Doomsday Roulette

The storage area is one of the few bright places in Cloud Summit Villa.

An old man sat next to a table adorned with several exquisite candlesticks, reading a book in his hands.

Since becoming an evolver, Lu Yi's eyesight had greatly improved, allowing him to enjoy reading even at night whenever he had free time.

A knock on the door broke his concentration. Lu Yi frowned. Although evolution had freed his body from the weakness typical of a sixty-five-year-old, it hadn’t changed his habits. He still despised being disturbed at night.

The person who entered was a young man in his early thirties, holding a short axe that gleamed with a gray light under the candlelight.

"Xiang Tao, is something wrong?"

Lu Yi had a decent impression of this young man, who used to live next door to him and worked as an executive at the same company. During the apocalypse, he had shown a maturity and composure beyond his years, and after becoming an evolver, he had also become one of Lu Yi's good helpers.

"Uncle Lu, someone from Jennings is here and wants to trade for some food."

Lu Yi controlled the storage area of Cloud Summit Villa because it was well-stocked. It was the only force among the four factions in the villa that didn’t need to venture out to find food. Because of this, outsiders often thought there were only three factions at the villa.

As a result, Lu Yi and his group had suffered almost no losses since the apocalypse began. However, those who had come to the villa for vacation had gathered together, and they couldn't be said to be very united.

"What’s the price?" Lu Yi asked.

"One bottle of One-Star Evolution Elixir in exchange for twenty bags of rice, fifty boxes of canned food, ten bags of salt, ten barrels of oil, two boxes of instant noodles, and two hundred liters of water."

As soon as Xiang Tao finished speaking, Lu Yi frowned. Jennings was the head of a multinational company's China branch. When the apocalypse began, their company was holding an annual meeting here, which left them trapped. However, they had many people, managed to control the situation, occupied the meeting area, and discovered the roulette, thus gaining evolvers.

Now, they had the strongest group among the four forces in Cloud Summit Villa.

Lu Yi's fourth faction, composed of vacationers who had been at the villa at that time, still had a gap in strength compared to them. Fortunately, the situation was maintained in a stalemate. Although the four factions had varying strengths, none could completely swallow another without suffering significant losses or fearing being taken advantage of by others.

Lu Yi, who had spent his life in business and was accustomed to measuring everything by interests, knew that this status quo would eventually be broken. His goal was to become the victor on the day when chaos ensued.

Fortunately, he controlled the storage area and had the supplies that the other three factions needed. Though he didn't have a roulette, he had managed to exchange for many Evolution Potions through trade with other factions.

After all, aside from Jennings and his group, there were also Xiao Dong's force, which was mainly composed of villa staff controlling the employee area, and Wei Xiaoyong's group, which controlled the hot spring villa area. They all had roulette. If they didn’t trade with Lu Yi, others would.

To be honest, the feeling of living in a tight spot was quite unpleasant. The supplies in the storage area would eventually run out, and when that happened, the strength of the other three factions would surpass his, leading to a deadlock.

Lu Yi was contemplating his future options when he heard about Jennings wanting to trade. Initially, he was pleased, but upon hearing the terms, he felt dissatisfied.

Compared to a few days ago, this foreigner was asking for too much this time.

“Jack is here, along with Zhang Ying and Tai Zheng. The rest are ordinary people.”

Hmm? Lu Yi looked up at Xiang Tao.

"What do you mean…?"

"Uncle Lu, we currently have ten evolvers, Xiao Dong has twelve, Wei Xiaoyong has thirteen, and Jennings has fourteen. Half a month ago, the number of evolvers on our side was the same as theirs, but now that gap has widened."