Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 166 Mission and Reward, Honorary Deputy Mayor

After Father Su An finished speaking, Lin Feng nodded and took out the meat in the bag from his bag.

"Zombie meat" containing two levels of twenty life essence.

Previously, Zheng Yanying and others had taken out a copy from the train station and successfully escorted it to Oasis Town.

And Father Su An had just extracted a portion of the second-level wasteland wolf essence from it to transform it into an alien evolutionary species of the wasteland wolf path.

If two more copies are added, the subsequent encirclement and suppression operation against the two evolvers of the Li family in Nongzhuang Village will become more certain.

After all, it is only a second-level source essence, which can at most allow a second-level early trainee priest to become an evolver of the Wasteland Wolf Path. It is not safe for him to challenge the two rock horse warriors of the Li family.

The church in Oasis Town has a total of five second-level evolvers, not counting Father Wanhai who guards and protects the pilgrim caravan, there are still four left.

However, these four second-level warriors not only have varying strengths, but also varying conditions.

The Bishop is already in his twilight years. If he were to temporarily change the evolutionary path, not only would the effect be extremely low, but there would also be the risk of genetic conflicts triggering rejection reactions, causing serious damage to his vitality, or even exploding and death.

As for Suan himself and the other two priests...

Su An has been promoted to the middle stage of the second level and has become a formal priest. The other two are in the early stages and are just trainee priests.

Therefore, for Father Su An, the level 20 wasteland wolf essence, the degree of alienation after absorption and fusion is only low, not high, and it is impossible to multiply and mutate into steel wolf fangs and wolf claws that match his strength.

In the battle with the Li family, especially with the head of the family, Li Hao, it was difficult to form a suppressive force.

In order to ensure the combat effectiveness after the fusion, the candidate was arranged to be one of the two trainee priests.

Currently, the church is lacking in high-end second-order combat capabilities.

Although the upper limit of the alien evolution path is extremely low, its strength is the best among the same level, especially when it evolves to the second stage, which is equivalent to having the blessing of two superpowers.

For example, the Rock Horse Warrior, who is famous for his defense, can easily fight two enemies at once during a second-level battle thanks to the protective properties of his Rock Horse armor.

Father Su An took a look at the "zombie meat" rich in steppe wolf essence that Lin Feng took out and sighed.

Then he began to analyze the current situation for Lin Feng:
Among the high-end combat forces in Oasis Town today, in addition to the Li family’s two second-level evolvers, the mid-term head of the family and the early-stage members, there are also the Dawn Village and the Motorcycle Village that have been won over.

The family leaders behind the two villages are also early-stage second-order evolvers, and they all evolved through the Rockhorn Horse path.

Because this is the easiest second-level source material to obtain.

In the holy city ahead, the biological cultivation technology from the Life Farm can allow the second-level cells to continue to proliferate, thereby condensing the second-level life essence.

The rockhorn horse, which does not have a third-level king commander, is the evolutionary species that is easiest to study and analyze.

Therefore, the church has to face four second-level rock horse warriors. It is also for this reason that the leaders of the three major villages will unite and advance and retreat in unison.

To deal with the four Rock Horse Warriors, at least eight ordinary second-level evolvers are needed.

This is also the reason why the church needs to use the essence of the steppe wolf to transform it and suppress the rebellion in the oasis.

In the highest meeting of the oasis, in addition to the church and the local clans that are about to fight, there are two other forces.

One is Governor Han Tao, and the other is the president of the Hunting Guild.

At this point, Father Suan sighed again:

"Although both of them maintain a neutral attitude, if they want to maintain balance, they must stand on the weaker side to ensure the stability of the current order. In a sense, not taking sides is already taking sides."

"The leader of the Wasteland Hunter Guild is fine. Regardless of which side wins in the end, the Fifth Village, including the Wasteland Hunter Guild, can continue to survive. After all, Oasis Town still needs them to provide other daily necessities and intelligence from various places."

"So the guild can maintain absolute neutrality."

"We are also trying to get the guild president to join us. President Xu's strength should not be underestimated."

"But Governor Han Tao was originally an Evolved Person trained by the Li family. There is a high probability that he will side with the other side."

"This means there are as many as five Rock Horse Warriors, one of whom is in the middle stage of the second level!"

"With the church's current strength, even if we could get two more second-level wasteland wolf essences and transform them into three wasteland wolf warriors, we wouldn't be sure of a complete victory..."

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes slightly and guessed what Father Su An was going to say next.

He simply wanted to persuade himself to assist the church and be responsible for suppressing the subsequent rebellion of the big clan.

But as Su An himself analyzed, once there are five Rock Horse Warriors among the traitors, their strength will become extremely powerful.

After Lin Feng was promoted to the second level and understood firsthand the power of the second-level evolvers, he became more aware of what these five second-level rock horse warriors meant.

They are not like aberrations or second-level zombies who will sit and wait to be shot by the gun.

Moreover, although Lin Feng is an evolved person with firearm abilities and possesses powerful firepower output, the real purpose of this battle is to suppress the rebellion, not to exterminate the Li family.

The battle under the Oasis battleship was not so difficult. After all, the vast terrain was conducive to Lin Feng's long-range firepower delivery to provide fierce output.

But if the battle took place on the Oasis battleship, in the narrow environment, using the less powerful first-level armor-piercing cannon or rapid-fire cannon would not even be able to break through the heavy biological armor on the Rock Horse warrior.

The second-level orange weapons of the same level, especially the level 20 armor-piercing cannon, have a killing range of 15 meters, and the explosion can reach 20 to 30 meters away.

It is easy to hurt yourself accidentally. Instead of breaking through the defense of the enemy's Rock Horse Armor, it will destroy the Oasis battleship first.

The destructive power of the firearms ability evolver is too strong and it does not have defensive and protective attributes.

Once the oasis comes to a halt, with the arrival of the Fiery Sun Forbidden Zone behind it, the entire oasis town, including tens of thousands of permanent residents and the 60,000 to 70,000 wastelanders who follow them, will lose their basis for survival, scatter in a hurry, and wither away in the wasteland.

Such a large settlement will cease to exist with the disappearance of the oasis water source.

This is a result that neither the church nor the Li family wants to see. The ownership of the Oasis battleship was the fuse that ignited the struggle between the two sides.

If the oasis is gone, there will naturally be no reason or necessity for a war to break out.

But in comparison, the Holy Spring Cult needs the Oasis Battleship more. As a local clan that is enslaved and oppressed, even if the rebellion fails and the Oasis Battleship is destroyed, the Li family can move to the vast wasteland and become one of the many wanderers.

With the foundation and wealth they have accumulated over hundreds of years, it will be no problem for them to become the top among the second-rate forces.

Able to compete with the Savior Army led by Bai Ye.

If Dawn Village and Motorcycle Village were added, with a population of over ten thousand, it might not be impossible to rebuild a medium-sized settlement, relying on the rockhorn horse's industrial chain and joining the large forces headed by third-order kings.

Therefore, in this rebellion, the Holy Spring Cult, as the guardian of the old order, is always the passive party.

Lin Feng expressed his considerations. If he could not use large-caliber artillery on the Oasis battleship, he would become an ordinary second-level evolver, even worse than a psychic with enhanced physique.

At least the latter, when evolving at level 20, can burst out basic strength and speed of level 22 or 23.

Lin Feng had no equipment to support him, and it was difficult for him to fight against the fully armed second-level Rock Horse Warriors at the same level, let alone those veteran second-level evolvers above level 20.

Father Suan nodded, he was aware of this:
"You don't need to get involved in the internal fighting in the oasis. In fact, this matter has nothing to do with you. If you want to develop in a big city, you should choose to leave now instead of staying and wading through this mess."

"But the church really lacks support, and I never imagined that the people I initially unintentionally helped through the Steppenwolf Pathway would grow to where they are today."

"So I hope you can stay and assist the church, guarding Shengquan Village, and suppressing the attacks of the first-level evolvers from the other three villages."

"The three major villages are all under the oasis. You can freely release your firearm abilities and use artillery weapons."

Lin Feng nodded. Father Su An’s support and help were crucial in his early growth process.

Although he had a mission purpose, all the promised rewards were paid in a timely manner, and many of Lin Feng's questions were also answered.

Without Father Su An's care, Lin Feng would probably still be thinking about how to accumulate resources to achieve a quantitative leap from the early to the late stage of the first level.

After all, there were only a few days left to hunt in the Wild Rift Valley. If you missed it, you would have to wait for several years. So Lin Feng didn't hesitate and agreed directly. Staying under the oasis to deal with the farm village was originally a cooperative action with Bai Ye, which was exactly what he wanted.

Seeing Lin Feng nod, Father Su An immediately added:
"By then, the rebels will likely arrange for a second-level evolver to come and contain you. Are you confident?"

Lin Feng shrugged:

"As long as they're not mid-level second-stage, early-stage Rock Horse Warriors can't do anything to me!"

Su An nodded and finally smiled.

He had already heard a little about Lin Feng's growth and current strength from Zheng Yanying's performance report.

The young man in front of him, who was no more than thirty years old, had grown from an enhanced human to a second-level strongman in just two months.

Back in the early days of the Great Cataclysm on Old Earth, this person would have been ranked among the top. Now, in the Wasteland Era, he is even more considered a child of evolution with exceptional talent...

The only pity is that he chose alien evolution too early. Otherwise, if he was absorbed into the church, there would be a great chance that he would become a powerful Templar Knight, or even a Bishop of the third stage.

Now, with the help of the firearm's special ability, Lin Feng's strength has reached an incredible level. He is able to kill a third-order distortion king whose strength is comparable to the late second-order at the second-order threshold of level 20.

Although the enemy is not wearing armor, it can also prove Lin Feng's strength.

By replenishing enough energy and maintaining peak condition, Lin Feng can fight against even a fully armed second-stage mid-stage evolver.

Therefore, the best option is to arrange for him to stay in Shengquan Village to be responsible for restraining an enemy general and suppressing hundreds of first-level mid-to-late stage evolvers.

After discussing the specific requirements of the mission, especially after getting Lin Feng's approval, the haggard look on Father Su An's face improved significantly, and he smiled and said:

"So, what's the reward for these two Steppenwolf Essences plus the subsequent mission?"

"The Bishop has already said that as long as the church can do it now, we will agree to it!"

Hearing this, Lin Feng breathed a sigh of relief, but his expression remained calm:

"I need a lot of evolutionary meat, at least the late first stage evolutionary meat jerky, preferably the second stage meat jerky."

"Because of my special ability, it consumes a lot of energy, especially in terms of physical strength. The better the food, the stronger the firepower output."

"Eating the flesh of a second-stage evolutionary is enough to kill any early-stage second-stage evolutionary, even one wearing Rock Horse armor."

"I once experimented with full-strength damage outside the Taishan ruins. The damage was so strong it melted rocks and could easily kill a rockhorn horse of the same rank."

"Dealing with the Rock Horse Warriors is certainly no problem!"

Hearing Lin Feng's first request, Father Su An frowned slightly and said helplessly:

"Having worked with Zheng Yanying and the others, you know that the monks and clergy of the church do not rely on evolutionary meat to maintain their evolutionary levels on a daily basis."

“The evolving cells in our bodies can continue to grow simply by consuming holy spring water regularly.”

"So, there aren't many Evolution Meat reserves in the Holy Treasury right now. Normally, only Battle Priests or Templars would use it as an additional supplement during intense battles."

"We don't have any Level 2 Evolutionary Meat right now. Besides the portion I gave you last time as a reward, we still have a thousand kilograms of it left, both Level 18 and Level 19. Since you've given us two portions of Steppe Wolf Essence, I'll give you two in return."

"Level 18 and 19, 200 kilograms each."

Lin Feng nodded. The first-stage late evolutionary meat rich in source essence could be exchanged for a level 20 source essence. After all, the price of evolutionary meat in the oasis has been raised several times higher than before.

But only 400 kilograms is far from enough.

After dehydration, only 200 kilograms are left. According to my current appetite, the subsequent equipment upgrades, and the consumption of team members during the battle, at least 500 kilograms of dried meat reserves are needed to be safe.

So Lin Feng continued:

"There are three portions of Wasteland Wolf Essence now, which can only equip three second-level evolvers. If you still need it, you can use the meat of the later evolutionary stages to exchange for more Wasteland Wolf Essence from me."

Father Su An's pupils shrank slightly, obviously he did not expect that Lin Feng still had the wasteland wolf essence in his hands.

It seems that the two pieces of "zombie meat" in front of him were just what he used to test the Holy Spring Sect.

However, the church can no longer provide more evolutionary meat. In subsequent battles, combat priests also need evolutionary dried meat to replenish their status in time.

Father Suan shook his head:
"I'm sorry, but the church can no longer provide any more evolutionary meat. The remaining 600 kilograms of raw meat must first be given to elite combat priests to improve their strength."

"Of the essence filtered from these Steppenwolf evolutionary meat, only one portion will be given to the priest. The two portions you took out now will be given to two level 19 combat priests for cross-level upgrades."

"Although doing so would ruin their future path of evolution and prevent them from becoming Templars in this lifetime, they are willing to sacrifice themselves for the Holy Spring Cult."

"So the remaining evolution meat, including the essence inside, must be used to help them improve their strength and quickly become level 19 elite high priests. In the subsequent battles, this evolution meat will also be a form of status replenishment."

Lin Feng nodded. It seemed that this was an unsolvable problem.

If you want to exchange for more evolutionary meat, you must first trade for the second-level wasteland wolf essence. More essence will also increase the church's demand for evolutionary meat.

Currently, two transactions are the limit.

Since there was no more evolutionary meat, Lin Feng immediately proposed the reward for the task:
"There's nothing in the church right now that I desperately need..."

"Then let's do it. After the mission is completed and the church is victorious, I need the Bishop to issue a certificate of recommendation to help my future team settle down smoothly when they travel to the Holy City."

"It would be best if they could grant him a formal identity, allowing him to move freely within the Holy City's sphere of influence."

Father Su An breathed a sigh of relief. It was obvious that the request raised by Lin Feng was not stressful at all for the Holy Spring Church. His tone of reply became lighter:
"That's absolutely fine. As a great contributor to the suppression of the rebellion, you can serve as one of the governors of the Oasis Supreme Council and will also be awarded the title of Honorary Deputy Mayor of the Oasis."

"As long as the Oasis remains under the direct rule of the Church, your title will be your status. Your position will be the same as that of the Archpriest, second only to the level of a bishop."

After resolving his worries, Father Suan's mood improved significantly. He became more pleasing to the young man in front of him and valued him more. He continued to add:

"With this status, if you want to establish your own power in the future, as long as you swear allegiance to the church, you will be recognized and accepted by the church first."

"It's like being given a temporary, nominal position. But as long as you improve your strength, such as combating the forces of the wanderers and establishing a settlement, you can smoothly transition from a virtual position to a real one..."

"Become a legitimate force under the Holy Spring Cult."

"You can enjoy the right to use the Global Migration Avenue and trade on an equal footing with major cities."

After listening to Father Su An's introduction, Lin Feng nodded with great satisfaction.

With this identity, future activities and development in the Holy City, as well as one's own improvement and growth, will undoubtedly be much smoother.

After the two sides finished talking, Lin Feng did not delay any longer and stood up to leave.

Father Su An walked forward and patted his thick shoulders. The height and build of the two men were not much different.

"Come on, follow me to the oasis."

"Retrieve the evolution meat you need!"

"Now everyone knows that a Level 2 Evolver has appeared in Oasis Town. It's time to show off your powerful weapon and let everyone see it!"

Lin Feng's mouth twitched, he always felt that there was something wrong with this sentence.

However, this matter was obviously the work of Ding Yi's three daughters, who helped him spread the word.

But this is exactly the effect Lin Feng wants.

Otherwise, this negotiation and cooperation with the church would not have been so smooth.

Father Suan also intends to take this opportunity to let the restless enemies see this new second-level evolver who stands on the side of the church!
(End of this chapter)