Wasteland's Only King-Chapter 37: Skewers
"Today’s entire tab is on President Yu!"
Celestial Lake Vacation Resort, parking lot.
The Environmental Protection Club members who had just gotten off the coach heard this announcement from Vice President Tang Yunxuan.
In that instant.
A hundred club members erupted in surprise and delight, totally unable to hold back!
Some of them had actually been quietly stressing about the potential ’split the bill’ situation.
Especially since on the ride over, they’d looked up a bunch of info online about the resort and knew the prices here were pretty steep.
But now?
The problem just vanished.
Peace of mind restored.
Chants started rolling out:
"President Yu is mighty!"
"Loyalty to President Yu!"
A couple bold new freshmen sisters even ran up to Yu Jin for a big old hug.
[As City Lord, you have led your subordinates to an extremely rare green oasis safe zone in the Wasteland. Wasteland Points +8000!]
[Your subordinates’ loyalty has increased!]
[Your ability ’Majesty Lv1’ exp increased!]
[Resource obtained: Incomplete Map]
[Incomplete Map——]
[Detailed map of parts of the Wasteland World, marks Refuge City locations and Pollution Nests. In the perilous Wasteland World, it’s worth incalculable value!]
Yu Jin ignored the line of pure-hearted freshmen demanding hugs or even trying to cleanse him with facial cleanser.
His attention was instantly snatched by the notifications popping up on his status panel.
"Oasis safe zone?"
"Is it talking about this Celestial Lake Vacation Resort?"
"Incomplete Map?"
"I’ve never seen this type of reward before..."
Honestly, Yu Jin had come to this team building event with pure ’fleecing the club fund’ intentions, but even he hadn’t expected that the system would start popping off the moment he got off the bus.
Yu Jin, a little slow on the uptake, realized he’d barely scratched the surface when it came to exploiting system bugs.
At least before this notification, he never once thought the system would treat a group trip to a resort as entering a ’safe oasis zone.’
[Receive rewards now?]
The system prompted again.
"Not yet."
Yu Jin silently replied in his heart.
System rewards always appear out of thin air.
Who knows how big that ’Incomplete Map’ is—having it materialize from nowhere would be hard to explain.
"I’ll study it after team building is done."
Without changing expression, Yu Jin made up his mind.
Soon after.
Several resort staffers in office lady uniforms arrived to lead everyone inside.
...
...
Celestial Lake Vacation Resort sprawls over a massive area.
The place Tang Yunxuan had booked in advance was a set of attached hillside villas.
The whole villa had that woodsy mountain cabin look; right up against thick forest, and with a panoramic view of the lake.
With a staff walkthrough, Yu Jin didn’t hesitate and booked an entire ’team building party package.’
It included—
Tonight’s accommodations, outdoor BBQ, indoor party entertainment, plus the hillside hot springs.
Alcohol, snacks, evening lake cruise, and SPA wellness all bundled in, too.
"Whoa~!"
"Woooow~!"
This kind of lavishness from Yu Jin made the freshmen club members screech and holler nonstop all the way.
"I’m crying!"
"First time in my life living in a mega villa!"
...
"Mom!"
"Guess where I am?"
"Haha, I joined the Environmental Protection Club this week, and today our president took us on vacation!"
...
Every club member was so giddy they nearly jumped for joy on the spot.
A couple went so far as to video call their parents on the spot.
"Old Yu!"
While the staff were prepping outdoor BBQ tools and ingredients, Tang Yunxuan sidled up to Yu Jin.
"Be real with me, how much is all this gonna cost?"
Compared to the newbies’ excitement, Tang Yunxuan’s tone had a bit of anxiety baked in.
That whole ’President Yu pays’ thing? Yu Jin had asked him to announce it.
Now that it’s out there.
If they can’t cover the bill at checkout, this would turn into one legendary awkward moment.
Yu Jin didn’t answer, just held up three fingers.
"Wait, how much?!"
Tang Yunxuan’s eyes went wide as saucers.
"Three hundred thousand?"
"That’s three grand per person?"
"Wait no, forget per person, three hundred grand is all that matters!"
"Where did you—"
Tang Yunxuan was about to ask where Yu Jin got three hundred grand, when Yu Jin impatiently shoved his phone right in Tang’s face.
The screen showed his online banking balance.
Tang Yunxuan squinted and his eyes popped even wider.
"One point three million!"
"Did you rob a bank?!"
Tang Yunxuan heaved a sigh of relief, but was absolutely baffled.
Especially—
He noticed Yin Yao, who’d been sitting quietly next to Yu Jin, looked equally stunned at the mention of ’1.3 million.’
Which meant Yu Jin hadn’t gotten his cash from mooching off Yin Yao!
"Did you win the lottery?"
Tang Yunxuan pressed.
Yu Jin rolled his eyes and deadpanned: "Sold gold."
And with that.
Yu Jin wasn’t in the mood to explain further, got up, and strode toward the staff setting up the BBQ.
The first item on the agenda: BBQ, aka self-serve grilling.
He’d picked this purely because he saw some ’club rebate’ angle in it.
Elsewhere.
After Yu Jin left, Tang Yunxuan just stood there dumbstruck.
He mulled over Yu Jin’s three words.
"Sold... sperm?"
Tang Yunxuan’s gears started turning; he thought he saw a dazzling new road to riches open up.
He whipped out his phone and started searching—
"How does sperm selling work?"
"How can you sell it for more?"
"How much sperm for a million bucks?"
...
...
As the sun set and night crept in.
In front of the attached hillside villas at Celestial Lake Resort.
A hundred club members were arranged in a neat circle.
In the center, there were more than ten BBQ grills, row after row.
Their president Yu Jin was hustling nonstop.
"Pssshhh—"
"President spent all day dealing with that sewage river and now he’s grilling skewers for us too?"
"That’s... pretty wild?"
The newbies gossiped among themselves, especially the guys—already had their sleeves rolled up, itching to jump in.
But alas.
Yu Jin turned down their offers.
"As president, handing out a few perks is only fair."
"You all worked hard, kick back for a bit. Let me knock out a few skewers first—after that, y’all can grill your own."
Yu Jin said,
Grabbed a heaping bunch of skewers, piled them onto a steel tray, and handed them around to those sitting on the ground.
"Th-thank you, President!"
"President is mighty, club is loyal!"
The newbies were beside themselves, snatching up meat skewers and shouting their thanks nonstop.
Yu Jin didn’t reply, just kept handing out skewers.
[As Dawn City Lord, you generosity shines—distributing precious resource ’Tier Three Mutant Beast Meat—Dark Meh-Meh’ to your subordinates, Wasteland Points +1000!]
[Resource obtained: Tier Three Energy Crystal*1]
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[As Dawn City Lord, you generosity shines—distributing precious resource ’Tier Two Mutated Plant Essence—Immortal Golden Needle Mushroom’ to your subordinates, Wasteland Points +1000!]
[Resource obtained: Tier Three Energy Crystal*1]
...
[As Dawn City Lord, you generosity shines—distributing precious resource ’Tier Three Mutant Beast Meat—Bone-Eroding Chicken Wings’ to your subordinates, Wasteland Points +1000!]
[Resource obtained: Tier Three Energy Crystal*1]
...
[As Dawn City Lord, you generosity shines—distributing precious resource ’Tier Three Mutant Beast Meat—Soul-Stealing Bubble Sausage’ to your subordinates, Wasteland Points +1000!]
[Resource obtained: Tier Three Energy Crystal*1]
...
The club newbies noticed—
For some reason, President Yu’s grin was getting brighter and brighter as he handed out skewers.
The more he grilled, he couldn’t help sighing heartfelt:
"These skewers came out so good!"
Members had no idea why.
But they still grabbed up whatever skewers—half raw, half burned—and munched away, shouting:
"Totally! President, these are killer!"
