Published: February 10, 2025
Chapter Two-in-One!
Sometimes, Ye Zhongming would feel a fateful power lingering around him.
In his past life, when the iron lock prisoner first appeared in the city he lived in, he stood by his window, seeing it from afar. Even at that distance, he was so frightened that his whole body went limp. For several consecutive days, his nightmares were haunted by the sight of that giant creature, over fifty meters tall.
In this life, he had been reborn and challenged the initial nightmare of his past life. He obtained a bit of Ghost Gold and a few seeds of carnivorous plants. He also got injured for the first time in this apocalypse, marking the beginning of his fateful connection with a few of his subordinates.
It was also on that day that he met Mu Xinfey, the nine-star expert from his past life and the true killer of the iron lock prisoner.
Now, he encountered the iron lock prisoner again, with the killer from his past life, Mu Xinfey, present as well.
Perhaps, even though his rebirth had changed many things, there remained an unshakable force akin to cause and effect; at some moments, it could pull together many things that had changed beyond recognition.
It turned out that the iron giant referred to by the resistance zone was indeed the iron lock prisoner from his past life!
Ye Zhongming began to understand why, in his previous life, Mu Xinfey and the other two nine-star evolvers had allied to hunt down this giant. The resistance zone had already set its sights on it long ago.
However, in his past life, this hunt had failed; the iron lock prisoner had at least survived until Mu Xinfey and the others evolved into nine-star.
He wondered whether today, with his participation, things would change.
Ye Zhongming felt uncertain. Even though the iron lock prisoner's evolutionary level was only eight-star now, the human side had no nine-star evolvers, and not even any eight-star; the highest was only seven-star.
Watching the iron lock prisoner, with its three sturdy legs slowly advancing not far away, Ye Zhongming felt a mix of worry and longing.
At that time, he had only obtained a bit of Ghost Gold from this giant, which had allowed him to become an excellent craftsman. Most of his equipment had reached its current level thanks to that Ghost Gold. The seeds of the carnivorous plants he got from the 'Bloodwood' held by the iron lock prisoner had already taken root at Cloud Summit Villa, becoming an important part of the defense system.
If he could truly kill the iron lock prisoner today, the Ghost Gold obtained would be enough for Ye Zhongming to use for ten or twenty years, and the Bloodwood would give him a great surprise.
Of course, Ye Zhongming wouldn’t forget the horn on the iron lock prisoner’s forehead, surrounded by lightning—the Horn of Life!
That was a plant-type artifact. If he obtained it, his gardener profession would advance rapidly, and he would have a great chance to reach the top level, just like the exclusion technique.
There was also the iron lock prisoner's single compound eye, a key ingredient for making Eye Brightening Solution, which was something remote professions like marksmen and archers dreamed of. It would greatly enhance their vision, distance vision, dynamic capture ability, night vision, and so on.
And there was the flesh that could turn ordinary people into evolvers, greatly increasing skin defense ability, and other unknown benefits...
This battle was dangerous, but the rewards were unimaginable.
It could be said that even if Ye Zhongming learned about the iron lock prisoner, he might risk everything and take all his forces to kill it.
The external forces invited by several battle departments reached the vicinity of the battlefield, each with some injuries, but they were not significant. When these commanders arrived, they were immediately gathered for a meeting.
Originally, this operation was to be led by Anman, the commander-in-chief of C2 Resistance Zone. But due to Mu Xinfey's sudden appearance, her status was a bit higher than Anman’s, so it was temporarily changed to a joint leadership between the two.