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

Chapter 83 Shen Jie's secret, reduced fusion efficiency, and flying ambitions

Shen Jie woke up slowly. Although his companions had awakened completely, they were still weak and had not fully recovered.

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes slightly. Zhang Liying, who was unconscious beside him, had awakened the same supernatural power as Shen Jie, which was to devour and assimilate.

It was strange that the two of them could awaken the same rare power. What surprised Lin Feng even more was that during his observation, he unexpectedly caught a glimpse of the red scales on Shen Jie's torso between his short sleeves.

He was very familiar with that thing.

It was the shield armor shape made with the carapace of the red beetle.

But the question is how could this thing appear on Shen Jie's body and blend into his skin...

Thinking of the introduction to the superpowers displayed on the data panel, an amazing idea emerged in Lin Feng's mind.

After Shen Jie and the other two woke up one after another, they went to the bathroom next door to wash themselves. After they came out again, the eight people stood in a row waiting for Lin Feng to give orders.

Lin Feng frowned slightly and ordered:

"Congratulations to everyone for successfully completing the awakening. Although the physical enhancement is very weak in the early stage, as long as you work hard to kill insects and grow, it can still play a huge role in the later stage."

"We need to continue the task of capturing live insects tomorrow, and the number and scale will only be larger. It's getting late, so let's have a midnight snack and go to bed."

After summarizing, Lin Feng left one last sentence:
"The rest of you disperse, Shen Jie, you two stay."

Watching their teammates leave one by one, Shen Jie and Zhang Liying looked at each other with heavy expressions.

When there were only three people left in the room, Lin Feng spoke calmly:
"Do you know why I left you here?"

Shen Jie took a deep breath:

"Because of our awakened powers?"

Lin Feng nodded and moved his fingers:
"Take off your clothes first."

Shen Jie hesitated for a moment. Just now, when he was taking a shower, he had seen strange changes on his back through the mirror. Then he confirmed with Zhang Liying that these hard scales appeared on both of their bodies.

But he didn't expect that Lin Feng knew it as well.

After hesitating for a moment, facing the man's calm scrutiny, Shen Jie finally took off his short-sleeved shirt, revealing the red nails on his back.

Under the stimulation of nervous emotions, more and more scales appeared on the back, and the dark red scales covered the entire torso like a hideous insect.

After confirming what he was thinking, Lin Feng continued:

"Yes, this is the power you two have."

"Swallowing and assimilation, by eating the tissues of living organisms, assimilating the other party's abilities, and thus gaining improvement."

"So... you've eaten scarlet beetles before?"

As the man asked the question, Shen Jie trembled unconsciously, and finally explained in a hoarse voice:

"Before we escaped from Haicheng, Zhang Liying and I were in the same class. When the Zerg invasion broke out, we were cleaning up the school auditorium."

"After that, to avoid the red beetles, we hid in the utility room for a whole day, thirsty and hungry. After using the tools in our hands to kill a red beetle, we tried to eat the flesh and blood of the red beetle that night in order to have the strength to escape from the school..."

"As a result, the next day, out of the six people in the group, only Liying and I survived. The other four people's bodies became red and congested, and they died of poisoning."

"Later, we successfully boarded a school bus, followed the helicopter, and met Mr. Lin."

Lin Feng looked at the two of them. He had wondered before whether someone would try to eat insect meat when they were extremely hungry.

The files sent by Dante Chenghai clearly recorded that the flesh and blood of the Zerg contained extremely high sulfides and various compounds that humans could not digest and decompose.

Unlike the crunchy arthropods on the blue planet, the alien Zerg are like a compact biological machine, filled with various biological oils and hydraulic structures. Apart from their hard shells, they are completely useless.

So Lin Feng later gave up this idea.

But I didn't expect to meet two people who survived by eating insect flesh.

Moreover, through that nightmarish experience, Shen Jie and Zhang Liying also awakened a rare assimilation ability, which is equivalent to an upgrade of their own bodies, and the potential is also huge.

“What does insect meat taste like?”

In order to ease the awkward and tense atmosphere, after Shen Jie's explanation, Lin Feng changed the subject and asked.

Shen Jie was stunned. He didn't expect that Mr. Lin didn't regard them as freaks. So he plucked up his courage and began to recall:
"It tastes terrible, like a sponge covered in motor oil. Even after it's been roasted, it still has that lingering weird smell of insect blood."

"So Zhang Liying and I ate very little, and we had diarrhea right after we finished eating, and vomited all night. Maybe that's why we finally survived."

As Shen Jie spoke, he turned around and glanced at the slightly nervous girl behind him, signaling her with his eyes to be at ease.

Of course, more happened that night than just that, otherwise the two of them would not have been able to successfully escape from the auditorium and board a passing school bus the next morning.

But these are not important anymore, and Lin Feng will not care about things that have nothing to do with superpowers:

"Since you have awakened this ability, then try it. Eat some scarlet beetle meat first. If you can evolve scarlet armor all over your body, your defense will be greatly improved. At the same time, you must also learn to control this ability and try not to expose it to outsiders."

"Once you become immune to the toxicity of scarlet beetle meat, you can try eating black-backed beetles... or even green-winged beetles."

As he spoke, an idea flashed through Lin Feng's mind. If these two people became more and more like insects through devouring and assimilation, could they deceive the Zerg's identification and sneak into the Zerg's territory?

In this way, they can dig out more secrets of the Zerg, and even cooperate with themselves to attack the second-level guard Zerg and the queen...

As these thoughts gradually formed in Lin Feng's mind, he couldn't help but smile, and his gaze towards the two of them became more and more serious:

"This ability is extremely rare and has a very high growth rate. It will play a very important role in the future..."

"Don't worry about it. I'll equip you with a few full-body armors to cover you up. No one will notice it."

"Besides, the end of the world is approaching. Appearances are all false. Strength is the only criterion. When you can fly and hide underground, killing black-spine insects will be as easy as killing chickens..."

"Everyone looks at you with only admiration."

"Go back and have a good rest now, there will be more difficult tasks tomorrow."

After comforting the two people, Lin Feng got up and left the hotel.

Han Yuxin was busy with her first live insect trafficking mission. She had left the service area with the car in the afternoon. At this moment, there were only eight people including Shen Jie and several young people newly recruited by Han Yuxin in the hotel.

Lin Feng guessed that her partner was like Princess Betty who took the initiative to approach him at the dinner last time. She had connections and money, and knew many nobles who had fled here. It was a good opportunity for her to exchange resources with Han Yuxin.

Most importantly, doing so will not affect Hu Fei’s current business layout in the federation.

As long as the price is high, Lin Feng doesn't mind helping the fallen nobles return to the stage.

Now he needs to accumulate strength and stockpile food, steel, gasoline and other consumables to prepare in advance for the decisive battle with the Zerg in the future.

But Hu Fei doesn't care much about these things. He now wants to invest his newly gained profits into building his network of relationships.

So Lin Feng needs Han Yuxin and use her ambition to achieve all his goals.

This woman's power depends entirely on Lin Feng. Even the people under her are under Lin Feng's control, so there is no need to worry that she will disobey.

After leaving the hotel, Lin Feng returned to the repair shop.

Under the cover of tarpaulin, a new round of upgrades for armored vehicles began.

Naturally, the more than eighty pairs of black-backed insects' giant jaws cannot be used to upgrade the level 14 armored vehicle. Lin Feng's level 11 red armor arm guards also need to be taken care of.

In addition, the level 9 red armor shield worn by Chen Yanyan also needs to be upgraded to red black armor. Although she rarely needs to get out of the car to fight now, Lin Feng will not treat her unfairly in this regard.

Just a few pairs of huge jaws.

As several red lights flashed, his level 11 Red Black Armor was upgraded to level 13.

At this time, it not only has 90 defense, but the anti-damage effect of the Explosive Scale Armor is also as high as 80%, and its own defense will only be reduced by 20%.

After consuming 7 pairs of giant jaws, Lin Feng consumed another 5 pairs of giant jaws to upgrade to lv14.

Unfortunately, after completing the fusion upgrade, no new additional attributes appeared, but the damage reflection of the Explosive Scale Armor increased to 90%.

Lin Feng was unwilling to give up, and he got a little carried away, so he spent another 6 pairs of giant jaws. As a result, in addition to the basic defense increasing by 10 points, the other additional attributes of this upgrade...

There are no more changes.

Lin Feng looked at the lv15 red black armor on his body and frowned slightly:

"Red Black Armor lv15/19, red quality"

"Durability: 10/10, Defense 110, Variant: Arm Guard (unconditional), Full Body Armor (unconditional), Absolute Defense (1/1 Back Armor) (10/1 Jaw), Explosive Scale Armor (90% damage counterattack, Defense reduced by 10%)"

Could it be that the giant jaws of the black-spined worm can only bring so many changes, and new materials need to be integrated into it to have new additional attributes?
Thinking of the special powers awakened by Shen Jie and the other, Lin Feng had a guess in his mind.

It just so happened that he had also thought about the plan to capture the green-winged insect.

Let’s try it together next time.

Let’s see if the Red Black Armor can grow a pair of wings?

There shouldn't be any problem for Shen Jie and the others, but I don't know if the Red Mysterious Armor has the same effect.

Lin Feng was not greedy. As long as he could achieve long-distance gliding, it would be a hundred times more flexible than rigid armor.

After putting away his regrets, Lin Feng used three pairs of giant jaws to upgrade Chen Yanyan's red armor shield to level 11 red armor.

Anyway, she probably won't be able to use the anti-injury property of the Exploding Scale Armor, so it's better for her to save more carapaces or giant jaws for absolute defense, which can save her life at critical moments.

In this way, a total of 21 pairs of giant jaws were consumed, and apart from some increases in basic values, the additional benefits were very low.

Looking at the remaining sixty or so pairs of giant jaws, Lin Feng integrated twenty of them into the Red Black Armor as spare parts, and took the remaining forty pairs to upgrade the level 14 armored vehicle.

The next morning, Lin Feng climbed up from Chen Yanyan's soft arms, looked at the upgraded level 15 armored vehicle in front of him with little change in its data, and sighed.

It seems that the same material cannot be fused mindlessly. The actual benefits will become more limited as time goes by, just like an inverse proportional function.

But this also aroused Lin Feng's fighting spirit.

Today's mission target is the green-winged insect!
(End of this chapter)