Chapter 717 - 343: Striving Forward, A Successful Collaboration
With the cooperation of the Hunting Wilderness Guild President Xu Wanfeng personally taking the stage, the news quickly spread within the Fifth Village, and many permanent residents, already tempted, stood up and moved towards the Hunting Wilderness Guild.
The nearby Hunters were even more excited.
Previously, they lacked the conditions and ability, but now the Hunting Wilderness Guild promises to lead them to escape Oasis Town, this desolate poor land, and avoid the potential upcoming attacks from the Wolf Race...
It was simply the opportunity everyone had dreamt of.
After all, the original only way to escape Oasis Town and head to the Holy City was through the Pilgrimage Convoy.
Either join the Pilgrimage Convoy as escort personnel,
or pay a high price to buy a ticket and travel along...
And the former requires at least the strength of an Evolver, while the latter is not something an ordinary permanent resident or Hunter can afford.
So now, with such an opportunity before them, anyone with any sense knows this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for them.
Besides the permanent residents and Hunters, most Deserters from the lowest ranks of the Oasis did not actually understand the significance of this event.
But fortunately, they were under the same roof with the permanent residents and Hunters, and after asking each other, they understood the general situation.
However, the words that touched the Deserters the most were the ones that followed from Xu Wanfeng in the broadcast:
"To ensure everyone’s basic needs, whoever passes the screening requirements and follows us forward in the transfer, will have water and food consumption met along the way."
"We will provide each person with no less than five liters of water per week, as well as jerky made from Evolved Desolate Wolves."
The former’s water supply sparked hope in the eyes of the Deserters, while the latter’s Evolved Desolate Wolf jerky made a group of permanent residents and Hunters swallow their saliva.
That’s right, this time, with the Town-breaking Beast Calamity’s arrival, so many comrades died, but Oasis Town also killed many Evolved Desolate Wolves.
The enhanced meat, evolutionary meat, and most precious Life Source Material contained in these Desert Wolf corpses will all be further evolutionary resources for everyone.
Unfortunately, these resources are almost completely monopolized by the upper Tier Two Evolutionary Strong Persons, leaving no share for those bottom-level Enhanced People.
Now such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is in front of them, combined with the urgent need to escape Oasis Town and seek safety, immediately igniting everyone’s enthusiasm.
At this moment, in the President’s office on the second floor of the Hunting Wilderness Guild, Lin Feng looked at Xu Wanfeng’s operation with great satisfaction and nodded.
After all, if it were him stepping out, it would be difficult to make tens of thousands of permanent residents and Deserters trust him.
Lin Feng didn’t have much foundation in the Fifth Village, his promotion speed was like a rocket, becoming an Evolver in less than half a month, breaking away from the identity of bottom-level Deserters and permanent residents, and becoming a Green Oasis Upper Person.
So to gain everyone’s trust, even if he directly took out piles of jerky and tanks filled with fresh water, it wouldn’t necessarily win hearts as easily as Xu Wanfeng did with a few words.
This is the reputation and trust accumulated over a hundred years of operation by the Hunting Wilderness Guild, passed down from generation to generation at the lower levels of the Oasis.
And for Lin Feng to achieve the same effect, the fastest way is to threaten everyone while making promises.
Announce on the spot that the Holy City Diocese is about to take over Oasis Town, intending to treat all permanent residents and Deserters as slaves.
This announcement would instill fear and a sense of crisis in the lower levels, especially among permanent residents and Hunters who have a certain degree of freedom.
Only such actions would easily cause panic to spread, eventually forming a turbulent situation, even more severely leading to the disintegration and collapse of the entire camp.
Especially those permanent residents who fail the selection might use their vehicles to escape in groups of three or five.
After all, becoming a bottom-level slave is a dead end anyway.
It’s better to take a gamble now and see if another way out can be found.
And Lin Feng, who caused all this, would naturally be held accountable by the Church and bear the consequences.
Now, with Xu Wanfeng’s cooperation, there was no need to worry about this. It was also possible to complete the selection and organization of personnel departure at the fastest speed.
After all, fifteen thousand people, even if they were ten thousand pigs, would take Lin Feng a day or so to handle.
As the members of the Hunting Wilderness Guild came forward, the commotion in the Fifth Village quickly subsided.
Those willing to follow the Hunting Wilderness Guild and leave Oasis Town, venturing into the Wasteland to take a chance, and naturally, there were also those who wanted to remain and continue their regular life.
Once these more than ten thousand people leave, it was equivalent to a third less bottom level in Oasis Town in an instant, and, with total resource unchanged...
Those who remained, their treatment could at least improve by more than half.
Even if most are left to the other Four Major Villages, giving a little to the Fifth Village and the Deserters would still allow everyone to live a good life.
With so many people suddenly gone, on top of the losses from the Beast Calamity injuries, the population scale of Oasis Town was drastically reduced by more than half.
There was undoubtedly a need to reproduce and thrive to restore to previous levels.
So those willing to leave with the Hunting Wilderness Guild were mostly individuals alone, while the older generations with family mostly chose to stay.
The comparison between the two was roughly half and half.
Originally there weren’t that many single people, but with the Desert Wolf Race’s attacks, many survivors who lost relatives were no longer attached, naturally willing to take a gamble.
For a while, many permanent residents and Deserters slowly gathered at the entrance of the Hunting Wilderness Guild, the area was so crowded it was similar to the scene of Holy Spring Day’s Evangelical Holy Water distribution.
