[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-wasteland-s-only-king":3,"chapter-wasteland-s-only-king-wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-31":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},1594820,2061,"Chapter 31: Wasteland","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-31",31,"\u003Cp>\"Can’t see it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin frowned slightly, but quickly relaxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well, yeah, we’re already Tier Five Evolvers. Not being able to see info for a Level 1 skill makes sense.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But I wonder how to upgrade this ’Eye of Insight.’ The system doesn’t give any hints...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If it only lets me see Tier One info, then it’s honestly pretty useless.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin muttered to himself and put those thoughts aside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze returned to the translucent panel in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, last one, give me something spicy!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin vaguely sensed a pattern with the Points Mall: the further back the item, the higher the value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Resource: Legacy left behind by a certain Tier Six Powerful Being]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Price: 200,000 Points]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Evaluation: Upon opening, there’s a chance to obtain resources, abilities, attributes, memory, etc. from the Tier Six Powerful Being during their lifetime—but you might get absolutely nothing, too.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Hint: Can only be opened after Tier Six.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin was shocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is spicy alright—and it comes with a whopping price tag of 200,000 Points!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why does this description sound like a loot box?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What you get depends totally on your luck?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>200,000 Points is no small number.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, his 500,000 Points are basically all farmed from grinding the ’Zoo’ dungeon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the system’s annoying style, repeated actions can’t trigger rewards again, so finding another points farming dungeon like ’Zoo’ won’t be easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, gotta be careful!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If luck turns bad, and RNG hates you, that’s 200,000 Points down the drain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin started thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment, he made up his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No rush, the refresh isn’t for another ten plus hours anyway.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll wait until the dirty river event wraps up, see how much I earn, and if I get enough Points, then I’ll buy it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing his daily shopping spree, Yu Jin turned to glance at Old Cui and the other two, finding they were still wearing helmets, showing no signs of waking up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Yu Jin’s Perception wasn’t sharp enough to hear their regular breathing at a distance, he’d have thought something had happened to those three.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is Wasteland really that addictive?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin looked on, feeling a bit tempted himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If circumstances allowed, he honestly wanted to log into Wasteland and experience what the real Wasteland World was actually like.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too bad...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system conflict meant he had to stick to campus for now—feeding stray cats, picking up trash, grinding rewards, leveling up, that sort of life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the club activity still over two hours away, Yu Jin didn’t hurry to the activity room, nor did he use the time for a nap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought about it, opened the computer on his desk, and searched for the keyword ’Wasteland game’ online.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A clicking sound as he hit enter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One eye-catching webpage title after another flashed across Yu Jin’s screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Wasteland game craze sweeps the globe—countless players going wild!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Deep dive into the makers of Wasteland—’X Company’ suddenly emerges!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Wasteland helmet impossible to buy even for a fortune—game devs send them out randomly, but still no official sale channel?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Shocking! Top-tier tycoons offering millions for a Wasteland game helmet!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Let’s discuss rationally—does Wasteland, which surpasses Blue Star’s tech level, have alien origins?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin’s attention landed on the last webpage title, and he clicked it, entering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thousands upon thousands of discussion posts appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hahaha, it’s the 21st century and people still believe this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"First thing the blogger should do is uninstall that damn tomato app from your phone!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The realism of Wasteland is so far just ’player’ hearsay in my opinion. The game dev skill is top-notch, but no way is it ’super realistic’ yet!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Realistic? Super real! Watched K-dog’s live stream, the stream got shut down right away and he went straight to the shadow realm!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If it really was an alien product, you think we’d get to play? The world leaders just sitting on their hands? Come on, we’re just the three-thousand-yuan-a-month plebs, this ain’t for us!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin scrolled through the comments with his mouse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of them didn’t believe the game was connected to aliens at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A handful supported the blogger’s viewpoint, and some true believers, but all got gently roasted or outright mocked by the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With technology so advanced, people now imagine themselves ’smarter than ever.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’d rather trust their common sense and instinctively reject anything wild or out there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin wasn’t surprised by this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He kept scrolling, looking for more info on the Wasteland game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon enough—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin did find a few self-proclaimed ’player’ posts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m in Wasteland, started as a refugee!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just logged in and got killed by a freaking giant rat!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Respawned and died, same spawn point every time, fought all night, got killed by the rat seventy-three times!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is there anyone who knows how to break out of this loop?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Waiting online, urgent!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m in Wasteland, met Superman!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thought it was just a basic wasteland survival world, never expected superpower users!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I watched him fly right over my head!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn, that’s so freaking badass!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please, devs, open up the pay channel, I wanna spend money, I wanna fly!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m in Wasteland, spawned as a Black Slave!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn it, worked hard, walked over ten miles to find a Refuge City...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But then got forced out to dig in the wilderness, supposedly to mine Pollution Crystals!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m a player, no way I’m staying under someone else’s thumb forever!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Anyone with coordinates near Bright City, let’s team up and overthrow the City Lord!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the sudden appearance of Wasteland to now, it’s only been three days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Obviously—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For these lucky new players who scored a helmet, their exploration of the game is still in the ’clearing the unknown’ stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin spent ages reading posts and found that hardly any players had managed to awaken and become Evolvers yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even those who became Evolvers were just Tier One.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, this post Yu Jin was reading—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I awakened the ’Electric Current’ attribute, super confident, left the city to fight monsters, and got blocked by a dung beetle!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can someone tell me, how is a dung beetle THAT big? THAT strong?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I hit it with all my electric current, felt like I was just tickling it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Worst part, it’s stuck to me, won’t let me go!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It wants me to shock it, then when I’m tired lets me rest, and when I’m done, asks for more shocks!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I came to Wasteland to be Thunder God, how did I end up a TENS therapist?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin read it and couldn’t stop laughing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Took a glance at the poster’s username.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The poster—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Society’s Brother Gang!\u003C\u002Fp>",1128,"2026-06-06T09:25:00.699Z",1,"novelbin.me","49575b3fc0810fdd86c8e2bd098826d9df0af8adb36800b2a57e740cd35485b8","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-205","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-204",370,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwasteland-s-only-king-cover.jpg"]