Wasteland's Only King-Chapter 65: Fire Seed

"What happened wasn’t just transmigration?"

Yin Shanhai’s final sentence made Yu Jin’s pupils constrict.

Yu Jin had always been clear and certain about transmigration.

His only uncertainty before was the exact timing.

But now?

The old man’s words mean...

It seems this situation isn’t as simple as he imagined!

Yu Jin looked up at the elderly man with graying hair before him.

In the depths of his cloudy yet profound eyes, there was an unspeakable compassion.

"What else is there?"

Yu Jin took a deep breath and pressed on.

Yin Shanhai sighed lightly when he heard this.

"Look at this."

The old man handed Yu Jin another new file.

"The content here, Yaoyao hasn’t seen either."

"Right now, throughout Daxia, apart from those scientists, fewer than a handful know about this."

"Of course, this information won’t stay under wraps for long. It’s not an issue if you share it with your family and friends."

Yin Shanhai told Yu Jin calmly.

"..."

Yu Jin fell silent.

Yin Yao was the old man’s only direct granddaughter...

If even she didn’t know these details, just how heavy must their weight be?

Yu Jin took a deep breath and solemnly opened the file.

What met his eyes was a set of somewhat blurry photos.

"This is..."

"Oumuamua?"

Yu Jin instinctively squinted.

The scene in the photo was an elongated celestial body flying through a starry sky backdrop.

"Yes."

Yin Shanhai answered.

Yu Jin suppressed his thoughts and kept reading.

...

[According to the latest spectrometry, ’Oumuamua’ carries a large quantity of ’unknown substance.’]

[Under current detection methods, this ’unknown substance’ contains none of the elements known to Blue Star.]

...

[Based on the speed and orbit of ’Oumuamua,’ calculations suggest that as it passes by Blue Star, gravitational forces between planets might cause some ’unknown substance’ on its surface to fall onto Blue Star.]

...

[Observations since ’Oumuamua’ entered the Solar System reveal—]

[Its volume and mass both exhibited ’decay’ when it passed by Saturn and Jupiter.]

[Initial speculation—]

[Is that ’Oumuamua’s’ own ’unknown substance’ partially fell onto Saturn and Jupiter due to their gravitational pull.]

...

[On September 6, 2025, ’Oumuamua’ passed near Mars’ orbit.]

[Its volume and mass further decayed...]

[Data from Daxia’s surface probes on Mars—]

[Irregular black substance made contact with Mars, and the Mars probe suffered unknown impact and ceased working.]

[At the same time, numerous astronomical telescopes in Daxia monitoring this substance malfunctioned one after another.]

[Images—]

[Within just a few minutes, large telescopes rapidly corroded and decayed in a ’supernatural’ way. In combination with the Wasteland game’s background, this change has been temporarily dubbed ’pollution state.’]

...

[On September 7, 2025, Daxia and the United States held a secret meeting.]

[Data from multiple monitoring points led to a preliminary confirmation—]

[The celestial body ’Oumuamua’ carries ’unknown substances’ with ’supernatural’ pollution traits.]

[After expert evaluations from each nation, it is believed that if these ’unknown substances’ descend upon Blue Star, they could trigger an uncontrollable pollution catastrophe.]

[Their impact on living beings remains uncertain, but according to the Wasteland game background, technological creations may fail, and normal lifeforms could evolve into ’mutant beasts’ or ’infected bodies’...]

[Currently, the degree, scale, and duration of the ’unknown substance’s’ impact on Blue Star are undetermined...]

[...]

...

[All Daxia bases have begun injecting nuclear weapon liquid fuel.]

...

"Finished reading?"

Yin Shanhai’s voice interrupted Yu Jin’s train of thought.

Yu Jin looked up, but his heart could not settle for a long time.

The information in this file... could only be described as terrifying!

"Can we stop it?"

After a long silence, Yu Jin asked.

Yin Shanhai sighed lightly and shook his head:

"Actually, Daxia has already developed the prototype of space weapons these past few years."

"After confirming these facts, we deployed space weapons to attack ’Oumuamua.’"

As he spoke, Yin Shanhai glanced at the clock.

"Just an hour before you arrived, at exactly seven o’clock."

Yin Shanhai’s wrinkled face revealed deep bitterness and helplessness:

"But we failed."

"It..."

"Isn’t like a material entity at all. More like an illusory existence, or something Blue Star technology simply can’t comprehend yet."

"We can’t prevent its approach, nor can we stop it from spreading ’pollution’ onto Blue Star."

Yu Jin fell silent at those words.

Oumuamua, and that ’unknown substance,’ were most likely entities of the Extraordinary Realm.

At this moment.

Yu Jin was wondering—

With his current Tier Seven ability, could using something like ’Space Black Hole’ possibly block its arrival?

Soon, Yu Jin had his answer.

No. Tier Seven was far from enough.

He was far too suppressed on Blue Star—even as Tier Seven, he couldn’t use much power, let alone intercept a supernatural celestial body from the Cosmic Starry Sky.

"Yu Jin."

Yin Shanhai suddenly called out Yu Jin’s name.

Yu Jin looked up at the elderly man.

"Do you know why I’m telling you all this?"

Yin Shanhai stared straight into Yu Jin’s eyes.

He didn’t wait for Yu Jin to answer, but continued in a distant tone:

"Because..."

"In the future, you’ll be powerful."

"In the future, you’ll be at the very top of the Wasteland World’s pyramid, an extraordinary evolver."

"In the future, your Refuge City will shelter countless Wasteland Wanderers, giving them hope for survival."

"But now—"

At this point, Yin Shanhai paused.

Under Yu Jin’s wide-eyed stare, he stood up, solemnly cupping his hands in a respectful salute.

"Blue Star may face an unprecedented disaster and catastrophe."

"If things truly deteriorate, then in two days, the billions or tens of billions about to transmigrate to the Wasteland may be the last embers of Blue Star Civilization."

"I hope—"

"In the future, when you’re powerful enough to conquer the Wasteland, you’ll be willing to offer Blue Star Civilization—and especially the people of Daxia—a little protection, just as a favor."

As he spoke.

Yin Shanhai handed Yu Jin another file.

"This is a token of sincerity from the people of Daxia."

Whoosh—

Yu Jin took a deep breath, suppressing the surge of emotions in his heart.

He opened the file.

"This is..."

"A map?"

Yu Jin was stunned.

The sheets from the file unfolded into a map big enough to cover the whole table.

On the map, countless coordinates were densely marked.

Near some of the coordinates, Yu Jin also spotted little house icons representing Refuge Cities.

And...

Mutant Beast/Infected Nest sites highlighted with red ink crosses.

As Yu Jin was momentarily dazed.

Yin Shanhai’s voice sounded softly:

"Since the day the Wasteland game appeared, that’s September 2."

"Daxia sent nearly ten thousand people into the game, beginning to explore every region’s information."

"Afterward, as more helmets were acquired, that number expanded to one hundred thousand."

"With countless deaths and respawns as the price, they recorded one coordinate after another."

"Tens of thousands of coordinates brought together to form the map you see now—not perfect, but it should offer some help when you transmigrate to the Wasteland..."