Doomsday Roulette

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The gardener profession is somewhat similar to the glorious artisan; both do not have just one professional skill. However, compared to the glorious artisan with a prefix, the gardener profession only has two skills: cultivation and activation.

Cultivation, as the name suggests, involves growing a plant from seed stage, taking care of it as it sprouts and grows. Because it is a professional skill, the speed and effectiveness of cultivation are different from natural growth; it is more efficient and may produce some outstanding abilities.

Activation, on the other hand, is a way to control plants, with effects that can be bizarre and varied. One thing is certain: it can help gardeners complete all sorts of tasks, which is quite magical.

Ye Zhongming has experienced the apocalypse; he knows what survival is like in such a world. It is a life where one must keep their eyes open even while sleeping, constantly worrying about food and water for survival, while also facing various dangers.

Among these dangers, some mutated plants catch people off guard; they usually kill without a sound, and when they become powerful, they are no weaker than the desolate beasts and the king of the mutants that roam the apocalypse.

In his past life, Ye Zhongming once saw a sycamore tree that had evolved to an unknown extent. The entire tree stood over three hundred meters tall, with a trunk as thick as a skyscraper, and its canopy covered a whole city! Whether it was a nine-star expert among humans or a desolate beast looking down on the world, even the king of the mutants kept their distance from this tree that had turned sentient. Some audacious and reckless mutated animals or beasts dared to enter the area of this giant tree, but none ever walked out. Over time, it came to be known as the Heavenly Tree.

Ye Zhongming once took a distant glance at this tree, and even that glance left him feeling as if his soul had left his body. After averting his gaze, he was drenched in cold sweat, and his mental strength suffered a huge shock that took two days to recover from. This shows just how terrifying it is to approach or enter the area of the Heavenly Tree.

This illustrates the status of mutated plants during the apocalypse.

If a gardener’s level increases, being able to cultivate or control mutated plants would evidently enhance one’s own strength.

To put it another way, even without discussing mutated plants, just being able to grow ordinary plants, such as food crops, vegetables, and fruits, is also quite beneficial. At the beginning of the apocalypse, aside from obtaining a small amount of edible items from low-level roulette, the issue of food was extremely prominent. Crops were lost, pre-apocalypse food had mostly gone bad, and humanity as a whole couldn’t compete with other races, leading many to starve. It wasn’t until humanity’s strength improved and they could hunt mutated creatures and beasts that their meat replaced a significant portion of food consumption.

Even so, fresh fruits and vegetables were definitely luxuries. Their good taste and the abundance of trace elements guaranteed that vegetables and fruits held a status akin to gold or diamonds during peacetime.

A gardener, even if they could only cultivate these, could exchange them for immense wealth.

After gaining some understanding of this profession, Ye Zhongming realized that this is a very, very good secondary profession, and in some ways, its practicality is on par with that of the glorious artisan that comes with a glamorous prefix.

Although there are limited ways to obtain powerful plant seeds—only by collecting from mutated plants, spinning the roulette, or finding them in the desolate areas—typically, one can only cultivate some ordinary seeds. However, after reading the introduction to this profession, Ye Zhongming resolutely decided to learn it.

After a surge of strange energy, Ye Zhongming became a gardener.