Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded

The billowing dust in the distance gradually dissipated.

As the trio drew closer to their destination, figures of other wasteland teams gradually appeared on the wide avenue full of tire tracks.

Each maintained a distance of over a hundred meters, wary of each other.

Lin Feng finished the last of the water in the bottle, observing the wastelanders draped in burlap hoods.

Their condition was not good; most were hunched over, their backs bent, struggling to move forward.

Like devout ascetics making a pilgrimage.

The wasteland teams walking in the very center of the road, on the flattest ground, were in much better condition, not only wearing clean clothes, but even their pace was steady and powerful.

These teams were extremely strong, mostly led by several late-stage enhanced individuals; Li Hu, whom Lin Feng and the others encountered before, was from such a top-tier wasteland team.

Above them were the evolvers who regularly resided in Oasis Town, forming hunting teams.

Lin Feng and his companions walked along the edge of the road.

Under the control of their team leader, they maintained a steady pace, neither too fast nor too slow.

The chunks of meat and wolf pelts on the flatbed cart were covered with burlap, not attracting much attention.

They traveled like this for more than ten kilometers before finally reaching the outskirts of the main group.

Only at this moment did Lin Feng finally see the civilization products of the old world: rows of dilapidated and rusty cars.

Cars of varying sizes formed a circle.

Creating an arc several hundred meters wide.

Lin Feng roughly estimated that there were over a hundred cars just on the outer ring.

After all, the people in the caravan didn't have to travel on foot and could get adequate rest every day.

Lin Feng looked at his kind lying in the car seats, legs crossed, and wanted to go up and rest for a while.

He had been sleeping on piles of gravel all the way, his body covered in red marks.

Therefore, the wastelanders' sleep quality was always poor; they only fell asleep out of exhaustion.

Detouring far around the car team, the group followed the wasteland team and entered the center of Oasis Town.

The car teams they passed earlier formed a circle with a diameter of five hundred meters, with strict order around it.

"That's the caravan that follows the moving oasis, and it's also one of the villages under Oasis Town."

Ding Yi said, quietly introducing to Lin Feng.

Chen Shanshan, who was pulling the flatbed cart, looked back:

"They are forging various iron tools; it should be the Motorbike Village of the four major villages in Oasis Town. Besides it, there are three other villages: Holy Spring, Farm, and Dawn."

"The four major villages control weapons, water, food, and energy, respectively. Among them, Holy Spring Village represents the Church, and the other three major villages belong to the three major families on the oasis."

"These are the official forces of Oasis Town."

"There are about ten thousand people living in it."

"Besides these, there is also our destination, the Fifth Village, formed by a large number of free evolvers."

As she spoke, Chen Shanshan stopped, and what came into view was a mixed gathering camp.

Before them was the Fifth Village she mentioned, also the resting place for all the wastelanders on this trip.

Unlike the orderly Motorbike Village just now, the Fifth Village was very chaotic. Many wastelanders simply lay down on the ground or set up tents, filled with quarrels, curses, and shouts.

Many groups sat on the ground, with buckthorn roots in their mouths, scanning the passing wasteland teams, searching for the supplies they carried, and showing greedy expressions when they saw food.

"The village doesn't allow any hot weapons to be taken out. Lin Feng, put away your revolver."

Chen Shanshan reminded, then continued to go deeper into the Fifth Village:

"Don't stay on the outskirts; the bottom-level wastelanders here are vicious and addicted to stealing and robbing. They won't have the supplies we need in their hands."

"Go to the car team inside to rest; that's where the top wasteland teams are stationed, with abundant resources."

Lin Feng and the other nodded and followed.

Crossing hundreds of meters of wastelanders, they saw a camp surrounded by a circle of cars, just like the Motorbike Village they passed by just now. There were also guards at the entrance.

Chen Shanshan skillfully stepped forward, took out a piece of chopped ribs from under the flatbed cart burlap, and handed it to the entrance guard to obtain passage.

"Transactions inside are regulated and protected, and permanent residents of the Fifth Village also live in it."

Listening to the captain's introduction, Lin Feng looked around. This was his first time in such close contact with the human civilization that evolved in the wasteland.

He had a wonderful feeling of being in another world.

Those cars were covered with a layer of black armor, which he couldn't see clearly from the Motorbike Village because it was too far away. Now that he looked closer, they were all solar photovoltaic panels.

Lin Feng was a little surprised, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that there was no problem.

After all, in the eternal daytime world without night, the only free and unlimited source of energy was the scorching sun overhead.

Lin Feng had been wondering before how the car teams were so large, with more than five hundred cars of various types in one village, housing more than three thousand people, and how they solved the problem of fuel consumption along the way.

Now it seemed that the entire Oasis Town was moving forward on solar energy. No wonder the village that controlled energy was named Dawn.

The products of Dawn Village are photovoltaic panels and motors.

It is estimated that most of the survivor settlements in the wasteland are also in this mode.

As soon as he entered the Fifth Village camp, Lin Feng saw the motel that Ding Yi had been thinking about.

A mobile hotel converted from a bus was parked next to the entrance.

The roof was covered with a large circle of photovoltaic panels, which also had a shading effect. There were two floors in total; the bottom floor was a dormitory, and it only cost half a catty of jerky to rest for eight hours.

The upper bunk was a separate small compartment, like a capsule hotel, separated by iron sheets, and the price was twice as expensive.

The hotel also provided two liters of free water per person, as well as a power supply, which could be used to fry, stir-fry, boil, and deep-fry food.

On the sign hanging under the photovoltaic panel, in addition to the price of accommodation, there was also the standing and sitting ticket price when Oasis Town set off, which only cost two taels of jerky a day, with a 15% discount for a monthly pass.

Under the sign, there was also a wooden board with recruitment content and requirements written in charcoal.

Many wastelanders who wanted to try their luck had already gone to the driver's seat to find the hotel owner.

This was Lin Feng's first time seeing the wasteland's living culture, and he couldn't help but feel very novel, but he was also worried about exposing his newcomer status, so he squinted and observed secretly.

Ding Yi next to him also entered the village for the first time. Before, because the team was short of resources, he could only sit on the ground like the wastelanders outside, and the captain and vice-captain entered the Fifth Village to exchange for the necessary supplies.

The two looked around, peeking everywhere.

They also saw mobile bars and even bathhouses.

Only Chen Shanshan was already familiar with the road, and took the two directly to the edge of the Fifth Village, stopping the flatbed cart in front of a small bus.

This was also a motel, but the location was very remote.

However, the boss obviously knew the captain.

In front of an old-fashioned red plastic frame round mirror, a middle-aged man shaving his beard was wearing a beach short-sleeved shirt and shorts, with a pair of cracked flip-flops on his feet.

The man's surname was Huang, and he was the owner of the small bus.

Boss Huang glanced at Chen Shanshan, the flatbed cart behind her, and Lin Feng and the other:

"Not a small harvest, only these two rookies left?"

Chen Shanshan nodded:

"Half a day, three bunks."

Boss Huang put down his razor:

"One catty of jerky."

Chen Shanshan then took out two strips of jerky from the meat pile on the flatbed cart, weighed them, and handed them to the hotel owner:

"A little more, but not completely dehydrated yet."

Old Huang took the jerky, smelled it under his nose, and showed a surprised expression:

"You actually killed a wilderness wolf. Wolf meat is a rare tonic, not bad, it's okay if it's not dried."

With that, he put down the razor and took the initiative to open the small bus door, which only had a capacity of thirty people, welcoming the three to board and stay, while smiling and reminding:

"A free message, that guy Qi Shan came a few days ago and sold some of his men into the slave market. He is currently living in the north of the village, trying to get in touch with the evolvers."

Chen Shanshan nodded and replied, "Thank you."

Lin Feng and the other two picked up the wolf meat wrapped in burlap and followed the captain onto the bus.

The original seats of the small bus were removed and converted into long compartments on the left and right sides, four on each side, a total of eight, and the conditions were far inferior to the bus at the entrance.

The single rooms were separated by wooden boards, each berth was two meters long and seventy centimeters wide, divided into upper, middle, and lower three layers, each layer only had eighty centimeters of space, and could only sit cross-legged while bending over.

Just like the hard sleeper of a green-skinned train.

The three people just happened to stay in one room.

There was also a small electric fan on the head of the bed, which could blow a slight breeze. Because the roof had a photovoltaic panel to shade it, the car was not hot, and there was an exhaust fan at the rear of the car, which was cooler than outside.

The temperature outside the car was close to 50 degrees Celsius. Thanks to the shading of the photovoltaic panels, the temperature in the car was only in the early forties, and with the electric fan at the head of the bed, it could be lowered to a normal body temperature.

Lin Feng would not have been able to sleep at all in the past, but in the scorching wasteland, thirty-six or seven degrees Celsius was considered comfortable.

Chen Shanshan washed her face outside the car, came back and brought two bottles of water to Lin Feng and the other, then said:

"Most of the wasteland teams will have to wait a few hours to arrive. Let's rest for a while and get a good night's sleep."

"Then go to participate in the gathering."

Lin Feng and the other two nodded, divided the wolf meat into three portions, hugged it in their arms, and fell into a deep sleep.

A few hours later, the captain woke up the two:

"Get up and eat. Old Huang made pan-fried wolf meat."

"After eating, it's time to get down to business."