Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 290 Continuous Martial Arts Competition: Li Hao's True Trump Card
Upon hearing Father Su An's suggestion, Li Hao immediately stopped in his tracks.

He slowly turned around, and the eyes on his helmet glowed with a blood-red light.

The battle with Father Su An was not easy for Li Hao. Even though he was a veteran mid-stage Tier 26 powerhouse and had the Rock Horse Armor, defeating a fully armed Tier 25 powerhouse would require him to pay the price of overdrawing his life force.

In their normal state, the two sides are not that far apart in strength.

Li Hao needs to have some backup plans for winning the final arena match, so he needs to conserve his strength as much as possible before ensuring a stable victory in this match.

To avoid the church revealing too many of its cards.

Now, the church has revealed all its cards.

For example, the level 23 armor-piercing wolf spear in Father Su'an's hand is their greatest asset.

Biological materials related to the wasteland wolf are extremely rare, but they are still circulating in the Holy City. After all, third-tier kings cannot attack the Mount Tai Ruins, but in the no-man's-land of the wasteland, order does not exist, and as long as there is an opportunity, hunter teams or wanderers will still target wolf packs.

Of course, human evolved humans are also among the food that the wasteland wolf clan can eat.

In addition, the exploration and looting of the Taishan ruins in the past brought out a lot of second-tier wolf corpses.

Therefore, it is not too strange that the Oasis Church possesses biological materials of second-tier giant wolves.

Moreover, Li Hao knew that Bishop Zhang Hui was already prepared for his and the Li family's secret schemes and would definitely have found a way to deal with them in advance.

Utilizing the Wild Wolf Clan, the natural enemy of the Rockhorse, to create targeted armor-piercing weapons was something Li Hao had anticipated.

However, the level 23 armor-piercing wolf spear, crafted from only early-stage Tier 2 materials, is insufficient to pose a substantial threat to the mid-stage level 25 rock horse armor.

At most, after a few collisions, some cracks would appear on the surface of the armor, penetrating several layers of ceramic steel plates. However, against armor with an average thickness of over 30 centimeters, it could only break through to about one-fifth of its length.

If Li Hao really wanted to take action, he could ignore the threat of the armor-piercing wolf spear and severely injure or kill Father Su An on the spot, regardless of the cost.

However, this would inevitably cause severe damage to the armor and rapidly deplete the user's physical condition, requiring more than two days to recover.

This means that Li Hao is not 100% certain of winning the final arena match, and the church may have other ideas after seeing that the Li family head is in overexertion.

For example, they could do something underhanded, or launch a surprise attack to severely injure or kill Li Hao while he is in poor condition.

Therefore, Li Hao still retains at least 60% of his strength at this moment, and it will only take him half a day to recover. He will be able to participate in the next battle in full strength.

But now, Father Suan, after conceding defeat, has actually invited me to continue the fight and determine the final winner.

Now, of the seven arena battles, only one remains. In the previous four late-stage Tier 1 battles, the Church and the Li family each had their share of wins and losses, each winning two matches.

The second-tier martial arts competition, which determined the final winner in three rounds, has now seen the church win the first round, and the Li family, thanks to Li Hao's efforts, has won back a point.

Only one game remains.

Based on his own perception after the competition, Li Hao clearly felt that Father Su An had reached his limit. In order to consume as much of himself as possible, Su An absorbed a large amount of late-stage second-tier holy spring water from the Undying Holy Armor, so that his combat power could always be maintained at the late-stage second tier.

Only in this way can we engage in a high-intensity battle with Li Hao and thus achieve the goal of wearing him down.

Therefore, given Father Su'an's current condition, if the fight continues, there is a very high probability that he will be killed on the spot by Li Hao.

After all, Li Hao was quite confident in his own situation. With 60% of his strength, without using the enhancement potion, he could drag out another fight and eventually kill Father Su An.

However, as one of the few mid-stage second-tier powerhouses with extensive combat experience, Father Suan should be well aware of the true strength of the Rock Horse Warriors. Unless it comes to a life-or-death struggle, it would be difficult to have much of an impact on the Rock Horse Warriors.

The sudden proposal clearly indicates that the church had already decided to fight again before the tournament even began.

What exactly gives Father Suan and the Oasis Church behind him the confidence and resources to support their decision to continue?

While Li Hao stood frozen in place, his mind was racing with thoughts, causing his body temperature, which had been dropping, to gradually rise again.

The church's proposal to fight again, to settle the matter once and for all, had the most direct impact on Li Hao and some of the Li family's high-ranking members, preventing them from returning to Oasis Town in time.

Perhaps in order to cover up the church's actions in Oasis Town, and to launch a decisive attack, he led the remaining combat priests of the church and the Wilderness Hunter Guild to join forces, and with Lin Feng's help, to wipe out the remaining high-ranking members of the Li family, as well as the opposing forces in the other two villages.

Even if Farm Village doesn't have a Tier 2 Evolver in charge, the leaders of Dawn Village and Motorbike Village are all Tier 2 early stage Rock Horse Armor. In particular, the Tier 2 Evolver in Motorbike Village is a level 23 evolved powerhouse. With a set of Rock Horse Armor, even an ordinary Tier 2 mid stage cultivator wouldn't be able to take him down in a few hours.

Logically speaking, with just these two individuals present, the remaining forces of the Oasis Church should not be able to securely take over the three major villages.

Not to mention, there was also a spy left behind by Li Hao a long time ago on the Oasis warship.

However, to be precise, this was not Li Hao's doing.

It was the Life Farm behind Li Hao that had been planning everything for decades.

Therefore, in Li Hao's view, even if he leaves the Oasis warship, or even leaves Oasis Town more than ten kilometers away, it will not have a significant impact on the current situation in Oasis Town.

This is also why Li Hao dared to leave his home base and go to the Holy City over the past century.

The balance of power in Oasis Town has remained delicate, with various forces checking and balancing each other, and no drastic fluctuations are expected in the short term.

Therefore, the church's idea of ​​deliberately delaying and taking advantage of his absence to produce the three major villages was directly rejected by Li Hao.

With Father Su An and President Xu Wanfeng both here, the only one in the Oasis who can pose a threat to the Li family is the bishop who is already nine hundred years old and about to reach the end of his life, who can unleash a final blow before losing his self-awareness.

Although Bishop Zhang Hui usually presented himself as an old man with white hair, Li Hao knew very well that as long as he had a breath left, he would definitely overdraw his life force to return to his peak in his final moments.

This opportunity only comes once.

Zhang Hui devoted his entire life to Oasis Town. If the Oasis warship hadn't been destroyed, things wouldn't have come to this.

Therefore, Li Hao did not press the issue. Instead, at Bishop Zhang Hui's suggestion, he agreed to use a martial arts contest to determine the final ownership of the Oasis warship and the entire Oasis town.

But if His Excellency were to actually take action, using swift and decisive methods to wipe out the high-ranking members of the three major villages, directly killing all late-stage Tier 1 and above evolved beings...

That won't change the final outcome.

After all, once the bishop dies, Li Hao will become the true strongest person in Oasis Town. Even if Father Su An and Xu Wanfeng join forces, they will not be able to withstand Li Hao at his peak.

After all, Xu Wanfeng was not a combatant, and as a female evolved human, her strength and combat ability were inherently weaker than those of male evolved humans.

In a real fight, it wouldn't even achieve the effect of one plus one equaling two.

Therefore, Father Su'an's decision to continue the arena duel clearly indicates that he has a very high probability of winning in this rematch.

No matter how Li Hao analyzed and calculated, he couldn't predict that Father Su An would win the final duel. The probability was almost zero.

Even if the opponent has absorbed the essence of the Wild Wolf and injected the genes of the Wild Wolf, and can continuously stimulate the bloodline power of the Wild Wolf behemoth during the battle, the result will not be the same as the first match.

Because Li Hao is far stronger than his grandson Li Mingquan, even if they are at the same evolution level, Li Hao can still outmaneuver Li Mingquan in terms of control over the Rock Horse Armor, combat experience, and dosage control of the sublimation potion.

If Father Su An was indeed planning this, then Li Hao had nothing to fear.

After all, even if he activates the Wild Wolf bloodline, he will at most be on par with Li Hao in terms of combat power.

But Li Hao has more than just the Sublimation Potion as a trump card. In order to successfully seize control of Oasis Town and secure the Oasis Warship...

Li Hao and the Life Farm behind him have poured a lot of effort into it, especially the latter, which has invested a considerable amount of capital.

Therefore, even when facing a wolf warrior who has gone mad, they have the confidence to suppress him.

Outside Oasis Town, Life Farm also used its connections and resources to invite a large number of second-tier powerhouses to intercept the rescue forces sent by the Holy City Bishopric.

However, Life Farm cannot guarantee whether it can successfully intercept or annihilate the second-tier knight squad that is coming to their rescue.

Therefore, the only option is for Li Hao to seize control of Oasis Town as soon as possible after launching the operation. Even if he cannot completely eliminate the Oasis Church and other obstructing forces, he must at least get his hands on the most important Oasis warship.

At that time, we will directly pilot the Oasis warship westward to the border between the Northern Holy Spring Church and the Giant Enterprise Alliance.

This was a chaotic, lawless area inhabited by various forces, large and small, a motley crew.

Therefore, Father Suan's suggestion was indeed very tempting to Li Hao at this moment.

On the one hand, even if Father Su An had a trump card, he couldn't threaten Li Hao, while Li Hao had the ability to kill him directly.

On the other hand, it was also to resolve the issue of Oasis Town's ownership as soon as possible and end this meaningless arena battle.

Moreover, ending the competition early provides a two-day buffer period even if the Oasis Church changes its mind, allowing the Li family and other forces time to respond.

After thinking for a long time, a full seven or eight minutes passed...

Li Hao stared at the calm Father Su An and President Xu Wanfeng beside him, and finally nodded:

"Alright, it's getting late. Let's rest for half an hour and then continue the fight."

"But let me make this clear beforehand: this battle will determine the ownership of the Oasis Battleship and Oasis Town. Are you sure you want to continue fighting?"

Father Suan nodded:
"Let's continue. Each side will send one second-tier evolved expert for the final battle."

"If Chief Li is physically exhausted, another second-tier being can be sent to participate in this crucial battle."

Father Su An's "well-intentioned reminder" was nothing short of mockery in Li Hao's eyes...

But Li Hao also sensed the underlying weakness in the other party's tone.

They became even more convinced that although their opponent had a trump card, they weren't entirely confident of defeating them.

Thinking of this, Li Hao didn't respond. He just looked at Father Su An in front of him with a cold gaze, as if he were looking at a dead man. He snorted and turned to leave.

They returned to their unit's location, removed their shoulder and leg armor to cool down, and had the logistics personnel repair and maintain their Rock Horse armor.

The main food is fresh second-tier flesh and blood, as well as some rockhorse life essence, which stimulates the biological tissues inside the rockhorse armor to proliferate and divide.

Li Hao himself did not need to replenish his energy.

In addition to eating a large amount of second-tier mid-evolution jerky, he also took out a large bucket of ice and stuffed it into his mouth to chew.

It rapidly cools down vital organs within the torso while simultaneously replenishing fluids.

During a break, Li Hao, who was resting inside the RV, suddenly waved his hand, signaling his trusted aide to come over, and whispered:

"Put the second-tier rock horned horse source material that I gave you into the storage compartment on the back of the battle armor."

The confidant nodded and took out a pure, snow-white evolution agent from the arriving chariot. The energy fluctuations inside were far stronger than those of ordinary second-tier source matter.

A trusted confidant, understanding the importance of this evolution agent, finished packaging it and couldn't help but speak up:

"This is our last resort, there's no need to waste it on dealing with Su An, is there?"

"Once we get the Oasis warship and head to the Northwest, we'll need it to block the Church's relief efforts. Only it can hold off the Holy See's Templar Knights..."

Upon hearing this, Li Hao shook his head slightly:

"in case."

"After all, the proposal for continuous martial arts competitions was initiated by the church. They must have relevant countermeasures. Given Zhang Hui's cautious nature, the success rate must be at least 70% or 80% before he would risk it."

"The purpose of using it is not to kill Father Suan, but to ensure that I will not be injured by the opponent's trump card after the final competition, so as to securely take the Oasis warship."

"We'll deal with the rest later. If we can't take down the Oasis warship, we'll be the first ones abandoned!"

"What's the point of talking about escaping the Holy Spring Cult's territory?"

"By the way, arrange for two people to drive two tanks back to Oasis Town to see if the church makes any moves, in case they really launch a sneak attack."

His trusted subordinate nodded, then left the RV to arrange for technicians to speed up the repair of the Rock Horse armor. He then called over two more people and gave them instructions.

Father Suan, after leaving the center of the arena, returned to the church's residence.

At this moment, three second-tier powerhouses arrived at the camp.

Chen Shanshan drove the chariot and arrived at the church's location.

Upon meeting, Father Suan breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing the fully armed leader of the Salvation Army.

Although he had many prejudices against the Wanderers in the past, he now had no choice but to rely on their strength to save Oasis from the fangs of the Wasteland Wolves.

After composing himself, Father Su An stepped forward with a smile and said:

"White Leader, you have turned away from darkness and embraced the light. The Church will never forget the contribution you made at this moment!"

(End of this chapter)