Published: February 9, 2025
Looking at the figure of Cloud Summit Villa gradually moving away, Ruan Xiao sighed quietly.
The Ogre Chain made a living by selling and collecting information, being exceptionally sensitive to everything happening around them, and they had various means to gather intelligence. Last night, when Ye Zhongming and his team made a mysterious strike, Ruan Xiao dispatched scouts.
These weren’t true scouts but rather high-tech equipment obtained from the roulette, small robots equipped with high-definition cameras, only the size of a fingernail, capable of transmitting recorded footage back.
This kind of equipment wasn’t rare; it was just that the functionality provided by the roulette was much higher and more applicable.
With the help of this equipment, Ruan Xiao witnessed what had transpired.
Due to his inability to keep up with Ye Zhongming's speed, he didn’t capture how the man killed those zombies, but he guessed it was related to the violent tremors that occurred. Ruan Xiao only saw the warriors from Cloud Summit clearing the battlefield.
To be precise, that wasn’t called clearing the battlefield; it was called picking up money.
From the footage transmitted back by the scouts, Ruan Xiao initially estimated that Ye Zhongming had truly killed all those zombies in a very short time, and Cloud Summit had at least obtained 100,000 magic crystals!
Even though a night had passed, this number had appeared in Ruan Xiao's mind many times, and now, thinking about it still made his heart surge.
So much money!
This didn’t even count the materials on the zombies; the value of those items was hardly inferior to the 100,000 magic crystals. Even if many were destroyed, there would still be half left!
Ruan Xiao felt a mix of envy and admiration for Ye Zhongming, now tinged with a hint of fear.
This was genuine fear.
As one of the giants of the Ogre Chain, controlling hundreds of strongholds and tens of thousands of people in the entire Southern District, with a strong convoy capable of moving freely in the apocalypse, Ruan Xiao was often afraid of many mutated creatures, but very few humans.
Because he himself was an existence that frightened others of his kind.
The Ruan Xiao negotiating business with Ye Zhongming was not his true self; the cold indifference towards death was his signature skill.
But facing this young man, Ruan Xiao truly felt some fear.
That ability to eliminate 100,000 zombies in an instant—what if it were used against humans? Ruan Xiao hardly dared to imagine.
Of course, he also thought of many things, such as those magic crystal weapons, the mysterious golden light that appeared yesterday, and the vast amount of materials that vanished.
These could all be one of the secret methods Ye Zhongming used to annihilate 100,000 zombies instantly.
Ruan Xiao wanted to uncover these secrets but lacked the courage to take action, fearing that Ye Zhongming would discover and eliminate him.
This manager of the Southern District decided to make Ye Zhongming and Cloud Summit Villa the sole topic of his report next month.
“Dacheng, are you sure Ye Zhongming and his group are the ones helping Daming and the people build a new base?”
“Absolutely. Ye Zhongming became a two-star evolver at the new base back then.”
Ruan Xiao nodded, saying nothing more.
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The faces of the Cloud Summit team were filled with a bit of excitement, a residual effect from last night.
Previously, they admired and revered Ye Zhongming as their boss, but now, many looked at him with a sense of devotion; this was already a subtle kind of faith.
It was no wonder they felt this way; the scene of picking up magic crystals yesterday was simply shocking. None of them expected digging for magic crystals could become so exhausting, requiring them to bend down hundreds or even thousands of times over several hours to collect the zombies' magic crystals and materials.
And the subsequent spinning of the roulette was the real reason they paid homage to Ye Zhongming.