Published: February 13, 2025
Ye Zhongming did not immediately return to Cloud Summit but instead arrived at the edge of the Bering Strait.
It wasn’t too far from where he had wiped out the hostile organization in Cloud Summit, and he no longer cared about what was in the destroyed base.
With a different perspective, naturally, his decisions would also differ. As he moved quickly across the endless ice fields, Ye Zhongming felt the changes in his body.
Through this time of ‘smuggling’, he understood some things. When he was taken up by the guiding sun, he lost his equipment and abilities; all that remained were his bloodline, body, Dominion Equipment, and elemental spirit.
The explanation from the All Races of the Universe was that the roulette technology was like an incredibly precise instrument, strictly controlling the proportions of various energies on each planet.
What belongs to you, what can be taken away, what is useless, what is useful... and so on.
It adhered to the principle of selecting the most outstanding warriors, nurturing them on their home planet to make them strong, and when it was time to leave, stripping away what could be taken.
No one knows what the roulette truly is or where it came from. But everyone understands that it tasks each planet to eliminate parasites and hinder the growth of each slave race.
If you are on your home planet, then as long as you have strength and luck, the roulette can give you everything; but once you leave, much will be taken away.
From this perspective, the All Races of the Universe have, to some extent, stepped out of the roulette’s control.
This is also why there are divergences in how the All Races of the Universe treat the roulette.
The Hall People, represented by their race, believe that while the roulette may currently provide tremendous assistance to cosmic life, its ultimate purpose is to control the All Races of the Universe, perhaps even like the slave races.
They do not believe in help that comes without reason, nor do they trust that this seemingly omnipresent yet incredibly mysterious entity harbors benevolent intentions.
On the other hand, the Lena People and other races prefer to believe in the roulette’s goodwill and are more willing to fully accept and learn about roulette technology, not seeing it as a threat; even if something is unclear, they attribute it to the circumstances.
In the past, Ye Zhongming's understanding of this was merely superficial; now, he had a profound experience.
He traveled from Earth to the universe, stripped of many of his abilities and equipment, leaving very little behind.
Equipment is easy to understand; it isn’t that it can’t be taken out, but the cost of taking it out is too high, and the expenditure of Moon Age Gold often exceeds the value of the equipment itself.
Furthermore, on Earth, purple-grade was already the best, but in the All Races of the Universe, it can only be considered average. Among the All Races of the Universe, fuleira is fundamental.
Now, compared to the time he was taken out, after being transported back, those abilities had not returned to him.
Ye Zhongming wondered if those abilities had somehow transformed back into skill scrolls under some mysterious force, appearing on some roulette.
Of course, the equipment had not appeared either; it was probably still left in the villa.
However, whether it was those previous pieces of equipment or those abilities, they had become unimportant to Ye Zhongming.
After the teleportation, the gear he was wearing naturally remained on that ship outside the control range of the slave race on Earth, watched over by Jie Su, who wore an A11 mask.
As for fuleira, Ye Zhongming felt no change; this should be his own energy, which should not be stripped away under any circumstance, except for death.
These also came at a price; Ye Zhongming’s teleportation was pricey, akin to a first-class round-trip ticket.
This time, Ye Zhongming crossed the Bering Strait to the American continent to resolve a hidden danger.