Wasteland's Only King-Chapter 73 - 72: The Letter

"All attributes?"

Yu Jin stared at this line of text, his eyelids twitching nonstop.

Good lord!

So I’m a multi-attribute Evolver now?

[You’ve obtained Attribute: Metal]

[You’ve obtained Attribute: Growth]

[Activate attributes now?]

"Activate!"

It’s broad daylight, and it’s not safe to go to Langlang Mountain right now anyway.

Yu Jin just went ahead and activated the attributes right in his dorm room.

[You’ve awakened the fifth attribute: Metal!]

[You’ve learned Tier One Metal Attribute Ability: Metal Manipulation Lv1]

[Passive Effect: Sense the distribution of surrounding Metal Elements, immune to metal attacks under your Tier]

[Active Effect: Control the shape and density of metal substances within range]

[You’ve learned Second-tier Metal Attribute Ability: Steel Body Lv1]

[Active Effect: Metalizes skin and greatly boosts defense]

[You’ve learned Tier Three Metal Attribute Ability: Liquid Metal Lv1]

[Active Effect: Liquefy and shape metals—can form weapons or armor]

[You’ve learned Fourth-tier Metal Attribute Ability: Alloy Reconfiguration Lv1]

[Active Effect: Break down and reforge metals to create new alloys]

[You’ve learned Fifth-rank Metal Attribute Ability: Metal Torrent Lv1]

[Active Effect: Break down all metal substances in the area to form a controllable metal storm]

[You’ve learned Tier Six Metal Attribute Ability: Metalization Lv1]

[Active Effect: Metalize flesh, bone, and skin, massively boosting both defense and attack]

...

[You’ve awakened the sixth attribute: Growth!]

[You’ve learned Tier One Growth Attribute Ability: Cell Regeneration Lv1]

[Passive Effect: Wound healing speed increased by 300%]

[Active Effect: Spend energy to accelerate regeneration of the chosen body part]

[You’ve learned Second-tier Growth Attribute Ability: Splitting Lv1]

[Active Effect: Create a Physical Avatar lasting 1 minute (inherits 30% of original attributes)]

[You’ve learned Tier Three Growth Attribute Ability: Super-speed Reproduction Lv1]

[Active Effect: Briefly break biological limits, making limbs/organs swell to three times normal size]

[You’ve learned Tier Four Growth Attribute Ability: Flesh Puppet Lv1]

[Active Effect: Consume biomatter to craft a puppet (biomatter can be gained by breaking down other cells)]

[You’ve learned Fifth-rank Growth Attribute Ability: Undying Lv1]

[Passive Effect: As long as over 10% of body tissue remains, you’ll slowly regenerate]

[Active Effect: Spend a ton of energy to instantly rebuild damaged parts]

[You’ve learned Tier Six Growth Attribute Ability: Cellularization Lv1]

[Active Effect: Turn into billions of cells—so long as one survives, you can fully revive after absorbing energy]

...

Awakening two attributes in one go is... a bit much to process.

Yu Jin didn’t even have time to feel his body’s changes. He stared at the panel for a long while, really making sure he remembered all these abilities.

"Too many attributes—maybe that’s actually a problem?"

"Especially when I get to Tier Nine. Every attribute’s got at least nine different abilities."

"Dozens of abilities..."

"I’m afraid I might not even get to use half of them all."

Yu Jin let out a sigh of emotion.

This isn’t some Versailles act, I’m genuinely sighing here.

"Let’s try them out first."

Yu Jin’s attention shifted to the ’Metal’ attribute.

But actually—

He didn’t test those six metal abilities first.

Instead...

"Hardening!"

Yu Jin called out softly.

"Hiss—"

Yu Jin looked down, sucking in a breath through his teeth.

His gaze moved over to the ’Growth’ attribute again.

To be precise, it landed on ’Super-speed Reproduction Lv1.’

[Super-speed Reproduction Lv1]

[Active Effect: Briefly break biological limits; make a limb/organ swell to three times normal size]

Vmmm—

Yu Jin thought and activated it.

Riiiiip—!

The sound of fabric tearing rang out in the dorm.

Yu Jin quickly stopped.

"Strong!"

"Way too strong!"

Yu Jin sighed in awe.

He started testing out a few more abilities.

But it wasn’t long before—

Yu Jin got a call from Old Yu.

On the phone, Old Yu told Yu Jin—

Get back to Gunzhou soon, there’s something really important to give you.

"Something important?"

Yu Jin frowned. He had no clue what it could be.

The next second—

Vmmm—

He didn’t take the stairs, just Shuttled straight to the ’Spatial Imprint’ mark he’d left before in Gunzhou, in a surveillance-free back alley.

...

...

Gunzhou.

Old Yu’s Noodle House.

Upstairs, in a room.

After hanging up, Old Yu cautiously took a locked wooden box out of the cabinet.

Ka-cha!

The clasps unlocked.

Inside the box, a sealed envelope sat encased in amber wax.

On the envelope, four crooked words: [To Xiaojin, personally]. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

Whew—

Old Yu let out a long breath.

He stared at the envelope for a long time, as if making up his mind.

Cao Fang watched Old Yu’s reaction and quietly sighed.

This envelope was given to them by the director of Sunshine Orphanage before passing away.

"No matter what..."

"Make sure Xiaojin opens this with his own hands!"

"You absolutely must resist—don’t look, don’t look!"

The old director’s dying words still echoed in their ears.

"Are we really giving this to Xiaojin, now?"

Cao Fang was still a little hesitant.

She felt...

This envelope probably had info about Yu Jin’s origins.

They’d raised Yu Jin for eighteen years. No blood relation, but the bond was deeper than mother and child.

"We have to."

"It’s time."

At this moment, Old Yu didn’t seem as carefree as usual.

In fact—

His eyes showed, rarely enough, a bit of depth and seriousness.

Actually...

What Cao Fang didn’t know was, when the old director handed him the envelope, he also whispered some other words in his ear.

Those words—

Old Yu had repeated them to himself for over a thousand days and nights, every single one crystal clear in his memory.

"Li Min, is there something you’re not telling me?"

After decades together, Cao Fang had noticed Old Yu’s abnormal mood.

"Sigh—"

Old Yu gave a heavy sigh.

He glanced at Cao Fang, then out the room, making sure Yu Chen wasn’t eavesdropping upstairs.

"Remember when the old director was passing, she said a few extra things to me?"

Cao Fang nodded.

She remembered vividly.

The old director died of cancer three years ago; the couple were there personally at the end.

At the time—

Yu Jin was studying for his college entrance exam. The two kept the director’s death secret to avoid distracting him.

It was only after the exams that Yu Jin realized what had happened.

He ended up having a not-so-small argument with Old Yu because of that.

"What did the old director say?"

"Does it have to do with this letter?"

Cao Fang clutched her shirt, a little nervous.

"Yeah."

Yu Limin nodded seriously.

"The director told me—"

"If, if one day, something strange and unexplainable happens in this world..."

"Something that science can’t explain, like something involving immortals or gods..."

"Then hand this over to Xiaojin."

Cao Fang listened with wide eyes.

Gulp—

She swallowed nervously, subconsciously.

Weird, unexplainable things?

Isn’t that exactly...

The kind of ’shuttling to the Wasteland World’ stuff Yu Jin was talking about last night?

"Aih—"

Old Yu sighed again, heavily.

"You know, Ah Fang."

"These last three years, I’ve been thinking about the director’s last words."

"I keep saying to myself..."

"How could there be gods or immortals in this world?"

"I was tempted to open the letter and see what’s inside, honestly."

"But I held back."

"Now, after three years, and judging by what Xiaojin said about Wasteland World, there’s less than two days left."

"This letter belongs to him now."

Just as he finished—

Yu Chen’s surprised shout came from downstairs.

"Bro!"

"Why’d you suddenly come back?"