Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 235: Warriors Devoured by Armor, Biological Magic Armor

The final result of the battle shocked everyone present.

It wasn't the Rock Horse Warrior who fought back and reversed the situation, but ultimately he was defeated...

It doesn't end with one side being killed or surrendering...

Because the final result was that the tenaciously struggling rock horse warrior suddenly crashed into a huge rock after a sudden charge and then came to a standstill.

Like the rock horse armor on the front of a truck, half of its body was embedded in the rock and then remained motionless.

The battle priest who was fighting against him did not rush forward to finish him off, but instead kept a distance very cautiously and observed the opponent's still appearance.

Want to find a clue.

After all, sudden changes in unfamiliar behavior often represent the possibility of a trap.

However, the stalemate lasted for almost a minute.

As the high priest kept changing the distance and used the stones he picked up from the ground to smash the target from a distance, the Rock Horse Armor, which was constantly hit, remained motionless...

The high priest suddenly realized that the opponent's combat effectiveness had increased exponentially after his sudden attack. The physical strength and energy required for this huge increase and improvement were enough to exhaust a level 19 evolver.

If this is true, then the driver who is now wrapped in the Rock Horse Armor must have already run out of energy, leaving only a weak and overdrawn body, and can no longer support this second-level biological armor.

The high priest reacted quickly and was about to launch a surprise attack from the side in order to confirm his guess. He held the alloy spear tightly in his hand and aimed it at the gap under the neck armor next to the target's neck.

As long as he could find that unique and tricky angle from bottom to top, he could directly break through the weakest defense and then pierce the neck of the driver, the Rock Horse Warrior.

Cut the opponent's throat and arteries, and then shatter the cervical vertebrae and nervous system.

After a severe injury to the neck, even a level 19 evolver would lose the perception of the lower body on the spot and fall into a coma due to heavy bleeding in the arteries.

Once this killer move is implemented, even a second-level strongman will find it difficult to resist.

As long as they succeed, the Rock Horse Warrior will die.

The high priest's decision was fine, but he was also worried that the other party was trying to trick him and was trying to buy time to catch his breath and recover.

As the white figure quickly approached, only a crisp tearing sound was heard...

The high priest, like the audience nearby, looked at the scene in disbelief.

The rock horse armor that was pierced by his spear still did not resist at all, not even a basic reaction. It was pierced through the neck inside along the gap in the armor.

The next second, the high priest waved his hand, using the spear and the shoulder pads of his armor as a fulcrum to directly lift up the head of the rock horse warrior.

He wanted to use this to break his opponent's neck directly.

Once a person's head is separated, even a second-level evolver will be powerless to save the situation.

As the fulcrum was used to gain leverage, the high priest was even more surprised that the opponent's head, including the helmet, flew out, drew an arc in the sky, and fell dozens of meters away.

The winner is now decided...

But the result is hard to believe.

Because the driver's severed body was not found in the Rock Horse armor whose head was cut off by the high priest, and there was no trace of the Rock Horse warrior's head in the helmet that flew out.

This also means that the Rock Horse warrior who was originally driving the Rock Horse armor has disappeared from the ring.

As the crowd exclaimed, the guild president Xu Wanfeng, who was acting as the referee, immediately came on stage to make the decision.

When she appeared next to the headless Rock Horse Armor, she saw a scene that was hard for her to accept:
In the area where the driver was originally located, all that was left of the Rock Horse warriors sent by the Li family were some bloody bone fragments stuck to the tentacles inside the Rock Horse armor.

The biomass cortex that fits the skin is covered with tens of thousands of tiny tentacles, densely packed like those of echinoderms such as starfish and sea urchins.

At this moment, it was still squirming, greedily absorbing every trace of remaining warm blood from the broken bones.

Xu Wanfeng had lived for several hundred years, but he had never seen anything like this, except for the deformed masses of flesh and blood contaminated by radiation in the remains of some cursed underground shelters...

I have never seen a ball of flesh wriggling under the scorching sun.

But in fact, as a biological colonial suit, the Rock Horse Armor and the Rock Horse Warrior who drives it share the same origin and carry a large number of Rock Horse genes.

And most importantly, the Rock Horse Armor does not have a complex brain structure and does not have self-awareness. Its behavior, apart from the driver's command and control, is basically based on the instinct of the living being.

That is the original consciousness of the cell, to survive.

Therefore, as a biological colonial armor, the Rock Horse Armor, although it is a living being, does not have autonomous capabilities unless a brain is installed on it later.

Or it may evolve gradually by itself as the evolutionary level increases.

But now, it is just a low-level life form following its survival instinct.

Just like viruses, in order to "reproduce", invade cells and deceive the core gene chain transcriptor, replicating themselves indiscriminately to expand indefinitely.

It’s just that the changes that occur at the micro level are difficult to accept from a macro perspective.

As Xu Wanfeng announced the result with a frown, the first ring competition ended in an extremely strange way.

The Rock Horse Warrior died, but the High Priest of the Church relied on the recovery ability of the Undead Holy Armor to successfully wear down his opponent to death.

At the moment the referee announced the result and the competition ended, Li Hao, the head of the Li family, who was among the crowd of onlookers, immediately led his members into the center of the arena and gathered around the broken Yanma armor.

Li Hao stood beside the armor that had lost its head, watching what was still happening inside, with his head down and silent.

A subordinate handed over the severed head.

After Li Hao took it, he immediately picked up the armor and turned it over.

After shaking a few times, blood-stained bones fell out from the gap in the head.

From ribs to vertebrae, from broken hips to thick thigh bones.

Finally, a pile of fresh bones was formed.

At this moment, everyone realized that the disappeared Rock Horse Armor was swallowed and digested alive by this level 20 Rock Horse Armor.

Seeing the pile of bones, Li Hao's face changed slightly, and then he pressed the head armor in his hand onto the broken neck.

The ligaments and muscles that had been severed were instantly re-bonded and reinforced under the activity of the biological colonization suit. The new muscles became thicker and grew a circle of hardened stratum corneum.

In the future, this substance will accumulate over time in the secretion of the rock wildebeest's evolutionary cells and gradually form new ceramic steel.

The armor in front of him seemed to possess higher intelligence, or survival instinct, forcing it to adapt to the dangerous environment and make faster responses.

The neck reinforcement measures that originally required more than ten generations of inheritance to evolve can now be compensated in time after only one injury.

Over time, as long as this suit of armor is not completely destroyed, it can continue to improve and evolve itself until it is able to deal with any threat.

This should be something to be happy about.

But Li Hao's silence and the frowning brows of the core senior executives nearby explained everything.

Because the upgrade and evolution of the armor consumes the lives of the drivers, the Rock Horse Warriors.

The contestant who was sent to wear the second-level armor and participate in this arena competition was originally the one in the Li family whose talent was second only to Li Mingquan.

If it weren't for winning the competition, he would definitely become a new second-level rock horse warrior and the backbone of the family in the future.

However, such a good seedling, the second-level successor that the family spent a lot of resources to promote, died in the hands of the Rock Horse Armor... Even Li Hao, as the guide of the Rock Horned Horse Path, felt a chill.

When he looked up at the others, he realized that the atmosphere was not right, and immediately spoke to comfort them:

"Don't worry, everyone. He's burning himself out, trying to win the match at his own expense. But if he stops in time after the outburst, surrenders directly, and exits the sublimated state, he won't make such a mistake."

"This is something I didn't expect. Perhaps it should serve as a warning to all contestants not to blindly believe in the power of sublimation."

"After all, this technology is still in the exploratory stage, and there are definitely some unknown side effects or sequelae. We must be extremely cautious when using it in the future."

Everyone nodded and followed the head of the family out.

But everyone's eyes were still fixed on the bloody armor, especially the contestant who was about to participate, whose face turned pale.

On the other side, inside the Oasis battleship, Lin Feng and the chief assistant were a little surprised to see the strange things happening on the field.

But Lin Feng's hesitation only lasted half a minute, and he already had a rough guess in his mind.

Because of his experience of fighting and sparring with Li Hao, Lin Feng was very clear about the flaws of the Rock Horse Armor. In addition to the most serious problem of insufficient burst, the second problem was that the inside of the armor would overheat during continuous high-intensity combat.

The rock wildebeest has a bio-photovoltaic panel on its back to circulate heat inside and outside the body, which is equivalent to an air-conditioning device that can cool down the body. Therefore, even if it runs hundreds of kilometers, its body temperature will not overheat.

Or they have evolved to the point where they can use the scorching solar energy that hangs in the sky for three days to meet the energy consumption of their daily activities.

It is equivalent to skipping the plant photosynthesis process and directly utilizing light energy.

In this way, you can avoid the harsh environment of the scorching sun and greatly reduce energy consumption. All the food you consume can be converted into flesh and blood.

The meat-to-ingredient ratio can even reach one to one.

Therefore, it can be regarded as the best breeding species.

However, an evolved species that is so adaptable to the wasteland environment is not necessarily the best material for armor.

The Rock Horse Armor pursues the ultimate defensive effect. In order to avoid flaws on the surface, the biological photovoltaic backplane on the raw material must not be transplanted.

Not to mention whether the short-term energy replenishment can keep up with the huge consumption during the fight between the evolvers.

The armor's back, which is less than two square meters, is completely unable to provide sufficient energy, unless it has dozens of square meters of back space like the patriarch-level rock horse behemoth of the same level.

Therefore, in order to meet the consumption of high-intensity combat, the Rock Horse Armor, which has lost its photovoltaic power supply, can only absorb and utilize raw materials with higher energy density.

For example, the evolved meat of other rockhorn horns.

But just doing this would not have caused the bizarre tragedy that we see before us.

In normal combat, if the energy is insufficient, the armor will definitely stagnate first, reduce energy consumption, or directly crash and enter sleep mode.

Just like a brown bear hibernating.

But if it is kept in an absolutely excited state, maintaining a strong energy, wanting to grow as quickly as possible, multiplying and dividing new tissues...

Then the Rock Horse Armor's energy demand will not be stopped just because its reserve energy is exhausted.

Falling into madness, it will do anything to satisfy its own expansion and performance.

Even if it dissolves its own low-level cells, it continues to nourish itself by devouring their corpses.

This type of self-phagy will only start from the lowest level of evolutionary cells.

In order to ensure its strength, a considerable portion of the Rock Horse Armor's body contains evolved cells of the same level.

And it and the driver as a whole...

The priority target is naturally the incompletely evolved internal driver.

When Lin Feng first learned about the Rock Horse Armor, he felt that this biological armor was too dangerous. Although it was more resistant to attacks and had stronger self-repair capabilities than mechanical devices...

But it is also more difficult to control.

After all, no matter how obedient flesh and blood tissue is, when it feels pain or cell death, it will still instinctively take measures to survive.

For example, it would automatically retreat when attacked, or, like the extreme hunger in front of us, begin to digest the driver.

Lin Feng sighed softly and said slowly:

"It seems that the sublimation potion is not that safe and stable. The stimulation is more effective on the armor, but it also comes with greater risks."

"If everyone behaves like this, the church won't have to worry about Life Farm causing any trouble..."

"After all, it's a one-time opportunity. If we let it go for a while, the Rock Horse Warrior will collapse on its own and die from the plunder of the armor."

After hearing Lin Feng's analysis, the chief acolyte did not nod in agreement, but replied with a frown:

"We were wrong..."

"Life Farm doesn't want to make up for the flaws in the Rockhorn Horse's evolutionary pathway, nor does it want to use the Rockhorn Warriors to complete its own plans."

"Instead, they used the Rock Horse Armor as bait, turning the Rock Horse warriors into test subjects and consumables for the armor."

"This is how we cultivate a set of biological armor that is invincible in its class, constantly upgrading and evolving it at the cost of the Devourer."

"Until it can transform into an invincible life-like organism, even rivaling a third-level king."

At this point, the chief deacon swallowed his saliva.

"This line of thinking actually stems from the fact that some deacons and priests in the church who were engaged in scientific research conducted similar experiments in the past. They intended to develop holy armor that was more responsive to life forms, thereby unleashing the full potential of the Holy Spring cells."

"But you've seen the end result."

"The product of this project was called Bio-Magic Armor, a creature that broke through genetic limitations. It was immediately halted and sealed, becoming a taboo."

"Life Farm is playing with fire and getting burned by doing this."

"Sooner or later, you will pay the price."

Lin Feng nodded, agreeing with it.

On the ring, the subsequent battle took place soon.

However, the person sent was an evolved priest of level 18, whose strength was not very strong. Even with the blessing of the Wasteland Wolf Path, he could not withstand the Rock Horse Warrior in the explosive state.

Although they lost the game in the end, they also paid a huge price.

Lin Feng is no longer very interested in these things.

He knew very well that the church had the intention to lose the game on purpose and sent out the transformed wild wolf warriors, more to
Collect data on Rock Horse Warriors.

In order to prepare for the decisive battle later.

So Lin Feng came on board as the High Priest in the third game, won the match, and then left the control room.

He returned to the church area and immediately received the news.

Li Mingquan, who is in charge of Oasis on behalf of the Li family, has an urgent invitation.

Even willing to trade for second-level evolutionary meat.

(End of this chapter)