Apocalypse Gachapon

Chapter 1174: Divide

When Ye Zhongming stepped on the first step, he disappeared from Sky Monument Path and came to a weird space.

He didn’t panic as he didn’t sense any danger in this pure white space.

This was until a monster appeared before him.

He recognized that it was an evolved lifeform often known as Greedy Spike.

“Please point out its weakness and use your attack to answer.”

A notification rang in his mind, telling him what the challenge was.

But isn’t this test too simple?

As long as one lived over two months in the apocalypse, one would recognize this low-level lifeform often seen in abandoned cities and the wilderness. Many people had tasted its meat, especially the two meat strips on its back. They were like tender beef and were one of the few delicacies in the apocalypse.

Although Ye Zhongming felt it was too simple, he wasn’t overconfident. He took out Earth Sand Moon Blade and thrust it into an area two inches below this level three lifeform’s ear.

Fifteen centimeters down the skin was its central nerve. As long as you hit it, this monster would die instantly.
When Earth Sand Moon Blade thrust in, Ye Zhongming noticed that this lifeform he thought was real was just a touch model. When the blade touched the nerve, it disappeared, and he reappeared on the Sky Monument Path.

Both of his legs landed on the first step.

Ye Zhongming touched his chin. This was the Sky Monument test? Each step was a test.

He was shocked.

One couldn’t see the end of the path, but there were dozens of steps he could see. Did he have to go through dozens of tests?

Ye Zhongming looked at the time. As compared to before, he noticed that he spent half a minute on this first step.

He took a deep breath and got onto the second path.

His body disappeared again.

It was still a white space, but this time, two zombies appeared—one on level three and one on level four.

“Please kill these two mutated lifeforms within ten seconds, and you fail if you are injured.”

Ye Zhongming raised his blade and thought that the bell would ring instantly. He had to wait for a while before he could dash toward the two zombies and easily kill them.

At the same time as the two zombies dying, he was teleported back to the path.

It was very smooth, but he didn’t immediately get on the third step. He thought back to the last test.

Why was there some time between the notification and the beep?

One must know that level two and three zombies were easy for evolved. Especially the people who entered Bright Water World. They were basically four-star evolved. ṙ�

To these people, they would clear these lifeforms without much effort.

Was it…

Ye Zhongming had a guess, but he wasn’t sure. He thought about it and stepped onto the third step.

The white space was bigger. Ye Zhongming stood in a corner. Two groups of mutated lifeforms covered the wide space. One group was a group of level three mutated flies—hundreds of them—and the other was a dozen mutated cats. Both sides faced off like statues.

“Please say a few methods to kill all these mutated lifeforms. You must say more than three methods where the evolved won’t die. Please demonstrate these methods after hearing the beep. Please note, your evolution level will be reduced to four stars.”

Ye Zhongming was shocked, this place would reduce the evolved’s strength.

At the same time, he was more sure of his guess. This place would give them some time to think. They didn’t want you to rely on your instinct to fight or use your strength to crush the challenge.

Mutated flies and cats were common lifeforms, so they weren’t much for evolved people like Ye Zhongming. There were many ways to kill them, and he could think of more than five instantly.

When the beep rang out, he started his demonstration, which he quickly succeeded in. The notification asked if he wanted to continue.

He chose to do so and demonstrated the remaining methods.

He felt that this place tested the evolved’s overall strength and not just combat strength.

He knew what the others would choose but he wanted to treat all the tests seriously.

Just like this, he passed step by step. He wasn’t quick but he tried to pass each step perfectly.

As he expected, the others did not do the same. They wanted to complete it more efficiently and get to the next stage quickly to try to be the first on the top.

Both sides had different ideologies from the start.

When around a hundred people remained, Ye Zhongming was ranked arond 30. That didn’t match his ranking in the overall country rankings.

As for those behind him, it wasn’t because they were completing it seriously like Ye Zhongming. They were too weak and even if they tried to finish the test quickly, they weren’t able to insta kill things like Ye Zhongming did.

At the 13th step, Ye Zhongming felt that it became tougher. The space went from white to grey.

His 13th step test was to flee with two ordinary people in a town that was occupied by monsters.

If either person or himself died, the mission would be a failure.

If you treated the Sky Monument Path as an exam script, then this was a multiple-choice question. It tested the evolved’s decisiveness, calmness, hiding ability, breakthrough ability, protection ability, etc. It wasn’t easy to succeed.

Not only were there many monsters in the town, the level distribution was similar to towns on earth and they were even slightly stronger.

Even if Ye Zhongming’s level wasn’t restricted, but leading two ordinary people against monsters with a level four base and level five core with level six leaders was something he had to treat seriously. Even he found it hard.

This 13th step test became the first divider between many evolved.