Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 290 - 161: Abundant Source Material, Alloy Wolf Skull, Materials
According to the plan, Lin Feng immediately began to take action.
During this time, Zong Shiyue delivered several carts, reducing the friction of the wolf carcasses on the ground, allowing Lin Feng to easily drag and transfer them.
Mainly, the blood inside the Tier Two Corpse Wolves was also filled with radiation pollution, and staying in the minus fifth level even a second longer had a magnifying impact on Zong Shiyue.
However, with Zong Shiyue’s help, Lin Feng felt a lot more relaxed. The wheels at the bottom of the carts greatly reduced the resistance to moving forward, and originally, the tens of tons of wolf carcasses could be dragged with just one or two tons of force.
They quickly transferred all the spoils of war.
Reaching the minus third level, Lin Feng and Zong Shiyue both took a sigh of relief.
But new problems quickly arose; Lin Feng needed to continue processing the three wolf carcasses.
Although he very much wanted to take away all the materials except the polluted flesh, it was evident that the remaining two electric cars at the camp no longer had enough space to carry them.
A bullet production machine alone occupied most of the storage space in the transport vehicle, as well as most of the remaining load capacity.
Lin Feng paused, took out the dagger from the side of the power armor’s leg, and first extracted the evolutionary meat from the wolf carcasses, placing it on the cart to be brought to the surface.
This meat was inedible; after extracting the life source material contained within, most of it would have to be discarded, leaving only a small portion for Father Su An to conduct experiments, or to feed the Divine Dog that would evolve to the late Tier Two stage in the future.
The Divine Dog, also a desert wolf, could eat a bit, but not too much, otherwise its mind could easily be affected, becoming like a "zombie dog" similar to a Corpse Wolf.
After over half an hour, Lin Feng carved out 1.5 tons of evolutionary meat from the three wolf carcasses, enough to fill an entire cart.
After taking the most valuable and important parts, the remaining flesh and blood of the Corpse Wolves quickly shrank, and the organs and muscle tissues of the body suddenly lost cohesion, dissipating like liquid.
Lin Feng frowned slightly; could it be that the resurrected Corpse Wolves depended on the evolutionary meat in their bodies, and everything else was just a facade?
Zong Shiyue’s figure appeared beside the black box and, upon seeing the wolf carcass gradually dissolving, began to explain:
"The evolutionary meat is crucial for the Corpse Wolves to move. More accurately, the Tier Three Wolf King Cells within the evolutionary meat can receive energy radiation from the Wolf King’s body, thereby stimulating the remaining Tier Two cells to replace the brain’s position and control function."
"Once the organization and regulation of the evolutionary meat is lost, it naturally becomes an ordinary Tier Two body. After thousands of years of erosion, without the stimulation of Tier Three Cells and enough food supplies, it naturally can’t sustain itself."
Lin Feng nodded. Although it seemed eerie, like a soulless ghost zombie, it was not necessarily a bad thing for him at the moment.
After all, starting from scratch and scraping off the unnecessary "zombie flesh" piece by piece, dealing with the altogether forty tons of three Corpse Wolves is no small challenge.
At least three to four hours of work was needed.
Now, with the remaining ordinary flesh and blood in the corpses dissolving before the naked eye, the wolf carcasses quickly shriveled up, leaving only a large skeleton holding up that thick fine steel wolf hide.
Lin Feng’s lips curled upwards as he stepped forward to take a closer look.
He reached out to touch the hardest part, the wolf’s head, and noticed a system alert out of the corner of his eye:
"Alloy Wolf Skull lv23, Orange Quality"
"Defense Value: 350; Durability: 8/10"
"Extremely hard metallic bony material, combining properties of metal and biological materials, can be used as the framework of machinery or biological armor, with wide-ranging applications."
Lin Feng squinted his eyes, and thought this was indeed pretty good.
As for the fine steel wolf hide outside, it only had a Level 20 defense level:
"Fine Steel Wolf Hide lv20, Orange Quality"
"Defense Value: 200; Durability: 6/10"
"Excellent Defense Effect of the Composite Defense Hide Armor, reinforced steel wolf fur that can perfectly resist large-caliber bullets, can deflect most small-caliber cannon attacks, can be used as a material for Tier Two Armor, or smelted into new metal molds."
Indeed, the fine steel wolf hide was not of much use, so Lin Feng immediately checked the other bones within the hide. Except for a 22nd-level spine, the other mutated parts, like the surface wolf hide, were all Level 20, with not much utility.
But when Lin Feng stood before a Tier Two Mid-Stage Corpse Wolf, the results were a pleasant surprise.
This formidable Level 26 Desert Wolf not only possessed a high evolution level but also greater material value:
"Alloy Wolf Skull lv26, Orange Quality"
"Defense Value: 600; Durability: 7/10"
The 600-point defense value had hardness comparable to titanium alloy or tungsten steel level, which when integrated into Tier Two Power Armor and Rock Horse Battle Car, rapidly enhances their attribute strength.
The wolf hide on the surface, even more, had higher defense strength than the Level 23 wolf skull:
"Fine Steel Wolf Hide lv24, Orange Quality"
"Defense Value: 400; Durability: 6/10"
The composite mutated steel defensive hide armor can be used as the external armor of vehicles, achieving defense power comparable to heavily armored tanks!
Unfortunately, these three wolf hides had already been blasted by armor-piercing cannons, leaving large holes, reducing their durability to around six points, nearing a state of scrapping, and to restore them would require 40 points of life value, equivalent to eight Tier One upgrades, or four Tier Two upgrades...
But if excellent synthesis materials could be obtained, this life value would be well spent, as it’s worth it in the end!
Initially, Lin Feng thought about just taking the hardest alloy wolf skull, since it still had sharp wolf fangs, and discarding everything else that wasn’t very useful...
Now, the thought of discarding this Level 24 fine steel wolf hide in hand, made him quite reluctant.
But if he were to take it back, the remaining storage space on the two electric cars would surely not be enough.
Unless more electric cars could be added to the convoy.
Holding the wolf hide in his hand, Lin Feng squinted his eyes, looking toward the entrance of the minus second level in the distance.
The three alloy wolf skeletons and the three fine steel wolf hides, weighing less than 20 tons after the wolf flesh dissolved, left about fifteen tons consisting of wolf bones. The material of the wolf skull and wolf fangs offered unmatched strong biting power to Clan Leader-level Desert Wolves.
This made it possible to kill same-level prey, such as breaking through the rock armor defense of a Clan Leader-level Rock-Horned Horse!
A 20-ton load required just two more medium electric cars designed for transportation to carry it all.
Lin Feng immediately loaded all the wolf bones and hides into the carts beside him. Fortunately, as transportation tools in the basement warehouse, each cart had a load of five to six tons, and by connecting four in a row, he could smoothly transport them.
And there were five boxes containing original flesh loaded by Zong Shiyue, plus an additional one holding the Desert Wolf Source Material Evolutionary Meat collected by Lin Feng, adding up to six tons in weight.
Another cart would be needed to carry it all.
Luckily, there were enough tools in the basement warehouse, which were of no use to Zong Shiyue, so Lin Feng used six carts to take all the spoils out of the minus third level.
They headed all the way to the minus second level, then reached the minus first level.
At this time, the wanderers who were originally searching for supplies on the upper three levels had all disappeared, most likely frightened away by the commotion Lin Feng caused at the bottom of the ruins, scaring the already on-edge wanderers into fleeing.
After all, the last time a violent explosion also sparked a collective revolt among the mutants inside the ruins, which had resulted in heavy losses for the Salvation Army.
Now, these wanderers, in their Tier One early to middle stages, stood no chance against the Salvation Army and could only flee to save their lives.
As a result, Lin Feng only saw Chen Shanshan at the entrance of the shelter on the minus first level, and no one else.
When Chen Shanshan saw Lin Feng return safely, she quickly ran to help carry the carts behind.
They covered the last five kilometers and successfully reached the surface.
Lin Feng saw, by the door where Chen Shanshan was guarding, a pile of dozens of miscellaneous items, of all sorts.
He then asked her if she had explored a bit in the afternoon.
Chen Shanshan, somewhat embarrassed, said:
"I don’t really know; when those wanderers came out, each left something, and those with no findings also sent some gifts from companions outside..."
"It feels like they thought we were collecting protection fees? Deliberately guarding the entrance?"
Lin Feng nodded, looked beyond the cave, and found that the wanderer convoy gathered at the cave entrance had not left, but many members extended their necks, peering inside the cave.
Obviously, they also knew the mutated monsters in the ruins couldn’t reach the surface, so they were not afraid.
Seeing this, Lin Feng heaved a sigh of relief and was about to leave when Zong Shiyue’s voice suddenly came from the side:
"Wait!"
"Among that pile of miscellaneous items, there seems to be a treasure."
"I sense a faint radiation energy!"
Lin Feng, who was about to push the cart away,
suddenly stopped in his tracks and turned around for a look!
