Chapter 1



The gray and dark old building exudes a damp and moldy smell. Snakes and rats occasionally slither by. If you look closely, you can see a child lying in the corner.

The surroundings are unusually quiet.

Wei San is covered with a worn and dirty quilt. The ceiling is peeling cement and the steel bars are exposed. There is always an illusion that it will collapse at any time.

"Tick-tock--"

A drop of sewage mixed with mud drips on her face.

"..."

Wei San didn't even blink, wrapped in the quilt and rolled to the innermost corner, avoiding the water drops above, and continued to sleep.

At four o'clock in the morning, the alarm clock in the corner suddenly rang, and Wei San reached out and pressed it.

"Click--"

The alarm clock's leg broke.

She suddenly woke up, scratched her tangled hair, picked up the alarm clock and its legs and took a look. Fortunately, it could be repaired.

Wei San rolled up the quilt and piled it in a slightly cleaner corner. Then he dug out a big bag from a pile of broken copper and iron next to him and walked out of the abandoned building.

She was going to pick up garbage.

A month ago, Wei San went from being a well-fed senior engineer to a seven-year-old orphan who ate all kinds of garbage. When she woke up, a big rat squatted next to her face and wanted to bite her.

The child left with a high fever, and when she woke up again, she became Engineer Wei San.

She has the memory of a child. When the child was young, he was picked up and raised by a dumb old man who also lived in a nearby garbage dump. Not long ago, the old man died, leaving her alone. The place where she originally lived was occupied by people nearby. The child was at a loss and could only find such an abandoned and collapsing building to live in. Every day, she went to the garbage dump to look for food, but hunger and a sudden high fever took the child's life.

Wei San is an adult after all. He spent a night accepting reality, and the next day he continued to go to the garbage dump to continue looking for garbage to eat.

If he didn't eat, he would starve to death.

This month, Wei San made a tricycle out of the garbage and scrap iron she collected. She put the old bag on the back and rode along with a clang. The garbage truck tipped over on time at two o'clock in the morning. She went there at four o'clock to avoid adults.

There were hundreds of people near the garbage dump, all of whom made a living from the garbage. The adults went through the garbage first, and the children without parents had to look for it last. Otherwise, if they picked up something good, it would be a small matter to be robbed. The main thing was that they would be beaten, and they might even be beaten to death. They couldn't pick up garbage after the sun came out, otherwise the smell of the garbage dump would be too pungent and something would happen.

When they arrived at the garbage dump, there were really no people there, and the new truck of garbage had been almost completely turned over, so it was difficult to find anything to eat.

Wei San calmed down and took a deep breath: "Ugh..."

Damn, I forgot this was a garbage dump.

She dragged the big bag and stepped into the garbage pile, being careful not to sink in. People often fall in here accidentally. A few days ago, someone was found to have fallen in while searching the garbage, and eventually died of suffocation.

Most of the metals that can be recycled on the market have been picked up by adults. Wei San squatted on the garbage mountain and slowly rummaged through it. When he saw something interesting, he threw it into the bag and forgot about his hunger.

Wei San searched in one place and found a broken test tube with a drop of pink liquid at the bottom. She picked it up and sniffed it, and her eyes lit up. It was nutrient solution!

She immediately raised it and poured it into her mouth. After pouring for a long time, the drop of nutrient solution slid down the wall of the test tube.

Wei San savored it for a while. It was a strawberry-flavored nutrient solution.

The groggy feeling of being hungry for a long time suddenly dissipated a little.

Nutrient solution is a good thing, it can easily fill the stomach, but it's a pity that there is only one drop.

If she could find half a bottle of nutrient solution, she wouldn't have to be hungry all day.

Just as she thought of this, a strong light suddenly shone down from above her head. Wei San looked up and saw that it was a garbage truck.

It was strange. Garbage trucks usually come at two o'clock in the morning. It's already past four o'clock now. Why is there still a garbage truck coming?

Before Wei San could think more, another garbage truck appeared above the garbage dump. She immediately ran down with the bag. These garbage trucks didn't pay attention to whether there were people below. They would just fall down directly, and they would kill some people every year.

When Wei San hid at the edge of the garbage dump, he could see clearly that there were five garbage trucks circling above, and there was also a small aircraft next to them.

The front window of the small aircraft kept flashing white light, and the frequency reminded Wei San of the camera used by his world media.

The next second, five garbage trucks opened their bottom plates, and countless large boxes fell into the garbage dump. The light of the small aircraft flashed more frequently.

After the garbage trucks dumped all these, they left with the small aircraft.

Wei San waited for a while, then quickly climbed up, wanting to know what those boxes were.

Maybe she didn't need to look, she had already smelled it, it was the smell of nutrient solution!

Just now, when she fell from the garbage truck, the bottom layer of boxes had been smashed, and the smell of nutrient solution began to float out, mixed with the stench of the garbage dump, forming a somewhat strange fragrant smell.

Wei San fished out a homemade flashlight from his pocket, shone it on the box, reached out to tear off the seal, and couldn't help but gasp - it was all brand new nutrient solution.

He opened several boxes in succession, and they were all full of nutrient solution.

This situation looked very much like the destruction of problematic food.

Not knowing what was wrong with the nutrient solution, Wei San immediately stuffed the intact boxes into her big bag, stuffing three large boxes in total, then dragged the bag to find her broken tricycle, put the three boxes of nutrient solution on the tricycle, pushed the tricycle into the bushes to hide it, and then ran to the garbage dump again. She repeated the previous action, carrying the nutrient solution and putting it on the tricycle. By the third time, other garbage collectors had come over to grab the nutrient solution.

Those people immediately opened the tubes and poured the nutrient solution into their mouths.

"It's really nutrient solution! It tastes good!"

"Quick, grab it!"

Wei San continued to move the nutrient solution. When she was so hungry that she felt dizzy, she took two bottles and poured them into her mouth. Suddenly, her stomach felt warm, and the cramping feeling of hunger slowly disappeared.

She didn't drink more. She kept moving until the tricycle could no longer hold it, and then she pushed the tricycle out and prepared to go back.

It was a bit too much.

Wei San gritted his teeth and rode the tricycle all the way back. He had to find a chance to make the tricycle electric, but he had never found the parts he wanted at the garbage dump before. The energy in this world is very different from that in her world. Unfortunately, the child only has the memory of rummaging through garbage with the old man at the garbage dump day after day.

Returning to the deserted, dilapidated building, Wei San slowly moved the nutrient solution in, twelve boxes in total. She stacked them neatly against the wall, feeling satisfied.

Finally, she doesn't have to be hungry anymore.

This month, she was so hungry that even her thinking became much slower, and her mind was full of thoughts about food every day.

Wei San was in much more pain than the original child. The child had never seen good things since childhood, but she was different. In the original world, there were countless delicacies. When a person is hungry, his mind is full of all kinds of food. The more he thinks about it, the hungrier he gets. When he went to pick up garbage to eat, he had prepared himself mentally countless times.

After sitting on the ground and resting for a while, Wei San decided to continue to move the nutritional solution to the garbage dump.

Five large trucks of nutritional solution are not a small number. Even if all the people who make a living at the garbage dump are there, they still can't grab all of it. Therefore, the garbage dump is particularly harmonious today, and everyone is busy moving the nutritional solution.

Wei San went back and forth four times. This time, regardless of the bad sun, he moved a total of 48 boxes from dawn to dusk, and his pockets were filled with scattered nutrient solutions.

In the evening, he also gave himself a snack, drinking a bottle of fruit-flavored nutrient solution and a bottle of vegetable-flavored nutrient solution. The hunger that had lingered for a month finally disappeared. She fixed the legs of the alarm clock and then lay down to rest. She

slept until four o'clock the next day, and the alarm clock rang as usual. Wei San turned over and got up. He felt much better and continued to prepare to go to the garbage dump. This time, the purpose was not entirely the nutrient solution, but the garbage dumped at two o'clock in the morning.

When he got there, there were still many people at the garbage dump, but their attention was all on the nutrient solution, and no one was going to look for the garbage.

Wei San only moved three boxes this time, because the nutrient solution was slowly decreasing, and several adults behind her had already begun to mark out the space and prevented them from moving, so she gave up and went to rummage through the garbage.

She wanted to find some useful materials to make something.

After rummaging for more than an hour, seeing that the sun was about to rise, Wei San got up and left, riding her broken tricycle all the way back.

Back at her residence, Wei San squatted in front of a wooden box, her hand brushed across a row of nutrient solution, and she suddenly felt extremely rich.

She can now choose the flavor of the nutrient solution.

Wei San chose a strawberry-flavored nutrient solution and took a small sip carefully. It tasted good.

Although she already had dozens of boxes of nutrient solution, she still had to drink it sparingly, at least until she found a way to survive.

After filling his stomach, Wei San sorted out the things in the bag, and finally took a look at all his belongings and decided to go out for a walk.

When the old man was around, he could pick up scraps to sell. In the child's memory, the old man would often go north, saying that he was going to the city to sell metal scraps.

A month had passed, and Wei San needed so much nutrient solution to fill his stomach, so he wanted to go into the city to take a look.

She repaired her broken tricycle and lubricated the chains and bearings with waste oil collected from the garbage dump to ensure that she could go into the city smoothly tomorrow.

The next day, Wei San washed himself clean, and then rode the broken tricycle north, panting. It took him about five hours to see the city.

It's so far, no wonder the old man didn't bring his children with him.

She took a breath, took out a bottle of nutrient solution from the cloth bag she made, drank it, and continued riding after she recovered her strength.

This was the first time Wei San saw relatively normal people in this world. Except for the occasional vehicles flying in the sky and various realistic virtual advertisements on the roadside, this place was almost no different from the world she lived in.

"Recently, a batch of nutrient solution from Tongxuan Company was found to be lacking in elements and was not beneficial to the human body... It has been processed."

Wei San heard a news-like voice playing on a virtual screen above the right front. She was attracted by what the host said and looked up, just in time to see a few photos on the screen.

It was the garbage dump she went to this month, and several garbage trucks kept falling over.

Wei San raised her eyebrows. She saw herself in the corner of a photo. She was a small black ball. Except for a pair of big eyes, she was very thin everywhere else.

- Like a little zombie.

But she learned one thing from the information just now: the nutrient solution lacked key nutrients. It was not good for the human body, but it was not harmful either.

Now the most important thing was to fill her stomach. As for whether it was nutritious or not, Wei San could not hope for the time being.

Wei San only looked at the virtual screen, but she didn't know that people around her were looking at her frequently.

A seven-year-old child riding on a strange moving rotten iron was weird no matter how you looked at it.

The author has something to say: Wei San: Although I am poor now, this engineer will definitely find a way to get rich!


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