Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 640 - 306: The Pressure from the Salvation Army, Resource Exchange
According to the follow-up plan, the Tier Two Elite Squad will take advantage of Wolf Ao’s injury recovery period to kill the remaining early-stage Desolate Wolf Beasts, reducing the enemy’s high-end combat power, thus further expanding their advantage and securing victory.
This will greatly increase the chances of Oasis Town surviving the Town-breaking Beast Calamity, and most importantly, the likelihood of Oasis sustaining heavy damage is now minimal.
At most, the Deserters in the rear, and some of the permanent residents in the various villages, might suffer casualties.
As for the main backbone of Oasis Town, the Evolvers from each village, as long as they act cautiously, they should mostly survive.
According to the price agreed upon by Lord Bishop and Lin Feng before the great battle...
Among the post-war survivors, Lin Feng can take away 30% of them, meaning if he saves 100 people, he gains ownership of 30 of them.
Based on the current situation, just looking at the permanent residents of the Five Major Villages, there are over 10,000, meaning Lin Feng’s convoy has a quota of at least 3,000.
This does not even include the 40,000 to 50,000 Deserters in the rear; although many have already been devoured by wolves, those remaining after this round of elimination can be considered seasoned elites among the Deserters.
They are mostly Middle and Late Stage Enhanced People, with rich experience in risk avoidance and survival in the Wasteland.
Calculating carefully, Lin Feng already holds the fate of over 10,000 people in his hands.
This is equivalent to the population size of a medium-sized Settlement.
Even top-level factions in the Holy City are typically of this scale.
But such factions all have strong personnel at the Late Tier Two level to oversee things, and the faction also has stable industries to accommodate and sustain the survival of over 10,000 people.
It is apparent that, like Lin Feng’s, a convoy of fewer than a hundred people cannot control and support so many members.
Lin Feng originally planned to use the surplus quota to trade with the Church for some cheap supplies.
For example, in the Mechanical Village, there are idle vehicles, some simply a shell with four wheels, lacking a power system.
But they are still usable for transporting people or hauling goods.
As long as they are towed behind a heavy transport vehicle, using the strong power of a hundred-ton King, one can pull five or six carriages,
transporting three to four hundred people easily.
Alternatively, he could trade for more corpses of the Evolved Desolate Wolves, since the Holy City doesn’t lack these, and when the Diocese takes over Oasis Town, they can directly use the Holy City’s resources to obtain a large amount of cheap nutritional agents.
Most importantly, Lin Feng also plans to trade with the Oasis Church for essential goods for the long journey, freshwater resources.
Inside the Oasis Battleship, nearly one-fifth of the space is used for storing freshwater, and each Pilgrimage Convoy on Holy Spring Day would bring 500 tons of freshwater from the Holy City to replenish Oasis Town’s consumption.
It can be said that without the Holy City’s continuous support, Oasis Town couldn’t have developed to its current scale.
However, in the Holy City, freshwater resources are not scarce materials.
After all, more than four to five thousand kilometers away from the Scorching Sun Forbidden Area, although the surroundings are also desolate, the daily temperature remains around thirty degrees, and sunlight is not as intensely harsh as on this side. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎
Thus, there are some fixed underground water sources nearby, which have been supply points within the Holy Spring Sect since being developed by the Church thousands of years ago.
These supply points are equipped with sealing covers, pressurization pumps, built into water spray stations, and even guarded with armed forces to ensure the security of the sites.
These measures ensure that each Holy City of the Holy See can receive a stable water supply, and with the water filtration and recycling systems established within the Holy City, the value of water resources inside the Holy City is very low.
Even the ordinary people in surrounding dependent forces can access living water at very low prices.
Unlike in Oasis Town here, where unless you are an Evolver, a proper bath is a luxury.
But for Lin Feng soon, water resources are the most important existence.
Although the current water reserves of the convoy, with over fifty tons in half a truck, are enough to sustain a team of sixty to seventy people for a year,
once survivors are taken in for expansion, the fifty tons of water can only meet the freshwater needs of a small settlement of a thousand people for less than half a month.
Therefore, it is necessary to trade with the Oasis Church for an entire vehicle load of freshwater from a heavy transport truck, which is the standard capacity of 500 tons.
Only then can the water tension of the settlement be alleviated.
At the same time, water is one of the most effective means for Lin Feng’s new members.
In the vast Wilderness, trying to walk out of the desert on foot without carrying enough water is practically suicide.
Even Evolvers are no exception; they may last longer than ordinary Enhanced People, but without water under the scorching sun for a day, they will experience weakness in their limbs and blurred vision.
Therefore, exchanging corpses of Evolved Desolate Wolves and freshwater can offset a significant part of the survivor quota.
But compared to a total number over 10,000, it is obviously not enough.
After all, Lin Feng can’t take in more than a thousand people, the fifty regular members diluted means one person is responsible for twenty people...
This is already the limit for expansion within a short time.
In addition, there are a hundred Upper Class that need care and supervision, leaving a serious manpower shortage.
So Lin Feng is also considering if there are other channels to exchange or offset.
He certainly can’t waste these quotas in vain.
They are all rewards Lin Feng earned one by one with gold, ammunition, and firearms.
Thinking of this, Lin Feng suddenly recalled Lord Bishop’s words. The other party likely anticipated that Lin Feng, with a shallow foundation, wouldn’t be able to take so many people.
A large and cumbersome number of people is actually detrimental to controlling the entire convoy, making it prone to internal strife or dispersal amid sudden changes.
At this time, Ding Yi also provided an answer through analysis:
"With our current manpower, in groups of two, we can drive thirty-five vehicles, with five combat vehicles leading in the front, six heavy trucks covering the rear, and the remaining fourteen positioned on both sides to manage the vehicles in the middle area."
"This could approximately create an area that contains thirty-five regular transport vehicles, each carrying thirty people, roughly around a thousand people in scale."
"In this way, it ensures maximum capacity while avoiding the convoy being too elongated, which increases the risk of incidents in the middle."
"As for the additional Upper Class, we can enclose them in our own vehicles, allowing for timely care and supervision."
Lin Feng nodded, Ding Yi’s analysis was largely in line with his own thoughts, and shortening the convoy’s length was more conducive to controlling the Settlement in motion.
However, with thirty people per vehicle, even the largest buses feel a bit cramped, needing to be divided into two levels for everyone to lie down and rest.
Moreover, they have to carry living supplies...
So it is indeed pushing the limits.
The upper limit is a scale of a thousand people.
This means there would still be thousands of people left.
Exchanging with the Salvation Army to obtain some evolved Desolate Wolf corpses and Life Source Material from Bai Ye would also be a good trade.
In any case, conflicts with the Salvation Army should be avoided in the current stage, apart from being unable to win, Lin Feng also needs to consult Bai Ye about some issues at the Tier Three King stage.
While he could also ask the more authoritative Zong Shiyue,
this guy is ultimately a product of aberrant pollution; their relationship is one of mutual exploitation, and once Lin Feng truly becomes godlike, his first act would be to remove Zong Shiyue from the wasteland like a persistent rash.
Plus, thousands of years have passed, and Zong Shiyue’s understanding of the high-tier evolution remains at the Old Earth Era.
His basic theoretical knowledge is far inferior to the scientist Bai Ye.
That’s why concerning Tier Three, Lin Feng thought it best to learn from normal humans.
"Alright, let’s leave it at that for now. Later, I’ll privately discuss with Bai Ye and negotiate using their harvested Evolved Desolate Wolves and pure Life Source Material for trade."
Having sorted out the arrangements, Lin Feng glanced back at the camp and suddenly remembered something:
"Oh, how is the Divine Dog’s accelerated evolution coming along?"
