[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-wasteland-s-only-king":3,"chapter-wasteland-s-only-king-wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-47":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},1594860,2061,"Chapter 47: Points","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-47",47,"\u003Cp>Gunzhou People’s Hospital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Doctors from every department of the hospital, especially those in the operating rooms, all felt a sense of dreamlike unreality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason was simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every single surgery today had gone off without a hitch!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even several cases of critical illnesses, surgeries with a near-zero chance of success, ended up completely and unprecedentedly successful!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only did the surgeries succeed, but the patients’ post-op recovery speeds made quite a few doctors on the expert panels start to question everything they’d ever learned or experienced...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A medical miracle, it’s simply a medical miracle!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hospital’s experts even held an urgent meeting to review every detail from these few critical cases, trying to find the root cause of these \"medical miracles.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inpatient Department, First Floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a quiet, deserted corner of the lobby, Yu Jin sat on a bench.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All morning, he’d been \"purifying infected bodies\"!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Starting with Tier Six, then Tier Five, then Tier Four, Tier Three, Tier Two...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin had basically fleeced every bit of wool he could in this \"Infected Nest\" known as the hospital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whole time, he used a relatively \"slow and gentle\" approach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from those few Tier Six terminal cases that might make people exclaim \"medical miracle!\", the rest of the patients recovering slowly wouldn’t draw much attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An operation of this magnitude—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To say there’s zero risk of exposure would be impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin did it anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All because—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He kept remembering what Yin Yao had said when she was drunk—\"Time is running out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last night during their chat, Yin Yao sighed once again, \"If only things could stay this way.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Damocles’ sword called \"Wasteland\" always hung over Yu Jin’s head, and no one knew when it would drop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A day? Two days?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A week? A month?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin didn’t know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He only knew, \"time is running out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of that—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin urgently needed to use the time he had to boost his strength as much as possible, and raise his Tier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The best-case scenario...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is to reach Tier Nine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not hitting Max Level always left Yu Jin feeling insecure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A little risk is acceptable. For all I know, the big day might come before I’m even exposed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin muttered under his breath, staring at his system panel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Displayed on it were the rewards Yu Jin had yet to claim—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tier Six Energy Crystal x5.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tier Five Energy Crystal x10.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tier Four Energy Crystal x15.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tier Three Energy Crystal x30.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d also picked up quite a few Tier One and Tier Two Crystals, but Yu Jin had just downed those on the spot like candy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At his current Tier, eating Tier One or Two Crystals didn’t do nothing, but the effect was microscopic—barely even noticeable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it weren’t for the \"duplicate reward limit\" triggering like it did at the zoo, Yu Jin could have gotten even more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among these—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Tier Six Crystals all came from the terminally ill patients.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leukemia, renal failure, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and AIDS.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>AIDS—Yu Jin hadn’t expected that one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, he’d already triggered \"AIDS Nig\" before, and at that time the system had only categorized it as Tier Four.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin still managed to fleece a Tier Six Energy Crystal from an AIDS patient in the ICU.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why was AIDS Nig Tier Four, but the one in the hospital was Tier Six? Yu Jin’s theory was—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>1. In the system’s judgment, Nig’s species Tier is lower, below Daxia People.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>2. The AIDS case in the hospital was in much worse condition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of those two reasons, Yu Jin personally thought the first one mattered more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Come to think of it—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Gunzhou State Hospital wasn’t so small, with fewer types of terminal illnesses, Yu Jin could have squeezed out even more rewards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin shook his head, pulling his thoughts back and shifting his focus to the system panel in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Still not enough Tiers Five and Six Crystals.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There may be a lot of Tier Three and Four Crystals, but they do almost nothing for upping my Tier now—ten or more barely add up to a single Tier Five Crystal.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin’s brow furrowed slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The higher his Tier went, the more he could sense how massive—no, vast—the energy required for advancement was becoming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Yu Jin wasn’t surprised by this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The higher the Tier, the harder it is to advance. That makes perfect sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It meant that with each Tier, the gap between them grew larger and larger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The distance between Tier Six and Tier Seven might be bigger than the difference between Tier One and Tier Six.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And because of that—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin was even more determined to keep fleecing rewards and grinding until he reached Tier Nine!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not there yet—gotta keep pushing!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin clenched his fist, psyching himself up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He decided not to wait until evening. He’d find a quiet spot during the day to absorb and digest all these crystals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from Crystal rewards, Yu Jin had also gained a lot of Wasteland Points—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Wasteland Points: 1,700,000]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Subtracting the starting 990,000, this time he got 710,000 Points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This number even beat what he earned cleaning up that polluted river.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin still didn’t look satisfied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"1.7 million Points...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Barely enough to clean out yesterday’s new stock at the shop.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If the shop restocks with some epic items tonight and I see something nasty, I won’t have the Points left.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin was a little torn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the good news—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There’d be a citywide environmental event in Jiang City tomorrow, and as the environmental ambassador, he’d be there too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin didn’t know if a generic event like this would trigger system rewards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it did, how many Points would he get?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A citywide cleanup...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if millions of people show up to pick up litter, it probably won’t be much...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A lot of people, sure, but ’picking up trash’ itself has a pretty low action Tier according to the system.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin’s brow creased even more tightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The badass item that dropped at the shop yesterday—he’d get it no matter what.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Missing it would be a crime, straight up!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Should I try hitting up that Deputy Chief, ask ahead of time about the ’citywide environmental event’ plans?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Better yet, can I actually get involved in planning the content and focus for this event?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin sighed and picked up his phone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t have the Deputy Chief’s number, or Principal Jiang’s—only Yin Yao’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Living off a girl... how shameful...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin was in the middle of this thought when—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bzz bzz—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His phone started to vibrate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The call was from his foster mother, Cao Fang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin was a bit surprised. His foster mother rarely called him, not wanting to disturb him unless it was something important—like when Old Yu had that sudden heart attack this morning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beep beep—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The call connected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But through the receiver, it was Old Yu’s voice that came through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Um... Xiaojin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Yu’s voice sounded a little nervous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Someone there with you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin asked directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, no...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well, yes, there is!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Yu was stumbling over his words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin stood up from the bench with his phone, heading toward the elevator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looked like something had happened with Old Yu’s ward while he’d been gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Somebody giving you trouble?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin’s tone turned slightly stern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Trouble?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, that’s not it...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s just...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All of a sudden a bunch of people showed up in our ward—a lot of doctors...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The one leading them said he was the director, and there were two more calling themselves vice directors...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They insisted on upgrading my ward, said they’d transfer me to some kind of VIP suite, and that I wouldn’t have to pay a thing...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I was wondering if this had something to do with...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, Old Yu stopped talking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, there was a whole group crowded in the ward listening to him make this call.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He might have suspected something, but couldn’t state it outright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You and Mom just wait in the ward. I’ll be right up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as Yu Jin said this—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Yu spoke again:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh right, there’s also a young lady.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Very pretty, looks like a celebrity and carries herself well—she said she’s your classmate and came to see you...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All those directors and vice directors are standing behind her, like they’re all just waiting for her say-so...\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1421,"2026-06-06T09:25:00.699Z",1,"novelbin.me","96ff5a019215a8ed1070ccb57dbc2ac6115aaa616997c545360dabc262dca434","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-313","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-219",370,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwasteland-s-only-king-cover.jpg"]