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Chapter 255: The Great Priest's Inference, Li Hao and Su An's First Clash

After hearing the report from his subordinates, the high priest frowned slightly and tried hard to search his mind for relevant memories about the restricted area of ​​Mount Tai Ruins.

This is also a common problem that all second-level evolvers who are entering their final years will suffer from.

My memory is declining, especially for the first half of my life. Things that happened five hundred years ago, except for some extremely impressive events, which I would recall from time to time in contemplation, how could I have any memory of the other trivial things?

Not to mention that even if the memory is deep, it will fade away with the passage of time.

This is an irreversible process.

The reason why the second-level body can survive and be immortal is that the cells throughout the body of the second-level evolutionary body have achieved infinite replication and proliferation, and can remain young forever through renewal.

Just like cancer cells, every functional cell in the body has the ability to proliferate indefinitely. It will not age and wither just because its number is limited or the number of proliferation times has reached an upper limit, causing organ aging and overall functional decline.

But this also brings a serious problem.

Life is not just a body, especially for higher life forms, whose self-awareness is the true soul.

A life without a soul will only become a walking corpse without self.

Like a vegetable or an idiot.

The number of human brain cells has an upper limit, and it reaches its peak at birth, and then gradually declines as the organism grows.

Each brain cell is equivalent to a storage space. As cells age and die, memory will gradually disappear. Until the end of life, many precious memory fragments will be lost, and many things and many people will be forgotten.

The disease caused by this is also called Alzheimer's disease, commonly known as senile dementia.

But the problem faced by second-level evolvers is not just the limited space for storing memories, but the upper limit of brain cell capacity, which is only enough to store a few hundred years of experience.

The evolver five hundred years later is almost completely different from the person who controlled the same body five hundred years ago.

Even if the past is recorded and preserved in the form of external videos or diaries, it will feel extremely unfamiliar when you look back at it hundreds of years later.

Because all the brain cells that recorded that experience have died, and they have been replaced by a new batch of brain cells that store what happened in the last hundred years.

The High Priest has lived through hundreds of years, and now, apart from revenge against the Knight Commander, the only thing that bothers him is the issue of his successor.

I don’t remember the other little things so clearly.

Regarding the Taishan ruins, he only vaguely remembered that it was once an underground forbidden area where a polluted god, the evil god, was buried.

Therefore, the underground shelter ruins will emit endless horrific pollution.

But as a former large-scale shelter, the resources inside it are still much richer than those of medium and large-scale settlements in the wasteland. Therefore, over the past thousands of years, countless wasteland hunters and wanderers have flocked to it.

However, opportunities and risks coexist. As the upper several layers of safe zones have been looted, the value of the materials stored in the bottom layer is no longer worth the risk of genetic contamination.

Therefore, in the past thousand years, the Taishan ruins, which were once very popular, have gradually faded from people's sight as their cost-effectiveness has decreased.

By the six thousand years of the High Priest's era, the Taishan ruins were no longer one of the most popular ruins, but had become the least explored area.

In addition, the dark environment at the bottom level is not conducive to the walking of the followers of the Fiery Sun Cult, so they naturally have less contact with and understanding of the Taishan ruins.

If the high priest had not rushed to the ancient Zhengzhou city in advance, when passing by the Taishan ruins, he would not have noticed the traces of focused solar energy at this location, nor would he have been suspicious and sent several servants to check it out.

At this moment, the news came that there was indeed something going on.

The reporting mid-level priest also noticed the strange expression on the high priest's face, and immediately introduced the information about the deviation from the Taishan ruins:
For example, the reason for this is that thousands of years ago, there was a being above the third level who was about to ascend to become a god, but he was framed by the gods at that time, who used a thirty-nine-level wolf king to block his path to transcendence.

After failing to transcend, the contaminated evil god was sealed at the bottom of the ruins.

As for the corpse of the late third-stage wolf king, it has been left in the shelter ever since, becoming part of the ruins, serving as a seal for generations to come, forever suppressing the body of the evil god underground.

After years of evolution and the protection of the wasteland wolves, the area outside the Wolf King's Tomb has become an iconic landmark called the Falling Wolf Valley, where a large number of wolves gather.

They complete their own evolution and transformation through worship and protection, relying on the residual power of the Wolf King emanating from the Wolf King's Tomb.

There are tens of thousands of evolved wolves inside...

According to the report from the Lieyang servants who went to investigate, after inquiring among the wanderers, they heard that the strange thing this time was caused by a second-rate force called the Salvation Army, which wanted to go to the bottom of the ruins to plunder the prehistoric arsenal and weapons production line.

Having said this, the priest continued:
"In order to reduce the radiation at the bottom of the ruins and drive away the darkness and the aberrations hidden within it, we set up a focusing device to concentrate and refract the energy from the nearby Fiery Sun Forbidden Zone and transmit it into the bottom of the ruins."

"This is to dispel the distortion radiation in the restricted area."

"But after this group left, another force from Oasis Town entered again. Afterwards, there was a violent tremor underground, and then this group brought out a large number of second-level giant wolf corpses..."

"It's probably an unconscious being that went to hunt the second-level corpse wolves inside the ruins and was activated by the radiation from the third-level body of the wolf king."

At this point, the priest's expression suddenly changed slightly, and he lowered his voice and continued:
"The wanderers that Lieyang's servants encountered were all panicked and breathless."

"After some inquiries, I learned that the Oasis Town group seemed to have caused a major disaster in the underground shelter..."

"It alarmed the wolf packs in Meteoric Wolf Valley. Shortly after they left, a group of giant wolves rushed to the entrance to investigate."

"During this time, they also killed quite a few humans, seemingly venting their anger over something. The wolves were extremely furious. Even in the descriptions of these low-level wanderers, there was a hint of fear in the giant wolves' ferocious expressions..."

"So after the wolves finished their investigation, they quickly left again, probably to report the incident."

After listening to his subordinates' report, the high priest narrowed his eyes and slowly turned his gaze to the south.

It is the intersection of Oasis Avenue and also the ruins of an ancient city called Zhoukou City.

As soon as he entered the state of being possessed by the scorching sun, he felt the presence of a large number of evolved bodies there, the number of which could be in the tens of thousands.

To gather tens of thousands of evolved beings in the wasteland, especially in such a dangerous place near the Fiery Sun Forbidden Zone, while also being contaminated by the faint energy of the Fiery Sun Curse...

Although there are top forces on the human side that can do it, as long as their rulers are not mentally ill, they will never make such a decision.

If 10,000 evolved beings are dispatched, the daily consumption just to maintain this huge team is an astronomical figure, and it is necessary to reserve thousands of tons of evolved meat.

Moreover, these evolved forms also carry a weak energy of the Fiery Sun Curse, which is a trace that can only be acquired by staying at the edge of the Fiery Sun Forbidden Zone for a long time.

Otherwise, the high priest would not have noticed the dense spots of light in the perception field.

To sum up, the sudden appearance of tens of thousands of evolved beings at the southern fork in the road is unlikely to be a raiding party recruited by the Life Farm...

It is more likely that it is the entire Wasteland Wolf Clan led by a patriarch-level second-level giant wolf from the Falling Wolf Valley.

The High Priest already understood the background of the Taishan Ruins and the Fallen Wolf Valley, and knew why the Wasteland Wolves had been able to survive all these years after losing the protection of the Third-Rank Wolf King. Besides the legacy of the Fallen Wolf Valley, there was also the compensation agreement made by the gods when they exploited the Wolf King.

As long as the wolf tribe does not attack the settlements of top forces, they will not target the reproduction and survival of the wolf pack. The uninhabited areas in the wasteland are their habitats.

It is precisely because of this that the third-level treasure house of Meteoric Wolf Valley has not been targeted by large human forces, and the Wasteland Wolf Clan has always abided by the agreement and has not crossed the red line.

But right now, tens of thousands of wasteland wolves were gathered and lying in ambush at the fork in the road, clearly targeting the approaching Oasis Town...

The attack on Oasis Town means that the Wasteland Wolf Clan has broken the agreement, and any level of evolver or force can attack them in the future.

There must be a reason why the cunning wolves made such a decision.

In the opinion of the high priest, there are only two possibilities that could prompt the wolf pack to actively break the agreement to protect themselves.

One is the Wasteland Wolf Clan, where a new third-level wolf king is about to be born or has already been born, and has the power to protect itself.

In this way, there is no need for the commitment of top forces, and taking action against Oasis Town can consolidate and strengthen the wolf pack's power.

The second is that a major event occurred in the Taishan ruins and the Fallen Wolf Valley, which was enough to cause the wolf pack to suffer a devastating disaster.

At the same time, this incident will also destroy the underlying logic of the protection agreement, making the agreement automatically invalid.

The basis of the gods' promise was that the third-level wolf king used his third-level body to pollute the god who was about to transcend in the ruins, and formed a seal, suppressing him forever in the underground ruins, cutting off his path to becoming a god, and eventually reducing him to a deformed and twisted evil god.

If for some reason, this physical seal no longer exists or is no longer effective.

The evil god, originally sealed underground, is about to break free and emerge into the wasteland of the apocalypse above the surface...

At this time, the so-called agreement and protection will naturally become a piece of waste paper and will no longer be valid.

The Wasteland Wolf Clan, who are about to face the revenge of the evil god, must also strengthen their strength as soon as possible, and at the same time cultivate a successor who can directly inherit the third-level essence of the deceased wolf king, so that they can protect themselves in the subsequent turmoil.

Thinking of this, and considering what his subordinate priests had just reported, the High Priest was almost certain that the situation Steppenwolf was facing was the latter...

It was obvious that the Salvation Army or the forces of Oasis Town had tampered with the Taishan ruins, causing the originally stable seal to be directly broken.

By now, the evil god has most likely escaped from underground and reached the surface. After accumulating strength, he will wait until the Fiery Sun Forbidden Zone is gone, and when the next Wasteland Year arrives...

This powerful evil god is bound to come out in full force to take revenge on the gods who framed him in the past.

By then, the entire wasteland world will fall into darkness and turmoil.

But this may not be a bad thing for the Fiery Sun Cult. In a sense, the more situations there are, the more beneficial it is to the Cult.

The most prosperous period of the Fiery Sun Cult was the Dark Ages of the Old Calendar. It was not until after the War of the Gods that several gods completed their transformations and the world situation stabilized, which led to the compression of the Fiery Sun Cult's living space.

As a result, after experiencing several joint attacks, it gradually declined from the original top force to an ordinary first-class force.

Finally, six hundred years ago, in the scorching sun encirclement campaign launched by the Holy Spring Cult, the last few third-rank divine messengers of the Divine Cult all perished...

This caused the Fiery Sun Cult to fall into complete decline and gradually disappear from the wasteland.

Only a group of outsiders without any system inheritance were left, pretending to be members of the Divine Religion and defrauding others.

Now that the opportunity has come, the Fiery Sun Cult is likely to take advantage of this opportunity to rise again and restore its former glory!
It’s a pity that the high priest is about to return to the kingdom of God and will not be able to witness this day with his own eyes.

But what made him feel even more regretful was that among the current conservative believers of the Divine Religion, no one had the talent to be promoted to the third-level Divine Envoy and become a person who could expand the territory.

At this moment, the high priest suddenly raised his head and looked towards the southeast, at the oasis town that had previously flashed with divine light.

Two dazzling signals. Even if one of them is really the same as himself, a second-level escapee in the encirclement and suppression battle that year, the other signal may not be a genius of the Fiery Sun Evolution Way who can directly withstand the divine power!

I originally wanted to stay here and wait until we arrived at Oasis Town to check it out...

Now, when the high priest thought of the wasteland wolf clan and the tens of thousands of evolved wasteland wolves that were about to kill and plunder Oasis Town, he became a little restless.

Immediately he said:

"I can't wait any longer. I have to go to Oasis Town first."

"This group of steppe wolves that left Fallen Wolf Valley didn't flee into the wilderness as they did in the past. Instead, they lay in ambush at the fork in the road leading to Oasis Town."

"They want to attack Oasis Town."

"Right now, Oasis Town is under attack from both sides. Life Farm is laying the groundwork for a power grab, and tens of thousands of wasteland wolves are eyeing it covetously from outside..."

"Even if there's only a second-rank priest in Oasis Town, it's still necessary to bring him out."

"After all, he is an old priest who has experienced and completed the inheritance. Even if his strength is not as good as ours, his vision and knowledge are superior to yours. Escorting him back will play a certain role in the future."

"After I leave, the Divine Religion will have to rely on you all to hold on."

After saying this, the high priest prepared to get up, leave the ruins, and head towards Oasis Avenue.

The two priests looked at each other, and then one of them stepped forward:

"Let me escort you to Oasis Town. With so many parties gathering here, there are many uncertainties along the way. If something unexpected happens, all our efforts will be wasted."

The high priest thought about it and nodded.

Then the three of them said goodbye.

The old and dying high priest, supported by a mid-level 26 priest, walked quickly towards the southeast.

At the same time, in front of Oasis Town, the arena.

The high priest transformed into a wild wolf warrior and successfully dismembered and shattered the overwhelmed Rock Horse Armor.

Li Hao, realizing that the situation had changed, immediately put on his Rock Horse armor and went on the field to stop it.

However, he was interrupted in time by Father Su An, who was well prepared and wearing the second-stage mid-stage Immortal Holy Armor.

In his hand, he also held a spear made of alloy wolf bones!
A dazzling spark slid out from the ceramic shoulder pads of the Rock Horse Armor.

Leaving a one centimeter deep crack!

(End of this chapter)