Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 94 Investment Value, Demon-Repelling Holy Flame

After handing over the enhanced meat and the evolved meat, the special hunter Qin Lang returned to the president's office with the 100 kilograms of level 14 evolved meat paste.

Seeing this, Xu Wanshuang stood up and walked to the side, opening an inconspicuous cabinet in the office.

This is a low-temperature fresh-keeping refrigerator that can effectively prolong the high-level energy contained in the evolved meat.

There are less than 50 kilograms of reserves left in the refrigerator at the moment, so the 100 kilograms of evolutionary meat obtained in this transaction is very important for several special hunters in the guild.

If the late-stage evolvers are compared to an efficient war machine, then the evolved meat is the basic fuel that powers the machine.

If you don't have enough to eat, your combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

Before closing the refrigerator, Xu Wanshuang took out five portions of dried meat, each weighing one kilogram, and handed four of them to Qin Lang:

"Take it and share it. Eat your fill for once today."

Nowadays, the quantity is limited, and the guild's super hunters can only take half a pound of mid-stage evolutionary meat every day, combined with more than ten pounds of early-stage horse meat, to barely maintain the late-stage evolutionary state.

Because of the difference in energy density, although the energy contained in the mid-stage evolutionary meat is only twice that of the early stage, the effects it brings are very different.

Just like a toxin that is diluted several times and a concentrated version, the effects they can cause are completely different.

Qin Lang looked at the four kilograms of mid-stage evolutionary meat in his ten hands and slowly said:

"They haven't signed any agreement with any of the three companies. They don't belong to any of the three companies. They are free evolvers."

"Why don't you just do it? That kid's car has at least a hundred kilograms of stuff..."

In the five villages under the oasis, the rule of not killing people was jointly formulated by the five villages.

But rules have always been meant to constrain those below them. For rule makers, compliance is just a superficial formality, and often, breaking the rules is the moment when they reap the greatest benefits.

So in Qin Lang's opinion, it is more convenient to take action directly than to waste words.

But Xu Wanshuang had more considerations. In addition to the reputation of the Hunting Guild itself, there were two other reasons.

Tear off a piece of meat and put it in your mouth. The quality is several points better than those raised in the farm village.

After confirming that it was a wild mid-stage rock wildebeest, President Xu shook his head and took out a background check file on Lin Feng's team:
"Although they have nothing to do with the three villages of Farm, Motorcycle, and Shuguang, they have been seen entering and leaving Shengquan Village many times, and Lin Feng is also wearing a special-level church emblem."

As he spoke, Xu Wanshuang pointed to the tasks that Lin Feng's team had recently completed. The most important one was the hunting of a pack of wasteland wolves, and Chen Shanshan received the evolution reward.

The publisher of this task is none other than Shengquan Village:
"They are deeply involved with Suan."

"Even though Shengquan Village doesn't openly recruit Evolvers, Father Suan himself can recruit a team of Evolvers to work for him personally."

"Under the oasis, as the only second-level evolver, the priest's words carry more weight than the attitudes of our four villages."

Xu Wanshuang then took out Chen Shanshan's personal information and the latest information about Lin Feng's investigation:
"Chen Shanshan's master was also a powerful figure back then. He almost reached the late First Stage, but unfortunately, he was killed during a ruins operation. As her successor, Chen Shanshan has great potential."

"As for Lin Feng, the gun on this guy's waist has undergone many changes. Preliminary judgment is that he is an evolutionary with firearm abilities. He has grown rapidly and may be a powerful figure from the Old Earth period who was missed by the Holy City."

"This also explains why his team hunted so many rockhorn horses."

"As a mutated desolate beast with exceptionally evolved defensive attributes, the Rockhorn Horse requires shells of at least 20mm caliber to penetrate and kill it. These heavy weapons are not only expensive, but also the most strictly controlled in the wasteland."

"Lin Feng, who possesses the ability to wield firearms, may actually be more powerful than you and me..."

"So the value of investing in cultivation far outweighs the immediate gains of a hundred kilograms of mid-stage evolutionary meat."

"Go get them special hunter licenses. Focus on collecting information on the Lin Feng team. If we can train a few one-star hunters, we'll have a chance to leave this remote area and move up a position."

Qin Lang nodded and agreed with the vice president's decision after learning about the background of Lin Feng's team.

Before leaving, he suddenly remembered something:

"The payment from our collaboration with the Salvation Army has been delivered to the warehouse, a total of ten units of Purified Life Essence. You don't have to worry about the missions in the next few months. However, Lord Bai seems to be very interested in the Rockhorn Horse industry."

Xu Wanshuang put down the piece of meat in her hand and narrowed her eyes slightly:

"We don't need to get involved in this matter. The Taishan Ruins are too complicated. Before the president speaks, we just need to do our job well."

Qin Lang nodded thoughtfully, then turned and left.

On the other side, after obtaining a huge sum of 41,000 points, Lin Feng took Chen Shanshan back to the guild hall, found the clergy of the Holy Spring Village store, and showed them the invoice signed by the deacon.

The latter took Lin Feng to the counter to redeem and transfer six points cards.

All money is deposited into the unified team account.

The total is as high as 47,000 points!
Chen Shanshan was excited. This was a huge sum of money. In the past, the seven members of the team could have retired on the spot with this amount.

But the current situation does not allow this.

At least after helping Father Su An solve the issue of the ruins, the team can consider the future direction, whether to continue fighting on the front line of the wilderness or to retire peacefully.

Or go to a big city and see the world.

At this time, the two of them had not yet obtained their special hunter licenses, so they could not enjoy special treatment legally and in compliance with regulations. Therefore, Lin Feng took Chen Shanshan to the shop on the second floor to purchase some basic equipment.

For example, firearms.

The low-quality AK I saw last time was still hanging on the weapon wall. Lin Feng asked the owner to bring it over and inspect it:
「Replica AK rifle level 7, white quality」

「基础属性：伤害35，有效射程800米；剩余备弹0/30；耐久度6/10；可消耗一点生命值进行升级」

Additional Attributes: Full Power Bullet (Damage +5), Automatic Mode (Fire Rate 20/s)

As a replica of the classic AK, this weapon has many shortcomings, including but not limited to severe wear and tear, low durability, affected shooting accuracy, easy jamming, etc.

You can't expect a small workshop that only does handmade work to produce any high-quality weapons.

Although worn out, it does a lot of damage. Using full-power bullets, it can deal up to 40 points of damage, and can easily severely injure or directly kill a late-stage enhanced person.

One point of rifle bullets equals five rounds, and the store will also recycle bullet casings, but they are of no use to Lin Feng.

The upgraded thermal weapons can have bullet recovery and space magazine properties. Apart from the wear and tear of durability, there is basically no need to worry about other things.

Compared to the inferior guns in the store, it is perfect.

Now the team needs at least three rifles as the main offensive weapons, which will be equipped to A Lian, A Ming and Liu Mingfei.

As for Ding Yi and Liu Qian, they are mainly responsible for logistics and are equipped with a pistol for self-defense at most.

What worries Lin Feng the most is actually Chen Shanshan. The 40 points of damage of the hunting rifle can no longer meet the current stage of evolutionary combat and is in a dispensable state.

If Lin Feng wasn't worried about the upgrade traces being leaked, he would have wanted to pawn them, and he could exchange them for two AKs.

Lin Feng put down his AK and asked the girl beside him:
"What kind of weapons do you want? Ordinary firearms don't seem very suitable for close combat."

Chen Shanshan was still immersed in the joy of becoming rich. When she heard Lin Feng asking about the equipment, she came to her senses and shook her head:
"These are medium- to long-range weapons, and they will also reveal my whereabouts. They don't work with my abilities at all..."

"That single-shot hunting rifle was pretty good. Is there anything more powerful?"

The two looked at the store manager, who reluctantly introduced:

"There are no standard shotguns, but there are sawed-off hunting rifles."

"Large-caliber weapons, especially artillery, are prohibited from sale. They're too destructive and can cause significant damage to villages and oases. So if you want to buy them, you can only go to the big city ahead."

Lin Feng frowned slightly and then asked:

"Do you have any gunpowder, explosives, or anything like that?"

Firearms are simply humans' ultimate use of gunpowder. They are undoubtedly effective in killing, but their actual destructive power is limited.

During this hunting operation, if Lin Feng's team had a few bags of explosives and buried them as mines in the river in advance, not to mention a mid-stage first-level male, even a leader-level rockhorn horse could be seriously injured in the hooves and abdomen by the explosion of the explosives, and then challenged to kill it.

The power of bullets is really limited to the damage to highly evolved wild beasts, so we have to use explosives directly.

Moreover, this exploration of the ruins requires high-energy explosives to break rocks and clear a path, or to drive away some unknown mutant creatures and deal with some inexplicable phenomena.

After learning about the curse of the Fiery Sun Forbidden Zone, Lin Feng became wary of those strange beings.

Having explosives on hand is undoubtedly the best sense of security.

Unfortunately, after hearing Lin Feng's question, the store manager shook his head again and took out a prohibition notice:

"Ordinary black powder used to be available, but ever since some idiot secretly made it into homemade explosives and planned to blow up the oasis, there have been purchase limits on gunpowder ever since. Even Evolvers have to register and purchase based on their mission points."

"As for high-performance explosives, I've lived in Oasis for thirty or forty years and haven't seen one. Right now, the oil industry is almost gone, and related industries are practically nonexistent."

"However, some evolvers have awakened special abilities that can increase the power of ammunition or earth bombs by adding pressure, but this ability is relatively rare."

As he spoke, the store manager was worried that the successive attacks would affect the consumption mood of the two wealthy people, so he introduced them in a low voice:

"The large-caliber heavy weapon you two just wanted is actually one of the guild's quest rewards. It was delivered from the superior guild in the big city via a pilgrimage convoy last year, and I personally inspected it."

"It's on the right side of the mission scoreboard."

"It has a nice name, the Holy Flame of Demon Repelling. I heard it was once the weapon of a church combat priest and was blessed by the bishop."

"It's modified from a large-caliber shotgun, capable of firing two 35mm caliber small shells simultaneously. The damage is enough to penetrate 30mm of ordinary steel plate, or the thick outer armor of a first-stage early-stage rockhorn horse."

"But the disadvantages are also obvious. As a large-caliber, double-shot weapon, its effective range is only about a hundred meters, and reloading takes more than five or six seconds."

"It's basically a one-shot weapon. In a real fight, there's absolutely no chance of firing a second shot."

"Although the Demon-Repelling Holy Flame is a prohibited weapon, it can be exchanged for the purchase qualification through mission points. As mid-stage Evolvers, as long as you work hard to complete some bounties, you will be eligible to purchase it in no time."

At this point, the store manager changed the subject and began to promote the store's products:

"So, in order to complete the mission quickly and efficiently, a good set of equipment is essential. I not only have the AK, whose damage is second only to artillery shells, but also various grades of armor."

"The light armor this lady bought last time is probably no longer suitable for mid-stage combat. The store is offering a trade-in promotion where you can exchange your old armor for a new one. You only need to pay the difference to get a brand new set of medium-duty full-steel armor!"

Hearing this, Lin Feng and Chen Shanshan looked at each other.

His attention shifted from the Demon-Repelling Holy Flame to the guns and armor he was planning to purchase.

(End of this chapter)