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

Chapter 21 External Situation, Secrets of the Zerg

By the time the two women had packed their luggage and supplies, Lin Feng's wound bandaging was almost finished.

Liu Ruojiao's skills were superb, perhaps due to her long years of teaching. After the treatment, she was able to pick up the gun with her bandaged palm and move around without being affected at all.

"Thank you, Mr. Liu."

Lin Feng expressed his sincere gratitude. Liu Ruojiao's skills allowed him to stay in perfect condition, which was very important.

Liu Ruojiao nodded and reminded them again not to do strenuous exercise to avoid secondary injuries. Then she carried the medical kit and returned to the group of teachers.

Lin Feng did not comment, but looked at his hands with shattered armor, which showed that the shield was damaged. The remaining usage time of fifteen minutes was reduced by ten minutes.

Fortunately, he still had two upgrade reserves. He used one of them again. With a flash of white light, the shield that was originally stained with blood and insect residue was restored to its original state, brand new from the factory.

Later, go to the pile of red beetle corpses downstairs to look for any intact red carapaces. Collect them and continue to upgrade the red armor shield.

This set of equipment is also a life-saving trump card, so you can't let your guard down.

Liu Yueqi witnessed this scene and started to murmur inwardly. She was a little confused about Lin Feng's true ability.

Maybe it's the very rare kind.

Seeing that Lin Feng had finished his work, Zhang Yurou and the other girl came over with bags on their backs. She handed a backpack to Lin Feng:
"There are supplies and food in there, take them, I don't need them."

"Now we just have to wait for them to contact the military and send a rescue helicopter from the rear. The helicopter is very fast and can arrive here in 20 minutes."

As soon as Zhang Yurou finished speaking, she saw three or four people fiddling with communication equipment in the power distribution room on the rooftop, exclaiming:

"Contacted! Coordinates: East longitude: 126.46, North latitude: 28.03, dormitory building next to Haicheng University Research Institute, all personnel are here."

"Received, help will arrive within half an hour!"

When they heard the powerful and melodious sound coming from the microphone, the people who gathered around them changed their worried faces into joy.

After enduring a day and a night of fear, I can finally leave this hell on earth.

Lin Feng brought the two women over. He knew very well that not everyone could leave, as the military had its own considerations.

At this moment, there are as many as fifteen survivors on the entire rooftop, plus Lin Feng and the other two, a total of eighteen people. However, the ordinary transport helicopters currently in service in the Federation can only carry twenty people.

In addition to the crew members above, there are also medical equipment and weapons, so it would be considered a good thing if ten people could be rescued.

So Lin Feng and the other two were not as happy and excited as the teachers and professors in front of them. They just watched them silently.

After the crowd dispersed in groups of three or two, Lin Feng saw an old friend who looked familiar sitting next to the communication equipment.

The other person, with his head hung, unkempt hair and unshaven beard, sat cross-legged beside two dead red beetles, fiddling with the internal organs of the insect corpses with a wooden stick.

Lin Feng walked up slowly and sat opposite him.

The man slowly raised his head, his eyes changing from disbelief to shock, and finally he excitedly stepped forward and hugged Lin Feng's arms:

"Good boy! Why are you here?!"

"The outsider who just came downstairs, was it you?!"

Lin Feng nodded and asked:
"Fatty Ding, weren't you transferred to the Northwest Research Institute? Why did you come back without saying anything?"

"Were you hit by He Jie?"

Hearing the name He Jie, Ding Chenghai's happy expression dimmed, and he replied bitterly:

"Oh, don't mention it. She's just like your mother, a little obsessed... Sorry, that's not what I meant."

Lin Feng and Ding Chenghai's unexpected acquaintance originated from He Jie, the first disciple of his mother He Yiwen, who has now become a senior researcher.

Ding Chenghai fell in love with her at first sight, but unfortunately He Jie perfectly inherited her mother's will and devoted herself to research, with no idea of ​​falling in love at all.

After her father disappeared, He Jie was ordered by her tutor to often visit Lin Feng, who had just entered college. Ding Chenghai then adopted a roundabout way to become familiar with Lin Feng.

Later, when He Jie went to Northwest China, he gave up his high-paying position at his alma mater and followed her without hesitation.

After going around in circles, I ended up back here.

Lin Feng shrugged, indicating that he didn't mind. Anyway, he didn't have much affection for the mother who gave birth to him but didn't raise him.

Compared with emotional problems, he cares more about outside news:
"Do you know the current situation? Including the situation in various places and the response measures of the outside world?"

Ding Chenghai nodded, picked up the stick, dipped it in the juice from the insect corpse, and gestured on the ground:

"Almost all coastal cities have been invaded by alien Zerg. They are very smart and understand the social structure of humans very well."

"So far, the human side has not recaptured any city, and most of them have already fallen completely and become landing platforms for the Zerg."

"The red beetles we encountered were just the most common worker bugs in the Zerg race, but the ones the military encountered were soldier bugs that were several times stronger than the worker bugs."

"A kind of giant black insect that is five meters long and three meters tall, with four sharp legs and a pair of two-meter-long jaws. They are like light tanks on land, moving very fast. Ordinary rifle bullets cannot penetrate their thick armor. Only large-caliber sniper rifles and heavy machine guns can break through their defense."

"If you want to kill them completely, you have to use artillery!"

"But our army has been defeated for a long time, and they can drill into the underground tunnels dug by worker insects, making human artillery support and air force bombing have little effect." "But the only good news is that their mother, a giant biological fortress, we call it the Queen Mother, moves extremely slowly, and the worker insects and soldier insects cannot leave the Queen Mother too far..."

"So as long as we can get out of the city, we can escape."

At this point, Ding Chenghai suddenly realized something, his face changed, he raised his head and looked around, after confirming that there was no one nearby, he slowly moved forward and lowered his voice:

"There are only a few here. The important people can leave. You may not be able to get on the plane."

Lin Feng frowned slightly, looking at Ding Chenghai in front of him with some surprise. He didn't expect that he would actually tell him:

"How did you know? Are you one of them? And you didn't inform others?"

Ding Chenghai spread his hands and said confidently:

"If I had told you in advance, who would have saved me? Who would have helped us guard the aisle down there?"

"In order to appear more conscientious, I tried to be as low-key as possible. You made such a big noise, but I didn't even bother to take a look."

"Yes, I'm researching equipment, so the military wants to take me away to develop new weapons to deal with the alien swarms, but those people won't."

As he spoke, Ding Chenghai pointed secretly at the teachers and professors who had dispersed. Most of them were in management and academic research and were of little help to the current situation.

Professor Zhang Xuan, who had stepped forward earlier, and his fiancée Liu Ruojiao were among them.

The few people who were able to leave were several engineering professors who were debugging communication equipment.

Ding Chenghai looked at the two women behind Lin Feng. They came with Lin Feng. He said with some regret:

"You have to rely on yourselves. I can't convince those tools who only follow orders."

"But you just now successfully blocked the attack of the worker insect swarm downstairs. I think you have awakened your superpowers, right?"

Ding Chenghai held a wooden stick, pointed at Lin Feng's red and silver shield armor, and said with interest:

"This is the material of the worker insect's carapace. Is your ability to change the shape of objects?"

Lin Feng shook his head. Fatty Ding was very smart. He didn't want to reveal too much, lest the system be exposed:
"I don't know. Anyway, I have no problem staying alive."

"I heard Liu Yueqi talk about insecticide enhancement. Do you know the tricks behind it?"

As he said this, Ding Chenghai's expression gradually became serious:

"Yes, this is also what the Federation is stepping up its research on. Many soldiers on the front line have gained enhanced effects after killing giant insects. It is currently speculated that these alien insects traveled to the Blue Planet from a long distance through some kind of space tunnel."

"And they carry some kind of dark energy in their bodies that can activate life potential, which can be transferred to us after we kill them."

"Starting from the seventh strengthening, dark energy accumulates in the body, and it is possible to activate special abilities beyond understanding."

"This may be a blessing from heaven. While it brings disaster to mankind, it also opens a new era of evolution."

As he spoke, Ding Chenghai put down the stick, rubbed the dirt off his hands, and said expectantly:
"I've been hungry all night. Did you bring any food?"

Lin Feng rolled his eyes at him and took out a box of canned fish from his backpack, which was from his sister-in-law's refrigerator.

Taking the can of fish, Ding Chenghai swallowed unconsciously, but he did not open it directly. Instead, he raised a wooden stick and rummaged through the body of the red beetle. Finally, he picked out a milky white sac and peeled it out.

Then he asked the old professor next to him to borrow a lighter.

Ding Chenghai was seen holding the hose at the mouth of the bag with one hand and pressing the lighter with the other hand. The flame flickered and he placed it next to the opening of the hose. Then, a light blue flame suddenly shot out from the end of the hose.

Swish!
It made a whistling sound like a flamethrower!
Hold the flame hose tightly and heat the can.

Lin Feng widened his eyes, watching Fatty Ding's miraculous operation. He could never have imagined that the white sac organ in the insect's body had such a function!
Ding Chenghai chuckled and explained proudly:

"I've been thinking hard all day about how these alien bugs solve the problem of energy consumption. You know, with such a large size and fast movement speed, their demand for food and oxygen is not low..."

"After the autopsy, I found this."

"Inside the insect's body, there is an air sac that stores hydrogen. The air sac can secrete a certain substance that effectively reduces the liquefaction conditions of hydrogen and slowly releases the chemical energy contained in the liquid hydrogen..."

"So the alien Zerg cannot live without liquid water, and they landed from the ocean."

"The heat generated by burning each kilogram of hydrogen is about three times that of gasoline and four times that of alcohol. It has the highest calorific value among all fossil and biofuels, second only to nuclear fuel."

Ding Chenghai introduced it in detail and said with emotion:

"Tsk, what a perfectly designed creature."

"Look, it's heated up so quickly. Do you want to eat together?"

He pinched the airbag hose to put out the fire, tied a knot, opened the can, and a fishy smell wafted out.

Ding Chenghai was so greedy that he just picked it up with his hands and ate it. It seemed that he was very hungry.

Lin Feng shook his head. The more he understood how powerful the Zerg were, the more worried he became about the future fate of humanity.

The inner worry and anxiety increased a bit.

Fortunately, at this time, the upgrade to lv7 was finally completed:
(End of this chapter)