Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded

“I'm already on the path of Immaculate Evolution. Do you think I would abandon my own evolutionary path for your vague promises and turn into a mutated monster?”

Lin Feng spoke calmly, refusing without hesitation.

Zong Shiyue nodded in the shadows, not surprised by Lin Feng's refusal.

After all, this was a second-stage Immaculate Evolver. To pay such a high price and reach this point, he must be someone who wants to create his own evolutionary path and establish his own school of thought.

What attracts them are either advancement methods above the third stage, such as the Shepherd's Path, or the orthodox transformation adopted by most third-stage evolvers back then.

How could they be willing to live under someone else's roof, become a Shepherd Saint, work for others for a lifetime, and still worry that one day they would be absorbed and sacrificed like the cattle and sheep they tended?

But Zong Shiyue was not angry. He had been waiting for thousands of years, and he didn't mind waiting a little longer.

Moreover, the man in front of him possessed many secrets and had great potential to become a strongman in the third stage. In the future, he would also be a great help for him to return to the surface and complete his revenge…

After thinking it over, Zong Shiyue chose to settle for second best:

“It doesn't matter. Even if you don't want to become my Shepherd, you can still continue this cooperation.”

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes:

Hearing this, Lin Feng's pupils shrank, and he immediately guessed the other party's target.

“The wanderers!”

“That large group of wanderers, they are the scavengers gathered in piles on the wasteland, like locusts, leaving no grass behind wherever they go, and they feed on the old, weak, sick, and disabled in the team. The evolvers inside are all born mutated bodies, deeply polluted.”

Zong Shiyue continued, his expression frantic:

“There is nothing in this world more suitable as my believers than the wasteland wanderers…”

Lin Feng nodded in agreement:

“So, I have to take a part of your flesh and blood and throw it into the wanderers? But won't they be cleared by the blazing sun?”

Seeing that Lin Feng already had the intention to agree, Zong Shiyue breathed a sigh of relief and gave a solution:

“It doesn't matter. At the bottom of the ruins, I have prepared several sealed black boxes that have never seen the sunlight. They store part of my original flesh and blood.”

“The mutated bodies in the ruins are afraid of the sunlight because they have been exposed to the blazing sun for thousands of years. Hiding in the shelter can still have my protection. Once they leave, even the weakest blazing sun energy can cause spontaneous combustion on their bodies.”

“And after you take away the sealed black boxes, you only need to send them into the wanderer groups, and leave the rest to me. It's that simple.”

Lin Feng began to think about the benefits of agreeing.

Seeing that he didn't give a clear answer and that his body was gradually dissipating under the sunlight, Zong Shiyue quickly added:

“Just name your conditions. However, I don't have any second-stage Wasteland Wolf Source Crystals on hand for the time being. That thing will deepen mutation and alienation. I would rather you surface evolvers clear them away.”

“As for some of the weapons and equipment stored back then, they are basically decayed and completely scrapped. Most of the well-preserved ones have also been stolen and taken away. I can't satisfy you in this regard.”

“If you really need it, you can go to the Lai City Shelter on the east side. There should still be a lot of weapons inside, but it seems to have collapsed and become ruins, which is more dangerous.”

After Lin Feng finished thinking, he slowly extended two fingers:

“The first thing, I need to know the true advancement method of past third-stage late-stage evolvers, and the cause and effect of the battle that took place inside the ruins back then.”

“These are just old stories, and it doesn't require you to pay anything.”

“Secondly, after I help you with this, I need to obtain all the weapon and ammunition production equipment in the eighth basement level of the ruins next time I come. You also have the obligation to keep them safe until I return.”

“However, this is a post-condition and will only take effect after I complete the task.”

Zong Shiyue thought about it. Lin Feng was right. As long as this cooperation could be reached, he would not lose anything, and the other party also had the ability to help him achieve his goal.

It wasn't that Zong Shiyue didn't want to find other people to cooperate with, but only Immaculate Evolvers, and they had to be second-stage evolvers, to maintain a certain degree of rationality under his pollution.

The hunter team that entered the bottom layer of the ruins before was directly reduced to Corruptors just by being contaminated a little.

If the degree of infection is too light, it will not be able to form a mental consciousness and affect and control their behavior. If it is too heavy, under the influence of multiple genes, it will either fall into madness or the body will mutate severely.

The alien-evolved hunters in the guild have already lost the opportunity to change their evolutionary path, while the fusion-evolved hunters of the church or other large forces have the parasitism and protection of more advanced beings…

Therefore, apart from Immaculate Evolution, nothing else is of great use.

However, most evolvers who adopt Immaculate Evolution cherish their feathers very much and will definitely not enter this kind of forbidden ruin, in case they get a little bit of pollution, wouldn't that be a huge loss…

Directly undoing all previous efforts.

Therefore, over the years, Zong Shiyue had finally waited for two second-stage Immaculate Evolvers, and he attached great importance to them.

Unfortunately, the stronger and more suitable one possessed spatial abilities.

Zong Shiyue had actually been eyeing her for a long time, otherwise, that third-stage mutated king would not have attacked her.

However, spatial abilities are indeed top-level abilities. Even if Bai Ye had not yet stepped into the third stage and fully released her potential, it was enough to protect herself, so that the pollution that was everywhere in the ruins' restricted area could not get close.

Therefore, Zong Shiyue's only hope was placed on the remaining person.

A second-stage evolver is enough to bear his mental pollution without quickly falling into madness, and there is enough time to complete the believer recruitment landing plan.

“Good!”

After thinking for a long time, Zong Shiyue gave an answer and began to explain the evolution above the third stage to Lin Feng:

“I won't go into too much detail. Time is limited. You should have a general understanding of the current research on evolution, since you have reached this point and become a second-stage evolver.”

“The meaning of evolution is to get rid of shackles. Primitive and traditional life is actually abnormally fragile and extremely pitiful, especially the human gene sequence back then…”

“According to the remarks of a certain researcher, it is a pile of code stacked into a mountain of shit!”

“Only less than 5% of it can maintain the normal operation of the human body system.”

“And the remaining 95% are stagnant parts, and a considerable part of them originate from external pollution, such as infected bacteria and viruses. A part of the gene code copied from them will be retained.”

“Don't be too surprised. Ordinary human bodies may have more than 20% of gene fragments originating from various viruses.”

“Perhaps it was originally to produce antibodies, but after these viruses disappeared and became extinct, they are still retained in the human body, passed down from generation to generation, and have since settled down, but are of no use at all.”

“And evolution is essentially to eliminate useless parts and highlight some useful dominant genes, but everyone is different, so the awakened abilities are also different.”

“But in fact, each ability and each evolutionary path can find the corresponding ability gene set in other evolvers.”

“That is to say, others can also have your ability, and you also have the possibility to activate other people's abilities.”

Lin Feng's heart was shaken. These remarks and viewpoints were something he had never heard or known before.

Even Su An, the priest backed by the Holy Spring Church, or Bai Ye, the leader of the Salvation Army who is infinitely close to the third level, actually knows very little about evolution beyond the third level.

Bai Ye may know something, but she certainly wouldn't, and couldn't possibly, be so generous as to tell Lin Feng.

Some information and knowledge are just common sense to those who have reached that level.

But for the younger generations on the path of evolution, it is a beacon that guides the direction.

Information monopoly, even in today's era of evolution, is still a high wall, forming deep pits.

Making it difficult for later evolutionists to climb over, and also causing them to fall into deep pits and become trapped.

The batch of third-level evolutionists who mastered the truth back then either disappeared or have become the controllers of top forces, and began to promote fusion evolution, wantonly herding people for their own use, and suppressing traditional immaculate evolution.

So naturally, the inheritance of evolutionary information has become less and less, gradually forming a break in generations and layers.

As a mid-stage third-level king of that time, one of the top 100 existences in the world, and a powerful evolutionist who almost completed the final transformation, Zong Shiyue naturally knew these "common senses" very well.

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At this moment, after saying this theory, Zong Shiyue noticed the change in Lin Feng's emotions, nodded with satisfaction, and paused, leaving the other party some time to digest.

More than ten seconds later, he continued to speak:

"The essence of abilities is the prominence of a certain trait of explicit genes. Since records began, there have been as many as thousands of kinds in fragments. Among them, the most common is physical enhancement, which is relatively balanced in all aspects."

"But these are not the point."

"The point is that the ability cells formed by the ability genes are actually evolutionary flesh, that is, the part where evolutionary source matter gathers, and the improvement of evolutionary level and strength will inevitably bring about the strengthening of the ability."

"But in the old Earth era, we discovered the current alien evolution, that is, to achieve evolution by absorbing the source matter in the bodies of evolutionary beasts."

"In this way, the evolutionist's body will inevitably carry the ability genes of the evolutionary beast, which also leads them to become hybrids, and the upper limit of evolution in this life will stop at the level of the absorbed evolutionary beast."

"And the only benefit is that in the second-level evolution stage, the beast warriors of alien evolution can have the blessing of two abilities."

"One is the ability that they originally awakened, and the other is the ability of the absorbed evolutionary beast, although those alien beasts call this racial talent."

Alien evolution can have two abilities, Lin Feng's eyes narrowed slightly when he heard this. Bai Ye seemed to have mentioned this, but didn't go into detail.

She only said that the Li family can control the Rock Horse armor, which is extremely powerful in improving combat effectiveness, and even the Holy Church of Oasis Town is very troubled by this.

Then, as an alien evolutionist of the Rockhorn Horse, do I need to show corresponding characteristics and talents, so as not to arouse suspicion from Bai Ye and the church?

It should be known that the reason why both parties are very relieved of him and willing to provide help and cooperation is precisely because of the path of alien evolution.

Especially the Rockhorn Horse, whose upper limit is only the mid-stage of the second level, and it will be difficult to pose a threat in the future.

The gun ability itself is already very powerful. If he goes on the path of immaculate evolution, he will inevitably become a new king in the future, become a potential opponent of the Salvation Army, and a threat to shake the rule of the Holy Spring Church.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng fell into thought.

And Zong Shiyue, who had entered the state, did not notice the change in Lin Feng's expression, and was still teaching endlessly:

"With the blessing of two abilities, alien evolutionists will improve rapidly in the first stage, and their strength in the second stage is much stronger than immaculate evolution. Except for the upper limit not being very high, there are almost no shortcomings."

"In fact, even in the old Earth era, most humans initially adopted alien evolution."

"One is that evolutionary source matter is very easy to obtain. Times have changed. The abundance of biological resources on Earth back then meant that a city-level territory in the south could transform into tens of thousands of evolutionary beasts overnight, with ample raw materials for local use."

"The second is the alien evolution characteristics mentioned above, the evolution speed is fast, and the strength is strong. Even without any weapons, relying on the strength of the physical body, they can fight against evolutionary beasts in close combat, so the number is very large."

"Until later, after humans gained a firm foothold, with the advent of source matter purification filters and weapons and equipment, there was no longer a need to fight in close combat, and immaculate evolution gradually occupied the mainstream position."

"Of course, another reason is that they reconciled with the beast race and can no longer slaughter evolutionary beasts on a large scale like in the past, and the beast warriors are no different from wild beasts in the assimilation state."

"Initially, in order to deal with the frantically mutated beasts, their strength and sacrifice were needed. After stability, they were naturally no longer recognized by the mainstream public, and some beast warriors even lost their minds in a berserk state, regardless of friend or foe."

"And apart from alien evolution, fusion evolution is much gentler, and it will not cause too much pollution to the genes, and there is also a certain chance to awaken the ability contained in the absorbed source matter."

"For example, the power of the Holy Spring is a certain ability to control water, which can mobilize the water in the body of oneself and the enemy, and is very powerful in the later stage."

"As for the direction of evolution above the third level that you want to know, it is also related to my introduction above."

Lin Feng came back to his senses from his thoughts, and then deduced the so-called orthodox path of evolution:

"If ability cells are the carriers of life source matter, then for the late-stage third-level evolutionary body, the vast life source matter in the body naturally needs more ability cells to carry and accommodate..."

"Could it be said..."

Zong Shiyue smiled and sighed:

"You are very smart. This is the conclusion that more than 100 of us came to after brainstorming."

"For humans, there are a total of three selection opportunities for early evolution, but only in the case of taking immaculate evolution from the beginning, there are three opportunities to change course."

"Because pollution is irreversible. If you choose alien evolution from the beginning, then there is no way to recover."

"In fact, I said above that evolutionists can not only awaken one ability, but the evolutionary source matter that the body can bear when it is weak is only enough to stimulate one ability gene characteristic, otherwise it will cause great burden on the body and spirit."

"After the second-level evolution, it can bear the burden of two abilities, so alien evolution will give birth to beast warriors."

"But doing so will also suppress the upper limit of evolution, slow down the speed, and overdraw potential."

"After all, the same amount of evolutionary source matter needs to support two kinds of ability cells, which is naturally not as strong as the one of immaculate evolution. It is equivalent to developing two lines at the same time, which is certainly not as far as one line."

"And if the fusion exceeds three kinds of ability cells, the evolutionary level will basically stop, and it is generally used for the final sprint, such as absorbing third-level source matter."

"So immaculate evolution exerts its strength in the later stage, and it is relatively easy to advance. Developing one ability to the extreme is the admission ticket to cross the threshold of the third level."

"After becoming a third-level king, you can basically carry three abilities, but very few kings will do this. The reason is also mentioned above, it will slow down the evolution speed."

"As for above the third level, it is not about accommodating four kinds of abilities, but countless kinds..."

"In the old Earth era, we had an ancient saying, called: One produces two, two produces three, and three produces all things."

"Above three is all things in the world."

"And above the third level, it is also like this, omnipotent!"

Zong Shiyue sighed with emotion.

Lin Feng's pupils shrank suddenly.

Omnipotent, is it related to the system?!