[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-wasteland-s-only-king":3,"chapter-wasteland-s-only-king-wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-79":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},1595111,2061,"Chapter 79 - 78: All Living Beings","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-79",79,"\u003Cp>Time slipped by slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gobi Desert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dou Qingfeng and his people watched the sun rise in the east, then watched it set in the west.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the blink of an eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whole day was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, the sun was sinking in the west. Evening had come.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He still hasn’t come out...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dou Qingfeng sighed, having given up on the idea of going down the well to find out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the meeting room at the base, not very big.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was packed full of people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The base received top-level notice: everyone must gather on time and watch tonight’s news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dou Qingfeng didn’t understand, but he obeyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Large screen at the front of the meeting room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the familiar opening music.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What appeared on TV wasn’t the usual balcony host.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone——\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Shanhai’s expression was extremely serious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dou Qingfeng, and the other 1.4 billion people, had never seen this level of seriousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Right now, it’s September 9, 2025, seven in the evening.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There are only five hours left until countless people worldwide are transported to the Wasteland Otherworld.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Shanhai opened with a bombshell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The meeting hall at the base instantly fell dead silent!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dou Qingfeng’s eyes went wide, thinking he must be hallucinating!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as he looked around at the others, he realized...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone was reacting just like him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two crew-cut young men assigned to protect Yu Jin—they seemed to have known this all along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is Daxia. This is Blue Star. It’s a change unseen in thousands, tens of thousands of years!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"An unfamiliar High-dimensional Civilization is invading Blue Star using means we humans can’t understand!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The game ’Wasteland’ is the vessel for this invasion!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In five hours, nearly half of all humans worldwide, and many animals and plants, will be forcibly transported to the apocalyptic Wasteland World to struggle for survival!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the TV screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Shanhai spoke word by word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daxia’s 1.4 billion people were stunned, numb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the day, every region suddenly began strict controls and curfews.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>None of the 1.4 billion knew what was happening; some even thought war was coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now Yin Shanhai told them personally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s not war. It’s traversing to an Otherworld!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And not any ordinary Otherworld, but a perilous Apocalyptic Wasteland World!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t just Daxia—even the countries across the ocean froze up when they got this news!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They knew about ’Oumuamua’, and they knew the ’Wasteland’ game, but they didn’t know...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There would be traversal!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And only five hours left!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yanjing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>East City, courtyard house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Yao, watching her grandpa’s speech on TV, silently scooped a spoonful of rice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yaoyao.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When you get over there, you must protect yourself, okay?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Yao’s mother, a classy woman in a cheongsam, kept reminding her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yaoyao, remember this...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No matter what, you must cling tight to Yu Jin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your father believes in you—this life, in the Wasteland, you’ll carve out a different future.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Yao’s dad, a broad-faced middle-aged man, spoke as he poured himself a deep cup of baijiu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He and his wife didn’t put on helmets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Shanhai was the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s not because they were unwilling to leave behind wealth and status in Daxia, but because they knew—traversal isn’t the end, Oumuamua’s coming Catastrophe for Blue Star is the real apocalypse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Yao still had no clue about this Catastrophe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Shanhai wouldn’t mention it in the news broadcast either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>About Oumuamua’s Pollution, it’s all speculation; the actual impact and scale are still unknown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dad, Mom.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you’re picked to traverse, please—anyhow, you must come to Dawn City...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Yao pressed her lips together; her eyes were wet without her realizing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was a Reincarnator, but right now, she was just a child who might never see her parents again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if her parents traversed...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hope of seeing them was still impossibly faint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Yao knew better than anyone how vast and cruel the Wasteland was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wasn’t Yu Jin—she didn’t have so many ways, didn’t have so much Ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All she could do was spend this last night quietly by her parents’ side...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhejiang Province.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Cui sat at the dinner table with his family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to neighbors next door screaming hysterically,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Cui’s family were much more composed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because as soon as Old Cui returned yesterday, he’d told his parents everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Cui’s parents of course didn’t believe him, but then today, Daxia began strict controls and curfew...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Shanhai said himself on the news broadcast that ’traversal’ was real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dad, Mom.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uncle, Aunt.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yanyan and I toast you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There’s no time this life to marry Yanyan, but next life, I—Cui Xiangyu—will make it happen!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Cui picked up his baijiu and downed it in one go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing next to him was his girlfriend, Zhao Yanyan, already crying her eyes out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yanjing, Outer Ring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Fei shut himself in the study.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He scribbled over and over on his notebook, full of ’evidence’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rip——!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He silently tore the notes to shreds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Fei’s mom came in, in tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Fei’s dad leaned against the door, chain-smoking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The smoke stung the man’s eyes, making them red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn’t smoked in 21 years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Province.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiangcheng University.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Yunxuan stared at the helmet on the table, eyes vacant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Daxia enforced strict controls today, all forms of transportation suspended, Jiang University students were basically stranded on campus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Tang Yunxuan, had been staring at the helmet a whole day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wear it, or not?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Yunxuan was in agony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t want to go to some perilous Wasteland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather than a one hundred percent chance, he’d rather leave it to God to roll the dice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He just wanted to stay a college student on Blue Star, help Old Yu with environmental stuff, chat up juniors about philosophy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Someone like me...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m just mud that can’t stick to the wall, just a loser.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I really failed Old Yu’s expectations, really let him down with that helmet.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Yunxuan slapped himself hard, turning his gaze away from the helmet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took out his phone and called his parents for a video chat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Wenbo sat at his computer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the screen was the final LOL match result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the bottom right, a forced popup of Yin Shanhai’s live broadcast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Wenbo stayed silent for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He called his parents, then called his friends.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He quietly moved the mouse and launched League of Legends.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he was a journalist, Yu Wenbo had always secretly dreamed of going pro.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Welcome to... Dre Alliance!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His favorite character, Draven, spoke in-game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I’m picked for Wasteland traversal...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll never get to play such a great game like League of Legends again...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Wenbo took a deep breath and put on his headphones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second Detention Center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tong Zhiyong, with silver handcuffs, stared through the barred window at the live broadcast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ha ha——\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He cackled again and again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wasteland, apocalypse, traversal...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t have to do time anymore!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he finished speaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang——!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A bald, burly cellmate elbowed him hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Idiot!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bald man cursed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the bars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A uniformed officer handed the bald man a phone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Few hours left—call your family...\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1227,"2026-06-06T09:25:00.978Z",1,"novelbin.me","255087b78ad31f72728a81fff9320ed0818278f8c284bf60c16c70b4c14151aa","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-80","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-78",370,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwasteland-s-only-king-cover.jpg"]