[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-wasteland-s-only-king":3,"chapter-wasteland-s-only-king-wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-83":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},1595115,2061,"Chapter 83 - 82: Yu Jin the Student","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-83",83,"\u003Cp>Wasteland Planet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A308 Area, White Rock Sanctuary City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blue Star Calendar, September 12, 2025.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It has been exactly three days since half of Blue Star’s humans transmigrated here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the Sanctuary City gates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thousands upon thousands of yellow-faced, skinny, ragged Wasteland Wanderers were lined up in a long queue at the city gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some wore blank expressions, eyes full of numbness and despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some were wounded, with broken legs and feet, even stark white bones exposed, yet this failed to draw even a glance of concern from those around them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others just stood in a daze, staring at the towering Sanctuary City gate, crying and laughing, even letting out strange shouts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vast majority of these refugees came from Blue Star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their transmigration spots were all near White Rock Sanctuary City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the city gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Barefoot, skin and bones, a young man wearing only a tattered piece of cloth stepped out heavily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at the long line before the Sanctuary City and wanted to say something, but after moving his lips, he stayed silent and hung his head, walking away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For them...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just being able to survive out here for these three days and successfully find the Sanctuary City is already enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I told them now—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if you enter the city, you’ll just end up as black slaves, mining for the City Lord. What’s the point?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We new players from Blue Star never had a choice to begin with...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young man’s eyes were filled with deep sorrow and grief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His name was Yu Wenbo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before transmigrating, he was a reporter at Jiangcheng Times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after coming here...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was nothing more than an ordinary Wasteland Wanderer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there was anything ’lucky,’ it was that his starting point was close to White Rock Sanctuary City, letting him enter the city on the first day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t have to be like so many others...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These past few days, Yu Wenbo had heard a lot of news from Blue Star compatriots inside the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That female celebrity, as soon as she transmigrated, was caught by a group of refugees, abused, and ended up as a chunk of meat on the grill.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Some boxer who was said to be quite famous on Blue Star got surrounded by a pack of Mutant Beasts right after transmigrating... When people passed by later, all they saw was a corpse covered in claw marks.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Or, someone saw a person who, the moment he landed, immediately turned into an Infected Body...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Wenbo had no idea how many people from Blue Star had died after transmigrating here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he knew it was definitely a terrifying and outrageous number.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Wasteland is just too cruel and too dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Smack—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Wenbo slowed his steps, and a bloodstained whip lashed across his skinny back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hiss—!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Wenbo clenched his teeth, struggling not to scream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because if you scream, you get whipped more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you daydreaming for!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If each of you doesn’t dig up two Pollution Crystals today, you’ll all get out of White Rock City!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There’re plenty of refugees on the Wasteland. If you don’t dig, others will!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind Yu Wenbo’s group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A burly man swung a whip and shouted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If only I could become an Evolver...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Wenbo endured the pain and quickened his step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In these three days, he’d learned a fair bit about the Wasteland World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though before transmigrating, Yin Shanhai had already popularized info about ’Evolvers’ on the news, knowing and experiencing are two completely different things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That burly man with the whip was a Quasi-Evolutionary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had awakened, but hadn’t activated any attributes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The physique and power of a Quasi-Evolutionary was not something ordinary refugees could match.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let alone...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That man was also a member of White Rock City’s Supervisor team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five hours later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>About ten kilometers northwest of White Rock Sanctuary City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Wenbo, filthy and grimy, stared intently at the pitch-black, misshapen crystal he’d just dug up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pollution Crystal...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The crystal that lets ordinary people awaken as Quasi-Evolutionaries...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Wenbo carefully turned his body, hiding his find from the watching Supervisor in the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The past two days, he’d dug up crystals and handed them in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White Rock City didn’t reward him at all—instead, because he only dug up one piece and didn’t meet the quota, they whipped him several times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most importantly...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe because so many new refugees appeared in the Wasteland, White Rock City never treated them like humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No food, only a bit of survival water, but every day they had to risk their necks to dig for crystals. If you didn’t get enough, you were kicked out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Obviously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White Rock City treated refugees like Yu Wenbo as disposable ’consumables.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you die on the job, so be it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There’re always new refugees to take your place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Should I just swallow it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The idea popped into Yu Wenbo’s head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d only dug up one today, and with little time left, the chance to get a second piece was slim...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant he’d not only get whipped again when he got back, but still wouldn’t get any food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he didn’t eat, he’d really starve to death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I’m doomed either way, better to take a shot!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as this thought appeared, it spread through him like wild grass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gulp—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Wenbo swallowed hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He glanced back and saw the Supervisor was still several hundred meters away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Wenbo’s heart was pounding fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wind and sand flew into his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No time to wipe them, he glanced behind him again just to be sure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Run!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Wenbo’s skin-and-bones body unleashed its last ounce of strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Barefoot, on the rough, rocky Wasteland, he bolted with all his might!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had no idea how long he ran.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the end, he couldn’t squeeze out another drop of energy and collapsed weakly to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, no one chasing me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Wenbo looked back and saw the Supervisor hadn’t given chase at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He let out a sigh of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t figure out why, but...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant he turned his head, Yu Wenbo felt the blood in his body freeze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just ten meters in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two eyes, each the size of half a person, were staring at him in silence!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m screwed!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Wenbo’s face went ghostly pale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He instantly recalled the news he’d heard in White Rock City just yesterday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Supposedly—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right not far northwest of White Rock City, there lurked a terrifying Tier Seven Mutated Giant Turtle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Wenbo looked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holy shit...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He swore, he’d never seen such a massive ’turtle head’ in his life!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tier Seven, huh...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Wenbo gave up resisting entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The White Rock City Lord is a Tier Five Evolver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Wenbo had felt his presence from afar...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The strength was so intense that it made his hair stand on end, like he could be crushed with a single thought!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tier Seven Mutant Beast!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This thing could slap the White Rock City Lord to death without effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To put it bluntly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he got slapped to death by this thing, that would count as \"moving up in the world\" in a twisted way...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Wenbo sighed, ready to accept his fate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One second, two seconds, three seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half a minute passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mutated Giant Turtle just stared at Yu Wenbo quietly, unmoving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Wenbo was stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought for a moment, then mustered his courage and forced himself to stand up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He finally saw—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the massive head of the Mutated Giant Turtle—yes, on its head—there was actually a person lying there!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This guy...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Looks familiar.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even from a side view, Yu Wenbo only needed a few seconds to recognize him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yu Jin?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, that’s Yu Jin, isn’t it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Wenbo’s eyes widened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe because he’d shouted out loud, or maybe Yu Wenbo just came at the right time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whole time, Yu Jin had been lying quietly on the Tier Seven Mutated Giant Turtle’s head—and now, his eyelids trembled, as if he was about to slowly awaken...\u003C\u002Fp>",1373,"2026-06-06T09:25:00.978Z",1,"novelbin.me","fc073697e825f2890850625192938c133881f90bf6c3635197facca55acc3140","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-84","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-82",370,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwasteland-s-only-king-cover.jpg"]