Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 32 Optimization, Eagle Breeding, Wolf Leader
"Brother Lin is right. We need a direction, not just aimless searching."

Li Hu, who was standing by, drank half a bottle of water and agreed:
"The wolf pack's range of activity is within this twenty-kilometer radius, from the Fiery Sun Forbidden Zone in the back to the ten-kilometer radius in front of Oasis Town. Wherever the desolate people gather, there may be a wolf pack..."

"With such a large area, even if we run ourselves ragged, we still wouldn't be able to find the wolves in a week. Our condition will only get worse as time goes on, while the wolves can recover and even become stronger by hunting the desolate people."

The Fiery Sun Forbidden Zone is the rear, the area illuminated by the giant sun. The ground temperature is as high as sixty or seventy degrees, and almost no large creatures can survive.

Only some tiny insects or fungi and bacteria can survive and hibernate underground.

Lin Feng nodded and looked at the team behind Li Hu.

The two sides met up not long ago and had been circling around in front of Oasis Town for three or four hours. By dinner time, they had found nothing and had to stop to rest.

I just found a group of wastelanders along the way and asked about the situation nearby. I learned that the rumors about the Gray Reaper originated from the crazy crimes committed by the wasteland wolves.

And because of the influence of the rumors, many groups of barbarians gathered together during their rest periods to encourage each other.

Li Hu's team was the same as Shengquan's a few days ago, with an iron cart and a modified three-wheeled vehicle for hauling goods.

There were only twelve team members left. Apart from him and A-Lian, four of the remaining ten were late-stage enhanced people of level seven or eight, and the remaining six were all in the middle stage.

In addition, there are the six slaves lying on the cart. Once the traces of the wolf pack are discovered, these people will come down to act as bait to attract the wolves and cover the attack of everyone.

Half a day passed quietly, and then it was time to rest between day and night.

Most of the barbarians would stop at this time, collect nearby grass roots or reptiles, replenish their energy, rest until the next day, and then continue on their way.

At that time, the oasis in the rear also happened to migrate here.

This was a day for most of the wastelanders' team. However, for Chen Shanshan and her group at the beginning, they were short of supplies and had a burden like Lin Feng, which caused them to fall behind and gradually fall behind.

Every day he was threatened by the forbidden zone of the scorching sun behind him.

Hungry, thirsty, and exhausted.

If you rest for too long and stop moving forward, you will be cooked into a mellow by the scorching sun behind you.

Therefore, the rear area of ​​the oasis is usually sparsely populated, with only some groups of savages stopping to rest during the day and night, and wolves generally do not appear there.

The best time to hunt is actually now.

After walking more than 20 kilometers on foot during the day and a long journey of more than ten hours, most of the refugees were exhausted and had to disperse to collect food.

It was a good opportunity for the wolves to launch an attack.

Sure enough, not long after everyone finished discussing, the flock of death-eating vultures above their heads began to gather in one direction.

Lin Feng ate the remaining wolf meat in his hand and slowly stood up:
"Let's go. If we have time, we might be able to catch up."

Chen Shanshan and Li Hu, who also noticed the strange phenomenon in the sky, nodded and returned to their respective teams.

Setting off again, Lin Feng asked Liu Mingfei to replace Chen Shanshan in pedaling the armored tricycle so that Chen Shanshan could get enough rest.

Li Hu next to him did the same. He sat on the tricycle and began to conserve his energy and maintain the best combat condition.

On the way here, Lin Feng had already informed the team members of the battle plan.

Chen Shanshan has the ability of perception and chooses her opponents on her own. The other four people, including Jiang Zhuo who is still recovering, are responsible for lifting four hundred-kilogram shields and forming a square formation to protect Lin Feng in the middle.

Then he took on the role of fire output in the team and provided long-range support.

This is what happens when you take the initiative to attack against a pack of wolves.

Once the wolf pack was defeated and fled in all directions, Lin Feng and Chen Shanshan took the initiative to attack and hunt down the ninth-level wasteland wolves, while Liu Mingfei led the remaining three people to snatch the wolf corpses.

This is also the material required for this mission.

Liu Mingfei, who is not good at fighting, only needs to do his best, and the fighting and chasing will be left to the experienced Chen Shanshan and the powerful firepower Lin Feng.

On the way, in the three-wheeled carriage, Liu Qian's ears were filled with the vivid descriptions of the barbarians.

More than ten groups of savages have been wiped out by the Gray Grim Reaper's scythe.

And the scene of being stared at by a dozen ferocious-looking prairie wolves when leaving the wildebeest hunting site that day kept appearing in Liu Qian's mind.

She had never thought that she would also have to participate in the battle, especially when Lin Feng proposed that she and Ding Yi, two women, be responsible for protecting him, a late-stage enhanced person...

This confusion gradually deepened amidst the fear of the unknown that was about to happen.

She had never faced such a dangerous battle.

Seeing the man in front of her calmly wiping his revolver, Liu Qian mustered up the courage to ask her inner question:
"Brother Feng, I want to know why you chose to let us form a formation to protect you and then dared to go after him alone?"

"Could it be that this revolver with only six bullets is your confidence, Brother Feng?"

Ordinary pistol bullets have little lethality against late-stage Steppenwolves unless they hit the head. And six rounds of bullets may not even be able to completely kill a Steppenwolf.

Lin Feng looked up at Liu Qian and fell into deep thought.

He understood the other party's concerns.

Because he has not yet proven that he has the power to kill an entire wolf pack.

Ding Yi and Chen Shanshan understand their own abilities and work styles, so they believe in them unconditionally.

When he first met the Liu brothers and sisters, the revolver in his hand was still a level 4 magazine pistol with only 15 rounds in reserve and a basic damage of only points.

At most, they could bully the exhausted and dying rock wildebeest.

The revolver in his hand has now been upgraded to a level 7 automatic pistol, with a basic damage of up to 200 points and rounds of spare ammunition!

In automatic mode, the firing rate is twenty rounds per second!

Not to mention the high-attack, low-imitation ninth-level wasteland wolf, even the ninth-level rockhorn horse in its prime, Lin Feng can deal with it within one second in automatic mode.

In terms of distance, it cannot exceed four hundred meters.

Although the effective range of the lv7 automatic pistol is meters, Lin Feng can only lock onto objects to meters away at most.

After strengthening to the middle stage, Lin Feng's vision was enhanced to a four-fold mirror, which allowed him to see objects as big as a football three or four hundred meters away, and he could hit the target within two hundred meters.

Now that he has been promoted to the seventh-level late-stage enhanced person, his physical fitness has been comprehensively improved again. He can easily focus on and lock onto a balloon that has turned into a black dot six or seven hundred meters away.

But at this distance, hitting a moving target is not easy.

The longer the aiming distance, the more factors that affect the bullet's hit rate.

For example, bullet speed and trajectory, wind speed along the way, target movement speed and direction prediction, etc.

This is why in modern long-range sniping, if a sniper wants to become a sharpshooter, in addition to a lot of training and accumulated experience, he also needs various tools to assist in shooting.

Such as basic high-power scopes, wind meters, and observers who serve as second snipers.

Along the way, Lin Feng had already tested it on the ground. With his enhanced physical fitness, his vision was enhanced to the level of a six-fold scope. He could identify small targets within 800 meters.

However, when aiming with a revolver, you can only accurately lock onto the target within 400 meters. Beyond that, the hit rate will drop sharply, and whether you can hit the target depends on luck.

At this distance, the Steppe Wolf would have to run for half a minute to escape his maximum hitting range.

Thirty seconds was enough for Lin Feng to fire hundreds of bullets and turn the fleeing wolves into a sieve.

This is also the reason why Lin Feng is confident.

After the wolf hunting operation was over, he planned to spend a lot of money to find Shuguang Village to polish a pair of high-power scopes for himself, so that he could assemble and integrate them into the pistol.

Although there were guns for sale in the Hunting Guild, Lin Feng did not find other accessories, such as scopes.

And he is not yet eligible to make the purchase.

Faced with Liu Qian's question at this moment, Chen Shanshan and Ding Yi were shocked and didn't know how Lin Feng would explain.

After recalling the upgrade process of the revolver in his hand, Lin Feng nodded and took the initiative to speak:

"Evolvers will awaken special abilities. This is something most of the late-stage wastelanders are aware of. I am a rare early awakener. Before the first stage of evolution, I awakened the ability to optimize weapons and equipment."

"Using the energy in the body, we can optimize severely worn weapons and restore them to pristine condition."

"However, using abilities consumes a lot of energy. For example, now that I am a late-stage enhanced person, I must eat late-stage enhanced meat to recover."

"This gun is the result of my utmost effort."

"With the help of the optimization ability, the bullets in the revolver drum can be restored infinitely in a short period of time by consuming the energy in my body."

"So, while it only appears to have six bullets, it's actually equivalent to a revolver with unlimited ammunition. It's also incredibly powerful, and two shots are enough to kill a Steppenwolf."

"But when I use my powers, I need to concentrate completely and it's hard to stay alert. I need someone to cover me..."

Liu Qian listened carefully, and after understanding, a look of sudden enlightenment appeared on her face, and she said with a little excitement:

"Sorry, Brother Feng, I shouldn't ask you these..."

"I'm just worried that we won't be able to defeat Steppenwolf."

"But now Brother Feng is actually a rare psychic, and he has such a strong auxiliary ability. This time when hunting wolves, we will definitely..."

Before Liu Qian could finish her words, the tricycle suddenly braked.

Everyone paused, then immediately looked out through the observation window.

Not far away, I saw a camp of a group of barbarians. The scene was in a mess, with scattered pieces of linen clothes and eight or nine unrecognizable bodies of barbarians.

The chest cavity and internal organs were basically hollowed out, and the muscles and fat of the two thighs were also torn off, leaving only a skeleton and blood and dirt on the ground.

At this time, a group of vultures that couldn't wait any longer had landed in the camp and were feasting on the corpses.

Their hooked beaks can tear and dig out the meat that the wolves have no time to eat to fill their stomachs.

"Damn, I'm late!"

Li Hu got out of the car and looked around, but he didn't even see the shadow of a wolf. He was already prepared for a fight and couldn't help but curse.

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes slightly and quickly found the trail:
"The blood on the ground is still fresh. There are bloodstains and claw marks in the left front. Let's chase them!"

Li Hu went forward to investigate and dispersed the death-eating vultures. Sure enough, he saw the traces of the wolves that had just left. He raised a 1.5-meter-long broadsword and said angrily:

"Let's go, keep chasing them! Use the hawk-watching tactic!"

"The wolves have just had a big meal. If we hold on tight and force them to keep running for their lives and keep moving forward, they will become dehydrated."

"Either die of exhaustion, or fight us!"

Digesting food in the stomach also requires energy and fresh water in the body, which is why it is not advisable to exercise within half an hour after a meal.

Li Hu intended to force the wolves to take the initiative to fight.

Everyone continued to set off. In order to conserve energy, both sides took turns riding the bikes.

On Lin Feng's side, Liu Mingfei stepped back, and Ding Yi took the driver's seat and continued to move forward along the bloody trail.

Because they can take turns, and food and water are replenished in time, the energy consumption of the group's progress is not great, and people are replaced every hour.

Maintaining a constant speed of ten kilometers per hour, they sped across the wilderness. When they encountered a slope, they got off the car and pushed it forward.

They left footprints along the way, pressing the wolves step by step, so that they could never stop to rest.

Finally, with everyone holding on tightly, the team entered a valley. In front of them was a slope of over a hundred meters, surrounded by mountains on three sides, with only a flat retreat route at the back.

This is a dead end.

Li Hu and others immediately got out of the car and observed the terrain.

The wolf paw prints on the ground diverged into four or five different directions.

"They already know someone is following them."

Lin Feng looked around the surrounding terrain and had a bad feeling:
"At this slope, all of us have to get out of the car and push. If the wolves suddenly attack, we will be attacked from both sides."

"I suggest you go out first, take a detour and look around."

Li Hu frowned slightly. He actually wanted to continue chasing in the direction of the largest claw mark.

The wolves were already very close, so there was no reason to waste time taking a detour and giving up the distance that had been shortened with great difficulty.

But what Lin Feng said was right. If this was a trap deliberately set by the wolves to ambush the people pushing the cart...

Just like last time, I wanted to catch them off guard.

Then the offense and defense will change!
Just when Li Hu was struggling, a giant wolf suddenly appeared on the hillside not far away.

Compared to the rock next to it, the giant wolf was four meters big, comparable to a tricycle, and was similar in size to the ninth-level rock wildebeest that Lin Feng and his party hunted last time.

A huge wolf head stained with blood, with a bloody mouth with steel fangs.

The wolf's eyes, as big as bells, were full of blood.

He bared his teeth and looked ferocious.

As it howled to the sky, waves of wolf howls came from the nearby valley slopes in response.

Li Hu met his eyes, his expression instantly ferocious, his eyes filled with murderous intent, and he raised the sharp sword in his hand!

This guy in front of you is the leader of the wasteland wolf pack. He killed his teammates and ruined his own path to evolution!
Just as the howling of wolves began to rise all around, a wolf-tooth arrow flew at high speed, breaking through the air.
Shoot straight at the wolf at the top of the slope!
The battle is about to break out!
　After the revision, it became a chapter of 4,000 words.
　　Hopefully that's not too long-winded.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)