Doomsday Roulette

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Yuan Shang arrived quickly, with hardly any delays along the way.

To be honest, he felt a strong curiosity about this small team that had suddenly appeared in his view and quickly made a profitable deal.

The specific reasons were unclear even to Yuan Shang himself; it might have been the young age of the team leader, or perhaps those white-tier war knives, or the confidence and clean appearance in their eyes. As someone from a headhunting background, Yuan Shang often relied on his intuition when assessing others.

He felt that these people were formidable. Most importantly, they might be of help to him.

Relying on the speed of the caravan, Yuan Shang brought the food that Ye Zhongming needed to this location.

The first thing that caught his eyes was the piles of zombie corpses not far from the gate. At that moment, someone was pouring gasoline from some abandoned vehicles onto the corpses and then igniting them.

Yuan Shang had no expression on his face, but his heart was shocked.

This group had taken over Cloud Summit Villa in such a short amount of time and had already started to clear the surrounding zombies. Their efficiency was remarkable.

In fact, Ye Zhongming was somewhat surprised by Yuan Shang's arrival; this guy was just too fast.

After their brief cooperation last time, they were somewhat familiar with each other, and there were no obstacles in their conversation. After checking the food Yuan Shang brought, the price was quickly negotiated. Yuan Shang's good impression of this straightforward buyer, who did not haggle over prices, grew stronger.

“Boss Ye, several forces nearby are planning to go to a certain place. I wonder if you're interested.”

Initially, Ye Zhongming didn’t pay much attention to this. Such things happen all the time; alliances or mutual attacks are completely normal in the apocalypse.

He estimated that Yuan Shang had noticed some strength in his team, which led him to this thought.

Ye Zhongming wasn't particularly interested in such matters, at least not at the moment. Even in peaceful times, profit is the source of all evil, and even more so in the apocalypse. With several rising forces banding together to fight, there was a risk of dragging one another down, half-hearted efforts, or even betrayal. Unless absolutely necessary, Ye Zhongming did not wish to partake in such joint operations.

However, when Yuan Shang explained the target of this operation in detail, Ye Zhongming's expression changed for a moment, and then he fell silent for a while.

Yuan Shang was a bit at a loss, unsure of what he had said wrong to cause such an expression from the young leader.

“Are you sure that place is occupied by a group of bright-skinned, eyelid-less monsters with sharp teeth and claws, and no magic crystals?”

“Of course!” Yuan Shang replied, his eyes filled with confusion. “That place has been discovered for a while now, but there are quite a few of those one-meter-tall monsters, moving quickly, each of which poses a huge threat to one-star evolvers. Even though everyone knows there are many weapons and magic crystals there, very few dare to go. This time, these forces are taking a big risk; the more people that go, the better. It’s best if they can crush those monsters with overwhelming strength, making it much safer.”

Some members of the team went outside to supervise the laborers, while others lounged around inside, such as Xia Lei, Le Da Yuan, and Candy. They were all focused on Ye Zhongming, as this man’s expression was unusually serious; they had rarely seen him like this.

Could it be that the place Yuan Shang mentioned was some kind of dragon’s den or tiger’s lair? If it were truly dangerous, then why bother going there? Why such an expression?

The monsters Yuan Shang described were holed up in the munitions depot that he had previously mentioned to Ye Zhongming. Yuan Shang had been lucky before, managing to take some weapons when those monsters had just arrived. However, the vast majority remained there. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to take more; it was that he hadn’t had the chance.