Alpha City.
The sudden death of the Tier Six City Lord threw tens of thousands in the city into chaos.
But...
Eureka wasn’t in a hurry to slaughter them all.
Crushing bed bugs wasn’t entertaining for him.
Especially not this group of bed bugs who hadn’t even reached Tier Six.
Shua—
Eureka’s silhouette flickered.
He appeared in front of a wooden house with a sign labeled ’Bookstore’.
"You should have a map here, right?"
Eureka narrowed his eyes, eyeing the young man at the desk.
This young man was the only one in the entire city who hadn’t panicked after Eureka killed the Tier Six City Lord.
Clearly, this was an interesting bed bug.
"Yeah."
Wu Yufei took a deep breath, stood up unhurriedly, walked to a bookshelf deep in the wooden house, and started searching.
"Interesting."
Eureka stared at Yufei, a smile at the corner of his mouth.
He could tell this young man was only Tier Four.
Tier Four—a laughably weak Level.
But sohow...
This guy didn’t seem afraid, or at least showed none of the terror others did.
"The map you asked for."
Not long after.
Yufei placed a map on the desk.
Eureka moved his eyes from Yufei, lowering his gaze to the map.
"A316 Area Map?"
The map seed recently made; the handwriting was fresh.
"A316, A308... shouldn’t be far apart."
"That’s good news."
Eureka rubbed his chin, looking satisfied.
He looked up at Yufei.
"You’re not afraid of ?"
Eureka asked directly.
"Afraid, or not."
"Doesn’t make a difference."
Yufei replied calmly.
"Haha, interesting."
"You’re more interesting than that Tier Six low-level bed bug!"
Eureka laughed heartily and turned to leave.
"Within a day, I want a map to A308 Area."
"Otherwise..."
"Everyone in this city dies."
Eureka walked toward the City Lord’s Mansion, speaking with the most casual tone and delivering the most brutal threat.
But—
Just as he finished.
BOOM—!
Rumble rumble—!
The ground beneath Alpha City shook violently.
"Hm?"
Eureka’s footsteps paused midair.
Whoosh—!
He soared into the sky, looking around.
"An earthquake?"
"No..."
"It’s the planet shaking!"
At the sa ti—
His mind was once again filled with the cold chanical system prompt.
[A3 Planet Rule detected abnormal fluctuations!]
[This fluctuation does not match Star System Server program content...]
[Searching...]
[No results!]
[Player ’Ula Yurika’ is requested to speed up investigation!]
[Player ’Ula Yurika’ must find and kill suspected bug-type player ASAP!]
[...]
Ever since arriving at A3 Planet, this was the first ti Eureka’s face showed real seriousness.
"Bug-type player?"
He murmured, an odd notion surfacing in his mind.
anwhile.
Alpha City, Wooden House Bookstore.
Wu Yufei, after Eureka’s threat, showed no visible emotion.
He wasn’t concerned about the ’man-made earthquake’ beneath his feet.
This was already ’Knowledge’ he had parsed and recorded.
What he cared about was Eureka’s earlier words—
"You’re more interesting than that Tier Six low-level bed bug!"
After a while.
He picked up a half-broken graphite pencil from the floor.
Pencil in hand, he wrote on paper—
[Speculation on ’Wasteland’ Ga chanics—]
[Low-level bed bugs?]
[High-level players?]
[...]
...
...
A308 Area.
Dawn City.
Deepest part of the City Lord’s Mansion.
Crunch—!
Two days passed.
Yu Jin was still ’crystal-crunching’.
The difference was—
This ti, he was crunching the last Crystal.
And it happened to be the only ’Tier Eleven Energy Crystal’!
[You used ’Tier Eleven Energy Crystal’!]
[Energy surplus, auto-level up!]
[...]
[Your Level increased!]
[You beca a Tier Eleven Evolver!]
[Your breakthrough to Tier Eleven triggered A3 Planet Rule fluctuation!]
[A3 Planet Rules are ticulously probing every corner for loopholes!]
[In this period...]
[The entire planet will pulse for you...]
...
Breaking through Tier Ten requires Level 1 Sanctuary City System Cover.
Breaking through Tier Eleven requires Level 2 Sanctuary City System Cover.
Dawn City just happened to be Level 2 now—barely enough.
Shua—
Yu Jin opened his eyes, gaze sharp as lightning.
From Tier Ten to Tier Eleven, his Value skyrocketed to a truly terrifying extent!
[Yu Jin]
[Tier: Eleven]
[Life Coefficient: 5,000,000]
[Energy Coefficient: 5,000,000]
[Attack Coefficient: 5,000,000]
[Defense Coefficient: 5,000,000]
[Pollution Coefficient: 0%]
[Comprehensive Coefficient: 5,000,000]
Not more, not less—every Value exactly reached 5,000,000.
This was precisely the Tier Eleven standard threshold.
Much higher than Yu Jin’s earlier guess of ’3 or 4 million’.
And this Value already put Yu Jin’s power at an unbelievable level.
To put it in perspective—
Naiya’s Tier Eight Limit was just 99,000 Value.
Tier Nine Limit Evolvers topped out at 999,000.
But Yu Jin?
Even with 50% suppression after surpassing Tier Nine, his Value reached a ridiculous—
100 400*50% = 3,000,000!
Three million Value gave Yu Jin the feeling he could blow up A3 Planet...
Besides the skyrocketing Values, more important was—
"Ability Awakening?"
Yu Jin’s eyes widened with surprise.
Days ago, when breaking through Tier Ten, he never awakened ’Tier Ten xx Attribute Ability’.
Aside from Value increasing, nothing changed between Tier Nine and Ten.
Yu Jin was disappointed for a while.
But now?
Breaking through to Tier Eleven brought REAL change!
[You broke through Tier Eleven!]
[Your ’Tier One Attribute Ability’, upon reaching Lv9, will trigger ’Ability Awakening’!]
[Ability Awakening—]
[Your abilities gain an extra awakening effect]
...
"Awakening Effect?"
Yu Jin’s heart stirred.
Shua—
His personal panel popped up.
On the panel—detailed info for each ability.
[Tier One Light Attribute Ability: Level 9 Laser]
[Passive Effect: Body can absorb sunlight or artificial light and convert to energy]
[Active Effect: You can unleash high-energy beams]
[Awakening Effect: Laser does extra percentage true damage]
[True Damage: Ignores all enemy defenses, deals damage equal to your Energy Coefficient]
[Current percentage: 10%]
...
[First-tier Spatial Attribute Ability: Flash Lv9]
[Active Effect: Ignores obstacles, instantaneous movent over certain distance]
[Full-Level Effect: No cooldown, reduced energy consumption]
[Awakening Effect: Upgrades to Teleportation Lv9]
[Current teleport range: 1/4 planetary area]
[Tip—]
[Teleportation requires a specified coordinate]
...
[First-tier Growth Attribute Ability: Cell Regeneration Lv9]
[Passive Effect: Wound healing speed increased 1000%]
[Active Effect: Consu energy to accelerate regeneration of designated area]
[Full-level Effect: No need to specify part, auto-regenerate injuries]
[Awakening Effect: Energy consumption reduced by 99%]
...
[First-tier Giant Stone Attribute Ability: Stone Lv9]
[Active Effect: Summon stones, inflict physical damage to enemies]
[Full-level Effect: Stones get bigger, add ’Crush’ effect]
[Awakening Effect: Stone density increases 100-fold]
...
Yu Jin scanned through the info, a bit dazed.
"Damn..."
"Am I able to one-shot my old self again?"
No doubt.
From Tier Ten to Eleven, Yu Jin’s abilities underwent a real leap!
Just as he finished speaking—
The system panel flashed a new line.
[Detected A3 Planet Rule fluctuation]
[Deciphering...]
[Success!]
[Level II Civilization deployed onto A3 Planet!]
[Locking deploynt coordinates...]
"Here?"
"Just after the breakthrough?"
Yu Jin squinted slightly.
His fists itched!
Really wanted... a punching bag!
[Lock successful!]
[Coordinates: A3-16-535,679]
"Hm?"
Eyebrows raised, Yu Jin glanced at the location.
"This place..."
"Near Alpha City?"
"Where Yufei is?"
Before crossing, Yufei gave Yu Jin those coordinates.
Though not sure whether after arriving in the Wasteland Yufei would leave Alpha City for another Refuge City...
But—
In just eight days, Yufei was unlikely to leave A316 Area.
Odds are, Yufei was still in Alpha City.
"If I hadn’t broken through Tier Eleven and awakened abilities..."
"I really couldn’t get from A308 to A316 fast."
"But now?"
"Teleport!"
Yu Jin focused on the system-provided coordinates.
Buzz—
Ripples of spatial distortion spread out.
Teleport wasn’t like Flash, not instant—it required so charge ti.
Five minutes later.
Buzz—!
Yu Jin vanished.
...
...
Alpha City.
The quake didn’t last a whole day like before; just three minutes and the ground settled.
Eureka landed from the air, entering the City Lord’s Mansion.
This high-level player from Level II Selza Civilization—a Tier Nine Evolver—sat at the City Lord’s seat, legs apart.
He propped his head lazily, but his eyes flickered with uncertainty.
"Bug-type player?"
"Wasteland bug?"
"Able to alarm the whole Wasteland Star System Server, even enough to deploy here to assist, with a five-billion-point reward?"
Eureka originally planned to kill everyone, including the bug-type player.
But now?
After personally witnessing A3’s planetary pulse—
He changed his mind.
"Obviously, A3 Planet, even the Star System Server itself, can’t directly punish the bug-type player?"
"Like kill, demote, expel..."
"In short, no direct punishnt."
"Thus, they had no choice but to deploy to assist investigation."
Eureka rubbed his chin.
He had an extrely bold idea.
"So-called bug-type players very likely found so unknown bug in ’Wasteland’."
"Using the bug, they quickly level up or gain extra points..."
"In short, profit from it."
"So..."
Eureka pondered the vast Wasteland Star System he’d soon travel.
Before crossing, he bragged to his sister Aliya that he’d beco the next Pioneer.
But in truth, it was just to comfort her.
Pioneer? Easy to say, hard to do.
The Wasteland Star System was vast beyond asure—uncountable players.
Hundreds of millions? Tens of billions? Hundreds of billions?
Countless players competing for only ten thousand ranking spots.
Among them—
Plenty of ’major powers’.
At least, Eureka knew that those company alliances on Celsa Star controlled many super-large Refuge Fortresses.
Under their command, high-level Evolvers at Tier Ten plus were everywhere.
Even...
The heads of those major powers had already reached the highest Tier Nineteen Level.
A lone wolf player competing against them—on what grounds?
"Bug..."
"Maybe I can use it!"
Eureka’s face showed a greedy smile.
But—
The smile had barely risen before freezing.
BOOM—!
Southwest of Alpha City.
About two hundred kiloters away.
A terrifying aura appeared out of nowhere.
And—
The owner of that aura was hurtling toward Alpha City...
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