Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 574 - 279: Personal Value and an Overview of the Storm Holy City

After listening to Rong Yan’s self-promotion, Lin Feng had to admit that anyone who climbed out from the bottom, regardless of their environment, was never simple.

Especially breaking through from the Upper District, it was actually more difficult than the bottom-tier Deserters.

After all, Deserters mainly competed with their own kind, without much pressure from above. On the contrary, both the Hunting Wilderness Guild and the Oasis Church were happy to see Deserters from the bottom rise up and balance the local families.

But the Upper Class was different. Although they had the best living conditions in Oasis Town, they lost the pressure to survive from birth. With three meals a day and daily activities, they lived worry-free in the comfortable Upper District.

Living in such a privileged environment, people rarely had the motivation to strive.

If not for the fact that after a hundred years they would have to participate in the Moonlit Ceremony, with a certain chance of becoming a sacrificial target, this group of Upper Class might even find it hard to gather the sole motivation for evolution.

After all, such a life could raise people to be lazy, turning them into useless, idle beings.

But the environmental reasons were secondary, because as long as someone was willing to lie down to wait for death, there were certainly strong people who hoped to work hard to escape the fate of death.

It’s just that the upward path for the Upper Class was fraught with difficulties.

It was even harder than the Deserters working hard to become Permanent Residents with vehicles in the Fifth Village.

Among more than two thousand Upper Class, less than one percent could rise to Late Tier One to escape the fate of being sacrificed.

And most of the management on the Oasis Battleship came from Oasis Church and the high levels of the Three Major Villages.

Among them, only less than ten managed to escape the sacrificial fate and live safely to the end of their lifespan, which is the five-hundred-year limit.

Basically, only one successful Late Tier One Upper Class emerged every hundred years who managed to escape being sacrificed.

Statistically, it was only one in two thousand.

However, among the fifty to sixty thousand Deserters, over five thousand could reach the Late Enhancement Stage and become Permanent Residents.

The sample ratio reached one-tenth.

Far exceeding the success rate of the Upper Class.

Even comparing with Evolvers, among fifty to sixty thousand Deserters, there could be around two hundred who transformed into Evolvers, a probability close to five per thousand.

Therefore, for the vast majority of the Upper Class, despite having the best survival conditions, they were still restricted by the Church, with only one insurmountable gap for advancement.

Confronted with such a desperate scenario, most of the Upper Class chose to resign to their fate.

Instead of chasing an elusive chance for advancement, they preferred to indulge in pleasure, develop their interests, or procreate for the first hundred years.

Therefore, those who could carve a path for themselves in such a hopeless background surely possessed exceptional qualities.

Moreover, the woman in front of him had achieved Level 19 Evolution, far surpassing other Evolvers who had just entered the Late Stage.

Additionally, being able to secure such a lucrative position in the Upper District cafeteria from so many competitors meant she must have outshone others.

It seemed Rong Yan was not skilled in combat, so she must have excelled in other areas to keep the higher-ups satisfied enough to let her be the boss for so long.

Lin Feng, before arriving, had thought of this, which led him to decide to collaborate with Rong Yan.

At this moment, the other party grasped the crucial point of this conversation, making Lin Feng more satisfied with her.

So after Rong Yan finished speaking, Lin Feng nodded, affirming her line of thought:

"You’re right, one of the conditions the Church agreed to is allowing me to select a portion of personnel from Oasis as living forces for my subordinate convoy."

"To ensure the safety of long-distance trek and maintain order when establishing a settlement in the future, I need to recruit a batch of talents with special skills."

"Led primarily by technical personnel from the Three Major Villages, as they have already established a mature industrial chain, capable of producing photovoltaic panels and electric cars, ensuring the settlement’s safe progress, solving mobility issues, and selling surplus production as commodities to exchange for other necessities."

"And at the core of this is the Rock-Horned Horse breeding industry controlled by the Li Family."

"So in dealing with the Li Family, the Church and I have shared interests and naturally can work together to achieve the goal of dismantling the Li Family, removing Nongzhuang Village from their high level, and making it a pillar industry of Oasis."

"But apart from being sold as slaves to the Holy City, do the Oasis Upper Class have any other roles?"

"You can’t participate in combat and are reared in the Oasis Upper District. You can’t adapt to the harsh Wasteland World of the strong preying on the weak, nor provide technical support, creating no value for sustaining yourselves."

Then, Lin Feng looked at the mother and daughter beside him:

"I’m afraid over ninety percent of the Upper District’s residents are useless slobs waiting for death. Even if I could take them away, it would at most be a one-time deal, selling them for some tens of thousands of points in the Holy City."

"It’s not a good investment, as once the Upper Class leaves the Oasis Battleship, they have no self-protection abilities. Escorting them would definitely disperse the defensive forces of the team, increasing the risk of being attacked and damaged."

"I need to consider the return on investment and the level of risk before deciding whether to accept it."

"So now, please tell me, how can saving your daughter bring more benefits to me and my team to offset the costs and risks of accepting you all?"