Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 167 Oasis Eyeliner, All Parties' Actions, Li Family Patriarch
After negotiating the transaction and cooperation, Lin Feng followed Father Su An out of Shengquan Village and headed straight for the oasis.

Go through the ladder on the right side of the battleship and step inside.

Coming to a familiar place again, the aisle inside the battleship was the same as before, dark and narrow, less than two meters wide and more than two meters high.

Second-level strongmen like Lin Feng and Father Su An cannot walk side by side.

The two of them walked one after the other and arrived at the upper residential area.

The people in the oasis still maintain a carefree life, seemingly unaware of the big events that are about to happen, with youthful smiles on their faces.

Lin Feng looked at them with a hint of pity in his eyes.

If the church wins, their happy days will continue as usual.

But if they lose, under the rule of the major families, there will be no need to observe the restricted area of ​​the Moonlight Ritual, and the so-called upper class people will become playthings of the new rulers.

And this luxurious paradise of townhouses will naturally become the inner courtyard of each major family.

But apart from the power changes at the top, there won't be much change elsewhere.

Therefore, this rebellion has little to do with the Hunting Guild, the permanent residents and the wild people living in the oasis.

However, when the Li family came to power, in order to avoid the revenge and suppression of the church, they would inevitably drive the Oasis battleship away from the established Oasis Avenue route and flee in the north-south direction.

Seek protection from the Southern Kings' Alliance, or join the ranks of the Northern Giant Enterprise Alliance.

After losing the convoy subsidies from the Holy City, in order to maintain survival conditions, they will certainly no longer be as generous as before in distributing water for free.

After the remaining forces of the church are eliminated, the fifty to sixty thousand barbarians living outside the Oasis Town will be the second group to suffer, in addition to the people in the Oasis.

The second group is the permanent residents of the fifth village.

By then, there may not even be 20,000 survivors left in Oasis Town.

Father Su An introduced the possibilities of the future and led Lin Feng to the cathedral at the bow of the battleship.

Compared to the magnificent church in front of them, the two noticed many malicious gazes in the upper residential area.

Unlike his previous curious gaze, as a second-level evolved warrior, his perception is extremely sharp and he can distinguish the breath and emotions emitted by nearby life forms.

Today's oasis residents are no longer as docile as sheep as before, obediently sacrificing their lives for the church.

Father Suan continued to introduce the changes that had taken place in the Shangmin District:
In order to launch a rebellion and ensure ultimate victory, the Li family had already made arrangements in the Shangmin District early on. Many of its members came from local prominent families, and they also knew that the so-called high-ranking Shangmin would ultimately not escape the fate of a tragic death.

However, they are different from the rest of the upper class. As descendants of the great clans, once the rebellion is victorious, they can still maintain a high quality of life and do not have to continue living in fear of the moonlit night rituals.

Recently, the Li family has been instigating and encouraging the younger generation of upper-class people to cooperate with them to launch a reform riot to resist the unfair fate imposed on them by the church.

In addition, keeping an eye on the whereabouts of the church's top leaders is also the task of these potential rebels.

For example, the appearance of Father Suan and the slightly familiar man accompanying him.

"The Li family is about to take action."

Seeing the gazes from behind the window and the corner of the wall, Su An slowly opened his mouth and explained in detail:
"There are still eight days until the next Holy Spring Day. Oasis Town will then reach a fork in the road. The days before this will be the Li family's final opportunity to take action."

"We've already covered 120 kilometers. If we continue at full speed, we'll cover another 180 kilometers before the next Holy Spring Day, and eventually arrive at the ancient city of Shangqiu."

"The road forks here. Going north, you'll enter the Loess Plateau from the Hexi Corridor and walk along the Qinling Mountains. Going south, your goal is the Zhuma Temple on the next Holy Spring Day. You'll arrive there and begin your pilgrimage to the Lord of the Holy Spring."

"As long as we survive the Holy Spring Day, pass the last fork in the road, and enter the territory of the Zhuma Temple, we can obtain the help of the Temple Knights and eliminate the Li family."

Lin Feng frowned slightly. The last time he heard about the Knights Templar was when he first observed the Holy Spring Ceremony and heard it from the Bishop.

What was heard later was the Knights Templar in the Holy Spring Church, who were comparable to the second-level priest.

The only difference between the two is in pronunciation.

But Lin Feng realized that there might be a big difference.

So I asked about this matter.

Hearing this, Father Suan's expression gradually became solemn, and he said in a low voice:

"The Knights Templar belong to the Holy City and are also the armed forces of the Church under the command of the Undead Saint. The Temple Knights are a special force responsible for guarding the temple."

As he spoke, a very serious expression appeared on Father Suan's face:
"The Lord of the Holy Spring rests in the Zhuma Temple, which is also the place where the Lord ascended to the gods. As His faithful believers, we need to go there to pay our respects and make a pilgrimage every time the wasteland year repeats."

"And the Temple Knights guarding the Land of Eternal Rest will also help us solve this little problem for the Li family."

"The premise is that we can delay it until that day comes."

"By then, the Li family will submit to the Lord's might, and the main leaders will either flee in panic or be completely executed. The hidden danger of this rebellion will also be resolved without any attack."

Lin Feng nodded thoughtfully:

"So you wanted to delay it as long as possible, so you didn't hide your attitude and response plan..."

"It's also because of this that the oasis's progress is accelerated."

This naturally also includes having Lin Feng follow Father Su An to personally hand over the reward and take away 400 kilograms of source evolution meat.

Because this action can send a signal to Oasis Town, especially the Li family:
The newly promoted second-level evolver is also a firearms expert whose strength is no less than that of the Rock Horse Warrior. He will stand on the side of the church and assist the Holy Spring Church in suppressing the rebellion of the big family.

In this way, the entire Li family, including his accomplices, will become more hesitant.

Most importantly, the Li family, through years of accumulation, including their own limited development, has already created an irreconcilable conflict with the Holy Spring Cult of the Oasis. Unless the Li family gives up the opportunity to advance further, they will become castrated slaves...

At this point, the Li family has no way out.

But the people standing beside him were Shuguang Village and Jiche Village, as well as the wavering Governor Han Tao. These people had not offended the church to death, and there was still room for maneuver.

Therefore, before the church is ready to take a gamble and fight to the death, it will definitely rely on persecution.

It would be best if we could resolve the rebellion crisis without bloodshed and minimize casualties and damage.

Moreover, Oasis is speeding up, from the original 18.5 kilometers per day to more than 20 kilometers per day.

All these measures are constantly putting pressure on the rebels, forcing them to give up their actions.

In fact, the Li family has now left with their own people and part of the farm village's industry, becoming a second-rate force with a thousand people in the wasteland. The church will even let them go directly.

But the Li family would definitely be unwilling to give up like this.

The prosperity of Oasis Town today was built by several local big families. Their own development was suppressed by the church, and they had to meet the consumption of the Moonlight Ceremony every half a month, sacrificing many members of the family.

Especially the younger generation, many talented descendants who have awakened rare psychic abilities have been pulled into the upper civilian area of ​​the oasis and become observers of the restricted area.

So after making such a great contribution, he left in such disgrace. The local big families must be unwilling to accept this and want to seize the command of the oasis.

Then, they would drive the Oasis warship away. A mobile base like this, filled with water, could survive for six months even in a wasteland desert, and even longer if fully utilized.

And as long as you take it away, you can easily build a large settlement and gain favor and recruitment from all parties.

Now the church wants to force everyone to give up rebellion, but the Li family also has reasons to rebel.

There will inevitably be a war between the two sides.

Even if the Li family chose to surrender from the beginning, they would become the target of the church because of their growing strength and accumulated foundation.

Even if we are severely suppressed and our future is castrated, it is difficult for the bishop to feel at ease.

The best way is to erase the entire existence of the Li family and replace it with a newcomer who has no background but can manage the situation to take over Nongzhuang Village.

Therefore, the first candidate chosen by the bishop was Lin Feng, who had recently emerged as a rising star.

At this moment, Lin Feng's appearance was also seen by a large number of spies, and he was pushed forward by the church to deal a heavy blow to potential enemies.

After finding two pieces of frozen meat in the church basement, Lin Feng followed Father Su An and swaggered out of the top level of the oasis.

There were no obstructions or accidents throughout the process.

Everyone knows that the church’s investment in Lin Feng is extremely generous, obviously in preparation for the upcoming war.

At the same time Lin Feng left Oasis, the news also reached a luxurious bedroom in the stern area of ​​Oasis.

This is the residence of the governor and also the residence of the head of the Li family.

Li Hao, who is now over 500 years old, still maintains a dignified middle-aged appearance, with a slicked-back hair and a few strands of white hair on his temples.

Although a second-level evolver nominally has a lifespan of a thousand years, this is only an ideal value.

In fact, after experiencing the vicissitudes of life, especially the overdraft of life in many life-and-death crises, and the sequelae of hidden injuries after battles, the lifespan of the second-level evolvers in the wasteland is mostly only 70%-80% of the ideal value.

Especially after the age of 600, the condition will enter a stage of continuous decline.

Just like the aging process of birth, old age, sickness and death, the brain's consciousness and energy gradually cannot keep up with the second-level body, causing the cells in the body to decline.

So there is not much time left for Li Hao.

During these hundreds of years, his strength only increased from level 24 in the middle stage of the second stage to level 26, and in the last hundred years or so, he has not made any progress at all.

The stagnation of the evolutionary level will also accelerate the onset of aging. If there is another opportunity after 600 years old, the effect of absorbing source essence will be greatly reduced.

He was unwilling to stop here in his life!

However, the resources that the Li family and the farm village that have been cultivated at present can provide have reached their upper limit and can only maintain Li Hao's condition from falling.

If he wants to go further, he can only overthrow the church that is suppressing him, take control of the entire Oasis Town, and use the vast resources to help him break through the threshold of the late stage...

Become a late-stage second-level evolver and make a push towards the third-level king!
The most important reason and motivation why Li Hao dared to attack the church and seek control of the Oasis battleship was a piece of news from the Holy City Life Farm.

As a leader in the Rock Wildebeest Pathway and one of the pioneers of this alien evolutionary path, Li Hao also received help and investment from Life Farm in his early years.

The establishment of the farm village was supported by the technical assistance provided by Life Farm.

The relationship between the two parties is very close. Li Hao once provided his own evolutionary cells to Life Farm in order to participate in an important project.

Research on the evolution of rock wildebeest.

Recently, Life Farm revealed the latest research progress to it:
Farm researchers have unlocked 60% of the rock wildebeest's genetic map and can perfectly clone the evolutionary cells of the second-stage mid-stage rock wildebeest.

After that, we only need to obtain the genes of the patriarch-level rock wildebeest from other regions to perfectly establish the gene library of this species and artificially cultivate the second-stage late evolutionary meat.

At the same time, and most importantly, in the near future, there will be an opportunity to synthesize the third-order cells of Rock Wildebeest!
From now on, evolvers following this path will not only be able to break through the evolutionary upper limit curse of the middle stage of the second stage, but will also be able to give birth to the first third stage horse king!

But it is not easy to go to the vast wasteland desert to look for the traces of the mid-to-late stage second-order patriarch-level rock hornbear.

Li Hao's family and farm villages, with a population of less than 2,000, could not survive even for two months if they left Oasis Town.

It requires enough manpower and sufficient resources to find the Rockhorn Horse and complete the puzzle of the Rockhorn Horse's late second stage or even the third stage king!

The only way is to seize the Oasis warship, then sail into other migration routes, and search for traces of horses in places where few people go.

At this moment, Li Hao's eyes were deep and his face was gloomy.

After listening to the report from his subordinates, he looked at his grandson Li Mingquan, who was also the second second-level evolver of the Li family.

The latter's appearance is exactly like Li Hao, but he looks much younger. He looks only in his thirties, but his actual age is three hundred years old.

"Grandpa, the church is trying to intimidate us. They want to use a gun-wielding mutant to force us to retreat..."

Li Mingquan spoke slowly.

Li Hao nodded:
"Don't worry. If a firearms user wants to unleash their full potential, they can only do so by consuming Evolved Meat of the same level. Even if they consume a lot of Late First Stage Evolved Meat, it won't pose a threat to our Rock Horse Armor."

"The church doesn't have any second-level evolutionary meat. The Life Farm has secretly restricted it to cooperate with us. Even the second-level evolutionary meat the guild has only weighs less than 300 kilograms."

"The evolutionary meat trade in Oasis Town has always been under our control. All parties involved have their own accounts in mind. Even if there is an anomaly like Lin Feng, it will not affect the final result."

"Have the people below prepared. The church intends to use the wasteland wolf essence to temporarily create a group of wasteland wolf warriors, but the resources we have are not vegetarian."

"Since they want to launch an arms race and create so many high-level evolvers, let's see if they can afford it or we can hold on."

"That stranger recently, his name is Wang what?"

Li Mingquan quickly added:

"Wang Chen, the evolver we signed and trained, was already at the mid-first stage. He captured a mid-first stage live horse in the Wild Rift and was entrusted with an important task."

"This time, he killed a late-stage first-stage Rockhorn Horse in the wild, becoming a late-stage Evolver and handing over half of his late-stage Evolved Meat."

Li Hao nodded with great satisfaction:

"Talents like this should be taken care of more."

"In order to win, the church is willing to lower its guard and train even the non-believers. We should also relax and let those wavering guys see the Li family's tolerance and generosity."

"How about this, add him to the plan. He's currently level 17, but not strong enough to control the Rock Horse Armor. We'll directly promote him to level 19, and then we can join the operation together!"

"Remember to find him a mate who is in the middle stage of the first stage. Choose one from among the upper class. It is best if she can get pregnant. At the same time, give him the surname Li."

"This way we can have a sense of belonging and give our all to liberate everyone from the church!"

Li Mingquan laughed sinisterly and nodded:
"I understand, I'll make arrangements right away!"

(End of this chapter)