Apocalypse Gachapon

Chapter 1237: Protection Fee

The Cloud Peak people holding shovels and tools became warriors that surrounded Ye Zhongming.

Ye Zhongming waved and told them not to be nervous.

Red Hair stood on the undead dragon fish’s head and appeared. She glanced at the ground.

Ye Zhongming was shocked. He looked at her and received some interesting news.

“Back down, someone, oh, no, a lifeform wants to talk to me.” He told his subordinates to wait and jumped into the hole. Red Hair and Xia Bai also jumped in. That thick dragonfish tried, but it couldn’t squeeze in. It could only fly back into the sky helplessly.

The others saw that Red Hair and Xia Bai followed,, so they stopped worrying about the boss’s safety. After calming down, some core members got close to Liu Zhenghong to talk.

As Cloud Peak entered a relatively safe period, warriors were more free. But the two labs were at full force. Be it Liu Zhenghong or Le Dayuan or the researchers in those labs, they worked day and night—even the heads of the two labs spent days locked in the villa.

It was rare to bump into Liu Zhenghong outside, so these core members took the chance to ask her questions and try to get some benefits for their battle squads.

“You brats always think of such funny things. If I had something good I would obviously take it out. Your boss would have distributed them to you.”

Liu Zhenghong kicked aside Little Tiger, who nearly jumped into her arms and scolded her.
Ye Zhongming didn’t know what Killer Hong was like in the last life. But in this life, when she wasn’t working, she was an elder sister neighbor.

Of course, there were exceptions—for example, Yangos. If someone told it that Liu Zhenghong had a good sister, it would snort.

“All of you are busy and have more and more men. Are they not enough for all of you? All of you obtained weapons from Old Le; is that not enough? You still want to get things from me?”

Liu Zhenghong joked. Scolding them made her feel good. Looking at these allies, who looked at her with doting expressions, made her feel warm.

“Also, Little Ye says that mutated lifeforms are going to form their own army. Who is willing to give up on being a captain? I can recommend you!”

Ye Zhongming had discussed this possibility with Liu Zhenghong to make gene lifeforms into their own squad. When doing some missions, you could reduce worries. You could deal a fatal blow at the crucial moment without caring about losses.

This was the first time many people heard about that thought. They were weighing the pros and cons and considering how this new army would affect them.

Liu Zhenghong and some core members talked on the surface. Underground, Ye Zhongming and the other two met the lifeforms they wanted to meet.

Rat King!

That level seven Rat King rushed over personally to meet Ye Zhongming.

Maybe after it noticed that Red Hair was still a mental energy type lifeform after her rebirth, the Rat King contacted her. This was also why she suddenly appeared.

Ye Zhongming looked at this lifeform, whose body was as big as an elephant. He then looked at the other high-level mutated rats behind it. One of them was level seven, and the rest were level six.

Behind them were many more subordinates who blocked the tunnels they had dug.

These mutated rats weren’t here to fight. So many of them came because they were afraid.

Just look at how terrified the Rat King looked. This fellow’s body was tilted as if it would flee when something was wrong.

Ye Zhongming was an eight-star expert. It gave out a screech from its face that didn’t look like a rat anymore. Its short but strong limbs started to gesture as it could stand upright.

“It said it has no bad intentions toward Cloud Peak and you. It just thinks it will be safe near us; it doesn’t want to attack us.”

Red Hair looked at Rat King and translated.

“If not for us noticing you, you wouldn’t come to find us. Since that is the case, how will we believe what you say?”

Ye Zhongming took a step forward, which caused the tens of thousands of rats to retreat.

Rat King got even more anxious. It screeched while gesturing. Even the female rat on the same level screeched.

“It wants you to believe it. It doesn’t have any animosity towards you; it even fears you. It just wants its children to pass the initial stages safely.”

Its kids?

Ye Zhongming squinted his eyes and was wary.

Although he allowed the rats underground to be free, he knew that without the threat of zombies and mutated lifeforms, most Ying City people spent their time killing these mutated rats.

To say something exaggerated, if not for their reproduction skills being too overpowered, they would have gone extinct if they didn’t live underground.

But Ye Zhongming didn’t forget about their short reproduction period. Along with what Liu Zhenghong said, if these fellows produced a strengthened breed and kept getting stronger, they might become a problem.

Due to habits, Ye Zhongming was thinking about whether or not to kill this fellow.

Killing intent surged, terrifying these rats. The Rat Kingʼs back legs even started to dig the ground. He dug a meter-deep hole that hid half its body in just a few seconds.

Ye Zhongming and the others didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Seeing that Ye Zhongming didn’t plan to attack, Rat King examined the situation. It was more emotional this time and even tried to make Ye Zhongming happy.

“Hehe.” Red Hair giggled. It is saying that if you don’t kill it, it is willing to give you a protection fee.”