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During this period, Lin Feng roughly estimated that at least a thousand evolved desolate wolves died in the attack along the way.

Of course, at least three to four hundred of those were affected by Lin Feng’s firearms, especially the Thermite Annihilation Cannon that appeared as a big killer.

Its power can not only kill Tier Two desolate wolf beasts but also cause significant damage to nearby evolved desolate wolves.

The high temperature heat waves from the shockwave alone can directly kill the evolved desolate wolves in the middle and early stages of Tier One.

Even a leader-level giant wolf, if caught within a hundred meters of the Annihilation Cannon’s explosion, would be severely injured.

Lin Feng fired a total of three Annihilation Cannons, not only killing two desolate wolf beasts but also giving a final blow to the Tier Two peak Wolf Ao while exterminating hundreds of evolved desolate wolves in the late middle stage of Tier One that followed the desolate wolf beasts.

The evolved desolate wolves killed in passing had their corpses mostly cooked due to the subsequent intense heat, thus preventing them from being carried away or consumed by other evolved wolves.

Now they must all be collected back.

As reserve food for Lin Feng’s future convoy.

As for the Salvation Army, they successfully broke through the heavy encirclement of wolves with the help of Lin Feng and Xu Wanfeng and entered Oasis Avenue, where they regrouped with Oasis Town and began to rest on the spot.

During the battle with the evolved desolate wolves, facing the encirclement of thousands of the wolf army, the convoy originally had three to four hundred members, but at least a hundred were killed, and two hundred suffered varying degrees of injury.

With over half of the team dead or injured, this convoy was on the verge of collapse, and if not for the leader Bai Ye still being alive, they would have likely disbanded on the spot, scattering in all directions.

Currently, apart from some evolved desolate wolf corpses collected during their breakout, there was no manpower left to return to the mountains to continue fighting the Desert Wolf Race and retrieve the previously slain evolved wolf corpses.

So this part of the work naturally fell to Lin Feng.

As for who the collected evolved desolate wolf corpses would belong to...

Whoever retrieved them would naturally own them.

Moreover, Lin Feng’s venture into the heart of the wolf army to rescue the Salvation Army itself provided considerable assistance, during which he personally killed many evolved desolate wolves.

At this moment, as the biggest winner, Lin Feng began to enjoy the glory and rewards of the victor.

This grand counterattack lasted for several hours.

During which all the concluding battles took less than half an hour, with the rest of the time spent cleaning the battlefield, killing dying evolved desolate wolves, and transporting their corpses into ordinary transport vehicles to be taken back to the front camp.

By this time, Oasis Town had long since escaped from the mountain range occupied by the wolves, with the Oasis Battleship leading the way, already five kilometers away.

Currently, it is slowly reducing its speed to allow the Five Major Villages behind to catch up with the pace of the Oasis core.

At this moment, Lin Feng also led his combat team, returning fully loaded from the mountains.

Behind him followed a large group of deserters he had saved.

If not for the need to go to the village for oversight and the encroaching Scorching Sun Forbidden Area nearing twenty kilometers from behind, Lin Feng would even lead his men to the right Gobi Desert to continue hunting the remaining evolved desolate wolf pack.

However, there are more important matters in the Five Major Villages that require his attention.

As the team returned to the Five Major Villages of the Oasis, the ongoing commotion gradually subsided.

Lin Feng sat on his signature Desert Wolf Battle Car, arriving at the central area of the Five Major Villages, where he saw Ding Yi leading the remaining members of the convoy camp, along with some Combat Priests from Nongzhuang Village, confronting the leaders from the arriving Dawn Village and Mechanical Village.

Fortunately, the Holy Spring Village still had a Grand Priest, transformed into a Tier Two desolate wolf warrior, exerting a deterrent presence.

Otherwise, Ding Yi’s group alone would struggle to stop the two Early Tier Two Rock Horse Warriors.

However, with Lin Feng’s return, the tense atmosphere instantly calmed down.

After all, the two massive firearms at Lin Feng’s waist could pacify any agitated evolver.

And the combatants from Dawn Village and Mechanical Village came for a simple reason, naturally wanting to reclaim their village properties and personnel previously used for debt settlement.

Lin Feng’s team had detained these in the center of Oasis Town, managed by the Holy Spring Village and his subordinates.

Now that the crisis of the town-breaking beast calamity is resolved.

It was naturally time to return the properties to their original owners.

However, everyone seemed to have forgotten that the thousands of personnel and industrial equipment were clearly written as collateral items, intended as guarantees for purchasing a batch of grenades from Lin Feng.

The previously promised reward was to split half of the profits.

But as the wolf army withdrew prematurely, or rather did not launch the anticipated final attack in the mountains, half of the grenades held by the villages remained unused.

Therefore, in the eyes of Dawn Village and Mechanical Village, as long as the grenades were returned and half of the collected evolved desolate wolf corpses were handed over to Lin Feng’s convoy, they could reclaim the previously collateral village personnel and industries.

Particularly for the two village leaders, their influence in Oasis Town did not primarily rely on their own strength but the continuous value produced by their villages.

Even if, according to Lord Bishop’s instructions, Oasis Town would be taken over by the Holy City Diocese, as the former governors of Oasis Town and village leaders, they would still enjoy a high status.

Although their status would shift from independence to working under the Church.

It’s essentially like shifting from being a partner to becoming an executive.

While profits may diminish, their authority over subordinates would not change.

In other words, their future status and power would no longer greatly rely on their strength but on the contribution they bring to the Church.

This value lies significantly in the workers and industries they control, reflecting the scale and growth of production capacity.

Even if the ownership of these villages does not belong to the two, they still need to rely on their original industries to survive.

For these two who have long enjoyed a cushy life, they are certainly not as decisive as Lin Feng in reverting to their younger days of hard work hundreds of years ago.

After all, it’s challenging to break out of comfort once accustomed.

But Lin Feng clearly would not let them have their way.

According to his agreement with Lord Bishop, he would take at least thirty percent of these industries and skilled workers.

Considering the preserved scale now, the three villages have over five thousand technical personnel, Nongzhuang Village alone accounting for more than two thousand responsible for Rock-Horned Horse breeding.

Now, with the loss of Tier Two powerhouses, Nongzhuang Village has become the weakest in terms of strength and influence among the three villages, yet it remains the most fundamental and crucial part of Oasis Town’s industry.

Therefore, from Lin Feng’s perspective, it would be preferable to take more technicians and industries from Nongzhuang Village and select a few from the other two villages.

But this was just his plan, comprising about five hundred personnel, while the remaining quota could not be wasted.

Trading with the Salvation Army would yield the most value.

Thus, when the two leaders proposed their conditions, Lin Feng approached them and refused without hesitation:

"The grenades have been sold, no returns, and as for the original delivery arrangement, the evolved desolate wolf corpses are surely not enough now; even if given entirely, they cannot compensate for the value of this batch of grenades."

"Moreover, as previously agreed, the Holy Spring Village and all major villages are to be assimilated into the Holy City Diocese."

"They no longer belong to you; rather, they are assets of the Church."

"I have been given a significant promise by Lord Bishop to safeguard the main force of the Oasis Town, allowing me to take three-tenths of the surviving personnel and industrial equipment."

"For the quota to select from Dawn and Mechanical Village, instead of three-tenths, it will now be reduced to one-tenth."

"The shortfall will be made up by taking more from Nongzhuang Village’s technicians and industries while selecting appropriately from the other two villages."

But all of them forgot one thing; the initial agreement, that clearly stated in black and white, was that the thousands of personnel and industrial equipment pledged were only used as collateral for purchasing a batch of grenades from Lin Feng.

The originally promised delivery method is now missing the expected evolved desolate wolf carcasses; even if they were all handed over, they wouldn’t cover the cost of that batch of grenades.