Wasteland's Only King-Chapter 83 - 82: Yu Jin the Student

Wasteland Planet.

A308 Area, White Rock Sanctuary City.

Blue Star Calendar, September 12, 2025.

It has been exactly three days since half of Blue Star’s humans transmigrated here.

At this moment.

At the Sanctuary City gates.

Thousands upon thousands of yellow-faced, skinny, ragged Wasteland Wanderers were lined up in a long queue at the city gate.

Some wore blank expressions, eyes full of numbness and despair.

Some were wounded, with broken legs and feet, even stark white bones exposed, yet this failed to draw even a glance of concern from those around them.

Others just stood in a daze, staring at the towering Sanctuary City gate, crying and laughing, even letting out strange shouts.

The vast majority of these refugees came from Blue Star.

Their transmigration spots were all near White Rock Sanctuary City.

At the city gate.

Barefoot, skin and bones, a young man wearing only a tattered piece of cloth stepped out heavily.

He looked at the long line before the Sanctuary City and wanted to say something, but after moving his lips, he stayed silent and hung his head, walking away.

"For them..."

"Just being able to survive out here for these three days and successfully find the Sanctuary City is already enough."

"If I told them now—"

"Even if you enter the city, you’ll just end up as black slaves, mining for the City Lord. What’s the point?"

"We new players from Blue Star never had a choice to begin with..."

The young man’s eyes were filled with deep sorrow and grief.

His name was Yu Wenbo.

Before transmigrating, he was a reporter at Jiangcheng Times.

But after coming here...

He was nothing more than an ordinary Wasteland Wanderer.

If there was anything ’lucky,’ it was that his starting point was close to White Rock Sanctuary City, letting him enter the city on the first day.

He didn’t have to be like so many others...

These past few days, Yu Wenbo had heard a lot of news from Blue Star compatriots inside the city.

For example—

"That female celebrity, as soon as she transmigrated, was caught by a group of refugees, abused, and ended up as a chunk of meat on the grill."

"Some boxer who was said to be quite famous on Blue Star got surrounded by a pack of Mutant Beasts right after transmigrating... When people passed by later, all they saw was a corpse covered in claw marks."

"Or, someone saw a person who, the moment he landed, immediately turned into an Infected Body..."

"..."

Three days.

Yu Wenbo had no idea how many people from Blue Star had died after transmigrating here.

But he knew it was definitely a terrifying and outrageous number.

After all...

The Wasteland is just too cruel and too dangerous.

Smack—!

Yu Wenbo slowed his steps, and a bloodstained whip lashed across his skinny back.

"Hiss—!"

Yu Wenbo clenched his teeth, struggling not to scream.

Because if you scream, you get whipped more.

"What are you daydreaming for!"

"If each of you doesn’t dig up two Pollution Crystals today, you’ll all get out of White Rock City!"

"There’re plenty of refugees on the Wasteland. If you don’t dig, others will!"

Behind Yu Wenbo’s group.

A burly man swung a whip and shouted.

"If only I could become an Evolver..."

Yu Wenbo endured the pain and quickened his step.

In these three days, he’d learned a fair bit about the Wasteland World.

Even though before transmigrating, Yin Shanhai had already popularized info about ’Evolvers’ on the news, knowing and experiencing are two completely different things.

Like right now.

That burly man with the whip was a Quasi-Evolutionary.

He had awakened, but hadn’t activated any attributes.

Still,

The physique and power of a Quasi-Evolutionary was not something ordinary refugees could match.

Let alone...

That man was also a member of White Rock City’s Supervisor team.

...

...

Five hours later.

About ten kilometers northwest of White Rock Sanctuary City.

Yu Wenbo, filthy and grimy, stared intently at the pitch-black, misshapen crystal he’d just dug up.

"Pollution Crystal..."

"The crystal that lets ordinary people awaken as Quasi-Evolutionaries..."

Yu Wenbo carefully turned his body, hiding his find from the watching Supervisor in the distance.

The past two days, he’d dug up crystals and handed them in.

But...

White Rock City didn’t reward him at all—instead, because he only dug up one piece and didn’t meet the quota, they whipped him several times.

Most importantly...

No food.

Maybe because so many new refugees appeared in the Wasteland, White Rock City never treated them like humans.

No food, only a bit of survival water, but every day they had to risk their necks to dig for crystals. If you didn’t get enough, you were kicked out.

Obviously.

White Rock City treated refugees like Yu Wenbo as disposable ’consumables.’

If you die on the job, so be it.

There’re always new refugees to take your place.

"Should I just swallow it?"

The idea popped into Yu Wenbo’s head.

He’d only dug up one today, and with little time left, the chance to get a second piece was slim...

This meant he’d not only get whipped again when he got back, but still wouldn’t get any food.

If he didn’t eat, he’d really starve to death.

If I’m doomed either way, better to take a shot!

As soon as this thought appeared, it spread through him like wild grass.

Gulp—

Yu Wenbo swallowed hard.

He glanced back and saw the Supervisor was still several hundred meters away.

Yu Wenbo’s heart was pounding fast.

Wind and sand flew into his eyes.

No time to wipe them, he glanced behind him again just to be sure.

Then...

"Run!"

Yu Wenbo’s skin-and-bones body unleashed its last ounce of strength.

Barefoot, on the rough, rocky Wasteland, he bolted with all his might!

He had no idea how long he ran.

By the end, he couldn’t squeeze out another drop of energy and collapsed weakly to the ground.

"No, no one chasing me?"

Yu Wenbo looked back and saw the Supervisor hadn’t given chase at all.

He let out a sigh of relief.

He couldn’t figure out why, but...

"!!!"

The instant he turned his head, Yu Wenbo felt the blood in his body freeze.

Right now.

Just ten meters in front of him.

Two eyes, each the size of half a person, were staring at him in silence!

"I’m screwed!"

Yu Wenbo’s face went ghostly pale.

He instantly recalled the news he’d heard in White Rock City just yesterday.

Supposedly—

Right not far northwest of White Rock City, there lurked a terrifying Tier Seven Mutated Giant Turtle.

Yu Wenbo looked up.

Holy shit...

He swore, he’d never seen such a massive ’turtle head’ in his life!

"Tier Seven, huh..."

Yu Wenbo gave up resisting entirely.

The White Rock City Lord is a Tier Five Evolver.

Yu Wenbo had felt his presence from afar...

The strength was so intense that it made his hair stand on end, like he could be crushed with a single thought!

But now?

Tier Seven Mutant Beast!

This thing could slap the White Rock City Lord to death without effort. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

To put it bluntly,

If he got slapped to death by this thing, that would count as "moving up in the world" in a twisted way...

Yu Wenbo sighed, ready to accept his fate.

But...

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

Half a minute passed.

The Mutated Giant Turtle just stared at Yu Wenbo quietly, unmoving.

"Huh?"

Yu Wenbo was stunned.

He thought for a moment, then mustered his courage and forced himself to stand up.

And then.

He finally saw—

On the massive head of the Mutated Giant Turtle—yes, on its head—there was actually a person lying there!

"This guy..."

"Looks familiar."

Even from a side view, Yu Wenbo only needed a few seconds to recognize him.

"Yu Jin?"

"Yeah, that’s Yu Jin, isn’t it!"

Yu Wenbo’s eyes widened.

The next second.

Maybe because he’d shouted out loud, or maybe Yu Wenbo just came at the right time.

Anyway.

The whole time, Yu Jin had been lying quietly on the Tier Seven Mutated Giant Turtle’s head—and now, his eyelids trembled, as if he was about to slowly awaken...