Chapter 515 - 246: Synthesis, a Visit from the Federation, Probing and Frankness

Chapter 515: Chapter 246: Synthesis, a Visit from the Federation, Probing and Frankness

After finalizing their plans with Qin Hu, Lin Feng quickly used his Particle Control to combine the ten pieces of Tank Flame Armor Back Armor in the Shelter with the armored vehicles.

These were the Federation’s newest armored vehicles—to be precise, wheeled armored personnel carriers. They had four pairs of wheels, were about nine meters long and two and a half meters wide. Their off-road performance was formidable, capable of climbing a 40-degree slope and reaching a top speed of ninety kilometers per hour.

One could carry a maximum of thirty people. Including the crew, it could rapidly deploy thirty-five soldiers.

Its only shortcoming was its armor configuration. It could only defend against 7.62mm rounds from over a hundred meters away. It was decent at resisting Red-Armored Beetles or Tier One Early Stage Black Spine Zergs, but it would be hard-pressed to withstand the impact of a Black Spine Swarm, let alone the Tier Two Zerg Race.

Therefore, they were usually just used to transport supplies and quickly ferry combat personnel from the rear, unable to shuttle across the front lines of the battlefield.

It had many modified variants, such as medical vehicles, mobile kitchens, and other logistical support models.

One of the vehicles Qin Hu had brought this time was a mobile kitchen model, specifically for providing lunch to the engineering corps tasked with collecting Zerg corpses.

As it happened, the Biological Materials Lin Feng had collected could compensate for the armored personnel carriers’ weak Armor, fitting them with a biological shell even tougher than a Tiger Spine Zerg Giant Mandible.

As his hands touched an armored vehicle and a piece of Tank Flame Armor Back Armor, a Golden Energy infused with Particle Control began to flow between the two items...

Lin Feng fell into thought as the Identification results for both items, along with a prompt asking whether to proceed with the fusion, appeared before him.

The armored personnel carrier’s Quality Level was nineteen. Just like the Flying Wing Tank from before, it was considered a product representing the pinnacle of human technological achievement.

’Unfortunately, it can’t compare to the Flying Wing Tank of the same quality.’

’Even the Replica Tank from the Dreadnought Battleship has far superior Attributes and strength than this armored personnel carrier.’

’As an item, it only possesses its own Basic Attributes.’

The Tank Flame Armor Back Armor in Lin Feng’s other hand couldn’t fully merge with it, either. It would only be attached to the surface, acting merely as extra Armor.

It couldn’t change the vehicle’s Red Quality Level.

The Thousand Slash Saber in Liu Yueqi’s hands was the same. However, it was being nurtured by her Molecular Cutting Superpower, which continuously raised its upgrade potential. Perhaps it could truly achieve a leap in quality.

’This is the common flaw of man-made items. Their potential is limited by human technology, capped at Red Quality at best. Unless the entire item was originally forged from a single, cohesive special material.’

’For example, items like the Red Profound Armor and Flying Tiger Armor, or the Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword—all made from Zerg Race Biological Materials.’

That was why Lin Feng had never been too impressed with human weaponry.

’Even if they could be upgraded to the White Quality cap of Level nine, they still wouldn’t compare to a Divine-level Pistol Replica of the same level, or a Heavy Machine Gun with infinite ammo.’

’And as for Red Quality heavy weapons like Machine Cannons and artillery, even if upgraded to Level nineteen, their strength wouldn’t even be one-tenth of a Shotgun’s, judging by the attribute data.’

’Trying to fuse higher-quality materials into them for a Tier Jumping Upgrade would be like designing a brand-new weapon from scratch. And because of their poor foundation, their Attributes would probably still be inferior to a lower-level Shotgun.’

It was just like with the Black Armored Tank he was synthesizing right now. If Lin Feng wanted to perform a Tier Jumping Upgrade on it to Orange Quality, he would need a complete design concept.

That would be equivalent to one person completing the design and testing workload that would normally take a professional team of several hundred people several years to finish.

With that kind of time and effort, Lin Feng could directly Upgrade his bound Dreadnought Battleship into an Aerial Fortress, or even a Cosmic Battleship!

’So, upgrading and modifying ordinary items is just a temporary measure to deal with immediate needs.’

As the ten newly synthesized Heavy Black Armored Tanks slowly drove out of the Shelter, the transportation problem for the two hundred and eighty Salvation Army soldiers was somewhat alleviated.

The physical energy they saved would also provide them with more stamina for future battles.

Seeing the strangely shaped Black Armored Tanks, everyone crowded around, curiously touching and test-driving them.

Lin Feng, on the other hand, looked at the remaining two hundred-odd Pulse Tail Cannons and pondered how to collect over two hundred tons of Fine Steel in the frontline warzone.

The North wasn’t like the South. Water resources here were scarce. The Long River that flowed through the region was rapid and carried large amounts of silt, making it unsuitable for shipping.

Therefore, transport had to be done mostly by land.

Right now, shipping a hundred tons of Fine Steel north from the central part of the South would be extremely costly, but the main problem was that it would take far too long.

Just clearing the obstacles blocking the roads along the way would be a massive undertaking.

And Beihai Town, where Qin Hu was based, was just an ordinary riverside residential area. It only had about ten tons of rebar of various types and strengths left over from a construction site, which was nowhere near enough.

So, after thinking it over, Lin Feng set his sights on the Federation’s high command, who had just scored a major victory.

As Qin Hu dispatched a large force to clear out the Zerg corpses that filled the Yunxia Ridge Valley...

By afternoon, he had already held a public execution in Beihai Town. He then announced everything to the public: that the Capital’s high command had betrayed their own people, defected to the enemy, and were preparing to sacrifice all the survivors in the city!

The news and video footage quickly spread to the safe zones in the rear, and the various base factions all received the message.

The victorious rescue from the Capital’s breakout plan yesterday had originally caused many survivors in the rear to dance with celebratory joy, while the leaders of other bases harbored worried doubts.

But after this terrible news broke, a complete reversal occurred...

The common people naturally lost their trust in the Federation council. The blow to public confidence from having such treacherous leaders who treated human lives as worthless was far more severe than any military defeat.