Published: February 5, 2025
Thank you, starry sky... for Dream Trace's reward! Bow!
Liang Chuyin and Park Soo-young exchanged a glance, choosing not to ask further.
They had long realized that this man, Ye Zhongming, was shrouded in too many secrets.
His calmness in the face of danger, his composure and ruthlessness against zombies, and his indifference and distrust towards his own kind all contributed to a captivating yet profound mystery about him.
Many things made the two women feel that Ye Zhongming seemed... to possess foresight.
However, no matter how hard they tried to think of it, they could never imagine that this man before them had lived two lives.
Ye Zhongming gazed at Pearl Lake, but his mind was replaying vivid memories from his previous life.
In his last life, he had only dared to step outside after exhausting all the food and drink at home, marking the beginning of his evolution journey.
But actually, he had stepped outside once before that—yes, just once.
On the first day of the apocalypse, he wanted to find Bai Shishi, fantasizing about protecting her during dangerous times and providing her with safety.
Yet, he had barely walked a few meters out of the community when he saw a blinding flash in the distance. Moments later, an ancient, resonant horn echoed through the air.
Confused, Ye Zhongming noticed that all the man-eating monsters nearby went madly rushing toward the direction of the light and the sound. Many zombies trapped indoors even broke through glass and leaped from several stories up; although most of them ended up shattered, it still didn’t stop their suicidal behavior.
Initially, Ye Zhongming was so scared that he scrambled back home, haunted by the image of countless zombies clawing towards him. For days and nights, he couldn’t sleep well; every time he closed his eyes, horrifying scenes replayed in his mind, and even when he managed to sleep, nightmares would wake him up.
Now, he looked down on his former cowardice.
However, after returning to his small room in his past life, standing by the window, he witnessed a scene he would never forget.
Tall buildings collapsed, gunfire erupted, and hordes of corpses were in a frenzy...
Monster after monster emerged from that small artificial lake, attacked by organized military forces, survivor teams, and mutated creatures...
Simultaneously, soldiers attacked the zombie horde, mutated creatures targeted humans, and survivors fought amongst themselves...
The towering beasts, the streaks of gunfire in the dusk, and even from a distance, he could feel the carnage happening there—all left an indelible memory on Ye Zhongming.
The scene was a thousand times more real than anything from American sci-fi movies, giving Ye Zhongming a true taste of the terror of the outside world. It also completely stripped him of the courage to venture out, causing him to huddle in his small room for a long time.
It wasn’t until he was forced by the threat of death to step into the outside world, until he began his evolution and dared to confront the bloody reality, until he deeply understood the miraculous gifts of the roulette, that he gradually learned about today’s events from some survivors.
In the waters of Pearl Lake, a strange roulette was discovered. Unlike other roulettes, this one had no options—only a pattern of a golden ingot.
To turn this roulette, only one magic crystal was needed—yes, a Grade 1 Magic Crystal.
But the miraculous thing was that once activated with a magic crystal, the roulette wouldn’t immediately reward the user. Instead, similar to a secret realm, the person who spun it would receive a prompt indicating they had to undergo difficult and dangerous trials to obtain huge rewards, starting a ten-hour countdown.
The person who inadvertently discovered this secret spread the news, and because the roulette indicated it was a high-difficulty task, teams were advised to complete it.
If that were all, it wouldn’t have caused much of a stir. However, the prompt from the roulette also listed part of the potential rewards.