Wasteland's Only King-Chapter 108 - 97: Yu—Motherland People—Junior Schoolmate—Jin

Chapter 108: Chapter 97: Yu—Motherland People—Junior Schoolmate—Jin

Above the celestial vault.

Brilliant light!

A Light Saber stretching over ten thousand meters, shrouding the sky and sun, plummeted toward Bright City.

This sword illuminated the heavens.

This sword, the Tier Five City Lord of Bright City, had nowhere to escape.

He couldn’t even react before being engulfed by the Light Saber.

"Aaaah—"

Inside the City Lord’s Mansion.

On a five-meter-wide bed, several scarred, naked young girls let out sharp screams.

"He’s... gone..."

"The City Lord is gone, he’s melted!"

The young woman shouted hoarsely.

The joy of vengeance fulfilled was clear in her voice!

...

...

[Tier Four Light Attribute Ability: Light Saber Level 1]

[Active Effect: Manifest a gigantic Light Saber, unleashing it to deal single-target damage]

Back when ’exterminating mosquitoes’ in Langlang Mountain, Yu Jin still scoffed at this skill.

But now?

This ability was nothing if not handy.

"Single-target damage, lock onto the City Lord, so it won’t hit other civilians by mistake."

"These are all my future subordinates of Dawn City, if they die or get hurt, it’s not good."

"Especially since there are a lot of Blue Star compatriots..."

Yu Jin muttered, walking down from the sky one step at a time.

[You have defeated and slain ’Tier Five Evolver—Bright City Lord’!]

[Strongman’s Spoils (Level 1) activates...]

[You have obtained one of his attributes!]

[You have awakened the Ninth Attribute: Peace!]

[...]

"Hm?"

Yu Jin furrowed his brow.

His steps didn’t pause as he willed himself to check the effect of ’Peace’ attribute.

"Steal Yin to replenish Yang? Drain Life Energy?"

"Damn..."

"So the Bright City Lord is the real Superman."

After reading through a few ability descriptions, Yu Jin clicked his tongue.

This attribute was improper, and trashy.

At best, it’s just a minor and twisted branch under the ’Yin and Yang’ attribute.

"If I can unlock the true ’Yin and Yang’ attribute in the future, maybe the Superman path could be considered..."

The thoughts spun in Yu Jin’s mind.

Soon enough.

He stood before the gates of Bright City.

Outside the gate, rows upon rows of people knelt.

"L-Lord..."

"I am Vice City Lord of Bright City, on behalf of its one hundred forty thousand people, I welcome your arrival..."

The figure at the front was neatly dressed, even slightly plump from affluence.

On the wasteland, that was rare indeed.

Yu Jin glanced at the Vice City Lord.

Zzz—!

Level 9 Laser.

"Aaaah—"

The scream didn’t come from the Vice City Lord.

Because in an instant, he was vaporized by a laser from Yu Jin’s eyes, turned to nothingness.

The scream was from the young woman standing beside the Vice City Lord.

Yu Jin glanced at her.

[Natalia]

[Mother Star: Kapuli Star]

[Tier: Four]

[Attribute: ...]

[Ability: ...]

[Evaluation: For years, together with the Vice City Lord, abducted countless young female refugees, supplying Bright City Lord to torment and drain their life energy...]

Yu Jin didn’t bother reading the rest.

Zzz—!

Natalia vanished.

In a split second.

Outside Bright City, deathly silence!

The kneeling refugees bore looks of joy mixed with awe.

The core members of Bright City at the very front had turned ashen-white and dared not breathe loudly.

This terrifying Strongman from God-knows-where hadn’t even bothered with words—just laser beams straight away!

The City Lord was gone, the Vice City Lord was gone, and even the Lady of the City—also the Vice City Lord’s lover—was gone...

But clearly.

It wasn’t over.

Zzz—!

Another laser shot from Yu Jin’s eyes.

The entire front row of core members—dozens of them—all turned to nothingness.

"Gulp—!"

More than ten thousand refugees kneeling behind frantically swallowed in terror!

Horrifying, utterly horrifying!

They’d thought the Bright City Lord was already the most depraved scum.

Yet who would have thought...

Today someone even worse arrived—a wasteland version of Superman!

"That’s enough."

"Now, who will tell me about this Refuge City?"

Yu Jin spoke, already stepping into the city proper.

The kneeling refugees exchanged looks, then scrambled to their feet, trailing reverently behind him.

They had no idea...

If this new ’City Lord’ might be even more brutal than the last.

All they could do was leave it to fate.

...

... 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

"As you can see, honored lord..."

"Although many new refugees have arrived recently, Bright City’s population of refugees is not large..."

"This is because, well, many refugees were overworked, or starved, and died."

Yu Jin strolled the outer city streets of Bright City.

Compared to Dawn City and White Rock City, the streets here were even more dilapidated.

At the same time.

The refugees’ situation couldn’t be called ’bad’—it was ’horrifying’.

On both sides of the street, everywhere, refugees sobbed, dragging themselves, struggling to move.

Yu Jin noticed—

Their hands were mangled and bloody from constant Crystal mining.

Their bodies, seen through tattered clothing, were covered with whip marks—deep and distinct.

"What a Bright City, indeed."

Yu Jin’s face grew gloomier still.

Even though—

Outside the city, he’d already seen the Vice City Lord and the core members’ crimes through the Eye of Insight.

But...

Knowing is one thing; seeing is another.

Among them were many Blue Star and Daxia faces Yu Jin recognized.

Whoosh—!

Yu Jin raised a hand.

He cast Purifying Light on the refugees in the street.

Tier Nine Yu Jin, using Level 6 Purifying Light—while not at the point of raising the dead or growing new limbs, healing ordinary people’s wounds was done in a blink.

"Ah..."

"My Lord!"

"Merciful, benevolent lord!"

On both sides of the street, the healed refugees, after a moment of shock, scrambled up from the ground, prostrating with humble reverence.

Behind Yu Jin.

The middle-aged man tasked with briefing him was stunned by this scene.

Just outside the city, Yu Jin’s ’one Laser’ had left such a deep impression, he thought this unknown big shot was no different from the old Bright City Lord...

But who would have thought?

"L-Lord—"

"Where are you from?"

"I don’t mean to pry; I’m just curious. There’s never been such a strong man in this area before."

The middle-aged man braced himself and asked.

He was a Tier Three Evolver himself, but had refused to take part in the City Lord’s crimes, which left him only the role of Mining Chief.

"Blue Star."

Yu Jin answered flatly.

"Blue Star?"

The man froze.

The next moment, his eyes flew wide open.

"Blue Star?!"

"Isn’t that where all those new refugees are from lately?"

"Blue Star humans only arrived in the wasteland a few days ago—they’re all newbie players!"

The man’s outburst startled the many refugees kneeling stricken on both sides of the street.

"Blue Star..."

There was light in the previously spiritless eyes of the refugees.

This was...

The name of their homeland.

Whoosh—

Whoosh, whoosh—!

One by one, summoning their courage, refugees raised their heads to gaze at the ’big shot’ now surrounded at the center.

"Blue Star?"

The refugees murmured, their voices trembling with an indescribable longing and question.

"Blue Star."

Yu Jin exhaled softly, giving affirmation.

"Blue Star!"

The refugees leapt up in excitement.

But in the next moment, realizing their lack of decorum, they dropped back to their knees just as before.

Only...

Their eyes were no longer clouded and dim.

Their faces shone with satisfaction, pride, and uncontrollable excitement!

This young strongman who slew the City Lord with a Light Saber...

He was one of them, a fellow from Blue Star!

...

...

"Blue Star?"

"Is he really from Blue Star?"

Bright City, outer city.

At the end of a remote alley, in a dilapidated shack.

Yu Pan’Er pressed against the window, listening to the swelling shouts outside, uncertain what to do.

She’d transmigrated here for five days now.

The good news—

She’d spawned right into this broken shack at the start.

The bad news—

Bright City Lord was incredibly lustful. Brutal to the extreme.

Even though she hadn’t left the shack in five days...

Yu Pan’Er watched through the window, spying the outside world each day.

She saw young men rounded up by the Supervisor squad, whipped and herded out of the city like cattle.

In the morning, thirty people went out as a group.

By evening, barely half returned.

Besides that.

She saw young girls taken—in less than two minutes of showing on the street, Supervisors would snatch them away...

If pretty, they’d be sent to the City Lord’s Mansion.

If average...

Even in daylight, Yu Pan’Er could hear their piercing, hopeless howls.

Torture so desperate it would make one beg for death.

Five days, she hadn’t stepped out once.

Five days, she survived thanks to a piece of rotten meat in the corner and a bowl of filthy water.

Five days pass, and there was neither food nor water left.

Now Yu Pan’Er’s choices were to stay inside and wait for death, or to leave and endure a fate worse than death.

"Should I go out?"

"This might be my best chance."

"Judging by their shouts, the City Lord is dead—a new, strong Evolver has come."

"He seems to be from Blue Star..."

After a moment’s hesitation—

Yu Pan’Er gritted her teeth, and pushed open the locked, dilapidated straw door.

...

...

"Blue Star, Blue Star!"

From the outer city street to the City Lord’s Mansion, it’s only two or three kilometers.

But...

Along the way.

Behind Yu Jin, thousands upon thousands of refugees had gathered.

They shouted at the top of their lungs, their excitement feeding into screams.

All of them were from Blue Star.

"Hahaha!"

"Finally, we’ve waited long enough!"

"I told you—so many from Blue Star came, there had to be some badasses, there had to be a boss!"

"Well, the boss is here, and now Blue Star players have justice!"

In the crowd.

A young man, skin and bone with lips cracked over and over, grinned like a fool.

His name was Tang Yan, from Blue Star’s Daxia.

Back during the ’Wasteland’ game closed beta, he got the Helmet.

At the time—

He logged into ’Wasteland’ and was captured by Bright City to mine from the start.

For seven days, he tried to resist, to run, even to get himself killed to start over.

But...

Every respawn, he ended up near Bright City.

Five days ago.

He transmigrated here.

Naturally, he spawned in Bright City.

Having mined Crystals for seven days in beta...

He was treated as a slave and forced to keep mining.

"How can Blue Star players live beneath others in grief forever?!"

"Boss, we’re loyal!"

Tang Yan waved excitedly and shouted.

Even Yu Jin couldn’t help but look back at him.

"Lord..."

"That’s the City Lord’s Mansion up ahead."

"The former depraved City Lord was slain by your hand. All you need to do is enter the mansion to officially become City Lord."

The middle-aged man reminded him respectfully.

Yu Jin nodded but did not move forward at once.

Sub-cities need a Deputy City Lord installed.

He wasn’t planning to linger in Bright City. Kill the City Lord, find a Deputy City Lord, then continue east to deal with other Refuge City Lords.

This time, Yu Jin intended to attach at least eight or ten sub-cities to Dawn City.

"Who should I pick?"

Yu Jin turned, eyes sweeping over the tens of thousands of following refugees.

In the end, he looked at Tang Yan—a Daxia face, looking fairly energetic, too.

"Maybe I should—"

Yu Jin had barely started thinking that when—

The next moment.

A crisp, piercing voice rang out from the crowd.

"Yu...Yu Jin?!"

Yu Pan’Er stumbled from the mob, nearly tripping over herself.

Staring at the familiar yet slightly changed Yu Jin before her, the former vice president of the dance club found herself lost in a daze...