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Chapter 51 Butterfly
"elder brother!"

"How did you come?"

"Hey, isn't this the principal? And the vice-principal is here too?"

"Oh, even the counselor is here?"

Boys' dormitory.

After Yu Chen took off his helmet, he saw a large group of people standing at the door. Although he was surprised, he was not as scared as his roommate.

As Old Yu's biological son, Yu Chen fully inherited and carried forward his father's unreliable personality.

Just like now.

Even with the principal and vice-principal in person, Yu Chen only greeted them briefly before pulling Yu Jin aside.

"Brother, is that the rich woman you're dating?"

As Yu Chen spoke, he looked at Yin Yao, who was standing at the door with her head down and her expression constantly changing.

"..."

Yu Jin wanted to offer a few words of excuse.

but……

The principal, vice-principal, and others were still standing at the door. If he said he wasn't a kept man, not even Yu Chen would believe it.

"Awesome, bro!"

"Judging from her demeanor, I know she's no ordinary rich woman; she's a super-rich woman with an incredible background!"

Yu Chen gave a thumbs up and praised it highly.

Yu Jin didn't speak, but his expression suddenly darkened.

For an instant.

Yu Chen behaved himself.

The 18-year-old boy immediately stood at attention!

Like Old Yu, he was also afraid of the embers.

The reason is simple: if he did something foolish from childhood to adulthood, Old Yu might not necessarily beat him, but Yu Jin would definitely beat him.

Where did the money come from?

Yu Jin got straight to the point.

"From opening the box."

Yu Chen answered quickly.

As he spoke, he quickly took out his phone and showed Yu Jin his unboxing history on Steam, as well as screenshots of his earnings from selling game skins.

"7?"

Yu Jin raised an eyebrow slightly.

He knew Yu Chen loved playing this game and opening loot boxes, but he never expected that he could earn so much money.

but……

My younger brother has always been lucky since he was a child; he can win two hundred dollars just by scratching a lottery ticket.

This luck seems to have extended to the Wasteland game as well.

Yu Jin just saw that his awakened attribute was also 'Luck'.

"The unpacking cost 10,000, so we'll split the remaining 60,000 in half."

"Don't tell Mom and Dad about this, especially Old Yu. He knows that Gao Di has skimped on his share of the profits from me!"

As Yu Chen was still muttering to himself, Yu Jin's gaze had already fallen on the helmet he had just taken off.

"Where did it come from?"

"do not know."

"do not know?"

"Well... I suddenly received a pickup code on my phone, so I went to the Cainiao Station to pick it up. When I opened it, I found it was a Wasteland game helmet. Maybe I'm just a lucky player..."

After hearing Yu Chen's answer, Yu Jin stood there, lost in thought.

The Wasteland game is not simple; it is highly likely that it connects to a completely real world.

In principle.

Ember didn't want his family to get involved.

but……

In just one day, Old Yu and Yu Chen have both put on helmets and logged into the Wasteland game.

The latter, thanks to its 'luck' attribute, quickly became a second-tier evolver.

Is it a good thing or a bad thing?

The embers were unpredictable.

He looked up at Yin Yao.

Yin Yao, however, did not notice Yu Jin's gaze and remained in a daze.

This sight made Yu Jin subconsciously squint his eyes.

……

……

Yin Yao was a little flustered at this moment.

From the moment she saw Yu Chen wearing a gaming helmet, this feeling began to grow in her heart.

"How could this be?"

This thought kept echoing in Yin Yao's mind.

The previous life.

Yin Yao remembers it very clearly—

Although Ember was incredibly powerful, a ninth-tier evolved being who ruled and conquered over a thousand refuge cities, but...

His younger brother, Yu Chen, was never seen by his side.

Yu Jin is a very sentimental person who cannot bear to see his family suffer any harm, and Yin Yao is absolutely certain of this.

Because in his previous life, there was a widely circulated rumor about the Embers in the wasteland—

His adoptive father, Yu Limin, transmigrated to the wasteland and, as a refugee, was unfortunately reborn in a refuge city under oppressive rule.

The lord of that refuge city forced the refugees to leave the city every day to mine. When the mutated beast tide came, instead of going out to fight, he used the refugees in the city as human sacrifices to fill the bellies of the mutated beasts, thereby weakening the mutated beast tide's attack on the city.

There are actually many, many city lords like this in the wasteland world.

but……

The city lord was unlucky because Yu Jin, who was the father of a refugee at the time, was also used as a human sacrifice by him.

at that time.

A horde of mutated beasts attacked the refuge city.

Yu Limin was about to be thrown out of the city to serve as food for the mutated beasts.

However, Yu Jin somehow learned of his father's location in advance...

It is said that—

On that day, Ember arrived amidst a sky full of lightning.

On that day, the lord of the refuge city was chopped into 108,000 pieces by the embers' sword light, and he personally fed each piece to the mutated beast horde below.

That day, the entire wasteland was shocked by Ember's ruthless methods, to the point that... many refuge cities would add a question when checking refugees entering the city: "Do you have any connection with Ember?"

Even Yin Yao.

Once, when he went out of the city to hunt mutated beasts, he was attacked by a group of wasteland bandits. When he was no match for them, he also used the name of Ember.

The phrase "Yu Jin and I were college classmates" was enough to make the bandits retreat immediately.

They didn't completely believe the statement, but were simply wary and fearful of the name 'Ember'!
For more than a month after that incident, countless refugees and even evolved beings in the wasteland would invoke the name 'Ember' whenever they encountered trouble.

Its deterrent effect is terrifying.

This chaotic situation of arbitrarily associating with relatives and fabricating relationships was only brought to a halt when Ember personally killed a female evolved being who was impersonating his 'first love'.

"how so……"

Yin Yao recalled her memories of her past life, then looked at the game helmet that Yu Chen had just taken off and placed on the table.

"In his previous life, Yu Chen should not have transmigrated to the wasteland!"

"If he really did travel through time, there's no way he wouldn't be by Ember's side. There are countless rumors about Ember in the wasteland, but there's never been any news about his brother!"

"But in this life, Yu Chen received a game helmet..."

"This means that he will definitely arrive in the wasteland world in three days..."

Think about this.

Yin Yao swallowed hard, unable to contain herself.

She knew all too well how dangerous the wasteland was.

Yin Yao firmly believed that Yu Jin would travel through time and gradually grow into an invincible ninth-tier powerhouse.

Although her rebirth is like the flapping of a butterfly's wings, changing many things, but...

The Embers' incredible, almost superhuman strength in the wasteland was beyond anyone's comprehension.

He's like the chosen protagonist of a wasteland world!

No matter how hard she flaps her wings, this little butterfly can't shake the future that belongs solely to the protagonist.

but……

Yu Chen is different!

As Yu Jin's younger brother, he was just an ordinary college student.

Yin Yao knew very well.

His own rebirth changed the fate of many people.

Some ordinary people who should have received helmets did not.

Her grandfather organized a force to acquire helmets from those people at high prices, using them as a strategic resource.

Although they received a considerable amount of money, they also lost the opportunity to participate in the game's closed beta test.

Yin Yao wasn't sure if these people would still be selected and forced to travel to the wasteland in the future, but they certainly wouldn't be able to start from a higher point and seize opportunities like they did in her previous life.

In contrast.

Because of Yin Yao's influence, some people who shouldn't have received helmets received them in this life.

They should have stayed on Earth and continued living in a peaceful and happy civilized society.

However, because of contact with the helmet, he was destined to struggle for survival in the perilous wasteland three days later.

Yin Yao was well aware of all of this, but she didn't care, or rather, she wasn't emotionally affected by it.

But now?
When the 'ordinary person' whose fate was changed appeared as Yu Jin's younger brother, Yin Yao panicked!
"What if something happens to Yu Chen in the wasteland..."

"He had already tragically died before even the embers could find him..."

"And later, Ember discovered that it was my rebirth that caused all of this to happen..."

Yin Yao's scenario was not a pipe dream.

According to rumors from the wasteland of his previous life, Ember possessed no fewer than dozens of methods similar to 'mind reading'.

He can easily search other people's memories, and even seek revenge for wrongs and grievances based on cause and effect.

"I must think of a way immediately to protect Ember's brother!"

"No, not just his brother, but also his family and friends..."

"The secret of my rebirth will be discovered by him one day. If I don't make these preparations today, even if I manage to cling to his coattails in the future, he will still ruthlessly discard me..."

(End of this chapter)