Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 330 A Plan to Recover, A Last Struggle

After realizing that his body had been infected with the evil god cells from the third-order aberration, Lang Ao knew that the operation to besiege Oasis Town was basically doomed to failure.

But this order obviously could not have been issued by it.

Despite being the leader of the Wilderness Wolf Clan and a peak second-tier beast, Lang Ao could still cause serious damage to the clan if he made the wrong decision…

Even the leader-level giant wolves or ordinary first-tier evolved wild wolves under its command, though outwardly daring not to complain, will secretly consider whether to continue following the leader's actions.

The Wilderness Wolf Clan has evolved to the point where, relying on the legacy of the Wolf King's Tomb in the Fallen Wolf Valley within the Taishan Ruins, it has initially developed into a nomadic civilization based on a tribal system.

The entire Wilderness Wolf Clan, comprising tens of thousands of evolved Wild Wolves, is essentially composed of three major clans and hundreds of smaller units.

Among them, the three major races were originally the leader-level giant wolves. Under Lang Ao's selection, they were helped to advance to the second tier and become early-stage wild wolf giant beasts.

The original tribe of the three-headed wolf behemoth has also been promoted to a large clan, possessing thousands of evolved wolves, making it the most powerful.

The remaining hundreds of leader-level giant wolves, although only at the late stage of the first tier, have also formed their own tribes, leading anywhere from a dozen to several dozen evolved wild wolves.

Behind each evolved wild wolf, there is a group of ordinary enhanced family members scattered across the wasteland.

Therefore, the Wilderness Wolf Clan army is essentially a loose tribal alliance. Even with Wolf Ao's call, it can only form a temporary evolutionary coalition.

Once it suffers a crushing defeat, it can easily fall apart.

After all, whether it is a leader-level giant wolf or the lowest-level first-tier early-stage evolved wild wolf, there is a small wolf pack behind them, which needs to return to the pack to participate in hunting and continue the bloodline.

This attack on the human oasis town was inherently risky, especially now that the high-level combat force led by Wolf Ao has already suffered heavy losses...

Sending the wolf army to their deaths would only lead to the decline and extinction of the already small wolf population in the wasteland.

Without the support and restraint of high-level combat forces, a pack of first-tier evolved wild wolves alone cannot pose a significant threat to a large human settlement like Oasis Town.

Now, with repeated defeats and low morale, the wolf clan is unlikely to be able to fight again.

Lang Ao took a deep breath, exposing his lower abdominal wound, which had been mostly torn apart, to the intense sunlight.

The second, fierce bite ripped out half of the internal organs from the torso.

This includes half of the stomach and intestines, as well as the liver, kidneys, and spleen.

For second-order life forms, except for the heart, the loss of other organs can be temporary and will not have a significant impact on bodily functions.

The main point is that the cells at this stage of evolution are already able to breathe and work independently. As long as there is sufficient nutrition and energy supply, they can even detach from the host system and survive independently for a period of time.

The organs that Lang Ao tore off had been mostly invaded by mutated cells, and a large number of tissues had been implanted with the evil god's genes, which began to twist and deform, mutating into various distorted shapes.

This includes adhesive cohesion, as well as tens of thousands of constantly wriggling tentacles.

If they remain inside his body, they will only further aggravate the infection of Lang Ao's second-tier body.

As the intense sunlight continued to irritate him, the infection level in Lang Ao's body improved significantly.

Normal cells are able to withstand the effects of the blazing sun curse, while the disguised mutated cells, because the chromosome chains in their internal cell nuclei are unstable, are easily penetrated by the particle rays of the blazing sun energy, thereby losing their normal gene transcription function and being unable to continue to proliferate and divide.

In order to resist the invasion of the scorching sun, these mutated cells began to band together, allowing the immune system in Lang Ao's body to function.

However, these disguised cells have now spread and will require at least several weeks of intense sunlight to completely eradicate them.

During this period, in order to avoid the further spread of the infection, Lang Ao could not engage in strenuous exercise, nor could he easily mobilize the third-order primordial power contained in his body's primordial essence.

Otherwise, once the aberrant cells acquire these third-order wolf king cells, they can easily form third-order aberrant cells, which in turn cause more serious damage to the parasitic host.

At that point, Lang Ao would probably have to stick to the edge of the blazing sun's forbidden zone just to barely contain the spread of the third-order aberration cells and maintain his last shred of sanity.

Wolf Ao, unable to utilize the power of the third tier, would be reduced from a peak second-tier ancient behemoth to an ordinary late-stage second-tier being.

Coupled with his severe injuries, including having his abdomen ripped out, his combat strength is not even comparable to a peak second-tier human evolver; he is probably only at the late second-tier level.

Without Lang Ao, the Wilderness Wolf Clan is merely an ordinary second-rate mid-sized force.

Even when facing the Rockhorn Horse Clan, they have to think twice.

Naturally, they were unable to continue their attack on Oasis Town.

And the situation is even worse now.

As Lang Ao stopped to rest, he saw a giant wolf beast approaching from not far away, only the smallest of which was among them.

Wolf Three escaped from the front of the Salvation Army convoy, luckily avoiding the bombardment of the Annihilation Cannon.

The moment Wolf was hit, it fled the battle area without looking back.

Seeing this, the nearby leader-level giant wolves also fled, so apart from the big wolf being seriously injured, the other members did not suffer any major casualties.

But Wolf Three, exhausted from running around, was naturally unable to rescue Wolf One, or perhaps it did so intentionally...

The result was that after this battle, the Wilderness Wolf Clan not only lost two of its strongest early-stage Wilderness Wolf Beasts, but even its leader, Wolf Ao, was seriously injured.

At this moment, Wolf Three slowly walked over, personally dismissed his trusted giant wolves, and reported the situation to Wolf Ao:

"Our eldest brother was directly hit by the cannon fire of the human gun-wielding ability user. His life or death is currently unknown, but he is most likely dead. Nearly a hundred of the other members have been killed and seven or eight hundred have been injured."

Lang Ao slowly opened his eyes. His blood-red pupils were no longer as fierce as before, but were covered with a layer of white frost, from which wisps of white smoke constantly seeped out.

Looking at Wolf Three kneeling with his head bowed before him, Wolf Ao pondered for a long time before finally speaking:

"Although the operation failed, the wolf pack cannot simply withdraw; they must make up for their previous losses..."

"When tribal leaders lead their men to freely attack oasis towns, especially the humans who have fallen behind at the back of the oasis settlements, they use their deaths to make up for our losses."

"In addition, change the original siege plan to a continuous harassment by small groups of members. Ideally, the Oasis Town should collapse on its own, allowing the Oasis warships to distance themselves from the five villages behind it."

"Now that the Oasis warships can no longer launch a direct assault, we need to shift our focus to the villages in the rear, especially those villages where the Rock Horse Armor is located."

"Use the second-tier bodies of the Rock Horse Warriors to compensate for the second-tier commanders we have lost!"

At this point, Lang Ao suddenly remembered that when he was chasing the main force of the Salvation Army, he had sensed the aura of a Rock Horse Warrior escaping from the ranks. The intensity of this aura was comparable to that of a mid-stage level two warrior.

But Oasis Town didn't only have one, Li Hao, a mid-stage Tier 2 Rock Horse Warrior who is now dead.

When did another one appear?
Could it be that Oasis Town provided a large amount of evolutionary resources to one of the early-stage Rock Horse Warriors in order to deal with this crisis, temporarily creating a mid-stage being?

Only in this way can a second-tier elite squad be formed to support the Salvation Army in dealing with the three-headed wild wolf behemoth of the wolf clan.

At the time, Wolf Ao originally intended to send the surviving Wolf Big and Wolf Three to hunt down the Rock Horse Warrior who had escaped from the Salvation Army.

But considering the survival of the Salvation Army, especially the lives of its leader, Bai Ye, and the human gun-wielding ability users, the fate of the Wasteland Wolves was even more crucial to whether they could destroy Oasis Town…

Wolf Ao then decided to let the escaped rock horse warrior go for the time being, intending to focus on the Salvation Army first.

Now that continuing to annihilate the Salvation Army is hopeless, the Rock Horse Warriors who had previously escaped from the main force naturally became the second choice for the Wasteland Wolf Clan.

After alleviating the invasion of mutated cells in his body, Lang Ao saw that the injury to his lower abdomen had been initially healed, the wound was gradually scabbing over, and the internal organs were beginning to regenerate. So he sent the only remaining wild wolf beast, Wolf Three, with him to the right side of the Oasis Avenue to pursue the rock horse warrior who had fled into the wasteland.

Even though the other party had already escaped for six or seven minutes.

Given the average speed of a mid-stage Rock Horse Warrior, they would probably be tens of kilometers away. But for the Wasteland Wolf Clan, especially the second-tier Wasteland Wolf Beasts, the Rock Horse aura emanating from the Rock Horse Warriors was like a beacon in the darkness.

Even when separated by hundreds of kilometers, it can accurately identify the other party from the mixed pheromones in the air, thus locking onto their movement trajectory.

Moreover, human second-tier rock horse warriors are far inferior to true second-tier rock horse behemoths in terms of their ability to traverse long distances. Their running speed of 100 meters per second can only be maintained for two or three minutes at most, given the size of human evolved beings.

Running 20 kilometers is the maximum.

That's why Lang Ao allowed this deserter rock horse warrior to escape the encirclement of the wasteland wolf clan.

If the opponent were to dissipate heat, it would inevitably reveal the aura of its rocky beast form, thus paving the way for the wolf clan to pursue and kill it.

As for bringing along the only remaining giant wolf, Wolf Three, there were other reasons besides Wolf Ao being unable to use his third-tier power, fearing that this rock horse warrior, who exuded the aura of the mid-second tier, would escape, and also the intention to train Wolf Three.

Currently, only one Tier 2 early-stage wild wolf giant beast remains.

It has been about two years since the Taishan Ruins left the scorching sun forbidden zone and reappeared in the wasteland.

Given Wolf Ao's current state, and the heavy losses suffered by the Wilderness Wolf Clan after the failed siege of Oasis Town, they are simply unable to start raising a second Wilderness Wolf Beast from scratch to make up for the clan's losses.

The only option right now is to do everything in our power to quickly bring the only surviving Wolf Three to the late stage of the second tier.

They possess the qualifications and abilities to inherit the body of the Wolf King.

As the two second-tier giant wolves disappeared into the mountains, the town-level beast calamity that had attacked Oasis Town was gradually resolved quietly.

The remaining leader-level giant wolves, along with their remaining subordinates, continued to harass the human settlements along Oasis Avenue, obeying Wolf Ao's orders, but their attacks were far less intense than before.

Instead, in order to make up for the losses of their own tribes as much as possible, they began to selectively launch repeated raids on the weakest parts of Oasis Town.

For example, right now, Oasis Town is moving at full speed of five kilometers per hour in order to break through the blockade of the Wilderness Wolf Clan and get away from this mountainous area as soon as possible.

This pace might be manageable for the permanent residents of Oasis Town who have vehicles, but for the fifty to sixty thousand wasteland dwellers, who were originally at the very bottom of the Oasis...

Normally, I rely entirely on my own two legs to get around, and I need to walk for more than eight hours a day just to keep up with the 20-kilometer journey to Oasis Town.

Originally, in order to evade the pursuit of the wasteland wolves, they had quickened their pace and had not stopped for a moment in the past twenty hours...

Now the Oasis warship suddenly accelerated, and even the five villages behind it could not keep up. Many of the ordinary trams used to carry goods had run out of energy stored in their battery packs and were relying entirely on photovoltaic panels to generate electricity in real time.

For the already exhausted wasteland dwellers, keeping up with Oasis Town would require them to frantically overdraw their life force.

Right now, many deserters are falling behind in droves, gradually drifting away from the main force of Oasis Town.

Once they fell a kilometer away, coupled with the dust kicked up by the Oasis Town convoy accelerating forward, the fifth village, located at the rear of the convoy, was unable to provide assistance to the distant villagers due to obstructed visibility...

They could only watch helplessly as the shadowy figures of wolves, occasionally flashing through the dust storm, devoured all the humans who fell into their midst.

During this period, many impoverished people hoped that the slave traders in Oasis Town would allow them to hide in iron cages on carts and voluntarily sell themselves into slavery without compensation.

The iron cage that once imprisoned freedom has now become the only safe haven that the poorest people can find.

Unfortunately, these cages were already full of slaves.

The slave owners, armed with guns, threatened and drove the barbarians off the carts.

Space and quotas are limited, so they are only recruiting those who have undergone late-stage enhancement; they don't accept anyone else.

As a result, entire groups of people from the wilderness became prey for the wolves of the wasteland.

The first to be eliminated were the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled who were physically exhausted. Next were the early-stage enhanced humans. Finally, women with slightly weaker constitutions were also left behind and became a feast for the wasteland wolf clan.

While the flesh and blood of these enhanced humans cannot provide much benefit to the evolved wasteland wolves, the blood within them can replenish the evolved wolves with sufficient water and maintain their vital signs.

Many evolved wild wolves are lucky enough to hunt down late-stage enhanced humans among the wild people. The enhanced meat inside their bodies can fill the stomachs and replenish the nutrition of early to mid-stage first-tier evolved wild wolves.

As Oasis Town progressed rapidly, this large-scale elimination of the lowest-class wasteland dwellers gradually came to an end.

During this period, many wolf tribe leaders, including giant wolves, joined forces to launch attacks on the five villages of Oasis Town, especially the fifth village, which had a large population but weak defenses.

Both sides had their share of victories and defeats. A large number of the lower-class permanent residents of the Fifth Village were overrun by the evolved wild wolves, and the old, dilapidated transport vehicles they were traveling in were directly damaged and broke down.

Many level-nine enhanced humans, and even elderly evolved humans, died at the jaws of the Wasteland Wolf Clan.

The wolf army also suffered heavy losses, leaving behind nearly a thousand corpses of evolved wild wolves.

Compared to the intensity of their previous attacks, the Wilderness Wolf Clan's offensive now seemed to be becoming increasingly cautious.

It wasn't until about ten minutes later, when Lin Feng and Xu Wanfeng's main force of the Salvation Army arrived at the Oasis Avenue to provide support, bringing news of the severe damage inflicted on the Wolf Clan...

Only then did everyone realize...

The war is finally coming to an end!
Meanwhile, on the wasteland a dozen kilometers to the right of Oasis Town, two Tier 2 giant wolves were attacking and surrounding a Tier 2 human powerhouse from both sides.

Han Tao looked tense, trying hard to think about the current situation and how to win a chance of survival in front of the two murderous wolf beasts!
(End of this chapter)