Apocalypse Gachapon

Ye Zhongming paid the most attention to the country's overall strength rankings as it was a good way for him to judge Cloud Peak’s strength.

He knew Five Ring Money would do some tricks, like placing Cannibal Chain and them at a lower ranking. But Ye Zhongming could evaluate the other factions.

This was very helpful in judging other things.

Like Resistance Zone. Although they suffered huge losses in that operation and, a few battle squads were about to be wiped. They even lost a seven-star evolved. But the entire resistance zone was still leading. Moreover, they weren’t dead yet and were just injured.

Of course, Ye Zhongming was satisfied with Cloud Peak’s position, but that didn’t mean he was content. He knew that Cloud Peak was lacking in many areas. The rankings reminded him that the path ahead was long and arduous.

He didn’t feel dispirited and was more pumped up.

Ye Zhongming looked forward to the heights to which he could bring Cloud Peak.

“Boss, there!”

Zhao Xiangxue whispered to him. Although she joined an organisation like Chameleon that was always in the darkness, she was young. She was excited to come out with Ye Zhongming. Ye Zhongming also hoped that Gao Yi and herself weren’t too cold here, so she returned to her peacetime self.

Ye Zhongming looked toward where she pointed and saw the final ranking where many people were gathered-- individual combat strength rankings!

There were a hundred people on it!

“No one is the smartest, and no one will fight to be second in terms of skills.” Ye Zhongming looked at the ranking. As the rankings spread in the world, no one knew what storms it would cause.

Unwilling to lose and chasing the rankings were a function of humans. There would definitely be people who cared about the rankings.

The reason was fame!

Just a title? It was useless?

If you thought that way, then you were totally wrong!

Why was there Forbes? Why was there the Hurun Report? Why did they release the rankings? To tell people who was rich? Were those people on the list just so that people could recognize their faces and names?

Of course not; there was a reason.

What did Forbes rely on to earn money? They didn’t create those rankings for free. Ordinary people just looked at the rankings, but there was a medium carrying them. Forbes was a famous publisher and media company. They produced many magazines and controlled many book publishers. After they became famous, advertisements, rights, etc., would bring them income. After a few years, they had already become a giant in the world.

As for those famous people, their names appeared on the prestigious rankings, and that was a much better advertisement than any media. People will remember them, raising their company’s brand value and market value.

Although peace was gone with the apocalypse descending, things didn’t change. What Five Ring Money wanted to do was to become Forbes. But they could do more than Forbes.

Wanting to do and being able to do it was probably the most significant change in the apocalypse.

As for the people on the rankings, they were what ordinary evolved looked up to. They enjoyed invisible rewards, which was enough to tempt anyone.

Including Ye Zhongming.

Although he didn’t want Cloud Peak to stand out and become a focus, he wanted everyone to know about it, so no matter where they went, they would receive some benefits.

There were many rewards for being famous.

However, Ye Zhongming was only ranked tenth in the rankings.

Ye Zhongming took a look and was shocked.

The rankings naturally couldn’t reflect the country’s entire situation, but Ye Zhongming felt that they were more believable compared to the other rankings.

An evolved could hide the equipment and skills but not his strength. That would be asking to die. The other evolved and mutated lifeforms wouldn’t give you a chance just because you wanted to hide your ability.

Zhao Xiangxue told Ye Zhongming to look at the rankings naturally because of where he was ranked.

Tenth!

Tenth in the country!

Any other Cloud Peak member would be unhappy with the ranking.

To them, he was invincible.

The top 20 in this ranking were meaningful as these 20 exceeded level six.

“20th, Liu Xuanzhi, seven star evolved, Cannibal Chain Northeast Manager.”

“19th, Leng Ran, seven star evolved. Soul Merchant Deputy Chief.”

“18th, Zuo Jinxuan, seven star evolved, Resistance Zone.”

“17th, Deacon Bai, Seven star evolved, Five Ring Money.”

“16th, Zhang Hetai, seven star evolved, Resistance Zone.”

“15th, Wugang, seven star evolved, Glory Army.”

“14th, Xia Bai, seven star evolved, Cloud Peak.”

“13th, Deacon Water, seven star evolved, Five Ring Money.”

“12th, Nine Dragon, seven star evolved, wanderer.”

“11th, Wen Zhong, seven star evolved, Resistance Zone.”

Ye Zhongming was familiar with many names: Zuo Jinxuan, Zhang Hetai, and Wen Zhong. He had also heard of Leng Ran and Wugang.

So, their appearance made Ye Zhongming think that this ranking was valuable.

Ye Zhongming and Xia Bai were among the first batch of people to reach seven stars. Based on that situation, he felt they might be the top three.

But he wasn’t arrogant to think that he was first, even if he lived a second life.

The reason was simple. Like novels, you might become rich even if you knew what would happen. You might end up like Bill Gates, but you can’t stop people like Buffet, Steve Jobs, Bezos etc from appearing. You can’t do everything and occupy all domains.

Take a step back. Even if you occupy all the promising domains, the traditional domains can’t be something you could take over. People had hundreds of years of family history and tradition that couldn’t be broken. There were the Rockefellers, Rothschild, Morgan, etc.