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

Chapter 232 Optimization, Entering the Capital City, Seeing Old Friends Again

After listening to Lin Feng's deduction of the strategy, Long Yi's eyes lit up, and the worry on his face was swept away. He said with a little excitement:

"That's right! As long as there are 10,000 or 20,000 Awakeners who can cooperate with us, delay the Zerg invasion from the rear, and sneak attack their hives, we can attack them from both sides, destroy a large number of Zerg swarms, and even leave behind a few early-stage third-order queen mothers."

"But the round trip distance from here to the federal capital is nearly 200 kilometers. Is it still in time for you to rush over now?"

Lin Feng nodded confidently:

"Don't forget, on the way here by plane, I jumped out of the plane and dealt with several second-level wind-wing insects. Now I have the membrane wings of wind-wing insects, and my flying speed has increased by more than double."

"It can fly at a speed of Mach 2 or above, and can fly 2,500 kilometers per hour. It only flies over 200 kilometers, and it takes less than ten minutes to fly back and forth."

Long Yi hummed, with a hint of regret:

"It's a pity that I can't just drive this flesh and blood mecha to the federal capital."

"Just now you called it a colony mecha. Sure enough, this name is more appropriate."

"Flesh and blood colonization, self-repair, autonomous evolution... This is much stronger than a mechanical body."

Lin Feng nodded. He also wanted to drive the colonial suit to the federal capital, save the people like a god, and satisfy his desire to show off in front of others.

But the reality does not allow:

"There's no other way. The mecha is too big to hide its tracks in the air. It's easy for the blue-winged insects and wind-winged insects circling above the heads of the four queens to discover it."

"And even if it could catch up with the speed, it would consume a lot of its stored energy. To maintain such a huge size, it would be difficult to fly long distances."

"Then let it stay behind the front line, activate the autonomous sentinel guard mode, and kill those warrior hunter bugs that have slipped through the net."

Don’t be fooled by the size of the biological colonization suit, which is only the size of a first-stage late-stage black-backed worm and slightly smaller than a wind-wing worm. However, the raw materials used to make it all come from a high-level queen mother. The average density of its cells and bones far exceeds that of wind-wing worms and tiger-backed worms.

The half piece of golden neck guard alone weighs more than ten tons, and with the tiger-backed worm armor covering its body, although the body is only seven meters high and four meters wide, its total weight is an astonishing one hundred tons.

Even if equipped with the membrane wings of a second-order wind-wing insect, it would be difficult to fly long distances because the energy consumption is dozens of times that of a wind-wing insect.

After the transformation, there are only a few pairs of first-order blue-winged membrane wings, which can barely glide within ten kilometers and combine with top-speed running to complete a surprise attack.

If you want to drive a colonial mecha for more than a hundred kilometers, even if you fill it up with organic nutrient solution before going, you will have to kill at least dozens of second-order Zergs on the way and absorb their life energy to ensure that the mecha is in combat status.

Therefore, the best option is to leave it at the Yunxialing position and let Longyi temporarily operate it.

After making the decision, Lin Feng did not waste any time and assigned tasks to the old captains Liu Yi, Shen Jie and others who had already awakened, as well as thirteen new second-stage late-stage fully awakened people who had completed the promotion.

Old group leaders such as Liu Yi need to rest more.

So this time the task of guarding the house was given to them. They stayed near the main nest and continued to absorb the life energy of the second-level insect eggs to make up for their own vitality lost due to overdraft.

The rest of the members led two hundred soldiers to the front line to support the three regiments there.

After arranging everything, Lin Feng led everyone to the bottom of the valley under Baicao Mountain and looked at Longyi and the new colony mecha beside her that had left the hatchery nest.

The biological suit at this moment has a more mechanical style. The previous orange-yellow outer armor has turned into blue-gray, but at the joints of the torso and limbs, tough blood-red muscle bands are still exposed, and there are six pairs of enhanced blue-winged membranous wings on the back. The muscles that flap the membranous wings extend to the roots, making it look extremely strong and powerful.

"With its current strength, it is enough to fight a third-stage early queen mother alone. With the driver's superb operation and the powerful equipment in your hands, it can achieve a quick kill."

"As for endurance, it can only last for an hour at most. Fortunately, if we kill the queen mother, we can absorb the life energy in her body and the nutrients from the hatching nest behind her."

"If I continue to strengthen it like this, I might be able to drive it one day to challenge the peak third-order life forms, or even compete with the life forms in the universe."

Looking at the masterpiece he created with his own hands, Long Yi couldn't help but sigh with confidence.

However, compared to the optimized new mecha, Lin Feng obviously has other ideas:

"Can this good thing be mass-produced?"

After hearing this, Long turned around and rolled his eyes at him:
"Do you think it's a cheap item that can be found everywhere on the street? The starting technology level of this thing will take you humans at least a few thousand years to develop, and its base material all comes from third-stage life forms..."

"A high-level queen mother can only produce one similar one and a non-intelligent version at most, so do you think it is possible to mass produce it?"

"Even if you hand it over to humans, with the current level of human technology, they won't be able to research anything."

"Let them study the third-order cells more thoroughly first, and then consider its practical application."

Lin Feng automatically ignored the ridicule of Long Yi, and only remembered that one queen mother was equal to two colonization mechas:
"Okay. When this mission is over, the collected corpse of the Queen Mother will be handed over to you. I need to get a batch of intelligent biological armor with a power system as soon as possible."

The corner of Long Yi's mouth could not help but twitch:

"The Queen Mother's flesh and bones are not the point. The problem is that her brain cannot be divided. Whether it is biological armor or mecha, its intelligent processing and reaction mobility all rely on the brain as the center for regulation."

"A mecha without brain control can only bully a peak-level second-order tiger-spine worm at best. In front of a high-level queen mother, it is no different from a puppet. It may even be able to seize control of the mecha."

"Forget it, we'll talk about it later. Besides, without the strength of the third stage, I can't drive them..."

"Maybe I should get myself one..."

However, before Long Yi could finish his words, the man beside him spread his wings...

It transformed into a streak of golden light, disappeared into the valley, soared straight into the sky, and disappeared into the sky ten thousand meters high.

Only a blurry afterimage is left, which eventually shrinks into a dot.

Afterwards, the soldiers in the valley who were ready to go, after Long Yi sat on the head of the colonial mecha, followed the giant mecha and confidently rushed to the front battlefield.

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Lin Feng, wearing level 30 gold armor, flew into the troposphere and thick white clouds at an average speed of Mach within fifteen seconds.

Further up is the quiet and cloudless stratosphere, where there are many patrol teams of wind-wing insects, responsible for surveying the airspace around the Queen Mother, intercepting human fighter jets and missiles, and ensuring the safety of the Zerg ground command center.

So Lin Feng kept the flight altitude below 10,000 meters and moved forward slowly with the cover of thick clouds.

At present, there is still about an hour before the defenders of Yunxialing come into close combat with the Zerg coming from all over the south.

It's totally in time.

So Lin Feng took the initiative to slow down and maintain a subsonic cruising speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour, so that he could reach the federal capital within ten minutes.

The sound and impact caused by subsonic speed are much smaller than those of supersonic speed, which can effectively help Lin Feng avoid Zerg patrols.

In addition, telepathy can detect and lock onto the enemy from twenty kilometers away in advance, so the journey was peaceful.

During this period, Lin Feng also deliberately lowered his altitude slightly, using his super dynamic perception and telepathy to scan the Zerg army encountered along the way, as well as the location of the Zerg nest left behind by the Queen Mother.

Because more than half of the swarm had been taken away by the Queen Mother, the number of combat swarms remaining in the hive was less than one-third of the original number. Most of them were patrolling second-order tiger-spine insects and red-armored beetles responsible for logistics.

Just like the main nest of Yunxialing before, these places with poor defenses will soon become excellent targets for human sneak attacks.

After recording the locations of the three insect nests, Lin Feng flew all the way from the Taihang Mountains, across the remote southwestern urban areas, and arrived at the suburbs of the capital. He finally saw the city center of the federal capital, which had been transformed into a military fortress.

The layers of elevated roads that once surrounded the city center were now replaced by huge walls hundreds of meters high, and thousands of defensive fortresses were arranged in each circle of defense walls.

Judging from the damaged outermost sixth wall, the concrete thickness of these defense circles is an astonishing ten meters... Not to mention the second-order tiger-spine worms, even the attacks of pulse war scorpions and tank flame armors are difficult to directly break through the defense line, requiring a large number of assault teams to launch continuous attacks one after another.

Compared with this, the three quickly built defense lines in Wucheng seemed quite inadequate.

However, this is the center of the entire federation after all. As the capital and the symbol of the federation, it is reasonable and expected to mobilize the resources of several surrounding large cities to build such magnificent fortifications.

Now, after seeing the broken sixth ring of defense, Lin Feng's doubts were resolved:
Why did the Queen Mother Alliance in the north, which had assembled more than twenty high-level Queen Mothers and commanded a million Zergs, fail to capture the federal capital? !
Why has the stalemate between the two sides continued since Qin Hu left Wucheng? !
The reason is the six towering walls in front of us, and each circle is higher than the last. The two innermost walls are two hundred meters high each, like an artificial moat, separating the inside and the outside.

It would be extremely difficult for the Zerg to break through these six lines of defense and slaughter the human survivors inside!
There is no possibility of occupation unless we go out in full force and pay the painful price of more than half of our troops being killed or wounded or even the entire army being annihilated!
It is precisely because of this that the Zerg chose the strategy of defending and waiting for the enemy to tire themselves out, wanting to trap humans to death in this isolated city.

At the same time, they used underground warfare to dig wormholes tens of kilometers long from underground and break through the defense line from the inside out.

Just doing this would require as much work as pouring and building six giant walls, and it would be difficult to complete it in two or three months.

In order to avoid causing unnecessary trouble at this moment, Lin Feng chose to slowly descend from the sky, came to the periphery of the six-ring defense circle, and walked among the ruins of broken walls.

The rotting corpses of humans and Zerg, along with the still-burning fat and hydrogen-storing stomachs, gave off a strange, disgusting stench.

The reason why the Zerg did not recycle them on a large scale was because of the black gun barrels standing behind the city wall.

This was a brutal and long tug-of-war.

Lin Feng walked among them, and the golden armor on his body exuded the aura of a high-level life form, instantly shocking the large number of insects that were eager to try in the nearby wormhole.

He walked to the foot of the city wall, jumped up with a push, flew directly to a height of one hundred meters, and landed on the city wall.

Looking around, the four-kilometer urban area within the fifth defense circle and the sixth ring was also littered with Zerg corpses.

In many places, the layers are stacked up to several meters high, and under the scorching sun of midsummer, they give off a terrible strange and rotten smell.

There are several giant pits hundreds of meters high on the surface in the middle, and there are many traces of black-backed worms active in them.

It is estimated that this is the tunnel dug by the Zerg to capture the first line of defense, but they were attacked from both sides and paid a heavy price.

In fact, after seeing this, Lin Feng already had some understanding as to why the federal top leaders insisted on launching the capital defense war.

Because as long as the logistics can be maintained, the millions of survivors here and the hundreds of thousands of awakened troops...

Maybe we can really hold it!
Unfortunately, the problem lies in logistics.

The top leaders overestimated their control over local forces after the outbreak of the apocalypse.

Especially when communications were interrupted in various places and the awakened ones appeared, the gap in military strength between the two sides was shortened again.

It is hard for some ambitious people not to have other intentions.

In addition, the federal top leaders themselves have invested and consumed more and more in the defense of the capital, forming a bottomless abyss that has seriously affected the basic survival of the local area.

Ultimately, this has led to the current embarrassing situation in the entire rear safety zone where people only obey orders but not announcements.

If the capital's breakout plan fails to successfully rescue the survivors, especially the hundreds of thousands of awakened ones...

Then the Federation will truly exist in name only!

This is not a good thing for Lin Feng.

Because if the North loses the powerful force to resist the Zerg invasion and the Queen Alliance is disbanded, the pressure on various parts of the South will suddenly increase.

What attracted them to surround the capital was the hundreds of thousands of awakened people gathered here, and this resource could allow more than one mid-stage queen to be directly promoted to the late third stage!
Become one of the final candidates for the fourth-level insect king!

But once these people are scattered across the vast northern wilderness, the south, which is rich in natural resources, will become the next target of many queens.

Lin Feng's plan to defend Jiangnan, cultivate the Salvation Army and establish a permanent base will also fail under the fierce offensive of the Second Queen Mother Alliance.

This is also one of the reasons why he chose to go north to provide assistance.

As for other personal reasons, I also want to come and see old friends.

For example, Qin Hu, who is currently guarding the federal capital.

In order not to dirty his armor and clothes, Lin Feng jumped up from the top of the defense line wall, and at the same time used the wings of the golden warship to dive towards the fifth defense line.

It only took six or seven seconds to reach the destination.

After falling at high speed on the tightly defended fifth line of defense, the concrete ground was shattered into pieces, leaving a crack with a diameter of ten meters.

The loud noise quickly attracted a large number of soldiers armed with live ammunition, who surrounded the place with their guns raised.

When the dust settled, everyone present, who looked extremely nervous, saw a mysterious and unknown humanoid creature wearing golden armor.

One of the awakened soldiers, who was in a tense state, accidentally pulled the trigger and fired a 20mm large-caliber cannon.

However, the golden armored creature grabbed it with its bare hands and crushed it into pieces in its palms.

"Don't shoot! Everyone, get back!"

At this time, a powerful command came, and the soldiers on the scene made way...

I saw a general in worn orange armor walking several dozen meters in front of the unknown creature:
"Long time no see, Master Lin."

"But now I should address you respectfully, City Lord Lin."

Lin Feng slowly opened his visor and looked at the person approaching.

It was Chen Shu, one of the members of the genetically modified team who followed Qin Hu into the underground under Wucheng's first line of defense.

A top student with extensive knowledge of biology.

After more than half a month of war, he has become much more mature and experienced, with several scars on his face, and his strength has entered the late second level.

Lin Feng nodded, then said solemnly:

"The top brass of the federation should have issued the order to break out. Where is Qin Hu now?"

"Why are you all still guarding here..."

There was a hint of surprise in Chen Shu's eyes, and the soldiers nearby also revealed expressions of incredible shock.

Seeing this, Lin Feng realized that there was something fishy going on, and immediately added:
"I was specially invited by the higher-ups to lead you in the breakout!"

"Take me to see Qin Hu right now!"

Chen Shu also reacted quickly and spoke quickly:
"Thank you, City Lord Lin. Please follow me!"

"General Qin is currently at the fourth line of defense, formulating a relevant breakout plan!"

"With the help of a third-level awakener like you who can kill the Zerg Queen, I believe we can all break out of the encirclement smoothly!"

(End of this chapter)