End of the World: My Items Can Be Upgraded Infinitely.

Chapter 138: War Change, Respectability, and Ranks
Lin Feng was not surprised at all by the Thirteenth Division's visit. After all, today's invincible fleet had put on a wonderful show in the East District of Wucheng...

Anyone can see that.

Lin Feng has grown to the point where he can defeat a thousand enemies alone.

A company of only a hundred men was more courageous than the more than ten thousand soldiers who entrenched their defense line.

Just the fact that he took the initiative was unmatched.

But what Lin Feng didn't expect was that the top leaders of the 13th Division would be here in person.

It must be no ordinary thing to make them put down their airs and take the initiative to come to me, a small sergeant major.

Maybe Qin Hu said something to them.

Change these people's minds and perspectives.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng's mouth curled up slightly. He turned and walked into the rest building, leaving the problem to Li Ran.

As the supreme commander of this invincible fleet, there was no need for him to speak first.

Especially now, others still need his help.

The senior members of the Thirteenth Division who were stopped at the entrance of the service area were all first-order awakeners, and many of them had already entered the late stage of the first order. Naturally, they noticed Lin Feng, who was dressed obviously differently, and deliberately ignored and snubbed them...

He pretended to be nonchalant and walked into the building.

Several young colonels and lieutenant colonels felt angry.

Fortunately, the top executives calmed them down with a look, and then smiled and said to Li Ran:
"We have something urgent to discuss with Sergeant Lin."

Li Ran frowned slightly, looking at the soldier holding up the shotgun behind him, feeling a bit awkward, and could only try to calm down:

"I have sent someone to notify them. It is late at night now. If the sergeant is willing to come out to negotiate, he will naturally let them go."

Then he looked at his own soldiers behind him and asked them to lower their guns first.

Li Ran was well aware of their anger towards the 13th Division. As a new recruit, he had no feelings for the division headquarters. At most, he listened to a few speeches and was then pulled to the front line.

When we first entered the outpost base, there were not even a few enhanced people, which was no different from sending them to their deaths.

The current progress and growth are all due to the leadership of their Chief Sergeant, Lin Feng.

As for the battle at the outpost base, if it weren't for the 13th Division, which ordered the use of ground-penetrating missiles to attack the fortress, they wouldn't have to escape death and take the risk of rushing out of the base and then being surrounded and blocked by the Zerg.

Just a little bit and he would have been eaten by the insect.

After being repeatedly betrayed by the Thirteenth Division, hatred naturally arose.

If Li Ran hadn't come here in advance to ease the situation and prevent the tense atmosphere between the two sides from getting worse...

It is very likely that an accidental discharge of a gun would cause the top leaders of the 13th Division to be unexpectedly wiped out.

At this moment, under Li Ran's repeated orders, the new recruits finally made concessions and dispersed one after another. They stayed at a distance and stared fiercely at this group of high-ranking officials who were "cowardly and afraid of death" in their eyes.

Only a few old soldiers were left guarding the entrance of the camp.

Upon seeing this, the senior leaders of the Thirteenth Division also asked the first-stage late awakeners who were serving as guards behind them to return to the car, and then found Li Ran alone and started a conversation.

The teacher took out a pack of cigarettes from his belt.

Seeing his former highest commander offering him a cigarette, Li Ran, whose highest military rank was only captain, was somewhat flattered and took it with both hands.

Of course, he knew very well that he could be in such a situation thanks to the team that Lin Feng had assembled.

The teacher took a long puff of his cigarette and gave a bitter smile.

In fact, since the outbreak of the anti-invasion war, they have been wary of those enhanced humans. The significant improvement in their physical fitness has enabled them to possess combat capabilities far beyond ordinary people. Every enhanced human above level seven is equivalent to a soldier selected from thousands of miles away, and is even stronger in terms of physical strength.

A team of enhanced humans can easily kill an army that is several times larger than their own.

While waiting for the awakener to appear, super powers will be born, which will completely change the standard of status within the organization.

Because the Awakeners are so strong, although in the eyes of the Zerg, they may still be a little weak and find it difficult to fight against Zerg of the same level.

But for the awakened ones, killing ordinary people of their own kind is just a piece of cake.

Tons of explosive power, speed as fast as a flying car, and the blessing of superpowers make each of these awakened people comparable to the little superman in movies and TV shows.

Moreover, most of them are low-level officers or soldiers who are on the front line.

This will have a serious impact on the command structure within the division, and these senior positions will be in jeopardy.

Therefore, they adopted a centralized approach, formed a large camp of awakeners, and then used coercion and inducement to promote Major Qin Hu, who was loyal to the top leaders, in order to cause internal division among the awakeners.

This ensures that the division's command orders can be resolutely implemented.

The root cause of all this is that these newly awakened people do not have the ability to control the overall situation, and do not know how to win the war.

Their command capabilities are limited to a local war, which may be to kill a few black-backed beetles, or to command a squad or a platoon.

If they were allowed to seize the command of the entire division, the already stretched defensive battle would only lead to a faster defeat due to the chaos in the command system...

They were even unable to hold on until the end of the Jincheng evacuation, which ultimately led to the failure of their strategic goals.

This is also the situation that the top leaders of the 13th Division have been avoiding, and they have used it to convince a group of awakened people who understand the overall situation to stand on the side of the division.

But now, with the sudden rise of Lin Feng, the real power of the awakened ones has been demonstrated. They are able to block the Zerg army alone, and can even take the initiative to suppress and repel the Queen Mother's offensive and recapture the occupied land...

This also means that the original reason for needing a command center to regulate and command the entire front line has lost its legal and reasonable basis.

The main force on the battlefield no longer needs to be measured by the number of people. Just like the newly hatched second-level Zerg by the Queen Mother, an elite team of a dozen or so can easily break through the fortifications built by humans and tear open the defense line.

In today's victory over the Zerg, not a single shot was fired on the entire line of defense. The convoy led by Lin Feng, with more than a hundred members, easily won the victory.

According to what Qin Hu said after his return, Lin Feng's real ability is synthesis, which allows him to synthesize any object he wants without limit, and he can also add Zerg biological materials to the synthesized objects...

The red armor developed by the military factory in the rear area originated from the back shell of the red beetle and originally came from Lin Feng's hands.

And now, the warships, chariots, and even the higher-level armor worn by the soldiers in the team he led, as well as the shotguns in their hands with a caliber as big as a fist, were all synthesized from Lin Feng's supernatural powers.

Of course, such a huge consumption is inseparable from the plundering of the Zerg's life energy. Although Lin Feng has never explained the principle of infinite ammunition, Li Ran also told Qin Hu about this speculation.

Energy does not appear out of thin air, and the same is true for any supernatural power, no matter how strange or bizarre it is.

The senior members of the Thirteenth Division, who had learned the truth from Qin Hu, naturally knew that they no longer had any conditions for cooperation that would attract Lin Feng.

An awakened being who can solve his own weapons, equipment, and logistics problems, and at the same time possesses the powerful strength to fight against a queen and her Zerg army alone...

In the insect-man war initiated by Lin Feng, the command ability of the top leaders was no longer needed. Instead, the logistics troops who helped him clean up the battlefield and collect materials were more urgent than the front-line personnel.

The strength and growth rate of the awakened ones far exceeded everyone's expectations.

The adventure into the insect nest and seeing Lin Feng's strength made Qin Hu change his old ideas...

It turns out that the war against the Zerg can be easily won with just a group of powerful awakened ones.

The traditional army of tens of thousands of people once faced the Zerg's rolling tide, but in the end they were defeated step by step. Now, as long as they can give him 500 second-level gene warriors...

No, with just two hundred fully armed second-level genetic warriors, Qin Hu can directly kill into the heart of the Zerg, attack the underground Zerg nest, and wipe out the past decline.

That's why Qin Hu had to rush to the Federation to promote the institute's biological transformation plan, to help mankind win a glimmer of hope before the Zerg develops and hatches a large number of warrior hunting insects and completely changes the future battlefield ecology.

This will be a technological change in the evolution of warfare.

Just like hundreds of years ago, the emergence of flintlock rifles took only a dozen years to completely replace the knights and armored soldiers who dominated the feudal era...

Genetic warriors represent the advanced version of the awakened ones. Although they are not as abnormal as Lin Feng, they can maximize the war potential of mankind.

It has replicable popularity.

Lin Feng is strong, but he can only change the situation in one area, and cannot save all of humanity. However, the popularization of biological transformation technology can save thousands of kilometers of battle lines from collapse. At present, the top leaders of the Thirteenth Division, who represent the old era and the old forces, are about to unload their burdens.

Under Qin Hu's persuasion, they will...

Leaving the stage that once belonged to you.

It was late at night and everything was quiet.

Li Ran held the cigarette between his fingers, without taking a puff, as it burned quietly and he listened.

Staring at the teacher in front of him, as he smoked one cigarette after another and narrated the story, Li Ran saw that the towering figure that had experienced the war was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Without this set of clothes, he is just an old man in his sixties. Even the physical enhancement brought by the awakening cannot reverse the erosion of time.

"I am old, and times have changed..."

After the draw, the teacher took a deep breath, patted Li Ran on the shoulder, looked at the young people behind him who were staring at him silently with bright eyes, and said:

"From now on, it's up to you guys."

After that, a young soldier hurried over and informed Li Ran that the sergeant agreed to meet with the top leaders of the 13th Division.

The head teacher smiled, patted his clothes, adjusted his bow tie and epaulettes, and followed Li Ran into the depths of the camp with several senior commanders of the division.

I came to an office meeting in the rest building and finally met the sergeant I had been thinking about for a long time.

This was the first time the two met.

As the supreme commander of their respective teams.

It was unexpected that two people who once had a huge gap in strength and status would meet in this way, but everyone felt that it was very reasonable.

In the eyes of the teacher...

To be honest, the young man sitting at the long table in front of me is a little too young.

At the age of just over 20, he was able to use his own special abilities to grow to this point in just one and a half months. He did not rely on any outside help or official cooperation, but relied on his own efforts to awaken the insect killer...

Lin Feng's growth is not only due to the extremely high potential of his own supernatural powers, but also due to his own perseverance.

As long as he wanted, he could escape from Haicheng and stay away from the dangerous battlefield on the front line, return to the safe area in the rear, find the official to cooperate, and from then on, he only needed to cooperate with production and research and development, and he could have a high position and rest assured for the rest of his life...

But he chose the most difficult, yet also the most free and independent path.

Facing the insect horde alone, he completed his supernatural powers and quickly upgraded his own level to awaken.

He has become the most powerful awakener in terms of war power in the entire federation.

The teacher took a deep breath and said:

"The blocking mission of the Wucheng Battle is almost over."

Lin Feng frowned. The supreme commander of the 13th Division in front of him seemed to be playing by unconventional means.

But it doesn’t matter whether they retreat or not now. After today’s battle, Lin Feng is confident that he can curb the advance of the Queen Mother of Haicheng with just the fleet.

The earlier the 13th Division withdrew, the less we would have to worry about doing the same thing as the first line of defense, which would have directly aided the enemy and resulted in casualties.

If the Queen Mother of Haicheng takes one more step...

Lin Feng was not sure either, so he continued to hold on.

Seeing that the young man was unmoved, the teacher continued:

"We have run out of ammunition and food. The remaining supplies cannot support so many people to reach the safe zone thousands of kilometers away, let alone take all the soldiers away."

Speaking of this, Lin Feng's expression changed slightly:

"Then you should split up and go your separate ways. Qin Hu has already mentioned this to me, so what?"

The teacher crossed his hands and replied in a deep voice:

"This was the previous plan. After all, the logistics supply has been basically cut off since Jincheng Industry withdrew. The original full strength was 15,000, but now it has been expanded to 40,000. The fall of the first line of defense resulted in a loss of more than 10,000. Now the entire division has 30,000 people..."

Lin Feng took a deep breath. When he was expanding the team, he just thought that the more people the better. He never thought that it would become a huge problem that could not be solved.

Thirty thousand enhanced people and awakened ones...

Not to mention weapons, just to feed these 30,000 mouths, three tons of food would be needed a day.

The appetite of an awakened person is several times that of an ordinary person. Just for resting every day, they will eat one kilogram of military rations, and even more when participating in battles.

But if we let them go like this and they enter the rear urban areas in droves, it will undoubtedly be a disaster for the survivors who have not yet migrated away.

Moreover, after leaving the battlefield, it is still unclear whether these new recruits who have just acquired super powers still have the courage and determination to once again step onto the battlefield to fight against the Zerg invasion.

An ordinary person who gains powerful abilities but lives in the end times with material scarcity will most likely become a villain who will do anything to achieve his goals.

Once they are allowed to enter the safe zone or sneak into the refugee camps outside the city, the disruption to the existing order will be no less than a major self-explosion, greatly weakening the productivity of the safe zone.

The division's previous plan was to take away all the mid-to-late stage first-level awakeners, approximately more than 10,000 people, and let the rest of the early-stage awakeners and enhanced people leave.

This can at least ensure that the absolute combat effectiveness is intact.

But the appearance of Lin Feng now gave the teacher another possibility.

The sudden appearance of this young man and his powerful fleet easily defeated the Zerg.

Now, there are already many new recruits within the 13th Division, especially in the second line of defense, who are privately discussing how to join Lin Feng's team.

After all, as a legendary figure in the Battle of Wucheng, Lin Feng's repeated victories and successes have already made him famous since the Haicheng containment battle.

One side is passively defending and getting beaten, while the other side is actively attacking and killing. Everyone knows which choice to make.

Once such ideas and intentions take root and spread widely, large-scale desertion and rebellion of the lower-level soldiers of the 13th Division will be inevitable.

However, strangely, when the supervision team reported the situation to the division headquarters in the rear, the command headquarters rarely gave any response.

The only thing is that the teachers privately suggested not to stop the spread of this kind of thought and emotion.

…………

Now, in the dead of night, in the conference room, under the dim lights, the teacher explained the interests involved to the young people in front of him.

Lin Feng already understood what he meant.

This was a development he had never anticipated.

He was silent.

Looking at the general in front of him, he turned into an old man:

"So, after we take away 10,000 awakened people, there are still 15,000 people left... I hope you can take over."

"Once we return to the safe zone, we will most likely be stripped of our numbers and mixed into other teams, and the Thirteenth Division will become history."

"This is the unit I personally led. I watched it grow step by step into the ace of the Federation..."

"Its fate should not end with a defeat. I hope you can lead it to another peak."

"if you are willing to……"

"From now on, it's yours."

As he spoke, under Lin Feng's gaze, the teacher slowly took off his military rank and placed it on the table...

(End of this chapter)