Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 419 - 210: Arena Showdown – Li Hao’s Cunning and Valor
The key lies in the delicate balance in between.
Therefore, Xu Wanfeng focused most of his attention on Lin Feng’s movements to prevent any mishaps.
At this moment, Lin Feng, who had been retreating since the start of the duel, had moved four hundred meters away in just four seconds, with less than one hundred meters to the small hill behind him.
This distance is the limit; if Li Hao, clad in Rock Horse Armor, follows, a single impactful charge could send him flying out of bounds.
But with the mountain as a buffer, even if Lin Feng is truly knocked away, he’d merely land at the foot of the slope.
Unfortunately, the anticipated pursuit did not happen.
The rear camera of the Power Armor captured Li Hao retreating.
So, after reaching the predetermined position, Lin Feng stopped, turned around, and raised the two level-22 weapons in his hands.
At this moment, the Armor-Piercing Cannon was already prepared, waiting for the opponent to approach, to coordinate with the High-Explosive Rapid-Fire Cannon to launch a fierce attack on Li Hao.
But the opponent did not fall for it.
Due to the heavy characteristics of the Rock Horse Armor, it couldn’t achieve extreme speeds, and once in pursuit, would only be left far behind by Lin Feng’s Power Armor.
Li Hao, with his seasoned experience, utilized the terrain advantage to hide in a pile of scattered rocks.
The outer shell of the Rock Horse Armor had turned gray-yellow, matching the terrain of the wasteland.
Once in hiding and motionless, it was hard to spot from a hundred meters away.
Lin Feng frowned slightly; the Combat Assistance System of his Power Armor only recorded the approximate hiding area of Li Hao, within a range of six to seven hundred meters among the rocks.
The power of the Armor-Piercing Cannon alone couldn’t shatter all the five to six-meter-tall boulders, much less the Explosive High-speed Cannon.
Furthermore, there were only a hundred and fifty rounds of ammunition for the Armor-Piercing Cannon, which couldn’t be wasted.
But what worried Lin Feng the most was the power consumption of his armor, which had entered high-performance movement mode.
Li Hao clearly intended to stall for time.
The opponent knew that as a general-purpose Power Armor, it was well-balanced in all aspects, but its only flaw was endurance time.
At most an hour and a half, and in high-performance mode, less than half an hour.
If this continued, even without making a move, Lin Feng would become anxious.
At this moment, just as Li Hao had planned, to break the stalemate quickly, Lin Feng chose to take the initiative, even if it meant revealing his presence.
With a flash, the Power Armor restarted, moving forward over a hundred meters.
Now the distance was enough to detect any movements within five hundred meters.
The area where the Rock Horse Armor might be hiding was within this range.
Lin Feng immediately raised the Explosive High-speed Cannon in his hand, aiming at the target area.
The Rapid Fire Cannon had a magazine capacity of fifteen hundred rounds, with power comparable to a 105mm Grenade Cannon, enough to destroy light armor.
But to the Rock Horse Armor, it was as if scratching an itch, leaving at most a slight pit mark.
However, Lin Feng didn’t care about that; as long as there were enough rounds in the Rapid Fire Cannon, he could sweep and cover the entire thousand-square meter area several times.
While it couldn’t directly crush large rocks, it could blast them apart.
By then, if the Rock Horse Armor, when struck, still stood intact among the ruins, it would be easy to spot.
Lin Feng pulled the trigger and engaged.
One after another, high-explosive rounds poured out like a stream from the fist-sized cannon muzzle, resembling falling hail, uniformly hitting the rock piles.
With explosions echoing far and wide,
covering the entire rocky area with a blast every ten square meters, stirring up a cloud of smoke and dust.
The recoil of the High-Explosive Rapid-Fire Cannon was very low, at least insignificant for level-22 Lin Feng.
The only issue was the overheating of the barrel.
To cover a rock pile over a thousand square meters, at least a hundred rounds needed to be fired.
Fortunately, as branded equipment, this minor issue did not affect the firing of the Rapid-Fire Cannon, and with the Rapid Pursuit attribute’s automatic mode, firing ten rounds per second, Lin Feng covered the entire rock pile area in less than two minutes.
Smoke spread everywhere, dust rose high.
Creating a smoke-filled zone of gray-yellow haze. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖
Lin Feng cautiously hid, waiting quietly for the smoke to disperse.
A gentle breeze blew over, whisking away the fine sand in the smoke, revealing the scorched amber-black rocky ground in just three to four minutes.
Over a hundred smoking black pits appeared neatly in the rocky area, obliterating the terrain that once provided camouflage and cover.
Lin Feng’s expression immediately tensed, his Power Armor’s scan, combined with his perception, locked onto the target area.
Seeing his camouflaged ambush tactics exposed, Li Hao, clad in Rock Horse Armor, didn’t delay further. He used the cover of smoke to find an attack opportunity.
As the smoke gradually dispersed, a dark silhouette suddenly appeared at the edge of the rock pile.
Lin Feng felt a threat, immediately raising his weapon to aim.
But then he suddenly realized that the experienced Li Hao would not expose himself brazenly from four to five hundred meters away.
Even at full speed, it would take him two to three seconds to reach here in a straight line.
Lin Feng could easily repel him by aiming with his firearm or, if need be, escape with extreme speed.
So, despite the tension in Lin Feng, he did not choose the optimal response plan from the Combat Assistance System, which was to aim and fire, instead maintaining vigilance of his surroundings.
And in the next second, just as Lin Feng expected...
The dark shadow emerging from the smoke wasn’t Li Hao’s Rock Horse Armor, but simply an upright boulder.
Its size resembled that of the Rock Horse Armor.
But was merely a camouflaged decoy.
However, before Lin Feng could react, from the other side of the rock pile, an area in a depression, in less than a second, a barrage of debris rapidly flew at him.
The real Rock Horse Armor had made its move!
Having lived for hundreds of years on the wasteland, Li Hao had always employed every possible means to eliminate targets or opponents.
He would utilize all available resources to put the target in a passive situation before choosing to strike.
In fact, when Lin Feng chose to bomb the rock pile hiding area where Li Hao had been, the Rock Horse Armor had already left that spot under the cover of cannon fire and smoke.
Li Hao piled a few boulders together to confuse Lin Feng’s view and judgment.
He then sneaked into another direction.
While Lin Feng focused his nerves on the post-bombardment rock area, Li Hao seized the opportunity to pick up the collected stones and hurl them fiercely at Lin Feng’s hiding spot.
Although the Rock Horse Armor had no speed enhancement, its power was greater than that of the Power Armor.
50% power was the result of multiple enhancements for Lin Feng, but this was just the start for the Rock Horse Armor. The level-25 Battle Armor worn by Li Hao could amplify strength by at least 70%.
With his base power of sixty tons, resulting in a terrifying over hundred-ton burst force.
Under such power, even randomly thrown stones were as dangerous as missiles.
A full-strength throw could make some hard stones approach sonic speed, striking the target.
Since ancient times, regardless of how human technology evolved, it never escaped boiling water and throwing stones; boiling water solves energy problems, and throwing stones is a method of attack.
Lin Feng using shells was also just throwing stones, but using the impact of gunpowder to launch, with the head filled with explosives to increase striking power.
Li Hao’s method was to increase the stone’s speed attribute to enhance its impact power on the target.
But don’t underestimate these stones; once they’re thrown at speeds of several meters per second, they pose no threat to the titanium alloy Power Armor.
However, once the speed reaches a certain level, the threat level skyrockets.
Now, with stones flying near sonic speed, Lin Feng’s body tensed instantly.
Though being hit wouldn’t cause much damage, it could easily compromise the durability of the Power Armor, causing possible jamming issues at some weak defense joints when struck.
Fortunately, detecting the extreme danger, the armor immediately activated the highest authority of the Combat Assistance System, unleashing extreme speed to relocate and evade the attack.
Lin Feng let the Assistance System take over his legs while looking back with his weapon raised.
Seeing the Rock Horse Armor, after launching heaps of stones, charging wildly.
The valley on the platform’s surface trembled slightly as the giant beast sprinted wildly.
In the first confrontation, Li Hao caught Lin Feng off guard, dismantling many of his advantages.
