Chapter 505: Volunteer
How was status decided? In peacetime, it was power and money. In the apocalypse, it was power.
Cloud Peak was very strong, so naturally, they had a supernatural position.
The Cloud Port Alliance’s team saw this change in status. One could even say they witnessed Cloud Peak’s rise in Ying City.
They had originally decided to spend a few days here and try to contact the factions they could contact. It was best if they could go, but if they didn’t, then they wouldn’t force them.
But after Cloud Peak’s series of actions, they realized they had full control of Ying City in just a dozen days. They also built up a very slack alliance but whose relationship would get tighter.
Moreover, they agreed to send forces, but the timing made this team very anxious.
They had delayed by over ten days, and Boss Ye told them he would send troops in half a month. If one considered the journey that wasn’t very easy, wouldn’t that mean they would arrive in a month?
They were out for a month and didn’t know what was happening there. What if there was nothing left after all the delay?
They had to split into two. The captain and one person remained, and the rest left to inform the alliance that there was a super faction with over ten thousand warriors rushing over. They had to survive until the reinforcements came.
Two people continued to chase Ye Zhongming to start his journey, but after meeting him twice, they could not find him.
Ye Zhongming wasn’t in Cloud Peak or Puxing Town; he was leading a small team filled with elites toward the city suburbs of Souvenir City.
“Is this the place?”
This hundred-men team of 4-star evolved waited quietly on an abandoned roof and looked at this seemingly quiet city.
“En.”
This team was all the elites of Ying City, including Zhao Xingmei and Baifeng. Cloud Peak's elites were here apart from Xia Lei, Lu Yi, Sister Rong, Tang Tian, Mo Ye, and Liu Zhenghong. If all of these people died, the Ying City survivors would be useless.
One of Cloud Peak Trading House's jobs was information collecting. If you found useful information for Cloud Peak, you could trade it. If it were valuable, you would be rewarded.
This was Ye Zhongming’s attempt to build an intel system to build his future foundations, but who knew that he would get such shocking news?
Someone offered Soul Merchant’s base for a silver piece of equipment.
God Hall, Glory Army, and Soul Merchant were their enemies, and Ye Zhongming was worried about being able to find them. After being informed, he met this person and gave him a silver piece of equipment in return. But he wasn’t a fool and brought this person by his side. If the information were fake, he would naturally have a bad outcome.
Why did he bring Ying City’s elites… Ye Zhongming had a simple goal.
Weren’t they relying on him to develop? Okay, no problem, this is a sign-up to join his side; they had to come.
Of course, he didn’t tell them that, but it was the truth. They could choose not to come but then forget about staying in Ying City.
Many people were unhappy with his hard attitude, but when they thought about what they got from the trading house, they understood Boss Ye’s actions and made a wise choice. Even Bai Feng, too.
With the lesson from the previous time, Cloud Peak changed its ways of dealing with such things. They were more direct and violent.
Thus, this elite team appeared.
That person agreed and pointed at this small city, “My house is here. When I was about to leave a few months ago, Soul Merchant controlled most of the city. I think it is still their territory.”
Soul Merchant evolved quickly by raising pigs. An organization that evolved by using humans was hated by many. This person left to avoid being captured. He went to Ying City and joined a medium-sized battle squad.
His boss came too, and he relaxed when he heard his subordinate say that. If there were any mistakes, his battle squad and he could forget about living in Ying City.
Ye Zhongming didn’t say anything else. Xia Bai and Little Tiger left the team and headed into Souvenir City. The others waited quietly and recovered the stamina they had used to rush an entire day.
Two hours later, they returned one after another and brought confirmation of Soul Merchant.
“After it is down, I will give all of you one crystal weapon privately.”
Ye Zhongming’s words caused their eyes to light up.
Demon crystal weapons were Cloud Peak’s core secret. They didn’t even use it as a condition or sell it as part of the city tax system. To date, only Cloud Peak has had such mysterious equipment.
Were they using it as payment?
The last bit of unhappiness and worry in their hearts disappeared.
Ye Zhongming smiled. Le Dayuan made many incomplete demon crystal guns when he wasn't here. Now that he was modifying them and upgrading them, those were eliminated. The energy conversion was low, and the precision had many problems. Without Ye Zhongming’s parts, they could fire ten shots at most. Le Dayuan was worrying about how to get rid of them, so it was a good thing that Ye Zhongming could give them away to buy a favor.
With motivation, their morale soared, and they were led into the city.
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