Published: February 12, 2025
"Ye, do you think this will work? I saw that woman leave without showing any interest at all. You're just making empty promises; I wouldn’t believe it either if I were in your shoes," Jie Kui gestured and spoke to make Ye Zhongming understand his point.
Ye Zhongming didn't respond. He was uncertain about the female life form's thoughts himself. He had said everything he could, and whether that woman would join or not was beyond his control.
In fact, the King of Cloud Summit had over eighty percent confidence that this woman would join a battle team in the final few cycles, as that would be the most advantageous choice for her.
However, what Ye Zhongming couldn't guarantee was whether this woman would follow him.
Ye Zhongming didn't want to form a large, multi-racial team; while that would provide bonuses to points, it would also require complicated and detailed distribution. With that energy, Ye Zhongming preferred to achieve kills on his own.
His ideal state was to have an elite squad dedicated to hunting down high-point but limited quantities of mutated life forms and parasite beasts. To ensure success, continuous combat was key.
If they had to wait two days to recover after killing a high-point mutated life form, it would render the effort meaningless.
Yet powerful mutated life forms and parasites would inevitably cause injuries during the hunting process, which highlighted the importance of that female life form.
A pharmacist profession, Ye Zhongming thought it was truly a miracle for someone like her to have made it this far. It would be a great pity if he couldn't win her over.
He went to the shop with Jie Kui, and by this time, there were significantly fewer people. Jie Kui's injuries were easier to treat; he spent forty points to buy two bottles of potions. After consuming one, his injuries were mostly healed, and he kept the other as a backup. For someone with just over a hundred points, the price made him feel breathless.
Ye Zhongming found himself in a more troublesome situation. There were medications that treated specific injuries, but the one for his arm cost forty points per bottle. There was also a solution to the curse of Naka, which was a medicine called "Negative State Eliminator." Each bottle cost one hundred points and could only eliminate one negative state.
Ye Zhongming's points allowed him to buy only one bottle.
He exchanged glances with Jie Kui, both feeling that this place was quite a rip-off.
Grinding his teeth, Ye Zhongming purchased a bottle of Negative State Eliminator to restore his hearing. As for the injury on his arm, he decided to let it heal gradually since he had already cleaned the toxins in the seawater due to the Sea King Crown.
After lingering around the shop, the two emerged looking disheveled; it was too expensive, and they couldn't afford it.
Like others, they took their remaining points to the free market.
"Ye, should we sell our stuff?"
"Let's take a look first."
"What to look at? These are all top-tier life forms! It's so organized. Look over there, that's the material area, this side is the finished product area, and on that side is the miscellaneous goods area."
"Mm."
"Ye, in three days, over two thousand out of thirty thousand people died. That ratio is a bit exaggerated. According to your saying, as we reach the later stages, mutual killing will become more severe. How many people will be left in the end? Ten thousand? Or five thousand?"
"Don't know."
"Ye..."
"Shut up!"
"Alright."
With his hearing restored, communication became smooth. Jie Kui's tendency to talk a lot was becoming apparent, and Ye Zhongming had to suppress that tendency before it got out of hand.
In a spontaneous market, there was everything. Everyone wanted to trade what they had obtained in the past three days for points. After all, the qualification for free trading of points was only available during these twelve hours between the two breaks.
Ye Zhongming quickly browsed through the market, appearing to just glance around, not buying anything, only occasionally asking for prices.