Doomsday Roulette

“Team Leader Liang, is there something wrong with the conditions we offered?”

The man speaking was handsome and very well-groomed, his clothes looking brand new.

This wasn’t the kind of cleanliness one would expect after just finding new clothes, but rather the neatness of someone who showers daily in peaceful times.

The man being called Team Leader Liang was a muscular man with a dark complexion, a thick beard, and expressive eyebrows.

At this moment, Team Leader Liang wore a troubled expression, his arms crossed tightly at times, then loosening, clearly caught in a fierce internal struggle.

The handsome man took out a box of cigarettes, handed one to Team Leader Liang after lighting one for himself, and said, “In everyone’s world, it’s very special and very capable. I don’t deny that. The price we offered comes from this. Whether it’s the quantity of magic crystals or Evolution Potions, or even other equipment and weapons, these all represent our sincerity. Team Leader Liang, don’t you think I’m right?”

Faced with such a question, Team Leader Liang swallowed hard and nodded awkwardly, “You’re right, but…”

“There’s no ‘but’!”

The man interrupted Team Leader Liang’s words somewhat rudely.

“In this world, everything has a price. Before the apocalypse, this principle existed; it’s just that many people were unwilling to admit it, and mainstream media wouldn’t promote such a worldview. But after the apocalypse, everyone clearly understands the correctness of this statement, and I believe you’re no exception, Team Leader Liang.”

The man walked back and forth a couple of steps, pointing in the air with his cigarette in hand, “Your hesitation actually shows that you don’t understand our organization. Once you do, you’ll find that in this world, there are indeed people who are very special. You’ll realize that this world isn’t ‘everyone’s world,’ but… the world of these people.”

“Arrogant!”

A very young voice came from behind.

The handsome man turned his head slightly to see the source of the voice, noticing a young man around twenty-four or twenty-five years old in the Everyone's World team, looking visibly upset and clearly disagreeing with his previous comments.

With a light chuckle, the man squeezed himself into the Everyone's World team. With his evolution level, no one in this building-focused team could withstand his strength, and some who attempted to block him were knocked aside. Soon, he stood before the young man.

“Do you know? I’m actually quite curious how someone like you has survived for over two years in the apocalypse?” The smoke ring wafted into the young man's face, causing him to frown and take a step back, revealing that his evolution level was probably no higher than three-star.

“What, can’t I still be alive?”

As the young man repeated that half-sentence, the cigarette butt in the man’s hand suddenly burned against the young man's hand as he raised it to disperse the smoke.

The heat from the cigarette butt wouldn’t inflict significant harm on an evolver, and with their robust recovery abilities, they could be fine in a day or two, without even leaving a scar.

However, this clearly humiliating action raised the dissatisfaction of others in the Everyone's World team. Even if they weren’t primarily combat-oriented evolvers, they were still evolvers and had seen blood in their daily lives.

A conflict erupted at that moment; while small in scale, some people still began to fight.

However, the man had a high evolution level, and within seconds, more than five members of the Everyone's World team were knocked to the ground. He didn’t kill anyone, but those individuals wouldn’t be able to stand up for a while.

The engineering leader from Cloud Summit witnessed this scene.

“Stop! Which team are you from?”

As a member of Cloud Summit Villa, he naturally carried a bit more authority in Ying City, especially within Cloud Summit where those with relevant technical skills were held in high regard compared to outsiders, and the warriors respected him, which gave his words a touch of pride.