Chapter 122: Chapter 98: Situation Analysis and Boarding the Oasis Battleship

The shooting speed of the special empowerment bullet doubles, the effective range doubles, and the basic damage increases by 20%.

This allows the originally 50 damage Level 9 AK to break through the upper limit of the rifle, reaching 60 points.

It’s comparable to the power of a Level 10 Explosive Gun.

The only problem is that the bullet head is too soft; the copper-coated iron steel core can only penetrate a dozen centimeters into the rock layer before shattering due to the enormous impact force.

If a harder material were used as the bullet head, such as titanium alloy or tungsten alloy, Lin Feng estimates that the damage and lethality of the empowered bullet would further improve.

The introduction also indicates the current drawback, namely that the bullet’s power is too great for the gun’s structure to handle, akin to stuffing a small cannonball into a rifle barrel, resulting in significant wear.

Firing five empowered bullets will reduce the Level 9 AK’s durability by one point.

At a minimum of six durability points, performance won’t be too affected, allowing an AK to fire up to twenty empowered bullets.

However, obtaining such a big killer with power comparable to that of an Explosive Gun, this wear and tear is completely acceptable.

Lin Feng then asked Liu Qian to continue empowering a few more bullets, confirming through experiments once again.

Apart from the increased recoil, everything else was fine.

He also conducted empowerment experiments on handgun bullets, achieving similar results, though the effective range was much shorter, less than a hundred meters.

The Level 3 ordinary handgun can currently only be upgraded to Level 9 at most, and since it hasn’t been branded beyond Level 7, its attributes are not as good as Lin Feng’s previously branded Level 9 Precision Handgun.

Fortunately, in terms of power, it hasn’t dropped much. With the empowered bullets, it can deal 60 damage within a hundred meters.

After completing the experiment, on the way back, Lin Feng earnestly instructed:

“We have four hundred rifle bullets and three hundred handgun bullets. Subsequently, prioritize empowering the rifle bullets first, ensuring that Liu Mingfei and the others have twenty empowered bullets each in their rifle magazines.”

“This is because the currently optimized AK rifle can only withstand a maximum of twenty empowered bullets.”

“After accomplishing the task of the first batch of sixty, consider continuing to empower the remaining bullets based on the situation.”

Liu Qian nodded, finding purpose in her seemingly useless superpower, which lifted the previously low spirits.

Her whole demeanor brightened, with a sparkle in her eyes:

“Currently, my ability allows me to empower about thirty bullets a day, so I can complete the task in two days.”

Holding another empowered bullet in her hand, Liu Qian made a rough assessment.

Lin Feng gave a slight nod, finding this speed completely sufficient.

After all, the power of the empowered bullets was evident to all, equivalent to each person having twenty small-caliber grenades, armor-piercing rounds that hit wherever aimed.

When encountering the Rock-Horned Horse Herd, even if Lin Feng doesn’t take action, the remaining six members of the team can easily kill several Rock-Horned Horses at the Tier One Middle and Early Stages.

And in the subsequent relic task, whether encountering unknown underground monsters or other relic exploration teams, the team of seven would have a strong long-range strike capability.

They wouldn’t need to resort to close combats whenever they faced danger.

Returning to camp, it was already five in the afternoon; in an hour, it would transition from day to night.

Lin Feng would also follow Father Su An to the Oasis to witness the life of the Upper Class.

Inside the camp, Liu Qian quickly completed today’s empowerment task for the remaining rifle bullets.

Feeling a bit tired, she munched on some jerky, walked over to Lin Feng, and looked at the gradually recovering Rock-Horned Horses in the two large iron cages, speaking slowly:

“Have you ever wondered why there are two large iron cages in Holy Spring Village? Looking at the weld joints and paint, they seem to be newly built just a few days ago…”

Lin Feng squinted his eyes, looking at Ding Yi who was feeding the plant stem debris to the Rock-Horned Horses in the iron cage.

These ground-up fiber residues were sent by Cultivators under Father Su An’s orders.

Although the Holy Spring Village cafeteria has meat, their staple food is still starchy mush from various plant tubers.

This includes familiar sandalwood grass roots and mutated potatoes and sweet potatoes grown at the farm.

This allows the derivation of the farm village’s Rock-Horned Horse breeding cycle:

First, plant various high-yield crops, extract the starchy liquid from their fruit tubers, and feed the indigestible coarse fiber to the Rock-Horned Horses.

The manure from the Rock-Horned Horses then provides a constant supply of fertilizer for crop planting.

Sunlight serves as the energy source for the entire system, using vast amounts of water as the energy transfer medium, ensuring the stability of this industrial cycle.

Therefore, these Rock-Horned Horse breeding cages should only appear in the farm village; suddenly having two sturdy iron cages at Holy Spring Village, a place for teaching and learning…

Could it be that Father Su An foresaw that they would capture live horses?

Or are these cages not originally intended for the Rock-Horned Horses?

Prompted by Liu Qian’s reminder, Lin Feng fell into thought.

At this moment, after feeding a cart of plant stem feed and covering the cage with a gray cloth again, Ding Yi approached them:

“Maybe it’s related to a bounty task issued earlier by Father Su An. Among the twenty or so Desert Wolf corpses we brought back, there could be something Father Su An needs.”

“Biological research, or evolutionary cells?”

Ding Yi’s words enlightened Lin Feng.

At this point, it seems the active cells in the Mutated Wolf Fang were indeed the Desert Wolf Race’s evolutionary cells.

If they are absorbed or implanted in the body, in a way, it follows the same path as using the Rock-Horned Horses to obtain Life Source Material for tier jump evolution.

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