Chapter 123: Chapter 98: Situation Analysis and Boarding the Oasis Battleship (Part 2)

The purpose of Father Su An’s research, naturally, is self-evident.

To obtain the evolution path of the Desert Wolf!

However, for the Holy Spring Sect, this seems to be of little use. After all, the Church holds a mature and complete Holy Spring evolution path, which is not only more stable than the mutated Desolate Beasts but also provides sufficient Life Source Material and has greater evolutionary potential.

Unlike the Rock-Horned Horse path of Nongzhuang Village.

Evolvers who achieve tier jumping through them may hit a ceiling at Late Tier One.

To progress further, one must hunt a powerful Clan Leader Level Rock-Horned Horse, which is an almost impossible challenge.

At this point of analysis, Lin Feng suddenly had a flash of insight, recalling the words Father Su An left a few hours ago.

The ambitions of the Li Family in Nongzhuang Village were swelling, somewhat crossing the line.

Moreover, with Nongzhuang Village’s control over evolutionary meat, even the Hunting Wilderness Guild of Fifth Village was constrained by it, willing to pay higher prices to obtain the evolutionary meat in their hands.

Could it be that Father Su An’s research on the Desert Wolf was to deal with the Li Family of Nongzhuang Village?

It is said that the Patriarch of the Li Family once killed a Clan Leader Level Rock-Horned Horse, evolved to the Second Stage from it, and established Nongzhuang Village, which survives by breeding Rock-Horned Horses.

And the Desert Wolf has always been the mortal enemy of the Rock-Horned Horse.

As hunters, the Desert Wolf’s fine steel fangs are weapons sharp enough to penetrate the Rock-Horned Horse’s outer shell, the Rock Armor.

This was evident when Lin Feng, then only a Level 4 Enhanced Person, used the Fine Steel Wolf Fang to synthesize Wolf Fang Bullets, successfully killing a Level 9 Female Rock-Horned Horse.

The Holy Spring Sect originally planned to take action against the Li Family, with the Desert Wolf as the breakthrough point.

As for now, with the newly researched horse taming skill as a foundation, the Holy Spring Sect has more cards to play.

They can even make the Li Family of Nongzhuang Village give up and obey without tearing faces and using direct force.

This is why Father Su An places such importance on the horse taming skill.

Analyzing this, Lin Feng believes he has roughly analyzed the undercurrent of struggle looming over Oasis Town.

Lin Feng then shared his reasoning and analysis with the three women present.

Ding Yi, Liu Qian, and Ah Ming are all intelligent and can offer some suggestions.

For Lin Feng’s analysis, the three women nodded, indicating it was probably not far off.

In the end, Ding Yi couldn’t help but sigh:

“It seems that Oasis Town, which appears peaceful and harmonious on the surface, is also full of undercurrents and constant struggle.”

Beside them, Ah Ming looked up at the enormous Oasis Battleship, smiled, and added:

“The village only has open and secret fights; the real clash happens up there.”

Lin Feng glanced at Ah Ming, lost in thought.

What she said further cemented Lin Feng’s resolve not to become an Upper-Class person of the Oasis.

He did not want to plunge into the whirlpool of struggles above and end up dead without understanding why.

Given the unstable situation in Oasis Town, Lin Feng was well aware of his own insignificance. He was just a lucky individual who had recently evolved to Mid-Tier One, not worth mentioning in the grand scheme, especially in the eyes of the upper echelons of the Oasis.

So, regarding the choices he would soon face,

Lin Feng had come to a general conclusion.

Not long after the four concluded their discussion, a Cultivator hurried over to inform Lin Feng that Father Su An wanted him to prepare to head to the Oasis.

“No weapons are allowed in the Oasis, please remember to leave all of them behind, Mr. Lin,” the Cultivator reminded.

Lin Feng nodded, given that no one else could use the machine cannon gun branded to him, he handed it over to Ding Yi for safekeeping.

Before leaving, he specially instructed:

“Tell Chen Shanshan and the others when they return that I will be back soon, and ensure the safety of the Rock-Horned Horse and the cultivation box.”

Under the gaze of the three women, Lin Feng followed the Cultivator towards the church in Holy Spring Village.

There, Father Su An was handling some village affairs, and upon seeing Lin Feng approach, he spoke slowly:

“It’s about time, let’s go.”

Following that, Lin Feng trailed behind Su An, leaving the village and heading toward the nearby Oasis Battleship.

The battleship, immense from afar, looked even more colossal up close.

Lin Feng increasingly felt his own insignificance.

The entire battleship was over two hundred meters long, approximately thirty meters wide, with an average height of twenty meters.

Looking up, it was as tall as a seven or eight-story building.

Like a small aircraft carrier, it could effortlessly carry thirty or forty thousand people, navigating through the deserted wastelands.

But the Oasis certainly didn’t have that many people.

Merely relying on the five villages below the battleship could not sustain so many Upper-Class residents.

On the way to the Oasis, Father Su An also explained to Lin Feng:

“Currently, there are over ten thousand permanent residents in the Oasis, including only five hundred First-Class Upper-Class individuals. Additionally, there are fifteen hundred family members.”

“Since family members hold equal rights, they are also classified as Second-Class Upper-Class, generally the wives and children of the First-Class individuals.”

“Most of them come from the first batch of residents when the Oasis was initially established. Over time, they have been dominated by the families of the other three major villages, excluding Holy Spring Village. Nowadays, few evolvers emerging from Fifth Village manage to become Upper-Class residents.”

“Apart from these two thousand, among the remaining eight thousand, there are about a hundred church members, and the rest are Upper Servants of the Oasis.”

“They are mainly responsible for the daily maintenance of the Oasis, such as cleaning pipes, dusting off photovoltaic panels, and serving the lifestyles of the Upper-Class.”

“These people are actually family members from the villages. Once they become evolvers, they can choose to ascend to the Oasis as Upper Servants.”

“If there’s a vacancy among the Oasis Upper-Class residents, selections are made from the Upper Servants, or they can directly advance to Upper-Class residents by accumulating enough merit points.”

Lin Feng nodded; it seemed that there were indeed quite a few residents on the Oasis, with over ten thousand people, slightly fewer than the total population of the five villages below the battleship.

However, the actual First-Class Upper-Class numbered only five hundred, which was merely 5% of the entire Oasis, or 2.5% of the population in Oasis Town, a relatively small proportion.

But they were not the real high command; the Patriarchs of the three major village families, the Guild of Fifth Village, and the strongest Church were the actual power holders of Oasis Town.

Before boarding the Oasis, Lin Feng asked a question that had been on his mind:

“When did the Oasis Battleship appear? Why maintain such a slow speed, so close to the Scorching Sun Forbidden Area behind; isn’t that dangerous?”

Father Su An paused his steps, then turned his head, speaking in a composed manner:

“The battleship was allocated here from the Holy City a hundred Wasteland Years ago. As for the specific reasons, I had not yet become a follower of the Master of the Holy Spring at that time, but it should have been due to a severe food crisis in the Holy City that year, requiring them to send the auxiliary battleship along with the city residents to other areas to alleviate the food burden.”

Saying this, Father Su An spoke with deeper meaning:

“And there is another critical reason for the Oasis to maintain close proximity to the Scorching Sun Forbidden Area.”

“However, you do not need to know it for now.”

“When you can truly make a mark in Oasis Town, you will naturally understand the responsibility we bear.”

Lin Feng nodded, as if he understood but only grasped a part.

The history of Oasis Town spans six hundred years.

It has circled the earth a hundred times.

And its proximity to the Scorching Sun Forbidden Area is inherently related to the zone behind it.

Since he currently lacked the eligibility to comprehend it, Lin Feng dismissed the idea of delving deeper.

No matter the reason, Oasis Town’s location is somewhat perilous, and Lin Feng plans to embark on a journey to the Holy City once he grows to Late Tier One.

Larger cities have richer resources and more opportunities, staying in Oasis Town might mean never advancing to Tier Two in his lifetime, so one must always aim higher and move forward.

Soon, the pair arrived at the foot of the Oasis Battleship, where there was a long staircase for boarding on the right side of the ship.

Beside several gigantic tracks that were seven to eight meters high.

Climbing the hundred-step staircase brought them to a platform fifteen meters high, where there was an entrance guarded by security.

It was manned by a Mid-Tier One Evolver.

The guard clearly recognized Father Su An and greeted him respectfully, merely asking Lin Feng to register his identity information before allowing him to pass.

When Lin Feng presented his special-level hunter license, the guard’s eyes noticeably lit up, and his demeanor became friendlier.

The two of them successfully entered the interior of the Oasis Battleship.

However, the conditions inside were quite different from what Lin Feng had imagined.

Stuffy, noisy, crowded…

These were Lin Feng’s first impressions of the Oasis Battleship.

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