Published: February 9, 2025
Peak Pass is a strategic location, but after the apocalypse, no one would have imagined that humanity had constructed such a magnificent defense structure relying on the trends of the mountains.
This is somewhat similar to ancient city walls, but even if it is similar, it is more akin to the highest and most solid capitals.
Ye Zhongming only needed to take a glance to understand that this was a combination of modern technology and roulette technology, a sturdy defensive product created by architects or builders using modern machinery.
Of course, sturdiness is relative. Ye Zhongming had seen countless examples of this level in his past life, and even before his rebirth, some of the camps in Ying City, while not as tall and solid as this, had much better defensive capabilities per unit area.
Construction-type professions began to gain popularity in the later stages of the apocalypse and have shown an increasing trend of desirability.
Cloud Summit Villa had been exposed here for several hours.
After a conflict with a resistance zone’s battle department yesterday, they arrived here at noon today. Everyone knew they might encounter trouble, but they didn’t expect it to come so quickly, as they weren’t even allowed to enter the gate.
This might not be entirely accurate, as after notifying them, there was no response from inside. Occasionally, figures could be seen moving along the nearly camouflaged defense wall, but they completely ignored the team from Cloud Summit Villa.
To make matters worse, due to the large number of survivors attending a meeting at Peak Pass recently, the presence of many organized teams passing through was bound to attract the attention of mutated life forms. Outside the Peak Pass defenses, zombies, mutated animals, and monsters occasionally appeared in considerable numbers.
This situation was undoubtedly due to the specific positioning of the resistance zone, allowing them to send their battle department out for hunting while continuously strengthening their own power.
Every day, battle departments from various zones went out hunting, clearing the surroundings, and after a night, more mutated life forms would arrive, prompting further clean-up.
However, today, no battle department had emerged since the morning, and a significant number of mutated life forms gathered outside the Peak Pass defenses. Initially, a swarm of mutated spiders attacked the fortifications, but after being repelled, they retreated to one side. Then, a horde of zombies, drawn by the scent of blood, arrived and lingered nearby.
When they arrived at Cloud Summit Villa, they saw thousands of mutated spiders and nearly ten thousand zombies blocking their way, as news had been sent in by the airborne adventurers from Cloud Summit.
"Brother, what do they mean by this?" Ayang stood beside Ye Zhongming, looking at the distant Peak Pass defenses with a very displeased tone.
His attitude almost represented the mindset of the entire team at that moment. Cloud Summit Villa and Ying City had not been treated like this for a long time, forced to wait for several hours.
Everyone knew that there must be other entrances in such a location. To say that mutated life forms were blocking the entrance was a complete excuse. But even if it was an excuse, they should at least provide one; however, they didn’t even offer that, completely ignoring them. The warriors from Cloud Summit had become accustomed to high spirits and pride, and they were definitely struggling with this treatment.
Ye Zhongming remained silent, quietly observing the distant city wall from the place where the team was hiding, lost in thought.
The resistance zone knew their position; this concealment was merely to prevent the mutated life forms below the city wall from discovering them.
But Ye Zhongming’s frustration did not receive the expected response; instead, he was caught off guard by an ambush.
A small team of about a hundred members with a high average evolution level suddenly approached from one side. After showing off in front of the Cloud Summit Villa team, they quickly left.