Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 281 The Mountain's Cover: Delay and Consumption

The second arena match was held in an open area five kilometers away.

The reason why we didn't look for a location ten kilometers away as before is because there is a mountainous area five kilometers away from Oasis Town.

These undulating mountain ranges, though only two or three hundred meters high, make the ground uneven, with not a single open space even one kilometer in diameter.

The complex environment will only provide more obstacles along the way, hindering the smooth progress of the battle.

This type of terrain is suitable for agile fighters who have an advantage in speed and reaction time. It is difficult for fighters like Rock Horse Warriors, who rely on brute force to cause damage, to unleash their full potential.

Therefore, Li Hao had proposed earlier that the competition should be held in an open plain within five kilometers.

Firstly, this is fair to everyone, and secondly, we don't want fierce fighting to affect the safety of Oasis Avenue.

The main reason is that a mid-stage second-tier rock horse warrior, when unleashing its full power, can even unleash a terrifying force of nearly a hundred tons.

Such immense power is enough to move mountains and fill seas, and change the topography of mountain ranges.

After a battle, at best the mountaintop is shaved off and fists and feet are broken, at worst the mountain collapses and the earth splits, with rocks flying everywhere.

If a chain reaction is triggered, or if the broken boulders are accidentally rolled down the Oasis Road between the mountains, it will have a significant impact on the safe passage of Oasis Town, especially the Oasis warships.

Choosing a flat ground as the arena for the martial arts competition would be much safer. As long as firearms are not used, it would be difficult to affect the oasis town five kilometers behind.

As for the church, after some discussion, the bishop and Father Suan also agreed to Li Hao's proposal.

The main crisis is the attack from the surrounding wasteland wolf pack. Tens of thousands of evolved wasteland wolves have surrounded Oasis Town. They are hiding in the mountains, making them impossible to defend against.

If the duel takes place in the mountains, it will be difficult to observe in time when the steppe wolves will launch an attack and to respond accordingly.

With Oasis Town in the mix, and as they approach the interior of the mountains, the wolf pack can take advantage of the terrain to charge down the mountainside and storm into the settlement.

The advantageous terrain of the mountains is also very suitable for agile wolf packs, which can cleverly evade human long-range fire suppression by using the cover of the mountains.

On the barren wasteland, the wolf pack was forced to reveal their location and confront the humans of Oasis Town head-on.

They withstood the firepower of the Oasis warships and the defensive lines organized by Lin Feng.

After both sides reached an agreement, Xu Wanfeng found an open space on the southwest side of the left side of the Oasis warship to serve as the arena for the duel.

The number of people coming to watch the competition has decreased again compared to before.

There are hardly any hunters or ordinary people left; only the church and the high-ranking evolved individuals from a few major families remain.

The main focus is on Oasis Town. They have been advancing non-stop for thirteen days. The villagers, who have no means of transportation, are already exhausted and can only barely keep up with Oasis Town.

Very few squads managed to get ahead of the Oasis warship.

Furthermore, the battles between second-tier evolved beings are far more intense than those in the late stages of first-tier evolution, so even those who are merely observing from the sidelines risk being caught in the crossfire.

Evolvers are fine, but for ordinary enhanced wasteland dwellers, second-tier powerhouses are not much different from Superman in their eyes.

They could be easily crushed with a single finger.

The enormous evolutionary gap has completely separated ordinary people and second-order beings into two species.

The difference between the two is like comparing a primitive small lizard that has just evolved into a reptile to the dinosaur, the pinnacle of reptile evolution, which is the archosaur.

The two sides have an evolutionary history that is hundreds of millions of years apart.

Therefore, even if a second-tier evolved being just stands there, the aura he releases can frighten some ordinary enhanced people with weak wills so much that their legs go weak and their whole body trembles.

Not to mention the clashes between two powerful second-tier experts.

The terrifying aura emanating from both sides was enough to crush ordinary life, causing cardiac arrest and instant death.

The small number of onlookers not only facilitated the execution of the church's plan, but also allowed the Oasis warship to observe the battle scene more clearly, as well as the pack of wasteland wolves lurking in the mountains in the distance, waiting for their chance to strike.

At this moment, in the command and control room of the Oasis warship, Lin Feng was listening to the Grand Priest's introduction and handing over the Oasis Key that he had been keeping safe to the other party.

From now on, Lin Feng will no longer control the Oasis Key. After all, once Li Hao dies, the threat to the Oasis warship will no longer be the local families within the region, but the Wasteland Wolf Clan, which is about to launch an attack.

At that time, Lin Feng will need to leave the Oasis warship and go to the five villages below to unite all the townspeople, including some of the wilderness people in the outer areas, to form a resistance front against the invasion of the Wasteland Wolf Clan.

Another reason for handing over the Oasis Key at this moment is that from now on, the Oasis warship must enter a state of first-level combat readiness, with all offensive weapons loaded with live ammunition and activated, ready to be deployed into battle at any time.

After speaking, the Grand Priest inserted the Oasis Key into the lock that unlocked the permissions, directly granting the warship the highest level of access.

Then, mobilization orders were issued to the combat units hidden on both sides of the bow and on both sides of the hull.

The artillery unit, consisting of over a hundred men, immediately went into combat readiness.

They began pushing the well-maintained cannons to the windows of the warship's hull and used binoculars to observe the distance.

The warhead data also includes coordinate system files left by the original crew.

Especially for round-the-world routes like the Oasis Route, the migration routes are fixed. Thousands of years ago, the Vatican had already calculated and tested all the landmarks within a 50-kilometer radius on both sides of the route.

Then it becomes a complete set of artillery coordinate parameters.

In this way, scouts at the front lines or observation stations on warships can directly report the coordinates once they confirm the enemy's location.

Then, the warhead crew, through calculation and adjustment, fine-tunes the elevation angle and aiming direction of the artillery, which enables them to accurately lock onto targets more than ten kilometers away and carry out long-range fire coverage beyond visual range.

The speed is so fast that the strike can be completed in as little as half a minute from receiving the message to the shell landing.

As for the coverage area, a town-level warship like the Oasis has such powerful firepower that a single salvo can cause devastating damage over an area of ​​one square kilometer, making it a demolition weapon capable of destroying a city.

Where the debris landed, all that remained was devastation and ruins.

After all, the two battle guns below the bow alone could fire giant shells with a caliber of 200 mm, with a base damage of up to 1,000.

A single shot can tear apart a three-meter-thick defensive fortification. Even a second-tier rock horse behemoth, known for its defense, is as fragile as paper in the face of the giant cannon's bombardment.

With damage reaching up to a thousand, any second-tier life form would find it difficult to withstand this devastating blow. Although its rate of fire makes it difficult to hit a second-tier being in good condition, the residual force of the explosion and the shockwave can still cover a radius of five hundred meters.

It causes hundreds of points of spread damage.

Ordinary life forms within the effective killing range are either too close and pulverized, or suffer severe internal organ damage from the impact, resulting in serious injury and near death.

Even if you take cover, it's hard to withstand the impact of an explosion.

Even a first-tier evolved being would suffer severe injuries. As for second-tier beings, if they were human evolved beings, they might be able to mitigate the injuries caused by the impact due to their relatively small size. However, second-tier clan chief-level king beasts are generally over fifteen meters in size.

Late-stage second-tier rock horse behemoths or wild wolf behemoths can reach lengths of over thirty meters and heights of ten meters, equivalent to a three-story building.

Walking through the wasteland is like being a small, moving mountain. Especially the massive rock horse behemoths, which in later versions weigh over 500 tons, can cause a small earthquake when they run wild.

These colossal beasts, due to their immense size, suffer damage areas from human artillery bombardment that are more than ten times larger than those of other first-tier evolved beasts.

Even with stronger defensive capabilities, the shockwave's vibrations penetrate physical defenses and directly affect the internal organs within the body cavity.

Collisions and vibrations involving internal organs can range from minor internal bleeding that can gradually recover to severe organ rupture and functional impairment, leading to a sharp decline in condition.

Therefore, when dealing with second-tier behemoths, artillery is far more effective than having evolved humans directly engage in combat.

During the Great Cataclysm, many survivor bases used powerful firepower to build strong defenses, keeping the mutated beasts out of the Steel City.

Today, these large cannons are mounted on mobile fortresses, similarly defending humanity's place of refuge, their massive, black muzzles serving as a warning to lurking enemies.

In Lin Feng's view, the firepower of the Oasis warship was enough to suppress the Wilderness Wolf Clan's attack, provided that the wolf clan leader would lead his evolved wolf pack into the flat wilderness and launch an attack on Oasis Town as planned.

Only in this way can the Oasis warship's super firepower achieve 100% kill effect.

The problem is that the wolf clan leader, Lang Ao, is an ancient behemoth that lived through the Great Cataclysm of the Old Earth era. He must be very familiar with the power of human weapons and the combat environment he is suited for.

This is why they came with great fanfare, only to be ambushed in the mountains ahead.

Because of the cover provided by the mountain, most of the damage from artillery fire can be avoided, but this also places higher demands on the accuracy of human artillery fire.

On a plain, even if a large-caliber battleship cannon cannot directly hit its target, the shockwave's area damage can cover an area larger than five football fields.

However, in mountainous and hilly areas, the mountains provide cover and protection, which not only greatly reduces area damage but also requires precise landing in the same area as the target.

Otherwise, even if the landing point is less than a hundred meters away from the mountain, the damage would be at most like hitting a cow across the mountain, and it would be difficult to effectively kill even an ordinary first-tier evolved wild beast.

Therefore, Lin Feng was even more worried that the wolf clan leader, Lang Ao, had chosen to ambush in the mountains in order to wait for Oasis Town to be forced to enter, so that he could catch them like turtles in a jar.

This will not only greatly shorten the distance and time for the Wasteland Wolves to launch an attack, reducing the damage they suffer from human firepower, but also allow them to launch an attack from all directions, throwing the Oasis Town's defenses into chaos and leaving them unable to defend themselves.

Upon realizing this, Lin Feng immediately informed the Grand Priest beside him about the matter.

The latter, while directing the personnel in the warhead to enter combat readiness and place the artillery in position via camera, replied:

"Don't worry, His Excellency the Bishop has already taken this into consideration. He will arrange a special team composed of second-tier evolved beings to hold back the second-tier chieftain-level giant wolf of the Wasteland Wolf Clan."

"In this way, we only need to deal with the remaining first-tier evolved wild wolves. No matter how many of them there are, they cannot withstand the bombardment of the ten howitzers on both sides."

"With the firepower support you provide, setting up defensive lines on both sides should be no problem dealing with evolved wild wolves below the second tier!"

"As for the two heavy battle cannons at the bow, they are used to block the second-tier wild wolf behemoths. Their power is too great; a single shot can flatten a mountain. Even if the wolf clan tries to set up a rocky roadblock in the narrow passage between mountains, it will not be able to withstand the bombardment of the heavy cannons."

Lin Feng looked at the screen. The two battleship cannons, as the main guns of the Oasis warship, had barrels that were a full fifteen meters long and calibers as thick as a thigh.

A single shell weighs up to 200 kilograms.

Fortunately, there were several evolved humans in the combat department; otherwise, the process of simply moving shells and loading them into the chamber would have exhausted the other enhanced humans.

The solution proposed by the High Priest was the same one Lin Feng had discussed with Father Su An, where he mentioned that the Armor-Piercing Wolf Spear's destructive power exceeded expectations, and he planned to use it to form a Tier 2 elite squad...

To intercept the second-tier wild wolf behemoth's attack and destruction on Oasis Town, especially the Oasis warship itself.

Despite the oasis warship being over two hundred meters long and twenty meters high, a second-tier wild wolf behemoth could land on top of it with a single leap.

If the giant wolf beast gets close and close and takes over a favorable position, it would be a devastating blow to the Oasis warship.

As for the martial arts contest currently being set up, it was clearly a scheme devised by His Holiness the Bishop and Father Suan, who cleverly approved Li Hao's proposal.

Then, using Li Hao as bait, they lured the wilderness wolf clan, who were lying in ambush among the mountains, to launch an attack ahead of schedule.

After all, the Church wanted to wipe out the Wasteland Wolf Clan in one fell swoop, while the Wolf Clan also hoped to crush all the capable second-tier powerhouses in the Oasis in one fell swoop.

This would not only plunge Oasis Town into chaos with no leader, but also minimize the losses from looting.

Both sides have entered a state of combat.

This is a contest between hunters.

They both viewed each other as prey.

With a command from Xu Wanfeng on the arena, the second match began.

The one who made the appearance from the Li family was naturally the patriarch, Li Hao.

The second-tier mid-stage, level 25 Rock Horse Battle Armor he wore was a size larger than that of an ordinary early-stage warship, making it easy to distinguish.

Furthermore, the Li family has already lost the first match. If an unexpected event occurs in the second match, then the outcome is already predetermined.

Therefore, Li Hao had no choice but to take the field and fight with all his might to win this crucial game.

As for the contestants sent by the church, they probably surprised Lin Feng.

Because the one who boarded was not another high priest who had been modified by the Wild Wolf Source, but Father Suan himself.

In his hand, he held a brand-new armor-piercing wolf spear.

Based on its shape and size, it should only be an ordinary level 23 weapon, but its destructive power and armor-piercing effect are enough to pose a threat to the Rock Horse Armor.

A true clash of titans is about to begin.

Both sides were at the mid-stage of the second tier, but Li Hao, who had evolved to level 26, clearly had the advantage in both his own strength and his weapons and equipment.

Therefore, the outcome of this duel was already predetermined from the start: Father Suan had no chance of defeating Li Hao.

His role is to deplete the opponent's status.

This weakened Li Hao.

Until they were in a life-threatening crisis.

(End of this chapter)