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

Chapter 176 Super Firepower, Experience Summary, Love

The dreadnought was lying on its side, with its four turrets all pointing towards the target, and an epoch-making roar emanated from its ten huge cannons.

The powerful recoil caused the battleship to tilt slightly, but compared with the total weight of the entire ship structure weighing 20,000 tons, it was no more than a mayfly trying to shake a tree and was not worth mentioning.

In fact, the most powerful part of the dreadnought battleship is not the ten dreadnought cannons that provide super firepower, but the power system hidden inside it.

Being able to propel a 20,000-ton steel behemoth, sail on dry land, and gallop across the battlefield, this powerful kinetic energy is the truly epoch-making technology of the dreadnought.

The total weight of ocean battleships of the same level is less than 10,000 tons, and the dreadnought is more than twice that, which is why it can suppress the impact of a salvo of ten giant cannons.

After one round of bombardment, the next round of shells is loaded again. Shells weighing up to one ton are automatically loaded in, ready to go, waiting for instructions.

The launch button was in Chen Yanyan's hand and she continued to press it.

Although the panel shows that the firing rate reaches one shot per second, considering the influence of various factors in reality, such as the locking deviation caused by recoil and the need to re-aim, it is difficult to achieve the ideal optimal state.

Chen Yanyan estimated...

The actual firing rate is about one round every two seconds, and a one-ton cannon with a damage of 390 can fire thirty rounds in one minute.

There are ten gates in total, which means three hundred pieces!

Directly covering one square kilometer with tens of thousands of Zerg.

The force of the attack on the insect swarm far exceeds that of the fifteen tank replicas on the front line.

As the salvo of shells streaked across the sky, they hit the rolling tide of insects in front of the human warrior formation with great accuracy from behind the first line of defense five kilometers away in the rear.

The heat wave shock wave generated by the explosion even affected the soldiers one kilometer in front of the insect nest, making them grimace in fear.

The long-range covering fire strike lasted for more than a minute. Mushroom clouds of dust gathered into a large yellow and black dust storm area, covering the earth.

Even though there were a few second-level tiger-backed worms that survived the smoke and dust storm, they were already seriously injured and were struggling on the verge of death.

Then the second-level regiment hidden in the team, armed with shotguns, completed the final harvest.

One tenth of the Zerg of the Queen Mother of Haicheng was directly wiped out by this wave of covering attack.

Adding the two groups of elite second-order Zerg that died the day before yesterday, the loss is huge.

Even though the Queen Mother of Haicheng has accumulated thousands of second-order tiger-spine worms, she still feels painful when faced with the huge losses at this moment.

So when the smoke cleared, the suburbs of Haicheng turned into black scorched earth, and no insects could be seen anymore.

Even the red beetles, which are the most numerous and widely distributed, disappeared without a trace.

Under the order of the Queen Mother of Haicheng, they all hid deep in the underground wormholes and refused to come out.

Seeing this, Chen Yanyan ordered the frontline soldiers to start cleaning up the battlefield and not advance any further.

Because according to the detection of life radar, the underground of the Haicheng suburbs ahead has been dug deep into the ground by the Zerg, and a large number of stacked mother nests have been dug out.

Among them are many life sources of the second-order Zerg.

If the dreadnought goes deep into the enemy's territory, it will easily be harassed by the second-level Zerg in close combat, and will not be able to take care of the soldiers on the front line, ultimately causing unnecessary losses.

Although actual combat training is actual combat, it is not a real decisive battle. Its main purpose is to allow all soldiers to quickly grow into first-level awakeners and reach the basic standards for participating in the war.

By relying on the long-range support of the dreadnought, the crisis of suffering heavy damage can be eliminated and actual combat can be turned into routine training.

In the past, the fleet was only capable of guerrilla warfare, and could not achieve infantry-tank coordination. Each batch could only train 150 new recruits, and if they encountered dozens of second-order Zergs, they had to evacuate in advance...

Now, with the powerful firepower of the dreadnought, it is entirely possible to carry out practical training for all personnel.

This will allow the recruits to quickly accumulate experience and overcome their psychological fear of close combat with the Zerg, allowing them to grow up quickly and have sufficient psychological preparation and practical experience to participate in the final battle.

Today's large-scale practical training is like a mock exam, and the final battle is the graduation exam.

Once you pass it successfully and survive...

They will become elite forces that can stand on their own.

As for now, every soldier is eager to become stronger, even the members of the second-level regiment, want to kill more second-level Zergs before the decisive battle to further improve their strength.

Strength is the basis for killing the enemy and the guarantee of survival!
The dreadnought's first battle, the first large-scale training of the combatants, ended in the annihilation of the Zerg.

Big win.

However, watching the soldiers throwing the remains of black-backed worms and tiger-backed worms into the storage space hatch at the rear of the dreadnought, Chen Yanyan found through statistics that nearly a quarter of the worm corpses were missing.

Especially the second-order tiger spine worms, there were about 130 to 140 of them in the observation statistics, but only less than 100 were finally recovered.

This means that more than one-third of the tiger-spine worms successfully survived the bombing of the dreadnought.

Chen Yanyan recalled the previous battle process and found that the actual firing rate of the super firepower was too slow, which led to the second half of the bombing more than 30 seconds later. This allowed the remaining half of the Zerg in the Zerg tide to react, seize the gap between the artillery bombardment, drill into the wormhole in advance, and hide underground.

The Zerg are not like the zombies in science fiction movies. They will not stand still and allow you to bombard them.

Especially with the Queen Mother's control, her reaction speed is actually not slow. At least she can avoid a large amount of the subsequent firepower coverage of the dreadnought.

It seems that the first round of salvos in the future will need to switch to pulse electromagnetic gun mode, firing magnetic storm bombs to first paralyze the insect swarm with electric therapy, and then use traditional gunpowder shells with a faster firing rate to cover and harvest.

The significance of actual combat training is to find out the gaps, identify the problems, solve them and thus summarize a better combat mode.

And these will also become important factors affecting the success or failure of the decisive battle.

The first battle was a victory. After cleaning up the battlefield in the afternoon, everyone returned to the camp and celebrated.

When they were conducting actual combat training, Lin Feng did not follow them. The commander of the entire battle was Chen Yanyan, and the front line was in charge of the regiment commander and each captain.

He needs to trust Chen Yanyan's ability. During the future decisive battle, he will lead the second-level army deep into the underground insect nest and will have no time to take care of the surface combat situation.

So this afternoon, Lin Feng and Long Yi were carrying out purification treatment on Zhang Liying.

Shen Jie accompanied her out of the teacher's apartment and performed the operation in an experimental research building.

Using more than ten tons of fish meat and a second-level insect egg, Lingyi melted and multiplied a fleshy biological nest in a clean laboratory.

It is only half the size of a classroom.

Under the control of the dragonfly, the small biological nest grew many fleshy tentacles and blood vessels, connecting to the second-order insect eggs.

Then the organic soup inside the eggs gradually entered a semi-solidified state, and the volume of the entire egg expanded several times, changing from a long oval shape to an egg shape.

Zhang Liying did not see this scene. As the Queen Mother's incarnation, the fewer people who knew about Lingyi's identity, the better.

When everything was ready, Zhang Liying walked into the secret laboratory with Shen Jie holding her on her shoulders. When she saw the wriggling red and white mountain of flesh and the second-level insect eggs it was linked to, her face turned pale on the spot.

The characteristics of the Zerg also unconsciously appeared on his body.

Fangs and spikes grow from the gaps in the shell.

This is the instinctive process by which the tissues in an organism automatically enter a state of alert after sensing a threat.

Shen Jie withdrew his hand silently. Because he was with Zhang Liying and was not on guard, his palm and arm that were holding her shoulders were also pierced by the sharp thorns of the fangs.

After a few drops of blood flowed out, it quickly healed itself.

Zhang Liying caught a glimpse of the blood on Shen Jie's arm, and a look of guilt emerged on her face. At the same time, she also felt deeply disgusted with the insect armor on her body.

Shen Jie quickly comforted him:
"Okay, this little injury is nothing."

"You see, I completely stripped away the Zerg characteristics from that, and even restored the genetically assimilated tissues inside my body to their original state."

"This is the Zerg biotechnology we found when we entered the underground Zerg nest. This researcher Ling is an expert in Zerg research. She was the one who pulled me back from the brink of death. Removing the Zerg armor on my body is just a side effect."

"Go ahead, I'll wait here."

Zhang Liying took a deep breath and nodded.

Shen Jie had already told her these things in advance, which was why she walked out of the room and went outdoors.

Taking advantage of the fact that all the soldiers in the camp rushed to the battlefield in the afternoon, they came here under the leadership of Shen Jie.

After mustering up her courage, Zhang Liying walked towards the second-level insect eggs, stepped on the desk, and stood in front of the insect eggs. There was a hole with a diameter of 40 centimeters reserved on it, and she could just jump in.

Zhang Liying's body trembled slightly:
"Do you want to...take off your clothes?"

The scorpion nodded slightly:
"It's okay not to take it off. It will be more effective if you take it off, and the surgery will also take less time."

Zhang Liying swallowed and began to unbutton her coat.

Lin Feng wanted to turn around and leave, but was stopped by Shen Jie:

"Her entire body has been covered in insect armor. Brother Feng, you are here, and everyone feels at ease."

Lin Feng smiled awkwardly and stopped.

When Zhang Liying took off her coat, her entire body from head to toe was covered with a layer of black and yellow hard beetle armor, even spreading to the top of her head and the back of her head. Except for a little bangs left on her forehead, all the hair on other parts of her head had fallen out.

The assimilation of Zerg genes directly destroyed her scalp, wiping out the hair follicle tissue.

The hard shell covered the head, turning the once graceful girl into a insect monster.

It is no wonder that Zhang Liying's temperament changed drastically and she even fell into the abyss of self-consumption.

These changes don't matter if they happen to men. Some young people with a second-year syndrome might even find a man wearing biological armor all over his body inexplicably handsome.

As for hair and other things, they are not as important as strength.

But for women, especially young girls who are not well-versed in the world, the psychological impact of this ugly change is enough to cause irreparable harm.

But in the eyes of the cicada, what he saw was more detailed.

Judging from the quality of the insect armor on Zhang Liying's body and her weak aura, her condition was not just poor as Shen Jie described, but very bad.

"Wait!" Long Yi's voice suddenly came out before the girl was about to step out with her feet covered with insect barbs.

The other three turned their eyes to her.

Long Yi frowned slightly and stopped the girl's action:

"In her current condition, she won't be able to survive the surgery."

"The energy of this amount of tissue is only enough to peel off the insect armor on her body, but it cannot repair her serious injuries..."

"Injury?!" Shen Jie asked puzzledly:

"She stays indoors and has never participated in frontline combat. How could she be injured?"

Long sighed, and without further ado, he looked at the slightly agitated Shen Jie, and pointed at the trembling girl on the desk:
"See... Look carefully, you men are just too careless."

"Didn't you notice that the Zerg scales on her body are not of the same color and luster? Even when shedding their shells, they were all molting at the same time. Those scales that have faded in color must have been plucked out by her own hands..."

"Even the skin and meat..."

At this point, Ling Yi realized belatedly and said:
"I was wondering why her assimilation speed was so fast, it turns out it was because of this..."

"Little sister, haven't you learned that harmful stimulation will speed up the repair and proliferation of cells? You know, that's how muscles are built."

"You've been doing this secretly before, so it's no wonder they've spread to your head in just a few days."

"Enough! Stop talking!" Lin Feng interrupted Ling Yi's mumbling and continued:
“Let’s get to the point. How can we solve the problem now? We need more biomass?”

Lingyi shrugged:

"This is easy to solve. We just need another seven or eight tons of fresh fish meat and add it to the biological mother nest. We can restore her to her best condition first and then perform tissue stripping."

"But it just took a little longer. The surgery, which was supposed to take less than an hour, now takes two hours."

Lin Feng nodded and patted Shen Jie on the shoulder:

"It's not a big problem. I'll ask Li Ran to make the arrangements."

Shen Jie nodded silently, and then he saw Zhang Liying hugging her left arm with her right hand, sobbing quietly.

He then walked forward, picked her up, and held her tightly in his arms.

Long Yi watched with great interest, staring at Shen Jie with a playful smile:

"You guys do your thing, don't worry, I'll just watch from here."

"Hey, just pretend I don't exist."

Much of human unpredictability stems from the complexity of emotions, and the most complex of these is the romantic relationship between men and women.

The behavior of forming a partner is, in most cases, the result of genetic inheritance. The first task of life's evolution is to overcome the instinct of genes in the body that often affects individual judgment in order to continue.

What Longyi wants to learn is how to find other influencing factors in humans besides genes.

For example, moral concepts of good and evil, or what humans call love at first sight.

In this way, he can perfect his own emotional theory and form and maintain a long-term and good partnership with Lin Feng.

Looking at all types of human relationships, there is only one kind of emotion that can be acquired after birth and affect one's life.

That is love.

So what Long Yi said before, actually had another plan, it was all for the purpose of witnessing and observing the emotional changes of Shen Jie and the other person at this moment, and collecting template data.

The data requires a lot of experiments to obtain.

In the Thirteenth Division, apart from the couple Lin Feng and Chen Yanyan, there is only Zhang Liying, a female human.

Therefore, Long Yi had actually focused his attention on Zhang Liying a long time ago, and the subsequent series of changes were also under her guidance and control.

With the foundation of a third-order life form, Lingyi might need to start from scratch in terms of emotional cognition, but when it comes to planning and layout, he is not bad at all.

Especially before she was transformed into a war machine, she was originally an advanced Zerg responsible for scientific research.

Unfortunately, the sense of shame that was born in humans under the influence of civilization brought this emotional experiment to a hasty end.

After a simple kiss...

Zhang Liying turned her head away with a red face in embarrassment, causing Shen Jie to glare at her fiercely. The latter just shrugged angrily, shook his head, and sighed with regret.

Shen Jie was so angry that his fists clenched.

However, when he thought that he still had to rely on the other party to cure Zhang Liying, he suppressed his anger.

Not long after, Lin Feng rushed back, bringing with him a team of auxiliary soldiers, carrying fresh live fish and placing them in the corridor.

After dismissing everyone, he and Shen Jie moved the live fish into the laboratory and poured them into the cracked mouth of the biological mother nest.

Zhang Liying was not afraid this time. She directly drilled into the modified second-level insect egg. As the hole was sealed and closed, she gradually fell into a coma.

The transformation went exceptionally smoothly.

With the full concentration of Long Yi, it only took one and a half hours for the insect-man monster that was originally covered with insect armor to turn back into a graceful eighteen-year-old girl.

After Shen Jie wrapped her in a bath towel and picked up the refreshed Zhang Liying, they left the laboratory. Lin Feng looked at the remaining insect shell fragments on the ground and asked Ling Yi, who was watching them leave:
"Are you interested in..."

Longyi pinched his brows, and suddenly his legs went weak, and he collapsed into Lin Feng's arms:
"It's already troublesome enough to deal with this one, and you still want me to be your logistics nanny?"

"Of course, it's not impossible, but we have to clearly mark the price and give me both physical and mental compensation..."

Lin Feng twitched his lips:
"What are you thinking? Zhang Liying's case is just an isolated case. What I want to say is..."

Looking expressionlessly at the affectionate Ling Yi in his arms, Lin Feng continued:

"Can you mass-produce the membrane wings of the blue-winged insects, or the dorsal membrane wings of the second-order wind-winged insects?"

"It's the green carapace that was peeled off from Zhang Liying..."

“They’re of great use to me!”

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