Wasteland's Only King-Chapter 129 - 117: Ants Unqualified to Serve the Lord Until They Become Evolvers! (2/3 Mega Update)

Chapter 129: Chapter 117: Ants Unqualified to Serve the Lord Until They Become Evolvers! (2/3 Mega Update)

Unclaimed planet.

Boom—

Rumble—!

The S-680 Micro Interstellar Spaceship, after relaunching, landed not far in front of Neil and his group.

The gusts kicked up by the ship’s engines made everyone stagger on their feet.

Only when Neil activated his ’Wind Wall’ ability were they able to stand firm, not getting blown away by the storm.

Compared to the original team of three,

Now,

Beside Neil, other than the naïve girl and middle-aged man, there was now a blonde young man as well.

The four of them had all received Internal Testing Helmets on Blue Star, and arrived here.

"Wasteland?"

"But it looks like we’re about to meet the alien piloting the ship..."

As the only Evolver among the four, Neil felt a ton of pressure—his body was tense, Wind Attribute energy building up inside him, ready to explode.

Even though he could die and resurrect infinitely during the beta test, still...

You had to put up at least some resistance. Couldn’t just let aliens walk all over you.

Time ticked by.

The other three beta testers also stayed silent, all eyes locked on the distant spaceship.

Soon enough,

The ship’s hatch opened and a tall, straight-backed figure strode out.

"Huh?"

"A female alien?"

Neil’s eyes went wide.

But the next second...

Whoosh—!

Carol, moving almost as if by instant teleportation, appeared right in front of him. Her light violet eyes locked intently on Neil.

Gulp—

Neil swallowed hard.

His gut told him, this woman in front of him... was terrifyingly strong!

And probably—it wasn’t a coincidence...

The kilometer-long light saber they’d seen earlier must have been cut down by her.

"So weak..."

The tense and suffocating atmosphere was broken by Carol’s soft murmur.

Her gaze swept repeatedly over the four, with obvious confusion and puzzlement in her eyes.

In her perception,

Among these four, aside from this obviously dumb-looking young man who was a Tier Three Evolver, the others hadn’t even Awakened yet.

In the Star System Wasteland, even the weakest Lord would never have subordinates this feeble. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

In fact,

Worms this pathetic shouldn’t even be qualified to be a Lord’s subordinates.

But now...

Carol’s frowning Liu Mei eyebrows relaxed a little.

Weak as they were, as long as they could serve the Lord, it was worth investing some resources in raising these ants.

At least, at the very beginning, these people could be useful to her.

Occupying an uninhabited planet isn’t just about landing a ship here and calling it done.

On the contrary,

Discovery and landing are just the very beginning.

To truly occupy a whole planet, you must clear out at least 50% of the mutant beasts/infected bodies, and also develop resources on the planet—such as crystal ore and energy cores—to a certain extent. Only then does it count as occupation.

This process requires massive manpower.

Even though Carol was a Tier Twelve Evolver, there was no way she could accomplish such a large-scale mission entirely on her own.

Even if she could, it would take ages—meaning a lot of risk and exposure to other wanderers or interstellar lords looking for unclaimed planets.

"Tell me your names."

Carol didn’t waste breath. She spoke in a commanding, lofty tone that brooked no nonsense.

"You—"

Neil had just started to speak.

Boom—!

Carol released a sliver of her Evolver’s aura.

Tier Twelve!

Neil shut his mouth.

Sure, reviving infinitely in the beta test was great, but...

Chances are, in a few days or weeks he’ll cross over anyway.

No way could he grow stronger than this monster in such a short time.

So...

"Neil, male, 21!"

Neil chose to play it safe.

"Peng Siyi, female, 18."

The naïve girl spoke next.

"Dean Smith, transgender, 25."

The blonde youth answered.

"What the—?"

"Even Walmart shopping bags showed up?"

Neil couldn’t help glancing again at the blonde guy.

"Yin Zhenzhong, male, 48."

The square-jawed middle-aged man spoke last.

After his words fell,

Swoosh—

Neil snapped his head to look at the older man.

The man remained silent, his eyes closely observing Carol and the interstellar spaceship in the distance.

"Very good!"

Carol wasn’t bothered by Yin Zhenzhong and the others sizing her up.

In her eyes, as long as these weak humans could serve the Lord, they were simply the best starter resources.

"Congratulations—"

"You are now part of my master’s conquest of the vast starry sky!"

"Of course, before that..."

"I need to take you to a crystal ore vein and use low-tier crystals to Awaken you."

"Unawakened and weak ants aren’t worthy to serve the Lord!"

...

...

A3 Planet.

The promotion of Dawn City was still underway.

In the core area, perched cross-legged atop a ten-meter bed, Yu Jin was digesting and absorbing a ’Tier Twelve Energy Crystal’ when a line of system text suddenly popped up before him.

[Your S-680 Micro Interstellar Spaceship’s temporary commander, Carol Yalikosis, has discovered an uninhabited planet...]

[She is gathering a small group of Wasteland Wanderers to mine the planet’s resources for you...]

[Current planet occupation progress: 0.001%]

[Tip—]

[After progress reaches 51%, you will be deemed to have successfully occupied this uninhabited planet!]

[Tip—]

[After occupying an uninhabited planet, you will be rewarded with Civilization Source Points from ’Wasteland’!]

"..."

Yu Jin fell into deep thought.

So this is the legendary idle mode, Travel Frog?

He was doing nothing, still sitting nicely on A3 Planet, and Carol was out there in the Star System Wasteland "farming points" for him?

"Civilization Source Point reward?"

"That’s a sweet deal..."

Yu Jin gazed at the last line, his heart stirring.

Snuffing Eureka had given him 100 Civilization Source Points.

But to ’Unlock Civilization Permissions’ required at least 10,000 Source Points.

Yu Jin had originally assumed that, before promoting to Wasteland Star System, he could only keep stealing points from Alien Invaders; he hadn’t expected Carol to be this effective.

And it’s only been just over a day.

"I wonder how many points you get for occupying a planet?"

"Hopefully not less than 10,000?"

Yu Jin was looking forward to it.

Unfortunately,

There was no way for him to communicate with Carol.

Just like before with Neil, the two only had a faint system-mediated link, so weak that Carol could only submit requests, while Yu Jin could only approve or reject them.

No further communication—not even a "hello"—was possible.

"All I can say is, hope more Eurekas show up."

Yu Jin sighed quietly.

Over the past day, he’d been waiting for ’A3 Planet’s rules’ to kick in.

But unfortunately,

Since Eureka died, things had gone quiet, with no further developments.

"Maybe I need to break through to Tier Twelve again and stir things up?"

Yu Jin wondered in his heart.

"Also, the Internal Testing Helmet."

"I sent out 10, but got no follow-up."

"No idea how this beta test is supposed to work. If only I knew the beta testers’ coordinates."

"That way, even if I can’t get back to Blue Star right away, at least I could check on what’s going on over there."

Yu Jin sighed again.

As time passed, he grew more and more worried about Blue Star’s situation.

"Once Dawn City is promoted, I’ll try the Coordinate Imprint again."

"Hope to return to Blue Star soon!"

...

...

Time crawled by.

In the blink of an eye,

A day went by.

For Yu Jin, the day meant downing crystals and digesting energy.

For Neil, the day’s experience was a mix of pain and joy.

The pain came from mining—mining crystal ore.

Even as a Wind Attribute Evolver, nonstop mining was exhausting.

During the process,

He considered sneaking offline...

But Yin Zhenzhong talked him out of it.

"You can’t reveal your beta tester identity lightly."

"Especially since our subsequent login coordinates are still this planet."

Neil took the advice.

At the same time,

He confirmed Yin Zhenzhong’s identity.

Wasn’t he just Senior Yin Yao’s dad?

The world’s sometimes just that small. So small that even in the otherworld—no, in an exoplanetary wasteland—you still run into ’old acquaintances.’

Worth mentioning,

Just because Neil listened to advice didn’t mean everyone else did.

The blonde youth from America, Dean Smith, the transgender.

After Awakening as an Evolver, he immediately logged off!

After that...

He never logged back in.

Carol, though puzzled, even combed the whole planet for him, but never suspected he was a beta tester.

In the vast Wasteland Star System, no civilization had ever had an internal beta tester.

Even her former Level II Civilization, Salsa, only did internal testing on lower-level planet wastelands.

Beta testing in the Star System Wasteland?

It might be possible, but it was beyond Carol’s comprehension.

Aside from the ’pain,’ Neil actually enjoyed himself at the same time this day.​

In only a single day, he leveled up from Tier Three to Tier Four.

Before him were crystal ore piles as big as hills.

Inside were all sorts of Tier One, Tier Two, Tier Three, Tier Four... all the way to Tier Six Energy Crystals.

If not for Carol worrying that too much pollution would kill them instantly, she could’ve pumped them straight up to Tier Six with crystals in no time!

Apart from Neil,

Yin Zhenzhong and the naïve girl Peng Siyi both used Tier Two Energy Crystals to successfully Awaken, then used Tier Three Energy Crystals, jumping from ordinary people to Tier Three Evolvers in one shot.

Yin Zhenzhong’s Attribute was ’Gold,’ while Peng Siyi, that gentle-looking girl, surprisingly got the ’Giant Strength’ Attribute.

Time slipped by.

Before they knew it,

Another day had passed.

The three-person mining crew of Neil was still going at it.

This day was different.

Carol suddenly turned deadly serious, tension radiating from her, as if some major crisis was approaching.

"You stay on this planet and hide for now!"

"I’ll go draw them away!"

Neil didn’t know who Carol’s "they" were.

All he knew was—

Carol piloted her spaceship and left the planet temporarily.

And finally, after two days in beta, Neil finally had a chance to log off.

...

...

Blue Star, Daxia.

Imperial Capital, a certain courtyard compound.

Yin Zhenzhong took off his helmet, still unable to calm down for a long time.

Many people were anxiously waiting nearby.

Eventually,

Yin Zhenzhong began describing his experience during the ’Wasteland’ beta test in detail...