Doomsday Roulette

Ye Zhongming chopped down the last zombie on the playground, and by now, he had collected more than thirty Grade 1 Magic Crystals.

However, Ye Zhongming felt that was not enough because he needed to spin the wheel twice.

Such a good opportunity had presented itself, and he had no reason to only take one profession's badge and the Pledge Parchment. He wanted both.

But there were difficulties ahead of him.

There were already many people in the campus who had directly mutated into zombies, and with the number of infected individuals over the past few hours, the count had risen to a very alarming level.

As a one-star evolver, Ye Zhongming was strong now, but he still did not have the confidence to face a horde of over twenty zombies together, so he had to choose areas with fewer zombies to take action.

The playground was an excellent hunting ground; during the disaster, there were not many people here, and the wandering zombies mostly came from other places, resulting in a low density.

However, the zombies in other areas were clustered together, and with Ye Zhongming's current strength, he did not dare to provoke them.

After some consideration, he decided to return to the teaching building where he had just killed the Grade 2 zombie, Iron Arm, to collect the magic crystals he had not been able to take with him.

Although he was already a one-star evolver, after killing his way from the playground, Ye Zhongming felt his stamina rapidly depleting, forcing him to continue forward while munching on the prepared chocolate.

By the time he returned to the teaching building he had left, he was already beginning to feel exhausted.

Of course, the rewards were immense; along the way, he had taken down several more zombies.

Since leaving Mu Xinfey's villa, he had already collected over a hundred Grade 1 Magic Crystals and one Grade 2 Magic Crystal.

This haul, achieved within just half a day since the apocalypse began, was astonishing to consider. Ye Zhongming had accomplished in just a few hours what had taken more than a year in his previous life.

Sitting under a tree in front of the teaching building, Ye Zhongming waited for a slight recovery of his stamina. A one-star evolver's enhancement of the body was comprehensive; it was not just reflected in the increase in physical attributes but also in recovery abilities.

Though the one-star level was somewhat low, and the recovery ability was not very significant, once the evolutionary level was high enough, the body's recovery and self-healing abilities could be frightening. Ye Zhongming had once witnessed the leader of his previous team, an eighth-level powerful warrior, recover completely within just three days after being slashed by someone, nearly exposing his entire spine.

After five minutes, Ye Zhongming felt much better and quietly entered the teaching building, ready to dig out the magic crystals from the zombies he had killed earlier.

However, when he saw a zombie at the stairs, his eyes widened in shock.

The magic crystal on the zombie's forehead had already been dug out!

Ye Zhongming's heart tightened; could it be that someone had quickly grasped the secret of the roulette? Had they started their evolutionary journey just like him?

It was not that Ye Zhongming did not want others to evolve; on the contrary, he hoped that more humans would possess powerful strength in this life to reverse the fact that humanity had been at the bottom of the entire evolutionary pyramid in his previous life.

But that did not mean anyone could steal his achievements and benefits. This act of digging out others' magic crystals made Ye Zhongming somewhat displeased.

However, this displeasure only lasted for a second before Ye Zhongming dismissed it. In the apocalypse, there were far worse things happening; if you measured behaviors in the apocalypse by the moral standards of the old era, you wouldn't need to worry about being bitten; you'd be infuriated to death by yourself.

What he cared about more was whether he could retrieve those magic crystals.