Apocalypse Gachapon
Chapter 993: Companion Crystal

The apocalypse just referred to lifeforms; the mountains and oceans still looked the same.

Yellow and green were a common topic on this land that was given life by the Tigris River and Euphrates River.

Yellow was the color of the sand, which perfectly described the Empty Quarter.

Green represents the plants that could still survive on this land.

But everything seemed too plain.

This desert was one of the ten biggest deserts in the world. This seemed ordinary, but Ye Zhongming still felt uneasy. It was as if something bad was going to happen.

Ye Zhongming trusted his intuition. At his evolution level, with his Soul Refining Technique, his intuition was often the signal his senses gave him.

But he didn’t know where that uneasiness pointed to.

Ye Zhongming lay in the warm sand and looked at the hill below. He saw hundreds of statues.

Everyone was evolved and their eyes were very good. After observing, they noticed that they were zombies. But for some reason, they were covered in sand armor and didn’t move.

“Are they dead?”

Daizhi was another of Xia Bai’s captains; her status was similar to Xiao Min's, and she was a five-star evolved. Her beast was a white jade cordyceps that was both an animal and a plant. At the baby stage, it had both healing and buff passive abilities. It was one of the better beasts they got from Sharp Peak Mountain.

Moreover, she was determined, good at dealing with matters, and brave, all of which helped her climb to her current position. She was among the people who were in line to become six-star evolved.

“Not dead.”

Ye Zhongming sensed the energy from these fellows. They weren’t dead.

But why were they standing there?

“They are alive? Then why are they faking?”

Daizhi muttered and was tempted to attack.

These were zombies outside of your country. Cloud Peak warriors were all tempted to fight them.

But Ye Zhongming wasn’t very interested. After all, he came here to get Star Sand and not to kill zombies. The crystals here couldn’t even compare to a pinch of those he could get in Blue Secret Realm.

Cloud Peak warriors, and he couldn’t spend too long here, and it was better if they returned sooner. After all, the situation in Blue Secret Realm might change at any time.

But that wasn’t the thought of the zombies. Those fellows noticed Ye Zhongmign and his group. They raised their heads, and hundreds of them dashed over.

They were so quick.

As they were covered in yellow sand armor, you couldn’t see the crystals and couldn’t tell their levels. But their speed shocked Ye Zhongming.

Zombies with such a speed wouldn’t have low levels.

They might be level five or even level six!

So many level-five zombies?

One must know that ordinary zombies were slightly stronger than evolved of the same level but were weaker than elite evolved. Elite evolved would then be weaker than elite zombies.

Although this rule was not absolute, that was often the case.

Xia Bai’s squad might all seem like elite evolved, but these hundreds of zombies were all elites. The gap in numbers wasn’t much. Even if they won such a battle, they usually had to pay a huge price. This wasn’t what Ye Zhongming wanted.

It was obvious that they had to fight this battle. Xia Bai’s squad wasn’t as quick as these zombies, especially in the desert.

Since they were going to fight, Ye Zhongming was decisive and told his squad to get a good location to launch their ranged attacks.

Xia Bai’s squad was his personal guard, so their equipment was the strongest. Their first round of shots gained a great effect, and dozens of zombies were killed.

But the zombies behind didn’t stop. They cleared the distance and charged onto the hill.

Both sides clashed.

Ye Zhongming was the first to attack with his blade. He used his various skills. The Earth Elf also controlled the region around him to provide the other warriors with a great fighting environment.

The feeling that things were not going according to plan frustrated him. His killing intent was stronger. In just a few seconds, many zombies fell around him.

At the same time, he had a new analysis of the situation.

The zombies had high defense. With his killing strength, he found it tough to kill them. Moreover, they had weird abilities… Sand attacks.

Some zombies threw sand, and some created domains like sandstorm. Some formed weapons with sand.

But they shouldn’t be level five. At least, most of them hadn’t reached level five. Even if they had many abilities, their overall strength hadn’t reached level five and was around level four.

Since they weren’t that strong, the battle was much simpler, and it ended in just 20 minutes. A few dozen people from Cloud Peak’s side were injured. Five of them were severely injured, but they weren’t fatal injuries. If Park Xiuying healed them, they just needed a few days of rest.

Dead zombies were the best. Xia Bai’s subordinates sliced through the layer of sand to reveal what they really looked like.

Dry, yellow, and without skin—these were the most obvious features. Their skin was that yellow sand armor.

They had demon crystals, but the weird thing was that there was a crystal beside them. It looked like a companion creature; if you didn’t pay attention, you might think there were two demon crystals.

He sliced the crystal and took a close look. They were smaller than ordinary crystals and weren’t as shiny. There were even some sand-like impurities in them, which gave them a dark yellow color.

What was this?

Even with Ye Zhongming’s two lives, he hadn’t seen this before.

Why did he face such a weird thing immediately?

He told them to collect the crystals for future studies.

“Boss, there is a wheel there!”

The guard raised the binoculars and informed Ye Zhongming.