Wasteland's Only King - Chapter 165 - 144: See, That’s How They Die... My Boss Got Snatched!
Chapter 165: Chapter 144: See, That’s How They Die… My Boss Got Snatched!
Laxi City, Outer City street.
A crowd gathered in front of a shabby wooden house.
Ye Ye carefully pulled open a crack in the wooden door, only for it to be suddenly shoved open with force.
“Aiya!”
Ye Ye stumbled back several steps and landed right on his butt on the floor.
He looked up, only to see a middle-aged man with a balding head.
“Inspector, sir!”
“It’s this kid, it’s him!”
“I saw it with my own eyes. He killed seven good and honest indigenous people of Laxi City outside the city!”
“And, he killed them just to snatch the pollution crystals that those poor people worked so hard to dig up!”
The middle-aged man shouted to the people behind him, his face full of righteous anger.
“Hmm?”
A cold snort came from behind the man.
A tall, skinny young man in a dark red inspector uniform stepped out, one step at a time.
The powerful aura of an Evolver was obvious on his body.
“Kid, tell me your name.”
The inspector looked at Ye Ye, who was sitting on the ground, and spoke coldly.
“Ye Ye…”
Ye Ye felt a bit intimidated.
As he said his name, he looked up at the balding middle-aged man who had just broken in.
“Tong Zhiyong!”
After seeing the guy’s face, Ye Ye gritted his teeth and immediately realized what was going on.
Tong Zhiyong, just like him, was a player from Blue Star, and even lived next door to him.
Originally, the two minded their own business.
Ye Ye went out every day to mine crystals, while Tong Zhiyong just lazed around on welfare, waiting to die in the city.
But of course…
Three days ago, when Ye Ye dragged back the “Boss” all covered in blood, Tong Zhiyong happened to spot him.
The guy was sneaky. From the blood and wounds on Ye Ye, he instantly guessed a lot.
Tong Zhiyong immediately used this to threaten Ye Ye, demanding all the crystals Ye Ye had dug up recently, or he’d rat him out.
Ye Ye refused to cave. He hadn’t done anything wrong from the start.
Those scumbags were killed by the Boss’s shockwave.
He never even laid a hand on them—hell, he almost got beaten to death by them himself…
In the past three days—
Tong Zhiyong had been harassing Ye Ye nonstop, making threats again and again.
He even…
This bastard, after wasting away for over ten days, actually started actively investigating in Laxi City.
Soon enough, Tong Zhiyong discovered that a notorious local thug gang had left the city three days ago and never came back.
Unlike in other Refuge Cities, because Laxi City belonged to Naiya City, all the High-Tier Mutant Beast/Infected Nests nearby had been cleaned up, so as long as you didn’t do something stupid and leave the buffer zone, you wouldn’t usually run into big trouble.
Which is exactly why Tong Zhiyong was able to dig up all this.
Ye Ye stared daggers at Tong Zhiyong.
The latter didn’t even look at him, just scanned the room, clearly searching for where Ye Ye had stashed the pollution crystals.
He knew exactly how hard this middle school kid worked at mining every day, and he also knew Ye Ye had never spent any of the crystals, just hoarded them like some miserly rodent.
“Inspector, sir!”
“Please don’t listen to this guy’s BS—I’ve never harmed any of Laxi City’s locals…”
“It was—they were the ones who robbed me and even ganged up on me outside the city—”
Ye Ye was still just a fourteen, fifteen-year-old middle schooler. Now that the inspector came knocking, he couldn’t help but feel afraid, and started to explain in a low voice.
But in the next second—
The inspector waved his hand to cut him off:
“So, you did have a conflict with the seven honest local subordinates, no—a brawl, right?”
As he spoke, his tone turned even colder:
“Laxi City shelters refugees, but strictly forbids infighting among subordinates!”
“For a few measly pollution crystals, you hurt your fellow citymen. Acts like these are utterly evil and must be punished!”
As soon as the words fell—
BOOM—
A gust of cutting wind erupted from the inspector.
The wind howled, and the shabby wooden house shook, almost unable to take it.
Inside the house, Ye Ye was frozen.
He stared wide-eyed at the inspector, then at Tong Zhiyong.
Even as naïve as he was, he finally understood—
These two were in cahoots!
“Ye Ye.”
“For the sake of us being Blue Star compatriots, I’ve already pleaded your case before the inspector, sir.”
“As long as you hand over all your pollution crystals…”
“There’s still room for negotiation.”
“But if you keep being stubborn…”
“Once the inspector finds the crystal evidence, you won’t get a chance to talk your way out of it.”
Tong Zhiyong stepped up to Ye Ye, face full of a fake friendly smile.
“Pah!”
Ye Ye spat hard in Tong Zhiyong’s face.
“I want to see Lord City Lord!”
“Lord City Lord will prove my innocence!”
Ye Ye saw through their scheme and started shouting at the top of his lungs.
And out in the street, a crowd of Blue Star players really had gathered.
Humans just love a spectacle.
But…
That’s all—they were just watching. No one was stepping in to help.
All these days, Ye Ye’s hard work mining crystals made the other Blue Star players look like lazy, useless drunks…
The evil of human nature revealed itself—a mere tip of the iceberg, right here and now.
“I didn’t kill them!”
“I’m just a minor, not even awakened yet—how could I kill seven grown men!”
Ye Ye kept fighting, shouting out loud to defend himself.
“Heh—”
Tong Zhiyong grinned and walked over.
“You mean to say…”
“Those seven attacked you, but ended up getting killed by a mysterious power?”
“And you think the inspector’s gonna believe a lame excuse like that?”
Back when Tong Zhiyong first tried blackmail, Ye Ye had already mentioned the “Boss.”
But clearly, Tong Zhiyong didn’t buy it.
“Boss?”
“Like hell any boss dropped from the sky.”
“You read too many NovelFires, your brain’s all fried!”
Tong Zhiyong sneered and strode directly to the bed at the back of the wooden house.
“Let’s see this so-called—”
Tong Zhiyong stopped mid-sentence, words caught in his throat.
He saw the young man on the bed clearly.
Even though…
The young man’s right arm was missing, and his eyes were closed tight.
But…
“Yu Jin!”
“Son of a bitch, Yu Jin!”
“Fuck! You bastard, you got me thrown in jail over some bullshit environmental regulations!”
“If it weren’t for transmigrating, I’d have had to rot in there for fifteen freakin’ years!”
Tong Zhiyong snapped out of it, face instantly twisted with rage, spewing curses non-stop.
He’d been in the Wasteland for over ten days now, but his hatred for Yu Jin hadn’t faded for a second—in fact, it just got worse as time went on.
And now—
There was no way Tong Zhiyong could have imagined that the so-called “Boss” Ye Ye picked up out in the wild was actually Yu Jin, that same guy who’d come to his Sanyuan Heavy Industry plant to inspect waste and scrap!
Inside the wooden house.
Ye Ye was totally stunned by what he saw.
He couldn’t believe it either—Tong Zhiyong actually knew the “Boss” he’d found!
“Yu Jin?”
Ye Ye repeated the name under his breath, even more sure now that this was a real boss.
On the other side—
The young inspector frowned slightly—he didn’t give a damn about any feud between Tong Zhiyong and this “Yu Jin.”
He was here for the crystals.
Dozens of pollution crystals—even for him, that was a decent side income.
At the back of the house—
Tong Zhiyong, cursing and ranting, suddenly swung his fist, smashing it hard into Yu Jin’s face!
If he didn’t land a punch on this bastard, it wouldn’t settle his grudge!
At the doorway—
The young inspector watched, saying nothing and doing nothing to stop it.
A little drama was fine, as long as it didn’t mess with his plans to earn some crystals on the side.
But…
Next second—
BANG—!
A burst of blood exploded in the back of the wooden house.
Tong Zhiyong, dead!
Inside and outside the house—
Everyone who saw this scene was struck dumb with horror, rendered completely speechless.
For a long moment—
Ye Ye turned to the inspector and muttered in a low voice:
“Hey…”
“Those thugs back then…”
“That’s exactly how they died…”
…
…
Laxi City, City Lord’s Mansion.
The City Lord, Laya—a petite loli scarcely one meter tall, Tier Five Evolver—wore a face full of seriousness.
In the council hall—
Ye Ye, the inspector, the unconscious Yu Jin, and the gawking Blue Star crowd from outside, had all assembled.
Laya had learned the whole story.
She looked at the young man lying on the plank, eyes tightly shut, still unconscious, and waves of emotion rolled through her heart.
From this young man’s body, even with her being a Tier Five Evolver, she could faintly sense a threat…
The threat being—if she were to try and harm him, then…
She’d probably end up just like “Tong Zhiyong”: turned to blood mist in an instant.
“Blue Star face, mysterious man, exceptionally strong…”
Laya stared at Yu Jin for a long time, recalling the City Lord’s Decree from Naiya City she’d received a few days before.
That was the order from the Supreme and only leader of Moore Star—Lady Naiya—
“Find the whereabouts of the Blue Star Refuge City, make peace with them, but especially pay attention to one powerful Blue Star player.”
“That man.”
Laya stared hard at Yu Jin, her eyes full of hesitation.
“That man?”
She wasn’t sure if this was the man mentioned in the decree.
After hesitating for a moment—
Laya made her decision.
“This must be reported to Naiya City!”
…
…
Time flew by.
Soon—
A day passed.
Over Laxi City, a terrifying aura descended from the sky.
She looked, just as petite as the Laxi City Lord… but a Tier Eight Evolver!
Laxi City, City Lord’s Mansion.
The Tier Eight Evolver from Naiya City was left stunned after seeing the unconscious Yu Jin.
Even at Tier Eight, she felt an extreme, powerful sense of danger from this man!
Because her Tier was higher and her perception sharper—
The sensation was even more direct and concrete than what the Laxi City Lord experienced…
She was absolutely certain—if this guy ever woke up, he could probably crush her with a single finger!
And that—was supposedly something only legend-tier, Tier Nine Evolvers could achieve!
“This is most likely the one Lady Naiya has been looking for…”
“That man!”
That thought flashed instantly through her mind, and she made up her mind.
And then…
She carefully picked up Yu Jin and flew off straight toward Naiya City!
She didn’t know why a boss like Yu Jin would end up in such a state—both sleeping and missing a right hand.
She only knew…
Lady Naiya is missing—no way to contact her.
But the “man” Lady Naiya was looking for showed up in the wilds.
She believed…
As long as she could get back to Naiya City and somehow heal and awaken this young man called “Yu Jin,” maybe they’d find Lady Naiya’s whereabouts.
And even more—
This good deed might even help speed up Lady Naiya’s dream of “latching onto a big shot’s leg”!
As for Laxi City…
Ye Ye stared dazedly at the fading streak of light on the far horizon, slumped to the ground, on the verge of tears.
“My boss…”
“Got stolen!”
