Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 261 Shadows of Wolves Lurk, Beast Plague Strikes, Variables and Opportunities
Lin Feng wasn't too surprised to hear the good news from Chen Shanshan.

With Ding Yi's help and the secret assistance of the Wolf King's consciousness, even if the Divine Dog is only a branch of the Wilderness Wolf clan, and even if the high-level wolf blood flowing in its body is very thin...

It can also successfully complete the first-order evolution transformation.

In fact, the divine dog's own evolutionary potential is quite ordinary. It is not the offspring of a high-level evolved wild wolf. The genetic bloodline inherited in its body can at most give it a chance to break through to the first-order evolution level.

After all, its biological parents were just two ordinary wasteland wolves enhanced to level nine, although the male wolf had decent genetic potential.

If it weren't for the hunt by Lin Feng and his group, as long as they survived the food crisis caused by the mother wolf giving birth, successfully reached the Fallen Wolf Valley, and trained in the Wolf King's Tomb, they would have a high chance of advancing to the first-tier evolved wild wolf.

Furthermore, it is among the best of the level nine enhanced life forms, having already mutated into multiple high-grade refined steel wolf fangs, which greatly facilitates Lin Feng's later enhancement of the power of his weapons and exchange for high-grade resources.

As the sole survivor of this ordinary enhanced wolf pack during the upheaval, the Divine Dog, despite its mediocre evolutionary talent, was fortunate to have been carefully raised by Lin Feng...

They were well-fed and plentiful, and could lie comfortably in the chariot every day without worrying about food or clothing.

Even if a dog with only average potential grows up healthily, it still possesses a robust physique.

Compared to the wild wolves in the wasteland who often go hungry, this gives the divine dog a much higher margin of error when it encounters unexpected crises during its evolution.

Unlike human genes, wild animals, especially carnivores at the predator level, are genetically endowed with full muscles and explosive power far exceeding that of other animals.

Even without exercise or physical activity, you can have a perfect physique with muscles all over your body.

Lion prides on the African savanna, for example, sleep for 20 hours out of 24, spending the rest of their time hunting and eating, yet they still become the top predators on the savanna.

For them, overtraining can actually cause muscle wear and tear, deplete their vitality, and lead to a decline in their condition.

The divine dog, now living a life free from worries about food and clothing, is actually far stronger than the wasteland wolves of the same level, except for a slight lack of combat experience.

A strong physique and good physical condition are also the foundation for its ability to receive life essence and achieve evolution.

Now that the divine dog has become a first-tier evolved wild wolf, further upgrades will be much easier.

By using the evolution meat of the wasteland wolf, which is rich in life essence, Ding Yi can extract a large amount of first-tier wasteland wolf essence to make into injections of evolution agents.

Although these evolution agents contain a lot of impurities and are very dangerous for humans to inject, they are just right for use on the legendary dogs that are Steppenwolves, and there is no need to worry about genetic contamination.

After all, the battle in the underground Wolf King's Tomb in the Valley of Fallen Wolves was achieved by devouring the flesh and blood of the slain corpse wolves and absorbing the life essence within them, thus completing their complete evolution and transformation.

Those who fail will undergo a metamorphosis under the radiation of the Wolf King's third-tier body and become new corpse wolves, ready to be killed by those who come after them.

This cycle repeats itself, ensuring the continuation of the evolutionary bloodline of the Wasteland Wolf clan.

Therefore, the entire Fallen Wolf Valley and Wolf King's Tomb is actually a large-scale biological experimental base.

Lin Feng obtained a portion of the flesh and blood of a third-tier wolf king, as well as the wolf king's consciousness, through concentration and extraction. Naturally, he was able to establish a super-small wolf source material cultivation room.

The divine dog can also quickly evolve to the late stage of the first tier, and even advance to the second tier of the wasteland giant wolf. In the future, it will compete with other second tier giant wolves of the wasteland wolf clan for the original inheritance of the third tier wolf king.

But at this moment, Lin Feng was more concerned about the clues he had discovered than about the divine dog's advancement.

He then drew a level 22 armor-piercing cannon from his waist, disguised as a high-end rifle.

It was then transformed back to its original state, becoming a large-caliber gun that was two and a half meters long.

Above the fist-sized gun barrel is an extended high-powered telescope, capable of magnifying the gun thirty-two times.

Now, as a second-tier evolved being, Lin Feng's eyesight is comparable to that of an eagle, allowing him to clearly identify objects the size of a fist within a kilometer. Under extreme conditions, he can distinguish moving targets within three or four kilometers.

The enemies or prey he faced at the same level were mostly engaged in close-range combat, so after becoming a second-tier evolved being, Lin Feng rarely used the scope function.

Because within one kilometer, the clarity, sensitivity, and accuracy of one's own eyes far exceed those of an armor-piercing cannon's sight.

However, even though Lin Feng is a second-tier evolved being, his visual acuity will rapidly decline after five kilometers, and he can only see blurry outlines.

Ten kilometers away, a black dot flashed by, and even with his neck craned and eyes squinted, Lin Feng could not make out what it was.

In situations like these, using the scope on the armor-piercing cannon might yield unexpected results.

Back when the armor-piercing cannon was just a small revolver, Lin Feng bought a scope as an accessory because there was indeed a need for it at the time.

Later, the focus of the enhancement was always on increasing the killing power, and the scope became a dispensable accessory. However, with the overall upgrade and optimization of the armor-piercing cannon, it changed from the original 4x scope to a 32x scope.

The maximum observation aiming distance has also been increased from 400 meters to 5 kilometers, and within 2 kilometers, the target image can be clearly displayed.

Half of them were equipped on bombers or grenade launchers for long-range strikes beyond visual range.

What Lin Feng needed to do was remove it and upgrade the scope accessories separately.

As Lin Feng detached the scope and held it in his hand, the target's attribute information immediately appeared in the corner of his eye:
"High-magnification scope, level 19, red quality, branded."

Basic Attributes: Magnified Scope; Crosshair Lock; Can be upgraded to a higher tier by consuming 10 health points.

"Magnification: The magnification can be adjusted between 8x and 32x, with a maximum observation distance of 5 kilometers, and relatively clear imaging within 2 kilometers."

"Cross sight lock: Features multi-target recognition, moving object tracking and locking, and intelligent functions such as cross sight lock color change, automatic distance calculation, and automatic adjustment."

"Evaluation: One of the key components of the level 22 armor-piercing cannon. Even as a standalone item, it is a highly sophisticated observation instrument with a level 19 quality. It can be upgraded individually to a higher quality."

Without much thought, Lin Feng directly consumed ten health points to upgrade the scope separately.

He currently has a considerable amount of level 20 evolution meat stored in his stomach, which he will use up slowly.

For Lin Feng, who has 300 health points, ten health points is nothing to worry about.

It only takes some level 20 evolved meat to quickly make up for it.

As a surge of energy flowed into the scope he held in his hand, the single-tube observation device, which was more than half a meter long, rapidly changed shape.

Because the upgraded equipment was relatively small, and Lin Feng's own level was higher than the scope he was using, the upgrade was completed in a short time.

"High-powered telescope, lv20, orange quality, branded."

Basic Attributes: Magnified Scope; Crosshair Lock; Can be upgraded to a higher tier by consuming 10 health points.

"Magnification: The magnification can be adjusted between 8x and 50x, with a maximum observation distance of 10 kilometers, and relatively clear imaging within 3 kilometers."

"Evaluation: This telescope can see up to 10 kilometers away, which is sufficient for most reconnaissance needs in the wasteland. However, the superposition of multiple lenses also makes the light-gathering effect extremely good. Please be careful when using it and do not observe high-energy light sources to avoid burns."

After the upgrade, the magnification of the scope increased from 32x to 50x, and the maximum distance was doubled, finally allowing me to see clearly at a distance of 10 kilometers.

After being converted into a telescope, its length increased from half a meter to nearly one meter. Although it could be reinstalled on the armor-piercing cannon, having a "scope" over one meter long on top of it looked somewhat awkward.

It is estimated that this move is why the scope was kept at level 19 red quality during the overall upgrade of the armor-piercing cannon, so as not to affect the use of the entire weapon.

However, even if you simply use it as a telescope, it's still worth the money.

Lin Feng immediately raised the extended version of the binoculars and aimed it at the dark shadows ten kilometers away, trying to see what these dark spots were.

As the telescope was pointed at the target, the originally blurry black dot was magnified fifty times, becoming a finger-thick image.

This high-powered telescope, rated at level 20, also features image cropping and restoration functions, directly enhancing blurry images.

The jigsaw puzzle, which was originally composed of individual mosaic dots, gradually revealed its general outline under the automatic repair of the telescope.

Only now could Lin Feng finally see clearly what those black dots that flashed by ten kilometers away were.

The screenshots that appeared in the camera clearly showed one after another the figures of the Steppe Wolves that Lin Feng was extremely familiar with.

The color is close to grayish-yellow, so it's not very clear.

Even if Lin Feng suffers from amnesia in his old age, he will never forget the physical outline of the Steppenwolf clan.

From the very first day he opened his eyes and arrived in the wasteland, he was followed by an old wolf.

The latter wanted to eat it.

However, Lin Feng used all his skills to successfully turn the tables and kill him, which became Lin Feng's first pot of gold in Oasis Town.

Without the mutated wolf fangs of that old wolf from the wasteland, Lin Feng would never have met Father Su An, a top figure in Oasis Town.

Naturally, there was no subsequent wolf hunt or the expedition to capture rock stags in the Wild Grand Canyon.

The figure in the picture now flies by like quicksand from a wasteland ten kilometers away, each speck representing a desert wolf.

Furthermore, based on the proportions of the surrounding environment in the image and the magnification effect, the telescope also revealed the approximate size of these moving targets.

They are mostly over five meters tall.

This also means that the Steppenwolves appearing in the picture are at least at the early stage of the first-order evolution.

The sheer number that Lin Feng saw was probably in the thousands or even tens of thousands...

Such a large pack of desert wolves, all of which started as evolved desert wolves, is comparable in strength and scale to a large settlement.

To understand the entire Oasis Town, excluding the 50,000 to 60,000 ordinary enhanced-stage wasteland dwellers on the outskirts of the settlement, just considering the core Oasis warship and the five major villages...

The permanent population is around 20,000, most of whom are late-stage enhanced humans, true evolved beings; there are fewer than 100 in the Fifth Village alone.

Of the remaining four villages, Farm Village has the most, with about seven or eight hundred Tier 1 Evolvers. The other two villages, Motorbike Village and Dawn Village, together have nearly a thousand.

Because of its church background and the fact that it has become a church school under the management of Father Suan, Holy Spring Village does not have many evolved beings. Even the outer defense force only has about sixty or seventy evolved beings.

As for the Oasis warship, apart from the two thousand "noble" Oasis citizens of the Upper District, who are at least Tier 1 Evolvers, the remaining eight thousand servants are basically in the mid-to-late stages of enhancement.

Only the management staff, numbering less than a hundred, are the well-paid "evolved individuals."

The remaining Oasis leadership, church members, and evolved individuals numbered only a little over two hundred.

So, aside from the "useless" residents of the Upper District, the number of evolved beings in Oasis Town is only a little over two thousand, almost the same as the number of residents in the Upper District.

Therefore, the resentment and hatred of the Li family and other local clans can be understood.

The existence of Shangmin District has already depleted a significant portion of Oasis Town's development potential.

The cost of keeping these useless people in captivity is even higher than directly buying or plundering evolved human slaves, so there is absolutely no need to maintain the existence of the Upper District.

Without this heavy burden, both the church in the oasis and the various families could achieve further development and growth.

The number of second-tier evolved beings can at least double.

However, because the bishop has been pursuing a policy of favoring the elite, coupled with the protests of this elite group, the situation has become too powerful to control.

In Lin Feng's view, the existence of the Shangmin District might be a means for Bishop Zhang Hui to limit the unbridled expansion of local family power.

Many highly talented successors were cultivated in the three villages, but they were all forcibly taken into the Upper Community by the church, which still held power at that time, and given Upper Community status.

As a result, he missed the opportunity to grow and mature, wasted the best years of his youth, and ultimately accomplished nothing, stepping onto the sacrificial altar of the moonlit ritual.

These were all promising talents for becoming second-tier powerhouses, but because of their status and treatment as upper-class citizens, they lost their path to becoming powerhouses.

Until now...

Although Oasis Town has a decent overall development scale, in terms of evolutionary power, it is basically at the bottom of the wasteland.

It's not that there's a problem with the size of its evolved beings, but rather that about half of them have been raised into useless individuals who lack any common sense about combat.

Now, the Steppenwolf clan, with tens of thousands of evolved Steppenwolves, is pressing in with overwhelming force...

They're about to surround the entire town of Oasis!
Realizing this, Lin Feng took a deep breath and stared intently at the distant wasteland.

This unprecedented scale is almost equivalent to the entire strength of the Steppenwolf clan.

Their leader, Wolf Ao, was willing to risk his entire clan's fortune to attack Oasis Town, which clearly indicates that he was aware of the changes at Mount Tai Ruins.

They knew that this migration of six thousand people through the millennia-long wasteland was the last chance for the Wasteland Wolf Clan.

The risky attack on the oasis town under the control of the Papacy, in order to strengthen their own ethnic group, is the first historical signal that a chaotic world is about to begin!

Lin Feng was pondering how to use this crisis to maximize his own interests.

The minor skirmishes in Oasis Town are now a foregone conclusion...

However, the town-destroying beast calamity unleashed by the Wasteland Wolf clan brought about unexpected results.

For example, the vast amount of evolutionary source material of the wild wolves, and the legacy left behind by the destruction of various forces in the oasis.

For example, the Oasis warship was severely damaged and forced to be abandoned on Oasis Avenue, becoming ownerless...

(End of this chapter)