Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 318 First Kill of a Second-Tier Behemoth, Death Confirmed

As Lin Feng pulled the trigger, the Thermal Annihilation Cannon, containing 800 points of fear-inducing power and thousands of degrees of temperature, was aimed directly at Han Tao, who had just landed.

The latter suffered extremely severe impact damage from jumping off the mountaintop. Even with the hydraulic cushioning assistance of the power armor, Han Tao's legs still endured a collision pressure of more than several tons upon landing.

This directly resulted in fractures in both legs, and a significant decrease in movement speed and reaction time.

Therefore, even if he sensed the impending threat of death, he would find it difficult to respond in time.

Although his legs were weak, his hands were still intact!
Han Tao, who was rolling on the ground to cushion his fall, suddenly lunged forward with his hands on the ground in a moment of desperation, sending his lower body flying.

With the aid of powered armor, its speed reached a staggering 100 meters per second.

The supersonic annihilation cannon, launched from the mountaintop, takes only a second to reach its target. Even with Han Tao's quick reaction and decisive action, he could only escape to the edge of the area fifty meters away from the center of the attack...

It will still be affected by the blast wave.

However, compared to that, the one who suffered even more was the second-tier early-stage wild wolf behemoth that Lin Feng had actually targeted, which leaped down from the mountainside.

It is also the second oldest of the three early-stage giant beasts of the Wasteland Wolf Clan, and the second wolf of the twenty-second stage of evolution.

During the pursuit, they were repeatedly attacked by small rockets equipped with power armor by Xu Wanfeng, who arrived at the scene. Unable to bear the harassment any longer, they chose to risk killing the Rock Horse Warriors...

After surging from a drop of over 200 meters, it leaped into the air and charged forward, leaving its massive body suspended in mid-air for nearly a second.

Although it could control its limbs and body, it had no leverage points to change its flight path and landing location, making it easy to predict the trajectory of this giant wolf beast in the next second.

Therefore, the location locked by Lin Feng's scope was exactly where the giant wolf would land, less than three meters away from where Han Tao had originally been.

Even though Wolf Two had instinctively sensed the impending danger of death, and as the flash of fire in the distance drew ever closer, alarm bells rang in his mind, he was unable to take any effective evasive action.

Because they couldn't find a fulcrum, the twisting and waving of their limbs and torso could only hit the air, which was like bubbles.

In the final tenth of a second, Wolf Two, realizing he couldn't dodge effectively, finally regained his senses and began to take his last countermeasures.

To minimize the fatal damage from artillery fire, the giant wolf turned around and curled up, exposing its limbs and, less importantly, its tail, to the human's artillery barrage.

Although Wolf Two had a premonition that the rapidly approaching shell was extremely powerful and could cause serious injury or even endanger his life...

But avoiding serious damage to its head and torso is the best it can do right now.

As the Annihilation Cannon descended, a deafening roar resounded!
An explosion comparable to that of a 200mm battle cannon was released instantly in the valley.

Aside from its lower center damage and area of ​​effect compared to battleship heavy artillery, the Thermal Annihilation Cannon is actually more powerful than large-caliber heavy artillery, especially against evolved life forms.

After all, continuous high-temperature thermal damage can significantly reduce the self-healing and recovery capabilities of advanced life forms.

This prevents them from stimulating the damaged tissues to proliferate and divide rapidly for repair through their vigorous vitality.

After all, even evolved cells cannot complete normal division and replication in sustained high temperatures of several hundred degrees Celsius, and can easily be dehydrated and cooked.

Therefore, this giant wolf's final effort might offer it a slim chance of survival should it encounter a large-caliber heavy artillery piece.

Even if its limbs are blown off, its tail is shattered, or even its abdomen is impacted and its organs are broken, as long as there are no large-scale lacerations on its torso and its head is still intact, thanks to the vigorous vitality of a second-tier behemoth, it can heal its fractures and other injuries in a very short time and quickly regain its mobility.

When the smoke and dust from the explosion dissipate, the giant wolf will at least still have the ability to fight back or a chance to escape.

However, to Wolf Two's surprise, the shell that was locking onto it was not loaded with ordinary explosives, but with a continuously burning white phosphorus chemical agent.

So after the explosion, although Wolf Two still had a chance to catch his breath, more than 70% of his body had been burned off, especially the outer steel mane and wolf skin, which were directly melted and torn apart.

The muscles and blood vessels inside were exposed, and then they were roasted until they were charred by the continuous high temperature.

The burned area reached more than 30%.

The pair of forelimbs that were originally used to protect the wolf's head were charred and fell off. The head was also burned to reveal the white bones. As it struggled and howled incessantly, shrouded in evaporated blood, it appeared particularly eerie and terrifying.

But what makes Wolf Two feel even more desperate than these things is the persistent high temperature following the nearby explosion, which has risen from four or five thousand degrees to six or seven hundred degrees even now.

Even though several tens of seconds had passed, the smoke and dust kicked up by the explosion were gradually dissipating...

The temperature within 20 meters of the explosion center can still reach 500 to 600 degrees Celsius.

This means that the energy and nutrients stored in Wolf Two's body, no matter how much they stimulate the surviving tissue cells, can at most only compensate for the parts that are constantly being burned.

There was simply no spare capacity to repair the already damaged limbs and part of the abdominal torso.

This meant that the few remaining lives were wasted in the struggle against the high temperatures.

In the end, he could only reveal his resentment and fear through the repaired pupil before dying in despair.

On the other side, Han Tao, who escaped to within fifty meters of the explosion's epicenter, narrowly escaped death but was still significantly affected.

Especially at the moment of the explosion, the shock wave, carrying a heat wave of thousands of degrees, swept in, and the expanding air, containing scorching energy, directly engulfed the powered armor on the body surface.

Only the early-stage Tier 2 power armor, with its outer protective plates made of ordinary titanium alloy, was instantly twisted and deformed under the impact of this high temperature.

As for the external fiber material, it was burned through by the high temperature and heat wave, and the internal electronic circuits and many other functional modules also crashed.

Suffering such intense wear and tear, the durability of this power armor instantly dropped to zero, and it was destroyed mid-air as it was blasted away by the shockwave.

The two-hundred-kilogram Tier 2 early-stage Rock Horse Warrior was like a kite with a broken string, directly swept away by the shock wave released by the explosion, flying more than a hundred meters away.

The wrecked power armor offered absolutely no cushioning or protection. Han Tao was like a hundred-ton heavy transport vehicle, crashing head-on into him and sending him flying.

Finally, it crashed into a boulder a hundred meters away without any protection, the impact force comparable to a punch weighing tens of tons, hitting its entire body.

The next moment, Han Tao fainted.

The intense pain destroyed my nerves, and my brain activated its self-protection program, cutting off all external sources. Combined with the effects of the initial shock, I crashed on the spot.

However, the tenacious vitality of a second-tier life form allowed Han Tao to cling to his last breath. The remaining cells in his body began to devour and absorb damaged tissues, proliferating and dividing to repair the wounds.

Furthermore, Han Tao was now nearly 200 meters away from the explosion's epicenter, completely unaffected by the subsequent high-temperature burns, and the self-repair of his second-order cells was not hindered in any way.

Thirty seconds after hitting the target, Lin Feng, standing on the mountaintop, slowly walked down the mountain, holding the more than two-meter-long Thermal Annihilation Cannon in both hands.

The violent explosion, along with the devastation and lava-strewn landscape that followed, terrified Xu Wanfeng, a survivor on the opposite mountainside.

Lost in a daze, her first thought after regaining her senses was to get away from Lin Feng as quickly as possible.

However, the tingling, fearful sensation in his feet made Xu Wanfeng stop, and after regaining his senses, he decided to observe for a while.

After all, the Salvation Army was not far away, waiting for her to go and rescue them.

Both sides need to join forces in times of adversity to fight the enemy so that the Oasis Hunter Guild can successfully unite with the Salvation Army after the war and jointly establish a new settlement.

Most importantly, the Oasis Hunting Guild has no conflict of interest with Lin Feng. Furthermore, Xu Wanfeng himself, as a mid-stage second-tier evolver, has strength and background that Han Tao cannot match.

Even if Lin Feng wanted to frame him, he would have to consider whether he could bear the consequences of doing so.

Fortunately, after Lin Feng finished his attack, he put away his dangerous weapon and ran down the rocky hillside.

He paid no attention to Xu Wanfeng on the opposite hillside.

The explosion of the Annihilation Cannon will surely attract the attention of the Wasteland Wolves and the Salvation Army in the valley on the left.

After all, the Salvation Army's rudimentary weapons could not possibly cause an explosion of this magnitude. Even White Night's liquid hydrogen bomb was only comparable to a 120mm howitzer, and it still had some killing power against mid-to-late stage Tier 1 life forms.

But it would certainly be difficult to severely damage a second-tier behemoth.

Therefore, if the neighbors hear any noise, they will definitely send out a small group of evolved wild wolves to investigate.

The Salvation Army leader, Bai Ye, will surely realize that this is a support force sent by Oasis Town. Then, as long as he brings the Salvation Army to join him, he can easily deal with the relentless pursuit of the Wild Wolves army.

Based on this calculation, Lin Feng doesn't have much time left.

He had to quickly and thoroughly deal with the dying wolf behemoth, which was on its last breath, and then dissect its nearly fully cooked second-tier body, taking away its most valuable steel wolf fangs and the evolved meat rich in life essence from its spine.

As for the other parts, the early stage of the level 22 evolved wild wolf behemoth, most of its flesh and blood are estimated to be only at level 19.

Aside from the level 22 evolved meat rich in source material, the only other level 20 and 21 evolved meats that can reach the second-tier standard are the powerful hind leg muscles and the jaw muscles, which are key parts.

Unless a second-tier behemoth advances from the initial stage to the middle stage and its overall tissue cells reach a new level, it will be difficult for it to completely transform into the second stage.

While level 19 evolved meat has some value, the group is currently in enemy territory, surrounded by evolved wild wolves. Although Lin Feng's Thermal Annihilation Cannon is very powerful, the space magazine only has a pitiful ten rounds of ammunition.

Even if a single shot could take away a hundred evolved wild wolves gathered together, it would still be difficult to deal with a beast tide of tens of thousands.

Even consuming health points to refresh isn't enough.

As for the armor-piercing cannon and the rapid-fire cannon, their lethality is really limited in the mountains and ravines. The evolved wild wolf can easily avoid most of the damage by relying on the block and cover of the pile of rocks, and quickly approach the lethal range, putting Lin Feng in a dilemma of killing a thousand enemies but losing eight hundred of his own.

So, before the scorched earth left behind after the extinction cannon explosion had completely cooled down, Lin Feng arrived near the epicenter of the explosion.

At this moment, the black and reddish stone still has a temperature of over a thousand degrees, and the heat it emits is as high as one or two hundred degrees. Even a first-order evolved life form would find it difficult to endure such a harsh environment.

This is the terrifying aspect of the Annihilation Cannon: it can cause continuous secondary damage and even completely eliminate the genetic radiation energy left behind by Tier 3 beings.

It was precisely because of this purifying effect that Lin Feng dared to pack Zong Shiyue's mutated flesh and blood into a lead box and carry it with him in the car.

In the event of a leak or spread, or if Zong Shiyue turns against them, a single hot-heat extinguishing cannon can purify all contamination on the spot.

It is especially useful for dealing with second-tier enemies, particularly second-tier behemoths with strong vitality.

Using the cooling aid of the power armor, Lin Feng braved the sweltering steam and traversed the blood-soaked ruins of the explosion, quickly arriving before the giant wolf beast.

At this moment, the once majestic and awe-inspiring wolf, whose massive body, including its tail, was a full twenty meters long, has become emaciated.

The dense, fine steel bristles on the surface were directly melted by the high-temperature flames and heat waves. The limbs and wolf tail, which were used to withstand the damage, were exposed to temperatures of thousands of degrees and were instantly carbonized, turning into long, black sticks stuck together.

As for the rest of the skin and flesh, it either cracked and charred, or it was scalded and fell off.

This saved Lin Feng the first step of skinning.

Lin Feng slowly walked up to the giant wolf's head, which was barely clinging to life. Without any hesitation, he thrust the level 26 armor-piercing wolf spear he was holding into the target's bleeding eyeball from ten meters away.

The sharp spearhead pierced straight into the wolf's brain tissue, tearing apart the remaining consciousness inside before emerging from the hard back of its skull.

"Awwww..."

The giant wolf, mortally wounded, let out a painful howl before dying completely.

The other party was indeed still clinging to his last breath, wanting to seize an opportunity for revenge during his final moments of lucidity.

After confirming that the giant wolf was completely dead, Lin Feng stepped forward and drew his armor-piercing wolf spear.

Then, using the spear as a boning knife, he began his first attempt to expose the second-tier behemoth...

Seeing this, Xu Wanfeng, who was not far away, did not rush over directly, but instead went to the side of Han Tao, who was unconscious on the other side.

Only after confirming that the latter was merely unconscious did he get up.

At this moment, Lin Feng shouted:
"Come and help! You'll have a share too!"

Xu Wanfeng, who had just stood up, paused for a moment, then hesitated.

(End of this chapter)