[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-wasteland-s-only-king":3,"chapter-wasteland-s-only-king-wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-88":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},1595120,2061,"Chapter 88 - 85: Dawn City, Your City Lord Has Returned","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-88",88,"\u003Cp>Boom—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rumble—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Up on the celestial vault, thunder rumbled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neil’s figure shuttled through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to the rewards that the official Wasteland game handed out when he first logged in, Neil’s ’Flying Thunder God’ was now at level 9, maxed out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Tier Two Thunder Attribute Ability: Flying Thunder God lv9]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Active Effect: Transform into lightning and move at high speed, ignoring physical obstacles over short distances]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Full-Level Effect: This ability has no cooldown. As long as energy is sufficient, it can be continuously unleashed]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back on Blue Star, Neil could only shuttle ten meters using ’Flying Thunder God’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tier Nine + lv9 + no suppression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a triple buff, every step Neil took now could cover more than ten kilometers!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From White Rock City to Dawn City was two hundred kilometers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For countless wasteland wanderers, two hundred kilometers—even if nothing dangerous happened—would take ten days or half a month on foot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for Neil?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two hundred kilometers—all in all, just twenty steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is what a real superman looks like!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid the thunder and light, Neil couldn’t help but sigh from the heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And while sighing,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he even had time to glance down at the wasteland below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Come to think of it, since waking up, Neil hadn’t properly observed this world, this so-called A3 Wasteland Planet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Light Touch Lv1 activated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neil took in every scene below him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the yellow-brown earth, there wasn’t a hint of green.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky was gloomy, and except for the areas near Refuge Cities, everywhere was shrouded in a faint layer of black mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wasteland was scattered with withered and ugly gray-black mutant plants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These plants secreted pitch-black sticky liquid, which dripped to the ground with a ’sizzle’ of burning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neil noticed—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On a black mutant vine hung dozens of corpses of refugees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their faces were still frozen in the despair and terror of death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the black vine was drawing blood and energy from their bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene was extremely unsettling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neil raised his hand and blasted it with a ’laser’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a split second,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the black vine vanished into nothingness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I hate this kind of thing that keeps tormenting corpses even after death!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neil spat and looked away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the desolate and vast wasteland, there were quite a few refugee bands moving, clustered like ant colonies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They crawled forward slowly, nervously on guard against dangers that could surface at any moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were far more roaming, ferocious mutant beasts than refugees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They wandered the plains, hunting humans as prey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And deep underground,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>using Spatial Perception, Neil ’saw’ one enormous, honeycomb-like nest after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So these are mutant beast and infected nests?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neil frowned slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the incomplete map from the system and the map given by Yin Shanhai, the most marked spots after Refuge City locations were all kinds of nests.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neil had thought those nests would be exposed on the surface, so refugees could just avoid them by steering clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in reality...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the nests were all extremely well-hidden deep underground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Atop a nest, it looked no different from the surrounding wasteland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>if any refugees ever stepped onto that ground, what awaited them was nothing but hopeless death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neil became keenly aware of just how vital ’maps’ were as resources in the Wasteland World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whew—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Neil let out a heavy breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought of Blue Star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though before crossing over, he’d done his best to purify eighty-nine percent of Omumuamua’s pollution source,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>still, eleven percent of the source crashed onto Blue Star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That meant...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blue Star would remain polluted and keep evolving toward a ’Wasteland Planet’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pollution source? Infected bodies? Mutant beasts?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dangers faced by the half of humanity that stayed on Blue Star were hardly any less than those in the wasteland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hope Brother Tongzi finishes the update and gives us a boost...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That way, I can hurry back to Blue Star sooner.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neil thought this, but his feet didn’t slow down at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rumble——!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lightning flashed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the edge of Neil’s eyesight, a faint virtual outline of a not-so-large Refuge City appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dawn City, my city!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Neil’s heart, a rush of indescribable warmth and excitement rose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he even ignored another voice echoing in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have defeated and killed ’Tier Five Evolver—White Rock City Lord’!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Strongman’s Spoils (lv1) activated...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have acquired one of his attributes!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have awakened your seventh attribute: Giant Stone!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>what Neil didn’t notice was that\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as he transformed into lightning and shot off toward faraway Dawn City,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>down on the wasteland beneath him,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>in an ordinary-looking refugee band of just over twenty people, a petite figure hidden beneath a thick hood suddenly stopped walking and looked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nia, what’s wrong?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is there danger ahead?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the small figure named ’Nia’ stopped, the leader of the band—a burly shirtless man—nervously called after her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These past few days,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>if not for ’Nia’ sensing danger in advance every time, their whole group would have been wiped out long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the hood, the tiny figure shook her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s good!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The band leader let out a long sigh of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other refugees’ tightly strung nerves also eased instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sigh!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’ve been escaping from Bright City for days now. Who knows how long it’ll take to find another Refuge City.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And we can’t be sure if the new Refuge City will be just like Bright City and use us wanderers as black slaves.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The band leader gazed ahead with a low sigh and a hint of bewilderment in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s go there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nia suddenly spoke, pointing toward the direction Neil vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There. Maybe there’s a pretty good Refuge City.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wasteland, Dawn City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant steel city gates were tightly shut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the gates,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>there was a black mass beyond sight, mutant beasts and infected bodies clustering together, letting out piercing, shrill screeches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside Dawn City,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>over a hundred thousand wanderers crowded on the streets of the Outer City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Listening to the screeches outside, their bodies trembled ceaselessly in terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Atop Dawn City’s walls,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the mere one thousand Evolvers of Dawn City all looked tense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three days ago,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the mutant beast and infected nests around Dawn City inexplicably went berserk together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In three days,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>hundreds of thousands of mutant beasts and infected bodies surrounded Dawn City from all sides, sealing it tight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After several probing attacks, it seemed the beast tide was finally going to strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the wasteland,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>sieges by beast tides were not uncommon for Refuge Cities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>what was truly fatal was that Dawn City’s strong and mysterious New City Lord had gone missing at the worst possible moment!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He vanished without a trace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like he’d never existed at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sigh—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On Martial Arts Plaza,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Gang looked up at the figure standing at the very front of the city wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Angelina Neil, Tier Five Mechanical Evolver, the strongest in Dawn City now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Gang had seen this boss’s strength first hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just two days ago, his second day after crossing into the wasteland, it was through her exam that he became part of the Dawn City Guard Team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Chen Gang looked to his side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Yao. She was now captain of the Guard Team, and his direct superior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Senior Sister Yin’s face was now filled with worry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tier Six Infected Body, Tier Seven Mutant Beast...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dawn City just can’t hold them off...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Gang heard Yin Yao mutter softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sigh—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Gang couldn’t help but sigh again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just his third day after crossing over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No clue if Old Yu made it across yet?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No clue what’s up with Old Cui and Yu Fei right now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Looks like Brother Gang’s gonna be the first one to bite the dust...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Gang mumbled, glancing at the crowd behind Yin Yao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This group wasn’t Guard Team members, but newbies who’d joined Dawn City only three days ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were only about forty of them, guys and girls, all looking pretty green.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Funny thing was, not only were they from Jiang University, they were all members of Yu Jin’s Environmental Protection Club.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three days ago,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>after crossing over, they’d started out right in Dawn City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they were overjoyed, thinking they’d dodged ’wasteland survival in the wild’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All these guys and girls wore long faces, unable to force a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What felt like a god-tier starting hand turned out to be a disaster from the get-go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roar—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roaar—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside Dawn City,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>hundreds of thousands of mutant beasts and infected bodies let out even sharper screeches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They’re coming!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Gang’s face instantly tensed up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bzzt—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He triggered his ’Electric Current’ attribute, sparks crackled between his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Come to think of it...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, besides Neil, the Tier Five Evolver, the strongest in Dawn City were honestly just the Tier Three Evolvers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were seven Tier Three Evolvers in total—five indigenous, plus Yin Yao and Chen Gang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I already made the top ten in the whole city, and Dawn City is still screwed?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Gang looked at the electricity in his hands, lips twitching hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Here they come!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another low cry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, from the very front of the wall, Angelina Neil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ka—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kaka—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yin Yao, Chen Gang, and the others watched,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Tier Five Evolver triggered her ’Mechanical’ attribute ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a few seconds,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neil vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In her place stood a massive, black humanoid mecha, more than ten meters tall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hiss—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Battle mode?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is way too cool...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with the looming siege, seeing Neil’s mecha form for the first time, Chen Gang’s eyes were wide with awe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Yao, seeing Neil shift into mecha, drew a deep breath and activated her ’Sandstorm’ attribute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A swarm of small sand tornadoes appeared out of thin air around her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the next second,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neil’s move stunned Yin Yao, Chen Gang, and all the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In mecha mode, instead of attacking the mutant beast tide starting to storm the wall,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>she...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>raised her hand to her chest, bowing slightly toward the eastern sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is that...?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whole crowd was dumbstruck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Gang gaped even wider, totally baffled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rumble—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly deafening thunder echoed in everyone’s ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thousand-plus people on the wall, and the over a hundred thousand refugees inside, all instinctively looked up, tracking the noise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They saw—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>far off at the eastern horizon,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a dazzling bolt of lightning, bright enough to almost split the sky, was streaking toward Dawn City at unbelievable speed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My Lord—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Neil humbly awaits your arrival!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Angelina Neil’s reverent shout echoed inside and outside Dawn City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless refugees, still dazed, instantly broke into cheers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wow, City Lord!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"City Lord, the City Lord!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dawn City’s City Lord has returned!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1809,"2026-06-06T09:25:00.978Z",1,"novelbin.me","0ee55204d6ce6d54551bcaf08c816c28b2a1ebb0618235a59a098268bd794b49","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-89","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-87",370,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwasteland-s-only-king-cover.jpg"]