Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded

Li Mingquan was just about to get up and leave.

With the family head, Li Hao, overseeing the Oasis Warship, he usually took care of running errands, delivering messages, and issuing commands.

But as he walked to the door, he suddenly remembered something:

“Grandpa, about the attack on the pilgrimage caravan…”

“I suspect that newly advanced Tier 2 evolver surnamed Lin might be heavily involved in this.”

Now, the matter of becoming stronger has vanished like a bubble…

Li Mingquan naturally felt resentful about this.

Li Hao pondered for a moment:

“Only the core members of the family in the later stages know the specifics of this transport mission. The other Tier 1 early and mid-stage evolvers at most only know that this transaction is very important…”

“And this attack was very targeted. The Holy Spring Church's Father Wan Hai didn't seem inclined to help either.”

“It's highly likely that news leaked from Holy City, so Church monks disguised themselves as Wanderers, and cooperated with Lin Feng to loot the pilgrimage caravan.”

“Let's remember this debt for now. Once we successfully seize control of the Oasis Warship, we'll head north.”

Li Mingquan nodded.

In the Holy Spring Church's sphere of influence, between it and the top northern power, the Mega-Corp Alliance, there are many Royal Cities drifting on the edges of the territories.

These are first-rate forces, established single-handedly by Tier 3 Kings, but their strength varies, and they can only survive tenaciously in the cracks between the two top powers.

Among them are Tier 3 Kings who are pro-Church and city-states that have joined the Mega-Corp Alliance.

They serve as a lubricant between the two top powers.

Reducing direct conflicts between the two sides.

After seizing the Oasis Warship this time, the Li family originally planned to take Oasis Town and tens of thousands of Wastelanders and flee all the way north, over a thousand kilometers away.

To join a first-rate force under the Mega-Corp Alliance.

Using their Rockhorn Horse industry and photovoltaic electric vehicles, they would establish a foothold in the north, seeking protection while searching for traces of horse herd migrations.

Originally, everything was planned perfectly, but now, encountering a newly advanced Tier 2 evolver promoted by the Church has caused other families who were originally on the Li family's side to waver.

After Li Mingquan mentioned this, Li Hao, as the family head, just smiled faintly and told this most talented descendant to inform the other family heads:

“Secretly inform them about the expansion of the evolutionary ceiling of the Rockhorn Horse path.”

“These people have been stuck in the early stages of Tier 2 for too long. Now, as long as they succeed, they will have a great chance of advancing to the mid or even late stages of Tier 2 in the future.”

“Their own strength and lifespan will also be greatly improved and extended as a result.”

“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 the other family heads exchange for mid-stage, and even late-stage, Tier 2 Life Source Material!”

“Tell them this is our last chance. Once we miss the fork in the road to change course after eight days, even if we can survive for hundreds of years afterward, we will only continue to be dogs for the Holy Spring Church.”

“If the Li family is destroyed, then the next target to be erased by the Church will be them!”

Li Mingquan took a deep breath and nodded heavily.

For high-level evolvers, oneself is always more important than descendants and clans. The initial motivation for evolution is to resist the environment and extend one's own existence through one's own strength.

Even in the second stage, cultivating one's own offspring or establishing a force is also to obtain a better living environment.

Like the Chieftain-level beasts, Tier 2 evolvers will command their own clansmen, gathering them around themselves, both to continue the bloodline and to provide themselves with sufficient food in the early stages, and to prevent their self-awareness from decaying too quickly under the influence of time in the later stages.

Living alone for too long, with too little information received, will cause one to forget many things over time.

Having offspring or companions around can maintain a clear awareness of one's own existence.

But in the end, these measures are all to speed up one's own evolution and advance to become a Tier 3 King as soon as possible.

So when Li Hao decided to reveal the new breakthroughs in the evolutionary research of the Rockhorn Horse path, those Tier 2 evolvers who had embarked on the Rockhorn Horse evolution path would inevitably stand with him for the sake of their own interests.

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

Because continuing to evolve can extend the existence of consciousness.

On this point alone, no evolver will violate it.

And Li Hao is now making such a promise, and only if the seizure of power is successful, overthrowing the Church's oppression and taking charge of Oasis, will everyone have enough resources to support multiple mid and late-stage Tier 2 evolvers.

In the eyes of Li Hao and others, raising so many Upper People is a great waste.

Only by establishing a breeding factory for Tier 2 evolved meat with the help of the Life Farm in the future will everyone have a way out.

And the Life Farm is a large force second only to the Guild, but as a loose alliance, its research institutions wander in the wilderness.

The one in Holy City is just one production point, serving as a branch to provide various biotechnology services to other forces and wasteland hunters.

Including the production of food, medical supplies, and even the cultivation of Source Material evolved meat, etc.

Li Hao, as a mid-stage evolver, has become a development target of the farm. In the future, as long as he establishes a settlement with a scale of ten thousand people and provides more Chieftain-level Rockhorn Horse evolutionary genes, he can obtain official membership.

At that time, he will be able to obtain late-stage Tier 2 Life Source Material from the mysterious Life Farm, and even participate in the project research of the Tier 3 Horse King of the Rockhorn Horse.

The latter is fatally attractive to any Rockhorn Horse path evolver.

Becoming a Tier 3 Horse King allows one to summon all of its kind, including the Rockhorn Horse herds wandering in the desert.

If it weren't for this, Li Hao would not have risked his life to make a gamble before entering old age.

The status of the late stage of Tier 2, the power and longevity of the Tier 3 Horse King, are all things that 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 without Kings, already belongs to the ranks of top powerhouses in the wasteland.

Coupled with the defense bonus brought by the Rockhorn Horse bloodline in his body, even many late-stage Tier 2 evolvers can't do anything to him.

For example, the leader of the late-stage Tier 2 Salvation Army, Bai Ye, who has evolved to the upper limit of Tier 2, level 29, is extremely lacking in offensive methods. This shortcoming makes it difficult for her to break through the biological armor of the Rockhorse Warrior.

Naturally, she cannot defeat Li Hao.

This is also why she initially invited the Chieftain-level Wasteland Wolf to assist in plundering the farm village.

It's just that the appearance of the gun-wielding ability evolver Lin Feng gave her a better choice.

And for Li Hao, the wavering of the other family heads is actually easy to deal with, even if there are recent rumors that the Church is using the Wasteland Wolf's Source Material to transform high-level monks.

Attempting to use the relationship between natural enemies to break the defense of the Rockhorse Warriors…

Li Hao has never taken these to heart, because even if the transformation is successful, lacking combat experience and evolved meat reserves, those few Church priests are still of little use.

The real threat comes from the gun-wielding Esper Su An found from who-knows-where. With the powerful might of his Esper artillery, he can heavily wound fully armed Rock Horse warriors.

"I heard he's also an evolver following the Rock Horn Horse path. The Church probably did it on purpose to guard against him," Li Hao muttered to himself, a faint smile appearing on his face.

"Too bad you don't know that any evolver following the Rock Horn Horse path is now completely under my control. Looks like I need to find an opportunity to get in touch with him."

"No one can refuse the acquisition of Tier 2 Source Material, especially the Tier 2 mid-stage and late-stage evolution packages!"

Beneath the oasis, after Lin Feng took the reward for the transaction, four hundred kilograms of frozen evolution meat, he had a detailed conversation with Father Su An before returning to the war chariot.

At this time, Ding Yi and the three women, who had returned earlier, saw the tracks of the team's other war chariots and drove the dormitory car to the outside of Holy Spring Village to join the main force.

With an extra retinue team, a few broken cars, and Ma Chenfeng's sixteen team members, it seemed a bit lively.

Lin Feng briefly mentioned the subsequent events to the three women and then let them return to the car.

Then he began to process the four hundred kilograms of evolution meat in his hands.

After thawing it, he squeezed it.

He obtained five portions of Level 17 Life Source Material, which, after conversion, became one Level 18 and one Level 19 evolution agent.

These can be used for Chen Shanshan to help her enter the late stage of Tier 1 as soon as possible.

In addition, the other combat members in the team must also be strengthened a bit. At least they need to be promoted to the mid-stage of Tier 1 to play a certain role in the subsequent rebellion struggle.

Otherwise, if they are only early-stage Tier 1 evolvers, it will be difficult for them to even protect themselves, unless they hide far away.

Now that Lin Feng has sided with the Church, leading the team into the vortex of struggle, he naturally cannot stay out of it.

Compared to the five late-stage Tier 1 evolution agents in front of him, Lin Feng was more concerned about the meat paste left after filtering, which could be made into two hundred kilograms of cooked jerky as the team's reserve food.

There were still fifty kilograms of Level 18 evolution meat left from before, plus the fifty kilograms given by the Salvation Army's Bai Ye, which was exactly one hundred kilograms.

In total, there were three hundred kilograms of evolution meat. With the help of Ding Yi and Liu Qian, they made three hundred pieces of uniformly sized jerky, neatly stacked in the freezer like coconut bricks.

Lin Feng then inventoried all the gains from this trip:

Level 10 evolution agents, a total of twelve.

Level 17 evolution agents, a total of five.

Level 20 Source Material, of which the filtered pure Source Material, a total of eight portions. There were originally five portions of Wasteland Wolf Source Material, but two portions have already been traded with Father Su An, and now there are three portions left.

Lin Feng planned to leave them for the Divine Dog.

As for the higher level, it is Level 24 Source Material, a total of three portions, originating from the Tier 2 mid-stage, Level 26 Corpse Wolf.

In addition, there are Tier 2 orange-quality materials such as alloy wolf skull and fine steel wolf skin, which will be used to upgrade the war chariot and battle armor.

And the bullet production machine installed in the transport vehicle.

And three tons of production raw materials.

While taking inventory of the supplies, Lin Feng also transferred the black box containing the Tier 3 flesh and blood with radiation from the Rock Horse war chariot to the transport vehicle.

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

After the transfer, the cluster of early-stage Tier 3 cells in the black box containing the Tier 3 Wolf King's flesh and blood, which was placed separately at the front of the car, slowly wriggled and began to merge.

Zong Shiyue, who was ten meters away at the rear of the car, did not notice the mutation of the Wolf King's meat because of the isolation of sunlight and the contraction of his own energy sensing.

Inside the Rock Horse war chariot in front, after taking stock of the harvest from this trip, Lin Feng, who originally planned to start evolving and upgrading, decided to go to the guild first to trade for the required evolution meat and weapons and equipment before improving his strength in order not to attract too much attention.

Otherwise, rashly evolving into a Level 23 or Tier 2 mid-stage powerful existence will definitely arouse suspicion and vigilance from all parties.

In addition, there is currently no reserve of Tier 2 evolution meat in hand. Even if he becomes a Tier 2 mid-stage evolver, Lin Feng would not dare to act rashly and fully exert all his strength.

It would only become timid and indecisive, which would outweigh the benefits.

This is also the reason why many forces do not dare to easily upgrade even if they obtain high-level Source Material. In the resource-scarce wasteland, high-level evolvers cannot stably obtain food, but will be burdened by the high-level evolution cells in their bodies.

Once high-level cells cannot ingest the corresponding quality of energy, then in order to continue their own survival and continue to proliferate and divide, they will begin to attack other low-level cells in the body, devouring them to feed themselves.

The pain brought by cell cannibalism is far more uncomfortable than being hungry.

That will be the struggling feeling of ten thousand insects gnawing at the body.

And the powerful perception of high-level evolvers can clearly feel that one half of their body is eating the other half, a feeling of extreme despair of weakness.

In fact, after understanding the Holy City ahead, Lin Feng knew that although the wasteland environment was harsh, as Zong Shiyue said, there was no lack of energy here.

Evolution meat is essentially a higher-level food, a form of energy, a chemical energy suitable for the digestion and absorption of evolution cells.

Relying on the technology left over from the Old Earth era, it is entirely possible to mass-produce high-level evolution meat.

The only possibility is that this technology is controlled by top forces like the Holy Spring Church, and used to cultivate the needs of their own members, such as Holy Spring Water.

And other forces that master the technology also intentionally control the output due to production limitations or to curb the development of other forces.

High-level evolution meat, as a strategic reserve of materials, is likely not something that can be directly exchanged for with points, just like pure Life Source Material.

There must be many additional conditions.

When the value is high to a certain extent, when even points cannot measure it, transactions will return to bartering.

What is traded can be tangible items, or it can be a favor, or a shot from a high-level powerhouse.

For example, Lin Feng now needs to use the "legal" pure evolution agents in his hand to make a deal with the Hunter's Guild to obtain some late-stage Tier 1 and Tier 2 evolution meat.

After arranging his subordinates, Lin Feng immediately took Chen Shanshan and Ma Chenfeng and drove the Rock Horse war chariot to the Fifth Village.

Now Chen Shanshan and Ma Chenfeng are the only two mid-stage Tier 1 evolvers in the team, and they are also the strongest members under Lin Feng.

It's just that they are quite far behind him, the captain.

The remaining members are only in the early stage of Tier 1.

So this material transaction also includes some mid-to-late stage Tier 1 evolution agents.

Soon, the Rock Horse war chariot came to the end of the oasis town, the Fifth Village, in the buzzing sound of the engine.

It is also the largest of the five villages.

It's just that compared to the relaxed atmosphere before, even the Fifth Village has become tense.

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

When the Rock Horse war chariot approached the heavy truck where the guild was located, the guard standing on the stairs next to it kept a vigilant expression.

But before long, a tall woman in a black slim suit walked out of the small door in front.

Xu Wanshuang, the vice president of the guild, personally came out to welcome the arrival of the distinguished guests in the war chariot.

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