Apocalypse: My Items Can Upgrade Infinitely

Chapter 233: Chapter 149: Arrangements, Meeting Ling Yi Again, Genetic Radiation

Chen Yanyan hesitated for a moment, then shook her head. She looked at the small girl beside her, who was as exquisite and well-behaved as a porcelain doll, and a hint of fondness appeared on her face.

"No, it’s safer to send her back to Jin City."

"However, we can temporarily adopt Chengcheng. Since her parents haven’t been found yet, we’ll just have Sister Yuxin look after her."

Lin Feng nodded, breathing an inward sigh of relief.

Although Chengcheng’s prematurely awakened Superpower had great potential, she herself possessed no combat ability.

Due to her age and lack of development, she only had one-fifth the strength of others at her level. Keeping her on the front lines or by their side would only make her a burden to the team.

Thankfully, Chen Yanyan hadn’t let her emotions get the better of her.

And by adopting Jiang Chengcheng in her and Lin Feng’s name, even if she were sent back to Jin City, she wouldn’t become an uncared-for wild child like she was before.

After they finished their discussion, they watched in the dead of night as dozens of Warriors, along with Support Soldiers and the rescued human survivors, boarded a bus and disappeared in the direction of Jin City.

After Lin Feng finished upgrading the rest of the Battle Armor, he and Chen Yanyan went to bed early.

「The next morning at six o’clock.」

Lin Feng, now dressed and fully armed, left the camp carrying his Level 29 Electromagnetic Cannon and Lv24 Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword, and wearing his Flying Tiger Armor.

He headed for the Jia City region, forty kilometers southwest of University City.

Meanwhile, his internal Genetic Radiation Skill now held two charges in its Upgrade Reserve, enough to upgrade both the Land Patrol Battleship and the Chainsaw Sword, and could be used twice in a row.

When his powerful presence was felt on the outskirts of Jia City, it only took a few minutes for the ground before him to slowly collapse, just as it had last time.

A bottomless pit appeared before him.

An avatar of Mother Empress Ling Yi appeared before Lin Feng, flanked by Red-Armored Beetles.

"This batch of fifty Tier Two Zerg Eggs is ready for you."

"You’ve done well, but there is one thing..."

Lin Feng’s brow furrowed, and he grew wary.

The Mother Empress Avatar’s tone was hostile.

"You shouldn’t have sent so many soldiers into Taihu Lake to fish on such a massive scale. Those are my resources for expansion."

Lin Feng remained expressionless, but inwardly he breathed a sigh of relief. He replied nonchalantly,

"My soldiers aren’t bugs who can go without eating or drinking! They need to rest and eat so they can keep fighting for you, holding back that Tier Three Middle-stage Mother Empress from Hai City."

"It’s just a few hundred tons of fish. Compared to the hundreds of thousands of tons of biomass in all of Taihu Lake, it’s not even worth mentioning."

"Besides, this wasn’t part of our agreement."

Ling Yi didn’t argue, taking it as a tacit agreement. She waved her hand, and a group of Red-Armored Beetles emerged, carrying fresh Tier Two Zerg Eggs and placing them before Lin Feng.

Then, she added a reminder:

"Be careful. That No. 76 from Hai City may be making deals with other Mother Empresses to swallow her current enemy—you—in one fell swoop."

Lin Feng’s expression changed slightly. He had long suspected that the Hai City Mother Empress, having holed up and laid low, was secretly plotting something.

But with Ling Yi’s reminder, he made a connection.

"Yesterday, when I was patrolling north of Taihu Lake, I found a Biological Melting Furnace by the Great River smelting Tier Two Giant Mandibles..."

"If that thing explodes, the blast would be comparable to a nuclear bomb."

"But it can synthesize at least several dozen pairs of Tier Two Giant Mandibles a day. If you High-tier Mother Empresses all have these, you shouldn’t be short on the mandibles of Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs, right!?"

Hearing Lin Feng’s description, a look of astonishment appeared on the face of Ling Yi’s female human avatar.

"Those thermal furnaces are very dangerous and consume a lot of energy. An ordinary Tier Three Early-stage Mother Empress would never waste her efforts on one. Using a Biological Nest’s electro-separation can also produce Tier Two Giant Mandibles, it’s just much slower and has higher requirements for the raw materials."

"But a thermal furnace is different. You can toss any metal in, burn it under high temperature and pressure, and after it cools, you get a semi-finished organic metal that the Biological Nest can absorb directly."

"That one in Taihu Lake..."

"Perhaps it has already started cooperating with No. 76 from Hai City."

"It will handle the basic synthesis of Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs, freeing up No. 76’s production to focus entirely on hatching new Tier Two Zerg strains. Then, they will encircle and crush you."

"Let me see... Pulse War Scorpions, Tank Flame Armors, and the most cost-effective of all..."

"Samurai Hunter Zergs. A new Zerg strain that fuses human genes. It’s the direction of your research, too," Lin Feng added thoughtfully, his eyes on the Tier Two Zerg Eggs.

Ling Yi smiled, but her expression was tinged with disdain.

"Heh. Samurai Hunter Zergs are nothing but inferior products, cobbled together using the crudest of methods."

"What I am creating, however, can directly control humans on a spiritual level, making them mine to command."

Seeing the growing complexity of her expressions, Lin Feng felt an instinctual chill and quickly changed the subject.

"Don’t worry. The Hai City Mother Empress may be secretly building her strength, but I am constantly growing stronger as well."

"By the way, I’m curious. Did your Zerg Race evolve into an Interstellar Civilization on its own?"

"Or was it like us humans, who only understood the dangers of the cosmos after being invaded by aliens?"

The female avatar controlled by Ling Yi frowned.

"Why do you ask? Are you trying to find out if it’s possible for humanity to ultimately defeat the Zerg Race?"

"Hmph. I can only say that it is absolutely impossible."

"Even if you unleashed your entire nuclear arsenal, showering the globe with your most powerful hydrogen bombs, it would be nothing more than a heavy downpour to us."

"Humanity, and even the entire Blue Star, are fit for only one thing: to become a Hatching Nest for a Tier Four Zerg King."

"Although, your fierce resistance does add a little bit of flavor to this otherwise tedious game."

The corners of Lin Feng’s mouth slowly curved upward as he secretly gathered his power.

"Don’t tell me that even a high-tier being of the Zerg Race like you doesn’t know your own origins?"

"On the day of that bizarre solar eclipse, which higher being gave you the signal to invade?"

"Let me guess..."

"Could it be... Great Black..."

"Shut up!" At Lin Feng’s relentless questioning, the Mother Empress Avatar suddenly descended into a crazed struggle. Six long hands clawed at its head, tearing the avatar’s scalp as it shrieked, interrupting Lin Feng before he could utter the name.

Lin Feng saw the ferocity in its eyes, as well as the terror and confusion hidden within, and understood. At this moment, the entirety of Ling Yi’s spiritual focus was concentrated here.

He immediately consumed the Upgrade Energy stored within his body,

and unleashed his Genetic Radiation Skill!

A powerful wave of Spiritual Energy erupted from Lin Feng’s mind!

It swept out invisibly, covering a five-kilometer radius.

In that instant, every creature with a brain was plunged into a treacherous Spirit World, just as Lin Feng himself had been when he underwent his Spiritual Limit-Breaking.

They were forced to experience the epic rise of a species, and its ultimately tragic demise.

As for the Ling Yi Mother Empress Avatar before him, the moment the wave of Spiritual Energy hit, its eyes rolled back in its head.

It lost all consciousness.