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

Chapter 160: The Source of Zerg Conception, the Battle of Recapture

"Congratulations on successfully destroying a biological nest!"

"Kill the mutant mother - the node symbiote"

"Obtained ten times of second-stage upgrade energy..."

"Receive the gift from the node symbiote: Zerg spiritual energy"

"The source of Zerg artistic conception: after absorbing it, you can deeply read the secrets of the Zerg, mental attribute +100, and there is a certain probability of analyzing related artistic conception skills."

"Second-level upgrade energy: can upgrade orange quality equipment or items, and can also upgrade yourself"

The more he looked down, the more joy appeared in Lin Feng's eyes.

Ten second-stage upgrade energies can effectively solve the current upgrade consumption of the Land Cruiser battleship, without wasting precious second-stage insect eggs.

Thereby creating more second-order awakeners.

Lay the foundation for the formation of the second-level legion.

What surprised Lin Feng the most was that there was an extra reward for killing the node mother. According to the description, it was the same spiritual world he experienced last time.

After absorbing this source of artistic conception, one can enter the Zerg's artistic conception inheritance. In addition to the basic spiritual attributes increasing by an additional 100, there is also a certain chance to obtain high-level artistic conception skills such as genetic radiation.

In this way, Lin Feng will have more backup cards when killing a high-level queen.

But now is not a good time to absorb it. I have to wait until I return to the camp, adjust my condition, and try again.

Behind him, Lingyi was controlling more red beetles to widen the entrance wormhole of the hatching nest.

The five tiger spine insect guards she had controlled before had all died in the blocking battle. Although their deaths successfully prevented the invasion of the tiger spine insect swarm and prevented everyone from being attacked from both sides, they also blocked the entrance to the entire insect nest.

So now we can only rely on the red beetles to widen the cave walls so as to take out the insect corpses.

This was the situation that Lin Feng was most worried about. Fortunately, he had the help of Longyi, so he didn't have to worry about being trapped for too long.

Seeing Lin Feng coming, Long Yi glanced sideways, and his eyes, which were shining with golden light, suddenly condensed and tightened.

She felt that Lin Feng seemed to be a little different, a change in his spirit. Obviously, his spiritual power was slightly inferior to hers before...

But now it seems even stronger.

Perhaps after killing the node mother, it absorbed the opponent's life energy and obtained extra gifts.

This situation is very common. As the prototype of a domain, artistic conception will automatically spread out and infect the surrounding environment, which is why cosmic life is so powerful.

The artistic conception pollution caused by killing cosmic races is equally deadly to the natives of some planets.

This will gradually distort their genes and become a kind of continuation of the cosmic race.

For example, the gene warriors, such as Shen Jie who was in a state of mind at the moment, it was hard to say whether they were still pure humans, or Zerg...

"Where are the bodies?"

Looking at the smiling Lin Feng, Long pointed to the tiger-backed worm corpse dug out in front of him.

Seeing this, Lin Feng swung the level 27 chainsaw sword in his hand, chopped off the second-level giant jaw on the insect corpse, and upgraded the tiger-tooth chainsaw sword at the same time.

The previous killing of the lv29 peak tiger-spine worm and the cutting of a second-level worm egg to help repair Shen Jie's injuries were just enough to make up the next round of upgrade points.

"Just transport the Jaws out as well."

"Wait, the node mother is dead, then all the insect swarms in this insect nest..." Lin Feng cut off several pairs of second-order giant jaws one after another, intending to take them back to be integrated with the land cruiser or the copied tank, but suddenly thought of the death of the node mother and the second-order tiger spine insect swarm outside the cave that was about to rush in, but now disappeared...

So I thought of a possibility.

Ling Yi followed Lin Feng's words and nodded:

"Yes, they suddenly lost control and are in chaos. At this time, the instinct of survival is more important than anything else. There is no need to worry about the soldiers guarding the cave entrance on the surface. With their powerful firepower, they are enough to deal with tens of thousands of black-spine insects."

"As for the second-order tiger-backed worm outside the cave, I have already controlled it to maintain order on the main road."

Lin Feng raised his eyebrows:
"Your spiritual attribute has also broken through the upper limit of the second stage and reached the third stage. How many tiger spine insects can you control now? And at what distance?"

The corner of Longyi's mouth slightly raised, and he waved his hand to summon a giant red beetle, which sat on its back:
"Guess? Probably no less than twenty..."

Before he finished speaking, Long Yi's expression suddenly changed slightly, his golden eyes looked to the left, and his tone turned low:

"Here they come."

Lin Feng clenched the Tiger Tooth Chainsaw Sword and the Electromagnetic Cannon in his hands and activated telepathy:

"Haicheng or the north?"

At first, the dragonfly urged the scarlet beetle swarm to hurry up and do two things at once:
"Haicheng. The second-order tiger spine insect's hatching nest was destroyed. It must be anxious. The one in the north will not end so easily. It will only surround us and pick peaches when we show signs of weakness..."

Lin Feng breathed a sigh of relief, but in fact he was worried that the queen mother from the north would come in person.

After all, the two places are only a dozen kilometers apart.

However, given his current situation and the fatigue of his team members, he is simply unable to resist the attack of the Queen Mother and might even be wiped out.

As for Queen Mother No. 76 in Haicheng, she is a full kilometers away from here. No matter how fast she is, she cannot rush here directly. The most she can do is to send an elite second-level Zerg team.

For example, a mixed team of warrior hunters and tiger-spine worms could slow down the retreat of human awakeners and recover the Zerg losses as much as possible.

"Hold on tight then!"

Lin Feng shrugged, walked to the front of the team, aimed at the tiger-backed worm corpse that was blocking the entrance, and kicked it out. Fortunately, the cave wall only cracked a little and did not collapse.

Lingyi shook his head and commanded the swarm of red beetles to carry the eggs and giant jaw materials, quickly crawl out of the mother nest, and follow the second-level legion team in front to the surface of the cave top.

"I'll be the rear guard and see if I can collect more second-order tiger-backed insect swarms." Long Yi stood at the entrance, looked at Lin Feng in the insect swarm, and stopped.

The light source fed back by telepathy showed that there were still forty or fifty second-level tiger-backed insects nearby, but they were scattered everywhere and could not be caught in one fell swoop.

"Are you sure you can protect yourself? Looking at Shen Jie's condition, I have to go back to the surface first to evacuate the soldiers."

"The elite second-level insect swarm coming to support is almost here." Lin Feng reminded while walking and retreating.

The dragonfly nodded slightly, smiled and waved.

After Lin Feng's back disappeared into the uphill wormhole, she turned around, looked deeper into the ground, and spoke in a low voice:
"Come on, let me test your depth."

As he spoke, several second-order tiger-backed insects emerged from the darkness around him and surrounded him.

…………

Above the ground, in a residential area beside the river that rings the city.

Seven hundred soldiers were already hiding in the building, guarding the center of the community and the entrance through which the Second Order Legion team had infiltrated.

However, after more than an hour passed and no swarm of insects were seen attacking nearby, everyone gradually relaxed their vigilance and began to take turns patrolling and keeping watch.

Among these seven hundred soldiers, more than one hundred are veterans who once followed Lin Feng and have reached the late first stage. The rest are new recruits who joined later, but they also completed the first stage awakening in this battle.

The number of awakened people can largely determine the strength of a team.

Especially the gap between the awakened and the enhanced humans. When facing low-level black-spined insects, the former can easily kill them with their own superpowers and weapons and equipment, while the latter find it difficult to successfully challenge them.

While fighting off the endless swarms of insects, the Awakened's strong physique is also one of the guarantees for holding on in the fight; at least their physical strength can keep up.

Two hours later, it was three o'clock in the afternoon.

The swarm of low-level black-backed insects that had previously hidden inside the city suddenly revealed their tracks.

They rushed and gathered in groups, trying to step into the cave entrance in the community.

The level 19 veterans named captains by Lin Feng all looked solemn.

This was not the first time they had faced a fierce tide of black-spined worms, and they were well aware of their danger and terrible destructive power.

The aggressiveness of this insect swarm was obviously stronger than the previous exploratory attacks.

At this moment, their goal was clear, which was to attack the cave entrance and attack the human second-level army from both sides. Even if they had to use their own insect corpses, they had to delay the pace of the insect nest invaders and keep them underground. However, the sudden appearance of the insect swarm proved from the side that the plan of Master Lin and his team was about to succeed.

For the seven hundred soldiers, as long as they hold on to the wormhole on the surface and survive in the end, they will win!
The old soldier who noticed the swarm of insects gathering in the distance immediately shouted to everyone to stand up and prepare for battle.

Hide behind the balcony windows on each floor and attack the swarms of black-spine insects that attack from a distance.

Be sure to keep the insect tide out of the community!
Several captains discussed together and decided to send out fifty veterans armed with shotguns to form a close-to-ground firepower line to prevent the possibility of sporadic black-backed insects intruding.

Then, several fully armed soldiers walked out of each building in the community. They formed groups of five and began to guard the gaps in the aisles between the residential buildings.

This is also a blind spot for the defenders in the corridor.

The battle intensified with the first shot of shotgun blast. More and more low-level insect swarms on the surface, under the control of the node mother, swarmed in recklessly.

Large numbers of insect corpses were buried in the rubble as nearby buildings collapsed, and were then covered by new corpses.

Like leeks, endless.

Swarms of up to tens of thousands of black-backed insects came in droves.

The fearless charge allowed many first-stage late-stage black-backed insects to step on the corpses of their own kind and successfully break through the firepower network in the residential building and enter the interior of the community. Then, with the help of the blind spot of the shooting angle on the side of the building, they were about to reach the cave entrance!

But what greeted them afterwards were guns raised at a close distance, aiming at the fish that had escaped the net and taking them away in piles.

By the end of the battle, the recruits had used up all the hundreds of rounds of bullets from their large-caliber rifles and heavy machine guns.

Many veterans gave their shotguns to them for continued use, which not only maintained fire suppression but also allowed the recruits to quickly accumulate the energy needed for upgrades.

Two hundred shotguns and five thousand space reserve shells, as long as they can form an all-round firepower line with no blind spots, will be enough to deal with hundreds of thousands of low-level insect swarms.

And in advance, the holder can continuously withstand its powerful recoil.

Unlike the original electromagnetic cannon that Lin Feng holds, these replicas only retain the basic properties, and everything else is simplified as much as possible.

With a terrifying damage of up to 190 points, it naturally also inherits the recoil brought by the powerful firepower.

Every time a shot was fired, the cannon was ejected, like a heavy hammer hitting the shoulder of the gunman.

Therefore, the reason why Lin Feng did not directly equip the enhanced recruits with shotguns was because they were not even qualified to fire. Even the first-stage initial awakeners at level 10 could only fire one shot and then recover before continuing to shoot.

Even replicas require corresponding levels and physical and mental attributes to control them and fully unleash their true power.

As the battle passed by...

Finally, at four o'clock in the afternoon, one hour after the outbreak, everyone smelled the battlefield air filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder and insect blood, and saw the swarms of insects fleeing in all directions. For a moment, the army was completely defeated.

Many veterans with rich combat experience looked puzzled.

Because in the dozen or so battles they had experienced, there had never been such a large-scale rout.

Even though there were a few times when the Zerg were defeated under the leadership of the Master Chief, the evacuation of the alien Zerg was also very orderly.

Even when everyone is chasing them, they can still organize effective combat power to counterattack and encircle them.

This is a situation that has never occurred on the human battlefield.

According to several high-ranking members of the team, low-level Zerg swarms have no self-awareness and are like robots, all controlled by the high-level Zerg queen...

But now the swarm of insects that were in a panic and crowded at the street exits were defeated.

It makes the veterans think of a possibility.

"Could it be that the Master Chief and his men won?!"

"Yes, the commander did it. Maybe he defeated the Zerg Queen or drove them away..."

"In short, this small county town was successfully recovered!"

Several captains got together and pieced together the truth behind the Zerg's defeat. They were overjoyed and extremely excited.

After all, this is the first time that humans have taken back territory from the Zerg and recaptured an entire city!
Although it is just a small county town.

But it has extraordinary significance.

Even on Wucheng's front defense line, they could only clear the Zerg's surface wormholes and suppress their expansion speed, but could not go deep underground and completely expel all the Zerg swarms.

But today, under the leadership of the newly formed second-level legion team, they successfully recaptured a city in less than half a day of fighting.

The Master Chief is powerful.

Once again, everyone was in awe.

I also yearn to become a member of the second-level legion.

Soon after, with a slight shaking from the ground, the entrance of the wormhole that 700 soldiers had sworn to guard to the death welcomed the victorious Second Order Legion.

When Liu Yi and his companions, wearing red-orange armor covered with insect scum and blood, and with an extremely shocking murderous aura, appeared at the entrance...

Hundreds of soldiers walked down from the tall building to greet the hero.

Liu Yi raised his head, wiped off the sticky insect blood on his mask and goggles, and looked at the sun in the sky.

The warmth of the sun will be on your face.

I felt a desire I had never felt before, a desire to bask in the warmth of the sun.

The darkness and danger of the underground insect nest made everyone feel breathless, and every minute and every second was torture.

On the way back, everyone naturally encountered harassment from second-order tiger-spine worms. Although they were out of the command and control of the node mother, the previous instructions were still effective, and the Zerg nest was invaded by foreign enemies. Killing the enemy was the meaning of the tiger-spine worms' existence as high-level soldier worms.

During the 300-meter climb, the seven second-level awakeners encountered three waves of tiger-back worms, a total of ten.

In the end, they used shotguns to seriously injure him from a distance, and then used their fists and feet to kill him completely in close combat!

At this moment, they have all advanced to the late stage of the second stage, and many of those with quick reactions have even reached level 29. The power of their fists and feet alone is eighty to ninety tons, so killing tiger-spine worms of the early to middle stage of the second stage in close combat is naturally a piece of cake.

During the entire battle, Lin Feng did not intervene.

Firstly, they need to train these newly promoted second-level legion members, and secondly, some things need to be fought for by themselves.

Afterwards, Lin Feng used seven of the tiger-backed worm jaws as a reward to help the seven members upgrade their red black armor to red tiger armor. Except for the lack of a flying mode, it was almost the same as the flying tiger armor.

When they meet the tiger-backed worms again in the future, those who possess the red tiger armor will naturally be no less capable in close combat, and they may even be eager to engage in hand-to-hand combat!

Next, all that was missing was Fatty Ding's tiger-tooth chainsaw sword, and the second-order legion that Lin Feng had envisioned...

It can be completely assembled.

The second-level awakening strength, combined with the defense of the tiger armor, is equipped with a shotgun for long-range offensive suppression, and a tiger-tooth chainsaw sword for close combat.

Such a team of members, even if they go deep into the underground insect nest, will kill all the insects and be invincible.

At this moment, the members of the legion, who have just begun to experience the dangers of the underground, just want to experience the normal world under the sun.

Hundreds of soldiers cheered as they saw an incredible scene:
Behind the Legion Squadron, there were countless swarms of Scarlet Beetles, and on their backs...

Carrying white second-stage insect eggs!
Many team members subconsciously raised their guns and aimed. Fortunately, Liu Yi had already opened his visor and saw the tense faces of the people.

He immediately shouted loudly:
"Put down your guns, they are not the enemy!"

After saying this, Liu Yi himself found it incredible.

But the experience in the underground insect nest was a hundred times more bizarre and strange than what was happening before his eyes.

What they can do...

Just believe.

Believe in the strange things you have experienced, believe in all of this, believe that you are still alive...

And, unconditional trust in the Master Chief.

(End of this chapter)