Wasteland's Only King - Chapter 131 - 119: Summit of Lushan Mountain! Light That Illuminates the Star System! Tragic and Beautiful Fireworks!
Chapter 131: Chapter 119: Summit of Lushan Mountain! Light That Illuminates the Star System! Tragic and Beautiful Fireworks!
Buzz—!
Space shattered, a fist-sized void deep and dark, silently suspended in the air.
“You actually did it!”
Even with some mental preparation, Naiya was still shocked by the scene, her small cherry mouth slightly agape.
Could it be…
Could she really help Yu Jin change Blue Star’s future?
“Try to see if it can teleport us back!”
Yu Jin cautiously extended his hand into the void.
Crack—!
His right hand instantly shattered and was annihilated, turning to nothingness.
Thanks to the full-level effect of Tier One Value Attribute Ability ’Cell Regeneration Lv9’, Yu Jin’s vanished right hand rapidly recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye.
“Such a powerful Power of Rules…”
Yu Jin’s heart was shocked.
With his current Tier Eleven physique and Value, ordinary spatial shatters wouldn’t even injure him.
“Living beings can’t pass through, so I’ll try a non-living object.”
Yu Jin took a deep breath, and his right hand reached into the void ahead.
Buzz—
Buzzbuzz—!
Metal Manipulation Lv9 + Alloy Reconfiguration Lv9!
[Fourth-tier Metal Attribute Ability: Alloy Reconfiguration Lv9]
[Active Effect: Decomposes and recombines metal materials to create new alloys]
[Full-Level Effect: Grants the new alloy ’Hardness’ trait]
[Hardness: Can withstand extremely high intensities of energy/physical/space… pressure]
In the past day, while waiting for Dawn City to promote from Level 4 to Level 5,
Yu Jin deliberately splurged nearly a hundred million Wasteland Points in the Resource Mall, maxing out all Tier Three and Tier Four Abilities with One-Click Max Level.
All for this very moment!
He’d already guessed that even with the Coordinate Imprint loosened, teleportation of living beings might fail.
So he had long prepared a ’medium’ for Naiya’s Prophecy.
Buzz—!
Yu Jin’s right hand gathered countless metal elements.
It only took a brief moment.
They condensed into a special metal block, perhaps weighing tens of thousands of kilograms, yet only the size of a fist.
“Naiya!”
Yu Jin called softly.
He could feel that the ’Space Black Hole’ generated by the loosened Coordinate Imprint wouldn’t last long.
“I’m ready!”
Naiya’s small face was now filled with gravity.
She pressed her hands together, eyes falling upon the special metal block in Yu Jin’s right hand.
Buzz—
Buzzbuzz—
Just an instant.
Naiya’s eyes turned crystal clear and transparent like water.
Countless future visions swirled around her.
Ding—!
In mystery and silence, a soft chime seemed to echo.
This was Naiya successfully binding the ’Metal Block’, making it the medium for her Prophecy.
“It’s now!”
Yu Jin reached out, braving the force of Spatial Strangulation, sending the metal block into the black hole.
Woosh—!
The metal block vanished.
Buzz—!
Radiant light burst forth from Naiya’s body.
Her petite frame floated uncontrollably into the air.
Her eyes shut tight, a faint trace of pain appearing on her delicate, slightly baby-faced features.
Swoosh—
Knowing the ’side effects’ existed and worried she couldn’t tell Yu Jin the result in person after the Prophecy ended, Naiya specially activated ’Perception Sharing’ while using the Tier Nine Ability ’Eye of True Sight’.
A faint halo radiated from her, enveloping Yu Jin.
Yu Jin closed his eyes as well.
At this moment, he felt what she felt, saw what she saw.
And before the darkness faded, the first thing Yu Jin sensed was the agony of his soul being torn apart inch by inch.
“Naiya…”
…
…
Blue Star, Daxia.
Gan Province, Jiujiang.
To the north, bordered by the Yangtze River; southeast, by Poyang Lake.
At the summit of Lushan Mountain, a boulder lay across the top, resembling a giant dragon lifting its head and chest.
Pine trees rooted in crevices beneath the cliff looked like dragon whiskers, swaying in the breeze like dragons’ whiskers fluttering.
Before Oumuamua struck and the great catastrophe descended, this was a famous scenic spot in central Daxia called Dragon Head Cliff.
But now?
Under the gloomy sky, mountains and forests returned to wild primeval nature.
Buzz—!
Space rippled atop the cliff without warning.
Thud—!
A walnut-sized, deep-black metal block appeared out of nowhere and fell on the cliff peak.
Rumble—!
Seemingly weighing thousands of tons, the metal block shook the cliff the moment it landed.
Though the metal block had no aura of life, it was infused with Naiya’s ’Prophecy Vision’.
Sharing Naiya’s perception, Yu Jin could also ’see clearly’ the surroundings.
“This is…”
“This isn’t Langlang Mountain.”
“The teleportation point of the Coordinate Imprint was disrupted by the A3 Rule, causing chaos?”
Yu Jin was a bit confused.
But soon.
Time began to rush by, visible to the naked eye.
The sun gradually dimmed, sinking into the horizon.
The sun inched up again, climbing high into the sky.
Day rises, yet the moon does not fall.
The moon, always prominent in Blue Star’s human history, never rose again after the night of September 9th.
“One day, two days, three days…”
While Yu Jin’s true body did its best to maintain Dawn City’s Space Black Hole, his perception, via the Eye of Prophecy, silently counted the days.
The location where the metal block arrived was too remote and deserted with no trace of humans, so Yu Jin had no way to know the state of cities across Blue Star.
“Why does it seem like the sun grows dimmer day by day?”
Five days passed in a flash.
Yu Jin realized it.
Ten days slowly slipped by.
The sunlight grew visibly much dimmer than before.
Yu Jin’s heart started to weigh heavy.
The sun…
He recalled when he purified Oumuamua, he had only cleansed a small split from Oumuamua.
Oumuamua’s main body had flown into the depths of the Solar System!
Back then he was only Tier Nine, unable to purify, much less stop Oumuamua’s core.
Now it seemed, the hidden danger had already been planted back then.
The days rose and set.
In the blink of an eye.
Sixty days passed.
On the sixtieth day, the ’vision’ from the metal block finally changed.
“That is…”
“The new Oumuamua?!”
On the sixtieth night, there was no moonlight, only darkness everywhere.
But in the sky, there appeared a bright celestial body like a comet.
Roaring, it rushed straight toward Blue Star…
“It’s not a split, it’s the main body!”
The second Oumuamua was vastly larger than the one Yu Jin purified!
Even…
Through the metal block’s vision, Yu Jin saw that at the moment it appeared in the sky, the earth and forests within kilometers began emitting clouds of visible black mist.
“Pollution, mutation…”
The pollution from Oumuamua 2 was clearly far more terrifying than 1.
So much so that, even just appearing in the sky, still countless kilometers from Blue Star, it was already transforming Blue Star toward a ’Wasteland’.
Tier Eleven? Tier Twelve? Tier Twenty?
Yu Jin didn’t know. He wanted to do something, but as just a ’metal block’, he could do nothing but see.
“If I don’t stop it soon…”
“Even before it arrives on Blue Star, Blue Star will be completely polluted, with countless humans wiped out!”
A powerful sense of urgency and threat welled up inside Yu Jin.
“Come on, Yu Jin!”
He shouted again and again in his thoughts.
Yes.
He could do nothing now.
Yet in the future, surely he would return by this time?
Or…
Even after sixty days, he wouldn’t make it back to Blue Star?
Woosh—!
Suddenly.
Yu Jin ’saw’ a figure shoot skyward from the ground.
He was shining with light that almost illuminated the entire firmament.
In this moment.
It resembled that scene above the Northwest long ago.
But this time.
The future Yu Jin was leagues stronger than he was above the Northwest before.
So much so that…
With just a blink, his figure pierced through Blue Star’s atmosphere straight into the starry sky!
“Is it possible?”
Yu Jin couldn’t describe his feelings.
He knew that was himself, but now he was powerless, only able to ’watch’ the future unfold bit by bit.
Boom—!
The sky over Blue Star lit up.
Not just Blue Star’s sky, but much more beyond.
A moment later.
Brilliant, overwhelming light illuminated almost the entire Star System!
The ’metal block’, that is, Naiya and Yu Jin, finally saw Oumuamua 2’s real form.
The vast, pitch-black celestial body was completely engulfed by an even more massive column of light, sheer black mist streaming away.
“Can it be done?”
The same feeling rose in the hearts of Naiya and Yu Jin.
Time ticked forward.
Perhaps just a second, or perhaps much longer.
The pillar of light, though immense enough to illuminate the whole Solar System, still could not completely purify the enormous Oumuamua.
Crack—
Yu Jin and Naiya saw Oumuamua splitting into piece after piece, falling toward Blue Star!
The main body of Oumuamua had vanished beneath the Purifying Light.
From the sky, Yu Jin’s future self also plummeted back down.
“Still couldn’t do it?”
A deep sense of frustration surged within Yu Jin.
So close, so close, why was it just like last time, still just short!
But…
The next second.
Woosh—!
A second figure soared to the heavens!
“?”
An emotion named ’dazed’ echoed in Naiya’s soul.
Yet it didn’t stop there.
Woosh—
Wooshwoosh—!
A third, fourth, fifth…
Uncountable figures shot up into the sky one after another.
They charged fearlessly toward the ’black meteors’ falling from the sky!
A thousand people, ten thousand, a hundred thousand…
Above Blue Star, each Oumuamua split was intercepted by shining figures using their own bodies!
With such terrifying sources of pollution, not even regular Evolvers, not even Tier Eight or Tier Nine Evolvers, could resist instant contamination upon contact!
And to avoid themselves turning into ’Infected Bodies’, they all seemed to use the same ’self-detonation’ tactic, unleashing their full Attribute Energy to collide with the ’black meteors’ in the sky, erupting into endless dazzling yet tragic fireworks.
“Naiya?”
Yu Jin recognized a petite figure enveloped in a storm of ice and fire.
“Me?”
“That’s me…”
Naiya saw herself too, momentarily dazed.
After the daze, a deep and relieving comfort rose in her heart.
The Eye of Prophecy saw the likeliest future.
In other words.
In the future—sixty days from now—she would return to Blue Star with Yu Jin to fight the Oumuamua crisis!
The people of Moore Star, she was powerless to save.
Could her regret from a hundred and fifty years ago be redeemed here on Blue Star?
“Yin Yao?”
Yu Jin recognized the second figure.
“Brother Gang?”
“Yu Fei?”
“Old Cui?”
“Old Yu?”
“…”
In the sky above Blue Star, perhaps the most spectacular fireworks show in human history played out.
But behind these fireworks…
Was endless tragedy and heroism!
Crack—!
The sound of space shattering echoed.
Yu Jin’s perception returned from the Prophecy’s future vision to reality.
In front of him.
The Space Black Hole formed by the loosening Coordinate Imprint had already vanished…
