Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 210: Arena Battle, Li Hao's Cunning and Strength

As Xu Wanfeng's countdown began, Lin Feng directly activated the high-performance sports mode of the power armor.

The three-second countdown, plus the start time, a total of four seconds had passed, and the figure of the power armor turned into an afterimage and retreated to one side.

At this time, the driver inside is choosing the best route to move.

Long before Lin Feng appeared on the scene, the armored combat system had already carefully scanned the terrain of the valley where the arena was located.

The rules of combat are that you cannot leave the restricted area.

The winner must be decided within this square kilometer, otherwise the party that leaves the arena will automatically be judged as the loser.

Therefore, Lin Feng cannot get too close to the edge of the mountain. Otherwise, if he is hit, even if the power armor can barely withstand the opponent's impact, he will lose the game directly because of being out of bounds.

However, what makes Lin Feng feel fortunate is that the boundaries of this arena will also include the three 100-meter-high hills surrounding the valley bottom.

In this way, as long as you don't go over the mountain, it won't be considered crossing the border.

In fact, this is beneficial to Lin Feng, because going up the mountain will give him the advantage of attacking from a high position, and the weapon in Lin Feng's hand can directly cover the entire arena area.

Xu Wanfeng still sided with Lin Feng.

Otherwise, if he only used the valley bottom as a stage, Li Hao would be able to approach Lin Feng more easily.

While Lin Feng turned around and fled, keeping his distance, Li Hao, who was standing on the other side of Xu Wanfeng, remained unmoved and stood there.

At this moment, he was wearing heavy armor that was more than three meters high.

This level 25 Rock Horse Armor is three and a half meters high and more than two meters wide, and looks very bulky.

But don't underestimate this set of armor. On the sides of its two arms, there is a rectangular piece of ceramic steel armor. The torso is also covered with thick ceramic steel, which is 30 centimeters wide.
Its protective capability is equivalent to that of reinforced concrete more than one meter thick, enough to withstand a 150mm ordinary howitzer. Only depleted uranium armor-piercing shells can break it.

When Li Hao was a big shot in the Holy City, he was fortunate enough to meet many second-level firearms psychics. Although they were rare, there were still a few well-known firearms psychics in the Holy City with a population of millions.

Therefore, he was very aware of the lower limit of the strength of a firearms ability user in the early second stage.

That is the power of ordinary artillery fire.

The lethality of the artillery shells lies in the shock waves and fragments generated by the explosion. Its actual armor-piercing ability is actually very limited. For example, a reinforced concrete wall half a meter thick can withstand a standard 155mm howitzer.

For someone like Lin Feng, who is only a level 22 firearms ability user, even if the damage of a devastating blow is enough to threaten a late-stage second-level existence, ordinary attacks can only deal with ordinary mid-stage second-level evolvers.

In front of the second-stage mid-stage rockhorn horse, which is famous for its defense, it is nothing.

The level 25 Rockhorn Armor made from a mid-stage second-stage Rockhorn Horse can also withstand multiple attacks.

And as long as it is not a direct hit, you can even ignore the aftermath of the explosion.

The initial velocity of the shell is about 300 meters per second, which is close to the speed of sound. By observing the position of the muzzle, one can roughly determine the final landing point of the fired shell.

Therefore, if the distance is more than 300 meters, Li Hao has more than one second to make a judgment.

You can easily avoid it by moving just a dozen meters.

For the Rock Horse Armor, which has a basic movement speed of nearly 100 meters per second, this has no effect except that it will consume a little more energy.

So in Li Hao's opinion, the farther Lin Feng is from him, the safer he will be.

The real danger lies between one hundred meters and three hundred meters.

Within this range, it would take him one or two seconds to launch an attack and get close to Lin Feng, but Lin Feng could compress the time to less than one second.

Seeing that Lin Feng, driving the power armor, had escaped to 400 meters away within four seconds, Li Hao retreated calmly and hid behind a pile of rocks.

Xu Wanfeng, the referee, then retreated to the top of a small hill nearby.

From here you can have a panoramic view of the entire valley arena.

The camera sensor of the power armor can clearly capture the figures of the two people in the field.

As a guild member transferred from the Holy City, Xu Wanfeng was also familiar with the abilities of firearms psychics and understood why Li Hao was so calm.

But as long as there is no violent conflict between the two sides, the plan can proceed smoothly.

In Xu Wanfeng's opinion, Li Hao proposed the current competition not only to test Lin Feng's true strength, but also to erase everyone's fear of people with gun abilities.

Lin Feng’s previous weapons experiments had already shocked the top leaders of various forces in Oasis Town, especially the rebels. Many of the late first-level rebels showed signs of retreat and surrender.

This seriously affected Li Hao's plan to seize power.

Therefore, as long as he can easily defeat the opponent right now, he can beat Lin Feng back to an ordinary second-level evolver, except that he has more powerful firepower.

Wearing the Rock Horse Armor is enough to resist his threat.

As for the deeper purpose, it is to see if there is an opportunity to directly severely injure or disable Lin Feng, thereby breaking the passive situation faced by the rebels.

And this is exactly what Xu Wanfeng wants to stop.

Otherwise, she would not have handed the second-level combat module to Lin Feng through her sister Xu Wanshuang to avoid being defeated in close combat.

But from the perspective of the guild's interests, if Li Hao just wanted to teach Lin Feng a lesson, Xu Wanfeng would be happy to see it.

After all, ever since he was promoted to the second level, he has been too confident and arrogant. If he could encounter some setbacks earlier and recognize his own strength, it would be of great benefit to his future development and cooperation with the guild.

The key lies in the degree in between.

Therefore, Xu Wanfeng focused most of his energy on Lin Feng's figure to avoid any accidents.

At this moment, after the competition started, Lin Feng had retreated 400 meters away in four seconds, and was less than 100 meters away from the small mountain behind him.

This distance is the limit. Once Li Hao, wearing the Rock Horse Armor, follows, he can be knocked out of the boundary with just one hit from the Iron Mountain Backkick.

But with the mountain as a cushion, even if Lin Feng was really knocked away, he would at most fall at the foot of the mountain.

Unfortunately, the imagined pursuit did not happen.

The camera at the rear of the power armor captured Li Hao's retreating figure.

So after arriving at the designated location, Lin Feng stopped, turned around and raised the two level 22 weapons in his hands.

At this moment, the armor-piercing cannon was already ready to go, just waiting for the opponent to catch up, and then it would cooperate with the high-explosive rapid-fire cannon to attack Li Hao fiercely.

But the other party was not fooled.

Because of the heavy nature of the Rock Horse Armor, it cannot burst out at an extremely high speed. Once chased, it will be left far behind by the power armor on Lin Feng.

The experienced Li Hao took advantage of the terrain and hid in a pile of rocks.

The outer shell of the Rock Horse Armor turned gray-yellow, consistent with the terrain of the wasteland.

Once you hide and stay still, it is difficult to be discovered from a hundred meters away.

Lin Feng frowned slightly. The combat assistance system of the power armor only recorded Li Hao's approximate hiding area, which was within a pile of rocks about six or seven hundred meters away.

The power of the armor-piercing cannon alone is not enough to crush all these five or six meter boulders, let alone the high-speed cannon.

Moreover, there are only 150 rounds of ammunition for the armor-piercing gun, which cannot be wasted.

But what worries Lin Feng the most is the power consumption of the armor which has entered the high-performance sports mode.

Li Hao's move was clearly an attempt to stall for time. The other party knew clearly that as a general-purpose power armor, it was average in all aspects and very balanced, with the only flaw being its endurance.

At most one and a half hours, and in high-performance mode it is less than half an hour.

If he continued like this, even if he didn't take the initiative to take action, Lin Feng would be extremely anxious.

And at this moment, just as Li Hao planned, in order to break the situation as soon as possible, Lin Feng chose to take the initiative to attack, even if this would expose his own existence.

I saw the power armor start up again, and it flashed forward more than a hundred meters.

At this moment, the distance is enough to lock onto any movement within 500 meters.

The area where the Rock Horse Armor may be hiding is within this range.

Lin Feng then raised the high-speed cannon in his hand and aimed at the target area.

The rapid-fire gun has a space reserve of up to 1,500 rounds, with a power equivalent to that of a 105mm howitzer, enough to destroy light armor.

But for the Rock Horse Armor, it was like tickling, leaving at most a shallow mark.

However, Lin Feng didn't care about these. As long as the rapid-fire gun had enough ammunition, he could cover this thousand-square-meter area several times.

Although it cannot directly crush large rocks, it can explode them.

When the time comes, the Rock Horse Armor that was hit will be standing intact in the ruins, and it will be possible to see through it at a glance.

Lin Feng immediately pulled the trigger and started to act.

One after another, high-explosive rapid-fire cannon shells poured out from the fist-sized muzzle like water, and fell evenly into the pile of rubble like hail.

As the explosion sounded, it spread in all directions.

The entire rubble area was covered with one shell per ten square meters, stirring up a cloud of smoke.

The recoil of the high-explosive rapid-fire cannon is very low, at least for Lin Feng, who is at level 22, it is not worth mentioning at all.

The only problem was the barrel overheating.

In order to cover the rubble pile covering thousands of square meters, at least hundreds of rapid-fire cannons would have to be fired.

Fortunately, as a branded equipment, this small problem does not affect the firing of the rapid-fire cannon. Coupled with the automatic mode of the extreme pursuit attribute and the firing rate of ten rounds per second, it took Lin Feng less than two minutes to cover the pile of rocks where the target was.

For a moment, the air was filled with smoke and dust.

A gray-yellow smoke area is formed.

Lin Feng hid carefully and waited quietly for the smoke to dissipate.

At this moment, a breeze blew and blew away the fine sand in the smoke and dust. In just three or four minutes, the scorched and blackened gravel surface gradually appeared.

As many as hundreds of smoking black pits appeared neatly in the rubble area. The terrain that originally served as camouflage and cover no longer existed.

Lin Feng's expression instantly tensed up. He used the power armor's scan, combined with his own perception, to lock onto the target area.

Li Hao, wearing the Rock Horse armor, saw that his disguised ambush plan had been broken, so he no longer delayed time and instead took advantage of the cover of the smoke to look for an opportunity to escape.

When the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, a dark figure suddenly emerged from the edge of the rubble pile.

Lin Feng felt like he was facing a formidable enemy and immediately raised his gun and aimed.

But then he suddenly realized that it was impossible for the experienced Li Hao to be so blatant as to expose himself from four or five hundred meters away.

Even if he tried his best, it would still take him two to three seconds to rush straight to the front at this distance.

Lin Feng can aim the cannon in his hand and easily repel it, or burst out at maximum speed to escape the attack.

Therefore, Lin Feng, who looked nervous, did not choose the optimal response plan of the combat assistance system, raising his gun to aim and shoot, but continued to remain alert to the surroundings.

And in the next second, just as Lin Feng expected...

The dark shadow emerging from the smoke and dust was not Li Hao's rock horse armor, but just a huge rock standing upright.

It is about the same size as the Rock Horse Armor.

But it's just a dead thing in disguise.

But before Lin Feng could react, he saw a piece of rubble flying towards him at a high speed in less than a second from a depression on the other side of the rubble pile.

The real Rock Horse Armor is here!

Li Hao, an old fox who has lived for hundreds of years, made his fortune in the wasteland. He used to use all means to kill his targets or opponents.

He will use all the conditions at hand to put the target into a passive situation, and then choose to launch an attack.

In fact, as early as when Lin Feng chose to bomb the boulder pile hiding area where Li Hao was, the Rock Horse Armor had already left this place under the cover of artillery sound and smoke.

At the same time, several huge rocks were piled together to confuse Lin Feng's vision and judgment.

Then lurked in another direction.

When Lin Feng nervously stared at the rubble area after the bombing, he seized the opportunity, picked up the collected large and small stones, and smashed them hard at the back of the bunker where Lin Feng was.

Although wearing Rock Horse Armor does not provide a speed bonus, it is stronger than power armor in terms of strength.

The 50% strength is the result of Lin Feng's multiple enhancements, but this is only the starting point of the Rock Horse Armor. The level 70 armor worn by Li Hao can at least increase the strength by about %.

Combined with his basic strength of sixty tons, he can have a terrifying explosive force of over a hundred tons.

With the blessing of this power, even a randomly thrown piece of gravel can be as powerful and dangerous as a cannonball.

Throwing it with full force can even make some hard stones approach the speed of sound and hit the target.

From ancient times to the present, no matter how human technology evolves, it cannot escape boiling water and throwing stones. Boiling water is a solution to the energy problem, while throwing stones is a form of attack.

Lin Feng used cannonballs in the same way as throwing stones, but he used the impact force of gunpowder to stimulate and deliver them, and the head was also filled with explosives to increase the impact power.

Li Hao's method is to enhance the speed attribute of the stone and increase the impact power when hitting the target.

But don't underestimate these gravels. When they fly at a speed of more than ten meters per second, they have no killing power to the power armor made of titanium alloy.

But once the speed reaches a certain level, the threat level will increase sharply.

At this moment, these stones flying at close to the speed of sound made Lin Feng's whole body tense up instantly.

Although being hit by it will not cause too much damage, it can easily destroy the durability of the power armor, and even some weakly defended joints are prone to jamming after being hit.

Fortunately, the extremely dangerous armor was detected, and the highest authority of the combat assistance system was directly activated. It immediately broke out at maximum speed, moved its position, and avoided the attack.

Lin Feng let the auxiliary system take over his feet while turning back to raise his gun.

I saw the rock horse armor throwing out a lot of gravel and running towards me.

The surface of the valley in the entire arena began to tremble slightly as the giant beast rushed at high speed.

In their first fight, Li Hao caught Lin Feng off guard and destroyed many of his advantages.

(End of this chapter)