Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 269 The Power Source of the Oasis Battleship, the Oil War
"Armor-Piercing Wolf Spear Lv20, Orange Quality"

"Basic Attributes: Damage 200, Durability 7/10; Can be upgraded by consuming 10 health points"

Additional attribute: Armor penetration

"Armor Penetration: The spearhead is made of level 20 fine steel wolf fangs, possessing extremely strong armor penetration capabilities. It can easily shatter any defensive material with a hardness comparable to diamond, and has a targeted ability to penetrate the outer ceramic steel armor of the Rockhorse; Armor penetration effect +100%, damage +50."

"Evaluation: This is a basic Tier 2 weapon, made with a one-piece casting process. It is 2.5 meters long, 2 meters in diameter, and weighs 300 kilograms. Only late-stage Tier 1 evolvers can easily swing it. It is suitable for late-stage Tier 1 to mid-stage Tier 2 evolvers to wield. It is extremely powerful. With the support of 10 tons of force, it can effectively break through 20 centimeters of ceramic steel armor or half a meter thick ordinary concrete wall."

Note: This level 20 armor-piercing wolf spear has slightly worn blade edge, reducing its durability. Please use it with caution.

After reading the item description that appeared before him, Lin Feng narrowed his eyes. It actually had a 100% armor penetration effect and the damage was increased by fifty points.

No wonder that in the previous Tier 2 duel, the High Priest, wielding a similar weapon, was able to inflict substantial damage on Li Mingquan's early Tier 2 Rock Horse Armor, forcing him to flee.

And this is just a level 20 spear forged from level 20 refined steel wolf fangs...

If I were to use my level 26 refined steel wolf fangs to forge a mid-tier second-order weapon, wouldn't it be able to easily penetrate the level 25 rock horse armor worn by Li Hao?

Given the current state of the bishop, coupled with the Armor-Piercing Wolf Spear, he is fully capable of defeating Li Hao.

It just doesn't last very long.

We need to find the right opportunity to deliver a fatal blow.

Otherwise, if the war drags on, the bishop's condition will only deteriorate.

At that time, Li Hao will use the stamina of the Rockhorn Horse to wear them down until their life force is exhausted.

Lin Feng gently stroked the damaged edge of the spearhead and handed the spear back to Father Su An:

"Good stuff. This guy can easily handle a fully armed Rock Horse Warrior at the early stage of Tier 2."

Father Suan nodded, his tone tinged with pride:

"But it also requires rich combat experience, and strength is also indispensable. At least you have to be in the same evolution range as your opponent. Otherwise, even if you are a high priest in the late stage of the first tier, it will be difficult to have the power to suppress others if you get this divine weapon. At most, you can only hold your own against an early stage second tier enemy wearing rock horse armor for an hour or two."

"If a strong person is at the early stage of the second tier, wielding a long spear, they can easily challenge a fully armed rock horse warrior. At least at the early stage of the second tier, they are invincible."

"Therefore, from the very beginning, the surgically modified wolf warriors in my planned countermeasures were never the solution to break the deadlock..."

"The real weapon that can solve the Rock Horse Armor problem and defeat the Rock Horse Warriors is the Wolf Fang and Claws that are specially modified by the Wasteland Wolf."

"It's a pity that if the Wilderness Wolf Clan hadn't attacked and disrupted the original plan, the final match the day after tomorrow would have been Li Hao's death day!"

"At that time, Li Hao, who has been continuously exhausted, will be powerless to fight and will be killed by us on his way back."

"Even with the interference of the Wasteland Wolf Clan, Li Hao's death was already destined; it was just a matter of who killed him."

"Let's go, let's see just how powerful the weapons can be made from a steel wolf fang that has reached the mid-stage of the second tier!"

After saying this, Father Su An covered the huge wolf tooth in his hand with a black cloth, and then led Lin Feng to a secret door at the back of the church area.

This is a hole that rises from the ground, with a warning banner on the door that reads "Warship Restricted Area, Outsiders Not Allowed," clearly indicating that it is a secret passage on the Oasis warship.

There are also combat clerics on both sides, responsible for daily duties.

Just like the command and control room in the center of a warship, it is guarded by shifts for twenty hours a day.

Upon seeing Father Suan arrive, the two combat priests immediately opened the iron gate that had been sealed off the cave entrance.

Lin Feng followed behind and immediately felt a surge of heat.

It was filled with steam, like the lid of a boiling boiler being lifted.

The temperature inside the passageway was a full forty degrees Celsius, about fifteen degrees higher than that of the Shangmin District, which uses a large central air conditioning system for cooling.

Ordinary humans would find it difficult to adapt to such a high-temperature environment, but it had no effect on powerful second-order evolved beings like Lin Feng and Father Su An.

After the accumulated steam dissipated, Father Su An, carrying the steel wolf fang in his hand and Lin Feng behind him, entered the passage.

Inside is a secret staircase, 1.5 meters wide and 2 meters high, that runs diagonally downwards from the bow of the warship for about 20 meters.

At the bottom of the steel tunnel, there is an ordinary iron door with peeling paint and rusty patches caused by the corrosion of high-temperature steam.

From the moment Lin Feng stepped inside, he could hear a dull, short vibration, like an old engine churning and rattling.

When the two pushed open the door and entered the bottom deck of the warship, the temperature of the heatwave suddenly rose, directly from forty degrees to fifty or sixty degrees.

At such high temperatures, ordinary humans probably couldn't even stay for a few minutes; it's practically a super sauna.

Even just sitting still will cause you to sweat a lot in order to lower your body temperature.

Those who can work in this environment are definitely not ordinary humans; they must at least be enhanced beings in later stages.

Only those with four to five times the physical strength of an average person can adapt to the high-intensity work in such a harsh environment.

For Lin Feng, although such a high-temperature environment was suffocating, it was not unbearable, as long as he could continue to obtain water and regulate his body's balance.

After adapting to the sweltering heat, Lin Feng leaned out from beside Father Su An and saw what the bottom of the warship looked like.

This is the boiler room of the warship, and also the location of the furnace that provides the warship with propulsion.

Inside the enormous space, which was about six meters high, twenty meters wide, and forty meters long, were three giant power furnaces, which were emitting a low hissing sound.

The slowly rotating bearings have two connected to the front, while the remaining one meshes with a nearby gear, transmitting power to the giant steel tire below.

This is how the warships advance.

As for the other two leading forward, they respectively transmit power to the front giant wheels and the giant tracked bottom wheels located in the lower middle part of the warship.

The three massive engines supply power to the three systems of the warship, essentially forming a three-wheel drive system.

This distributed propulsion structure has a fairly high fault tolerance rate; even if one section is damaged, it will not directly affect the warship's forward movement in the short term.

Next to the three engines is the water cooling circulation channel for the system.

The water vapor that fills the top of the bottom layer also comes from inside.

However, this was not Father Suan's forging ground, because Lin Feng was surprised to find that the three giant engines, under water cooling circulation, only reached a few hundred degrees Celsius. To melt and recast the steel wolf fangs, a temperature of over two thousand degrees Celsius was required.

However, Lin Feng still memorized the appearance of these giant engines and looked at the information plaques attached to the wall, which showed the internal structure of the giant engines, making it easier for future generations to maintain and repair them.

Father Su An led Lin Feng through the corridor and began to introduce them:

"These are neither internal combustion engines nor diesel engines. After all, fuels from this old era have become extremely precious. Only the King's Alliance, located near the equator, has a stable and large-scale production of them."

"Although the church also has oil production bases, unfortunately, they happen to be located on the border between the Holy Spring Church and the northern giant corporations. The two sides have been fighting fiercely for these fossil raw materials for many years."

"After this matter is over, you may encounter this when you go to the Holy City Diocese ahead."

"The bishopric will also issue bounties through the Wilderness Hunter Guild, inviting second-tier hunter squads to join forces with the Knights and other vassal forces to fight alongside the giant corporation in order to seize the major oil fields."

"Although daily energy consumption can be replaced by electricity, oil is the lifeblood of industry. Refined fuel oil is just a byproduct. Its real use is in processing into various petroleum products, such as plastics, as well as weapons and equipment."

Lin Feng nodded. Even in this wasteland era, oil is no less important to civilization than water.

The latter represents the issue of survival, while the former determines the level of development of a power or civilization.

Oil is the lifeblood of industry, and industry is the cornerstone of the leaps in civilization.

Without a large and complete industrial system, it would be impossible to build the giant warship in front of Lin Feng and support so many human survivors.

In the old days, the struggle for oil was a recurring theme in modern society, and most wars were fought because of oil.

Even now in the wasteland era, this same conflict persists among the top-tier, first-rate powers.

Lin Feng vaguely remembered that the main oil-producing areas in the Old Earth period were near the Middle East, which is the border area between West Asia, Europe and Africa.

Although the area is water-scarce and desert-strewn, it benefited from the mass extinction hundreds of millions of years ago, which trapped a large amount of biomass in the earth's crust. After thousands of years of compression under high temperature and pressure, it formed the richest oilfield on Earth.

The kind of oil that just oozes out when you drill a hole in the ground, without even needing an oil extraction machine.

The Holy Spring Cult's territory covers the area between 30 and 40 degrees north latitude, while the King's Alliance region to the south lies between 30 and 20 degrees north latitude.

Although it happens to be the main oil-producing region in the Middle East, the environment there is extremely harsh. According to Bai Ye, the leader of the Salvation Army, and Zong Shiyue, the temperature there is consistently around 40 to 50 degrees Celsius.

Because it is close to the direct rays of the sun, even in places far from the sun's forbidden zone, the radiation energy received is comparable to that of the current environment of Oasis Town.

So although that place is the King's Alliance, which claims to have a hundred Tier 3 Kings and a hundred Tier 3 Kings, it has always been on the edge of the Wasteland Safe Zone during the Dark Ages of the Old Calendar.

Just like Oasis Town now.

Treated as a place of exile, many criminals and those who failed in their power grabs were driven here.

With the addition of some refugees or defectors, over time, it has become the current King's Alliance.

Although the environment there is extremely harsh, it has the advantage of having countless shallow oil fields in the desolate desert, which can be used to extract large amounts of oil.

Therefore, the King's League has been trading oil with the Holy Spring Church for water, a necessity for survival.

While there are some oil-producing areas within the territory ruled by the Holy Spring Church, the main underground mineral resources are concentrated between 40 and 45 degrees north latitude, which is the area controlled by the Northern Giants Alliance.

This includes the former Central Asia region and the Caucasus Mountains area, both of which were major oil-producing areas.

Therefore, the alliance between the Holy Spring Church and the giant corporation, and the struggle between these two top-tier forces, is simply inevitable.

This is also good news for Lin Feng, since he will need a breakthrough to collect resources and build his own mobile base when he goes to the Holy City Bishop's District in the future.

Petroleum is not only a raw material for industrial production, but also a very important source of energy.

"So these three giant engines use electric motor systems?"

Lin Feng squinted, blocking the boiling steam from the boiler next to him, and asked a question while memorizing the general internal structure of the engine.

Father Suan nodded:
"That's right, because Oasis produces a lot of photovoltaic panels, and the quality is decent, so it's more convenient to use electricity as a power source, and the motor has enough horsepower."

"Although the Holy City can use biological laboratories to cultivate evolved meat, it cannot produce the bio-photovoltaic panels that only live horses have."

“Developing the rock breeding industry is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task, and the returns are very low in terms of output ratio.”

"A cheap water source and labor force are necessary to support a large-scale aquaculture system, as well as a complete industrial chain and stable demand."

"Therefore, in Oasis Town, the Li family's rock horn horse breeding farm has been able to thrive to this day thanks to policy support."

"That is why the Oasis warship can rely on photovoltaic power generation alone to meet its propulsion needs."

"In addition, the large motors have high enough power, each reaching 100 megawatts, which is about 140,000 horsepower. The three motors together have 440,000 horsepower!"

"In fact, just one of them could propel this 50,000-ton town-class warship forward slowly..."

"Right now, we're just conserving energy, reducing wear and tear, and moving slowly at a minimum speed of one kilometer per hour to meet the needs of observing the restricted area under the blazing sun."

"If all three engines are operating at full power, this steel behemoth can be propelled at a speed of thirty kilometers per hour, galloping freely across the wasteland!"

Lin Feng nodded. He had already learned all this data by scanning the data when he used the Oasis Key to activate the highest level of access to the warship in the control room.

The warship has a top speed of 30 kilometers per hour.

Don't be fooled by the fact that this speed isn't very fast. This is a steel behemoth that is over 200 meters long and weighs 50,000 tons. A speed of 30 kilometers per hour is almost the limit that it can withstand.

But Lin Feng wanted to know more about why the attribute data of this level 30 warship showed a lack of sufficient power energy supply.

Moreover, the three giant engines can currently only utilize up to 30% of their original performance.

A matching power furnace is needed to bring it to its full potential!
However, it wasn't long before Father Su An led Lin Feng through the engine area and arrived at another area in the middle of the warship...

Amidst the scorching heat, Lin Feng witnessed the true source of power for the Oasis warship…

A huge metal sphere stood silently in front of everyone, its surface a scorching orange-red, radiating a terrifyingly high temperature.

There are also many workers nearby, who are using soil and rock to cool it down.

Or rather, extinguishing it would be more appropriate!
(End of this chapter)