Chapter 54: Chapter 52: Changing Fate, An Invitation to the Hunt, and Recklessness
"Bounty Mission: Capture a Male Rock-Horned Horse Alive"
"Time Limit: Not specified, but the sooner, the better!"
"Requirements: The Rock-Horned Horse must be in good condition, without serious external injuries or fatal internal injuries. Do not accept horses older than sixty years, those that have lost reproductive capacity, etc."
"Rewards: The Rock-Horned Horse’s weight will be converted to points at market value; a live male foal can be exchanged for two hundred points; a young male horse for four hundred points; an adult male horse six hundred points; a Tier One male horse one thousand points and an evolution agent; a leader-level male horse, based on evaluated quality and number of herd, starts at fifteen hundred points, with three ordinary evolution agents or a Level 14 Evolution Agent, and outstanding value can earn Oasis Upper Class status."
"Special Note: This bounty mission has no time limit and is long-term effective. It is anonymous, just requires reporting."
This bounty order has always been posted at the top of the bulletin board in Nongzhuang Village, not needing to be taken down, always effective.
It is clearly a long-term bounty order issued by Nongzhuang Village to obtain superior genes from wild Rock-Horned Horses, continuously improving the quality of breeding stock to enhance benefits.
Moreover, the rewards are extremely generous.
The reward column also specifically marks the number of times that the corresponding reward has been achieved.
Young Rock-Horned Horses weigh only about a hundred pounds; early-stage enhanced strength can earn an additional two hundred points; this item is completed the most, with a total of one hundred and ninety caught so far.
Youth horses weighing two to three hundred kilograms, mid-stage enhanced level, doubling to four hundred points; ninety-eight have been caught so far.
Adult Rock-Horned Horses weigh half a ton, with late-stage enhanced strength, worth over three hundred points themselves, but also receive an additional six hundred points, totaling close to one thousand points.
Worth more than ten Desolate Wolves, although the difficulty of capture cannot compare to live capture, it also shows the importance of live male horses to Nongzhuang Village.
The price is worth it.
But also because the difficulty is extremely high, only thirty-nine have been captured.
And the last two categories at the bottom are the really high-difficulty requirements of this bounty order.
A Tier One male horse not only gets an evolution agent but is directly rewarded with one thousand points; it is estimated that only Evolvers have the strength and opportunity to capture it alive.
And as noted afterward, only seventeen have been caught so far.
As for the last item, the leader-level male Rock-Horned Horse, capturing it alive not only nets fifteen hundred points but also three ordinary evolution agents or helps an early-stage Evolver upgrade to the Level 14 mid-stage with advanced evolution agents.
But what is truly important is the last sentence of the reward.
Awarded with Oasis Upper Class qualification!
This is an opportunity and treatment that even most Evolvers dream of.
Becoming an upper class of the Oasis means a true leap in status and a complete change of destiny.
As an Oasis Town noble, not only will one’s life be carefree from then on, but descendants will also succeed, not having to struggle for survival in this wasteland.
However, in the entire Oasis Town, only one male leader-level Rock-Horned Horse was captured alive!
And the completer of this seemingly impossible task was directly promoted to Oasis Upper Class.
Below the bounty order, his identity information and detailed process are specifically noted:
The task’s completion time is in Wasteland Year 988, at least twelve years ago.
This person captured the leader of the Rock-Horned Horse herd, making a significant contribution to the Oasis Town’s Rock-Horned Horse industry chain.
Named Han Tao, a northwesterner from Old Earth, skilled in archery, once tamed an adult Rock-Horned Horse, and during an Oasis Town-held hunting festival, he captured the leader of the Rock-Horned Horse, improving the breeding genetic quality of Nongzhuang Village, achieving a qualitative leap in photovoltaic boards.
He was thus exceptionally promoted to Oasis Upper Class, becoming an honorary citizen of Oasis Town, now serving as one of the seven councilors of the Oasis Governance Council...
A lifetime’s record, defying the heavens and changing fate, truly legendary!
This has also become a role model admired and aspired to in the hearts of all Deserters and Permanent Residents of the Fifth Village.
Lin Feng also admires this, as becoming an upper class can detach from the current situation of having no fixed abode and no longer have to run around for survival.
He can devote all his energy to enhancing his strength and studying the Item Upgrade System he carries.
At the same time, he can mobilize enough resources to promote the upgrading of large mechanical bodies and weapon brands, thus taking an important step towards controlling his destiny.
For a moment, Lin Feng was already envisaging the future.
Being an Oasis Upper Class is merely the starting point!
Controlling the entire Oasis Battleship and becoming the Master of the Oasis is his ultimate goal!
And soon, an untimely voice interrupted Lin Feng’s fantasy of creating his own legend through Councilor Han Tao’s experience:
"What? Interested? Want to join?"
Only to see a woman with a high ponytail, blonde hair, blue eyes, high nose bridge, hollow eyes, looking foreign, quite tall at 1.8 meters, just half a head shorter than Lin Feng.
She suddenly approached Lin Feng, whispering:
"We’ve recently found traces of a small Rock-Horned Horse herd; they’re following a large beast group. As long as we follow them, we can lock onto the beast group, and by then, thousands of Rock-Horned Horses in disarray..."
"Leader-level Tier One Rock-Horned Horses will break out into fierce fights, too busy to care for their herd, and we’ll have many opportunities to capture young Rock-Horned Horses."
"If we’re lucky, we might even capture a young or adult Rock-Horned Horse, one worth five hundred or a thousand points; capturing just one can let you relax for a whole year; two or three can buy you a car and become a Permanent Resident of the village!"
"It’s an opportunity to change your fate!"
"You don’t seem weak, are you interested in joining?"
"By then, we can cooperate to encircle and hunt, cut off a part of the beast group for a single successful capture and directly retire!"
Lin Feng was slightly stunned; foreigners are rare in the Oasis, only having seen a few in the slave market.
But according to the global forward route of Oasis Town, passing through Old Earth’s Lu Province also guarantees passing through the United States, so rescuing foreigners from shelters isn’t surprising.
And she spoke fluent Common Speech, with strength at Level 9 Enhancement, indicating she’s been awake on the Wasteland for quite a long time.
She surely saw the man ahead of the bounty order, strong and imposing, unlike ordinary Level 9 Enhanced People, thus decided to approach and issue a cooperation invite.
But Lin Feng’s aura was entirely thanks to eating Level 9 Desolate Wolf Enhanced Meat just before setting out, not only restoring Life Value but also putting him in unexpectedly excellent condition.
In fact, he had entered Level 9 Enhancement just under two days ago and hadn’t fully adapted to the Level 9 body.
Seeing the handsome man in front hesitate, the tall foreign woman flashed a warm smile, a shallow dimple on her right cheek, and introduced herself:
"My name is Lisa, I’m the vice captain of a Deserter Squad. Oh, our captain is a Permanent Resident, and we have a car in our team. If you’re interested in joining us, you can come find us."
"During the mission, we offer free transportation and accommodation. The car’s route is at the upper left corner of the village in progress, not far from the Guild."
Then, not waiting for Lin Feng’s response, the foreign woman named Lisa waved goodbye:
"If you’re interested, remember to come! Bye-bye!"
With a smile and a breezy turn.
Lin Feng watched her silhouette descend the stairs, lost in thought.
Lisa was correct; this was a chance to change fate, but the reward and risk were proportional, and capturing a Tier One or adult Rock-Horned Horse might not go smoothly.
With an urgent need for swift growth, Lin Feng couldn’t hang on a single tree; he needed to find more bounty tasks.
If the hunt doesn’t go well and he can’t capture a live adult horse, at least there would be other things to do.
So Lin Feng stopped in front of other notice boards, carefully searching for a while.
Soon, he found three suitable tasks:
Two of them from Dawn Village; they recently needed a batch of high-quality Photovoltaic Rock Armor and also brushless motors from underground ruins.
Lin Feng wasn’t quite familiar with motor types; he just knew brushless motors were smaller and faster, suitable for high-speed machinery like cars with ease over 100 km/h or drone propellers.
In contrast, old-style motors were very cheap, Dawn Village could hand-make them, but had severe wear and short lifespan.
Overall, the brushless motor’s value was high, and now slightly bigger ones; Dawn Village could reclaim them for several hundred points or even higher.
Besides these two tasks, there was another special task from the Oasis, issued by an Oasis Upper Class...
Needing Hunters to help find an instrument from Old Earth life, an electric guitar and advanced speaker.
So it seems, life in Oasis is indeed wonderful.
The innermost glass-covered Oasis bounty wall, the contents of the red bounty orders, had a different style than other notice boards.
Those orders were full of cultural enrichment and an aura of pursuing the beautiful.
Before leaving, Lin Feng saw a staff member temporarily run to Holy Spring Village’s notice board and post a bounty order there.
Driven by curiosity, he walked close to take a look...
Bounty Task: Capture a toad.
The requirement was still alive.
Lin Feng pulled a corner of his mouth, feeling a small whim of power.
When he returned downstairs, Tian Wanrong had left in anger long ago.
Lin Feng then carried a belly full of tasks back to the bus motel’s squad camp.
Soon, shuttling through traffic, Lin Feng greeted Boss Huang in the car’s passenger seat and returned to the compartment.
At this time, Chen Shanshan and others had already awakened.
Looking at Lin Feng, they showed an inquisitive expression:
"Old Huang just said someone came looking for me, and you even beat them up. What’s the situation?"
Lin Feng then briefly explained the grudge and conflict arising from killing Li Chengwu:
"Tian Wanrong indulged Qi Mountain to make a move, attempting to seize the steward position, but played too far."
"Wanted to use five hundred points to reclaim the confiscated shotgun and bicycle, which was utterly wishful thinking, so I directly refused."
Chen Shanshan nodded after listening, then replied somewhat worriedly:
"That... Lord Wang, being a Senior Evolver, what if he wants to retaliate? What should we do?"
"Plus, the Farm Village matter isn’t completely resolved yet."
Saying this, Chen Shanshan’s expression dimmed; the joy of just evolving was now overshadowed:
"If worst comes to worst, you all should... I alone..."
Lin Feng’s brow furrowed, his tone became heavier:
"Never say such mindless discouraging words again."
"We killed the people together; do you think dying alone can wipe it all clean?"
"I’ve already thought of a solution, it’s up to you whether you have the guts to do it with me!"