Published: February 5, 2025
“Thank you, Fengsha Hao's classmate, for the reward! Let’s shake hands!”
Ye Zhongming looked at the black hole with a hint of intoxication in his eyes.
He caught a familiar scent emanating from the black hole.
It was unpleasant, carrying a whiff of decay that would make anyone nauseous upon first encountering it.
But for someone who had survived in the apocalypse, this smell held a special emotion.
It was the scent of the desolate land!
When the apocalypse began, it wasn't just the roulette that fell from the sky, but also the desolate land left behind after thousands of golden divine lights bombarded the earth.
There, it was filled with non-Earth creatures, where monsters roamed freely, and there existed powerful beings that brought despair to all of humanity.
There, one could also find various extraordinary plants and precious minerals. There, one could discover all known treasures.
Survivors who entered the desolate land faced life-and-death challenges. It was a series of meat grinders, a graveyard of lives, evoking fear in everyone who spoke of it.
Yet if you managed to survive, the rewards would far exceed your wildest imagination.
Someone once joked that in the apocalypse, two things were never lacking: women who could undress at any moment and the strong who emerged from the desolate land.
This shows just how many benefits could be gained from the desolate land.
In his past life, Ye Zhongming could be considered someone who had emerged from the desolate land, but compared to true strong beings, he had never been the protagonist. In fact, he wasn’t even a supporting character; he was merely a background actor.
But even as a background actor, he obtained his first profession, received his first promotion scroll, and amassed the majority of his wealth.
So, what would those supporting characters, or even the protagonists, gain? How much would they acquire?
Ye Zhongming couldn't imagine it; anyway, it was certainly a lot, a whole lot.
Because the feeling of becoming rich in the desolate land was addictive, even the unpleasant odor caused by the abundance of monsters would evoke nostalgia and yearning.
At this moment, the massive black hole that appeared by Pearl Lake was opened by the horn in the hands of the monster baby. This horn could not only summon surrounding evolved beings and zombies but also open a spatial passage to call forth powerful monsters from the desolate land!
Indeed, as the black hole expanded to a certain extent, two dark red monsters emerged from within, flashing with electrical lights.
These were two somewhat strange canine-shaped monsters, with several gray, soft tentacles floating in the air on either side of their dog-like faces. Atop their foreheads was a tuft of black hair that made their faces look bizarre. Their long bodies ended in a bifurcated tail, which occasionally saw a sharp white bone retracting into the two forked tips.
The feet of these two monsters were quite special; similar to humans, but they had only three toes. Thick blood vessels covered the top of their feet, and with every step they took, something shiny flowed rapidly through these vessels, though it wasn’t clear what it was.
“Ugh! Ugh ugh!”
The two monsters made muffled sounds as if they were communicating about why they had suddenly appeared here.
Then, they spotted Qin Xiaobo and the others, who were frozen in shock. Their eyes revealed extreme excitement as they pounced on the nearest human, biting through what they regarded as a remarkably weak neck and greedily sucking the fresh blood.
Thanks to his advantageous position and excellent vision, Ye Zhongming witnessed this scene.
“Crimson steel bell!”
His grip tightened instinctively on the edge of the moon, and his breathing quickened.
Aside from a few exceptionally powerful monsters, most of the monsters in the desolate land followed the evolutionary classifications of the apocalypse.
For example, the ape turtle egrets he encountered earlier were categorized as secondary monsters due to their second evolution.