The bullet production machine quietly lay in front of him.

Lin Feng immediately began thinking about the upcoming production plan.

The molds he brought with him were for 9mm and 7.62mm bullets; the former is commonly used for pistols and submachine guns, while the latter serves as ammunition for rifles and light machine guns.

In addition, there were also 12.7mm large-caliber bullets, mainly used for anti-material strikes or heavy machine guns on vehicles.

As for the 5.56mm small-caliber bullets, they were already eliminated during the great cataclysm because their performance against mutated beasts was simply too poor, far inferior to the 7.62mm.

The mutated evolution of beasts, with strengthened muscle mass and thickened armor, can resist most small-caliber bullets.

In comparison, the defense capabilities of human Evolvers are much weaker.

Against a Tier One Evolver, a single 7.62mm full-power bullet is enough.

Even for late-stage Evolvers mastering eight or nine tons of strength, their skull cannot withstand the penetration of a steel-core bullet.

After all, the upper limit of carbon-based life forms is there; no matter how much the strength and density of bones improve, they can't stop the impact of metal streams unless the bones are replaced with titanium alloy.

Even for a giant beast like an elephant, locking onto the brain for a headshot is just a one-shot deal.

But the issue is that human Evolvers are not unarmed.

Just like the current evolutionary desolate beasts, which have developed rock armor or high-grade steel, Evolvers can also don full-body battle armor to resist attacks.

Once they enter combat mode, they are practically walking tanks.

Even wanderers like Ma Chenfeng can weld together makeshift iron armor to withstand bullet volleys, and the battle armor worn by Evolvers in the Oasis offers even stronger and more comprehensive defense.

The 7.62mm bullets, when dealing with early-stage Evolvers wearing armor, still have some lethality when targeting weak defensive areas like joints and necks.

However, Tier One Mid-Stage Evolvers wearing thicker armor can ignore medium-caliber bullet barrages, and only large-caliber bullets like the 12.7mm from heavy machine guns, paired with special armor-piercing bullet heads, can break their defenses and cause damage.

This caliber is also used in anti-material sniper rifles and even some cannons.

It barely kills fully armed mid-stage Evolvers.

As for stronger Tier One Late-Stage Evolvers and Tier Two Powerhouses, except for powerful cannon shells, bullets under 20mm inflict minimal damage.

Their battle armor or power armor, fabricated entirely from titanium alloy, varies in thickness from 20mm to 50mm, weighing over a ton, capable of blitzing through small-caliber cannon fire.

They become, in the true sense, human-shaped tanks.

So the bullets in hand right now can only be considered expendables for export; not much is needed for personal use.

However, for the majority of residents and Hunters, the real danger during turmoil does not come from the top powerhouses, but rather from those around them with not much difference in strength.

For instance, the plundering by early-stage Evolvers or mutual harm among the lower-tier individuals.

During such times, the demand for two different calibers of bullets, 7.62mm and 12.7mm, would multiply.

But these are just fringe benefits.

Originally priced at one point for five bullets, even if the price now rises to one point for two bullets, the 200,000 bullets producible from two tons of gunpowder only equate to 100,000 points.

People at the bottom likely don't have the purchasing power and simply can't afford so many bullets.

The revenue brought by bullets can't even compare to that of an ordinary Tier Two Life Source Material.

Upon thinking this, Lin Feng quickly dismissed the idea of a simple bullet production plan.

Instead, he considered another direction.

Such as the more scarce artillery shells!

If they could be made into more powerful shells, the price would be entirely different.

These are banned products by the Holy Spring Sect and the Hunting Wilderness Guild.

But Lin Feng knew the Guild certainly had a private stash; banned products are just forbidden from being sold, they aren't scarce internally for large forces.

Exploring and occupying a shelter ruin offers the chance to gain regimented firepower equipment, not to mention some small mining and metallurgy towns, like Ben Niu Town's sulfur and gunpowder continuously supplying raw production materials.

Lin Feng had no doubt that the Guild surely had a batch of firearms reserved for the final countermeasure.

But other families might not.

The Church might tolerate the Li Family's blatant provocations, but if they dared to reach out and stockpile firearms, Holy City would undoubtedly respond.

As chaos looms, aside from one's strength, nothing brings more security than a small-caliber firearm.

Lin Feng immediately reached out and touched the equipment production line before him, reviewing its attribute data:

"Bullet Production Machine lv20, Orange Quality"

"Basic Attributes: Automation Level 6/10; Durability 8/10; Currently can produce bullets below 20mm caliber; Upgraded to Host Level Limit"

"Extra Attributes: Bullet Production (3600 9mm bullets/hour, 3000 7.62mm bullets/hour, 600 12.7mm bullets/hour when raw materials are sufficient)"

"Evaluation: A production line with low integration level, requiring four employees to assist with production, including material delivery, rate adjustment, gunpowder control, and product verification, though highly automated to accelerate bullet production efficiency; a well-integrated military equipment, though basic bullet manufacturing, can develop production potential and variety through upgrades"

"Note: Can be branded, and after becoming branded equipment, choose an upgrade enhancement direction: automation level, production efficiency, product caliber, etc."

After reading the introduction, Lin Feng narrowed his eyes. The 12.7mm large-caliber bullet, each weighing 130 grams, reached six times that of the 7.62mm, and the output directly reduced by 80%.

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