Published: January 31, 2025
Mu Xinfey's scolding came to an abrupt halt when she saw a massive wheel that was over two meters tall appear in the spacious kitchen.
"What... what is this?"
By the standards of a typical civilized society, Mu Xinfey could be considered a standard "tough girl."
This was evident from the fact that when Ye Zhongming walked in, she didn't dodge or sound the alarm immediately.
Her confidence partly stemmed from the two months of self-defense training she had taken and partly from her trust in the security of the Prosperous Luxury Residence.
There had been incidents in the past where intruders attempting to break in had been severely beaten by the security guards.
Of course, Ye Zhongming's appearance also gave a sense of reassurance.
Ye Zhongming reached out to touch the refined surface of the wheel, as if caressing Bai Shishi's smooth skin.
Although he had been reborn in a life that felt dreamlike, seeing such an item again in this new life stirred a complex array of emotions within him—comfort, hope, anger, weariness, attachment... it was all very complicated, so much so that he didn't even know how to describe it.
This was the foundation for the survival of the remaining humans. In the previous apocalypse, those who first learned to use the wheel became the strongest of the survivors.
Ten years later, some of these individuals had become unparalleled powerhouses, controlling a devastated Earth and wielding an absolute power that no head of state in the civilized world had ever possessed.
They were kings in their own territories, with the authority to give life and death at their whim, always having the final say.
The reason they could wield such tremendous power was all thanks to these various levels of wheels.
In his past life, Ye Zhongming had only seen his first one three months after the apocalypse began. He had realized that such things existed in the world and understood that this was the hope for becoming stronger.
It took him another three months to gather five Grade 1 Magic Crystals to spin the wheel, but he discovered that the vast majority of the wheels had been occupied by others.
Want to spin? Sure, but you need to hand over your magic crystals. Even if you did hand over your crystals, there was a high chance that if you landed on something good, you would still be killed, and the reward that should have been yours would become someone else's spoils.
The apocalypse was far crueler than one could imagine.
It took until a year later for Ye Zhongming to successfully join a small organization and receive an opportunity to spin the wheel, starting his journey to become stronger, ultimately reaching the status of a six-star powerhouse.
However, even after becoming powerful, finding a safe wheel to spin required great luck and a steep price to pay.
You could say that the wheel was the most valuable resource in the apocalypse!
Almost every survivor camp was built around one.
Reborn, the first and biggest advantage Ye Zhongming had was that he remembered the locations of many wheels, and the Prosperous Luxury Residence was the closest Grade 1 wheel to him.
Looking at the wheel in front of him, with its ten evenly divided sections, Ye Zhongming finally felt relieved.
With this wheel, he could become one of the early individuals to possess power and, relying on his experience and memories, quickly grow stronger.
At the center of the circular wheel was a teardrop-shaped gray gem, the mark of a Grade 1 wheel, while a wheel with a pure white gem represented a Grade 2.
If this gem turned black, it would indicate a Grade 3 wheel. Even ten years later, the locations of Grade 3 and above wheels would still be the most fiercely contested areas.
Narrowing his eyes, Ye Zhongming's gaze fell on the ten rewards represented by the ten sections of the Grade 1 wheel, and one of them made his heart race.
A one-star enhancement potion!
A potion that could give you at least five times the physical fitness of an ordinary person.
This was practically the best reward on a Grade 1 wheel.