Wasteland's Only King-Chapter 102 - 93: Turtle, I Really Didn’t Mean to Betray My Friends for Glory... (1/3)
A308 Area, Central Region.
Yu Jin stood atop the Mutated Giant Turtle’s head, gazing into the distance at the towering, endless mountain range.
The blood-red sunset was slowly sinking below the horizon.
The dark crimson dusk painted the mountains in a hazy silhouette.
"I used to think this planet was nothing but endless Wasteland Wilderness. Didn’t expect there’d be such a massive mountain range..."
"This scale, this height—they’re almost on par with the Himalayas, right?"
Yu Jin stared at the snowy mountaintop, a bit surprised.
On the A308 Area map from the system, there were only marks for Refuge City and Mutant Beast Nests—no terrains or landforms ever labeled.
It wasn’t until he arrived that Yu Jin saw this towering range slicing the A308 Area right in two.
From dawn till dusk today, under Xiaoming’s guidance, Yu Jin had smacked down one High-Tier Mutant Beast and Infected Body after another.
Thanks to the system’s "Void Plus Third Tier" bug.
Though all the ones he killed were nothing but Tier Six and Tier Seven, the system judged them as Tier Nine and Tier Ten.
Thus Yu Jin collected thirteen Tier Nine Energy Crystals, two Tier Ten Energy Crystals, and 120 million Wasteland Points.
It looks like a lot, but actually... still far from enough.
You have to realize—
This was the total gain from half of A308 Area.
"That’s it?"
"Don’t let me find out you’re harboring some old beast pals."
Yu Jin looked down at the giant turtle under his feet.
"Moo..."
Xiaoming shook his head, whimpering softly.
His command of human language wasn’t great, so he conveyed more details to Yu Jin via his thoughts.
"The A308 Area itself is extremely remote and overall weak?"
"Before you fell from Tier Eight, you were the only Tier Eight Mutant Beast in this half of the region?"
"Other than you, the strongest in this half area were those two Tier Seven Infected Bodies, and I’ve already smacked them to death?"
"As for the other side of the mountains, you’ve never been there and have no idea what’s over there?"
"..."
"What a pity."
Yu Jin shook his head with a quiet sigh. He’d thought he might meet a Tier Nine Infected Body today and pluck a Tier Twelve Crystal for himself.
Now it seemed... it just wasn’t that easy.
The Wasteland really is just too vast.
Yu Jin guessed this planet might be dozens or even a hundred times bigger than Blue Star.
After all, this was only a single A308 Area.
According to the map Yin Shanhai gave him, there were at least nearly a hundred regions like this on the planet.
"The road to conquering the Wasteland will be a long one!"
Yu Jin let out a slow, heavy breath.
Now he was a Tier Nine Evolver, and with today’s haul of Tier Nine and Tier Ten Crystals, breaking through to Tier Ten wasn’t far off.
But...
The power of a single Tier Nine or Tier Ten, facing this vast, endless Wasteland Planet, still felt a bit insignificant.
"When I was in White Rock City, Brother Tongzi said if I conquered the ’Interstellar Refuge Fortress’, did that mean in the higher ’Star System Wasteland’ server, Refuge City would get upgraded to Interstellar Fortress?"
"And also, players would no longer be limited to just one planet, but the entire endless star system?"
The thought popped into Yu Jin’s head.
Before personally experiencing the Wasteland’s vastness, he’d always had a bit of that ’Lone Wolf’ mentality lurking inside.
But now?
Yu Jin saw the reality clearly.
No matter how strong you are alone, in the end you’re still part of a collective.
If he didn’t develop Dawn City, even if he promoted to Tier Ten or much higher in Star System Wasteland, he’d still have to face the siege of other players’ tens of millions or even billions of subordinates all by himself.
Although...
Yu Jin felt as long as he kept ’leveling up ahead of time’, fending off a siege was no big deal.
But still...
Besides personal power, crushing with his own forces would be fun in its own right.
"Gotta grab with both hands, both have to be strong!"
Yu Jin once again firmed up his future plans.
"Moo..."
Below, Xiaoming whimpered.
With his mind, he was asking Yu Jin if he wanted to cross this mountain range.
Xiaoming wasn’t really curious about what was on the other side of the mountains—he was just worried...
This terrifying Tier Nine Demon hadn’t killed enough for today, and maybe in a moment, One Laser would send the turtle off too.
One day’s experience had taught the turtle what ’terrifying upright ape’ really meant.
It swore—
Perhaps on this planet, there was no one more terrifying and more ’murderous’ than this guy!
Anything above Tier Six or Tier Seven...
No matter the race, no matter male or female, all of them had to eat a laser or a thunder strike as thick as a thousand meters!
"Haha."
Xiaoming’s low whimpers for mercy couldn’t help but make Yu Jin laugh.
That laugh only made Xiaoming even more afraid.
"Let’s go check it out!"
"Let’s see what’s on the other side—maybe I’ll get a little surprise."
Yu Jin had just finished his sentence, when suddenly he stopped himself.
"Hm?"
He made a soft sound of surprise.
Just now, Neil called out to him from afar.
Ever since he’d resurrected Neil using the system’s power, a special perceptual link had been established between them.
Back before Yu Jin crossed over, the link was still vague and only allowed Neil to make the most basic requests.
Now that Yu Jin was on the Wasteland, the link allowed them to ’communicate’ at a distance.
"Crystals gone?"
"No reason found?"
Hearing Neil’s report, Yu Jin frowned slightly.
He’d left the collection and distribution of Crystals to Brother Gang and the Environmental Protection Club members.
Such an arrangement, of course, carried Yu Jin’s own private motives—some favoritism, a hope to develop these ’old acquaintances’, get them involved in Dawn City’s management, maybe one day as mid or even upper management.
But now—
He’d barely been gone a day, and something had already happened...
"Hope it’s not an internal issue."
"A traitor arc is so cliché and disgusting—hope it never shows up in Dawn City."
Muttering, Yu Jin activated the Spatial Imprint.
Together with Xiaoming, they had trekked west an entire day, now tens of thousands of miles away from Dawn City.
