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

Chapter 119 Lin Feng lv25, decision to explore alone
With a level 25 armor-piercing magnetic cannon in hand and a level 400 flying tiger armor with a defense power of up to 25 points, Lin Feng is confident that he can move freely in the city.

Because of the tall buildings, they can effectively block threats from the sky, such as swarms of green-winged insects and the second-level wind-winged insects that Lin Feng has always been worried about.

Especially the latter, the high-speed dive is faster than Lin Feng's reaction speed, unless he can activate the bullet time attribute in advance, he can't see the trace of the wind-wing insect.

But in the city, the high-rise buildings that once protected the retreat of the tiger-backed worms will also become safe areas where Lin Feng can do whatever he wants, and no longer need the protection of warships.

Lin Feng stood on the bow, looking at Jiacheng in the distance, took a deep breath, and called up his own attribute panel:
"Lin Feng, lv22/29, upgrading"

"HP 320, Vt 320, SPR 345"

After completing the upgrade of the armor-piercing cannon, Lin Feng directly started his personal upgrade.

One's own strength is also very important for the subsequent in-depth exploration of the city. The gap between the late second stage and the early stage is more obvious than that of the first stage.

The upgrade to lv23 is then completed:
"Lin Feng, lv23/29"

"HP 370, Vt 370, SPR 395"

At this moment, Lin Feng's physical fitness alone is stronger than any second-stage early tiger-spine worm. After wearing the Flying Tiger Armor and protecting his body, he can even kill an early stage tiger-spine worm with his bare hands with the force of more than ten tons.

Lin Feng did not stop, planning to start the next stage of leap upgrade after eating and drinking his fill.

Arriving at the living area inside the battleship, Lin Feng told Chen Yanyan, who was preparing lunch in the kitchen, about his thoughts on exploring Jiacheng.

After the individual soldier rations are heated up in a pot and some seasonings are added, it becomes a hot home-cooked meal, similar to what the soldiers eat, but with Chen Yanyan's magical cooking skills, the taste and flavor are elevated to several levels.

After she heard Lin Feng's plan, she came over with a pot of broth. After thinking it over, she agreed:

"You're right. To infiltrate a city with a population of one million, relying on just a few of us is like a drop of water in the sea that can't create a single wave..."

"The Queen Mother will find out again, just like before, and we will be attacked from all sides."

"The battleship is too conspicuous right now. You have the flying ability of the battle armor, so you don't have to worry about evacuating the city, but the problem is what to do with these people?"

"Should you ask them to retreat first? Or should they stay with the land cruiser? If they are too far away from you, their weapons will become useless. If a large horde of insects attacks, the firepower of a single battleship will not be enough to handle it..."

Lin Feng nodded. When they ventured into Jiacheng before, they only walked three or four kilometers in total. They were still ten kilometers away from the real city center...

However, even when groping at the edge of the city, they were almost trapped in an ambush by the Zerg. If the second-level tiger spine worms this time had not come from afar,

Instead, it broke out from under everyone's feet...

Except for the Land Cruiser and Lin Feng himself, the rest of the vehicle team members will suffer serious injuries.

Even if Lin Feng had notified them in advance, they would still be surrounded by the army of black-backed insects and eventually killed by the jaws of tiger-backed insects.

Lin Feng originally planned to let Li Ran and others stay in the suburbs to provide off-field support, but now Shen Jie, who has the highest combat power, will enter the second-level awakening at any time. Not only will he lose his combat ability for a period of time, but he will also have to send extra people to protect him.

This made the team, which had already been greatly weakened, even more short of manpower.

After much deliberation, Lin Feng finally chose the latter:
"Okay, let them go back first."

"From what I can see now, this Zerg Queen is probably scared by the attack and doesn't dare to fight with us in the suburbs, nor does she have any intention of seeking revenge..."

"Its own strength is much weaker than the one in Haicheng. If there are not many second-level subordinates, this may be an opportunity for us to understand the Zerg more deeply."

Chen Yanyan nodded and smiled:
"Then I will stay here and drive the battleship around the suburbs of Jiacheng, firing a few shots from time to time to attract the attention of the Zerg and cover your infiltration operation."

Lin Feng nodded. In fact, as long as Chen Yanyan had no objection, it would basically be a done deal.

Previous experience has proved that the Land Cruiser warships cannot drive into the inner city unless they rush around and cause massive destruction. And this time, Lin Feng also needs to have a backup plan and let the warships be responsible for supporting outside the city.

The cover operation could only be carried out by Chen Yanyan, so her opinion had to be sought before execution.

Fortunately, apart from worrying about Lin Feng's safety, Chen Yanyan always puts her man first in other matters.

After making arrangements for the afternoon, Chen Yanyan had a simple lunch and looked at the slightly shabby city in the distance...

Suddenly he realized something and asked:
"Lin Feng, look, why is it that Jiacheng was completely occupied by the Zerg, but the buildings inside were not destroyed..."

"Even if Jiacheng did not organize a resistance force, it should not be so complete..."

"Do you still remember Haicheng? When we escaped, a large number of buildings in Haicheng were damaged, especially the excavation of the wormhole cave. The collapse of the surface caused the road to crack, and the houses tilted or collapsed directly..."

Lin Feng put down the bowl and followed Chen Yanyan's gaze to look out the window. At that time in Haicheng University, tens of thousands of red beetles gathered in the square. They were working hard to open up the deep pit tunnel for the queen mother to be born.

However, it seems that I have never seen a fallen city like Jiacheng that has remained unchanged.

In the videos circulating on the Internet, coastal cities will become devastated by the Zerg regardless of whether a blocking war breaks out.

This is the first time I have seen the situation in Jiacheng.

Lin Feng shrugged and thought of an explanation:
"Perhaps this queen is too weak and does not have the extra troops to destroy the city, or perhaps it has already left Jiacheng and is just passing by, so it did not dig a large nest here."

Chen Yanyan nodded. She was just a little worried about Lin Feng's risky decision. She wanted to detect clues of danger from the details to avoid accidents after going deeper into the city.

"I'm not worried about the second-level tiger spine insects and wind wing insects. The key is the parasitic mother you mentioned before, the second-level spiritual system of the Zerg..."

Chen Yanyan slowly stretched out her hand, controlled the battleship, and opened a window on one side:
"Psychic ability is different from physical attacks. Psychic attacks are the direct manipulation of energy. They are invisible and colorless, mysterious and unpredictable..."

"If you are not careful, you can easily fall into its trap."

Lin Feng's eyes narrowed slightly and he nodded seriously.

What Chen Yanyan said was right. Similar to the parasitic matrix, this type of rare second-level spiritual Zerg was actually what he should be most wary of.

The last time he faced the parasitized Cheng Zhan, he was in a brief trance due to its sudden mental attack.

Fortunately, I had dealt with the tiger spine worm threat before getting close. If I had been attacked mentally for no reason during the close combat in the tunnel, my consciousness would have been interrupted for half a second...

And this moment of sluggishness will cost you your life in a life-and-death duel!
Fortunately, Lin Feng's mental attribute value was permanently enhanced by thirty points after killing a second-level parasitic mother. As long as he focused his mind, he would not be easily disturbed.

At this time, Lin Feng had also eaten and drunk his fill. He stood up, kissed Chen Yanyan, said a few words of comfort to her, and then returned to the bedroom.

Prepare to start upgrading and strengthening yourself to lv24.

As a stream of heat flowed from the gun into his body, the tremendous energy comparable to the second-level awakening upgrade surged in Lin Feng's body.

But Lin Feng, who has completed the lv23 upgrade, has an attribute value of nearly points. His strong body can safely withstand the transformation of this energy.

Half an hour later, when Lin Feng opened his eyes...

Looking at the data in front of him, his face lit up with joy:
"Lin Feng, lv24/29"

"HP 470, Vt 470, SPR 495"

"Note: Starting from lv24 and above, the basic value will be increased by 100 each time you upgrade, and the value that exceeds the limit can be inherited."

As expected, the surprise brought by this upgrade is that it allows humans to make up for their genetic defects and start to keep pace with the Zerg's upgrades.

This also means that after the middle stage of the second stage, the gap between humans' physical attributes and those of the Zerg will become smaller and smaller as the level increases.

Unfortunately, no one knows it yet.

After all, there is no other awakener like Lin Feng on Blue Star who can upgrade rapidly all the way.

At this moment, Chen Yanyan walked out of the bathroom, holding only a bath towel, and walked to the bed, crawling from between Lin Feng's legs to his chest, with her fingers on her abdomen:

"Why, have you completed the awakening of the insect killer? You seem so excited..."

Lin Feng nodded, chuckled, and activated the final lv25 upgrade.

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At two o'clock in the afternoon, he saw his soldiers gradually getting enough rest, but the city in front of him was still as quiet as a dead city. Except for the strange smell of Zerg wafting out from time to time, there was no trace of life.

There was no sign of the Zerg's revenge, nor were there any traces of large numbers of Scarlet Beetles in the scope. This strange phenomenon made everyone, who were already on high alert, become worried.

The Zerg will never give up until they achieve their goal, especially when it comes to outsiders who invade their territory. They will kill and expel the enemies one by one even at the cost of their own lives.

This point had been fully confirmed during the Wucheng blocking battle, and now the cowardice shown by the Jiacheng Zerg in front of everyone when resisting the invaders has refreshed everyone's understanding of the Zerg...

Could it be that the high-level Zerg are also different from each other?

Just like there are huge differences between people.

Perhaps their personalities and behavior patterns do not follow the same habits, but each has its own characteristics.

After all, the second-level Zerg can demonstrate an intelligence level that is no less than that of humans. The Zerg queen, whose mental value is over a thousand, has a brain tissue that is estimated to be as big as a small truck, which is no worse than that of humans.

Seeing the Zerg hiding underground, captains such as Li Ran, who were sitting on the battleship, began to worry whether the chief sergeant in front of them, who was facing away from them, would give an absurd order to follow him into the Zerg cave.

Because they had ventured into the city and were besieged by Zerg, although fortunately no one died in the end, more than a dozen people were still injured to varying degrees.

The most serious one was a broken leg.

Because I walked a step too slowly, I was bitten by a black-backed insect. Fortunately, I was wearing a set of level 9 red armor, which allowed me to resist the tearing damage.

However, the inner part of his thigh was already shattered, and the muscle tissue was even more shattered. It was only thanks to the protection of the red armor that he was dragged along with his tendons and skin.

At once, more than one-tenth of the combat power was lost.

This was also a big blow to the company of only a hundred people.

In Li Ran's opinion, at the moment they are only suitable to fight in areas with open vision, using high-damage shotguns to concentrate firepower output, or relying on the mobility of vehicles to continuously pull the insect swarm and eliminate the enemy while moving.

The new recruits, who are wielding heavy weapons, have no experience in street fighting, so their caution and reaction speed will require a period of hard training.

Many recruits were injured due to accidental injuries caused by the explosion of shotgun shells fired at close range.

Fortunately, the awakened one had strong physique, and with the protection of level 9 red armor, he managed to hold on.

This is already the case inside the corridor, and the narrow wormhole is even more restrictive for heavy firepower.

Therefore, if Lin Feng plans to lead people deep into the underground wormhole next, Li Ran will definitely raise objections.

There is no follow-up reinforcement at the moment. We have worked so hard to train hundreds of awakened people, and we cannot let them be wasted here.

With Cheng Zhan’s example in mind, Li Ran was even more unwilling to have a team full of traitors.

However, when Lin Feng turned around and said something that surprised everyone present:
"There are two possibilities right now. The first is what I said before. The high-level Zerg are different. The one in front of us has been scared by us, so it stays indoors."

"The second possibility is that they have already set up a trap deep in the city, waiting for us to fall into it."

"It is clear that neither of these options is suitable for our soldiers to continue to fight."

"Excuse me for being blunt, but they are still too weak. Although this jungle fight has made each of them stronger, and many of them have broken through to the middle or even late stage of the first stage."

"But we are still far from being able to withstand close-range, high-intensity combat. However, when the Wucheng battle is over, we will retreat to Jincheng..."

"That's a Jiangnan prefecture with a population of tens of millions."

"Our soldiers are about to face countless street battles."

"If they don't grow up early, the Zerg's giant jaws will teach them how to survive and fight."

"That's all for today. You guys should retreat first."

Li Ran was stunned. Although he thought what the sergeant said was absolutely right, from Lin Feng's final tone, it seemed that he had no intention of going back together.

"Well, what about you?"

Lin Feng looked back at the quiet Jiacheng in the distance:

"This queen mother will most likely rush to Taihu Lake to draw water in a few days, and then take over Jincheng."

"I want to understand its offensive habits and its approximate strength before that."

"If everything goes well, we'll come back tomorrow."

"Go into the heart of Jiacheng and kill more second-level Zergs to take the high-end forces in the team to the next level."

As he spoke, Lin Feng nodded slightly to Zhang Liying, who was attending on behalf of Shen Jie.

After announcing the adjournment of the meeting, she followed her to the back compartment of the SUV where Shen Jie was resting.

The body of the level 22 tiger spine worm killed by Shen Jie was checked in to a truck nearby.

At this moment, Shen Jie was lying on the square cushion in the back compartment, with black scales and erect blood vessels on his face.

His upgrade seems to be different from that of ordinary people.

But Lin Feng didn’t have much experience either. The number of awakeners who naturally upgraded to the second level in the entire federation could probably be counted on one hand, not counting those who were genetically modified.

The second-level awakening has the greatest impact on superpowers. It may be that Lin Feng’s copying superpowers have changed less, so the reaction brought about by the second deep awakening is not obvious.

For Shen Jie, who has awakened the ability to devour and assimilate, the impact of this ability on his body is huge, and he can even turn directly from a human into a bug.

With the current second-level awakening, perhaps even the internal organ structure will undergo amazing changes.

According to Zhang Liying, Shen Jie's awakening was not voluntary, but the stagnant energy became more and more active as he ate.

Finally, it could no longer be suppressed and suddenly released on its own at about one o'clock.

At that moment he fell to the ground and fainted. Zhang Liying was so scared that she panicked and supported him to lie down in the car.

Lin Feng comforted him with a few words, saying that for general physical abilities, the awakening process is not dangerous. As long as one can get through the initial infiltration and fusion stage, the rest will be easy.

Arrange a team to cooperate with Zhang Liying to protect Shen Jie's safety. Lin Feng stood at the rear of the warship and watched the convoy of thirty cars and trucks disappear at the end of the highway...

Then I packed my equipment and prepared to set off.

Before leaving, Chen Yanyan walked out of the cab and handed Lin Feng a replica of the shotgun:
"I think you need this more than I do. Take it with you."

Lin Feng looked at the woman, took the shotgun, hung it diagonally on the other side of his shoulder, and pressed down the upper arm guard on her wrist:
"When you get out of the warship, remember to put on your red armor. This is a life-saving detail. Don't forget the person who died in front of us."

Then he patted the woman on the shoulder and jumped off the battleship.

Chen Yanyan, who was covered in black and red armor, opened her visor and looked at Lin Feng who was walking dozens of meters away, and shouted:

"Don't forget to come with me to meet my family and sister-in-law Yurou."

Lin Feng didn't look back. He raised his arm and waved, signaling the woman to go back.

This was Lin Feng's first time to act alone, and it was also a dangerous mission deep into the heart of the Zerg. Chen Yanyan's worry was beyond words. After returning to the cab, she wiped away the tears from her eyes...

He patted his cheeks to cheer himself up, and then provided protection and restraint for Lin Feng.

On the other side, in order to avoid the hidden reconnaissance sight of the Zerg in the city, Lin Feng worked at full speed and called up the last upgraded attribute data in front of him:
"Lin Feng, lv25/29"

"HP 570, Vt 570, SPR 595"

Such a strong physical attribute allowed him to run at a speed exceeding 150 meters per second, which was faster than a first-level green-winged insect.

Although it is not as fast as the wind-wing insect's flying speed, it is far faster than the huge tiger-spine insect of the same level.

Even if the flying mode of the Flying Tiger Armor is limited in use in the cave, Lin Feng can still escape with the explosive power of his legs...

With this in mind, Lin Feng slowed down and, relying on telepathy, carefully moved deeper into the city...

(End of this chapter)