Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded

"Besides the Li family, who definitely needs to be dealt with, the remaining Dawn and Motorcycle villages will likely depend on the situation."

"Although they are advancing and retreating together with the Li family, they won't completely side with the Li family from the start."

Lin Feng spoke calmly, slightly revealing some of his own speculation:

"To eliminate two second-order evolvers and uproot the entire Li family's leadership is not an easy task. To this end, Father Su'an has found a practical solution."

"To compensate for the Church's weakness in combat power."

Through these days of observation, Lin Feng has roughly understood the Church's organizational structure and the strength of its personnel.

Overall, although the Church has an advantage in high-end power, with one more second-order evolver.

The most obvious difference between the two sides is not the number comparison.

But the real combat power they each possess.

Just like being mutated wasteland beasts, the rockhorn horse of the same level will definitely not be able to defeat the wasteland wolf in a one-on-one fight.

Evolution level is only the lower limit guarantee of strength, not the specific manifestation of combat power.

The evolvers born through surgery in the Church cannot defeat those of the same level who rely on their own strength and risk their lives in the wasteland.

There is a huge difference between the two sides in actual combat experience and fighting experience.

Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the local families in Oasis Town dare to risk launching a rebellion to seize power.

Plus, with his background as a wasteland refugee, his combat power should be the strongest among his peers.

He can completely sway the balance of power between the local families and the Church.

Thinking of this, before Shen Yue could ask, Lin Feng took the lead and asked:

"Bishop, how old are the other four Fathers, and what is their overall strength?"

Shen Yue frowned slightly. She wanted to refute Lin Feng's prejudice against the Church's combat power, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that what he said was correct.

The Church's real armed forces come from combat priests and Temple Knights.

And the Church branch in Oasis Town only sent more than forty first-order combat priests from the Holy City headquarters, of which only four were elite combat priests in the late first-order.

Although they can match the early second-order evolvers with the blessing of weapons, equipment, and the Lord's glory, their strength is still weaker than the second-order family heads of several major families.

As for the Bishop and the four Fathers, except for Father Su'an, who just joined the job, the rest are all over five hundred years old, especially the Bishop...

Shen Yue learned from the scrolls of the Church's chronicles that this acting Bishop had already been promoted to trainee Father eight hundred years ago.

With the strength of a Great Father, his age, even if not in his twilight years, has already reached the end of the second-order evolution lifespan.

Among the four second-order Fathers, the strongest in combat power is Father Wan Hai, who is responsible for escorting the pilgrimage convoy, but he must ensure that the convoy successfully arrives at the Holy City to transmit important restricted area observation information and transport back the supplies needed by the oasis.

Without him, among the remaining three, only Father Su'an has wasteland travel experience and has participated in battles.

But how can he alone deal with the three major families and the four experienced second-order evolvers.

So Shen Yue had to hold back the rebuttal that came to her lips.

Looking at the calm man in front of her, Shen Yue took a deep breath and roughly narrated what she knew.

After speaking, she asked with some worry:

"Is Father Su'an's solution sure? Can it withstand the simultaneous attack of the three major families?"

After listening to her description, Lin Feng frowned.

It seems that the situation is worse than he thought.

No wonder the Bishop and Father Su'an are eager for him to stay.

Although Lin Feng is only in the mid-first order, his combat experience and, most importantly, his superpower, the gun ability...

It is enough to easily suppress ordinary evolvers of the same level or delay the assault of second-order evolvers when evolving to the late first order.

Especially in the decisive battle between the two sides, Lin Feng alone can be comparable to a mobile turret.

The improvement in strength brought by providing the Holy Spring Church with long-range strikes and firepower suppression may be more significant than a melee second-order evolver.

As for taking over the Farm Village and the rockhorn horse industry later, it is just a pie drawn for Lin Feng in advance.

But there is no one more suitable to take over than Lin Feng.

Because he is weak and incompatible with the remaining members of the Farm Village.

It would be two or three hundred years later when Lin Feng developed his own big family like the Li family and completely controlled the Farm Village.

The Church's high-level planning is far-reaching, and Lin Feng increasingly feels that it is best not to get involved.

"There is certainty, but it depends on whether the wasteland hunter team I lead next can successfully complete the task assigned by Father Su'an..."

Lin Feng slowly opened his mouth and continued:

"There is no need to worry about this."

"If you want to take this opportunity to change your fate against the heavens, your current early first-order strength is definitely not enough. At least you have to be mid-first order to have a certain qualification to participate in the battle and play an important role in it."

"In this struggle that is about to affect the entire Oasis Town, early first-order evolvers will only become cannon fodder, and mid-order evolvers may still play a certain role."

"However, the real decision of victory or defeat is still the struggle between late first-order and second-order evolvers."

Shen Yue swallowed. After listening to Lin Feng's analysis, she is now both nervous and excited.

Although the merits she has accumulated over the years are enough for her to exchange for mid-term evolutionary surgery and be promoted to a first-order mid-term senior assistant priest, in this way, the time for her application to return to the Holy City will be far away.

Unless she is promoted to the second order or makes great contributions, otherwise, she will not be able to return to the Holy City for hundreds of years.

Should I take a gamble..."

Shen Yue fell into entanglement.

Until she saw the man in front of her with a calm smile, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in her mind:

"Mr. Lin is unwilling to join the Oasis and become a citizen. Is it because he is worried that the Church will not be able to cope with this crisis?"

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at Shen Yue:

"I have great confidence in the Church, and to be more precise, I have full confidence in Father Su'an and myself."

Then he talked eloquently:

"You don't need to test me anymore. I have already said before that chaos is the ladder of progress. This is your only chance, but for me, besides participating in this battle, there are better choices."

"The reward the Church has offered me is not enough for me to take such a big risk to fight against three major families, thousands of people, and hundreds of years of accumulated heritage."

"That's all."

Shen Yue nodded, roughly understanding that no matter how eloquently she tried to persuade him, she would not be able to change Lin Feng's decision.

Like herself, the other party's ambition is not in Oasis Town.

She just wants to escape this remote and small place and move to a wider world stage.

But Lin Feng has more and better choices, and all that is left for herself is to risk her life and dedicate her life to the Lord.

Shen Yue's eyes gradually changed from confusion to firmness under the candlelight, and she replied in a low voice:

"Thank you!"

Time passed quickly. After the two had a long talk all night, it was already twelve o'clock at night, which was once midnight.

At this time, a long bell rang.

"Dong ~"

Lin Feng slowly opened his eyes and saw Shen Yue next to him. She had already gotten up and put on the hood of her robe and cloak again, covering most of her face.

"Let's go and see the greatest ritual in Oasis Town," Shen Yue slowly invited.

Lin Feng looked at her:

"Can an outsider like me watch?"

The woman nodded:

"This is a great sacrifice to save countless humans. Lord Su An asked me to take you on a tour of the Oasis Battleship. How could we miss such an important event?"

"Put on your hood and follow me, keep your head down and don't speak."

Lin Feng smiled and got up to follow.

Extinguishing the oil lamp, the two walked silently out of the study room, one after the other, and passed through the long corridor of the church.

Soon, they arrived outside the crowded church hall.

The church's prayer room was very large, thirty meters long and twenty meters wide, nearly an acre in size.

But the spacious hall only had two hundred seats, all of which were now full.

They were all the black-robed people he had seen on the way back.

And also the "elderly" Upper Citizens who were about to be sacrificed.

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes. According to the total number of more than two thousand First and Second Class Upper Citizens, even if the oldest was ninety years old, with each decade as a stage, each stage would have more than two hundred people.

In this way, the number of sacrificers over ninety years old would be stable at around two hundred, and would increase by twenty or so each year.

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There are twelve months in a year, and twenty-four Holy Spring Days, requiring the consumption of twenty-four sacrificers.

Back and forth, it was almost exactly right.

This was also the limit that Oasis Town could support.

Previously, after Lin Feng initially understood the truth of the Upper Citizen District, he was somewhat afraid and indignant, but after Shen Yue said this, and thinking from another perspective, he found that the actions of the Holy Spring Church were actually understandable.

Placed in the wasteland where people eat people, it was just a sacrifice and did not seem that dark or evil.

Moreover, the Upper Citizens enjoyed the superior treatment of being waited on for up to ninety years, which was a life that many people outside could not ask for.

You must know that the average lifespan of Wastelanders is less than twenty years, and 30% of newly awakened Wastelanders do not survive the first year. Even the permanent residents of the Five Great Villages, except for Holy Spring Village, have an average lifespan of only forty or fifty years.

In the harsh environment and scarce resources of the wasteland, for 90% of the people, even eating their fill is a luxury.

Even permanent residents can only manage to have enough to eat, but in terms of other quality of life aspects, they still do not reach the lowest limit of Oasis Upper Citizens.

Not only that, but for the new generation of Oasis Upper Citizens, ninety years old is not necessarily the end of their lives. As long as they can work hard to evolve to the late First Order and become the management of Oasis, they can avoid becoming sacrificers and live a carefree life from then on.

But what made Lin Feng accept the truth of Oasis the most was not the above-mentioned preferential treatment measures, but the ultimate purpose of creating the Upper Citizen District to raise Upper Citizens…

It was not to satisfy the selfish desires of someone or some organization, but to save the vast majority of humanity.

Based on this point alone, the specific means adopted were no longer important.

This was the necessary sacrifice to become a partner of justice.

At this moment, as the reverberation of the bell gradually faded, the two hundred "elderly" Upper Citizens in the audience stopped their low chanting and looked towards the front of the stage together.

Four people in dark robes stood beside the podium.

Three men and one woman.

They were all church monks in the late First Order.

Among them, the man and woman standing in the middle exuded strong aura fluctuations, and their deep eyes seemed to carry some kind of magic, making people sink into them.

They were the elite assistant priests in the late First Order.

The tall men standing upright on both sides were the two of the four elite combat priests that Shen Yue had mentioned before.

When Lin Feng secretly glanced at these two, he felt a sharp and powerful aura.

Unlike the assistant priests who focused on spiritual research, their evolutionary direction was absolute power.

At this time, as the ceremony officially began, everyone began to draw lots.

Two elite assistant priests stood on either side of a box under the podium. Starting from the first row, the sacrificers took turns to come forward and draw their numbers.

After two hundred sacrificial candidates completed the drawing of lots, the selection process began.

The male assistant priest picked up a holy grail from the pool of Holy Spring water at the back of the church, scooped up a full cup, walked down the stage to the sacrificers, and announced the results:

"The Bishop said that this year is the millennium of the Wasteland Calendar, the one hundred and twenty-fourth Holy Spring Day, so we will choose this number."

After speaking, the crowd stirred.

The Upper Citizen who drew number one hundred and twenty-four walked out of his seat, came to the podium with a nervous expression, and respectfully took the holy grail from the hands of the assistant priest.

Then, in front of everyone, he drank the full cup of Holy Spring water in the holy grail.

Then, he followed the assistant priest and left the church prayer room.

Once the sacrificer was selected, the final ceremony would be executed immediately.

The location of the observation ceremony was in a secret room on the highest floor above the church.

And that was the tower attic with the golden church emblem on top.

Lin Feng thought that the ceremony would stop here, but Shen Yue pulled him and followed the team heading to the spire.

"No problem?"

Lin Feng asked silently.

Shen Yue nodded and continued forward.

But at a fork in the road, she led Lin Feng to the side tower attic on the side building.

From here, he could see everything that was about to happen in the main tower spire attic, dozens of meters away.

He saw two combat priests carrying a heavy two-cubic-meter large black box filled with liquid.

Then, under the guidance of the assistant priest, the selected sacrificer took off his robe and jumped in from the top of the black box.

As the black box was sealed, the female assistant priest placed her hands on the back of the black box and began to guide the sacrificer to relax, not to be nervous, and not to resist.

After the two established a stable mental connection, the female assistant priest nodded slightly, signaling the male assistant priest next to her to begin the observation.

Then, the male assistant priest waved a flag to signal the Moon Garden two hundred meters away.

The manager guarding the Moon Garden then began to fine-tune the giant convex lens that was more than ten meters wide.

Soon, the focal point of the mirror light was focused on an observation hole in the black box.

At this time, the originally snow-white and bright mirror surface began to show a layer of dark color and gradually deepened into dark red.

It was like an evil blood moon.

The same as the crimson of the Scorching Sun Forbidden Zone.

Lin Feng, hiding in the attic on the side, widened his eyes and looked at all this in disbelief.

He wanted to ask Shen Yue next to him, but the other party had already put her hand over his mouth in advance, shaking her head vigorously, signaling him not to speak out.

Lin Feng nodded lightly and continued to observe.

As the huge glass mirror gathered countless light sources outside the dome, including the energy released from the Scorching Sun Forbidden Zone, and concentrated it into the black box.

At this moment, it could be seen with the naked eye that a red and white light source, like a light gauze, gradually condensed at the focal point.

The fleeting light and shadows reminded Lin Feng of the illusory light and shadow he had accidentally glimpsed in the Scorching Sun Forbidden Zone in the distance on the top of Laoshan Mountain!

This is the power of the curse!

At this moment, as the focal point of the convex lens condensed and merged into the black box, it was seen by the sacrificer's eyes and absorbed by the brain.

The entire black box began to shake slightly.

That was the sacrificer's painful struggle.

The blazing light containing the power of the curse was invading his brain consciousness and synchronizing the neuron pulse signal.

And the female assistant priest behind the black box was also reading all the pictures the sacrificer saw.

Confirming whether there was an anomaly of the Scorching Sun Storm in the Scorching Sun Forbidden Zone thousands of miles away.