Chapter 225 - 147: The Furnace Well, Ling Shuyan’s Arrival
Chapter 225: Chapter 147: The Furnace Well, Ling Shuyan’s Arrival
With everyone prepared, battle was imminent.
At Lin Feng’s command, five Tier Two Awakeners led one hundred Warriors in a surprise attack against the Red-Armored Beetle Swarm by the wall.
Dealing with the low-level Red-Armored Beetles didn’t even require Shotguns; the Warriors, armed with large-caliber rifles and Heavy Machine Guns, wiped them out completely.
At the same time, they could use this opportunity to raise their own Levels.
After one wave, a dozen or so Warriors had Upgraded to Level 9 Enhanced People. They only needed to kill one more Black Spine Zerg to become the next Awakeners.
Shen Jie charged to the very front of the team and transformed into the Black Knight. His Black Armor merged with his modified Battle Armor, and the two-meter-long, sharp Bone Blades on his arms carved an X-shaped slash into the thick wall.
The tens of tons of Power from a Tier Two Mid-Stage Awakening, combined with the Black Knight form’s explosive speed...
A white light flashed across the Bone Blades, and the half-meter-thick wall was instantly and easily shattered.
As the concrete wall collapsed and shattered, a four to five-meter-wide gap appeared before them.
The sounds of gunfire and the wall breaking had already interrupted the shipyard’s activity. Many Black Spine Zergs dropped their cutting work and gathered outside the dock.
The Tier Two Awakeners raised their Shotguns and attacked, with the Warriors following close behind.
To help the Enhanced People complete their Awakening kills as quickly as possible, Shen Jie instructed the Legion squad to aim only for the Black Spine Zergs’ limbs and lower abdomens—not their heads—and just wound them severely.
The final kill would be left to the new recruits.
Five members of the Tier Two Corps were enough to handle the ordinary Black Spine Zergs, so Shen Jie went to Lin Feng’s side.
Lin Feng now stood by a deep pit in the center of the shipyard, gazing at the water-submerged opening at his feet.
The entire Wormhole had a diameter of twenty meters, far exceeding the size of a normal surface Wormhole and large enough for a Tier Two Tiger Spine Zerg to pass through.
And the Red-Armored Beetles that had been responsible for transport earlier were throwing small, cut pieces of Special Steel into it.
Water rich in metallic minerals is much denser than air, so the descent speed of the Special Steel blocks would be greatly reduced inside.
But the Red-Armored Beetles did not enter this watery pit themselves.
Lin Feng slowly crouched down and dipped his hand into the water at the opening.
Sure enough, the water in the pit was warm.
And it grew hotter the deeper it went.
So, the Zerg Race wasn’t collecting and transporting the Special Steel. Instead, they were using local materials to build a Biological Melting Furnace capable of synthesizing Tier Two Tiger Spine Zerg Giant Mandibles.
And the ceaselessly flowing water of the Great River hundreds of meters away was the best coolant for this high-temperature forge.
Through Mind Sensing, Lin Feng detected a massive light source two hundred meters deep inside the pit.
It was a living Biological Melting Furnace entity, containing thousands of points of Life Value Energy.
Comparable to a High-tier Life Form!
However, it had no capacity for thought, nor could it move.
It seemed unlikely that there were Tier Two Zerg Eggs, but there should be quite a few forged, Orange Quality Giant Mandibles.
Lin Feng thought for a moment, then looked around and found an arm-thick steel cable nearby. It was about two hundred meters long. He gave one end to Shen Jie to tie to a crane and fastened the other end around his own waist.
Then, he jumped into the pit.
The surface water temperature was around forty to fifty degrees.
An ordinary person could withstand it easily enough, but as he descended, the temperature shot up to seventy or eighty degrees.
This temperature was already hot enough to denature proteins, break peptide bonds, and ultimately cook a person alive.
Through his Face Armor, Lin Feng’s eyes could see the heat waves rising, surging upward to exchange heat with the colder water at the entrance above.
He had now descended sixty or seventy meters and could no longer see the dark Abyss below him. The water temperature around him was also climbing higher and higher.
Even a Tier One Awakener couldn’t last long in seventy to eighty-degree water. At a depth of over a hundred meters, the boiling waves would scald Lin Feng even through his Flying Tiger Armor.
No wonder the Zerg Race dared to leave their Biological Melting Furnace out in the open.
They probably weren’t afraid of humans stealing it.
Lin Feng finally stopped his descent at a depth of one hundred and twenty meters, where numerous boiling bubbles were already drifting up.
He tried to activate his Flying Tiger Armor’s Absolute Defense, but unfortunately, the Energy Shield that could block high-speed attacks was useless against the slow-encroaching hot water.
Deactivating the Mutant Form of Absolute Defense, Lin Feng used the faint light to observe his surroundings.
He then discovered that the entire wall of the pit was lined with a layer of blackened charcoal.
It was the charred husk left behind after Biomass was burned.
Yet it had excellent thermal insulation properties.
It could easily insulate against temperatures of several thousand degrees.
Lin Feng could faintly Sense biological activity behind the carbon-graphite layer nearby and below his feet.
The blocks of Special Steel dropped by the Red-Armored Beetles were liquefied by high temperatures inside the Biological Melting Furnace below, then absorbed and synthesized with organic molecules to create super-hard Giant Mandibles.
But this carbonized layer that insulated against the high temperatures had a fatal flaw: the higher the temperature, the more brittle the layer became.
Since he couldn’t go deeper to investigate, Lin Feng decided to destroy the furnace directly and explore it after the high-temperature reaction had subsided.
After all, compared to Tier Two Zerg Eggs, Orange Quality Giant Mandibles were in even shorter supply.
Not only was his Flying Tiger Armor not yet at Full Level, but even his main piece of equipment, the Level 20 Land Patrol Battleship, hadn’t improved at all since its Tier Jumping Upgrade.
Tomorrow was the arranged trading day with Mother Empress Ling Yi. The second batch of fifty Tier Two Zerg Eggs was about to be in his hands, and the Battleship could finally be Upgraded.
And the fusion upgrade materials to go with it had to be acquired as soon as possible.