Wasteland's Only King-Chapter 47: Points

Gunzhou People’s Hospital.

This day.

Doctors from every department of the hospital, especially those in the operating rooms, all felt a sense of dreamlike unreality.

The reason was simple.

Every single surgery today had gone off without a hitch!

Even several cases of critical illnesses, surgeries with a near-zero chance of success, ended up completely and unprecedentedly successful!

Not only did the surgeries succeed, but the patients’ post-op recovery speeds made quite a few doctors on the expert panels start to question everything they’d ever learned or experienced...

"A medical miracle, it’s simply a medical miracle!"

The hospital’s experts even held an urgent meeting to review every detail from these few critical cases, trying to find the root cause of these "medical miracles."

...

...

Inpatient Department, First Floor.

In a quiet, deserted corner of the lobby, Yu Jin sat on a bench.

All morning, he’d been "purifying infected bodies"!

Starting with Tier Six, then Tier Five, then Tier Four, Tier Three, Tier Two...

Yu Jin had basically fleeced every bit of wool he could in this "Infected Nest" known as the hospital.

Of course.

The whole time, he used a relatively "slow and gentle" approach.

Aside from those few Tier Six terminal cases that might make people exclaim "medical miracle!", the rest of the patients recovering slowly wouldn’t draw much attention.

An operation of this magnitude—

To say there’s zero risk of exposure would be impossible.

But...

Yu Jin did it anyway.

All because—

He kept remembering what Yin Yao had said when she was drunk—"Time is running out."

And then—

Last night during their chat, Yin Yao sighed once again, "If only things could stay this way."

The Damocles’ sword called "Wasteland" always hung over Yu Jin’s head, and no one knew when it would drop.

A day? Two days?

A week? A month?

Yu Jin didn’t know.

He only knew, "time is running out."

Because of that—

Yu Jin urgently needed to use the time he had to boost his strength as much as possible, and raise his Tier.

The best-case scenario...

Is to reach Tier Nine.

Not hitting Max Level always left Yu Jin feeling insecure.

"A little risk is acceptable. For all I know, the big day might come before I’m even exposed."

Yu Jin muttered under his breath, staring at his system panel.

Displayed on it were the rewards Yu Jin had yet to claim—

Tier Six Energy Crystal x5.

Tier Five Energy Crystal x10.

Tier Four Energy Crystal x15.

Tier Three Energy Crystal x30.

He’d also picked up quite a few Tier One and Tier Two Crystals, but Yu Jin had just downed those on the spot like candy.

At his current Tier, eating Tier One or Two Crystals didn’t do nothing, but the effect was microscopic—barely even noticeable.

If it weren’t for the "duplicate reward limit" triggering like it did at the zoo, Yu Jin could have gotten even more.

Among these—

The Tier Six Crystals all came from the terminally ill patients.

Leukemia, renal failure, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and AIDS.

AIDS—Yu Jin hadn’t expected that one.

After all, he’d already triggered "AIDS Nig" before, and at that time the system had only categorized it as Tier Four.

But this time—

Yu Jin still managed to fleece a Tier Six Energy Crystal from an AIDS patient in the ICU.

Why was AIDS Nig Tier Four, but the one in the hospital was Tier Six? Yu Jin’s theory was—

1. In the system’s judgment, Nig’s species Tier is lower, below Daxia People.

2. The AIDS case in the hospital was in much worse condition.

Of those two reasons, Yu Jin personally thought the first one mattered more.

Come to think of it—

If Gunzhou State Hospital wasn’t so small, with fewer types of terminal illnesses, Yu Jin could have squeezed out even more rewards.

Yu Jin shook his head, pulling his thoughts back and shifting his focus to the system panel in front of him.

"Still not enough Tiers Five and Six Crystals."

"There may be a lot of Tier Three and Four Crystals, but they do almost nothing for upping my Tier now—ten or more barely add up to a single Tier Five Crystal."

Yu Jin’s brow furrowed slightly.

The higher his Tier went, the more he could sense how massive—no, vast—the energy required for advancement was becoming.

But Yu Jin wasn’t surprised by this.

The higher the Tier, the harder it is to advance. That makes perfect sense.

At the same time—

It meant that with each Tier, the gap between them grew larger and larger.

The distance between Tier Six and Tier Seven might be bigger than the difference between Tier One and Tier Six.

And because of that—

Yu Jin was even more determined to keep fleecing rewards and grinding until he reached Tier Nine!

"Not there yet—gotta keep pushing!"

Yu Jin clenched his fist, psyching himself up.

He decided not to wait until evening. He’d find a quiet spot during the day to absorb and digest all these crystals.

Aside from Crystal rewards, Yu Jin had also gained a lot of Wasteland Points—

[Wasteland Points: 1,700,000]

Subtracting the starting 990,000, this time he got 710,000 Points.

This number even beat what he earned cleaning up that polluted river.

However—

Yu Jin still didn’t look satisfied.

"1.7 million Points..."

"Barely enough to clean out yesterday’s new stock at the shop."

"If the shop restocks with some epic items tonight and I see something nasty, I won’t have the Points left."

Yu Jin was a little torn.

But the good news—

There’d be a citywide environmental event in Jiang City tomorrow, and as the environmental ambassador, he’d be there too.

But...

Yu Jin didn’t know if a generic event like this would trigger system rewards.

If it did, how many Points would he get?

"A citywide cleanup..."

"Even if millions of people show up to pick up litter, it probably won’t be much..."

"A lot of people, sure, but ’picking up trash’ itself has a pretty low action Tier according to the system."

Yu Jin’s brow creased even more tightly.

The badass item that dropped at the shop yesterday—he’d get it no matter what.

Missing it would be a crime, straight up!

"Should I try hitting up that Deputy Chief, ask ahead of time about the ’citywide environmental event’ plans?"

"Better yet, can I actually get involved in planning the content and focus for this event?"

Yu Jin sighed and picked up his phone.

He didn’t have the Deputy Chief’s number, or Principal Jiang’s—only Yin Yao’s.

Living off a girl... how shameful...

Yu Jin was in the middle of this thought when—

Bzz bzz—

His phone started to vibrate.

The call was from his foster mother, Cao Fang.

"Huh?"

Yu Jin was a bit surprised. His foster mother rarely called him, not wanting to disturb him unless it was something important—like when Old Yu had that sudden heart attack this morning.

Beep beep—

The call connected.

But through the receiver, it was Old Yu’s voice that came through.

"Um... Xiaojin."

Old Yu’s voice sounded a little nervous.

"Someone there with you?"

Yu Jin asked directly.

"No, no..."

"Well, yes, there is!"

Old Yu was stumbling over his words.

Yu Jin stood up from the bench with his phone, heading toward the elevator.

Looked like something had happened with Old Yu’s ward while he’d been gone.

"Somebody giving you trouble?"

Yu Jin’s tone turned slightly stern.

"Trouble?"

"No, that’s not it..."

"It’s just..."

"All of a sudden a bunch of people showed up in our ward—a lot of doctors..."

"The one leading them said he was the director, and there were two more calling themselves vice directors..."

"They insisted on upgrading my ward, said they’d transfer me to some kind of VIP suite, and that I wouldn’t have to pay a thing..."

"I was wondering if this had something to do with..."

At this point, Old Yu stopped talking.

After all, there was a whole group crowded in the ward listening to him make this call.

He might have suspected something, but couldn’t state it outright.

"You and Mom just wait in the ward. I’ll be right up."

As soon as Yu Jin said this—

Old Yu spoke again:

"Oh right, there’s also a young lady."

"Very pretty, looks like a celebrity and carries herself well—she said she’s your classmate and came to see you..."

"All those directors and vice directors are standing behind her, like they’re all just waiting for her say-so..."