I've already reached the maximum level, and you guys are just starting out?

Chapter 85: Logging in, max-level main account! (110 subscriptions requested)
"Well……"

On the enormous head of the seventh-tier mutated dragon turtle, Yu Jin slowly opened his eyes.

He was somewhat dazed, his thoughts still lingering on the moment he transmigrated.

"Damn! This seems to be a side effect of 'Return to One'—"

Thoughts return.

Yu Jin suddenly paused, startled.

He discovered—

The sky I'm looking up at isn't night, it's daytime.

He discovered—

Instead of a biting night wind, a howling sandstorm swept over us.

"We've already been transported to the wasteland!"

Yu Jin realized what was happening.

And the next second.

drip-

A cold, mechanical voice echoed in my mind.

【Hello, player 'Ember' from Planet Blue!】

[You have logged into the A3 planet server of the game Wasteland!]

【congratulations!】

[You have become the first player on the A3 planet server to break through to rank nine!]

[Your ranking has improved on the 'A3 Planet Player Rank Leaderboard'!]

[Current Ranking: No.1!]

[You have received a reward from the game Wasteland]

[Your three random abilities have been upgraded to the maximum level!]

[Your ability 'Light Wings lv1' has been upgraded to lv9!]

[Your ability 'Flying Thunder God Lv1' has been upgraded to Lv9!]

[Your ability 'Eye of Insight Lv1' has been upgraded to Lv9!]

[You have obtained the following resources: Attribute Activation Stone *10!]

ember:"?"

He was a little confused.

This is not a system notification.

It comes from the game Wasteland!
But soon, Ember realized he had been too hasty in his understanding.

Because the mechanical beeping hasn't finished yet—

[Your identity has been detected as 'Lord of Dawn City'.]

[Dawn City Current Level: Level 0]

[Your ranking has improved on the 'A3 Planet Refuge City Ranking List'!]

Current ranking: No. 20001

Your ranking was too low; you did not receive a reward.

……

[Based on your personal rank and the level of your refuge city...]

[Your ranking on the 'A3 Planet Player Overall Leaderboard' has improved!]

Current ranking: No. 111

[You have received a reward from the game Wasteland]

[You have obtained the following resources: Attribute Activation Stone *1!]

【Kind tips--】

[After 180 days, the top ten players on the 'A3 Planet Player Ranking' will be given the opportunity to 'advance' and leave A3 Planet for a higher-level star system server!]

Promotions are based on the number of refuge cities, including the city lord and his direct subjects.

……

Yu Jin sat on the enormous head of the seventh-tier mutated giant tortoise, stunned for quite a while.

This amount of information is enormous.

Among the information and intelligence that Yin Shanhai had compiled for himself, there was nothing mentioned about receiving messages from "Wasteland" and even receiving rewards.

"Because I'm at Rank 9? My level is too high?"

"So you were classified as a high-level player in the Wasteland game?"

Yu Jin made a guess in his mind.

"It's not a big problem."

"The good news is—"

"I'm a ninth-tier character, starting with a max-level account!"

"According to the Wasteland game, it's currently the only Tier 9 server on this A3 planet!"

Ok……

Logged in, max level!
Yu Jin felt much more at ease.

Although the news about the Wasteland game mentions "higher-level star system servers," it suggests that there are levels above Tier 9.

However, on the current A3 planet server, Tier 9 is undoubtedly the maximum level!

He had been somewhat worried at first.

Now that the heavy burden has been lifted, Ember no longer needs to be 'Beware Superman', but can finally be 'Happy Superman' without restraint.

Yu Jin shook his head and looked around.

The first thing he saw was the big tortoise sitting on his bottom.

Eye of Insight level 9 activated.

The corresponding information appeared before Yu Jin's eyes—

[Mutant Giant Turtle]

Rank: Seven

【Attribute: None (Mutant beasts do not possess specific attributes, but can temporarily utilize attribute abilities)】

[Abilities: Rock Solid Lv7, Tornado Lv7, Water Tornado Lv6, **Impact Lv7...]

[Evaluation: Originally an eighth-tier overlord mutated beast in region A308, it fell to the seventh tier after its mate took half of its energy. For nearly thirty years, it lived here in a depressed state until three days ago, when you appeared out of nowhere and landed on its head. It was so afraid of your aura that it dared not move for three whole days...]

Hmm... it's still just a turtle with stories.

"Yu, Yu Jin!"

Ember's thoughts were interrupted by a low shout.

"You, you get down right now!"

"This is a seventh-tier, a seventh-tier mutated beast!"

Yu Wenbo was on edge, speaking in a low voice while constantly gesturing to the giant tortoise beneath Yu Jin.

Ember looked at the face, searching his memory.

He remembered this person; he had interviewed him before when the sewage river and chemical plant were being treated.

Yu Jin had glimpsed the reporter's name tag on his chest before; it seemed to be called...

"Yu Wenbo?"

Ember called out that name.

"!"

Yu Wenbo was greatly surprised.

But what surprised him wasn't that the other person knew his name, but that Yu Jin's voice was a bit loud!
Such a loud voice will surely alert this seventh-tier mutated giant tortoise!

Although Yu Wenbo didn't understand why the turtle had remained quiet and hadn't attacked him or Yu Jin...

However, this was a terrifying seventh-tier mutated beast, far beyond what the two of them could contend with!
What he had to do was to warn Ember and lead him far away from this place without alerting the monster!

only……

Yu Wenbo never expected this.

next second.

He heard not embers, but the answer from the mutated giant tortoise.

now.

The mutated giant tortoise stared at Yu Wenbo with its enormous eyes and let out a low whimper:
"Don't...be afraid..."

"Turtle... I'm scared..."

A seventh-tier mutated beast is different from an ordinary mutated beast.

They possess intelligence no less than that of humans, and can even understand and speak human languages.

"?"

Yu Wenbo stood there, stunned.

When Yu Jin heard Turtle's words, he laughed.

The seventh-tier mutated beast's senses were extremely sharp. Even though it wasn't releasing its ninth-tier aura, the turtle was still filled with fear of it.

Puff-!
Yu Wenbo knelt down.

He kept his head down, whether toward the embers, the giant tortoise, or both, it was unclear.

"Our fellow citizens on Blue Star are suffering and oppression in White Rock City!"

"I beg you, Ash and Turtle, to give them hope and salvation!"

……

……

boom--

Rumble——!
On the wasteland.

The giant tortoise, which is 100 meters long and 30 meters tall, moved its body.

Wherever the giant tortoise passed, sand and dust flew, and the earth shook.

Yu Jin rode on 'Xiao Ming's' enormous head, while Yu Wenbo sat nervously beside him.

Xiaoming was the name Yu Jin gave to this turtle for easy address.

a moment ago.

After thinking it over, Yu Jin agreed to Yu Wenbo's request.

The two people and the tortoise are now heading in the direction of White Rock Refuge City.

Based on map information from memory—

He was not far from Dawn City at this time, about two hundred kilometers away.

And White Rock City happens to be the only way to reach Dawn City from here.

Since we're already here, and our compatriots are suffering, and it's on our way, Yu Jin wouldn't just stand by and watch them die.

of course.

This is also based on the premise that Ember is not under time pressure at the moment.

He has already used his 'sensing' ability to perceive the location and status of other people.

Old Yu, Yu Chen, Old Cui, and others are all safe and sound.

As for Yin Yao and Chen Gang?
"This direction and distance?"

"Dawn City?"

After carefully sensing it, Yu Jin raised an eyebrow.

Before traveling through time, he asked Lao Cui and the others to send him their coordinates. Everyone else did, but Gang Ge didn't.

As for Yin Yao, she asked Yu Jin for his coordinates, but Yu Jin didn't ask her.

Therefore, before crossing over, Yu Jin really didn't know that the starting spawn point for these two people was actually the city he ruled.

"correct!"

"Spatial Imprint!"

Having just crossed over into the wasteland, Ember was overwhelmed by a deluge of information, and for a moment he almost forgot the most important thing.

A thought flashed through his mind, and he attempted to activate the 'spatial imprint' to return to Earth. But...

Failed.

"Certainly not."

Ember was not surprised, but he was not discouraged either.

He had a gut feeling...

Just because it doesn't work now doesn't mean it won't work in the future.

"Deep blue?"

"wrong……"

"Brother Tongzi!"

Yu Jin cried out in his heart.

Swah——

The familiar, semi-transparent panel appeared.

Since waking up after transmigrating, Ember has not seen the interface, and he is really not used to it.

Just one second.

Yu Jin stared at the text information on the panel, lost in thought.

【Danger! Danger! 】

[Under the influence of the powerful forces of a higher-dimensional civilization, you have been forcibly transported...]

You've traveled from a wasteland planet to a perilous wasteland galaxy!

This place is teeming with countless 'galaxy-level mutant beasts' that feed on planets!

This place is teeming with 'galactic-level pollutants' powerful enough to easily corrode galaxies!

Your current rank is too low; you are as weak as an ant, unable to move an inch, and unable to survive!

[The system is providing you with a 'Newbie Survival Resource Pack'...]

Your Evolver rank has increased by three tiers!

Your rank has been increased to...

[Error, error!]

[Due to unknown rules, your maximum rank is limited to rank nine...]

The system is seeking a solution!

[System update is in progress...]

[Update time remaining: 1 hour]

[During the update, all system functions will be temporarily disabled.]

……

"A galaxy-level mutant beast?"

"A galaxy-level pollution source?"

Yu Jin chewed on those two words, his expression strange.

If I remember correctly.

When I was purifying 'Oumuamua' on Earth, the system rated it as a 'Tenth-Order Galaxy-Level Pollution Source'.

In other words.

Galaxy-level should be at least level nine.

But now?
Yu Jin looked down at the seventh-tier tortoise he was riding.

He looked up again, gazing at a row of fourth-tier mutated birds flying across the distant sky.

no……

Where did these galaxy-level mutant beasts and galaxy-level pollution sources come from?
this moment.

Yu Jin was somewhat dazed.

At this moment, just as at that moment.

seven days ago.

In the lecture hall of Jiangda University, he was enjoying the air conditioning while watching his female classmates.

Brother Tongzi motivates himself—

Strive to survive in this perilous wasteland.

Seven days later.

Wasteland planet, my character is at max level.

Officially certified by the Wasteland game: The only ninth-tier evolver on Planet A3, and No.1 on the Planet A3 tier ranking.

Brother Tong warned himself—

[Too low in rank, as weak as an ant, unable to move an inch, and unable to survive]

"It really is……"

"Weak!"

Yu Jin shook his head and sighed repeatedly.

He's finding this guy, Tongzi, more and more pleasing to the eye.

He originally thought that while logging in with a level 9 max-level account was fun, swatting ants for too long could get boring.

but now?
Things seem to be getting interesting.

……

……

Time passes slowly.

Ember sat atop the enormous tortoise's head, gazing into the distance.

The seventh-tier mutated giant tortoise's movements seemed slow, but in fact, each step it took had a slight sense of 'spinning'.

Just a few minutes later, the blurry outline of a refuge city appeared on the horizon.

"Before heading to Dawn City, let's take a look at the situation in the other refuge cities."

"Let's take a look, study it, and learn from it."

Yu Jin thought to himself.

The Wasteland game just informed me that it had mentioned this!

Dawn City is currently only at a pitiful level 0.

Ember didn't know how to upgrade the refuge city, and since the system was currently updating, he couldn't ask either.

Therefore, Yu Jin decided to seek advice from the city lord of Baiyan City in a 'polite' manner.

the other side.

As Yu Wenbo watched the Baiyan Refuge City draw ever closer in the distance, he finally couldn't suppress his doubts and asked in a low voice:
"Um, that, Yu Jin..."

"You, have you awakened an attribute similar to 'Beast Taming' or 'Mutant Beast Affinity'?"

"This turtle, Lord Turtle..."

Why should I obey your orders?

Yu Wenbo was completely baffled.

He didn't understand why the seventh-tier mutated giant tortoise not only didn't attack Yu Jin, but even obeyed him.

"Oh?"

Yu Jin smiled upon hearing this.

"Didn't Xiaoming tell you?"

"It's afraid."

The words fell.

Yu Wenbo shook his head like a rattle-drum.

"afraid?"

Yu Wenbo wasn't stupid. In the three days he had been in the wasteland, he had gained a clear understanding of the ranks of evolved beings.

Tier 1 to Tier 3 are known as novice evolvers.

The fourth to sixth ranks are the 'big shots' and 'strongmen' who occupy a certain area.

Above the seventh rank?

He had never heard of any evolutionary beings of the seventh rank or higher appearing in this area.

Not to mention……

Like him, Yu Jin also came from Earth and had only been in the wasteland for three days.

Three days? Level 7 or higher?
No one would believe that!
Yu Wenbo thought to himself, then stole another glance at Yu Jin.

He did not sense the same terrifying aura emanating from the other party as that of the City Lord of Baiyan.

"Perhaps it really does have attributes similar to beast taming?"

"This wasteland world has all sorts of bizarre attributes. I even heard about a 'poop' attribute yesterday..."

"What incredible luck! Such a perfect start..."

Yu Wenbo thought to himself that he envied Yu Jin, but he wasn't jealous; on the contrary, he felt fortunate.

Simultaneously.

In his mind, the embers were also equated with the 'strong'.

"We can no longer call him 'Ember'!"

"In the wasteland, the strong prey on the weak, and there is a strict hierarchy!"

"He may not care, but he cannot be ignorant of the rules!"

Yu Wenbo thought to himself as he looked at Yu Jin.

"Ember...my lord?"

He mimicked the way the refugees addressed the Lord of White Rock City, calling out his name to test Yu Jin's reaction.

Upon hearing this, the latter turned to look.

"grown ups?"

This title made Yu Jin feel a little strange.

“You can call me City Lord, City Lord Yu.”

Yu Jin thought for a moment and then answered.

The words fell.

Yu Wenbo was taken aback.

City Lord?

This form of address left Yu Wenbo somewhat puzzled.

But Ember didn't explain; instead, he looked ahead and said, "We've arrived."

Upon hearing this, Yu Wenbo subconsciously looked up.

at this time.

The two people and the tortoise had already arrived at the city gate of Baiyan Refuge City.

Outside the city gate.

The refugees who were originally queuing to enter the city were now in a state of panic and despair, crying and wailing in chaos because of the appearance of the seventh-tier mutated giant tortoise.

Boom-!
There was a loud bang.

The once wide-open gates of the refuge city slammed shut.

Yu Wenbo was stunned when he saw this scene.

He stared at Baiyan Refuge City, his eyes suddenly widening.

A flash of inspiration struck him!

Swish-!
Yu Wenbo turned his head and stared intently at Yu Jin.

His heart was in turmoil!
"Lord Yu?"

"Lord Yu!"

"hiss……"

(End of this chapter)