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 208: Rock Horse Armor Flaw, Combat Data Module

"High temperature overload..."

"Speed ​​disadvantage..."

Lin Feng muttered to himself, and soon saw the relevant information listed on the paper in his hand.

Then I picked it up and read it carefully.

When the power gap is not a huge disadvantage across the ages, intelligence is the most important attribute.

Whether it is a small-scale fight between a few people or a large-scale battlefield involving tens of thousands of people, it is ultimately an information war.

Whoever has more intelligence information about each other and a more comprehensive understanding of the situation on the battlefield will have a greater chance of winning.

To understand our current opponent Li Hao, we have to start with his identity.

For those who evolve along the Rockhornbear path, the greatest boost at the second stage does not come from the second ability granted by the Rockhornbear essence.

In fact, this ability is more interesting than boring, that is, adaptability and endurance to harsh environments.

The rock wildebeest has genes from several herbivores, such as the camel's ability to store fresh water and energy, the rhino's thick horny coat, and the bison's multiple digestive sacs.

It can help them digest any grass or wood, and even break down the nutrients in lignin.

It can be said that the reason why the rock wildebeest is so successful is that this race has absorbed the excellent genetic characteristics of most large herbivorous animals, and in the harsh environment where the fittest survive, the fittest stand out.

In fact, there are other evolved wild animal species in the wasteland. There are more than a hundred small species, including long-lived naked mole rats, whose original lifespan is as long as 30 years, which is more than ten times that of other small rodents. They grow and develop rapidly and are immune to most diseases and cancers.

After the catastrophe, naked mole rats became even more specialized, discarding most of their useless organs, including their eyes and energy-intensive brains.

They feed on the roots and stems of plants and live deep underground all day long. A group of them can have as many as a dozen or even dozens of individuals, and they are widely distributed.

Because of their excessive degeneration, the curse of the Fiery Sun Forbidden Zone has little effect on these lower life forms.

Just like the rabbits and mice on the grassland, they are also an important food source for wasteland residents and carnivores. In addition, they are gradually degenerating and have no hair on their bodies. Apart from being too ugly, they are also deeply loved by predators.

There are more than ten recorded species of other large herbivorous animals, but their population sizes are relatively small, even less than one million.

Most of them live on fixed routes and in fixed areas. Their degree of specialization is not as high as that of the rock wildebeest, and they cannot adapt to most wasteland environments.

This is also why the evolvers of the Rock Wildebeest Path are the most numerous among the heterogeneous evolutionary paths.

Because the genetic characteristics of the rock wildebeest are most adapted to the harsh wasteland.

By injecting the life essence of the rock wildebeest to complete their own transformation and evolution, these evolvers possess outstanding endurance at the first level.

Able to travel long distances or endure hunger and thirst.

Although it is of little help in combat, no one can compare to it in surviving in the wasteland except for its original owner, the Rockhorn.

When it comes to the second level of evolution, this characteristic is naturally strengthened again.

Extreme endurance gives the Rock Horse Warriors the ability to fight continuously.

The ability to continuously accumulate endurance also means that their cells, when evolving, focus more on stress resistance and survival rather than explosive high-frequency operations.

Therefore, most of the evolvers in the Rock Wildebeest Path lack explosive power, or the upper limit of their explosive power is not high.

This is also the evolutionary defect of the Rockhorn Horse. After all, it is only used in the harsh wasteland environment and has not evolved to perfection.

Sacrificing explosiveness for endurance is the evolutionary strategy of the rockhorn horse.

Now it has been inherited by the Rockhorn Evolvers and has become one of their major flaws.

Even if one can control the Rock Horse Armor, one cannot achieve short-term high-performance combat like the power armor.

The evolutionary path of the rockhorn horse is to maintain the lower limit, but the upper limit is extremely low, which makes it difficult for them to give birth to a true king of the race, a third-level king beast.

After all, there are no evolved wild beasts more adapted to survival in the wasteland than them.

So the same is true for the Rockhorn Evolved, the lower limit is very high, but the upper limit is also so-so.

The concrete manifestation of this problem is the two major weaknesses of the Rock Horse armor when the Rock Horse warriors are in combat.

The Rockhorse Warrior is a biological armor that comes from the dead second-level patriarch-level Rockhorn Horse and is made using their second-level bodies.

It is essentially an extension of the Rock Horse Warrior's abilities.

Because of the genetic compatibility, the Rock Horse Armor is also an exclusive armor for Rock Horse warriors. Evolved people from other paths cannot activate it when wearing it and will experience a strong rejection reaction.

After wearing it, although the defense power is greatly increased, it also inherits the shortcomings of the rockhorn horse.

Although it can fight continuously, it lacks explosive power, just like the patriarch-level rock hornbear that Lin Feng encountered at the beginning. Although it chased it all over the street for nearly a hundred kilometers, it could not catch up with Lin Feng.

You have to know that Lin Feng was only in the middle stage of the first level at that time, with a maximum speed of only forty to fifty meters per second, and an average speed of only about twenty meters, which is equivalent to a speed of one hundred kilometers per hour.

However, the Patriarch-level Rockhorn Horse, which was only a second-level evolved form, could only follow closely behind and could not burst out with the speed that a second-level evolved form should have.

If it had been any other second-level wild beast at that time, Lin Feng would probably have been eaten the first time he saw it, and he wouldn't even have time to react before dying, such as the steppe wolf.

Therefore, even if a Rock Horse warrior wearing Rock Horse armor has an unbreakable defense and the power to split a mountain with one punch, he cannot burst out too many levels beyond his level.

The reason is the surge in body temperature.

The patriarch-level rock wildebeest can use the blood in its abdominal cavity and several stomach sacs to cool down, but the rock wildebeest warriors driving it in the rock wildebeest armor will not only become dehydrated but may even be cooked and steamed to death in the continuously rising high temperature.

After all, according to the material information, the highest temperature inside the Rock Horse Armor can reach an astonishing 70 or 80 degrees.

In order to stack defensive armor, the rock wildebeest can even use ceramic steel that is more than half a meter thick. In addition to providing absolute defense, it can also isolate internal and external temperatures.

Ceramics are inherently slow thermal conductors.

Otherwise, they would not be used as bowls and pots to hold food.

After this evolution and development, although it can isolate the heat from the external sunlight, the high temperature generated by the functioning of the organs in the rock wildebeest's body is difficult to release.

This is unlike Steppenwolf.

In the enhanced stage, the wasteland wolf has its alienated fine steel fangs and claws that emit heat. When it reaches the evolutionary stage, its fine steel wolf skin and alloy wolf bones can effectively release the residual heat from the body's rapid metabolism.

After all, there is no better thermal conductor than metal.

The Rockhorn Horse's pursuit of extreme defense prevents them from unleashing their full strength for hunting or fighting like the Steppenwolf. Seeing Lin Feng's serious expression, the High Priest continued his introduction:

"In our temple, the knights often adopt two strategies when dealing with second-level rock horse warriors. One is to launch a surprise attack with a fatal blow, instantly putting them into combat mode and exposing their weaknesses."

"Another type is a high-intensity, continuous battle, which leaves the opponent wearing the Rock Horse Armor no time to breathe, and they are constantly exhausted from maintaining high intensity."

"Their condition will decline very quickly."

"If you can't force them into a desperate situation, you can't defeat and kill them, because rock wildebeests have great endurance and persistence."

"I suggest starting with speed. You can purchase several pieces of power armor from the guild. Although they are only basic, combined with your basic strength, they are enough to dodge the attacks of the Rock Horse Warriors."

Lin Feng nodded and turned to look at another defect:

"The Rock Horse Armor is too heavy. Not only does it not increase the wearer's speed, it even causes a drag. As a result, the average running speed of a Rock Horse warrior is only a hundred kilometers per hour."

"That's thirty meters per second."

"But its instantaneous burst speed is incredibly fast, capable of recovering to over a hundred meters per second. At such speed, coupled with the weight of several tons, it's like a cannonball. If hit, you'll either die or be crippled."

"Speed ​​can be used to my advantage. My average movement speed can now reach 150 meters per second, which is more than enough to dodge its attack."

The high priest frowned slightly and reminded:
"Li Hao has been planning this rebellion and seizing power for a long time, and he must have made corresponding modifications and preparations to his Rock Horse Armor."

"With a level 25 armor, the base speed will double to 60 meters per second, and the instantaneous burst speed will be over 150 meters. It's only slightly slower than you wearing power armor, so don't be too careless."

The high priest seemed to have thought of something and changed the subject:
"But don't worry too much. Li Hao won't waste too many resources on you in order to win the final competition."

"The extreme burst state will not only cause the internal temperature of the Rock Horse Armor to rise sharply, but will also consume a large amount of the battleship's evolutionary cells. High temperatures will also damage the armor."

"So every outburst consumes Essence. After a battle, if the Rockhorn Armor wants to recover quickly, in addition to providing the corresponding energy, it also needs to absorb a portion of Level 20 Rockhorn Life Essence."

"It's like a battery for biological armor."

Following the high pastor's introduction, Lin Feng also saw the corresponding explanation on the report in his hand.

It turns out that the cost of using the Rock Horse Armor is so high. Lin Feng narrowed his eyes slightly, nodded in gratitude and said:
"Thank you, Reverend. This information is very important."

After explaining everything about the exchange, the high priest left a final sentence:
"The Bishop hopes that Chief Lin can, while preserving his own safety, deplete the opponent's energy as much as possible, and ideally, even find out one or two of his trump cards."

"But the premise is that you yourself are not affected. As long as your condition remains, the rebels will not dare to act rashly."

Lin Feng nodded and then sent the high priest away.

Watching him leave the convoy and enter the Holy Spring Village in the blink of an eye, Lin Feng looked up at the Oasis battleship on the left, thinking about how to respond.

The church sent these materials and reminders not only to protect itself, but also hoped to use this exchange to test Li Hao's strengths and weaknesses in advance.

And the latter is more common.

After all, Lin Feng accepted Li Hao's invitation without hesitation at the highest meeting in Oasis. In everyone's opinion, he should be very confident in the competition.

With this information, we will be more relaxed.

But after reading these materials, Lin Feng did not feel relieved. Instead, he had a clearer and more direct feeling of the enemy's strength.

The level 20 Rock Horse Armor has a defense effect of about 300 points, so at level 25, the defense value is at least 800 points, which is equivalent to the late second-level defense effect.

The two level 22 cannons in his hands, not to mention the high-explosive rapid-fire cannons, have no destructive effect at all. Only the armor-piercing cannons can be used.

But the basic damage of the lv22 armor-piercing cannon is only . With the additional effect of the wolf tooth armor-piercing shells, it adds points of damage, for a total of only points.

Can cause damage to late-stage second-stage evolvers.

But when it comes to defensive capabilities, which are comparable to the late second-stage Rock Horse Armor, it can only be said that there is still a long way to go.

We can only hope for another effect of the Wolf Fang armor-piercing shells, which increases the armor-piercing ability by 100%.

Lin Feng did not expect to be able to directly penetrate the Rock Horse Armor, he just hoped to at least break through a layer, even if it was only a few centimeters.

In this way, you can use the tactic of dripping water wearing away stone to wear away the opponent's defensive armor bit by bit.

Otherwise, you can only rely on your speed advantage and the high-performance movement mode of the armor to keep a distance from the opponent and keep passively dodging.

Although this can also consume the opponent's state, Lin Feng wants to counterattack more.

After all, with his current strength, even without using the ultimate move of assembly synthesis, he can easily suppress the early stage evolvers of the same level and rival the late second stage.

Facing such a powerful enemy like Li Hao, even if he only slightly injures the other party, it is enough to demonstrate his fame and strength and intimidate others.

After the chief pastor left, Lin Feng immediately called the main members of his team and asked for their opinions.

Ma Chenfeng had also seen second-level evolvers fighting each other, so he could provide some reference.

Among the others, only Ding Yi could help with data analysis and cooperate with Amin to formulate combat strategies for Lin Feng.

He input all of these into the power armor's system. Although they were of little use, at least they provided some basis for immediate combat.

However, what Lin Feng didn't expect was that during lunch, Xu Wanshuang, the vice president of the Fifth Village Guild, came to inform him of the location and time for the competition...

Bring Lin Feng something extremely precious.

Xu Wanshuang said apologetically:

"My sister wasn't aware of Patriarch Li's proposal for a sparring match before the meeting. She's made every possible preparation for this competition and will absolutely not allow Chief Lin to encounter any accidents."

"I hope Chief Lin will forgive me."

"This is a compensation my sister specifically instructed me to bring to you..."

As he spoke, Xu Wanshuang handed out a palm-sized piece of black metal with the words "combat data" written on it.

"This is an auxiliary module for second-level combat. It can be installed on general-purpose power armor. It stores a large amount of combat mode data for second-level evolvers. This is valuable data compiled by the guild after scanning tens of thousands of battles between second-level powerhouses."

"With it, after putting on the power armor and using the auxiliary combat mode, you can directly transform into an experienced second-level warrior."

"Even though there is a huge gap between him and Patriarch Li in terms of evolutionary level and strength, the opponent is a Rock Horse Warrior and is slightly inferior to you in speed."

"With the help of the second-level combat data module, it is enough to escape his three attacks."

(End of this chapter)