Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 147: Twenty Pieces of Pure Source, Negative Seventh Floor Incubation Nest
Generally speaking, an early-stage second-level evolver cannot influence the situation in a town-level settlement.

With his strength and status, he can at most control a village of a thousand people, which is probably comparable to the forces of third-rate wanderers. He has limited influence on a town with a population of tens of thousands.

Unless someone like Bai Ye, the leader of the Salvation Army, possesses powerful strength in the late second stage, then he will have enough say in the big town.

Of course, the remnants of the Salvation Army led by Bai Ye are also among the top second-rate among the Wanderers.

All it needs is to advance to the third-rank king, and with the relevant industrial foundation, it will be able to become a first-class force in the wasteland and establish its own ruling order.

In fact, these things are not the turn of Lin Feng, who has just been promoted to the second-level evolver.

But Lin Feng is not an ordinary second-stage early evolver. He has awakened a powerful firearm ability.

If other second-level evolvers can be called human tanks, then Lin Feng is a long-range missile launcher with unlimited ammunition.

Even in a big city, the status of a firearms ability evolver is much higher than that of an evolver of the same level, and can be improved by three or four small levels.

If it were placed in a remote area like Oasis Town, the actual role it could play and the status it would bring would be several levels higher.

At least it can give the status of the late second stage.

So Lin Feng immediately understood the meaning of Bai Ye's words. She was discussing this matter with him.

This means that Bai Ye already regards him as an equal to himself, which would definitely be a great honor in other circumstances.

After all, a late-stage second-level evolver would look up to a "newcomer" who had just evolved across levels in such a high regard. Ordinary people would definitely be flattered if they met him.

But Lin Feng knew better that the intention behind this flattery was nothing more than self-interest.

If you can convince others to achieve your goals just by talking, the reward must be huge and the risk is extremely low.

But Lin Feng saw no rewards, only the risk of counterattack by the Li family.

So he had no intention of getting involved from the beginning, especially now that the Salvation Army wanted to get involved.

It will only make the situation in Oasis more chaotic.

Unless he can get enough benefits in advance, rather than some false verbal promises.

Things after something is done are harder to achieve than before it is done.

The story of hiding a good bow and cooking a running dog is not uncommon in history.

"Me? I have no interest in Oasis Town."

Lin Feng withdrew his gaze from the train station, looked at the woman beside him, and replied.

Bai Ye narrowed her eyes slightly. In her opinion, if she could get Lin Feng's support, she wouldn't have to spend more to persuade the giant wolf to join the action.

Although the latter can effectively suppress the evolution path of the Li family's rockhorn beetle, it also causes great damage to Oasis Town.

Especially the Li family's rock wildebeest industry.

This is a last resort and a very bad option.

Bai Ye then asked:

"You only do things for money, don't you? What price do you need to pay for it?"

Lin Feng frowned slightly, unmoved:
"That depends on what price you're willing to pay to allow me to risk antagonizing the Li family. I'm afraid even I'm not confident I can break the Rock Horse Armor's defense."

Bai Ye smiled slightly, knowing that the man in front of him was already interested.

Now that we can persuade him, things will be easy:
"Our goal isn't to destroy the entire Li family, but to seize part of the rock wildebeest breeding industry. However, the Li family will definitely be on guard."

"If they intend to rebel and seize control of the oasis, they will definitely spare no effort to board the ship. By then, the only garrison left in the farm village will be a single second-level evolver."

"Captain Lin, we just need to suppress his attack and hold him off for about half an hour to buy time for our plundering operation..."

"Then the mission is successfully completed."

"For Captain Lin, this is just a matter of moving his fingers and pulling the trigger."

"After this is accomplished, all the treasures in the Li family's treasury, even the first-stage late evolutionary agents and the like, will belong to Captain Lin. We only need people and industries to cultivate."

Seeing that the other party was still promising the Li family's assets, Lin Feng shook his head and decisively refused:

"What if the church fails? You can take carts full of loot and escape into the deserted wilderness, but I will have to bear the consequences of being hunted down by the Li family."

"The risks here are too great, and the Li family will definitely use all their strength to defeat the church and seize the Oasis. How much reserves will they have left in their treasury?"

"We used all the accumulated profits over the years to buy the life essence of the last Chieftain-level Rock Wildebeest, but in the end, the pilgrim caravan was robbed by you."

"Although the Life Essence eventually fell into my hands, it also shows that the Li family is now in a state of being barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes. They are desperately trying to fight to the death."

Mentioning the incident of the pilgrim convoy being attacked, Lin Feng shrugged and continued:
"I don't want to face several mad dogs. They have nothing to lose and are not afraid of death."

"Compared to this, the third-order aberrations in the restricted area of ​​the ruins seem easier to deal with. After all, as long as they escape the ruins, they can pose no threat to humans."

Bai Ye nodded slightly. It was not surprising that Lin Feng knew that it was the Salvation Army that robbed the pilgrim caravan. Perhaps the Holy Spring Cult had already informed him of this matter so that he would be vigilant against the Wanderer forces.

But Lin Feng also did not trust the church.

This is her chance.

At this time, the team had passed the train station and was about to arrive at the entrance of the negative sixth floor. Thick black fog filled with toxins floated in the dim space.

The temperature began to drop sharply, the environment became darker, and the muttering in everyone's heads gradually became louder.

Will there be some disturbed deformers that attack the members on both sides of the team?

But under the burning flames of the flamethrower, even the second-level mutants would immediately retreat in shock, and those who could not escape in time would be directly burned into charcoal by the scorching thousand-degree flames.

Walk up the stairs and enter the sixth underground floor.

Bai Ye was thinking about what he could do to impress the man next to him and make him willing to continue helping him.

Now the Savior Army has no more resources to advance payment to Lin Feng. The only valuable rockhorn meat is as scarce as other evolutionary meats to the Savior Army.

Especially the first-stage late-stage leader-level evolutionary meat and the extremely precious second-stage evolutionary meat. Not only are they scarce, but the subsequent looting operations will cost a lot.

Evolved meat is combat power. Using this as a bargaining chip will make Lin Feng more confident, making him uncontrollable and violating the agreement, thus increasing the risk of cooperation.

He is already strong enough. If he gets stronger, even Bai Ye won't be able to suppress him.

After much thought, the only thing that is suitable as a reward for Lin Feng is a batch of pure life essence stored in the freezer of the carriage. It is very valuable, but it will not continue to improve Lin Feng's strength.

"How about ten portions of pure life essence? This should be something Captain Lin would be interested in."

Bai Ye slowly spoke and continued to promote:

"Even if you can't use it now, when you're cultivating your power or recruiting new members, you can still attract talented people to work for you for pure essence."

"If you're in a hurry to use the money, pure Life Essence is much stronger than Evolution Meat. One portion of Pure Life Essence costs 5,000 points. If you have ten portions, you can easily sell them for a whopping 50,000 points..."

Lin Feng looked at the woman in surprise. Although obtaining pure life essence was also in his plan, it would not be of any substantial help in improving the strength of the current team members.

Pure life essence can only be used as a bonus, but not as the main reward for the transaction.

"Although pure life essence is valuable, it's currently of little use to my team members. They've all become Evolvers."

Lin Feng paused and said what he was thinking:

"We don't need so much pure life essence. If we want to fight against the Li family's evolvers, I need strong enough players to help contain and provide cover."

"So, compared to the Immaculate Evolution, we need more mid- to late-stage first-order evolution agents. There are so many late-stage evolutionists in the Salvation Army, so there shouldn't be a shortage of evolution agents, right?"

Lin Feng really wanted to ask for a taste of the second-level evolutionary meat, but then he thought about the conditions of the Salvation Army, and how much evolutionary meat could be traded.

Apart from Lin Feng himself, the strongest member of the team, Chen Shanshan, has only evolved to level 14.

The gap between the two is really too big.

As a result, in Lin Feng's current battle, the team members not only cannot provide any help, but will become a burden instead.

For example, killing the third-level distortion king.

Therefore, compared to ten portions of level ten pure life essence, the team needs mid-term and late-term evolution agents to enhance Chen Shanshan's strength.

Hearing this, Bai Ye smiled. It was obvious that Lin Feng still didn't understand the value and function of pure life essence.

As long as you have it, you can buy any grade of evolution agent within the first level at will, not to mention the second-level evolution agent.

This is the strength and scarcity of pure life essence, which can provide two alternative evolutionary paths for enhanced humans who have not yet evolved beyond their levels.

Many forces and large families are willing to spend a large sum of money to prepare such an evolution agent for their young descendants to achieve pure evolution.

Bai Ye then spoke and calculated the account for Lin Feng:
"A piece of pure life essence can be sold for 5,000 points, which can easily be exchanged for a mid-term evolution potion."

"Ten portions of pure essence, worth fifty thousand points, can barely buy one late-stage, eighteenth-level life essence, equivalent to two seventeenth-level evolution agents."

"Trust me, if you bring back ten Essences, the Oasis Hunter Guild will definitely exchange them for any Evolution Agent within the first level."

"This is a sure-fire way for them to make money."

"Whatever you want, as long as the Hunting Guild has it, we will give it to you!" Lin Feng narrowed his eyes slightly. Bai Ye's words were too absolute, and he suddenly realized a possibility.

That is, the Salvation Army had long had contact and communication with the guild in Oasis Town, and had even traded pure life essence in exchange for rich materials and oasis intelligence.

Otherwise, Bai Ye would not be so sure about the Hunting Guild's demand for pure source material and the large reserves of evolution agents on hand.

Therefore, the balance of victory in this war will shift a little more towards the church and the Salvation Army.

After all, although the Hunting Guild remains neutral in name, the fact that it chooses to trade with the Salvation Army already shows which side the team is investing in.

Although the guild's strength in Oasis Town only consists of a few first-stage late-stage evolvers, the guild's president holds a seat as the governor in the Oasis's highest council.

Enough to affect the next war.

For Lin Feng, as a top-level hunter of the Wilderness Hunting Guild, he naturally has to keep in line with the guild. This is very important when he goes to the Holy City for development in the future.

Lin Feng needs to deepen cooperation with the guild.

And Bai Ye was right. The value of the first-level purification of life essence was not only the points obtained in exchange, but also included many additional benefits.

For example, the friendship between the guild and the Salvation Army.

It will definitely help Bai Ye to complete the establishment of the Salvation Army into a first-class force.

This way you can expand your influence.

This is also a very good thing for Lin Feng. After all, he is better than Bai Ye at the future pure source business, and he needs the guild's protection and care more.

"If that's the case, I need more purified essence before I can take action against the Li family."

As he spoke, Lin Feng began to add to the conditions:

"Chief Bai may not be aware, but the church has promised to hand over the entire wildebeest breeding industry in the farm village, including the planting industry, to me."

"In the future, I will be the mayor of Farm Village and one of the nine governors of the oasis."

"But even with this kind of salary, I don't want to take the job. After all, I have to worry about the food for tens of thousands of people. Apart from making a stable profit from the price difference, there are no other benefits."

"If I agree now, won't I have to give up my own rewards and benefits to you?"

Hearing Lin Feng's words, Bai Ye's pupils shrank, and there was a hint of surprise in his eyes.

Obviously, he didn't expect that the Holy Spring Church valued the man in front of him so much that they were willing to win him over and make promises to him with a farm village worth millions, which was comparable to a second-rate force.

Moreover, the existence of this transaction was indeed proposed with careful consideration and foresight.

If Lin Feng really agreed, then his relationship with the Salvation Army would definitely be incompatible, and they might even do something bad in secret and frame him.

Unfortunately, what the church did not expect was that the other party had no intention of doing this. As a survivor who had just awakened in the wasteland, how could Lin Feng have such strength but be tied up in Oasis Town and suffer for the rest of his life?

Besides, Lin Feng was not so easy to fool. After several conversations, Bai Ye had a general idea of ​​what kind of person this young man was.

The church cleared out the Li family in front of him, and then let him take the position of the Li family...

Isn't it the same as showing him with his own hands what kind of ending the family he has worked so hard to build will face in hundreds of years?

And Lin Feng was obviously well aware of this.

So what he wanted right now was to get a little more return from himself to make up for the loss he suffered from the church.

After the matter is accomplished, if the farm village suffers serious losses, then the conditions and rewards promised to him by the church will inevitably be reduced a lot.

This part has to be filled by the Salvation Army:

"One price, twenty copies! That's equivalent to 100,000 points, enough to exchange for one level 19 Life Essence, which can be divided into three level 17 late-stage evolutionary agents."

Bai Ye gave the final bottom line and added:
"After the ruins operation is over, pay ten installments first, and the remaining ten installments will be paid on the day of the operation as a final payment."

"Don't worry, I'll give it to you as long as you do it."

Lin Feng nodded, thinking that this was pretty good:
"Due to the deep friendship we've developed during this mission to the ruins, I reluctantly agreed to the Farm Village operation."

"But twenty portions of pure life essence are only enough for me to deal with one second-level evolver. If the number of enemies increases, then you'll be on your own..."

The Oasis Town Farm Village area includes not only the Li family, but also Motorcycle Village and Shuguang Village, each with a second-level evolver.

If two second-level people appear at that time and Lin Feng needs to fight one against two, the price will not be the current one.

Looking at the entrance to the negative seventh floor, Bai Ye nodded:
"Don't worry, I will also take action when the time comes. Moreover, if you and I join forces, we might even be able to kill a second-level evolver of the Li family. You can also obtain the second-level life essence from it and further enhance your strength."

Lin Feng was stunned for a moment, and said hesitantly:
"Can we extract life essence from human evolutionists? Will it cause serious pollution?"

In addition to the wanderers, there is another terrifying existence in the wasteland, the refugees.

A group of man-eating monsters who will do anything to achieve their goals.

Because they have eaten too many living people, they have become severely deformed and have become neither human nor ghost. They are not liked by other forces and appear in groups, leaving no grass growing wherever they go.

When Chen Shanshan was on the pilgrimage caravan, she had seen large groups of refugees along the way, just like a tide of zombies.

Therefore, eating human flesh, especially raw meat, has always been a taboo in the wasteland.

Bai Ye shook his head and explained:
"You're only absorbing the life essence. You're not eating the meat directly. If you squeeze out the evolutionary fluid and then filter and purify it, you'll basically be fine."

"Other evolvers who have undergone pure evolution or fusion evolution still have to hesitate about whether they will be contaminated by impurities. For someone like you who has evolved through the Rockhorn Horse path, it is a perfect fit. You can drink the evolution liquid directly without any problems."

"Many second-level evolvers, including second-level wild beasts, use this method to pass on their life essence to the next generation. They even divide some of their life essence before death to help their offspring evolve to higher levels."

"Otherwise, why are they called Patriarch-level?"

Bai Ye raised the corner of his mouth slightly and continued:

"So the most valuable elements of this operation are actually the Li family members themselves. The cost of training a second-level evolver can reach hundreds of thousands or even millions of points. The life essence of the evolved flesh within them is the best reward for killing them."

Lin Feng frowned slightly. He had never fought against a high-level evolver before.

"A rockhorn warrior isn't that easy to kill, is he? Don't forget that rockhorn horses are known for their defensive abilities."

Bai Ye nodded.

The higher the level of evolution, the less likely it is to fight for life. After all, the long lifespan, powerful strength, and noble status make it impossible for a second-level evolver to sacrifice himself.

Only when you are nearing the end of your life will you want to do something meaningful after your death.

For example, the Oasis Bishop's desire to eradicate the Li family actually coincides with the intention of Li Hao, the head of the Li family.

"With our combined strength, it would be easy for us to deal with an early-stage Stage Two Evolver. Even if he's wearing Rock Horse Armor, without the advantage of speed, he won't be able to dodge our attacks."

Bai Ye replied, his expression gradually becoming serious.

The team in front slowly stopped, and everyone finally arrived at the entrance of the negative seventh floor.

At this time, an even colder aura came from behind a broken iron door. The light inside became dimmer, and an inky black poisonous fog spread out, like glue and paint, blocking everyone's vision.

The searchlights could not penetrate them, and visibility was greatly reduced to less than twenty meters.

Feeling the temperature of around ten degrees, the previously imperceptible mumbling in my mind became very noisy, and my mental pollution suddenly increased.

Lin Feng could instinctively feel the intense danger inside the negative seventh floor, and even his hairs stood up unconsciously.

He placed his left and right hands on the butt of the gun.

As long as there is any movement behind the door, Lin Feng will use the high-explosive rapid-fire cannon to deal with it directly.

If you can't solve it, use the armor-piercing cannon. If that doesn't work, use the level 25 rapid-fire armor-piercing cannon.
Let the three layers of distorted monsters at the bottom also have a taste of the 122mm howitzer.

At this time, Bai Ye walked towards the front team, stood in the crowd and spoke slowly to soothe people:

"We've already dealt with the third-order distortion king. Even if there's another one, we can easily kill it."

"All we have to do now is go inside, find the military factory, and transport the weapons production equipment. We'll have enough resources to help everyone advance to the Second Stage Evolver. There will also be a place for everyone in the future Salvation Army!"

"Whether you want to be a homeless wanderer for the rest of your life or enjoy wealth and glory, it all depends on you now!"

As he spoke, Bai Ye took the lead and stepped into the iron gate that was knocked open. He waved his hands, and a blue light appeared in his eyes. The thick black fog that shrouded everyone in front of him was immediately squeezed out.

She used her spatial ability to push away the black fog on both sides, clearing the way for the people behind her.

The team leaders took a deep breath and followed their leader into the negative seventh floor.

Lin Feng glanced at the two first-stage late-evolved team leaders on both sides of him, who were responsible for escorting him to safety. He nodded slightly with a serious expression, tightly grasped the high-explosive armor-piercing cannon in his hand, and followed them in.

The bottom three floors of the forbidden area of ​​the ruins, the place where the distortion nest is located, reveal the taboos hidden within it to everyone...

There are countless dry bones under my feet, only the shells are left.

Pave the stairs leading to the seventh floor below ground level.

Accompanied by the whispers whistling in my ears,

It was like the abyss of hell that swallowed everyone...

(End of this chapter)