Published: February 7, 2025
If we were to solely comment on the value of the carnivorous plant, it wouldn't naturally make Ye Zhongming, who possesses numerous treasures, this happy. However, someone who has been reborn deeply understands how difficult it is to defend a base in the apocalypse.
Many times, the existence of a base often represents the rise and fall, the success and failure of a force. In Ye Zhongming's plan, a stable and healthy base is essential.
So when this plant that could be used for defense appeared, he became excited, because it is a very important part of constructing the entire defense system.
Overall, the defense in the apocalypse mainly revolves around several aspects: terrain, people, animals, plants, and buildings.
Terrain is easy to understand; for example, Cloud Summit Villa is a terrain very favorable for defense, backed by a cliff with only one road in front.
People refer to the overall strength of the evolvers, and Cloud Summit is currently doing quite well.
Buildings consist of walls, Thunderstorm Towers, and magic crystal cannons, and are considered part of the basic range.
As for animals and plants, these two points may not stand out right now, but they will be very important in the future, even more so than terrain. In his previous life, many bases' most formidable defense capabilities were not from the evolvers but from large groups of war beasts or clusters of strange and dangerous mutated plants.
The ginseng fruit, although planted under the city wall, mainly serves as an early warning, with its real usefulness lying in the production of low-level magic crystals and the edibility of its fruits, which does not help much in real combat.
However, the carnivorous plant is different. Imagine an enemy attacking, with large groups of gold-plated carnivorous plants with terrifying defensive capabilities on both sides of the city wall…
This is what truly excites Ye Zhongming.
After looking at these seeds, Ye Zhongming decided to accelerate the reproduction process of the carnivorous plants. It seems it's time to feed this guy some mutated life forms.
Taking away materials like the branches of the Hypocritical Ghost Tree left here, Ye Zhongming and Liang Chuyin left this place. In the following days, Ye Zhongming had many things to attend to.
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Just as Ye Zhongming was solidifying the foundation of Cloud Summit Villa step by step, the various forces in Ying City received Ye Zhongming's invitation.
To be precise, it was a notification.
Because the messenger from Cloud Summit made it very clear that attendance was optional, but those who chose not to attend should get out of Ying City in the future.
It was still that bar transformed based on an air defense cave, still that innermost room, but this time there were only two people inside, and Shasha was not present.
Just over a week apart, Bai Feng seemed to have aged significantly. Originally, becoming an evolver had greatly extended his lifespan; for those who reached four-star evolution, signs of aging might not appear for twenty years. Yet, Bai Feng's current appearance still startled Zhao Xingmei just a moment ago.
However, after the initial surprise, the disdain in the eyes of the head of Star Beauty Corporation returned to normal.
Bai Feng noticed this but said nothing.
He originally intended to leave this place but was once again struck hard by the harshness of reality.
Those who previously cursed Ye Zhongming as a traitor and a 'human traitor' colluding with zombies chose to remain silent when Bai Feng announced he wanted to leave Ying City. Especially after the huge Roulette Mountain appeared above Cloud Summit, this opposition manifested in their conversations and confrontations with him.
His subordinates were unwilling to give up the familiar Ying City, unwilling to relinquish the promise that the corpse king would not act against ordinary evolvers. They unanimously believed that this would be the best place for evolution.