Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 286 Accelerating the Evolution of the Divine Dog, but Leading to Low Intelligence?

Zong Shiyue's suggestion is very feasible. After all, the power of evolved wild beasts, aided by their enormous size, far surpasses that of humans from the outset.

For example, as early-stage second-order life forms, human second-order evolved beings have a base strength of about ten tons or more. Only in a burst state can they raise their strength limit to thirty or forty tons by rapidly consuming physical energy.

However, other evolved wild beasts of the same level, such as the Rock Horse Giant or the Wild Wolf Giant, can easily display a force of twenty or thirty tons by taking advantage of their size.

Of course, the price of maintaining such a huge size is that one must eat far more than a human, otherwise one would only become weaker and weaker.

Therefore, to deal with or hunt a Tier 2 behemoth, it often requires several Tier 2 evolvers to form a Tier 2 hunter team in order to have the confidence to find the best time to attack through constant maneuvering and harassment.

When facing a behemoth whose evolution level far surpasses their own, unless they possess some kind of ultimate weapon, even if they gather a group of second-tier powerhouses, it will be difficult to achieve final victory.

Even if they gain the upper hand, there is a high probability that a second-tier behemoth will be able to escape with its life in a life-or-death situation.

However, if another second-tier behemoth were to join the battle, the outcome would be completely different.

After all, in a battle between two beasts, even if one is at a disadvantage, it can easily suppress the target with the help of human evolvers.

After all, although humans are lacking in strength, with the help of power armor, their reaction and turning speed are several times faster than those of bulky behemoths.

If it were only facing attacks from human evolved beings, second-tier behemoths could still resist them by virtue of their strength and abundant vitality.

But once another second-tier behemoth joins in, engaging in a fierce battle with the target, when everyone's attention is drawn to the behemoth before them, leaving no time to attend to the human evolvers...

When a second-tier behemoth is besieged, almost its entire body will be exposed, giving the human evolvers an opportunity to attack.

This is why Li Hao sought cooperation with the Wasteland Wolf Clan when hunting mid-stage Tier 2 Rock Horse Beasts.

Although Lang Ao did not personally lead the attack in that battle, he did send out his early-stage second-tier offspring.

Team up with Li Hao's human Tier 2 squad to hunt a mid-Tier 2 Rock Horse Beast.

The hunting team was able to kill a mid-stage mid-stage second-tier rock horse behemoth when they were all at the early stage of the second-tier evolution stage, thanks to the combined efforts of Li Hao and other evolved beings and the early stage mid-stage second-tier wild wolf behemoth.

Zong Shiyue truly lived up to his reputation as a living fossil left over from the old era. As one of the ancient powerhouses, he had witnessed scenes of humans and evolved beasts fighting together during the great catastrophe of the old Earth era.

The cooperation between humans and domestic dogs, in particular, is a testament to the deep friendship that has been established between them since the early days of evolution. Even as the evolutionary era arrived, they still see each other as partners they can always trust.

This is also Lin Feng's ultimate goal in training the divine dog: to obtain a subordinate who is as loyal as possible.

The only problem right now is whether the divine dog, which has just completed its first evolution, can complete a whole major stage of evolution and transformation in less than a day.

After two months of careful nurturing, Lin Feng has invested a great deal in the dog, from strengthening and evolving its jerky to personal emotional support, and so on...

If you risk forcing your dog to evolve, there could be unpredictable and unexpected consequences, or even serious long-term effects.

Even if it could greatly help in the upcoming decisive battle, Lin Feng would rather continue to execute the original plan.

After all, the divine dog is an important part of his evolutionary path, and he will inherit the mantle of the third-tier wolf king in the future.

With a late-stage Tier 3 King Beast as his mount, Lin Feng can come and go freely, not only in the small Storm Holy City, but also throughout the entire territory of the church, including the Northern Giants Alliance and the Southern Kings Alliance.

After all, the wasteland is no longer the glorious era when gods rose together.

The existence of a large number of Tier 3 Kings prevents human civilization from accumulating enough resources to support its development.

As time goes by, humanity will only regress and fall further behind, until the roles are completely reversed and the entire civilization becomes a vassal of a powerful evolved species.

Before that, Lin Feng wanted to use his own path of pure evolution and his future path of transcendence to witness the ending of another different path.

At the same time, it can completely end the wasteland era, solve the problem of the scorching sun that shines for three days in the sky, and lead the life on Earth back to the right track of development.

Before accomplishing this feat, Lin Feng needed to ensure his smooth advancement to the third-tier king, and the existence of the divine dog was one of the best guarantees.

It is also one of the few trump cards that Lin Feng can currently control reliably.

As for someone like Zong Shiyue, he can only be considered a potential target for leveraging influence.

We must never place our hopes on Him.

Moreover, as a corrupted and mutated evil god, Zong Shiyue's mental state is not very stable, and he needs a large number of lives as a vessel to recover some of his strength.

The price of the expansion and rise of evil gods will inevitably be devastation and countless deaths.

Therefore, the stable growth and evolution of the divine dog is extremely important.

But Lin Feng couldn't be sure about this; he needed to consult a professional.

For example, Ding Yi, who was in charge of this project.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng was about to leave when he looked up and saw a wolf's head materializing on the black box in front of the carriage, and then he realized what was happening.

Asking Ding Yi about this wouldn't be of much use, since her research focuses on cultivating the life essence of the wasteland wolf and the training program for wasteland wolf warriors.

We probably know very little about the evolution and transformation of the Steppenwolf clan itself, since there are no other experimental samples to provide a reference.

But right now, Lin Feng is facing someone who understands the evolution of the wolf race the most.

That is the source of evolution for all wolves today, the culmination of all wolf evolutionary paths, the third-tier wolf king.

Lin Feng then asked him about this matter:
"The life essence used for the evolution of the divine dog is derived from the gradual degeneration of your third-tier flesh and blood tissue."

"During its transformation, it must have been observed and influenced by you..."

"If we accelerate the evolution of the divine dog now, for example, by directly upgrading it from the early stage of the first tier to the late stage of the first tier, will it have a significant impact on its own evolutionary potential and its future as the successor to the Wolf King?"

After listening to what Lin Feng said, the blurry wolf head fell into deep thought.

Lin Feng stood aside and waited patiently.

The wolf king's consciousness was only a faint trace, extremely weak, and his thinking was far less clear than Zong Shiyue's.

Lin Feng was worried about this because the time left for the divine dog was simply too short.

Back then, I evolved from level 17 in the late stage of Tier 1 to level 19, and even later broke through to advance to Tier 2. In the fastest case, I advanced one level per day.

Give your body 24 hours to adapt to the enhanced, evolved cells within it.

Such rapid improvement, coupled with an ample supply of evolution jerky, left Lin Feng feeling somewhat unwell after his transformation, requiring him to take some time to recover.

So after that, his evolution level didn't change much.

But the countdown left for the divine dog is less than 24 hours... and it needs to level up a full ten levels in one go.

It's equivalent to evolving once every two hours or so. During this time, the body has to consume several tons of evolved meat. Even if the body can withstand this kind of fission and proliferation that is comparable to being shattered and rebuilt, the brain may not be able to withstand the pressure brought by continuous evolution.

Especially the latter.

After all, physical injuries can be recovered and treated through diet and rest.

But what if there's a problem with the brain, causing the divine dog to become an empty shell without self-awareness, a second-tier body like a walking corpse...?

That would be a complete loss.

Fortunately, after a moment of contemplation, the wolf king's lingering spirit seemed to remember something and slowly spoke:

"Don't worry, as long as it eats the corpses of other evolved wild wolves, it can quickly complete its evolution."

"But the only problem is that its second-order advancement requires absorbing the second-order life essence evolved from my tissue and flesh, and it must be extremely pure."

"Minimize the impact of impurities as much as possible."

"As for your concerns about the effects on the brain and consciousness, you don't need to worry about that..."

"Because this Steppenwolf seems to have some mental issues; it's rather slow to react, and it seems to have reverted to its primal traits quite a bit..."

"According to you humans, it's more like a lazy dog ​​with no worries about food and shelter than a cunning and treacherous wolf."

"Its self-awareness is very primitive, without much complex thinking. Although it lacks combat instincts, it seems to be more suited to absorbing external substances, including the power of this king, and receiving the fusion of different genes."

"This also means that, compared to other existing wolf packs, this guy, as a primitive canine exhibiting atavism, is actually more closely related to me by blood."

"On the contrary, those evolved wild wolves that have experienced the wasteland era and been affected by the current harsh environment will more or less experience rejection reactions when absorbing fragments of my gene sequence."

Lin Feng nodded. It seemed that his pampering of the dog had been helpful.

Instead of evolving along the original path of the Steppenwolf, it stimulated the canine characteristics in its bloodline.

Therefore, it is more suitable to inherit the power of the third-tier wolf king left over from ancient times.

After all, the legendary Wolf King Ao might have been a hybrid gray wolf, half wolf and half dog, from the North American countryside during the Great Cataclysm of the Old Earth.

After confirming the feasibility of the Catalyst Dog plan, Lin Feng emphasized and reiterated it before leaving:
"Alright, its name is Divine Dog, the 'divine' of gods and the 'dog' of canines, and Divine Dog itself likes this name very much."

"Even if its intelligence improves with future evolution, it will not reject this meaningful name."

"So, in summary, as long as there is a sufficient supply of meat and clean second-tier source material from you, it will neither affect the divine dog's brain consciousness nor have it become a disadvantage in its future inheritance of your mantle and third-tier origin?"

The wolf head, formed from the lingering remnant of the Wolf King, nodded after a moment of silence and then disappeared.

Lin Feng shrugged, and a perfect plan for dealing with the situation gradually took shape in his mind.

First of all, this luring plan is unlikely to achieve its goal directly, given Wolf Ao's strength. With the current strength of Oasis Town, it is difficult to contend with Wolf Ao.

Even if Li Hao is used as bait, and Lin Feng enters the arena together, it will be difficult to keep him here.

After all, Lang Ao was not alone; he also had three offspring of early-stage Tier 2 wasteland giant wolves, whose combat power was far superior to that of human Tier 2 evolvers.

Moreover, the rock horse warriors of Oasis Town are no match for the wasteland wolf clan, who possess the bloodline suppression of a natural enemy.

Besides Lin Feng and Chen Shanshan, the only people Oasis Town could send to fight were the Bishop, Father Su An, and Xu Wanfeng, the president of the Hunting Wilderness Guild.

There were five people in total. Apart from the bishop, the other four could only hold back the other three early-stage giant wolves at most.

Therefore, the church's plan this time can only test the wolf clan leader's strength and weakness; it is simply unrealistic to think about seriously injuring or killing Wolf Ao.

However, the initial purpose was to lure the wolves away from the mountains and into the wasteland, which was more suitable for long-range firepower, so that they could launch a general offensive against humans.

With the Oasis warships' current overwhelming firepower, and Lin Feng's ammunition resupply to the five villages...

It is difficult for a pack of wild wolves to gain an advantage over humans through large-scale attacks.

Anyway, it's only 30 kilometers away from the ancient city of Zhoukou, the venue for the next Holy Spring Day, which is only a day and a half away.

After a twelve-day trek, the Sun-Scorching Forbidden Zone in the rear has widened its distance from Oasis Town, with the two sides now more than sixty kilometers apart.

This should last until two or three days later, when the pilgrimage convoy from Oasis Town returns fully loaded.

Once the rescue team arrives, all problems will be solved instantly.

But Lin Feng certainly didn't want to drag things out until the forces from the Holy City came to support them and took over control of the entire Oasis Town.

Therefore, according to the plan, after this battle, Lin Feng had to organize a second-tier evolution team, which would be composed of strong individuals at the early to mid-stages of the second tier.

Then, a decapitation operation was carried out against the remaining three early-stage Tier 2 Wild Wolf Behemoths of the Wild Wolf Clan.

Then, the corpse was taken back to Oasis Town. While feeding the divine dog, the body was used to cultivate second-tier source material originating from the wolf king.

Ultimately, the divine dog advanced to the early stage of the second tier, becoming a behemoth measuring twenty meters in length.

This gives Oasis Town the confidence to fight the level 29 wolf Ao.

After finalizing the plan, Lin Feng went to the experimental vehicle at the rear of the convoy.

Upon hearing Lin Feng's appearance, Han Yuyu, the experimental assistant in charge of controlling the vehicle, spoke with slight nervousness:

"Yes, I have met Chief Lin."

Han Yuyu is currently only at the early stage of the first tier. It was only because Ding Yi was worried that she would be affected by radiation pollution that she applied for an extra evolution agent.

Fortunately, the team doesn't lack these resources nowadays.

Lin Feng nodded and looked towards the back of the carriage:
"Is the divine dog inside?"

It's quite possible that an excited bark would then come from inside the carriage.

Then came a hissing scratching sound at the door.

Lin Feng went straight to the back, opened the door, and took a look.

A five-meter-long desert wolf excitedly lowered its head and lay on the ground, swaying its whole body from side to side, exposing its belly.

(End of this chapter)