Chapter 588 - 271: Electric Drive, the Path to Tier Four, Hydrogen Bomb in Hand

Chapter 588: Chapter 271: Electric Drive, the Path to Tier Four, Hydrogen Bomb in Hand

"Besides that, its shelf life for a successful detonation is less than a year. Also, anyone in close proximity to the warhead for an extended period will suffer from severe radiation..."

"However, that only applies to ordinary people. It has basically no effect on Tier One Awakeners, and the same goes for Tier Two."

After speaking, Liu Yi had several members of the Guard Battle Group move all two hundred tons of Fine Steel, as well as the hydrogen bomb cases, into the main nest.

The black cases containing these hydrogen bombs were several times larger than the one with the nuclear warhead that Ling Shuyan had traded him outside the Jin City Research Institute.

Each case was four meters long, two meters wide, and two meters high, with a volume of a full sixteen cubic meters and a total weight of five tons.

Most of this consisted of the outer shell and attachments meant to ensure the hydrogen bomb’s successful detonation, along with additional trigger mechanisms.

The actual hydrogen warhead itself wasn’t very large.

Lin Feng nodded with satisfaction. Although the three hydrogen bombs were enormous, they were the perfect size for a Reproductive Armor Mecha.

A Biological Reproductive Armor could carry a hydrogen warhead, approach a Mother Empress, drop it, and immediately retreat. This would successfully detonate the bomb and severely injure the Mother Empress Swarm.

It was a fallback plan for killing a Mid-stage Mother Empress...

If they were to encounter a Multi Emperor attack, or if the other three Mid-stage Mother Empresses surrounded the Salvation Army, Lin Feng could use the hydrogen bombs to scour the area, threatening them or driving them away directly.

The power of a hydrogen bomb was like the Sun—the closest weapon to Divine Power that humanity had ever mastered.

Aside from the difficulty in preserving them, their only drawback was that they were simply too powerful.

In theory, its explosive TNT equivalent could be increased indefinitely by adding more fusion material.

Therefore, figuring out how to miniaturize hydrogen bombs and preserve them for long-term use had been a primary research focus for the major powers on Blue Star.

Fortunately, the Federation that Lin Feng belonged to possessed this exclusive technology.

This was why the Federation’s high command was able to offer these three black cases as part of a trade.

If they had been willing to offer more, Lin Feng wouldn’t have minded trading one of his remaining three Tier Three promotion slots to them.

After all, with a Tier Three Powerhouse overseeing things, vile incidents like mass defections to the Zerg Race would no longer occur.

"Leave the hydrogen bomb cases there for now. I’ll take care of the Fine Steel."

Lin Feng gave the order and walked over to the more than two hundred tons of Fine Steel, beginning the process of converting them into Level 29 Armor-Piercing Cannon Replicas.

Combining these with the Pulse Tail Cannons from the forty Pulse War Scorpions he had collected earlier, he synthesized forty Level 29 Electromagnetic Cannons.

With this, all eighty members of his Tier Two Battle Group could be equipped with Electromagnetic Cannon Replicas, more than doubling their overall firepower.

The remaining two hundred Warriors, including the more than one hundred and fifty new Tier Two members, would also receive a massive upgrade to their arsenal, being equipped with powerful Armor-Piercing Cannons.

The next time a massive Swarm attacked, the Salvation Army would be able to hold its ground even if Lin Feng and the others weren’t present.

During a break in Lin Feng’s synthesis, Shen Jie reported:

"The thirty-four Genetic Warriors are resting. As it stands, they’ll be ready for the midnight sneak attack."

Lin Feng nodded, handed the newly synthesized Electromagnetic Cannon to Liu Yi, and said:

"They’ve just obtained Realm Power, and they’re all restless. They’re itching to kill a High-tier Mother Empress, complete a Tier Jump Promotion, and become Tier Three Powerhouses, but..."

"A Zerg Race Mother Empress is not so easily killed!"

"The Zerg Race Mother Empress is the strongest Tier Three Life Form in the entire Zerg Race. They are far beyond the King Spine Zergs from the Trial World, which were only at twenty or thirty percent of their original bodies’ strength."

"Even we had to rely on a Nuclear Bomb just to barely kill a heavily wounded Mother Empress back then."

"Tell them not to be hasty. They need to properly hone their Mental Realms. The risk of trying to kill a Mother Empress right now is too great. We’ll look for an opportunity with the King Spine Zergs when they appear later."

Shen Jie nodded, understanding Lin Feng’s meaning.

"Understood. I’ll pass it on."

Lin Feng grunted in acknowledgment, his eyes narrowing slightly.

Because a notification had just popped up before him:

「Synchronized Upgrade complete!」

「Lin Feng, Lv. 33/39」