Wasteland's Only King

Chapter 372 - 95: A Minor Interlude Draws to a Close! I Am Yu Jin, the Dawn City Lord!

The captain of the Guard Team started cursing, stringing together a whole stream of national profanity.

The words were crude, sure, but the logic behind them wasn’t crude at all.

"Exactly, exactly!"

Zhong Muqing kept nodding along as she listened.

Even the gentle, quiet Bai Zhining subconsciously nodded her head.

Su Chen noticed this little detail, and his eyes went completely dull and gray.

"You win."

He slumped to the ground, staring at Yu Jin, posing like a man baring his neck for execution.

"Heh—"

Yu Jin, who’d been silent for a long time, finally reacted.

He chuckled softly and waved his hand lightly.

Whoosh—!

A breeze brushed past.

Inside the council hall, Su Chen’s figure vanished without a trace.

He had never been the "nice guy" type.

Nice? He was only nice to his own people.

Yes, he was the leader of the Blue Star Civilization, but that didn’t mean every human from Blue Star got to climb on his head and take a dump.

No, more precisely—

No one, whether they were from Blue Star or not, could jump up and down in front of him like that and still end up with a good ending.

"L-Lord Yu City Lord?"

"Did you kill Su Chen..."

Yu Jin’s sudden move, and Su Chen’s disappearance, cut off everyone’s words in the council hall.

The one speaking now was Zhong Muqing, who was closest to Yu Jin.

There wasn’t any fear on her face; on the contrary, there was even a faint hint of...expectation?

If Su Chen had seen this scene, his mentality would probably have exploded even harder.

"Not yet."

Contrary to everyone’s expectations, Yu Jin shook his head.

He wasn’t lying; he had no need to lie.

He really hadn’t killed Su Chen just now.

He had only used Wind Attribute energy to send him outside Bailu City, tossing him onto the Wasteland Wilderness.

The reason he didn’t kill him wasn’t mercy.

It was because...

"The cooldown on Powerful Being’s Spoils still has one day left."

"Once the cooldown’s up, then I kill him—maximum profit."

In Yu Jin’s eyes, Su Chen was no different from a clown.

But anyone who could block the probing of his Eye of Insight clearly had some serious secrets—or, in other words, a pretty hefty cheat.

"Divine Bloodline authority?"

"Or a system?"

Yu Jin had a few guesses in his heart.

And all these guesses needed to be verified by him shearing the wool off Su Chen again and again using Powerful Being’s Spoils.

For that—

He was willing to spare Su Chen’s life for one more day.

And after one day—

Yu Jin wouldn’t need to do anything, wouldn’t need to go looking for Yu Jin.

All he had to do was lightly recite Su Chen’s name once, and that would be enough.

The Death Level 1 Ability Yu Jin had been longing for was truly a bug-level existence.

"Alright, just a minor hiccup."

"Zhining, gather Bailu City’s subordinates."

"I have something important to announce."

Yu Jin slowly rose from the City Lord’s seat.

He took a single step forward, and his voice spread through the council hall.

And in reality—

There was no need for Bai Zhining to issue a City Lord’s Decree.

The hundreds of thousands of subordinates in Bailu City had already spontaneously gathered outside the City Lord’s Mansion.

Those few times Su Chen had yelled "Yu Jin" at the top of his lungs earlier, everyone had heard them loud and clear.

Couple that with the Light of Life and Purifying Light that had swept across the entire city before.

The hundreds of thousands of subordinates were already worked up beyond belief, waiting for...the true "god" of Blue Star to publicly proclaim his arrival!

...

...

Roughly a hundred miles southwest of Bailu City.

"Hiss—"

"That hurts!"

Su Chen fell from midair, crashing heavily into the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Intense pain shot through his entire body.

The Light of Life Yu Jin had used earlier hadn’t healed the injuries on his body.

He might have defeated the captain of the Guard Team and the others earlier, but he had also taken quite a bit of damage.

Now...

After being thrown out of the city by Yu Jin and falling all the way out here, his injuries had worsened even more.

"Damn it!"

"Why..."

"Did he see through my plan?"

"Why didn’t he kill me on the spot, and instead throw me into this godforsaken wilderness!"

Su Chen stared wide-eyed, glaring in the direction of Bailu City, grinding his teeth.

Yes.

Death was actually one step in Su Chen’s plan.

From the moment he left the little wooden cabin and decided to head to the City Lord’s Mansion, this had been part of his plan.

He couldn’t think of any other way to make Bai Zhining and Zhong Muqing stand with him instead of Yu Jin.

The only way was—

"Make Yu Jin kill me right in front of them!"

"That way, I’ll definitely leave a knot in their hearts!"

"At the same time, even if I get killed, I can still Rebirth!"

"After Rebirth, I’ll be stronger..."

"After Rebirth, I can also take Zhining and Muqing away from Bailu City before Yu Jin arrives!"

The description of Su Chen’s Rebirth Ability was very clear—

After Death, he would Rebirth at a random point in time before his death.

In other words.

Simulation, to glimpse the future.

Rebirth, to change the past.

Past and future, Su Chen could change both; this was also why he had the confidence to go up against Yu Jin.

But of all things!

Yu Jin didn’t kill him!

"Suicide?"

Su Chen sat on the Wasteland earth, covered in dust, his expression wavering.

Suicide seemed a bit too stupid.

And the real killer was—

Under his "Rebirth" Ability, he saw a few lines of small-print explanation.

[Actively committing suicide may fail to trigger the passive "Rebirth".]

"Fuck!"

Su Chen cursed angrily and tried to stand up.

But only then did he realize—

At some point, he had already ended up in the very center of an encirclement.

An encirclement of... Mutant Beasts.

The next second.

Su Chen even saw a pair of scarlet eyes that were both familiar and unfamiliar.

That was...

The Tier Four mutated giant lizard that had killed him back then!

And right now.

Beside that giant lizard, there were several Mutated Beast Kings even larger than it, black mist around them even thicker.

"Fuck your mother!"

"I knew it!"

"Yu Jin, you fucking..."

"Threw me straight into a Mutant Beast Nest!"

...

...

Bailu City.

Martial Arts Plaza.

Yu Jin stood in midair, hands clasped behind his back.

On the plaza below.

A dark, dense mass of over a hundred thousand Bailu City subordinates filled the place.

"This scene..."

"Really does feel familiar."

Yu Jin let out a soft sigh.

He couldn’t help recalling the moment he first landed on the A3 Wasteland Planet and arrived at Dawn City.

It had been not even a year since then.

And yet, everything was already completely different.

"Mr. Yu Jin!"

"Yu City Lord!"

"Savior!"

"Aaah, big brother from Dawn City!"

"..."

Hundreds of thousands of subordinates shouted all kinds of titles.

Just moments ago.

Bai Zhining, City Lord of Bailu City, had formally revealed Yu Jin’s identity to all subordinates.

Or rather, she had confirmed the guess that everyone had already been eighty, ninety percent sure of in their hearts.

The one who had come to Bailu City was indeed the Dawn City Lord Yu Jin, who had saved the entire Blue Star Civilization and billions of humans!

"Everyone—"

Yu Jin smiled slightly and spoke softly.

Just those few words were enough to make the crowd fall silent in an instant.

At the same time.

What the people in Bailu City didn’t know was that—

Boom—

Rumble——!

The moment Yu Jin opened his mouth.

All over this planet, towering stone monoliths hundreds of meters high that jutted from the ground began to tremble in unison.

The vibration of the stone monoliths startled the Blue Star players in every region of the planet.

Countless gazes turned toward the sound.

And then...

Thud—!

Rumble——!

The gigantic stone monoliths actually burst up from beneath the earth, shooting straight into the clouds!

At the same time.

Whoosh—

Crash——!

When the monoliths flew up to the highest point of the Celestial Vault.

Beams of light-screen were refracted out from within the monoliths.

What appeared in those light-screens was precisely the image of Yu Jin above the Martial Arts Plaza in Bailu City!

The monoliths, left behind by Yu Jin as a contingency back then, obviously had more functions than just "recording text".

"I really did think this through back then."

"Otherwise, with this avatar only at Tier Nine, it would be a bit of a hassle to announce myself to the entire planet at once."

Such a thought flashed through Yu Jin’s mind.

Meanwhile, elsewhere.

Across the whole planet, in each Refuge City and out on the Wasteland where Wandering Blue Star players roamed, everyone froze on the spot the moment they clearly saw the images in the light-screens.

"Is... is that him?"

"Yu Jin from Dawn City?"

"I’ve never seen him, but it should be—no, it has to be him..."

"..."

The name Yu Jin resounded across Blue Star.

But the number of people who had truly seen his face wasn’t actually that large.

So...

"Everyone—"

"Let me give a brief self-introduction first."

"I am Yu Jin, City Lord of Dawn City!"