Published: February 6, 2025
Chapter 4: Another Update Soon!
Due to the unfinished city walls, everyone felt that guarding the city was a joke. The enemy could easily bypass the defenses and launch attacks from behind.
However, when the Lou family arrived with over a hundred cavalry, many regretted their previous thoughts.
If they could have chosen the battlefield to be on or behind the city walls, at least they wouldn't have to endure such an impact.
With no experience in combating cavalry, the people from Cloud Summit Villa had no choice but to rely on the personal abilities of the evolvers to instinctively choose their responses. Unfortunately, most of these responses were incorrect, and this assault directly scattered the already precarious defenses of Cloud Summit, which had been under attack by prisoners from Ying City Prison.
The warriors of Cloud Summit Villa found themselves in a disadvantageous situation, fighting individually.
Every moment saw someone falling. These individuals had just begun to develop a sense of belonging to Cloud Summit Villa.
Mo Ye, Lu Yi, Sister Rong, and others felt immense heartache.
A base should be stable, united, and possess high morale and combat effectiveness; every member should have a strong sense of belonging.
Such a feeling does not emerge overnight; it requires time, continuous strong stimulation, or subtle influences.
Ye Zhongming was a good boss. He could earn benefits that made other factions envious for the members of the villa without delaying his own evolution.
Like the harvest Young Master Yun had brought back last time, when he revealed it, the high-ranking members of Cloud Summit Villa were stunned for over a minute.
But he was not a sage or a thousand-faced Guanyin; he couldn't cover every aspect.
He could only provide the strongest support in the area he excelled at, or rather, the most crucial area in the apocalypse—military strength.
As for other aspects, it required other core members to manage diligently.
To quickly strengthen the villa and solidify its foundation, these core members invested a lot of effort in the grassroots members. In an apocalypse where people's hearts had turned cold, making survivors develop feelings for a faction was not an easy task. Most teams relied on benefits to maintain mutual relationships; this method, while indifferent, was sturdy enough.
But Mo Ye, Xia Lei, and others did not wish for it to be this way.
While the arrival of the apocalypse had undoubtedly exposed the ugly side of human nature, these individuals still believed that at least they could ensure that their own people retained the most basic conscience typical of peacetime.
Those who had not strived for this goal could not comprehend the frustration and hardships involved, yet these individuals never gave up. Perhaps for people like Lu Yi and Liu Zhenghong, as well as women like Mo Ye, Xia Lei, and Sister Rong, the concept of home was much stronger than for others.
To some extent, they regarded Cloud Summit Villa as their home.
Unfortunately, the 'results' they had painstakingly cultivated during this phase were falling one by one before their eyes.
Anger appeared on the faces of many from Cloud Summit Villa.
"When Ye Zhongming killed my son, did he ever think that such a day would come? Your deaths today are all because of your foolish boss!"
Lou Zhengxiao shouted loudly while holding a spear with the head of a Cloud Summit warrior strung on its tip.
After Ye Zhongming killed his three sons and a brother on Lake Heart Island, the entire Lou family had become mortal enemies with this man.
Lou Zhengxiao did not consider why his sons were killed; he only knew that blood must be repaid with blood.
Today, he brought all the available warriors from the Lou family to destroy Ye Zhongming's foundation! He wanted to behead all the people from Cloud Summit Villa, making a display for that man to see!
Moreover, Lou Zhengxiao even developed an almost uncontrollable thought.
He wanted to challenge that man, personally stabbing his body with a thousand holes.