Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 380 - 195: Cheng Wentian’s Allegiance, Late Tier Two Strength
After discussing the caravan issue, Lin Feng promptly addressed the matter of compensation, which was the treatment previously promised to the other party.
This was the most crucial reason for Cheng Wentian, as a Level 1 Mechanical Maintenance Master and an elder-level craftsman in Dawn Village, to bet his life and wealth on aligning with Lin Feng despite being nearly a hundred years old.
It was the promised opportunity for evolution!
The fear of death is deeply etched into the bones of humanity, and everyone longs to live longer, especially since Evolvers receive favorable treatment, allowing them to live well even in the harsh Wasteland.
Cheng Wentian wanted to live a few more years. According to the average lifespan of Wasteland Evolvers, a Tier One Mid-Stage Evolver could live to around one hundred and fifty years old at most.
He has been stuck at Level 16, a Tier One Mid-Stage, for already twenty to thirty years.
However, Dawn Village lacks the capacity to support more Tier One Late Stage Evolvers, as this requires consuming a large amount of Mid-Term Evolutionary Meat and some Late-Term Evolutionary Meat.
Although Cheng Wentian is experienced and skillful, he doesn’t have much use for his skills in Oasis Town, at most training some Mechanical Maintenance Masters.
But the appearance of Lin Feng brought him hope.
Thus, after Cheng Wentian demonstrated his value, Lin Feng also had to provide corresponding incentives:
"This time, the trade with the Li Family and Mechanical Village returned a large batch of Evolution Agents, including quite a few Level 17 Evolution Agents, enough to ensure your smooth advancement to Level 19. Once we have sufficient High-Level Evolutionary Meat, we’ll arrange Tier Two Evolution."
Upon hearing the leader’s introduction, Cheng Wentian’s expression was excited:
"No problem, Tier Two Evolution is not urgent!"
Becoming a Tier One Late Stage Evolver, Cheng Wentian’s expected lifespan could extend by another ten years, possibly evolving to Level 19, allowing him to live to one hundred and ninety years in abundant food conditions without exhausting his life force.
Equivalent to extending life by one-third.
Already quite good.
Lin Feng nodded, then immediately took out a Level 17 Evolution Agent, twenty pieces of Level 15 Evolutionary Meat, and five pieces of Seventeenth-Level Evolutionary Dried Meat, handing them all to Cheng Wentian:
"Use one first, become a Late-stage Evolver and then proceed."
"This is five kilograms of Level 17 Evolutionary Meat, enough to satisfy your needs for half a month after the evolution is completed."
When Evolvers consume Evolutionary Meat lower by one stage than their own level, they can obtain energy to meet their needs. However, prolonged use of lower-level meat can cause one’s evolution to stagnate or even regress, with excessive impurities in the body affecting life ecology, etc.
Therefore, the most cost-effective way of eating is to use low-level Evolutionary Meat as a base, with a small portion of the same-level meat, maintaining minimal consumption without affecting their state.
Five kilograms of Level 17 Evolutionary Meat, combined with twenty kilograms of Level 15, could sustain Cheng Wentian, a non-combat individual, for more than half a month if he conserved it well.
This is the kind of treatment that only a captain receives, without needing to receive their daily rations every day.
Cheng Wentian excitedly received these supplies.
Especially the five kilograms of Level 17 Evolutionary Meat, his hand holding the cloth bag trembled slightly.
A Level 17 Evolution Agent is merely equivalent to ten thousand points. Cheng Wentian had long been able to redeem it after years of hard work.
Becoming a Late-stage Evolver is not difficult for a skilled master.
The challenge is how to sustain oneself after becoming a Late-stage Evolver.
This is why Cheng Wentian was so excited to receive five kilograms of Level 17 Evolutionary Meat; it is indeed the reason he was willing to join Lin Feng.
Because the man before him can provide the Evolutionary Meat!
"Thank you, leader. In the future, this old servant shall fulfill duties loyally, imparting all knowledge to the students! As long as this old servant is around, the caravan will not face repair issues!"
Cheng Wentian said excitedly, almost bowing to Lin Feng.
Lin Feng smiled slightly and then assigned him the most urgent task:
"The problem of modifying the old transport can wait; complete it before the next Holy Spring Day. First, take your apprentices and finish another task for me."
Speaking, Lin Feng took out a grenade:
"This is a standard 35mm grenade. I need you to create a batch of launchers compatible with it; both single-shot and rapid-fire are fine."
"The grenade doesn’t require much precision, it should be simpler than making guns. As long as it can be launched and has no significant trajectory deviation within a hundred meters, it’ll suffice."
Cheng Wentian took the grenade and, after examining it, nodded:
"No problem, this merely needs a launching tube and a trigger device setup. Once that’s done, mold casting, and polishing, and it can be made."
"If you want rapid-fire, add a recuperator spring and the component for a gas piston to function as a grenade launcher."
In fact, the craftsmanship for firearms is not complicated. For example, the simplest AK series has only about twenty parts per gun, and can be hand-crafted.
Many small and medium-sized forces, or even caravan teams with Mechanicians, will try to produce firearms. Forces like Dawn Village and Mechanical Village, which deal with machinery, have tried and succeeded in producing pistols and rifles by hand.
But hand-crafting cannot ensure accuracy.
The practical combat effects of a precise rifle firing every round accurately and a noisy inferior gun are vastly different.
Plus, the problem with bullets is even harder to solve.
Without a stable source of gunpowder and key raw materials like nitrates, crafting more firearms without ammo supply is merely having a fire stick.
Now that Lin Feng can provide a large number of grenades, the matched launchers gain significance in production.
After Cheng Wentian agreed wholeheartedly, he remembered something, asked with slight concern:
