Chapter 356 - 192: Assembling Chainsaw Swords, Copying the Tank, and Suicide Bugs
On the way back, Lin Feng’s brow was furrowed.
This time, he wasn’t driving. Instead, he had the Battle Group Leader, a man with years of driving experience, take the wheel of the military jeep.
He sat in the passenger seat, gripping the Electromagnetic Cannon. His gaze was deep and his expression tense as he remained on high alert.
According to the message from Chen Yanyan, the Hai City Mother Empress, in a desperate attempt to break the stalemate, had already dispatched her most mysterious Tier Two Zerg Race to the battlefield: the Tier Two Wind-winged Zergs.
The cost to create a Wind-winged Zerg was more than ten times that of a Tiger Spine Zerg of the same tier.
’To be willing to spend so much, the Hai City Mother Empress must be getting truly desperate. She wants to turn the tables and escape this passive situation.’
And Lin Feng, for his part, was rushing back precisely because he didn’t want to miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
’Kill the Tier Two Wind-winged Zergs!’
’Harvest Orange Quality flying materials!’
Before that, however, Lin Feng had to make a detour to the South Suburb of Jin City to pick up the weapons and equipment stored there.
Soon, the convoy arrived at an industrial district.
This had once been a heavy industry zone. However, with the city’s transformation, its highly polluting heavy industries had been in decline long before the apocalypse.
Many old factories had gone bankrupt and shut down, leaving behind a cold, rust-streaked Steel City. Walking through it gave one a sense of desolate gloom and the heavy weight of history.
Following Han Yuxin’s directions, the group entered an iron foundry.
The large stamping presses inside had long been dismantled and removed, leaving only bench cutters and old-fashioned manual lathes in the corners of the workshop.
The technicians recommended by Ding Chenghai were here, using these difficult and crude conditions to resume production as best they could.
The Tier Two Giant Mandibles from the Tiger Spine Zerg corpses Lin Feng had brought earlier had been cut and smelted into palm-sized Orange Quality saw blades, which were then used to manufacture the Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Swords.
As the standard-issue Tier Two Orange Quality weapon for the Tier Two Corps, the purpose of the Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword was to provide a crushing advantage against Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs in close combat and to give Tier Two Awakeners a fighting chance when attacked by Samurai Hunter Zergs.
Guided by a few technicians, Lin Feng saw dozens of Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Swords arranged on a shelf by the back door.
The brand-new Chainsaw Swords were each two meters long, with the bladed section alone measuring one and a half meters—long enough to slice through the thick carapace of a Tier Two Zerg Race and deliver a fatal blow.
However, aside from the first few—acceptable units produced by the research institute Ding Chenghai had left behind—the other few dozen were all crude, inferior products.
Most of them didn’t even have their accompanying motors and fuel tanks properly installed.
But what Lin Feng wanted was production speed. As for quality, that could be adjusted and optimized in the Late Stage.
When he reached out and touched one of the inferior swords, a notification immediately appeared before his eyes:
[Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword Lv24/25, Orange, Inferior]
[Upgrade Points 0/10, Durability: 7/10, Damage 340]
[Extra Attributes: Rapid Cutting (The saw teeth rotate five times per second, dealing five times the Basic Damage. Current operational time: one hour)]
[Note: Basic Damage decreases as the Chainsaw Sword’s Durability decreases.]
[Note: This Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword is an inferior product. Its maximum Durability was naturally reduced by three points upon creation.]
[Note: This item can be upgraded and optimized using Tier Two Upgrade Energy without requiring additional materials. After upgrading, its quality defects will be automatically repaired.]
[Currently available Upgrade Energy reserve: 13 uses]
[When used solely for optimization and repair, one use of Upgrade Energy can repair 10 inferior Chainsaw Swords.]
Seeing this last line, the corners of Lin Feng’s mouth slowly curved upward.
He currently had twelve charges of personal Upgrade Energy and one charge of equipment Upgrade Energy stored in his body.
If he only used it for optimizing and repairing inferior products, he would have 130 uses.
Right now, there were a total of three acceptable swords and twenty-seven inferior ones that had been produced through days of overtime.
’After optimizing and repairing all of them, I’ll still have 10 charges of Upgrade Energy left, which is enough to activate Realm Derived Skills like Genetic Radiation and Bloodthirsty Frenzy.’
With that, he immediately began to optimize and repair the inferior Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Swords.
An orange glow seeped from his hand into the body of a Chainsaw Sword, enveloping it. After a moment of transformation, a brand-new Lv24 Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword was revealed:
[Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword Lv24/29, Orange Quality]
[Upgrade Points 0/10, Durability: 10/10, Basic Damage 400]
[Extra Attributes: Rapid Cutting (The saw teeth rotate five times per second, dealing five times the Basic Damage. Current operational time: one hour)
New Extra Attribute: Bloodthirst Blade (For every Tier Two Zerg Race killed, in addition to gaining Upgrade Points, restores one point of Durability and increases operational time by 1 hour)]
[Note: Basic Damage decreases as the Chainsaw Sword’s Durability decreases.]
’The repair process also optimized it to have the Bloodthirst Blade Extra Attribute. That should alleviate the Durability and operational time issues to some extent.’
As for upgrading it to increase its Basic Damage, that would be up to its wielder to achieve through fierce combat on the battlefield.
The nearly two thousand Tier Two Zergs under the Hai City Mother Empress’s command had become a major concern for Lin Feng.
Grasping the brand-new Lv24 Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword, Lin Feng gave it a few swings before tossing it to the Battle Group Leader following behind him.
The man caught the Giant Sword joyfully. His confidence soared as he looked at its menacing, sharp saw teeth.
Especially when he pressed the activation switch on the hilt; the whirring saw blade instantly became a blur. With such a high cutting speed, it could sever even the hard Giant Mandibles of a Tiger Spine Zerg in an instant.
Lin Feng then proceeded to optimize and repair the remaining twenty-six inferior Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Swords one by one.
The members of the Tier Two Corps were no longer surprised by this sight. After all, their leader possessed an extremely rare and powerful Synthesis Superpower.