Apocalypse Gachapon - Chapter 1842: A smartie called Helsky

Helsky turned a blind eye to the looks from his companions, who first regarded him as a madman and then as a fool, and he completely ignored the woman’s gaze, which was filled with surprise and suspicion.

There was no help for it—he knew he seemed like a lunatic right now, but he truly had no choice.

Who knew the bitterness in his heart?

He had just said that there were twelve Evil Armor Star People. Others might not know, but he was well aware that it was a standard elite squad composition: eight responsible for direct combat, one for tracking, two for reconnaissance, and the last one for support.

As for why they were tracking the Changxu Water Tribe member, Helsky also knew very well: consuming the innate holy sigils on the bodies of this race would greatly enhance the strength of the Evil Armor Star People.

As for the Changxu Water Tribe, if they killed the Evil Armor Star People and used the evil armor from certain parts of their bodies as a medicinal catalyst, they could refine several heaven-defying drugs.

They were natural enemies of each other.

However, the people of the Changxu Water Tribe were not skilled in combat. Over the years, they had survived basically by living under the protection of powerful races. But this practice of living under others’ shelter and entrusting their clan’s fate to others meant that once they encountered ill-intentioned situations, their fate was imaginable.

The Evil Armor Star People were different. They were natural warriors, with individual combat prowess ranking among the top in the universe’s myriad races. Moreover, they had decent reproductive abilities. As a result, the development of these two natural enemy races was vastly different: one grew increasingly powerful, becoming one of the major races, while the other declined steadily, nearly facing extinction.

Helsky knew that He must have been able to get here because the Changxu Ghost Tribe had invested immense effort in nurturing her as a seed, shouldering the responsibility of… well, a revival was impossible; it was probably to ensure the race would not go extinct.

He genuinely didn’t mind helping such a person, but a full squad of Evil Armor Star People was beyond his ability to provoke.

In other areas, he could simply have called his team to run away. If He did not follow them, those Evil Armor Star People would have had no interest in them.

But now? He realized that this woman’s talk about medicine and such was all a delay tactic aimed at binding herself to them. Whether it was three bottles, four bottles, or even ten bottles, He wouldn’t care, because her goal was to make Helsky and his team the scapegoats, to have them fight the Evil Armor Star People to the death, while she sought a chance to escape during the process.

Helsky’s reaction had been quick enough, but it was only after He made her request that he realized he had been tricked. By then, it was too late—the Evil Armor Star People had already revealed their ferocious faces at the boundary between distant firelight and darkness.

If they didn’t run now, would they really follow the wishes of that wretched woman He and fight these powerful beings to the death?

Escape was the only way.

But this was the Sea of Ten Thousand Islands. The Evil Armor Star People had almost equal combat capabilities on land and in water, whereas once Helsky’s team entered the sea, their combat effectiveness would sharply decline.

They had to run, but how to run was a problem.

Helsky had a sudden inspiration and shouted what he had just said.

He felt that Ye Zhongming must be nearby because, for someone already red-named, killing a few more newcomers would be without psychological burden. Moreover, killing them would yield more points than killing level nine mutated life forms or parasites. If he were Ye Zhongming, he wouldn’t let his small team off either.

Killing all of them meant nearly three hundred points!

Since that guy was basically nearby, he might as well call him out!

Helsky had another reason for doing this. He had naturally paid extra attention to the powerful existence that had nearly killed him before. While at the base, he had seen with his own eyes, Ye Zhongming talking to this woman. He didn’t know what they were discussing, but it didn’t take a genius to guess the purpose of Ye Zhongming talking to her for several minutes after all the medicine had been bought.

There was an eighty percent chance he was asking this woman to join his team, and a twenty percent chance they were discussing future medicine transactions.

Whichever it was, it indicated that this woman was important to Ye Zhongming.

But would Ye Zhongming definitely intervene because of this? Helsky couldn’t be sure. After all, in the face of life and death, things like medicine and women were fake. He couldn’t just run.

Helsky led the team in running for over ten seconds. At the speed of a nine-star evolved individual, they quickly reached the edge of the island. Ahead lay a vast, now pitch-black sea.

“Brothers, let’s fight! And you, He, you have to fight too. Otherwise, we’ll hand you over or kill you directly.”

After saying this, Helsky turned around directly, adopting a combat stance against the pursuing Evil Armor Star People.

The others followed passively.

Helsky was really clever. He always managed to find a way to survive in desperate situations.

For example, after being tricked by He, he shouted for Ye Zhongming to make him appear. For example, turning around to fight now was also to make Ye Zhongming appear.

Yes, only by fighting the Evil Armor Star People to the point where Ye Zhongming could intervene would he actually intervene!

As for how many people would die, Helsky didn’t care. As long as he himself survived, once Ye Zhongming intervened, the target would definitely be the Evil Armor Star People trying to kill He, not himself and the others. After dealing with the Evil Armor Star People… well, he would surrender, serving them like oxen or horses, only begging not to die.

Every top-tier evolved individual had their own excellent qualities that supported them in reaching this point. Some were fearless, some were sinister and ruthless, some were enduring and resolute, some were exceptionally talented…

As for Helsky, he belonged to the type of clever person who was precise to the bone in assessing situations and analyzing circumstances.

At any time, he knew how to choose what was most beneficial to himself.

For example, right now, he knew what his only hope for survival was, so for that hope, he was truly fighting with all his might.

His hands lit up, channeling the light into the ground, while the armor he wore manifested small swirls of air. As he swung his weapon at the foremost Evil Armor Star Person, the swirls instantly coalesced into a large vortex, accompanying the blade’s light as it struck.

The others also acted one after another. In this situation, not fighting with all their might meant death, and this included He. In her view, this was already the best possible scenario: instead of facing twelve people alone, it had become nine people facing twelve.

Amid the beach sand and mud in the distance, three heads emerged. Even up close, they would be mistaken for the oddly shaped reefs nearby. It was precisely Ye Zhongming and his two companions.

“They’re fighting!” Shi Kangbu narrowed his eyes, licking his lips. He had already tasted the pleasure of killing others; earlier, when Helsky’s team lost two members, one of them was killed by him.

“Ye?”

Jie Kui’s meaning was obvious: what should they do?

“Wait.”

Ye Zhongming replied in a low voice, his gaze unexpectedly not resting on He but locked on Helsky.

This person was somewhat interesting.