The little guy who wet his pants gulped and said:
"Back then, when you were carried out of the underground ruins, Qi Mountain intentionally... intentionally hit your leg against a sharp stone at the entrance..."
"He... he said you were fair and tender, and would definitely fetch a good price at the slave market, but Captain Chen wouldn't agree, so he had to injure you..."
"The injury on your right leg was all his doing at his behest!"
As he revealed the truth...
Lin Feng's cold expression turned into one of furious ferocity, veins bulging on his forehead, on the brink of explosive rage.
All the near-death experiences after waking up, narrowly escaping from death's grasp several times, were all deliberately set up by that Qi Mountain guy.
With anger swelling in his chest, Lin Feng suddenly gave a cold, iron-blue smile, raising his gun:
"Good, good..."
The little guy, with a trembling voice:
"I-I already told everything..."
"You promised not to kill me, to let me have a way out..."
Lin Feng paused for a moment, then nodded:
"That's right, I promised... not to kill you."
But in the next moment, he turned the gun towards the right legs of the two terrified little guys.
"Bang!" "Bang!"
The two shots broke their right calves.
The cries of pain and the gunshots echoed across the wilderness.
Lin Feng's lips curled into a cold smile:
"I promised not to kill you, but I didn't promise not to avenge the injury you caused to my right leg back then..."
"Tit for tat, right?"
As they looked at the smiling man before them, the two little guys felt chills run down their spines, as if they were being watched by a demon.
The curses they wanted to shout were forcibly swallowed back.
Forcing a smile more ugly than crying, they nodded fiercely.
Fortunately, the demon kept his word and no longer bothered with them.
Lin Feng returned to the tricycle, continuing on his way back to the already-departed Oasis Town.
He left the two little guys, dragging a broken leg, limping with difficulty across the wasteland.
Not long after, wolf howls rose behind them.
Back on the vehicle, Lin Feng looked at the identification data of the Rock-Horned Horse:
"Rock-Horned Horse, Level 9/9, deceased"
"Life Value: 0, Physique: 46, Spirit: 6; Level 9 upper limit for each attribute is 50"
"Evaluation: A large herbivore, spread across the wasteland, evolving a solar absorption ability, becoming a half-producer in the food chain. Its meat is dry and tough, with a poor taste, but it has a high meat yield, making it an excellent breed of livestock. Its heart and loin are rich in Energy."
At this time, from behind the tricycle, wolf howls were heard, followed shortly by painful screams for help.
But it only lasted a few seconds before fading away.
Ding Yi and the Liu Family Siblings, seeing Lin Feng checking the Rock-Horned Horse carcass with an unchanged expression, felt a chill run down their spines.
The methods of the man before them were more like those of the Deserters.
But right now, what Lin Feng cared about was the giant heart of the Rock-Horned Horse and the pair of three-meter-long loins on either side of its spine, and how much it could enhance his strength.
More than an hour later, they successfully returned to the highway where Oasis Town was traveling.
This road is the fixed route of Oasis Town, about two hundred meters wide on both sides, circling the globe, very flat and solid.
At this moment, Oasis Town, just setting off, appeared not far behind them.
The speed of the moving Oasis was not fast; after all, it was a massive steel giant weighing tens of thousands of tons!
Even with photovoltaic solar panels providing the energy to move forward, without extra power input, its speed was only about one kilometer per hour.
It traveled about twenty-four kilometers a day.
Moving about thirty centimeters per second, nearly as slow as a normal walking pace.
But it moved ceaselessly until the next Holy Spring Day, half a month or fifteen days later.
Deserters, advancing on foot, even if they spent half a day chasing it, could only barely keep up from behind.
As the steel giant drew near, those parked on the far left of the highway finally saw the full view of the Oasis.
On either side of this moving city, photovoltaic solar panels, a hundred meters wide, unfolded, resembling the hexagonal cells of Photovoltaic Rock Armor on a Rock-Horned horse's back.
From afar, the two hundred-meter-long hull looked like it had a pair of wing fins on either side, with an area reaching close to fifty thousand square meters.
It's seven or eight times the cross-section of the moving Oasis itself, necessary to propel such a massive steel giant continuously.
Under the shadows cast on both sides of the highway, five villages followed Oasis Town.
The closest ones were Holy Spring Village and Nongzhuang Village.
One represented faith in water, the other represented food.
Their status was the highest and most important.
They were closely attached to both sides of the moving Oasis.
Next were Mechanical Village and Dawn Village, with Fifth Village last, where Lin Feng and his party were heading back to.
With Oasis Town driving towards them, a row of large modified trucks, known as the hundreds-ton kings, sped out from Oasis Town, each twenty to thirty meters long and with a hundred-ton load.
A total of five vehicles, stretching over a hundred meters.
In addition, there were about ten fast-moving small cars accompanying in front and behind.
The entire convoy's advancing speed was fast, Lin Feng estimated it was at least the maximum speed of a Rock-Horned Horse, nearly forty kilometers per hour.
Equivalent to ten meters per second.
Such fast speed was definitely not powered directly by photovoltaic panels; this convoy must have undergone secondary modifications, with transformers and Storage Batteries installed to increase power.
Become a truly meaningful electric vehicle.
The silent Chen Shanshan watched the modified convoy racing into the distance, seemingly recalling the past with a somewhat forlorn expression:
"This is the pilgrimage transport convoy heading towards the major city ahead. They take the surplus goods produced and collected in Oasis Town, sell them to big cities or other towns, and exchange them for goods that Oasis Town cannot produce, such as firearms, medicine, fuel, and so on."
"Most of the crew members are Evolvers. My master once took advantage of the crew's convenience to take me to the city."
"Of course, other Evolvers can also buy tickets to go to resource-rich big cities."
"They depart on Holy Spring Day as a farewell ritual and return by the next Holy Spring Day."
"This has nothing to do with the lower-class Deserters; it's all for the Oasis Upper Class..."
After speaking, Chen Shanshan parked the tricycle behind the slope off the main road, then used a piece of burlap to cover the spoils on the cart, and pulled her mask tight...
The hum reminded everyone:
"The main convoy is coming, which will stir up a lot of dust. Be careful not to choke."
The other four hurriedly put on their hoods to cover their faces.
Soon, with the vibration of the ground, the rumbling of the moving Oasis, a giant steel beast, passed by slowly.
Lin Feng lay on the back slope, closely observing the Oasis. At its sides near the bottom were giant tires seven or eight meters high, a row of more than a dozen. In the middle part, there were dozens of heavy-duty tracks that allowed the Oasis to turn or make a U-turn.
Ingeniously designed.
Enabling this steel beast to travel globally.
Once the Oasis passed, Holy Spring Village and Nongzhuang Village followed closely, amidst smoke and dust, with Mechanical Village and Dawn Village trailing behind them.
At the very end was everyone's destination, the Fifth Village in Oasis Town.
Braving the raising dust in the sky, Chen Shanshan had everyone sit tight, pedaled, and rode the tricycle onto the main road.
The village's traveling speed was consistent with the Oasis.
So it wasn't fast, just thirty centimeters per second, not even a third of the fully-loaded tricycle's speed.
With Chen Shanshan's manual acceleration, they soon caught up with the tail end of the Fifth Village.
In motion, the Fifth Village maintained a triangular formation, with large wind-breaking vehicles at the front, while the smaller vehicles followed behind to reduce wind resistance.
The intervals between them were all over ten meters front and back, and three to four meters left and right.
The Fifth Village with more than five hundred vehicles stretched three to four hundred meters.
Weaving through on the tricycle, they soon found a uniquely shaped minibus.
Boss Huang, seeing the tricycle approaching in the rearview mirror, let the passenger in the co-pilot seat take over the steering wheel to keep a steady direction, and then personally went to the back of the bus.
Seeing the faintly exposed Rock-Horned Horse carcass under burlap on the tricycle's cart, Old Huang was overjoyed.
He hurriedly fastened the front wheel of the tricycle to the rear hitch of the minibus.
Then put down two iron plates to receive everyone.
"Congratulations, for the next half a month, there are four compartments in the bus for free rest and lodging!"
Upon boarding the bus, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Next was transferring the horse carcass on the cart to the back compartment of the bus for butchering.
With joint efforts, the transfer was complete.
They also brought the tricycle's equipment and other materials, especially those five pieces of Photovoltaic Rock Armor, to the minibuses' compartments.
Then, under Chen Shanshan's supervision, the four began to cut and disassemble the Rock-Horned Horse carcass, except for Lin Feng.
Digging out a massive five-kilogram heart from the abdomen, the size of a basketball.
Divided into five portions for Boss Huang to help pan-fry.
The best meat, secondly, was the loins alongside the spine on the Rock-Horned Horse's back, very tender.
Two strips, three meters long, a total of thirty kilograms.
Chen Shanshan, Lin Feng, and Liu Mingfei, each involved in the hunt, took ten kilograms each.
The remaining horse meat from other parts of the carcass was dry and tough, plus the offal, divided equally between the two teams.
Excluding the external Rock Armor and digestive intestines and stomach, the remaining six hundred kilograms of horse carcass yielded four hundred kilograms of horse meat, one hundred kilograms of offal, and one hundred kilograms of bones.
Normally, with such a bountiful harvest, there's no need to go hunting again for over six months.
Sleeping in the motor inn without having to bustle around.
However, carrying so much jerky isn't convenient; it can't all be eaten at once. If not salted and properly handled, it would easily spoil over time.
So most will be quickly sold off in bulk.
After discussion, besides the loin, the remaining six hundred kilograms of carcass were all handed over to Old Huang.
Old Huang had already found several buyers who would soon come to collect the meat and exchange it for marinated jerky with everyone.
The five were extremely tacit in not mentioning the Photovoltaic Rock Armor, carefully hiding it in the compartment, with eyes not leaving it.
After handling the horse carcass, the group ate the fragrant fried horse heart, discussing how to handle the Rock Armor.
Chen Shanshan, sitting at the rear of the bus, arranged for Ding Yi and Liu Qian to deliver some ordinary horse meat to another resting Deserters' team in the vehicle.
Then said to Lin Feng and Liu Mingfei:
"The Rock Armor with attached photovoltaic panels is very valuable. It's too much for an ordinary convoy in the Fifth Village to handle. Even if they can afford it, with just us three, we could easily suffer a loss."
"Especially those Evolver teams, relying on their strength to extort, and intentionally lowering the price quite a lot…"
"So the best way to handle this is to take the bounty task sheet from the Hunting Wilderness Guild, but you must first register as a Hunter. Fortunately, after finishing the horse meat, I should be able to evolve into a Level 9 Enhanced Person, reaching the minimum qualification for registration."
"The bounty sheets are basically all issued by Dawn Village, and they are the only ones with the stripping and modification technology. After all, they are the final buyers, so it's better to negotiate directly."
Liu Mingfei nodded without objection.
Lin Feng naturally nodded in agreement, also wanting to see for himself the most powerful organization in the Fifth Village.
The Hunting Wilderness Guild at the front of the convoy.
After discussion, Chen Shanshan finished the last bite of the horse heart, feeling a slight warmth throughout her body:
"Then it's settled!
"Let's rest for a while, and after five hours, the three of us will go together."