Published: February 6, 2025
Ye Zhongming, who was about to leave, suddenly stopped, as did the spirit woman who was gathering her subordinates. The other survivors who had seen Ye Zhongming retreat also paused on the battlefield.
They looked at this suddenly appeared force, each with their own thoughts.
But no matter who it was, at this moment, everyone was shocked by the luxurious equipment of this small team.
All of them were clad in uniform gray-grade gear!
Even the small forces and alliances to which Ye Zhongming had almost given away equipment had not guaranteed that each person would have a piece of gray-grade weaponry.
Yet this newly appeared team had achieved that. Moreover, these gray weapons showed no differences whatsoever.
This was a team of five hundred people, each wearing four pieces of gray equipment: clothing, pants, shoes, and weapons.
While others saw the good gear on this team, Ye Zhongming also noted the strength of these individuals.
Very strong, exceptionally strong!
Ye Zhongming pondered for a moment; if the people from Cloud Summit Villa were to confront these individuals, not counting his own high-end combat power, Cloud Summit Villa would... inevitably lose.
This realization made Ye Zhongming stand tall.
In Ying City, he could find any force, and neither he nor Cloud Summit Villa would fear them, even being able to win in battle.
However, against this small team, if he did not take action, his subordinates would truly be no match.
First, there was the individual strength disparity. In this team, there were three hundred one-star evolvers, while the remaining two hundred were all two-star evolvers!
This revelation shocked Ye Zhongming significantly. The apocalypse had just begun a little over three months ago; acquiring two hundred two-star evolvers might require fifteen to twenty thousand Grade 2 Magic Crystals to turn the wheel, unless you were part of a twisted organization like the zero commerce association that fed humans to zombies—was there any other force capable of achieving this?
Ye Zhongming couldn’t help but feel a rising intent to kill; he began to doubt the origins of these people's magic crystals.
Secondly, these five hundred people were divided into five hundred-man teams, each led by a three-star evolver, with at least one piece of white-grade equipment on them!
Five three-stars!
No, Ye Zhongming's gaze fell to the very front of the team where three individuals were not wearing standardized equipment; they had... two three-stars and one four-star!
Ye Zhongming tightened his grip on the Edge of the Moon sword.
How could this be?!
Seven three-stars, one four-star!
Ye Zhongming now understood that the mysterious president of the zero commerce association must be a four-star evolver; apart from him and Red Hair being human puppets, who else could there be?
Now, another four-star evolver had appeared—how did this person achieve this?
And there were seven three-star evolvers as well; the entire Cloud Summit Villa currently only had the earth yellow pill and Young Master Yun at this level.
These individuals definitely had secrets!
Ye Zhongming was very certain about this; under normal circumstances, no one could acquire so many high-level evolution potions within three months of the apocalypse.
Finally, and most shockingly to Ye Zhongming, was the combat method of this team.
Militarized!
Their cooperation, their coordination, and each individual's fighting method all carried a strong military character. It was clear that this group had undergone the strictest military training.
The combat effectiveness of the same number of human evolvers who had received military training versus those who had not could differ by at least two to five times; although this gap might shrink or even disappear as the brutal reality of the apocalypse served as the best teacher toward the end, at least for now, this trained team was practically invincible among the same numbers.
Ye Zhongming found it strange that these individuals had undergone such strict military training but bore no trace of a military demeanor—where did they come from?