Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 539 - 264: After Thousands of Years, the Beast Disaster Returns—Cannons Without Operators
The struggle between the Rebel Army and the Church now only lacks a superficial facade yet to be torn apart.
At any moment, there could be an open conflict, turning hostile and fighting on the spot!
And the Desert Wolf Race happened to encounter such a rare opportunity!
As the Church and the Li Family compete, other forces such as the Hunting Wilderness Guild and the two villages supporting the Li Family, are now considering how to protect themselves, completely ignoring the threat outside Oasis Town.
They are utterly unprepared for the imminent attack from the Desert Wolf Race.
This is why tens of thousands of Desolate Wolf packs have already positioned a half-circle encirclement within ten kilometers outside Oasis Town, yet the major forces of the oasis have no suspicion whatsoever.
Because with the death of Li Mingquan, the atmosphere between the parties has dropped to freezing point.
Ninety percent of each party’s attention is focused entirely on each other, fearing the enemy might suddenly attack without warning, catching them off guard.
If not for Lin Feng’s intuition, ascending to the highest point of the oasis, the church’s attic watchtower, to overlook the surroundings...
Otherwise, they would have indeed been caught completely unprepared by the Desert Wolf Race, becoming the unexpected beneficiaries amid the struggle of the contending parties.
Fortunately, under Lin Feng’s guidance, the Oasis Church became the second force to obtain this information, enabling them to prepare in advance.
And Lin Feng informing the church of this news allowed the Oasis Battleship to be ready ahead of time, also to prevent Oasis Town from truly being breached by the Desert Wolves.
Becoming the first medium-sized settlement to be wiped out by a town-level beast disaster in thousands of years.
After all, relying on his dual-cannon long-range firepower alone was insufficient to repel wolf packs attacking simultaneously from three directions.
And the Oasis Battleship possesses super firepower attributes, equipped with two 200mm battleship heavy cannons!
Basic damage of one thousand, maximum range of twenty kilometers, firing rate of five rounds per minute, with twenty rounds in reserve!
And on either side of the battleship, there are five 150mm grenade cannons deployed.
Basic damage of four hundred, firing rate of ten rounds per minute, maximum range of ten kilometers, with a hundred rounds in reserve.
The two large-caliber battleship heavy cannons can directly kill leader-level giant wolves and threaten Tier Two Desolate Wolf Beasts, while the other ten 155mm grenade cannons have an effective lethal range that can cover two basketball courts, more powerful than Lin Feng’s rapid-fire cannon against packs of Evolved Desolate Wolves.
With these weapons entering battle status, cooperating with Lin Feng to defend Oasis Town, they can at least intercept more than seventy percent of the Desert Wolf Pack.
The remaining three to four thousand Evolved Desolate Wolves, after breaking through the firepower line, although they can inflict some damage and destruction to the various villages of Oasis Town...
But they certainly will not threaten the Oasis Battleship itself.
This is also the result Lin Feng desires.
That is, under the premise that the Oasis Battleship keeps operating, to weaken the forces of Lin Feng to the greatest extent possible.
In order to obtain absolute power for a short time before reinforcements from the Holy City arrive, thereby attempting to decipher all the secrets of the town-level battleship of Oasis.
To find an effective optimization route for upgrading vehicles in the future.
However, the most crucial part is how to use members of the Li Family and the other Three Major Clans as shields in this beast disaster.
So as to seize the benefits after they suffer heavy losses, and quickly strengthen oneself.
As the exclamations in the command control room gradually subsided, everyone was left with pale faces, and the stark silence of half-dead taboos.
Lin Feng lightly coughed and, seeing their bewildered and unsure looks, couldn’t help but remind them: 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞
"As a town-level battleship, the Oasis Battleship can’t possibly be unequipped with a weapon system, right? Even without the crisis of another beast tide in those years, there were still other hostile forces, like the Wanderers or the Fiery Sun Divine Sect threat..."
"The Oasis Battleship dares to operate alone, even reaching the edge of the Scorching Sun Forbidden Area, so it must at least be equipped with defenses to counter Tier Two powerhouses."
Upon hearing Lin Feng’s reminder, everyone in the control room exchanged glances, eventually focusing their attention on the Great Assistant Priest beside Lin Feng.
This Great Assistant Priest of the Mind is the most trusted confidant of Lord Bishop, even more trusted than the Grand Priest and Father Su An.
As the actual commanding officer of the Oasis Battleship, besides the keyholder Lord Bishop, no one knows this steel giant weighing tens of thousands of tons better than her.
With Lin Feng’s prompt, the previously baffled Great Assistant Priest of the Mind finally recalled the firepower system equipped on the Oasis Battleship.
Immediately, she turned to Lin Feng and said,
"Yes! And it can pose a threat to Tier Two Evolvers, making it specialized for dealing with large clan leader-level Desert Giant Beasts."
"But these traditional firearms require a professional artillery crew of over a hundred people to truly exert their power..."
"In those years, there were indeed such a group of elders on the Oasis Battleship, but now, after seven or eight hundred years, that first batch of Tier One Evolvers have long passed away."
"Even though they, following the instructions of Lord Bishop, trained many apprentices and recruits, teaching them how to operate these heavy weapons, the Oasis Battleship has not undergone a single combat in seven or eight hundred years..."
"Now it’s been at least fifteen or sixteen generations of inheritance, with no combat experience or rigorous training; this artillery crew probably won’t easily achieve the suppressing effect of the shipboard giant cannons once in battle..."
"The accuracy of shooting, accuracy rate, and the payload of firing speed are likely hard to meet the standards."
"The problem now isn’t the weapons; these shipboard large cannons are well-maintained and firing poses no issue. The issue lies with the manpower responsible for operating them."
At this point, the Great Assistant Priest lowered her voice and said:
"Lord Bishop once acknowledged this issue too. After all, this is the foundation of Oasis Town’s foothold in the Wilderness. Decades ago, the Lord also applied to the Holy City, requesting a group of professional artillery elite teams to come and serve as the captains of Oasis’s artillery teams to enhance combat effectiveness."
"Unfortunately, this proposal was rejected by the Holy City Diocese for lack of manpower."
"The subsequent crisis was due to the internal threat from Li Family’s rebellion. The artillery of the Oasis Battleship couldn’t resolve the problems in the villages beneath."
"Thus, the improvement of manpower regarding battleship artillery was temporarily shelved."
"Over time, how much of the artillery crew’s original strength remains is unknown until the first shell is fired."
"If not for Governor Lin’s reminder, I would have almost forgotten about this..."
After listening to the Great Assistant Priest’s explanation, Lin Feng frowned slightly as it wasn’t quite what he expected.
Because he once scanned the basic properties of the Oasis Battleship, understanding that its durability was still above eight points, and all attributes could still be normally activated and used...
Lin Feng subconsciously assumed that the battleship was still in a complete state, with not much wear and tear.
But he overlooked an important fact.
The battleship isn’t an entirely automated intelligent mechanical entity.
As a massive iron beast weighing forty to fifty thousand tons, still a behemoth sailing on land, it is a precise war machine needing coordination of thousands of personnel to bring out its true combat power.
Over the years, the Lord Bishop’s insufficient energy and declining control over Oasis Town have only managed to maintain control over the command control center of the Oasis.
It’s akin to controlling a person’s brain and heart, ensuring he can stay alive.
But he’s becoming increasingly powerless against the deterioration of the limbs, leading to a situation of having abundant heavy weapons but being unable to strike with heavyweight jabs.
Meanwhile, if the battleship’s super firepower can barely exert less than half its potential, then the resulting damage will be even lower.
It’s estimated that hitting the Tier Two Desolate Wolf Beasts will be difficult and more than half may slip through...
Thus, the initial plan to use others to do the dirty work and harvest the benefits could likely become a battle to defend the Oasis.
The Oasis Battleship might indeed be directly damaged and severely harmed by the Desert Wolf Race!
Unless using the Oasis Battleship’s big killer weapon...
The Curse of the Light Blade, derived from the Moonlit Ceremony.
Utilizing the Gathering Sunlight strike and coordinating with human Evolvers to contain and maneuver, heavily injuring the Tier Two Desolate Wolf Beasts.
However, the actual effect of the Curse of the Light Blade is uncertain.
Just as everyone was falling into despair, the Great Assistant Priest suddenly sensed something, with a grave expression, began speaking:
"Lord Bishop has sent a message."
"He is already aware of the crisis of the Desert Wolves’ attack and is currently in the secret chamber, requesting you to come over!"
