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

Chapter 106 Replica, Steam Hammer Shotgun, Beacon
Lin Feng completed the awakening upgrade very quickly, which might be a second-level enhancement. It did not undergo a qualitative change like the previous transformation from an enhanced person to an awakener.

The upgrade, which was originally expected to take five hours to complete, was completed in just three hours.

It was nearly five o'clock.

The defenders also took turns eating and resting.

Lin Feng raised the wine glass on the table and clinked glasses with the beauty in front of him to celebrate.

Chen Yanyan opened a bottle of low-alcohol red wine. This alcohol content had no effect on the awakened ones.

The two raised their glasses to celebrate this wonderful moment.

Then Lin Feng began to devour the delicious food on the table.

The upgrade and strengthening of awakening consumes most of the body's stored energy.

At this moment, not only had he digested and absorbed the previous food, but even the subcutaneous fat around his waist and hips had been completely broken down.

The suppressed hunger is completely released when you smell the delicious food.

It was not until Lin Feng had eaten five dishes, equivalent to three soldiers' rations, that the hunger in his body was slightly relieved.

After eating and drinking, he took out the rifle slung over his back and showed Chen Yanyan this rare and dangerous weapon.

There is only one orange quality weapon at present.

The basic damage of up to 250 and the armor-piercing attribute allow the holder to easily deal with several tiger-spine insects.

Even if it was a large tiger-spine worm in the middle stage of the second stage, Lin Feng was now confident that he could take it down directly.

After a short rest, Li Ran's voice came from outside the house:

"Report, the defense deployment for tonight has been completed. Please inspect it, Mr. Lin."

Lin Feng opened his eyes from Chen Yanyan's arms and long legs, realizing that it was time to come forward.

The so-called inspection is more to boost the morale of the soldiers guarding the outposts.

As long as he can appear at the outpost, everyone present will feel absolutely safe and have the courage to face the more difficult battle tonight.

As Lin Feng got ready and walked out of the chariot, he saw commanders such as Li Ran and Shen Jie outside the chariot, all of whom showed expressions of joy and anticipation.

Lin Feng said nothing more, and followed everyone to the sentry post. He greeted the new recruits who had lost their childishness, and encouraged and praised their efforts.

From their gradually determined expressions, Lin Feng saw the maturity and stability of the veterans.

As long as they survive the Battle of Wucheng, they will grow into elite veterans.

The 201st Company will also serve as Lin Feng's team, and at some point in the future, it will be expanded into thousands of Salvation Army soldiers.

After inspecting the area, Lin Feng asked the other captains to return to their posts, and then led Li Ran and Shen Jie to the center of the outpost, the rear of the flying wing tank.

Lin Feng opened the trunk and took out the few remaining steel plates.

The standard steel plates made of fine steel were the leftovers from the batch sent by Han Yuxin. Each plate was one square meter in size, five millimeters thick, and weighed forty kilograms.

It only costs about one dollar to make five replicas of the level 9 god-level pistol. Lin Feng spent a total of twenty dollars to equip each of the current awakened team members with a heavy machine gun.

Now looking at the remaining ten pieces, Lin Feng decided to make a few replicas of the lv19 howitzer to deal with the Zerg's increasingly fierce night offensive.

The outpost is in the shape of a circle of circular bunkers. Even if Lin Feng is there, he will be unable to take care of every direction by himself.

Therefore, equipping the remaining captains with lv19 howitzers is the best option.

Although the howitzer is not powerful enough to directly kill the second-level tiger-spine worm, as long as the distance is close enough, it can still seriously injure the opponent by hitting it several times in a row.

Delaying the Zerg's offensive pace and preventing them from destroying the fortress walls until Lin Feng arrives can temporarily solve the problem of uneven firepower distribution.

As Lin Feng stretched out his hand to cover the steel plates.

A reminder of copying appeared in his eyes:
"Do you want to consume 100 kg of fine steel to make a level 19 howitzer?"

The replica of the lv9 god-level pistol only requires five kilograms of fine steel to be produced, but I didn’t expect that the lv19 howitzer would cost twenty times more.

One ton of fine steel is only enough to produce 10 howitzers.

Lin Feng frowned slightly. This huge amount of material consumption is also a costly expense.

You have to know that these are all refined steel, which is different from ordinary remelted iron. Now that the federal coastal ports have fallen, we have lost the high-quality iron ore from abroad, and the domestic mines and coking and steel mills have both declined in quality and quantity...

In the future, the output of fine steel will only get lower and lower.

At this moment, finished fine steel used in weapons production has become a controlled commodity, with access to it being even more strictly controlled than food.

It is not easy to stockpile a large amount of fine steel.

At that time, it will all depend on whether Hu Fei and Han Yuxin can find a stable channel, otherwise Lin Feng will have to go to the steel plant in Hulao Pass in person.

Go find sister-in-law Yu Rou and ask for some flexibility.

However, the steel plant is four or five hundred kilometers away from his chosen battle site, and transportation is also a big problem.

While thinking about how to obtain fine steel in the future, Lin Feng had already completed the synthesis of the replica with his hands.

As the red light came out from his hands, covering the remaining ten steel plates, the next moment, their shapes changed until they became four identical large-caliber rifles.

Lin Feng's eyes moved slightly. When he copied and synthesized the replica, he imagined the appearance of a legendary weapon that had never been mass-produced, a large-caliber shotgun nicknamed "Steam Hammer".

It is also the shotgun weapon with the highest single-shot damage among all major shooting games.

Now looking at them, which look exactly the same as in the game, Lin Feng's mouth curled up slightly.

When the copying and synthesis is completed, the properties of the shotgun will appear in front of you:
「Howitzer replica lv19, red quality」

"Damage 190, effective range 5km, remaining shells 5000"

"Basic attributes: bullet recovery 1/s, space magazine 5000 spare bullets"

"Note: The effective range is within 1 km of the original product. One tenth of the profit from killing the target will be fed back to the holder. It cannot cause damage to the original product holder. All basic attributes are activated based on the target killed."

After reading the properties of the replica, Lin Feng secretly breathed a sigh of relief... As long as the properties such as automatic bullet recovery and space magazine are retained, the role of the replica will still be very valuable.

As for additional attributes such as Death Eye and Fire Coverage, as long as there are enough copies, they can focus their fire to achieve the same effect.

With 5000 rounds of spare ammunition and a recovery rate of 3600 rounds per hour, it is fully capable of withstanding the attack of the insect swarm.

Four lv19 howitzer replicas can easily block and destroy tens of thousands of black-spine insects.

With them around, Lin Feng can feel much more relaxed.

Then, he took out two large "steam hammers" and handed them to Li Ran and the other man behind him, while introducing them:

"This is a weapon as powerful as the hand cannon I had before. One round is comparable to a 155mm howitzer. There are four of them now. You can use them to guard the other four protruding blockhouses to prevent the tiger spine insects from destroying the outpost walls."

The bastion has a total of five protruding towers, which can increase the crossfire during shooting and enhance output.

After hearing Lin Feng's introduction, taking the large-caliber gas hammer shotgun and feeling its heavy weight, Li Ran and Shen Jie were immediately excited and wanted to take it to the outpost immediately to experiment with it themselves.

Li Ran, who had already seen the heavy machine gun with unlimited bullets, was the most excited. The presence of this gas hammer shotgun meant there was one more super bullet awakener.

With a few more, the power will be comparable to that of an artillery company.

Holding the killer weapon in his hand, Li Ran couldn't let it go and said:
"Shotgun? It might as well be called a shotgun."

Lin Feng nodded:
"Steam hammer shotgun, good, let's call it that from now on."

Then he took out the remaining two and said:
"It's very powerful, and the recoil is also quite strong."

"It weighs one hundred kilograms, plus the strong push from the continuous shooting. If you are not a first-stage late awakener, you can't hold it for long."

Li Ran and the other man were both commanders on the front lines. After a fierce battle last night, they had successfully entered the late first stage using machine guns.

Among them, Li Ran is level 17, and Shen Jie is already level 18, and is only one step away from reaching the perfection of the first level.

Fully capable of controlling the powerful steam hammer cannon.

Among the outpost defenders, there are several others who have also entered the late first stage, so the personnel of the holders is not a problem.

Watching the two of them leave in high spirits, Lin Feng immediately returned to the front of the outpost and watched the sun set in the distance, and the deep night was about to fall upon the earth...

Countless Zerg began to poke their heads out of the cave.

A new round of battle is about to begin.

On the front battlefield, the defenders of the main fort, who were worried and had not had a good rest all day, could only rely on coffee and other substances to maintain their spirits and stay excited.

The Zerg's tactics of shock, intimidation and exhaustion have taken effect.

The defenders, who had not had a good rest for nearly forty hours, were extremely tired!
Especially during this period, half of the time was spent in arduous defensive operations. Even the awakened ones found it difficult to survive, not to mention the many recruits who were only at the level of enhanced humans...

Tired bodies and numb spirits caused their combat level to plummet. Whether it was aiming and shooting under the cover of night or replenishing ammunition in the later stage, they were no longer as handy as they were last night.

Many veterans saw this and knew clearly that this was a situation that no one could avoid.

They were the same at the beginning, full of confidence, thinking that these low-level Zerg from alien planets would be destroyed in an instant under the artillery fire.

But with wave after wave, a steady stream of insect swarms came to attack the defense line.

Even if there are sufficient logistical supplies and ammunition, humans with flesh and blood will not be able to hold on and their condition will decline.

Especially tonight, there may be a tiger-backed worm attack. If we fail to launch anti-tank missiles and large mortars in time to block it, the wall gates of the defense line will definitely suffer heavy damage.

Once the Zerg are allowed to get close, they will cause casualties to the defenders. Even if they succeed in holding on, it will only become increasingly difficult as time goes on.

Fortunately, the front-line commander was not stupid. He immediately replaced the companies in the north-south defense line and the main fort.

The personnel from more than a dozen main forts in the north who did not participate in the battle last night were sent to garrison in the south.

As long as the Zerg are not stupid, they will definitely focus on one line of defense and launch a fierce attack, especially since the entrance gate in the south has been broken. With just a little more effort, they can destroy several main castles.

By opening a gap, the entire Zerg army can rush in and launch a general attack.

On the human side, they can also reduce the decline in combat effectiveness by rotating the defense line from north to south.

But humans obviously do more than that.

During the day, the tiger-backed worm team kept approaching and when they showed their heads to intimidate the garrison, several stealthy teams hiding in the main fort launched a feint sniper attack on them.

Three Super Bullet Awakeners took out the special bullets sent from the research institute.

A composite glue that has extremely strong adhesion to the tiger spine beetle's outer armor is injected into the bullet.

The warhead that was originally planned to be embedded in the carapace was directly rejected after Ding Chenghai took samples and analyzed the giant jaws of the second-order tiger spine worm.

Because the Mohs hardness of the tiger worm's giant jaws is as high as a terrifying 10, which is harder than diamond, the hardest stable natural substance known to mankind!

Ordinary steel bullets have a Mohs hardness of only 4.5. Even the tungsten alloy used in armor-piercing bullets has a hardness of only 9.5, which is simply impossible to penetrate. The tiger-back worm's biological alloy armor is as thick as to millimeters.

Therefore, the research institute had to change its thinking and attached the signal transmitter to the surface of the tiger-spine worm with glue. In this way, it could also be used as a beacon to detect the hiding place of the Zerg queen.

Several special bullets with adhesion ability, which served as beacons, were used by three super bullet awakeners of the Thirteenth Division. They used the awakened energy as a driving force and an electronic optical surface mirror to accurately hit the tiger-spine worm two kilometers away.

They fired a total of thirty bullets, marking the eighteen tiger-backed worms that appeared on the battlefield.

The ping-pong ball-sized beacon would emit a signal every two minutes to locate the tiger spine swarm and where it was gathering...

Now, whether the first line of defense can hold is no longer a concern for the division headquarters and the federal top leaders...

The most important thing is to confirm the location of the Queen Mother, send strategic bombers to launch long-range earth-penetrating fuel-air bombs, destroy the Zerg's brain, and complete the "decapitation operation"!

And with the beacon locator, the location of the tiger-back worm swarm is sent back one by one.

Looking at the connected trajectory on the screen...

The research institute's data analysts and surveying engineers quickly located three locations where the Queen Mother was most likely to be.

One of them is located in the south of Wucheng, outside the former highway toll station, now a sentry post!

(End of this chapter)