Chapter 1: Cleaning up the battlefield
Only when you see the sea can you know how vast it is; only when you climb to the top of a mountain can you know how high it is. So what about being in the universe?
Mu Jiao looked at the universe outside through the window of the garbage truck's driver's seat. It was boundless darkness and endless vastness. Of course, there were some stars dotted in the distance, but they were not enough to illuminate this space.
Thinking that she was about to enter the place where the two armies had fought to clean up the battlefield, Mu Jiao couldn't help but shudder, feeling sad about her unlucky fate.
Mu Jiao, in her previous life, was a dietician living in the 21st century and graduated from a prestigious university of traditional Chinese medicine.
Unfortunately, Chinese medicine was in decline at that time. I started school early and skipped two grades. I was less than 20 years old when I graduated. I was so young, and even though I had excellent grades in college, I could not compete with those old doctors with beards.
After all, just looking at her face, she is not very convincing.
Finally, by chance, I found a job as a Chinese medicine health and diet therapist in a nursing home.
Unfortunately, just when she was getting established in her career, she... died at the age of less than 20.
As for the cause of death, it should be a sudden accident, and she herself didn't know what happened.
Anyway, as soon as she woke up, Mu Jiao was forced to be born, and then she vaguely seemed to have her talent tested, and then there was a quarrel in her ears, and in the end, she became an orphan again.
The orphans were packed up by their parents and sent to the G2563 Orphanage, a remote planet in a remote galaxy of the Federation.
In this interstellar age, if parents don't want to raise their children, they can just send them to an orphanage and pay a sum of money to cover the children's living expenses until they reach adulthood.
So, the day after she was born, she became an orphan again without seeing what her parents looked like in this life. Her name was given by the aunt who was the director of the g2563 orphanage.
Mu Jiao is the same as in the previous life.
The meaning of the name given by the director is very straightforward. All the children in her group have the surname Mu, so her surname is naturally Mu as well. As for the word "Jiao", it is certainly not because she is delicate.
But the director said that she was the smallest newborn baby she had ever seen, so she was named Mu Jiao.
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The orphanage was well-managed, even though the children would fight, bully the weak, and scramble for food and clothing. Besides the headmistress, the other staff members were either robots or very serious middle-aged women...
But these were not problems for Mu Jiao, as her experience in her previous life allowed her to adapt well.
She is eighteen years old this year. According to her previous life, she was already an adult. However, in this interstellar space where the average age is over 300 and the maximum age is over 500, people are considered adults at the age of thirty. So, she still has twelve years to go.
Federal law stipulates that orphanages are obligated to care for orphans until they reach adulthood. During this period, orphans can eat and drink for free and learn various knowledge and interstellar survival skills.
Of course, if war hadn't broken out, all of this would have been possible. But now, in the year 18515, the war had begun over twenty years earlier. Within the Federation's star regions, the flames of conflict were intensifying, and countless geniuses had perished in these massive battles...
As the war dragged on, the hatred between the two sides grew deeper.
In the end, it was inevitable that even the orphanage located on a remote planet in the Federation would be affected by the war.
No matter what era it is, war always brings blood and tears.
When an ion cannon landed on the remote planet where Mu Jiao was, it was still midnight.
Mu Jiao was awakened by a loud noise and sat up straight from the bed. Then, there was a flurry of activity, with screams and cries everywhere outside...
It can be seen that the ion cannon was not far from them and injured many people. Mu Jiao followed the manager into the underground shelter of the orphanage in confusion and hid there.
After five days of drinking nutritional supplements in the underground shelter, everyone was at a loss when the door to the shelter was opened from the outside...
Fortunately, the people who came in wearing federal military uniforms were not enemies, otherwise Mu Jiao and his group would have had no choice but to shout "My life is over."
Driving the garbage truck, Mu Jiao sighed again. Although she is not dead now, she should be very close to death, right?
Back to the time when the group of federal soldiers entered the shelter, we thought they were here to rescue everyone, but in fact, they were here to forcibly recruit people.
The reason is simple. This planet had just experienced a war. Although the war was won, the federal soldiers suffered heavy losses and were unable to clean up the battlefield. They had to conscript civilians to clean up the battlefield.
But the space battlefield is different from the ground battlefield. You need to collect the mecha parts and armor materials floating in the air for recycling, collect the injured soldiers and bring them back for treatment, and eliminate the injured enemy troops left on the battlefield...
Not to mention other things, if some large mecha fragments collide with the garbage truck, the garbage truck will be destroyed instantly. This task can be said to be full of dangers.
But who made Mu Jiao so unlucky? In order to make a living in the interstellar space in the future, she had to learn to drive an A-class space car!
Fortunately, she studied hard and got a driver's license, and then she was reported to these federal soldiers by the selfless dean.
A Class A space vehicle driver's license is like the driver's license for trucks and buses in the previous life. Space vehicles are actually equivalent to interstellar buses or mining carts and other means of transportation, which can transport people or goods back and forth between planets in a galaxy.
When Mu Jiao took the exam, she thought it was a good way to make a living. This exam has no restrictions on physical or mental strength, and anyone over the age of sixteen can take it.
So she studied very hard. You know, most of the people who take this exam are boys. As one of the few girls, Mu Jiao spent a whole year to get this certificate.
However, if there were any regret pills in the world, Mu Jiao thought she would have to take them all now.
Including Mu Jiao, there were a total of twenty-eight children from the orphanage who passed the exam. The oldest was twenty-seven, and the youngest was Mu Jiao, who was only eighteen and the only girl among the group of children.
Mu Jiao really lives up to her name in this life. Compared to her peers, she looks like a child and is only 1.6 meters tall.
Girls of the same age are at least 1.7 meters tall. Not only is her height not up to the standard, but her frame is also small, making her look very thin. Fortunately, her delicate features make up for these shortcomings, and she is also a very beautiful girl.
Mu Jiao, with her black hair, delicate features and thin petite figure, stood out among a group of tall and strong boys, attracting the sidelong glances of several soldiers like a little child.
At that time, a federal soldier saw Mu Jiao standing behind a group of boys, looking thin and small, and discussed with the director not to let her go.
Mu Jiao was standing relatively close, and she felt secretly delighted when she heard their conversation. After all, she had seen war scenes on video, which was not something a half-useless person like her could get involved in. Even cleaning up the battlefield would scare her.
But what she didn't expect was that the dean, this fanatical patriotic aunt, didn't even discuss it with her and just refused directly.
He also said a lot of things about serving the motherland and that it was everyone's responsibility. The soldier was so moved that he didn't even give Mu Jiao any chance to speak.
So, Mu Jiao drove the army's garbage truck to the battlefield. The remote planet where Mu Jiao was located was called G2563. It was a small natural star, only one twelfth the size of the earth in her previous life. It had a small population of only 30,000 to 40,000 people. Among these people, there were more than 300 who could drive space cars. After all, those who lived here were either orphans or the elderly and weak, so it was already good to have so many people.
More than 300 people were taken onto a huge warship. The warship looked like a huge city, which dazzled the group of country bumpkins. Of course, Mu Jiao was among the country bumpkins.
Then the garbage truck was assigned. Garbage truck is what the soldiers call it. In fact, it is a high-end military logistics recycling truck. For someone like Mu Jiao who has only driven a low-end car with a driver's license, this garbage truck is simply a noble existence.
It is somewhat different from the ordinary space cars learned in driving school. The garbage truck has a pair of mechanical claws on the front and a control machine in the cab so that it can grab objects.
Unlike the cars in the 21st century that have wheels, the space car has no wheels. The bottom of the car is flat and it is powered by energy stones. It glides through the universe at a very fast speed.
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