Published: February 5, 2025
Compared to the desolation of abandoned cars and burnt buildings everywhere, the suburbs looked somewhat better.
However, the wandering zombies, the occasional mutated creatures, and a few cleanly gnawed bones clearly reminded the living that this was the apocalypse.
Ye Zhongming put down his binoculars and noticed that his palms were slightly moist.
He was a person whose hands and feet were usually very dry, so this situation was uncommon.
Ye Zhongming realized he was nervous.
Anyone would feel this way when facing a former nine-star expert.
On the way to escort the mission, Ye Zhongming had pinpointed his last target here, a green ecological wild boar breeding farm from peacetime, which was also the birthplace of a true powerhouse in his past life.
Pig King Gu Pan!
When it came to Gu Pan, people from his previous life could only describe him with two words: legendary.
His powerful history was as miraculous as a web novel, incredibly rich in legendary color. If a novel were written based on him, his evolution process would resemble someone who had opened a golden finger.
In simpler terms, this guy had the appearance of hacking the game.
The reason Gu Pan was so powerful and abnormal was that he had a batch of loyal mutated wild boar pets.
Yes, a batch. Not one, not two, not ten, but a whole batch.
Having pets was not unusual in the apocalypse, for example, people like Ye Zhongming, who maintained a subordinate relationship with certain animals even during peacetime, meaning their loyalty was high. Even if the pets mutated after the apocalypse, it didn’t affect their bond, allowing them to become battle pets.
There were many such examples. Ye Zhongming even suspected that the mutated black cat that attacked him twice belonged to the spirit woman during her lifetime; otherwise, it was hard to explain how she had three talent skills at the time of her second mutation.
But whether it was Ye Zhongming or the spirit woman, they only had one pet that others envied, while Gu Pan had many and at a very high evolution level.
When Ye Zhongming first learned about Gu Pan, this so-called Pig King supposedly had thirty mutated wild boars that had the same evolution level as him. At that time, Ye Zhongming was just a three-star evolver, while this Pig King was already a six-star evolver, leading a group of level six mutated wild boars. At that time, Gu Pan might not have been invincible among humans, but his strength could definitely rank within the top ten.
Later, when Ye Zhongming became a five-star evolver, this Pig King had already become a nine-star expert, one of the first humans to reach the pinnacle stage of nine stars. Moreover, the group of wild boars he led still had five, each at level eight mutation. In terms of personal strength, no human expert dared to say they were stronger than Gu Pan, after all, he had five loyal and fearless level eight assistants.
Even the Murderous Rose Mu Xinfey, who had met Ye Zhongming after his rebirth, once expressed such sentiments about Gu Pan—having pets is common, but having so many pets is quite something.
At that time, Gu Pan was envied by countless survivors.
But perhaps it proved a saying that there is only a thin line between genius and madness. This Pig King Gu Pan was such a person; he was so powerful yet stubbornly refused to affiliate with any forces or to establish one of his own. He just wandered the world with his group of pigs, killing high-level formidable zombies and monsters, charging into perilous places like collapsed cities and desolate lands.
However, in the dangerous apocalypse, unless you can become strong enough that nothing can threaten you, one person ultimately has limitations.
Gu Pan was like this; no matter how strong he was or how strong his mutated wild boars were, he ultimately stood alone. The group of mutated wild boars allowed him to challenge beyond his level and rapidly evolve with magic crystals, but at the peak, those five level eight mutated wild boars, like tempting wealth, were coveted by others.