Chapter 45 Significant Gains
William had experienced many battles in the last ten years of the apocalypse and witnessed many showdowns between powerful individuals, but he had never seen this kind of battle before in front of him.
Pulling, tearing, scratching, even biting.
There was no technique, no pattern, nothing at all. Any method that could cause harm or hinder the opponent was used to the extreme.
Not only was this woman Natalie like this, but even Lucy was the same, and the opponent of this teacher was a strong male student.
This way of fighting opened William's eyes wide.
In fact, Natalie and Lucy were also impulsive. Initially, the two of them were digging magic crystals peacefully. In a short time, each of them collected more than a hundred pieces. They estimated that by collecting all the relatively safe places, the total number should reach five hundred pieces. This didn't even include the places where the two women dared not go because zombies had reappeared. If those were added, they could collect over two hundred more pieces.
Although this work was disgusting, as each magic crystal was collected and put into the bag, the sense of accomplishment made the two women forget their discomfort and work enthusiastically.
But what they didn't expect was that before they could finish collecting, some people appeared out of nowhere, including many old acquaintances who had hidden together in the armory before, and actually started collecting magic crystals just like them, which made Natalie and Lucy unhappy.
These things belonged to them. If someone came to pick them up, they certainly couldn't pretend not to see. The irritable Natalie went over to question them first.
But these people completely ignored Natalie. They kept digging, and in just a short while, they had already dug up dozens of pieces.
In the beginning, Natalie and Lucy wanted to compete with them in speed and try to dig more on their side. But soon, they realized that it was impossible. After all, there were more people on the other side. Although they didn't have better tools and their efficiency wasn't as high, they still dug more than them.
When the surrounding bodies were almost all dug up, Natalie couldn't help but go up a second time to question these people and demand the magic crystals. Not only did these people not give them back, but they also had the idea of snatching the crystals from the two women.
After the secret of the roulette gradually spread, the internet celebrities who were once idols, the beautiful teacher goddesses, were put aside, and only obtaining mysterious power was what they wanted.
So the two sides started fighting, and to protect the magic crystals, Lucy even started using force.
By the time William and Candice arrived, the two women had already been knocked down, and many people had opened their backpacks, seeing the excitement of the full magic crystals inside.
"Drop it!"
A cold voice interrupted the fantasies of these people about the mysterious roulette that others had mentioned. They looked up and saw William with a look of anger.
Some of the people who had been rescued by William from the teaching building before, as well as those who had escaped from the armory, recognized William and instinctively felt fear, but many others were not afraid at all.
Sometimes, people were like this. They didn't give up in the face of easily obtainable benefits.
These people were like that. They subconsciously ignored the machete in William's hand and instead hugged their backpacks and magic crystals to their chests.
Someone asked, "Who are you? Why should we give it to you?"
These magic crystals were obtained by the four of them at the cost of their lives. Not to mention Natalie, even Lucy, who didn't like William, took action. Moreover, Lucy had basically accepted Candice, who didn't like William, and when she saw her companions being knocked down, she walked over and pushed aside the people who were still bullying them. When she heard someone say why should we give it to you, her anger flared up even more.
"These zombies were killed by us!"
Those who could enter this university to study or teach were not fools. When Candice said this, these people actually knew in their hearts that she was not lying, but would they admit it? No, they wouldn't. Admitting it would mean losing these magic crystals, which they couldn't accept.
"Who can prove that you killed them? We were watching from the nearby building all the time. Why didn't we see you kill the zombies? We did see these two women constantly digging these crystals. We were just doing the same thing as them."
"He's right, if you can dig these crystals, why can't we?"
"Yeah, you're pretty fierce. Who are you trying to scare?"
These people took advantage of their numbers, and three of them even carried five or six semi-automatic rifles obtained from the armory, which gave them more courage.
Candice was so angry that her face turned red. She wanted to say somethin, but was pulled back by William.
"According to your theory, who picks up these things gets to keep them, right?"
Pointing to the magic crystals in the backpack, William asked with a smile on his face.
"Anyway, they are ours. If you are smart enough, just get lost."
One of the male teachers who should have some weight in his words first glanced at Lucy, his former colleague, and then warned William fiercely.
William nodded and sighed slightly, "It seems that no matter when, some aspects of human nature cannot be changed."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly moved. Others only saw his body sway, and then he was close to those who were trying to snatch the magic crystals. The person who had just warned William was punched by him and sent flying, and the semi-automatic rifle in his hand was also snatched away.
Just as the exclamations began, William, like a tiger among sheep, moved around in the crowd, knocking down most of these people in just a moment, and all three guns in their hands ended up in William's hands.
With the body of a One-Star Evolver and ten years of survival experience in the apocalypse, dealing with these students and teachers who had lived on campus yesterday was too easy for William.
"Now, these things belong to me." William held up the recovered backpack and said to the robbers who had been lying on the ground.
"Look at your eyes, anger? Resentment? Regret not being strong enough?" William handed the gun to Candice, looking at those who had just been robbed of all their magic crystals, "Actually, you should feel lucky, because if someone had made me feel threatened just now, what hit you wouldn't just be fists and feet, but knives and guns."
He pointed to the area where some zombies had been crushed by heavy vehicles, but now there were some wandering zombies around, saying, "Getting something for nothing is shameful at any time. Want magic crystals? Fine, consider these as gifts from me, but you have to figure out how to deal with these monsters yourselves."
After that, William left with the three women. They climbed into the supermarket through the small window they had entered before and arrived at the roulette.
Looking at this extremely familiar thing, William was filled with fascination. He poured all the six to seven hundred magic crystals he had harvested this time onto the control panel of the roulette and started spinning it.
With the roulette powered up, William kept using the Basic Exclusion Skill, and one item after another dropped out of the physical box as he spun it.
Red wine, power bank, cigarettes... On the fourth try, with a ding, a tube of One-Star Evolution Potion dropped out.
He was lucky. He was able to get this on his fourth try. William was full of energy and kept spinning it twenty times, spending two hundred magic crystals directly.
But it seemed like his good luck had run out, as in those twenty spins, besides a bottle of One-Star Evolution Potion, he only got a bottle of immunity potion, and the rest were mostly useless items, not even a shield.
William asked, "Who wants to go next?"
Seeing William spinning the roulette, others couldn't wait, and all expressed their desire to try. William made a gesture of invitation, and the three women, forgetting everything else, gathered in front of the roulette and started spinning.
As they obtained one item after another, the three women let out surprised sighs and even suppressed screams, making William puzzled. Did it really require such excitement to spin a roulette?
After each of the three women spun ten times and spent three hundred magic crystals, their harvest was three bottles of immunity potion.
This made William roll his eyes. It seemed that luck sometimes inversely correlated with beauty. These three beautiful women had worse luck than himself.
After the four of them had squandered for a while, there were less than two hundred magic crystals left. William had each of the three women spin five more times, and this time, the three women finally had better luck. Natalie and Lucy both got a One-Star Evolution Potion, while Candice got the shield.
He directly had Candice put on the shield, and now William only had four spins left.
That emerald green necklace still hadn't been spun.
The three women's eyes were all focused on William's face. They now knew that William really wanted this necklace, so for the last four spins, no one competed to spin.
"I'll do it myself." William went over and spun it four times.
The first three times, his luck was okay, and he spun out another bottle of immunity potion. The last time, with the eyes of the four people fixed on it, the pointer slowly stopped on the green necklace!
