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

Chapter 211 Sister Yurou, Energy Form, Full Support

"Zhang Yurou?"

Lin Feng was stunned.

Two months apart feels like a long time. Memories and images of his sister-in-law gradually emerged in Lin Feng's mind.

After seeing her off at Haicheng University, the two of them only kept in touch through their cell phones. Later, Lin Feng was busy upgrading the insecticide work on the front line, so he handed the cell phone chat over to Chen Yanyan.

When the Wucheng blocking battle was declared a failure with the breach of the first line of defense, the Federation abandoned its southern resistance strategy. The 13th Division withdrew due to the loss of logistical supplies, and the communication infrastructure in Jiangnan Province was paralyzed.

Without network signal, Lin Feng lost the channel to contact Sister Yu Rou.

Apart from using a special dedicated line to contact the fixed communication point in the rear and talk to Hu Fei, Lin Feng and others could only establish communications within a hundred kilometers.

For example, the 200-kilometer distance from Jincheng to Wucheng can barely be reached by phone near the base station in the camp.

If you want to contact Sister Yu Rou, you must build a base station every ten kilometers within the more than one thousand kilometers from the Northwest to Jiangnan Prefecture, and equip it with power supply facilities. However, the high cost makes it obviously impossible to achieve this.

Now, through the visitor from the rear, Lin Feng once again learned about Sister Yu Rou's news. After being surprised for a moment, he nodded and asked:

"How is Yu Rou doing in this Federal Steel Corporation?"

Although Zhang Yurou is Lin Feng's first woman in the true sense, it does not mean that he will sacrifice the interests of the base to please her.

As the lord of Jincheng Base and the leader of the Salvation Army, Lin Feng has too many things to consider.

Although the hard work of creating a base and forming an army was all to assist in their own upgrades, this exchange also meant that Lin Feng was responsible for their lives.

So in comparison, personal emotional needs become a secondary choice.

Especially in the most difficult moments, the person who accompanied Lin Feng was Chen Yanyan.

And people's hearts will mature with experience.

So when Chen Yanyan heard Lin Feng ask this question, she also understood the other party's attitude.

On the contrary, it is unlikely that the representatives from the United Steel Group will be able to take advantage of the relationship with Sister Yu Rou to obtain excess benefits beyond fair exchange.

But considering the familiarity between the two parties, it is okay to give some discounts while deepening cooperation.

This was the response Lin Feng chose to make.

Chen Yanyan, who understood the meaning, replied directly:
"Sister Yurou has become the executive president of the United Steel Group, and her secretary is one of the representatives sent this time."

"According to their private conversation with Han Yuxin, they intend to eat most of the 3,400 black-spine live worms. In addition to the weapons, ammunition and food we need, they will also provide two light weapons production lines, as well as thousands of tons of steel and matching gunpowder."

"As for heavy weapons, such as large-caliber mortars and howitzers, they hope to exchange them for second-order insect eggs."

"At the same time, the CEO's secretary came to me and said that she wanted to have a face-to-face meeting with you. I guess she wanted to bring some personal messages from Sister Yu Rou to you and to discuss individual cooperation."

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes slightly.

Obviously, Zhang Yurou's current power far exceeds Lin Feng's expectations. Only when the two sides have equal status can they have more cooperation and further contact.

But Lin Feng knew that her rapid rise was closely related to his own.

At the beginning of the apocalypse, Lin Feng provided the precious Red Mysterious Armor to Zhang Yurou. With her background in steel and heavy industry, she was able to quickly complete the disassembly and analysis of the Red Shield Armor, and then use the carapace material of the Red Beetle to mass-produce the Red Armor.

This kind of melee armor that can withstand the attack of a first-level black-spine worm is as valuable as the second-level worm eggs in Lin Feng's hand at the beginning of the end of the world.

With this technology, Wuhan Iron and Steel Group, where Zhang Yurou works, is able to gain the upper hand and the right to speak, and then make steady progress and achieve a leap forward.

So within half a month, the front-line soldiers began to equip themselves with red armor, which was modified from the red shield armor.

However, now that Zhang Yurou is the president of the Iron and Steel United Group, can she still give Lin Feng her full support as she promised?

No one can give a definite answer to this question.

But Lin Feng can be sure of one thing...

That is, both parties have their own needs, and it is easier for them to form a transaction of mutual trust than other forces.

After listening to Chen Yanyan's introduction, Lin Feng nodded:

"Let's arrange for her to meet in the evening. Today's dinner will proceed as planned, but I will still not show up. Instead, I will let Liu Yi, Shen Jie and other regiment leaders show them the cutting-edge power of the Salvation Army."

"After the dinner, we can arrange a meeting with this secretary in a more open and aboveboard manner, giving the representatives of other forces a sense of urgency."

"By the way, remember to keep the underground fixed line operational. Make sure that communications are normal over the next few days so that they can report back on the situation here."

After saying that, Lin Feng walked to the living room and kitchen in the living area of ​​the dreadnought, took out a bottle of fresh organic nutrient solution from the freezer, and drank it in big gulps.

After entering the third stage, even if it is just the early stage of lv30, the physical energy consumption is several times more than that at the peak of the second stage.

From the time Lin Feng completed his promotion to now, he has only used a little bit of his body's energy when taking out the golden neck protector from the Queen Mother's corpse. The rest of the time he basically remained in a dormant state to minimize physical energy consumption.

But even so, after two days and one night, Lin Feng's condition still deteriorated. He could clearly feel the cells in his body craving and calling for energy.

The feeling of hunger urged him to continue absorbing energy.

However, Lin Feng has already eaten three meals today, and each meal was five times the amount of an ordinary person, which is equivalent to eating seven kilograms of rice.

But these foods are only enough to satisfy Lin Feng's most basic survival needs. If he moves a little, the consumption will be rapid.

This made Lin Feng realize that the small third-order lifeforms, although they had an absolute advantage in speed and flexibility...

However, due to the lack of its own stored energy, its sustained combat capability is low.

Judging from the energy storage space in his body at present, even if he drank a belly full of organic nutrient solution before going into battle, he could only maintain the third level strength for a dozen minutes at most.

And this is not even the explosive state after activating the artistic conception ability...

Once the energy is consumed to the point where it is unsustainable, the condition will plummet and fall back to the second stage.

Similar signs appeared when they first entered the underground of the first line of defense and fought side by side with Qin Hu's team of genetic warriors.

The first generation of gene warriors consumed too much energy after activating the assimilation state, so they needed to replenish high-energy food in time after the battle. Otherwise, the hungry cells would begin to devour each other, making the body weaker and its own strength would continue to decline.

As the level increases, this defect will become more and more obvious until it seriously affects the normal performance of the third-level awakener.

The third-order insects in the Zerg, whether it is the queen or the king, basically have a huge body size of more than 100 meters, especially the Zerg queen. If she does not need to speed up, she usually carries a huge biological mother nest on her back as her external energy reserve.

The biological mother nest not only charges the creature for continued combat, but also provides a large amount of life attribute bonuses.

This is also the reason why the Zerg Queen is so difficult to kill.

People like humans, who are small in size and have insufficient innate reserves, can only max out their speed and burst points while sacrificing their life and defensive attributes, falling into a dangerous situation of high attack and low defense.

In addition, humans have just entered the era of evolutionary awakening, and the corresponding technology has not yet been fully developed. If we cannot burst out instantly and kill high-level Zerg, then the chances of winning will be very slim.

Just as Lin Feng had worried before, when the burst damage could not kill the Queen instantly, he would be faced with a desperate situation where the damage he dealt was not as fast as the Zerg Queen's recovery.

There are two ways to resolve this dilemma.

While Lin Feng was drinking organic nutrient solution to replenish his body, he was thinking about his own condition.

The first one is the most direct and easiest to achieve, which is to abandon the current body size of humans and start to expand themselves like the Zerg as the level increases.

For example, Lin Feng is now over 1.9 meters tall. He only needs to grow to three meters to prolong his combat state and maintain the third-level strength output for more than half an hour.

If it grows to four or five meters in height, it can probably be extended to about an hour, so that when facing high-level Zerg, there will be ample strategic options.

However, such a huge body would also increase the current food intake, which was an invisible burden for the Jincheng base, which was just starting out. Just like the Zerg ruled by the high-level queen, their fundamental driving force for continuous expansion was to continue to feed and consume the queen, who was extremely heavy.

If Lin Feng also chooses this path, he will most likely expand to tens of meters in the future, and lose his advantage of flexibility and agility.

Moreover, they will gradually separate themselves from the normal human group and become some kind of deified alien.

Overall, increasing body size can only bring about a temporary and limited improvement in the current predicament.

The problem cannot be solved fundamentally.

In comparison, the other energy conversion method that Lingyi once briefly mentioned is more feasible.

Although the transformation process is somewhat difficult, it is also a life transformation process from the third stage to the fourth stage, so it can be regarded as an advance preparation.

In fact, the fundamental reason for insufficient energy is not a problem of body capacity.

Evolving a huge body like the Zerg is only a last resort solution.

The real problem is that biochemical energy, such as the maximum energy density of absorbed sugar, fat and protein, can only support living organisms to evolve to the third stage.

From now on, if the method of energy absorption is not changed, the only way is to increase the body size.

However, even so, there is an upper limit to the size due to the constraints of the planet's gravity.

This is actually a dead end.

Changing the form of basic energy in the body and preparing to overcome gravity and enter space in the future is the only way for life to evolve.

Lin Feng then took out the level 30 ion laser cannon, switched back to the electromagnetic cannon mode, then stretched out his hand and placed it on the magnetic storm electric ball restrained in the barrel, trying to make the cell layer of the palm epidermis adapt to the electric current entering it and drive the cells to operate.

Lightning is the most violent form of energy release on a planet. It is also the form of condensation with the highest energy density except for nuclear explosions.

If he could use electric current to drive his body and absorb plasma as a reserve energy source, Lin Feng would be able to become the person with the strongest physical strength below the third level.

By utilizing its own electromagnetic energy and condensing the magnetic field, it is entirely possible to accelerate to several Mach speeds on the blue planet, overcoming gravity, and flying into the sky and hiding underground.

However, this transformation process is slow and painful.

After a simple attempt, although he did not feel the paralysis of half his body like when he was at the peak of the second level, Lin Feng found that only one out of a hundred of his third-level cells could adapt to the electric shock.

Moreover, after completing the transformation, they are unable to replicate and multiply normally as before.

Without power to drive it, it will quickly self-decompose and die, making it difficult to form a stable organism.

This means that Lin Feng has to pay at least dozens of times of physical consumption to barely transform the form of energy absorption and release in his body.

It seems that although the other path can completely solve the problem, it is not easy to reach the end.

After sighing softly, Lin Feng decided not to waste the precious energy in his body for the time being.

In just a short while of the transformation experiment, several kilograms of organic nutrient solution were consumed. If you don't have hundreds or thousands of second-order insect eggs as a foundation, you can't complete the energy conversion in a short time.

After all, it is one of the conditions for advancing from the third level to the fourth level.

I have just entered the third stage, so I'll take it slow.

After putting away the ion laser cannon, Lin Feng looked at the time. It was already seven o'clock in the evening, so the dinner should have started.

At this time, a whistle sounded outside the battleship.

Lin Feng walked out and saw that it was Chen Yanyan who came to pick him up in a flying wing tank.

After boarding the familiar chariot, Chen Yanyan used her psychic powers to control the chariot forward while taking out a set of exquisitely crafted black military uniforms and handed them to Lin Feng:
"Please put on some armor. You are the lord of the Golden City Base and the supreme leader of the Salvation Army. You can't meet visitors in your armor."

Lin Feng looked at the ordinary sportswear on his body and took the customized military uniform from Chen Yanyan.

After changing seats in the back seat, Lin Feng admired his appearance through the rearview mirror.

This custom-made military uniform carries the solemn elements of Western royal aristocrats, with black as the main color and a silver ribbon, creating an aura of noble heroism.

Coupled with Lin Feng's own strength as a third-order life form, his eyes were focused and the aura he exuded was as real as substance, making Chen Yanyan next to him look intoxicated and blushing.

"Ahem, how's it going? Not bad..."

Lin Feng coughed twice, and before he could finish his words, his mouth was blocked by the woman's red lips.

After a long time, when the tank arrived at its destination, the base's administrative center building, Chen Yanyan reluctantly left.

He straightened Lin Feng's bow tie and patted his epaulettes:

"Let's go. I'll go inform Han Yuxin and bring someone over."

Lin Feng nodded, got out of the car and walked towards the brightly lit high-rise building.

After nodding to the first-level peak combat soldier stationed at the gate, he took the elevator to the city lord's office on the top floor.

Lin Feng sat at his desk, turned around and looked out the French window behind him, seeing sporadic flickering lights in the night sky...

Soon, under the leadership of Han Yuxin, a woman whose figure and appearance were somewhat similar to Zhang Yurou, wearing a black slim-fitting workplace uniform, with round long legs wrapped in black stockings and high heels, walked into the city lord's office.

Lin Feng leaned back in his swivel chair, slowly turned around, and smiled at Sister Yu Rou's trusted secretary in front of him.

When the other party saw the appearance of the city lord himself, she was stunned for a moment, until Han Yuxin, who was standing by, reacted and coughed lightly, which woke up the slightly dazed woman.

She pushed her glasses and spoke softly:
"Hello, City Lord Lin, I am President Zhang's secretary and also her cousin, Zhang Zihan."

Lin Feng hummed:
"Go ahead, Sister Yurou asked you to pass on the important matter."

Zhang Zihan nodded, and after organizing her words:
"The Federal Iron and Steel Group is an alliance between the three major iron and steel ordnance groups and the four major coal companies in the northwest region. It has a board of directors of seven people and currently supplies logistics, weapons and materials to all war zones in the Federation."

"But as the battle to defend the federal capital became increasingly difficult, the board decided not to waste limited resources on this meaningless, bottomless pit of a defense war."

“However, this rejection also comes with a price, and it is quite high.”

"So we need to have enough strength to protect ourselves before we have to endure the wrath of the defeated army."

Lin Feng kept smiling, his eyes slightly narrowed:
"We can make an exception and provide you with excess second-level insect eggs. All you need is enough bargaining chips. That's not a problem."

"It is equivalent to using the resources invested in the defense war to purchase second-level insect eggs to enhance their own military strength. This is a deal that is worth the money."

Zhang Zihan nodded and continued:
"That's right. We will not only provide you with a variety of weapon production lines, but also include all the ammunition consumption of the Savior Army against the Zerg..."

"Thanks to Sister Yurou's mediation and efforts, the board of directors has voted to fully support you and the base under your command."

"In other words, we will conclude a covenant with you to stand together through thick and thin."

Lin Feng's expression gradually became serious. He stared at the woman in front of him who only had the strength of the late first-stage awakening, and replied in a deep voice:
"What will it cost me to do this?"

Zhang Zihan breathed a sigh of relief. It was obvious that the man in front of her was smarter than her cousin said and did not need her to remind him indirectly.

Facing the man's gaze, Zhang Zihan felt the air around her stagnate. She covered her chest and took a deep breath.

"Sister Yurou, I hope you can send troops directly over..."

"Or...you can go there in person."

"She has been waiting for you for a long time."

(End of this chapter)