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Without further delay, Chen Jiang and his team began the enhancement process.
[Ding! You have consumed 3,020 one-star items to enhance the turret barrel caliber from +299 to +300.]
[Current turret caliber: 1540 cm.]
With the caliber enhanced to +300, the turret's caliber reached 15 meters.
If they were to return to the global event and engage in mid-gate sniping again, they could obliterate entire towns along with their inhabitants in a single shot.
What does a 15-meter caliber mean?
Typically, a car's width rarely exceeds 1.8 meters.
A 15-meter caliber is wide enough for eight cars to drive side-by-side!
This isn't just a road—it's an eight-lane highway!
Now you should have a better sense of what a 15-meter caliber means. Imagine a barrel as wide as an eight-lane highway pressing against your head, greeting you with a friendly "hello." What would you feel?
Think about how long it takes to cross an eight-lane traffic light. That should give you a rough idea of what 15 meters feels like.
Chen Jiang used nearly 260,000 one-star items to enhance the turret caliber from +200 to +300.
Upgrading from +100 to +200 had only cost 160,000 one-star items, but the jump from +200 to +300 required a staggering 260,000.
The exponential increase in cost was glaringly obvious!
By the time he reached +1000, or even +10,000, +100,000, the number of items required would likely skyrocket even further.
But that didn't matter. By then, he'd likely have amassed far more one-star items anyway.
Soon, he resumed enhancing the other upgradeable options of the Instrument Steel Sword Self-Controlled Rotating Turret.
[Ding! You have consumed 3,020 one-star items to enhance the turret barrel length from +299 to +300.]
[Current turret barrel length: 3,020 cm. Effective firing range increased to 30,500 meters.]
This enhancement also cost nearly 260,000 one-star items.
The barrel length had now reached thirty meters!
The firing range had increased to over 30,000 meters!
To be fair, the firing range wasn't too outrageous. After all, even on Blue Star, achieving accurate strikes at distances of over 30,000 meters wasn't particularly difficult.
But a 3,020 cm barrel—nearly thirty meters long—was pushing the limits of absurdity.
Scar Dog stared at the drastically transformed turret, muttering in astonishment, "Brother Jiang, I think we've got a new combat strategy here. The barrel's thirty meters long and fifteen meters wide, right?"
"We could bury this thing along the enemy's main route, wait for them to mistake it for a tunnel and drive inside, then blast them with a single shot! Absolute precision!"
"A devastating surprise attack they'll never see coming!"
Chen Jiang shot Scar Dog an annoyed glance before turning back to admire his Steel Sword Autonomous Rotating Turret, his expression satisfied. Without a word, he resumed enhancing it.
[Ding! You have consumed 3,020 one-star items to enhance the turret firing rate from +299 to +300.]
[Your Steel Sword Autonomous Rotating Turret now has a firing rate of 30,900 rounds per minute.]
Thirty thousand rounds per minute.
That averages out to 500 rounds per second.
Every second, a full 500 missiles, each 15 meters in diameter, rain down on the enemy like a hailstorm.
"..."
Scar Dog's expression turned slightly strange as he said, "Actually, I think even with our current strength, we could crush that 'galactic federation' after we leave the Ten Thousand Races Arena."
"Wishful thinking," Chen Jiang replied calmly, shaking his head. "We'd need at least a 1,000-meter caliber. Otherwise, we'd definitely lose to that galactic federation."
"Besides, our Steel Sword Autonomous Rotating Turret is just an energy cannon. The galactic federation likely has ship cannons made of special materials beyond energy cannons, as well as various attack methods we don't even know about."
"We can't let our guard down."
The enhancement continued.
[Ding! You have consumed 3,020 one-star items to enhance the turret ammunition capacity from +299 to +300.]
[Your current turret ammunition capacity is 303,000 rounds.]
[Ding! You have consumed 3,020 one-star items to enhance the turret recoil reduction from +299 to +300.]
[Your current turret recoil reduction is 700 pounds.]
With this, all five enhancement options for the Steel Sword Autonomous Rotating Turret had been upgraded to +300!
The overall attack power had undergone another significant boost!
The increased rate of fire and caliber amplified its destructive force!
Meanwhile, the expanded ammunition capacity not only extended the turret's operational endurance but also prolonged the duration of the crimson light pillar!
In total, they had consumed 1.3 million one-star items!
This stockpile included Wang Defa's accumulated reserves from the past few days, as well as the over seventy thousand one-star items recovered through a single use of Time Reversal.
The next set effect would activate upon reaching +500 enhancement.
However, given their current rate of acquiring one-star items, this milestone should be achievable within just two or three days.
"It's truly unimaginable," Scar Dog muttered, his head still bent over his work. "Brother Jiang, could you ever have imagined that our primary source of one-star items would one day be a couple of ordinary Trash Manufacturing Machines?"
"Where did Wu Jinshen find such a powerful one-star item?"
"I wonder if there are any more."
"If we had ten thousand Male-Female Trash Generators each, we could rename that galaxy the Chen Jiang Star System in less than a month."
"I don't know."
Chen Jiang shook his head and casually sat down in a nearby chair, resting his head on his hands. "These items probably came from other Ten Thousand Races Arenas. I wonder which one."
"The Ten Thousand Races Arenas always have strange and unusual items like these."
"Sometimes they're completely useless."
"But sometimes they can serve an irreplaceable purpose, just like today."
"This incident has reminded me of something."
"The one-star items Wu Jinshen and his group considered almost useless were based on their own perspective. For example, the Trash Manufacturing Machine is indeed useless to them because it can only produce trash."
"But for us, it's incredibly useful."
"We should have carefully examined all one million items to understand their effects before enhancing them."
"People will die."
Scar Dog paused his work, his lips twitching slightly as he looked up at Chen Jiang. "Brother Jiang, checking one million one-star items one by one would kill anyone from exhaustion."
"But we could have Wu Jinshen and his team sort them out, or hire a group of human players to inspect them individually."
"After all, those human players have nothing better to do."
"Either way, we'll have to wait for the next batch. We've already finished enhancing this one."
"Oh, right, Brother Jiang."
Scar Dog stood up, wiping sweat from his forehead. "I've finished designing that global event you asked me to create."
"When are you planning to launch it?"
(End of the Chapter)
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