Apocalypse: My Items Can Upgrade Infinitely

Chapter 267: Chapter 161: Speech, On-the-Spot Awakening, Shen Jie’s War

While Liu Yi and the others, struggling for words and still reeling, did their best to describe what had happened underground and explain the current situation...

Lin Feng, who was bringing up the rear, slowly emerged before the crowd after the last Red-Armored Beetle had exited the cave.

Seeing the confused looks on their faces, Lin Feng didn’t offer a lengthy explanation. He simply gave an order:

"We’re resting for now. A fleet will be here to pick us up in one hour."

He then walked toward the Red-Armored Beetle Swarm and found a particular yellow-and-black Zerg Egg.

Nurturing and incubating inside it was none other than Shen Jie, who was trapped in the Zerg Race’s Spirit Realm World.

The Outer Armor that had peeled off his body, combined with the secretions of the Zerg Egg’s internal tissues, had formed a hard shell with yellow and black stripes on its surface...

Compared to the glistening white Tier Two Zerg Eggs, this one looked more like the cocoon a Tier Two Tiger Spine Zerg was meant to have.

At this moment, Shen Jie needed a stable environment and to avoid any long, bumpy journeys.

That was why Lin Feng had chosen not to leave immediately. Besides, he needed Ling Yi to continue commanding this swarm of Red-Armored Beetles.

Unless Lin Feng was willing to have several hundred Warriors act as porters, which, under the current circumstances, would be tantamount to suicide.

The Warriors’ strength lay in their concentrated firepower. A hundred Warriors equipped with shotguns, holding a defensive line, were more than enough to handle a Low-tier Zerg Swarm of over ten thousand.

With the Tier Two Corps squads guarding the perimeter, it was clear that adopting a defensive strategy offered a greater advantage.

Furthermore, Lin Feng couldn’t just abandon Ling Yi—not until he was confident he could defeat the Hai City Mother Empress on his own. Their cooperation was indispensable.

About ten minutes later, after the Tier Two Corps had finished their fragmented explanation and another round of hushed discussions had passed...

The Warriors noticed that the more than four hundred Red-Armored Beetles, which now crowded the entire open space of the residential complex near the cave entrance, made no aggressive moves, remaining frozen in place.

Only then did everyone gradually start to believe that the Tier Two Awakened of the corps squad were telling the truth.

According to the details they revealed...

The mysterious scientist Commander Lin had brought back possessed powerful Spiritual Element Superpowers. Rumor had it that she knew the Zerg Race’s social structure like the back of her hand and had even gone deep underground to investigate their habits firsthand.

The fact that this mission was a resounding, danger-free success was largely thanks to Ling Yi’s real-time guidance and warnings.

However, Commander Lin had been out of the cave for a while now, and the mysterious female scientist had yet to appear. Even the members of the corps squad began to murmur among themselves.

Perhaps she had other personal matters to attend to and hadn’t retreated with the main group.

Like investigating other types of Hives, for instance.

The Warriors’ gazes, however, were mostly fixed on the glistening white Tier Two Zerg Eggs on the backs of the Red-Armored Beetles.

Counting carefully, there were as many as three to four hundred of them.

It was enough for all the current Tier One Peak Awakened to successfully pass through the second stage of advancement and become Tier Two Awakened, comparable to little Supermen.

Meanwhile, some of the Warriors’ attention was focused on the special Zerg Egg in front of Commander Lin.

From Liu Yi’s description, that had to be Captain Shen Jie’s recovery and healing chamber.

Deep in the Underground Zerg Race Nest where Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs were incubated, the corps members had fought a battle to the death with the Nest’s guards—Tier Two Peak Tiger Spine Zergs.

If Captain Shen Jie hadn’t fearlessly charged to the front at the critical moment, blocking the Tiger Spine Zerg’s forty-meter-long Giant Mandible strike, the Tier Two Corps squad would have been all but wiped out.

But after creating an opening for the Sergeant Major to counter-attack, a selfless act that nearly cost him his life, Shen Jie was left gravely wounded.

Even pouring the Nutrient Liquid from an entire Tier Two Zerg Egg into him was useless.

Fortunately, with Ling Yi’s help, they had used Zerg biotechnology to temporarily stabilize his physical injuries. As for the trauma to his Spirit, they could only pray for Shen Jie himself.

Frankly, Captain Shen Jie’s plight was more shocking and worrisome to the Warriors than the injury—or even death—of any other member of the Tier Two Corps!

Captain Shen Jie was, after all, the most powerful Awakener in the entire Thirteenth Division, second only to Lin Feng. He had once single-handedly killed a Tier Two Tiger Spine Zerg while only at the Tier One Late Stage. For even him to suffer such grievous injuries now...

His fate was uncertain...

It just went to show how dangerous and terrifying the Underground Hive truly was!

Many of the eager Tier One Peak Awakened began to hesitate after learning about Shen Jie’s situation.

Their gazes toward the Tier Two Zerg Eggs shifted from excitement to worry and confusion...

Because Lin Feng had once said that the number of Tier Two Zerg Eggs was extremely limited. The Sergeant Major could give them to Tier One Peak Awakened for free, helping them safely step into the deep Awakening of Tier Two, but the price was...

They had to be integrated into the Tier Two Corps, becoming members of the super legion that would follow Lin Feng deep underground to fight.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch.

Reward and risk go hand in hand.

Among the corps squad guarding the Red-Armored Beetle Swarm, Liu Yi, who had taken Shen Jie’s place as deputy captain, keenly sensed the subtle shift in the Warriors’ morale...

He felt he had to do something.

He immediately stood up from the stone block he was sitting on, unleashing the powerful aura of his current self and showing off his new armor.

After harvesting the half-incubated Tier Two Zerg Eggs, Liu Yi and the others had all upgraded and evolved to the Tier Two Late Stage. A few had even reached the Tier Two Peak.

In other words, the limit of Tier Two: Lv. 29.

The quick and capable Liu Yi was one of them.

Although their upgrade process had been a shortcut, like forced growth, the power they now possessed was genuine.

The moment he released his aura, it instantly stunned all the Warriors present.