[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-wasteland-s-only-king":3,"chapter-wasteland-s-only-king-wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-108":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Wasteland's Only King",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1594990,2061,"Chapter 108 - 97: Yu—Motherland People—Junior Schoolmate—Jin","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-108",108,"\u003Cp>Above the celestial vault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brilliant light!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Light Saber stretching over ten thousand meters, shrouding the sky and sun, plummeted toward Bright City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sword illuminated the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sword, the Tier Five City Lord of Bright City, had nowhere to escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t even react before being engulfed by the Light Saber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aaaah—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the City Lord’s Mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On a five-meter-wide bed, several scarred, naked young girls let out sharp screams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He’s... gone...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The City Lord is gone, he’s melted!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young woman shouted hoarsely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The joy of vengeance fulfilled was clear in her voice!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Tier Four Light Attribute Ability: Light Saber Level 1]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Active Effect: Manifest a gigantic Light Saber, unleashing it to deal single-target damage]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back when ’exterminating mosquitoes’ in Langlang Mountain, Yu Jin still scoffed at this skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This ability was nothing if not handy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Single-target damage, lock onto the City Lord, so it won’t hit other civilians by mistake.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"These are all my future subordinates of Dawn City, if they die or get hurt, it’s not good.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Especially since there are a lot of Blue Star compatriots...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin muttered, walking down from the sky one step at a time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have defeated and slain ’Tier Five Evolver—Bright City Lord’!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Strongman’s Spoils (Level 1) activates...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have obtained one of his attributes!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have awakened the Ninth Attribute: Peace!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hm?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin furrowed his brow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His steps didn’t pause as he willed himself to check the effect of ’Peace’ attribute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Steal Yin to replenish Yang? Drain Life Energy?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So the Bright City Lord is the real Superman.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reading through a few ability descriptions, Yu Jin clicked his tongue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This attribute was improper, and trashy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At best, it’s just a minor and twisted branch under the ’Yin and Yang’ attribute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I can unlock the true ’Yin and Yang’ attribute in the future, maybe the Superman path could be considered...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thoughts spun in Yu Jin’s mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood before the gates of Bright City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the gate, rows upon rows of people knelt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"L-Lord...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am Vice City Lord of Bright City, on behalf of its one hundred forty thousand people, I welcome your arrival...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The figure at the front was neatly dressed, even slightly plump from affluence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the wasteland, that was rare indeed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin glanced at the Vice City Lord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zzz—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Level 9 Laser.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aaaah—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scream didn’t come from the Vice City Lord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because in an instant, he was vaporized by a laser from Yu Jin’s eyes, turned to nothingness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scream was from the young woman standing beside the Vice City Lord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin glanced at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Natalia]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Mother Star: Kapuli Star]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Tier: Four]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Attribute: ...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ability: ...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Evaluation: For years, together with the Vice City Lord, abducted countless young female refugees, supplying Bright City Lord to torment and drain their life energy...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin didn’t bother reading the rest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zzz—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Natalia vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a split second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside Bright City, deathly silence!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The kneeling refugees bore looks of joy mixed with awe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The core members of Bright City at the very front had turned ashen-white and dared not breathe loudly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This terrifying Strongman from God-knows-where hadn’t even bothered with words—just laser beams straight away!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The City Lord was gone, the Vice City Lord was gone, and even the Lady of the City—also the Vice City Lord’s lover—was gone...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zzz—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another laser shot from Yu Jin’s eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire front row of core members—dozens of them—all turned to nothingness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Gulp—!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More than ten thousand refugees kneeling behind frantically swallowed in terror!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Horrifying, utterly horrifying!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’d thought the Bright City Lord was already the most depraved scum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet who would have thought...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today someone even worse arrived—a wasteland version of Superman!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now, who will tell me about this Refuge City?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin spoke, already stepping into the city proper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The kneeling refugees exchanged looks, then scrambled to their feet, trailing reverently behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had no idea...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this new ’City Lord’ might be even more brutal than the last.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All they could do was leave it to fate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As you can see, honored lord...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Although many new refugees have arrived recently, Bright City’s population of refugees is not large...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is because, well, many refugees were overworked, or starved, and died.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin strolled the outer city streets of Bright City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to Dawn City and White Rock City, the streets here were even more dilapidated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The refugees’ situation couldn’t be called ’bad’—it was ’horrifying’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On both sides of the street, everywhere, refugees sobbed, dragging themselves, struggling to move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin noticed—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their hands were mangled and bloody from constant Crystal mining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their bodies, seen through tattered clothing, were covered with whip marks—deep and distinct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What a Bright City, indeed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin’s face grew gloomier still.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the city, he’d already seen the Vice City Lord and the core members’ crimes through the Eye of Insight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Knowing is one thing; seeing is another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them were many Blue Star and Daxia faces Yu Jin recognized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin raised a hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He cast Purifying Light on the refugees in the street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tier Nine Yu Jin, using Level 6 Purifying Light—while not at the point of raising the dead or growing new limbs, healing ordinary people’s wounds was done in a blink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My Lord!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Merciful, benevolent lord!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On both sides of the street, the healed refugees, after a moment of shock, scrambled up from the ground, prostrating with humble reverence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind Yu Jin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged man tasked with briefing him was stunned by this scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just outside the city, Yu Jin’s ’one Laser’ had left such a deep impression, he thought this unknown big shot was no different from the old Bright City Lord...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But who would have thought?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"L-Lord—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where are you from?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t mean to pry; I’m just curious. There’s never been such a strong man in this area before.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged man braced himself and asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was a Tier Three Evolver himself, but had refused to take part in the City Lord’s crimes, which left him only the role of Mining Chief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Blue Star.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin answered flatly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Blue Star?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, his eyes flew wide open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Blue Star?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Isn’t that where all those new refugees are from lately?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Blue Star humans only arrived in the wasteland a few days ago—they’re all newbie players!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man’s outburst startled the many refugees kneeling stricken on both sides of the street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Blue Star...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was light in the previously spiritless eyes of the refugees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The name of their homeland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh, whoosh—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One by one, summoning their courage, refugees raised their heads to gaze at the ’big shot’ now surrounded at the center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Blue Star?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The refugees murmured, their voices trembling with an indescribable longing and question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Blue Star.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin exhaled softly, giving affirmation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Blue Star!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The refugees leapt up in excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the next moment, realizing their lack of decorum, they dropped back to their knees just as before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their eyes were no longer clouded and dim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their faces shone with satisfaction, pride, and uncontrollable excitement!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This young strongman who slew the City Lord with a Light Saber...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was one of them, a fellow from Blue Star!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Blue Star?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is he really from Blue Star?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bright City, outer city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the end of a remote alley, in a dilapidated shack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Pan’Er pressed against the window, listening to the swelling shouts outside, uncertain what to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She’d transmigrated here for five days now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The good news—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She’d spawned right into this broken shack at the start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bad news—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bright City Lord was incredibly lustful. Brutal to the extreme.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though she hadn’t left the shack in five days...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Pan’Er watched through the window, spying the outside world each day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She saw young men rounded up by the Supervisor squad, whipped and herded out of the city like cattle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the morning, thirty people went out as a group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By evening, barely half returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She saw young girls taken—in less than two minutes of showing on the street, Supervisors would snatch them away...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If pretty, they’d be sent to the City Lord’s Mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If average...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even in daylight, Yu Pan’Er could hear their piercing, hopeless howls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Torture so desperate it would make one beg for death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five days, she hadn’t stepped out once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five days, she survived thanks to a piece of rotten meat in the corner and a bowl of filthy water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five days pass, and there was neither food nor water left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now Yu Pan’Er’s choices were to stay inside and wait for death, or to leave and endure a fate worse than death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Should I go out?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This might be my best chance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Judging by their shouts, the City Lord is dead—a new, strong Evolver has come.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He seems to be from Blue Star...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment’s hesitation—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Pan’Er gritted her teeth, and pushed open the locked, dilapidated straw door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Blue Star, Blue Star!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the outer city street to the City Lord’s Mansion, it’s only two or three kilometers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along the way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind Yu Jin, thousands upon thousands of refugees had gathered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They shouted at the top of their lungs, their excitement feeding into screams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of them were from Blue Star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hahaha!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Finally, we’ve waited long enough!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I told you—so many from Blue Star came, there had to be some badasses, there had to be a boss!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well, the boss is here, and now Blue Star players have justice!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the crowd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A young man, skin and bone with lips cracked over and over, grinned like a fool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His name was Tang Yan, from Blue Star’s Daxia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back during the ’Wasteland’ game closed beta, he got the Helmet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the time—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He logged into ’Wasteland’ and was captured by Bright City to mine from the start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For seven days, he tried to resist, to run, even to get himself killed to start over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every respawn, he ended up near Bright City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five days ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He transmigrated here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, he spawned in Bright City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having mined Crystals for seven days in beta...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was treated as a slave and forced to keep mining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How can Blue Star players live beneath others in grief forever?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boss, we’re loyal!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Yan waved excitedly and shouted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Yu Jin couldn’t help but look back at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lord...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s the City Lord’s Mansion up ahead.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The former depraved City Lord was slain by your hand. All you need to do is enter the mansion to officially become City Lord.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged man reminded him respectfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin nodded but did not move forward at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sub-cities need a Deputy City Lord installed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn’t planning to linger in Bright City. Kill the City Lord, find a Deputy City Lord, then continue east to deal with other Refuge City Lords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Yu Jin intended to attach at least eight or ten sub-cities to Dawn City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who should I pick?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin turned, eyes sweeping over the tens of thousands of following refugees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, he looked at Tang Yan—a Daxia face, looking fairly energetic, too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maybe I should—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin had barely started thinking that when—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A crisp, piercing voice rang out from the crowd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yu...Yu Jin?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Pan’Er stumbled from the mob, nearly tripping over herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Staring at the familiar yet slightly changed Yu Jin before her, the former vice president of the dance club found herself lost in a daze...\u003C\u002Fp>",1954,"2026-06-06T09:25:00.978Z",1,"novelbin.me","d12527d55b8b47fc5fab54208952e2b5166c80f573dca32e88d97e3a30285570","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-109","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-107",370,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwasteland-s-only-king-cover.jpg"]