Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded

After listening to Ding Yi’s summary, Lin Feng nodded:

"Alright, I’ll go personally now to see what Bai Ye is willing to offer."

For the current Salvation Army, although the technical personnel of the Rock-Horned Horse breeding industry and the Rock-Horned Horse population are extremely important for future development...

However, unlike the just starting out Lin Feng, Bai Ye, the leader of the Salvation Army, has been renowned for a long time and is a Tier Two Peak Evolver, not far from Tier Three.

What Bai Ye needs to do now is quickly establish a medium to large-sized force, recruit tens of thousands of subjects, and then use herself as a template, extracting the alien energy source material from her body to develop a Space Superpower Evolution Potion, activating the relevant genes in the injectees.

With this, she will nurture a batch of Evolvers taking the path of spatial evolution, and ultimately use their genes as samples to collect all the derivative traits of spatial superpowers, completing the establishment of the gene pool, enhancing the singular source material into the power of space origin.

Thus, establishing large settlements is both the path to the birth of Tier Three King and the foundation for maintaining existence and continuing breakthroughs after becoming a king.

For Bai Ye, absorbing a large number of unbeaten enhanced people is what she needs the most.

And Oasis Town happens to have tens of thousands of Deserters, most of whom are in the middle to early enhancement stage.

Initially, among these fifty to sixty thousand people, there was a heap of the elderly, sick, and disabled, but now, after the attack by the Desert Wolf Race, a batch has been acceleratedly weeded out by the wolf pack, and those who survived have decent Physique and condition.

Given enough resources, they can quickly level up and break through to become Evolvers, with a high upper limit for development.

And this perfectly aligns with Bai Ye’s needs.

So she must take a large batch of Deserters from Oasis Town to form the foundation of the Royal City.

However, these Deserters are not ownerless entities.

Oasis Town, accurately speaking, Oasis Church, has been supporting them for hundreds of years in the past.

And next, these Deserters will also serve as the assets of the Church, becoming the first believers when the Holy City Diocese takes over Oasis Town.

The Salvation Army wanting to take away a portion of these Deserters is clearly encroaching on Church resources, offending the authority of the Holy See.

For the Salvation Army, who has just received amnesty and regained free status, it is obviously not worth being wanted by the Church again for this matter.

But the trouble is, Bai Ye originally planned to loot the Nongzhuang Village Rock-Horned Horse industry while taking a batch of young Deserters.

Or after leaving Oasis Town, heading near the Holy City to destroy several small convoys or tail other town-level settlements, seizing the chance to capture people from the periphery.

After all, they’re Wanderers now.

It’s just a minor issue, more debt doesn’t weigh you down.

But now, inadvertently, she regained her free status and can freely migrate and trade within the governing area of the Church in the future. Mainly the latter, which can bring great convenience to the Salvation Army in the future.

Conducting legal transactions with major settlements not only avoids worrying about being blacklisted due to the Wanderer status, but also enables them to quickly gather various resources.

The benefits and gains from this shift in status are far more important than a group of Deserters.

Even if the Salvation Army ascends to become a top-tier force, if it retains the background of a Wanderer, it would still have to quickly leave the domain of the Holy Spring Sect to go to the northern gap or the more barren southern King’s Alliance.

But if they don’t seize the current opportunity, the Salvation Army will struggle to acquire a large number of baseline enhanced people without paying a huge price, and may even have spies from other forces inserted inside.

Thus spying on the soon-to-be-formed Tier Three evolution pathway.

And if searching for yet undiscovered underground sanctuaries, this is also one of the main sources of the large Deserter population in Oasis Town.

This route is firstly reliant on luck, as nobody knows where the underground sanctuaries are nor when they may open, only a large force like the Holy City, which spans a hundred kilometers and has an exploration range covering thousands of kilometers nearby, can promptly discover newly opened sanctuaries.

Therefore, the only legal choice left for the Salvation Army is to attack other Wandering Forces, destroying them and then absorbing dozens or hundreds of ordinary people from them.

After all, Wandering Forces have no status to speak of, unprotected by rules, their destruction can instead earn rewards from bounty orders.

But even this is only marginally better than searching for sanctuaries, as the time consumed accumulating population will only hinder Bai Ye, causing her to miss the optimal juvenile stage window for advancement.

Given that Bai Ye’s actual age is already eighty, before reaching a hundred is the period of body and cellular development, not yet fully formed and able to merge a greater number of similar spatial superpower genes, significantly boosting the chance of forming the power of origin.

This is why major forces are pursuing candidates for Tier Three King advancement, trying to limit them to under a hundred years old in the juvenile stage, which not only increases the success rate of breakthrough advancement but also minimizes resource consumption.

It is just that compared to Bai Ye who has little background and almost started from scratch, other top-tier forces have ample resources to provide.

For instance, the population resources. Storm Holy City can directly use Oasis Town as a foundation, without having to start from scratch to cultivate a diocese for the new Tier Three Bishop candidate.

But Bai Ye now isn’t without any opportunity.

Because during the town-breaking beast calamity, Lord Bishop made an extremely important promise to the key figure, Lin Feng.