Published: February 6, 2025
The theme of battle has always been a constant in the apocalypse, even in the Cloud Summit Villa, which is still in the early stages of rebuilding.
Since this location was chosen as the base, the first step, regardless of future plans, must be to eliminate the dangers surrounding it.
Outside the walls, there are thousands of mutated creatures. On the afternoon of the first day Ye Zhongming occupied the Cloud Summit Villa, the campaign against the mutated life forms outside the walls began.
Everyone in the villa had to participate in this fight. People from Jennings, Lu Yi, Sister Rong, and Wei Xiaoyong added up to about five hundred individuals who were all called out on this sunny afternoon.
"Actually, I could have chosen not to say anything," Ye Zhongming stood on the villa's doorstep and addressed the crowd of hundreds below, "Just like others have treated you before."
These people, with their strange odors and vacant gazes, stood on the gravel path in front of the villa, listening to the new leader of the villa give his speech.
"However, if you want to survive in this world, I believe that isn't enough. You need to unleash your potential and do things you would normally shy away from."
"I need members like that, not the kind that sit idly by waiting for scraps of food and dirty water to survive."
"Later, you will need to go outside and fight those zombies and mutated plants and animals to clean up the area around the villa. This is the beginning of your new life."
"Those who perform well will be rewarded, not just today, but in the future as well." Ye Zhongming clapped his hands, "So, that's that."
"Of course, if you are a construction engineer, doctor, mechanical technician, plumber, or possess other useful skills for the base's development, you may not have to fight today. You can register here to the left."
After Ye Zhongming finished speaking, Xia Lei stepped forward to announce the format and groupings for today's battle, but was interrupted almost immediately.
"Why do we have to go?"
A skinny man suddenly shouted, likely one of Jennings' former subordinates based on his position.
"Yeah, we don't want to fight. We may not have lived well before, but we've gotten used to it. I don't want to risk my life against those monsters outside."
"Right, if we must fight, we should only do so after becoming evolvers."
With a leader to follow, voices of refusal began to rise one after another.
Indeed, evolvers were terrifying, holding power within the villa, and these new arrivals possessed strength that ordinary people could not resist.
Under normal circumstances, these people wouldn't dare to speak up.
But now, they were being asked to go outside and risk their lives against those monsters! This was a matter of life and death!
Why did these people stay in the villa and accept their fate? It was simply because they were afraid of the overwhelming number of monsters outside.
Now, even that minimal security couldn't be guaranteed, and the threat of death ultimately outweighed their fear of the evolvers, hence the rebellion emerged.
Moreover, this place was different from the New Area Base back then.
The New Area Base was a gathering of survivors from various places, with most people not knowing each other.
But the survivors in Cloud Summit Villa were mainly from a few companies, and aside from some women with tragic experiences, others had not suffered too much abuse due to their previous connections, like Jennings' people; although many had died, most perished due to hunger or illness, with few being killed outright.
For instance, Sister Rong and her group faced some challenges, but Xiao Dong, although he had some crazy and perverse moments with his subordinates on the last night, did not harm Sister Rong's women beforehand and even provided food and water, asking only for their company at night instead of their lives.
Thus, when faced with the situation today, these people began to harbor some rebellious thoughts.
Of course, the sheer number of people gathered and the appearance of Ye Zhongming’s team, with their good looks, diminished their sense of awe significantly.