Chapter 192 New Dimension

A bright light flashed, and the system upgrade was successful. Ning Xuan opened the homepage with practiced ease, clicked the button to match the new dimension, and then the entire system interface entered the screen to match the new dimension.

[Match successful. Matched plane is the Kurt Federation Interstellar Space. Do you wish to initiate a trade consultation/request immediately?]

It's actually an interstellar dimension?

She sent a transaction inquiry to the other party to see what they needed and what else was available for trade. She didn't know much about interstellar planes and wondered if they were as technologically advanced as depicted in novels.

Since the other party did not reply immediately, Ning Xuan went back to check the system homepage, where the information had been updated:

Host: Ning Xuan

Location: The 1970s, a parallel world of the Dragon Kingdom

System Level: 6 (0/10000), 18 Transaction Limits Available Today

Linked planes: 6

Points: 3,568,896

Wow, so many points! But right now, she only needs points for trading and storage. And since they mostly use storage rings for trading, the storage fees are actually higher. Before she knew it, she had accumulated so many points.

She no longer specifically scans items to earn points. She scans the supplies she trades for when she takes them out to check them, and she also scans things she comes across when she's out. Over time, the results have been quite gratifying.

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At this moment, on Garbage Planet 738 in the Kurt Federation interstellar space, Ming Chen Xi Yue looked at the garbage mountain in front of her, which she could feel emitting a foul stench even through her mecha, and felt a wave of despair.

She originally lived on Planet Twe, the inner ring star of planet 88, but because of her low mental strength, she failed to get into a good interstellar university. Her family felt ashamed of her and did not plan to use their connections to find her a school.

Furthermore, because she was already 20 years old and a legal adult citizen in interstellar space, her parents stopped paying child support on the grounds that she was an adult.

In fact, public schools cannot refuse to accept applicants based on low mental strength, unless the student's test scores do not meet the requirements. However, precisely because of this, the competition for public schools is actually quite fierce, since public schools do not admit an unlimited number of students and there is a certain limit to the number of places available.

In short, Mingchen Xiyue did not get into a good public university. Her family felt that she had disgraced the family and was unwilling to spend a lot of money to find her a private school. Now they are leaving her to live independently and fend for herself.

Her older brother, older sister, and younger sister are all more talented than her and have looked down on her since childhood. So now that she is in this situation, her siblings have not thought of helping to persuade their parents or secretly helping her.

Moreover, her parents favored her older siblings and younger brother from a young age. During her compulsory education, she basically didn't have any pocket money. She often picked up her older siblings' old or unwanted stationery and clothes. She almost never bought new ones. The few times she did did so were when there was a buy-one-get-one-free deal, and she would get the free gift that was bundled with the item.

Sometimes, if other people also like the free gift, it won't be your turn.

Knowing that she was not favored by her parents, she had always studied very hard. She had high theoretical scores, but her practical scores were low due to her low mental strength, which dragged down her overall score.

After being kicked out of her home by her parents and having to fend for herself, she only had a little over 300 star coins that she had secretly saved by running errands for her classmates. The cheapest nutrient solution in the interstellar world cost 10 star coins per bottle, but if she didn't do anything that was particularly physically or mentally demanding, one nutrient solution could last her a day.

In addition, she also needs to find a place to stay; even the worst place that she can afford to rent costs 20 Star Coins a day.

In other words, for her to survive, the minimum cost is 30 star coins per day, and the star coins she has are only enough to last her for about 10 days.

So on the day she was kicked out of her home, she immediately went to find a job.

However, since she was just an adult and had a low level of mental strength, she couldn't find a good job. In the end, an old lady took pity on her and told her that she could go to the garbage planet to pick up garbage. Although it was not respectable and there were certain risks, if she was lucky, she could earn 100 star coins a day, or at least 20 or 30.

In interstellar space, many unemployed or elderly citizens choose to go to junk planets to collect and sell trash.

There are many junk planets in interstellar space, but they are all concentrated in the outer rings. Planets chosen to be junk planets are those without any usable energy sources and with very poor living environments. Every day, interstellar junk ships transport garbage from other planets to the junk planets for accumulation.

Because activating a waste incineration machine consumes a significant amount of energy, the Federation's interstellar waste is first piled up on waste planets. Waste that can decompose naturally is allowed to decompose naturally first. Only when a waste planet is full will the Federation send out its waste disposal department to transport waste disposal machines over using spaceships to process the waste on the waste planet.

Because waste disposal machines consume a lot of energy when turned on, and continuous operation is more energy-efficient, turning them off and on again after only one or two days of use would result in a significant waste of energy.

Therefore, the Interstellar Federation adopted this waste disposal method in order to save energy.

However, this also gave some interstellar citizens a chance to survive.

Many people can support a family by collecting garbage.

After listening to the old lady's words, Mingchen Xiyue disregarded whether picking up trash was too shameful and consulted the old lady about how to pick up trash on the Trash Planet and how to sell it. Then, she decisively boarded the public spaceship heading to Trash Planet 738.

Public spaceships are actually quite fast, but they stop at many stations, sometimes two or three times when passing a planet. Also, the seats are very uncomfortable hard metal chairs, so the cost is much lower. For example, if Xi Yue wants to go from Planet 88 to Planet 738, it only costs 20 star coins.

The downside is that if you take a special express spaceship, you can reach the city in 2-3 hours, but if you take a public spaceship, it will take a day or even longer. Xi Yue spent 20 star coins to buy a spaceship ticket and it took two whole days to reach Star 738.

Given the cost of the spaceship and the time required, it's impossible for her to travel between Star 88 and Star 738 every day.

Fortunately, she hadn't had time to rent a house on Star 88 yet. Following the old lady's advice, since it was still early, she went to collect trash first, and then in the afternoon she could take a short-distance public spaceship to the neighboring Star 736. It was also an outer ring star, but people could live there, and the rent was cheaper than on Star 88.

But when they actually arrived on the garbage planet and stood next to the garbage mountain, Xi Yue's long mental preparation still crumbled almost entirely.

Wearing the most basic protective suit, she was encouraging herself as she prepared to start traversing the mountain of garbage when a sudden electronic voice flashed through her mind.