Chapter 438 - 220: Payload Problem, Arrival, and the Wind-winged Zergs’ Surprise Attack

Chapter 438: Chapter 220: Payload Problem, Arrival, and the Wind-winged Zergs’ Surprise Attack

"Stop the car."

Lin Feng frowned slightly and told Liu Yi, who was in the driver’s seat, to hit the brakes.

The jeep pulled over to the right and stopped on the emergency shoulder.

The young woman who had hurried to catch up with them clutched her chest, panting.

Even for a Tier Two Awakener, a run like this was exhausting—sprinting twenty kilometers from the Jin City Base City District, across the river to the Western Suburbs, just to catch a convoy moving at seventy or eighty kilometers per hour.

After all, the improvements to an Awakener’s Physique from evolution were mostly concentrated in explosive power and pure strength.

In contrast, the increase in their stamina was not as significant.

Due to the limitations of their physical size, combat endurance had always been a shortcoming for Human Awakeners.

This was also why Lin Feng wanted to change the way his body absorbed and circulated Energy.

Relying on breaking down organic matter to release energy could no longer keep up with the consumption rate of a High-tier Awakener in combat.

It was manageable when fighting a single Zerg of the same tier, but once faced with a high-tier Swarm, even Lin Feng, with his Golden Quality Ion Laser Cannon, would have to temporarily avoid a direct confrontation.

That was why the Super Fleet, composed of Dreadnought Battleship and Flying Wing Tank Replicas, was an even more crucial asset in the final battle than a Tier Two Battle Group.

The fleet’s mobility and long-range endurance allowed it to fight continuously for over ten hours. It could even utilize the Dreadnought Battleship’s Land Ship Attribute to sweep across the battlefield while collecting Zerg corpses, effectively enabling infinite combat.

As long as the Swarm did not fall, the fleet would not rest.

Compared to this, Awakeners of flesh and blood were at a natural disadvantage in sustained combat.

Their only option was to do as Qin Hu and his team once did: carry various supplements to replenish Energy and stimulate their bodies at a moment’s notice.

And now, after a frantic twenty-kilometer sprint, Liu Yueqi had finally caught up with Lin Feng’s group at the border of Jin City.

"Slow down. Get her a bottle of water."

Lin Feng asked Liu Yi inside the jeep for a bottle of mineral water—a one-liter bottle.

After he handed it to the young woman, she chugged the entire thing in one go, wiped her mouth, and her bangs were already soaked with sweat.

"Ahem... I finally caught up!"

"Take me with you!"

Liu Yueqi tossed the empty bottle aside, let out a long breath, and gripped her Thousand Slash Saber, her tone resolute.

Seeing the determination and resolve in her eyes, Lin Feng nodded in agreement immediately.

"Alright, get in! On this trip, you’d better reach Tier Two Peak at the very least."

Liu Yueqi nodded emphatically.

"With my Thousand Slash Saber, I’ll take a chunk out of the Zerg Race Mother Empress herself!"

"Haha!"

Lin Feng and the others in the car burst into laughter.

The young woman then got in the car and started making small talk with Ling Yi in the back seat.

The jeep started up, rejoined the convoy, and they continued on their way.

As the convoy continued west, it eventually reached a fork on a highway somewhere in the Huizhou region and turned into a hidden path that had been sealed off with guardrails.

Here, amid the desolate mountains, was a restricted military zone of the former Federation.

Several fighter jet squadrons and an army airborne brigade had been stationed here for training.

The air force squadrons had unfortunately been wiped out early in the Zerg invasion, annihilated in a joint attack by Cyan-winged Zergs and Tier Two Wind-winged Zergs.

Only a few large transport planes remained, left behind to move personnel and supplies.

However, after the relocation of Jin City Industry was complete, the last of the transport planes were also transferred to the North to participate in the final battle for the Capital.

By now, the lead vehicles of the convoy had already stopped in the parking lot of the desolate airfield.

The compacted runway and the cracked asphalt on either side of the road were overgrown with weeds from long-term neglect.

General Chen stepped out of a troop transport and ordered his subordinates to reboot the dispatch station.

Once the accompanying jeeps and troop transports had all entered the parking lot, the 283 members of the support team were directed by the airfield’s remaining staff into a hangar to rest and regroup.

It was only upon seeing everyone fully armed that Lin Feng suddenly realized the personnel roster and equipment list Li Ran had given General Chen seemed to have overlooked the weight of the new Armor-Piercing Cannons and Electromagnetic Cannons.

Each Orange Replica weighed about a ton, and the eighty Tier Two Warriors were equipped with a corresponding eighty cannons.

This included fifty Armor-Piercing Cannons. Lin Feng had only created thirty Electromagnetic Cannons, as they required integration with a Pulse War Scorpion’s Pulse Tail Cannon to activate their Magnetic Storm Bombs, and were intended as fire support for Underground combat.

Those eighty tons alone were enough to take up the maximum payload of a large transport aircraft.

In addition, there were the thirty-five Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Swords wielded by the Guard Battle Group, which added up to nearly twenty more tons.

Fortunately, the Red Profound Armor and Flying Tiger Armor worn by the soldiers had a spatial folding function; when activated in their vambrace form, they didn’t take up much space.

Otherwise, the fully armed soldiers, each standing two and a half meters tall and a meter wide, would have filled the transport’s cargo bay by themselves.

Their own body weight was also considerable.

They might look like they were just muscle, but in reality, as an Awakener’s evolution deepened, their cellular and tissue density steadily increased to support their corresponding explosive power, even without significant changes to their body size.

A normal human body is about eighty percent water, so its density is similar to water’s, at 1.02 grams per cubic centimeter.

But an Awakener’s density was significantly higher.

A Tier One Early Stage Awakener was about twice as dense as a normal person. Upon evolving to a Tier Two Awakener, their density could reach five times that of a normal person. With bodies of veritable steel that could unleash ten tons of Power with every move, it was no exaggeration to call them human tanks.