Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded

After consuming an entire piece of Level 20 evolved meat jerky, this time a kilogram was needed to bring the same sense of fullness as before.

Lin Feng knew that after advancing to Level 21, his body's needs had increased again. Or rather, the original Level 20 meat jerky no longer had the same stimulating effect on the Level 21 evolved cells within his body as before.

It was like drinking diluted milk. As his own energy density increased, the milky flavor of the original milk would seem increasingly weak in comparison.

This also gave Lin Feng a direct data point to measure whether 300 kilograms of evolved meat jerky would be enough to support the subsequent evolution to higher levels.

If one piece was enough to feel full at Level 21, then at Level 22, it would likely take two pieces.

And if he was in combat, it would take twice as much, meaning four pieces or more.

This rate of consumption was not low.

The rebellion was likely to last for several days. When the enemy understood the situation and decided to act, they wouldn't launch a clustered offensive all at once. Instead, they would send small reconnaissance teams to harass and launch assassination attempts against Lin Feng personally.

Only after all of these proved ineffective would they choose a final, desperate gamble.

So, for the Church, as long as they could stall and prevent the Tier 2 experts from the Li family from breaking through the oasis's control room, seizing control of the oasis, and focusing on defense, that would be enough.

Stalling until the oasis warship passed the fork in the road and entered the territory of the Zhuma Temple, where Temple Knights would naturally come to provide support.

In this way, avoiding high-intensity firefights, reducing casualties, and delaying time was the true strategy of the Holy Spring Church.

Even if they were far inferior to the Li family head, who rose through the ranks through hard work, and the other village leaders in terms of combat power and combat experience…

As the defending side, as long as they could make good use of the terrain and the advantage of their identity, they could make up for the lack of combat power.

At the same time, restricting the major villages from sending late-stage evolvers to land on the oasis and provide continuous reinforcements, the Church could be said to be holding the winning ticket!

Currently, it seemed that Lin Feng's addition at least gave them a 70% chance of winning.

But this kind of victory came at the cost of Lin Feng acting as a beast of burden to attract firepower, having to withstand the joint attack from the high-level members of the three major villages.

At that time, in addition to potential Tier 2 evolvers, there would definitely be a large number of late-stage evolvers launching attacks on Holy Spring Village.

So, at that time, the consumption of evolved meat would only increase day by day, doubling in growth.

Plus, he still had to reserve rations for Chen Shanshan. The 300 kilograms of meat jerky he had on hand might really not be enough.

While eating the meat in his hand, Lin Feng first upgraded the Level 20 armor-piercing cannon and high-explosive rapid-firing cannon on his waist to the next level.

At the same time, he integrated several mutated wolverine fangs from the alloy wolverine head into the two guns to increase the armor-piercing ability of the shells, in order to target the Rock Horse battle armor equipped by the rebels.

This upgrade consumed 20 points of life value in one go. For Lin Feng now, nearly one-tenth of his life value was considered a not-so-small overdraft.

Fortunately, eating the evolved meat allowed this part of the consumption to recover quickly, without causing too much impact.

After eating the whole piece, Lin Feng, in a high state, immediately came to the freezer, opened it, and saw the remaining five portions of pure source essence, and three portions of wasteland wolf source essence.

He took out three of them, and taking advantage of the perfect state after just eating the evolved meat, he quickly started the next level of evolution.

After swallowing them in one gulp, the intense stimulation was even stronger than before with two portions, but the body's reaction weakened each time, as if he had developed a drug resistance.

And this time, the time required to complete the absorption of the life source essence and transform the Level 22 evolved cells was even faster than the last time he transformed into Level 21.

It only took about ten minutes.

If it weren't for the fact that after getting up, the upper limit of his physique and strength had broken through once again, reaching 30 tons, Lin Feng would even have suspected whether he had really completed the transformation.

Fortunately, the improvement in physique and the system's prompts could prove that Lin Feng had become a powerful Level 22 evolver at this moment:

「Lin Feng, lv22 / 29」

「Life Value: 300, Physique: 300, Spirit: 299; lv22 Upper limit of each attribute 300」

「Superpower Awakening: Branding Power」

「Branding Power: Exclusive Equipment; Forced Upgrade; Assembly Synthesis; Accelerated Upgrade」

「Item upgrade limit increased to lv22!」

「Can consume 10 Life Value to continue upgrading lv21 machine gun, lv21 rapid-firing cannon, lv20 source essence filter」

After evolving, although Lin Feng could feel the increase in strength, compared to the last time, this time the full state after evolution didn't last long, and a familiar sense of hunger quickly struck.

Reminding Lin Feng of the burning pain and hunger in his stomach when he first woke up, and the weakness of his hands and feet.

The piece of evolved meat he had eaten before had been completely digested during the evolution process, and the consumption speed of the Level 22 powerful physique was visibly fast.

Lin Feng frowned slightly. At this moment, he was in a combat state, and every tissue and every cell in his body was operating at high speed.

There was even a faint phenomenon of airflow breathing on the surface of his body, and his body temperature also rose rapidly.

In the air-conditioned cooling of the carriage, heat waves were steaming from the surface of his body, distorting the light.

From a distance, it seemed to form a layer of separation from the surrounding space, oscillating out circles of ripples.

However, in this state, the nutrients and energy stored in Lin Feng's body were also rapidly depleting at a rate of seconds.

A kilogram of Level 20 evolved meat was simply not enough to maintain it for long, unless it was the same level of flesh and blood, or higher, to meet the needs of Level 22 cells.

If he continued to fight on an empty stomach, activating the 30 tons of power of the Level 22 cells and unleashing power, then they would start devouring from the Level 19 cells in the body, eating away at the low-level counterparts little by little to maintain their state.

First, starting with the fat cells that store energy, and then some unimportant organs and tissues, the appendix, gallbladder, and even the reproductive system.

At this time, one half of the body would gradually eat the other half.

Until it was finally burned out.

When he really fell to this point, every extra second would bring great burden to the body and mind, continuously overdrafting life force and evolutionary potential.

Therefore, Tier 2 evolvers are often in a calm state, reducing the body's metabolism to the lowest point to reduce energy consumption.

The root cause is the scarcity of wasteland resources.

The harsh living environment, coupled with the discontinuity of technology, and the scarcity of the number of survivors, have led to the fact that today's human civilization simply cannot support so many evolvers.

Especially high-level evolutionary powerhouses.

Lin Feng quickly retracted his strength, allowing this powerful body to tend towards calmness, but the hunger in his stomach was like a raging fire, continuously burning his intestines and stomach,

Wanting to scrape out the last bit of nutrition from it.

When Lin Feng was in this state, looking at the data that appeared in his eyes, he found that the three attributes had slightly fallen, decreasing by one, decreasing by one, decreasing by one as the hunger intensified.

But after the value fell to a certain level, the rate of decline would tend to slow down.

The original upper limit of 300 points fell to about 270 points, and the decrease was very small. It's just that although the state is no longer declining at this moment, the power unleashed by the body is no longer as continuous and invincible as before.

It seems that most Tier 2 evolvers usually maintain this "sub-healthy" state in order to reduce the demand for high-level evolved meat.

In fact, when it reaches the lowest point, the evolved cells in the body, which are rich in source essence, will no longer proliferate and divide, but will instead enter a dormant state.

Usually, Level 19 cells are used to maintain activity.

To verify his conjecture, Lin Feng immediately opened the freezer, took out a piece of level seventeen evolution meat, tore off just a little bit, and put it in his mouth.

As expected, for him at level twenty-two, evolution meat with a five-level difference had become as bland as water.

Not only did it have little nutritional value, but eating too much would also affect a portion of the second-tier evolved cells in his body, causing them to continue to divide and proliferate, replacing the low-level cells below the second tier.

Lin Feng also tried level eighteen and nineteen evolution meat.

Fortunately, these two levels of evolution meat, after eating, provided a slight feeling of fullness, allowing the level nineteen cells, which accounted for the majority of his body, to no longer feel hungry.

If he was just maintaining a normal semi-dormant state, he could rely on eating a few pounds of late-stage first-tier evolution meat, but if he wanted to return to his peak and enter a battle state, he would definitely have to eat evolution meat of the same tier.

After understanding the different needs of his current body, Lin Feng took two pieces of level twenty evolution meat to the transport vehicle next door, preparing to upgrade the bullet production machine.

But first, he had to imprint it.

While eating evolution meat jerky, Lin Feng imprinted the large integrated production machine in front of him.

The imprinting speed was very fast. After it became exclusive equipment, Lin Feng could clearly feel a surge of information in his brain.

Information that was clearer than the system's display.

It allowed Lin Feng to have a more direct and in-depth understanding of this production equipment.

This was perhaps one of the benefits of imprinting.

Or rather, after being imprinted, the connection between the item and himself became closer, creating a kind of spiritual connection of belonging between them.

Lin Feng, who was only a first-tier evolver in the past, did not have very high mental attributes. He did not have a clear feeling about these subtle changes. Now that he had become a second-tier evolver, he keenly captured this point after trying to imprint.

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At the same time, he also discovered that this spiritual bond and connection also had an upper limit.

It would cause a certain burden on his own spirit.

However, with his current strength of level twenty-two and two hundred and ninety-nine mental attributes, imprinting only a few pieces of equipment was not a problem at all.

Unless he recklessly and frantically imprinted, it would cause excessive burden and mental fatigue.

And now, after imprinting the bullet production machine, Lin Feng chose to expand the product caliber for enhancement and upgrade, consuming ten points of life value.

The evolution meat jerky in his mouth kept going down, barely replenishing the lost life value and state.

However, the time required for this upgrade was a bit long.

The upgrade of large equipment was relatively slow. For example, upgrading the electric car in the past. The reason why the war chariot was upgraded so quickly this time was because Lin Feng's evolution level had been raised.

At the level of twenty, upgrading level fourteen items and equipment was naturally not worth mentioning.

Now that the waiting time for the upgrade to complete was still long, Lin Feng left the transport vehicle and returned to the Wolf Armor War Chariot.

This time, he ate a piece and a half of evolution meat in one go, finally replenishing his state to its peak.

But Lin Feng felt that it would only last for about a day.

That is to say, at level twenty-two, he would have to consume at least one and a half pieces of level twenty evolution meat a day, otherwise he would be in a weak, semi-dormant state.

At level twenty, half a piece was enough, and at level twenty-one, one piece was needed.

Then, for the next level twenty-three, it was estimated that at least two pieces would be needed for daily consumption.

Three hundred pieces of evolution meat jerky were only enough for Lin Feng to maintain for less than five months, and this was only in a non-combat state.

Once a battle started, he would probably have to burn the energy in his body like crazy at a rate of two pieces per hour.

Before the start of the battle, he would have to eat at least five pieces of meat jerky, ten pounds of meat, to meet the needs of the second-tier cells in his body.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng frowned slightly and looked at the freezer.

Next was Chen Shanshan's cross-level evolution. He had to leave her with a hundred kilograms of evolution meat reserves to ensure the combat effectiveness of the guards around him.

Although the Rock Horse Warrior was a defensive biological battle armor, its speed was not low. Not to mention being as relaxed as the Wasteland Wolf at a hundred meters per second, it could at least achieve a burst speed of a hundred meters per second, easily approaching in an instant.

At that time, Chen Shanshan's protective role would be particularly important to Lin Feng, who needed to aim carefully.

And to ensure her combat effectiveness, he had to provide sufficient evolution meat, or further improve her strength, evolve further, and become a level twenty-one evolver.

But in that case, Lin Feng himself would have to maintain his strength at level twenty-two.

Because there was not much second-tier source matter left, only five portions.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng sighed softly. He decided to wait until the two cannons in his hand were upgraded to level twenty-two before seeing if the power of the assembled combination could ensure his own and the team's safety before considering whether to continue to evolve.

According to the previous rules, the equipment combined from two level twenty-two imprinted weapons should have a level twenty-seven upper limit, which could be comparable to the late stage of the second tier.

Even if it was only level twenty-six, it would be enough to pose a threat to Li Hao, the head of the Li family, a mid-stage second-tier evolver, and even kill him directly if he was lucky.

So the lethality of the weapon should be sufficient.

On the contrary, it was his own safety. Even if he was wearing power armor, it would be difficult to gain an advantage in close combat.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng suddenly felt dizzy and a little tired.

So he decided to take a break for a while, and consider the next step after all the imprinted weapons and equipment were upgraded.

Outside the Zifei City shelter, he rushed back all the way, and now it was the morning of the seventh day.

That is to say, Lin Feng had not had a good night's sleep for nearly seven days and seven nights. In the camp outside the shelter, he only took a short rest, catching up on sleep for two or three hours.

Although continuous all-nighters were not worth mentioning for second-tier evolvers, if he wanted to maintain a high-pressure combat state, the consumption of energy would be great.

Especially the last time he entered the ruins, went deep into the train station tunnel on the negative fifth floor, and faced the early and mid-stage second-tier corpse wolves, fighting with them.

The subsequent departure was also in a hurry.

A total of two days and three nights, sixty hours without closing his eyes. After returning, the trivial matters of Oasis Town also consumed a lot of energy.

Now that everything had been arranged and planned properly, Lin Feng also needed to catch up on sleep to restore his mental state.

Lying in the back row of the war chariot, Lin Feng fell asleep drowsily.

Six hours later, at twelve noon.

Lin Feng was awakened by a burst of noise.

It turned out that A Ming and Liu Qian had first brought a few recruits they had recruited, planning to form the second follower team.

A total of eight people, seven men and one woman, were all seasoned level nine enhancers, with dark complexions and calluses on their hands.

Their survival age in the wasteland was at least two or three years or more, which was considered experienced.

After all, more than 30% of the newly arrived survivors did not survive the first month, but as long as they lived for more than half a year, after adapting to the wasteland environment, the mortality rate would drop sharply.

Lin Feng's public recruitment, with the sign of a second-tier powerhouse, could attract many ambitious wastelanders with the motivation to become stronger.

There were even some permanent residents of the Fifth Village who wanted to come and follow the second-tier evolver.

A huge interest group was gradually forming around the second-tier evolver.

Since Lin Feng did not recruit evolvers in the middle class of Oasis Town, but only selected potential seeds from the five or six thousand wastelanders, it did not have much impact on Oasis.

After the head wastelanders left, a large number of people would quickly fill their gaps.

Lin Feng only glanced through the car window and lost interest, turning to look at the display in the corner of his eye:

"Lv21 Armor-Piercing Cannon Upgrade Complete!"

"Lv21 High-Explosive Rapid-Firing Cannon Upgrade Complete!"

"Lv21 Bullet Production Machine Upgrade Complete!"