Apocalypse Gachapon - Chapter 1958: Not yet attacked

The entire man-made forest by the lake was permeated with the smell of blood.

Because the survivor fortresses were built by the cosmic races themselves, there were almost no large beasts or mutated lifeforms in the other regions. And the remaining animals introduced to enrich the ecosystem absolutely did not dare to enter this place that had been pulsating with killing intent since a moment ago.

The warriors of the Assault Camp stood in place, somewhat dazed.

While they fought, they felt little, only thinking about killing the enemy. But when the battle ended and they realized they had won, it felt somewhat like a dream.

Yes, they had won, and it was a complete victory.

How complete was it? Apart from over ten people being injured, not a single person had died in battle.

They only had seventy people. Even counting Ye Zhongming, they only had seventy-one people. How did they achieve such a victory?

Their opponents, the Cave Huo Star people, numbered 100, and their average strength was considerably higher than theirs.

“What are you standing around for? Secure the area, take everything valuable, withdraw within five minutes!”

Ye Zhongming shouted in a low voice.

In his view, there was nothing strange about this.

Indeed, the strength of these Cave Huo warriors was considerably higher than that of the Assault Camp, and their combat experience was richer. However, this ambush tested multiple factors.

The Star-Eye Clan was a race skilled in ambushes; they were originally excellent ambushers and assassins. In the darkness and dense forests, this was their natural battlefield.

They had planned against the unprepared. While the enemy was completely off guard, they first used traps to overturn the enemy’s vehicles, used the chaos to kill targets as they emerged systematically, and on top of that, Ye Zhongming personally took action. With the cooperation of a few individuals, they took out the backbone of this hundred-strong force right at the start of the battle. What waves could the remaining people possibly make?

Furthermore, before this mission, Ye Zhongming had fully equipped the Assault Camp. Every person, from head to toe, had decent equipment, which boosted their combat power by more than just a little.

The battlefield was quickly secured. Ye Zhongming walked over to the captain who had died with eyes open, cut off his head with one knife stroke, and placed it in a box.

Afterwards, he led the Assault Camp and disappeared into the dense forest.

A few minutes after they left, a figure suddenly appeared there. Looking at the messy battlefield, he sighed and shook his head.

“Clearly inexperienced. Corpses can also reveal many things.”

While saying this, the person took out a bottle of powder, applied a little to each corpse, and soon the corpses turned into pale, sticky liquid.

After inspecting the battlefield once more, confirming that no clues were left behind, this figure disappeared.

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One morning, the people of Dark Strip City were stirred up by two pieces of news.

One was that the Star-Eye Clan, which had been on the verge of extinction, suddenly announced the reopening of their shop. Furthermore, on the reopening day, they would host a small auction, and among the auction items, two were particularly noteworthy.

One was a fine Red Condensation grade piece of equipment from the Taros Red Dwarves, a weapon, the type of equipment everyone valued most.

Equipment from the Taros Red Dwarves wasn’t considered rare in many places, but this depended on the situation and location.

For some major races, their standard-issue equipment all came from the Taros Red Dwarves; they were just that extravagant with their immense wealth.

However, no matter how extravagant, for example, races like the Reina Star people and the Huo’er Star people, their standard-issue equipment could only reach ‘Ke Steel grade’, which was only slightly better than ‘Common grade’.

But in Dark Strip City, even those medium-sized races among the ‘Eight Heads’ couldn’t afford to use Common grade as standard-issue equipment. Only their elite teams had Common grade in hand, while Ke Steel grade was exclusive to mid-level personnel like team captains.

As for the Red Condensation grade, among the eight leaders of the Eight Heads, there were probably only three to five pieces total on their persons. For the entire race, a few dozen pieces at most.

There was no other way. These races in Dark Strip City were passable within the city, but placed among the cosmic races, they weren’t much to look at. For Red Condensation grade equipment, which required custom orders from the Taros Red Dwarves, they simply didn’t have the qualification to even speak with them.

Of course, there was another way to obtain Red Condensation grade equipment: purchasing it through other channels. That’s how the Red Condensation-grade pieces among the Eight Heads were obtained. But one could imagine that buying such equipment directly from the Taros Red Dwarves was already very expensive; how high would the price be after adding a middleman?

This was also why, over so many years, each race could only accumulate a few dozen pieces at most.

As for those small races, having ten Red Condensation grade pieces as their ultimate treasures was considered extremely lucky.

From this perspective, Ye Zhongming’s seven rewards were indisputably a huge fortune. This proved why everyone valued the Novice battlefield, because the benefits one could gain there were immense. As long as one had enough points, being able to purchase Red Condensation grade equipment from the store was one of those benefits.

The appearance of a Red Condensation grade weapon at an auction in Dark Strip City was absolutely the best possible news for these medium-sized races.

The other item was an eight-turn medicine produced by the Changxu Water Race!

This was even more valuable and rarer than Red Condensation grade equipment!

It was widely known that among the medicines made by the Changxu Water Race, first and second-turn medicines were mostly healing medicines. For the other grades, the higher the grade, the smaller the proportion of healing medicines. At the eight-turn grade, if the common understanding over the years wasn’t wrong, there were no healing medicines.

That is to say, this auction item must be a functional medicine!

Everyone speculated that since it was being put up for auction, it probably wasn’t a medicine with auxiliary effects like removing negative statuses, but rather one that could directly boost combat power.

A medicine like this might be equivalent to a dozen or even several dozen cosmic years of arduous training. Who wouldn’t be tempted!

Besides these, there were many other good items at the auction.

It could be said that as soon as the auction items were announced, this shop of the Star-Eye Clan became hot before it even opened.

The other piece of news was that a transport team of the Cave Huo people was robbed. Not a single team member survived, and goods worth several thousand Moonspan Gold vanished without a trace.

The interior of the universe’s races wasn’t exactly peaceful, but the overall environment was still okay, especially in Dark Strip City. Such direct attacks on transport teams hadn’t happened for a long time, because it almost amounted to declaring war on the Cave Huo people.

But after committing this deed, the attackers left no clues— not a single trace to follow. Clearly, they intended to pull off a big score and didn’t want to break with the Cave Huo people openly.

After receiving the news, the Cave Huo people went crazy, searching for clues in Dark Strip City and its surroundings, investigating any suspicious characters, hoping to find out who did it.

But from the looks of the news, they were just trying their luck, like headless flies.

Of course, in the minds of Dark Strip City’s residents, and even in the minds of the Cave Huo Star people themselves, the Star-Eye Clan, which was preparing for the auction, absolutely could not be the culprit.