Published: February 5, 2025
When the sun rose, the chaos in Ulan County City finally calmed down.
That night, countless people said goodbye to this cold apocalypse, their bodies discarded everywhere, as if God had abandoned this world.
Sheng Yuan's previous identity played a certain role; many people recognized this former top thug under Huang Xijie. After he stepped in, with the help of the squad members, he gradually took control of the situation.
The process was certainly not harmonious; by the end of the night, almost everyone's hands were stained with blood.
When someone's red eyes and vicious face approached you with a wooden stick, your choices were actually very limited.
Ye Zhongming then issued a series of commands.
Liang Chuyin and Le Da Yuan took people to conduct a thorough search in places where Huang Xijie and those evolvers usually frequented.
Mo Ye set up a food exchange point at the city gate with an assistant, where anyone with magic crystals could exchange them for much more food, water, and medicine than before.
Little Tiger, Xia Lei, and three other assistants of the musician gathered people next to the exchange point, forming a hunting team prepared to leave the city to hunt zombies. The conditions offered were very tempting; according to their performance, essential supplies would be distributed, and those who excelled could even receive Evolution Potions.
Meanwhile, Sheng Yuan and Park Soo-young organized some people to patrol the county town, ensuring that chaos wouldn’t break out again, and were responsible for collecting various pieces of information. Anyone who felt they had valuable information could tell Sheng Yuan and Park Soo-young, and if they found it useful, they would provide essential supplies to the informant.
Ye Zhongming was also busy; he had people searching for transportation, building blueprints, design schemes, and so on, preparing for the future.
The reason for staying here was manifold. For instance, Ye Zhongming's memories after his rebirth were concentrated in two areas. A small part was in the city he had just left, while most was in the destination he was heading to. Beyond these two locations, his knowledge was mostly similar to what others knew.
He had people gather all kinds of information, partly to analyze possible intelligence that might help him, as his foresight had surpassed these people by a decade. What appeared useless in others' eyes might hold significant value in his. Additionally, he was following clues, hoping to recall some things he had overlooked since his rebirth.
If possible, Ye Zhongming would try to turn these into tangible gains.
Another important point was that they were at the onset of the grade 2 mutation tide, which would cause the lowest level of life to evolve to the next level.
This was not just an arbitrary statement from Ye Zhongming but was based on the timelines provided by some scholars in his past life. From one month after the apocalypse began to a year into the future, this period would be the grade 2 evolution tide.
During this period, a large number of low-level life forms would disappear, giving rise to a massive number of grade 2 evolved beings.
Human evolution speed, from this moment forward, would be rapidly outpaced by mutated life forms, leaving humans in a constant state of catch-up.
What Ye Zhongming needed to do was seize this opportunity to stockpile a large amount of Grade 1 Magic Crystals, thereby obtaining a significant quantity of One-Star Evolution Elixirs. These would become an incomparable treasure when humanity stabilized and began to require numerous evolution opportunities.
Thus, it was worth lingering here for a bit.
If this task fell solely to Ye Zhongming and his small team, the effect would certainly be poor due to their limited numbers. However, if his team took the lead and coordinated more ordinary people to participate, the efficiency would rise significantly.
As Ulan was only a county town, the number of mutated life forms in the surrounding area was far less than in the city from which Ye Zhongming had departed, so with proper planning, they could clean it up in a short time.