The hills on the two sides were a little steep, but it wasn’t much to evolved. They could even carry Ye Zhongming and walk up easily.
Only five people on the team remained. Apart from the Candy siblings, the other three took turns carrying Ye Zhongming and all their other items.
Outside of the evolved, they were respected, but here, they were just coolies that hoped to survive.
Ye Zhongming taking out the staff and using Ice Lotus attack was too strong.
So strong that it made three one-star evolved feel powerless. They faced Ye Zhongming like they were looking at a god. Just one gaze from him, and they would be terrified.
It wasn’t that they were timid but because he could easily insta kill other evolved of similar strength. He could insta kill level two monsters stronger than them. That made them feel small.
Just lifting his fingers could kill them; there was no way they could fight back against such a person.
They carried Ye Zhongming and waited nervously for their fates.
Resist? Such thoughts appeared before, but they instantly died down after they found out that the was a two-star evolved.
“Wa, what is down there?”
Candy’s sad mod slowly recovered after a few hours.
She didn’t have a close relationship with the team. Those people only took care of her because she was of value.
Now that they were dead, she found it hard to adapt but quickly realized that communicating with this person was much better.
As for killing… Even such a soft girl didn’t view killing as badly as in peacetime. From another point of view, if Uncle Da killed Ye Zhongming, would Candy go against them? No, no. Even if she was nice, that was built on a certain foundation.
This foundation was the fact that she was alive.
Ye Zhongming didn’t think this girl was so soft that she would sacrifice herself for others.
It was still that sentence; no one was noble in the apocalypse.
“Cloud Hooves.”
“En?”
Candy was confused.
“The name of a beast as it looked similar to cows and horses on Earth. Its four hooves are white, so they are called Cloud Hooves.”
Ye Zhongming explained while looking at the group, thinking about what to do next.
During these few days, Ye Zhongming noticed them several times. He had an idea, but there wasn’t much chance of it succeeding because of limitations.
But Candy’s appearance gave him hope.
She was an alchemist.
Ye Zhongming coincidentally knew a recipe for alchemists in his previous life.
Also, he was a gardener.
These conditions together made Ye Zhongming take a risk even though he was still injured. This risk was not that high too.
“Fallen Red Juice, what is that? The color is nice; is it poison?”
Candy held a few bottles of the light red potion and asked.
As this recipe wasn’t learned from a scroll, although she could mix it according to what he said, the information wouldn’t appear in her head. She learned a new recipe, but it was outside of her job. Creating this juice wouldn’t give her job familiarity too.
Although she didn’t know what this was for, she knew it was precious. Each bottle needed a level two crystal as its energy source.
This was a realm that she had never come into contact with. She was excited when she mixed it and felt heart pained when she failed.
Ye Zhongming didn’t say anything as they were about to see what it was used for.
“Also, what is that shining crystal in your hands?”
“Why do you have so many questions?”
Candy spat out her tongue at Ye Zhongming and stopped questioning. But she continued to stare at the nature gem without blinking.
Ye Zhongming didn’t have to hide anything. He removed the rough stones of the nature gems to work on them. He gained two gems, but his luck wasn’t as good as yesterday, and they were just basic-grade stones: one water and one ice element.
The plan needed the help of the Nature Staff so it was better if he had more nature gems.
The others weren’t as courageous as Candy. They lay on the hill and looked down at those Cloud Hooves; their faces turned ashen white.
Level two monsters!
Hundreds of them!
These had red horse bodies and dragon heads. Their foreheads had white crystals that stuck out. They were over three meters long and had thick legs. Their hooves were snow white and gave out sounds similar to tigers.
The team was scared off by two level two monsters yesterday, and now that they saw hundreds of the same level monsters, it was tough for them to keep calm.
Only Candy, who was a little mad, didn’t care about it.
Was this guy’s target these hundreds of level two Cloud Hooves?
Crazy, he was crazy.
The few team members thought that way.
Ye Zhongming didn’t care about these people. He focused on observing the group and then looked at other places in the valley.
A moment later, he focused on an area to the left.
Egg!
Red egg!
Although the Cloud Hooves looked similar to hooved animals on Earth, they came from eggs.
Ye Zhongming targeted these Cloud Hooves. One reason was naturally for the crystals.
Now that the evolution wave was starting, Ye Zhongming felt some pressure. He had to maintain a similar evolution speed to use his experience to predict the future.
Moreover, his team needed a growth spurt after taking over Cloud Peak. If not, they couldn’t defend it as too many people wanted it.
The next reason was that the Cloud Hooves were one of the few monsters that humans could tame.
Cloud Hooves ate everything. They ate humans but they also ate grass and leaves. They weren’t very strong, but they were quick. They were patient too. Out of their talent skills, most of them were in terms of speed and explosiveness.
After survivors learned they could be tamed, they became one of the best mounts.
Ye Zhongming was surprised when he saw Cloud Hooves here. Anyways, in his impression, he didn’t hear that there were Cloud Hooves here. Without his rebirth changing some things, these monsters would have been killed, and someone wiped out this group.
Ye Zhongming didn’t try to find out what the truth was. He told them to carry him down the hill to some sprouting grass.
“Scatter the potion to this entire region.” Ye Zhongming started to instruct a few of them.
The three members didn’t dare to relax. They carefully took the potions and scattered them on the grass. They were as detailed as one was when they touched the skin of their first love.
Ye Zhongming looked toward Candy’s brother.
“Tang Tian, wait a while and draw the Cloud Hooves over.”
Candy’s middle-aged brother was stunned. He didn’t expect Ye Zhongming actually to do such a thing.
“Oi, too dangerous; my brother won’t go.”
Candy was not willing. Tang Tian was her only family, and she couldn’t let him take the risk.
“Each person has to show their value; no one needs to feed those useless.”
Ye Zhongming’s words sounded harsh, but that was the apocalypse. Even in the team, Tang Tian was in charge of the most tiring and dangerous jobs. Before you had other skills, this was the most suitable job.
Candy wanted to say something, but Tang Tian stopped her.
“I know that you are not an average person, and your real thought is for my sister to follow you; I… Let me ask you, what can you give her?”
Ye Zhongming smiled. His guess was correct; the only thing Tang Tian cared about was Candy.
“I need Candy to do some things, but different from your team; things will be safe with me. Moreover, you will notice that she will become a two-star evolved, three-star, even higher. She will become an intermediate Alchemist, Advanced, even higher.”
He sucked deeply and continued, “She will live much longer than most people in this damn world.”
“How can I believe you?”
“You don’t have to believe me; you just need to live and watch yourself.”
Tang Tian and Candy were stunned. The former frowned, “You mean I will live?”
“If you die, those three are more suited for the job. Of course, it is dangerous. In the dungeon, nothing is completely safe.”
The siblings didn’t say anything, and they were digesting his words.
Ye Zhongming had control over their lives, so he didn’t have to lie. So they didn’t doubt what he was saying and considered whether they could complete the task.
“Okay, I will go!” Tang Tian bit his teeth, “If something happens to me, you must take good care of Candy.”
Ye Zhongming nodded and tossed the potion to him.
“Reward in advance.”
The siblings were stunned; they realized it was a one-star evolution potion.
This thing was his dream. Uncle Da promised him when they entered that if they found the materials for the numbing potion, he would give Tang Tian a bottle.
But now…
Tang Tian looked at him with a complicated expression and understood. So this young man was testing him. He would still follow him if he rejected, but their status would be similar to that of the other three.
He told his sister to relax, and he drank the potion. His body surged with power, and he headed into the valley.
Ye Zhongming walked to the center after they scattered the potion and squatted there with a hand on the ground.
Nurture!
Begin.