"Understood, understood!"

The Vice City Lord saw Han Ling’s expression and felt a thrill in his heart.

For some reason.

He always felt...

Today, their City Lord seemed like a different person, not only suddenly looking for a Blue Star newcomer named ’Yu Jin’, but also staying remarkably composed when these mutant giant beasts attacked.

You have to know...

On regular days, this Lord City Lord is extremely afraid for his life.

With this mutated giant turtle’s attack, logically speaking, Lord City Lord should have already hidden in the deepest part of the City Lord’s Mansion.

But now?

He still sits high on his throne, exuding an air of dominance!

The Vice City Lord couldn’t understand, but was greatly shocked.

...

...

Outside the city gate of White Rock City.

The Tier Seven mutated giant turtle stopped, standing majestically.

Its massive body exerted severe pressure on the refugees crowded together in panic outside the city gate.

"Ah——"

"Open the gate, open the gate!"

"Damn your White Rock City!"

"Ah, I don’t want to die, I don’t want to be eaten..."

"..."

The cries, wails, and screams of the refugees outside the city were exactly what Yu Jin once saw.

The difference is...

"Seems like there are more people?"

"Back then, only one team of inspectors was here, and now... three teams?"

Yu Jin, seated atop Xiaoming’s head, observed these details, squinting slightly.

He wasn’t sure what sort of space-time he was in now, whether real or false.

The only thing certain was—

His appearance here was a method before Han Ling’s death, that unknown divine skill at the cost of burning all Divine Bloodline.

The key issue is—

Now, Yu Jin, aside from his memories, hadn’t inherited any previous Tier or Abilities from his original self.

He’s no different from the time he first landed on A3 Planet.

Just a mere Tier Nine Evolver, although enough to survive on this planet without eating beef, but the mastermind Han Ling, who set this retrospect into motion, was a Tier Twenty Extraordinary...

Whoosh——!

Yu Jin took a deep breath, maintaining due caution.

"Lord Yu Jin."

Yu Wenbo saw Yu Jin remain silent and called out softly.

"What?"

Yu Jin turned to look at Yu Wenbo.

"You, sir..."

"I’m fully in support of you becoming White Rock City’s Lord!"

"But I’m worried, this Lord Turtle... will it really follow your commands completely?"

"What if it——"

Yu Jin raised an eyebrow.

This familiar conversation, every word was the same as back then.

However...

At this moment, it was different from that moment.

Listening now, Yu Jin inexplicably felt a fleeting sense of nostalgia and disorientation.

Strictly speaking.

Since the recruitment by the Environmental Protection Club, the battle between the Dudelick-3 Star System Wasteland and the Celestial God Civilization, it’s been less than a year.

But in this short year, so much has happened.

Experiencing these past events again, Yu Jin felt it was incredibly long ago, as if peering into a corner of long-sealed memories.

"White Rock City Lord..."

"Tier Five."

Yu Jin spoke softly, as if talking to himself, or perhaps with a hint of inquiry.

"?"

Yu Wenbo was taken aback once more, he lost count of how many times.

Could it be...

This fellow Yu Jin, no, Lord Yu Jin has a Mind Reading Skill!

How come every time he wanted to say something, it was already said by Yu Jin!

"Let’s make the same choices again as back then."

"The differences might be where the breakthrough lies."

Yu Jin had a plan in mind.

Also sitting atop Xiaoming’s head, Yu Wenbo was baffled after hearing Yu Jin’s few words.

Each word was recognizable Chinese, but combined, he had no idea what it meant...

More importantly.

After Yu Jin said these two sentences, he did nothing.

He just sat quietly atop Xiaoming’s head, waiting for something.

A minute, two minutes, five minutes...

A full ten minutes passed.

Yu Jin’s brow furrowed slightly.

"Hmm?"

"Why hasn’t anyone been thrown out?"

Back then, at this very moment.

The City Lord of White Rock City, when faced with Xiaoming’s attack, chose to toss out ’refugees’ to satiate the mutant beast and drive it away.

But now?

Yu Jin squinted his eyes, gazing at the dilapidated White Rock City gate in the distance.

The city gate remained tightly shut, unlike back then, when it slightly opened to throw people out continuously.

"Is the change within White Rock City?"

Yu Jin mused to himself.

He had thought that Han Ling’s method might involve the Tier Eight Extreme City Lords, or even the server rules of A3 Planet.

"Proceed with caution, it might only be a part of the method."

Yu Jin remained vigilant.

He didn’t continue to wait, nor, like back then, recklessly fire a ’Level 1 Laser’ to pierce through the entire White Rock City directly.

Buzz——

Yu Jin’s mind stirred.

The perception of a Tier Nine Evolver spread out like a wave of mercury.

In just an instant, it enveloped the entire White Rock City.

"Who?!"

White Rock City, City Lord’s Mansion.

Sitting in the City Lord’s chair, Han Ling, who was puzzled by the Mutated Giant Turtle’s refusal to leave, suddenly jolted in surprise.

He abruptly sat up from his seat, looking around vigilantly.

"Who?"

"Who’s spying on me?!"

The response Han Ling received was silence in the City Lord’s Mansion.

"..."

An inexplicable sense of eeriness arose in Han Ling’s heart.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Outside White Rock City.

Yu Jin, sitting atop Xiaoming’s head, was gazing intently at the vigilant Han Ling below, lost in recollection.

He was remembering how he had casually vanquished the White Rock City Lord.

And also...

The state of the White Rock City Lord when he was vanquished.

"Darn..."

"Why do I seem to have no impression of it."

"I don’t even remember his name, only that I obtained a ’Giant Stone’ attribute from him."

At this moment,

Yu Jin felt a tinge of dissatisfaction with his past recklessness and youthful arrogance.

His intuition told him that something seemed off about the White Rock City Lord.

But...

He had never interacted with the original White Rock City Lord.

At that time, he hadn’t even seen what the White Rock City Lord looked like, and with just a ’Level 1 Laser,’ he’d vanquished him along with his subordinates.

"Maybe..."

"I should go into the city to take a look?"

Yu Jin made up his mind.

He decided to start with the White Rock City Lord and see what kind of trouble Han Ling had dug for him.

Swish—!

Yu Jin’s figure flashed, disappearing from atop Xiaoming’s head.

Also disappearing was Yu Wenbo, who was sitting beside him with a silly expression.

In the next moment,

White Rock City, City Lord’s Mansion.

Yu Jin, holding Yu Wenbo, appeared in the conference hall.

The moment the two appeared,

Boom—!

Rumble—!

A giant stone came whistling toward them.

"Quite a quick reaction?"

Yu Jin muttered, casually waving his hand.

Crack—

Crack, crack—!

The millstone-sized giant stone shattered into countless tiny pieces just before reaching them.

"?"

Han Ling in the City Lord’s Mansion was momentarily stunned.

In the next instant.

As the stone fragments gradually scattered, they revealed two faces in the conference hall.

In an instant.

Han Ling’s eyes widened, and he felt a chill run down his spine!

Yu Jin!

He saw Yu Jin standing there right in front of him, alive and kicking!

And his aura...

Now only a Tier Five, Han Ling felt like a speck of dust gazing at the vast sky when facing Yu Jin!

"This is..."

"Tier Nine!!"

Han Ling’s eyes nearly bulged out.

He never expected that.

He was just sending people to search for Yu Jin, intending to nip him in the bud.

In the blink of an eye,

Yu Jin had come to him on his own!

And in Tier Nine!

How could he be in Tier Nine!

Wasn’t the point of retrospect supposed to be when Yu Jin had just landed on the "Wasteland," at his weakest, as a newbie!

At this moment,

Han Ling felt a painful surge of blood clogging his heart; he wanted to curse, he was on the brink of a breakdown!

Heaven knows,

He had used up all his divine bloodline, sacrificed his bright future, and faced a doomed ending as the price for creating this Reincarnation Arena...

On the other side.

Yu Jin looked at the White Rock City Lord, who was reacting extremely intensely, seemingly scared out of his wits, and squinted his eyes slightly.

"You know me?"

Yu Jin suddenly asked.

"No, I don’t know you!"

Han Ling shook his head like a rattling drum.

"Oh..."

Yu Jin nodded, seemingly wanting to move past this matter.

But in the next second,

Da-da-da—!

Urgent footsteps came from outside the City Lord’s Mansion.

"Lord City Lord!"

"Something’s wrong!"

"That Mutated Giant Turtle seems to be refusing to leave outside our White Rock City!"

"And, also..."

"The two mutants that were originally on its head have suddenly disappeared—"

"Eh?"

"Where did these two people come from?"

"Hold on..."

"This young man seems a bit familiar?"