Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 168: Horse King Competition, Inventory of Supplies, and Heading to the Guild
Li Mingquan was about to get up and leave.

The Oasis battleship can be manned by the head of the family, Li Hao. He is usually responsible for running around, delivering messages and giving orders.

But when he reached the door, he suddenly remembered something:
"Grandpa, the pilgrim convoy was attacked..."

"I suspect that the newly promoted second-level evolver named Lin may have a lot to do with this matter."

"After all, even if he's a firearms user, it's impossible for him to surpass his level and kill a Chieftain-level rockhorn horse. Besides, he's an evolved species..."

"He can't afford the Guild's money, and he can't use the Church's evolutionary methods. The Wanderers are incredibly poor. We and the Pilgrim Caravan are the only ones around here who have the second-tier Rockhorn Essence."

The second-level source material purchased this time was originally intended to help Li Mingquan take a step forward.

Now, the idea of ​​becoming stronger has become a bubble...

Li Mingquan naturally felt very upset about this matter.

Li Hao pondered for a while:
"Only the core members of the family in the later stages of this transport mission know the details. The rest of the first-stage evolvers in the early and middle stages only know that this transaction is very important..."

"This attack was very targeted, and Father Wanhai of the Holy Spring Cult showed no intention of helping."

"It's very likely that the news leaked from the Holy City, so the monks of the church disguised themselves as wanderers and cooperated with Lin Feng to rob the pilgrim caravan."

"We'll remember this grudge for now. Once we successfully seize control of the Oasis battleship, we'll head north."

Li Mingquan nodded.

Between the Holy Spring Cult's sphere of influence and the alliance of top forces and giant corporations in the north, there are also many royal cities on the edge of the territory.

As a first-class force, they were established by a third-level king. However, their strength is uneven, and they can only survive tenaciously in the gap between the two top forces.

Among them are third-level kings who are pro-church, as well as city-states that have joined the alliance of giant enterprises.

As a lubricant between the two top forces.

Reduce direct conflicts between the two sides.

After seizing the Oasis battleship, the Li family originally planned to take Oasis Town and tens of thousands of barbarians and escape to more than a thousand kilometers to the north.

Join the first-class forces under the command of the giant enterprise.

With its own rock wildebeest industry and products such as photovoltaic trams, it has established itself in the North, seeking shelter while searching for traces of horse migration.

Originally, all plans were perfect, but now with the new second-level evolver introduced by the church, the other families that originally stood on the side of the Li family have begun to waver.

After Li Mingquan mentioned this, Li Hao, the head of the family, simply smiled faintly and asked the most talented descendant in front of him to inform the other heads of the family:
"Secretly inform them that the upper limit of the Rockhorn Horse's evolutionary path has been expanded."

"These people have been stuck at the early stages of the second stage for far too long. If they succeed now, they'll have great hope of advancing to the middle or even late stages of the second stage in the future."

"One's own strength and lifespan will also be greatly enhanced and prolonged."

"But the Life Farm needs more and stronger Chieftain-level Rockhorn Horses. As a development member of the farm, I have many permissions and can help other family heads exchange for mid-second-stage or even late-stage Life Essence!"

"Tell them this is our last chance. If we miss the fork in the road that allows us to change course after eight days, even if we survive for hundreds of years, we will just continue to serve as dogs for the Holy Spring Cult."

"If the Li family is destroyed, then they will be the next targets to be wiped out by the church!"

Li Mingquan took a deep breath and nodded heavily.

After receiving all the instructions and arrangements, he turned and left.

For high-level evolutionists, they are always more important than their offspring and tribes. The initial driving force of evolution is to use their own strength to fight against the environment and continue their own existence.

Even in the second stage, they begin to cultivate their own offspring or establish power in order to obtain a better living environment.

Like the patriarchs among the wild beasts, the second-level evolvers will lead their own tribesmen and gather around them, which not only continues the bloodline inheritance, but also provides themselves with sufficient food in the early stage, and in the later stage, it prevents their self-awareness from declining too quickly under the influence of time.

If a person lives for too long and receives too little information, he will forget many things over time.

When you have children or companions around you, you can maintain a clear awareness of your own existence.

But in the final analysis, these measures are all aimed at accelerating one's own evolution and becoming a third-level king as soon as possible.

So when Li Hao decided to reveal the new breakthrough in the evolutionary research of the Rock Wildebeest Path, those second-level evolvers who had embarked on the Rock Wildebeest evolutionary path would inevitably stand with him for their own interests.

Consciousness can betray everything for external reasons, but it will never betray itself.

Because continued evolution can prolong the existence of consciousness.

Based on this alone, no evolver would go against it.

Li Hao has made such a promise now, and only if he succeeds in seizing power, overthrowing the oppression of the church, and taking control of the oasis, will everyone have enough resources to support multiple second-level mid-to-late stage evolvers.

In the eyes of Li Hao and others, raising so many upper-class people is a huge waste.

The only way out for everyone is to build a second-level evolved meat cultivation factory with the help of Life Farm in the future.

The Life Farm is a large force second only to the Guild, but as a loose alliance, its research institutes wander in the wasteland.
The one in the Holy City is just one of the production sites. As a branch, it provides various biotechnology services to other forces and the vast number of wasteland hunters.

Including producing food, medical supplies, and even cultivating source material to evolve meat.

Li Hao, as a mid-stage evolver, became the target of the farm's development. In the future, as long as he could establish a settlement of 10,000 people and provide more evolutionary genes of patriarch-level rock wildebeests, he would be able to obtain the status of a formal member.

At that time, you will be able to obtain the second-stage late life essence from the mysterious life farm, and even participate in the project research of the third-stage rock horn horse king.

The latter has a fatal attraction for any Rock Wildebeest Path Evolver.

Becoming a third-level horse king will allow you to call on all your kind, including the rockhorn horses wandering in the desert.

If it weren't for this, Li Hao would not have been able to take the risk at the cost of his life before entering old age.

The status of the late second stage, the power and immortality of the third stage horse king are what every evolver dreams of.

Watching Li Mingquan leave, Li Hao, the head of the Li family, narrowed his eyes slightly, and the majestic aura in his body continued to surge.

As a level 26 evolver, his strength, in an era when no kings emerged, already ranked him among the top powerhouses in the wasteland.

Coupled with the defensive bonus brought by the rock wildebeest bloodline in his body, even many late-stage second-level evolvers are unable to do anything to him.

For example, Bai Ye, the leader of the Salvation Army in the late second stage, has evolved to the upper limit of the second stage, level 29. However, she is extremely lacking in offensive means. This shortcoming makes it difficult for her to break through the biological armor of the Rock Horse Warrior.

Naturally, there is no way to defeat Li Hao.

This was also the reason why she initially invited the chief-level steppe wolves to help plunder the farm village.

However, the appearance of Lin Feng, a firearms expert, gave her a better choice.

For Li Hao, the hesitation of other family heads was actually easy to deal with, even though there were recent rumors that the church was using the essence of the wasteland wolf to transform high-level monks.

He attempted to use the relationship between natural enemies to break the defense of the Rock Horse Warriors...

Li Hao didn't take these things to heart, because even if the transformation was successful, the priests of the church would still be of little use due to the lack of practical experience and evolutionary meat reserves.

The only one who poses a real threat is a gun-wielding mutant that Su An found from somewhere unknown. With the powerful force of his mutant artillery, he can severely damage the fully armed Yanma warriors.

"I heard he's also an evolver of the Rockhorn Horse Path. I guess the church did this on purpose to guard against him." Li Hao muttered to himself, a faint smile on his face.
"It's a pity you don't know that anyone who evolves from the Rockhorn Horse Pathway will now be firmly under my control. It seems I have to find an opportunity to contact him."

“No one can refuse the acquisition of the second-level essence, especially the evolution package of the middle and late stages of the second level!”

Under the oasis, after taking away the transaction reward, 400 kilograms of frozen evolutionary meat, Lin Feng talked with Father Su An for a while and then returned to the chariot.

At this time, Ding Yi's three daughters, who had turned back earlier, saw the traces of the rest of the team's tanks, and drove the dormitory car to the outside of Shengquan Village to meet up with the main force.

There was an extra escort team, with several broken cars and sixteen members under Ma Chenfeng, so it seemed a bit lively.

Lin Feng briefly told the three women what happened next and asked them to return to the car.

Then he began to process the 400 kilograms of evolved meat in his hands.

After thawing, it is squeezed.

Five portions of level 17 life essence are obtained, which can be converted into one level 18 and one level 19 evolution agent.

These can be given to Chen Shanshan to help her enter the late stage of the first level as soon as possible.

In addition, other combat members in the team must also be strengthened and promoted to at least the middle stage of the first level in order to play a certain role in the subsequent rebellion struggle.

Otherwise, he is just an early-stage first-stage evolver and it would be difficult for him to even protect himself unless he stays far away.

Now that Lin Feng has stood up for the church and has brought his team into the vortex of struggle, he naturally cannot remain immune.

Compared to the five first-stage late evolution agents in front of him, Lin Feng was more concerned about filtering out enough remaining minced meat to make 200 kilograms of cooked jerky as a reserve food for the team.

There are still fifty kilograms of the previous eighteen-level evolutionary meat left, plus the fifty kilograms donated by Bai Ye of the Savior Army, it is exactly one hundred kilograms.

There were a total of 300 kilograms of evolved meat. With the help of Ding Yi and Liu Qian, they were made into 300 pieces of jerky of uniform specifications and neatly stacked in the freezer like coconut bricks.

Lin Feng then counted all the gains from this trip:

There are twelve level ten evolution agents in total.

There are five level 17 evolution agents in total.

There are eight levels of level 20 source essence, including pure filtered source essence. There were originally five portions of wasteland wolf source essence, but two of them have been traded with Father Suan, and now there are three left.

Lin Feng plans to leave it to the divine dog.

As for the more advanced ones, they are the level 24 source essence, three in total, which come from the level 26 corpse wolf in the middle stage of the second stage.

In addition, there are second-level orange-quality materials such as alloy wolf skulls and fine steel wolf skins, which will be used to upgrade tanks and armor.

And the bullet production machine installed in the transport vehicle.

And three tons of production materials.

While counting the supplies, Lin Feng also transferred the black box containing the third-level flesh and blood carrying radiation from the Rock Horse chariot to the transport vehicle.

At the same time, he ordered all members not to approach, especially the enhancers under Ma Chenfeng.

After the transfer, the group of early-stage third-level cells, which was placed separately in a black box at the front of the car containing the flesh and blood of the third-level wolf king, slowly squirmed and began to fuse.

Zong Shiyue, who was standing at the rear of the car ten meters away, did not notice the mutation of the wolf king's meat because of the isolation from the sunlight and the contraction of his own sensory energy.

In the Rock Horse Chariot up ahead, after counting the harvest, Lin Feng, who had originally planned to start evolving and upgrading, planned to go to the guild first to trade the required evolution meat and weapons and equipment in order not to attract too much attention, and then improve his strength.

Otherwise, if he rashly evolved into a powerful existence at level 23 or the middle stage of the second stage, it would definitely arouse suspicion and vigilance from all parties.

In addition, he currently has no reserves of second-level evolutionary meat. Even if he becomes a second-level mid-stage evolver, Lin Feng dare not act rashly and exert his full strength.

Instead, you will become timid and the result will be counterproductive.

This is also the reason why many forces dare not upgrade easily even if they obtain high-level source materials. In the resource-scarce apocalyptic wasteland, high-level evolvers cannot obtain food stably and will be dragged down by the high-level evolutionary cells in their bodies.

Once higher-level cells cannot absorb energy of corresponding quality, in order to maintain their own survival and continue to proliferate and divide, they will begin to attack other lower-level cells in the body, devour them, and feed themselves.

The pain caused by cell-to-cell phagocytosis is far more uncomfortable than hunger.

That will be the feeling of struggling to be devoured by thousands of insects.

The advanced evolvers have powerful perceptions and can clearly feel that half of their body is eating the other half, and they are weak and extremely desperate.

In fact, after learning about the holy city ahead, Lin Feng realized that although the wasteland environment was harsh, as Zong Shiyue said, there was no shortage of energy here.

Evolved meat is essentially a more advanced food, a form of energy, and chemical energy suitable for digestion and absorption by evolved cells.

With the technology left over from the old Earth era, it is entirely possible to mass-produce advanced evolved meat.

The only possibility is that this technology is controlled by a top force like the Holy Spring Cult, and is used to cultivate what its members need, such as holy spring water.

Other forces that possess technology also intend to control production in order to limit production or curb the development of other forces.

High-level evolved meat, as a strategic reserve material, is likely to be the same as pure life essence and cannot be directly exchanged with points.

There are certainly many additional conditions.

When the value reaches a certain level and even points cannot be used to measure it, transactions will return to barter.

The transaction can be a physical item, a favor, or a move by a high-level powerful person.

For example, Lin Feng is now going to use the "legal" pure evolution agent on hand to make a deal with the Hunting Guild to obtain some late-stage first-level and second-level evolution meat.

After arranging his team members, Lin Feng took Chen Shanshan and Ma Chenfeng and drove the rock horse chariot to the fifth village.

Now Chen Shanshan and Ma Chenfeng are the only two first-level mid-stage evolvers in the team, and they are also the strongest members after Lin Feng.

There is a big gap between him and the captain.

The rest of the members are only at the early stage of the first level.

Therefore, this material transaction also includes some mid-to-late stage first-level evolution agents.

Soon, the Rock Horse Chariot arrived at the fifth village at the end of Oasis Town with the sound of its engine humming.

It is also the largest of the five villages.

However, compared to the relaxed atmosphere before, even the Fifth Village has become tense.

From a distance, you can see armed guards standing outside the Hunting Guild’s vehicles.

As the Rock Horse chariot approached the heavy truck where the guild was located, the guards standing on the stairs nearby remained on guard with tense expressions.

But not long after, a tall woman in a black slim-fitting suit was seen walking out of the small door in front.

Xu Wanshuang, the vice president of the guild, went out in person to welcome the distinguished guests in the chariot.

"I've been waiting for a long time, Master Lin."

(End of this chapter)