Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 613 - 295: Contingency Plans and Clones, Late Stage Advancement Conditions 2

Chapter 613: Chapter 295: Contingency Plans and Clones, Late Stage Advancement Conditions 2

Upon linking it to the current situation, Li Hao immediately realized that Lord Bishop intended to use him, a mid-stage Tier Two Rock Horse Warrior, as bait to lure the Desert Wolf Race into attacking.

This would trigger a battle on the more advantageous terrain of the Wilderness near Oasis Town, a vast flat land where the human artillery could accurately cover the wolf pack.

However, if Oasis Town continued moving forward and crossed the mountainous area ahead, it was easy to be ambushed by the wolf pack and be forced into close combat with the Evolved Desolate Wolves.

At that time, not only would the Five Major Villages be hard to preserve, but even the Oasis Battleship ran the risk of being immobilized by a close-range attack from the Tier Two Desolate Wolf Beast.

Therefore, Lord Bishop’s words were not an alarmist rhetoric or an excuse to deceive; it was already the best opportunity for Oasis Town to respond.

While Li Hao was considering it, Lord Bishop, seeing the other party was hesitant to respond, added:

"Currently, the Desert Wolf Race’s leader, Wolf Ao, might attack at any moment, you’d better cooperate with us to stall him, creating a chance for the Battleship Heavy Cannon to lock onto him."

"As long as this giant wolf can be severely injured, the rest of the Evolved Desolate Wolves are less of a threat under the firepower of Oasis Town, at least they can be suppressed within Lin Feng’s command."

"Once you’ve bravely sacrificed yourself, I’ll have Father Su An stop holding you and the Li Family accountable, nor will it be reported to the Holy City."

"In this way, Life Farm can distance itself from this, and the arrangements you’ve made in the Holy City over the years won’t be affected."

"So even if Oasis Town’s Li Family is ultimately destroyed, the Holy City’s Li Family can still continue..."

After Lord Bishop finished speaking, Li Hao was plunged into deep suspicion and thought.

In fact, the arrangements he made in the Holy City were not his descendants.

As a Tier Two Evolver, especially a strong person focused on completing evolution and moving forward, it’s never affected by offspring bloodlines.

For Li Hao, he was the most perfect being, and the mixed genes of descendants would only affect their evolutionary talents, just like the artificially bred Rock-Horned Horse, each generation is worse than the previous.

Therefore, the arrangements Li Hao made in the Holy City were actually a secret collaborative project with Life Farm.

Li Hao, before he was two hundred years old, handed over his remaining Universal Stem Cells to Life Farm for research.

In the end, cultivating a more perfect clone to replace Li Hao, allowing him to continue to survive.

And these elite Rock Horse Warrior clones were also experimental carriers for the Tier Three Horse King research project.

In the future, if Li Hao loses the potential of evolution, the young clone will replace him to continue the evolutionary path to late Tier Two and even Tier Three.

To this end, Li Hao had been channeling the resources accumulated by his family in Oasis Town through the Pilgrimage Convoy to the Holy City over the past two to three hundred years.

The goal was to leave enough evolutionary resources for his future clone to advance to mid-Tier Two, to complete the unfinished endeavors of his original self.

This was also the escape route that Li Hao prepared in advance.

But now, learning this, Lord Bishop could easily order through the Holy City Diocese to demand Life Farm destroy this research project, including all data and materials.

Shortly after weighing the options, Li Hao made a decision.

He immediately opened the helmet, releasing the steam of high temperature inside, revealing his face.

Doing so was equivalent to exposing his weakest spot, indicating that Li Hao had decided to compromise.

Then he took out two arm-thick sealed test tubes from the back of his battle armor and said to Lord Bishop:

"Don’t worry, I know much more than any of you about that thousands-of-years-old giant wolf. Even if you kill me now, it won’t attack rashly."

"In this world, only two things could significantly affect that greedy Wolf Ao..."

"One is the Tier Three Wolf King’s flesh, and the other is the late-stage Tier Two Rock-Horned Horse, both intended to prolong its life."

"The former can maintain its cell activity and ensure its survival for a thousand years, but the latter is more important because the flesh of a late-stage Tier Two Rock Horse Giant Beast can stimulate its cellular proliferation and division..."

"It’s akin to enhancing Wolf Ao’s strength and lifespan limits, enabling it to hold more power of the Wolf King and survive much longer after leaving the Fallen Wolf Valley."

"According to your statement..."

"Since the Desert Wolf Race plans to launch a full-scale attack on Oasis Town, it indicates the seal of the Taishan Ruins has had problems, and they’re eager to tear the old agreements, hoping for expansion and strengthening themselves to inherit the Tier Three Wolf King’s remnants."

"So Wolf Ao’s goal will not just stop at this settlement of Oasis Town, but it will continue killing until there are enough Wolf King successors."

"To achieve this better, it now has an unprecedented need for the late-stage Tier Two Rock Horse Giant Beast..."

"If all there is, is a mid-stage Tier Two Rock Horse Warrior’s corpse, it’s not worth the risk of being targeted by the heavy cannon and daringly attacking."

As he spoke, Li Hao directly opened the chest plate of his Rock Horse Armor, revealing the red-heat-steamed torso within.

The engorged veins were like tangled roots beneath the red skin, stimulating each muscle to tense tightly.

And the two vials in his hand were ready for injection at any moment.

Standing in front of him, Lord Bishop wore a solemn expression. At such a close distance, he could already sense that one of the vials in the opponent’s hand had an aura similar to the smell from the deceased Li Mingquan.

This was a special potion from Life Farm, one that could stimulate the Rock Horse cells. Once injected, whether into a Rock Horse Warrior or Rock Horse Armor, it would enter a frenzy state and unleash a burst of power it wouldn’t typically have.

As for the other vial containing a thick white substance, it was even more exaggerated because its aura was as strong as the Power of the Holy Spring within Lord Bishop, both a late-stage Tier Two existence.

Moreover, it was filled with the Power of Life.

This meant that Li Hao had a late-stage Tier Two Rock-Horned Horse Evolution Agent!

It was capable of helping him break through a bottleneck that had stalled for centuries, becoming the first late-stage Tier Two Rock Horse Warrior in Wasteland history.

This was the trump card Li Hao had meticulously prepared.

At this moment, Lord Bishop tightly focused on the two test tubes in Li Hao’s hand, pondering whether to return the severed left arm he’d previously taken.

No genuine late-stage Tier Two Rock Horse Warrior had ever been born yet, and no one knew how strong one could be.

However, as long as Li Hao wore the mid-stage Tier Two Rock Horse Armor, he couldn’t defeat Lord Bishop wielding the armor-piercing Wolf Spear.

As Lord Bishop was pondering, Li Hao began to explain directly:

"Don’t worry, the late-stage evolution pathway of the Rock-Horned Horse isn’t that easy to ascend."

"In the Wasteland, late-stage Tier Two is the natural evolution limit for a Rock-Horned Horse, but to become a late-stage Giant Beast, it must defeat all other Tier Two males during the breeding season of the Rock Horse assembly and survive to reach the point of becoming a late-stage Rock Horse Giant Beast..."

Saying this, Li Hao slowly raised one of them:

"This potion is called the Ascension Potion, but it’s actually a concentrated mixture of breeding hormones, such as testosterone and androgens, extracted from the Rock Horse Giant Beast..."

"Once injected, it can push the Rock-Horned Horse cells into an extremely excited reproductive state, which will cause a burst of power at its stage’s upper limit."

"In the natural world, it’s with this thing that younger early-stage Rock-Horned Horses can defeat stronger older males."

"And it’s the key to ascending to late-stage Tier Two."

At this moment, Li Hao inserted the Ascension Potion into the major artery in his chest, as he spoke slowly:

"This technique is currently immature. Historically, those among mid-stage Rock Horse Warriors who have used it, nine out of ten suffered injuries, and the one remaining didn’t achieve ascent, instead lost sanity and became a mad beast."

"But at least temporarily after injection, it can provide the experimental body with unmatched strength, allowing it to experience a final ultimate ascension in the late phase of life’s evolution, touch the untouchable late-stage realm..."

After finishing speaking, Li Hao tossed away the Ascension Potion and then stabbed the late-stage Tier Two Rock Horse Evolution Agent into his heart.