Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 171: The Wolf King's Legacy, the Wolves Go Out, the Shell of Will
Back then, the Wasteland Wolf clan, led by the Wolf King, dominated the area.

As early as the great catastrophe in the old earth period, the wolf tribe had already produced a third-level wolf king.

After the ceasefire with humans, the Wolf King built a refuge with the help of the humans under his rule. It was located in the northern no-man's land of the former North American continent.

When the wasteland era came, the Wolf King led the wolf pack to fight in the wilderness, destroying several royal cities and devouring countless small and medium-sized settlements, as well as other wild beasts migrating around the world.

The Wolf King, who was in the middle stage of the third stage, also successfully entered the late stage of the third stage. The five wolf generals under his command all had the strength of the twenty-ninth level of the late second stage.

At that time, the wolf tribe was at its peak.

They can even compete for the sole title of Beast King, which is equivalent to being the strongest clan among the evolved wild beasts.

Just as the ambitious Wolf King was preparing to expand the wolf clan's power and cultivate a new king based on the five wolf generals, the gods set their sights on this wolf cub jumping around in the wasteland.

That’s right, even a Wolf King who has been promoted to the late third stage is still like a plaything in the eyes of the gods.

In other words, allowing the wolf pack to hunt indiscriminately and giving birth to a late-stage third-order wolf king was all planned long ago by the gods.

Just to give birth to a late third-level alien who is capable of polluting the transcendents above the third level.

The wolf king, who had been promoted to the late stage, naturally guessed this, but in front of the gods, he had to join the game.

In order to continue the bloodline of the wolf clan, the wolf king also put forward many conditions before his death.

Having lost the protection of the Wolf King, and coupled with the deep blood feud that had been caused before, the wolf clan was bound to fall into the situation of extinction.

Even if a new third-level wolf king is born in a hurry, it will be difficult for him to grow to the middle and late stages and protect the tribe again under the siege of the wasteland kings.

For this reason, the old wolf king wisely chose to retreat in order to advance, and carried out internal elimination of the wolf pack in advance. The original evolved population of up to 100,000 was sharply reduced to more than 10,000 in a short period of time.

Let the kings know that the wolf tribe no longer poses a threat.

Eventually, a group of wolves that could adapt to the harsh environment of the wasteland were selected, and they were collectively called wasteland wolves.

Steppe wolves are more drought- and heat-tolerant, grow faster, and are more resistant to hunger.

The wolf tribe has also fallen from a first-class force at the beast king level to a second-rate tribe in the wasteland. There are only five level 29 wolf generals left. They can only rely on the inheritance of the Wolf King Tomb in the Fallen Wolf Valley to maintain the continuation of the tribe.

Before the Wolf King lost consciousness, he instructed the five wolf generals to carefully nurture their offspring, waiting for the opportunity to come so that they could cultivate a new third-level wolf king and lead the tribe back to its peak.

The opportunity for promotion is when the world is in chaos, the will of the gods is no longer there, the kings in the wasteland are attacking each other, everyone is in danger, and has no time to care about the rise of the wolf clan!
Now, the structure suppressing the evil god at the bottom of the ruins has been accidentally destroyed, and the curse seal of the refuge is about to disappear. Once the Fiery Sun Forbidden Zone passes, the evil god will return to the human world...

Not only will the world be in chaos, but the gods' promises of protection will also be invalidated!

This is a turbulent era with countless lives lost, and it is also the opportunity for the wolf clan to rise up that they have been waiting for!
So at the beginning, Lang Ao was even a little excited and thrilled about the destruction caused by humans.

This is an opportunity for the entire wolf clan.

Although Lang Ao himself has entered the end of his wolf life and no longer has the qualifications to absorb the third-level Wolf King Essence and inherit the throne of Wolf King...

Moreover, the descendants are also quite disappointing. So far, there are only three early second-level descendants. Among them, the eldest is the strongest, at level 23, and is called Wolf Boss.

But the strength of level 23 is still too low. He is not even qualified to inherit the late-stage source essence of Lang Ao, let alone absorb the third-level source essence in the Wolf King Tomb.

But God finally gave the Lang Ao lineage the opportunity to take the initiative.

It is worth it that it guards the Fallen Wolf Valley all day long and protects the royal tomb inherited by the Wolf King.

Now it is the only one that knows firsthand that troubled times are coming, and it is determined to do its utmost to improve the strength of its offspring as quickly as possible to ensure that the three patriarch-level giant wolves under its command can grow to the late second stage.

The first step to achieve rapid evolution is to search for prey in the early and middle stages of the second stage in the wilderness.

Within a hundred kilometers of Meteor Wolf Valley, only Oasis Town, which Oasis Avenue is about to pass by, has a settlement ruled by second-level evolvers.

In fact, Lang Ao had long set his sights on Oasis Town, but due to the enemy's powerful strength and the reputation of the Holy Spring Cult, he did not dare to directly send the patriarch-level wasteland wolf to launch an attack.

Normally they would search the wasteland for migrating herds of large wild beasts such as rock hornbeest, or attack wanderer forces to satisfy their hunger.

But it is rare to kill patriarch-level prey of the same level.

They all eat first-level evolved beasts to survive.

In addition to avoiding the escalation of conflicts, another reason why Lang Ao stayed in the Falling Wolf Valley was that the radiation from the Wolf King's Tomb here could stimulate the growth of the second-order cells in the body, so he could survive by just eating ordinary flesh and blood.

This will reduce its demand for second-level flesh and blood.

At the same time, long-term absorption of the wolf king's radiation energy will enable the cells in its body to maintain a stable state for a long time, reducing the demand for high-energy flesh and blood, while being able to survive the long migration period.

In the past, after the Fiery Sun Forbidden Zone arrived, Lang Ao would lead the wolf tribe under his command and rush to a place tens of thousands of kilometers away to wait for the forbidden zone to leave.

During this period, it will try to hunt patriarch-level wild beasts, mainly to meet the needs of its offspring and enhance their evolutionary strength.

And now, this need will become more urgent than ever.

Lang Ao even led the wolf pack to hunt other small and medium-sized human settlements and migrating animal herds at the cost of overdrawing his own condition.

Just as they were about to pass the Oasis Town, they ran into the muzzles of the wolves' restless guns.

In Lang Ao's opinion, there is no better hunting target than the oasis now.

Oasis Town is close to the Fiery Sun Forbidden Zone and is thousands of kilometers away from other first-class forces and large city-states with third-level kings in charge. The human king is out of reach.

After the hunt, they would lead their tribe and flee far into the wasteland.

Even if the truth is revealed, it will be difficult to find any trace of him.

What's more, the forces that are now eyeing the Oasis are not limited to the Wolf Pack. Previously, the Salvation Army's leader Bai Ye also came to invite Lang Ao to cooperate.

Using Li Hao, the head of the Li family, as bait, he persuaded Lang Ao to lead his people to cooperate with the Salvation Army and cover their attack on the farm village.

In the past, Lang Ao would have certainly scoffed at this, because according to the teachings left by the Wolf King, the continuation of the tribe's existence is the top priority.

A rash attack on humans and the Holy Spring Cult would sow the seeds of disaster for the wolf clan and easily lead to the extermination of the clan.

But the situation is different now. When the seal is lifted and the evil god is born, the Holy Spring Cult will be unable to take care of itself and will have no energy to go deep into the wilderness and wipe out the offending wolves.

And most importantly, the Wolf Clan can completely put all the blame for this matter on the Savior Army.

It is said that in order to seize the rock wildebeest breeding industry, Bai Ye teamed up with other tribes and attacked Oasis Town by any means necessary.

Although this proposal has been withdrawn by Bai Ye himself, the Savior Army's attack on Oasis Town is indeed true. Who can believe the "sophisticated" words of a group of wanderers afterwards?

With the Saviors attracting firepower, the wolf pack will not be under too much pressure at least before they leave the Taishan ruins in the Lieyang restricted area.

Therefore, there is no settlement more suitable as a target for attack than Oasis Town, not to mention that there are many second-level human evolvers there.

Among them, there are about five second-level strongmen on the Guangyan Wildebeest Road, especially the head of the Li family, who is also an important target of the wolf tribe's hunting.

Li Hao is a veteran mid-stage second-level evolver, and is very suitable to be a stepping stone for Wolf's evolution.

In this way, Lang Ao asked his third son to organize thousands of wolves under his command. There were about two thousand first-level evolutions, but most of them were in the early stages of evolution. There were only twenty in the late first stage, and the rest were ordinary enhanced-stage wasteland wolves.

Because of their size, wolves need to consume more food to survive, so the number of highly evolved groups has not increased.

Unlike humans, they lacked the breeding techniques they needed, so they could only fully support one third-level wolf. Once the wolf king reached the later stages and raised a group of loyal human slaves, they would have the resources and strength to cultivate a new third-level wolf. Faced with the barren and harsh wasteland environment, this was the evolutionary path chosen by most species.

Invest all resources in the strongest person in the tribe.

Rely on its power to open up the situation.

Now that the new king is about to be born, Lang Ao's plan is to fully train his eldest son, Lang Da, and wait for it to be promoted to the late second stage, and then allocate resources to upgrade the other two giant wolves.

Watching the three sons organize their teams, each of them had seven or eight leader-level wild wolves under their command, and hundreds of evolved wild wolves,
With this kind of strength, it is really not enough to attack the entire Oasis Town without my help.

But as long as they don't target the human Oasis warships, but specifically attack Li Hao, the head of the Farm Village, with Lang Ao helping in the rear, it will naturally be more than enough.

What's more, the Salvation Army led by Bai Ye will also attack the farm village, adding further support.

So Lang Ao was not worried about failure.

Bai Ye had heard a little about the conflict between the church and the local clans. In Lang Ao's opinion, by leading the Wasteland Wolves to help in the battle, he was actually helping the Holy Spring Church.

The damage along the way will be more serious.

After all, the low-level evolved wasteland wolves and the enhanced wasteland wolves are still in the state of low-intelligence beasts. They can't even maintain their sanity when humans go crazy killing people, so how can we expect the wolf pack to restrain their animal nature?

In short, everyone wants to lick the fat piece of meat in Oasis Town, and there is no shortage of wolves coming to take a bite.

"Have you explained everything?"

Lang Ao spoke slowly.

The three fifteen-meter-long giant wolves in front of him growled softly and nodded in response.

Then Lang Ao stood up. Its body was more than thirty meters long, twice as big as Sanzi's. It exuded unparalleled power and could fill the entire canyon entrance.

This is no longer just a giant wolf, but a behemoth beast, recorded in epic myths.

Lang Ao led the wolf army behind him and marched out of the Fallen Wolf Valley in a mighty manner.

Before leaving, it looked back for the last time at the entrance to the Wolf King's Tomb deep in the canyon. The memory of the Wolf King emerged before its eyes, and its sad and sorrowful emotions gradually transformed into perseverance and motivation. A wrinkle formed between its brows, and it looked awe-inspiring without even being angry.

"set off!"

Shortly after the wolves left, they found themselves at the station on the fifth floor below ground level inside the Feicheng Shelter in the Taishan ruins.

Zong Shiyue's figure condensed around the third-level deformed creatures.

He began to lead the Distortion King deep into the dust-settled tunnel.

In addition to confirming whether the tunnel collapse area can completely shield the Wolf King radiation from the Taishan ruins next door, Zong Shiyue has another thing that needs to be verified.

That was the knocking sound that Lin Feng had accidentally discovered when he entered the depths of the tunnel.

As the Distortion King went deeper and reached the edge of the collapsed area five kilometers away, Zong Shiyue could no longer sense the pollution and damage caused by the Wolf King's radiation, and no longer had to consume most of his strength to suppress the distortion in his body.

Have more energy and restore yourself.

The entire collapsed area is seven or eight hundred meters long. It would take several weeks to clear the tunnel relying solely on the second-level zombie wolves.

The forbidden zone of the scorching sun is about to descend, and all living things must retreat into the depths of the ruins and enter a dormant state, relying on the protection of the third-level energy to resist the curse of the scorching sun.

Therefore, Zong Shiyue's plan to return to the surface has been largely realized with the help of Lin Feng's firepower.

Now only the other half remains to develop on the surface, recruiting the carrier of power, and eventually escaping from the ruins with the help of internal and external forces.

After Zong Shiyue confirmed the situation, he also heard the familiar knocking sound, dong da dong da, coming from the right side of the tunnel.

He controlled the Distortion King to the right tunnel wall and quickly confirmed the source of the sound, which was at the edge of the collapsed area in front of him.

So Zong Shiyue controlled the third-level king to dig out the source of the knocking sound and break the broken cave wall.

Following the source of the sound, after some deep digging, we finally discovered the truth more than a hundred meters underground, twenty or thirty meters to the right of the tunnel.

The two emergency shelters in the tunnel were originally located near underground water sources to facilitate access to fresh water.

In the collapsed area, there is an underground water source that has not yet dried up. In it, Zong Shiyue found a monster covered with gray-green hard armor!

It was about four or five meters tall, with thick arms and hands covered with diamond claws, constantly chiseling the rubble in front of it!

Hence the knocking sound!

Fortunately, the aura emitted by the monster is only at the second level of evolution and is not enough to pose a threat.

Zong Shiyue narrowed his eyes. He smelled a familiar scent on this monster, a scent that belonged only to humans.

It must have been a human being originally, but after absorbing the genes of evolved beasts, it embarked on the path of alien evolution and eventually became a deformed monster that was neither human nor ghost.

After so much time, it has lost its self-awareness.

But there must be something supporting this highly distorted body, digging holes in the ground, directing underground water to flow far away, and digging through the walls of the shelter tunnel.

Thinking of this, Zong Shiyue felt something, and a hint of shock flashed in his eyes, but it turned into surprise in an instant.

The monster in front of him, which had lost its self-awareness, could drive a second-level body and remain immortal for a thousand years. The reason for this, apart from the third-level power, was only its own concentrated will.

And its strength is indeed at level 29, the upper limit of the late second stage. Like Bai Ye, the leader of the Salvation Army, it was once infinitely close to being a third-stage king.

The important characteristics of the third stage have been understood.

After the fusion of self-awareness and genes, the artistic conception of transformation is condensed!
It is this indelible artistic conception that allows the monster in front of him to continue to control this second-level body and carry out activities after his self-consciousness disappears.

It is not a walking corpse. Like the second-level corpse wolf and the deformed king, it is controlled by the third-stage artistic conception energy. However, the corpse wolf and the deformed body only passively accept the control, but it relies on the artistic conception it condenses to fulfill its obsession in life.

The condensed artistic conception is the seed for advancement to the third level, and one has already stepped half a foot into the threshold of becoming a third-level king.

For Zong Shiyue, who had almost broken through to the third level and achieved transcendence, a second-level artistic conception body that had just touched the third-level threshold was not a rare thing.

But the body in front of me is different!

Zong Shiyue could feel that it had existed for thousands of years, even longer than the battle when the Taishan refuge was breached by the gods!

The obsession that still exists after years of erosion and corruption is no ordinary artistic conception!

It has transformed into the purest emotion.

A will that cannot be infected or distorted!

Transforming artistic conception into will is also the ticket for late-stage third-level evolvers to sprint towards the realm of gods above the third level.

Otherwise, how could the gods maintain their self-awareness after absorbing so much third-order essence and artistic conception...

The monster that appeared before my eyes now transformed into a body that radiated pure will.

For Zong Shiyue, it is the best carrier!

(End of this chapter)