A massive, yellow python, several meters thick, charged ruthlessly into the garbage heap, smashing and blasting away all the useless debris!
Seconds later, the giant yellow python turned back from the chaotic mountain of garbage, carrying six items inside, and crashed directly in front of Xu Wen.
Xu Wen: "..."
[What kind of monster snuck in here?]
[Several hundred meters away, other scavengers saw a large yellow python flash across the distant garbage mountain. They rubbed their eyes, thinking they might be hallucinating.]
"Stop spacing out, quickly check if there's anything valuable." You pointed to six pieces of trash; the smallest was just a palm-sized fragment, while the largest was a complex mechanical structure, two meters long, one meter wide, and weighing over a ton.
"Was that just now... an external manifestation of the power of manipulation?"
[Xu Wen asked, looking rather naive.]
"No, it's an energy field, high technology. It's normal that you don't understand it."
"But boss, it looks like..."
"Shut up, do you know more about manipulation or do I? Choose!"
Xu Wen examined each item one by one, finally using various tools to cut and disassemble it into parts, which he then put into his backpack.
"It should sell for 30 credits. Thanks a lot, boss," he said solemnly.
You accept it calmly: "After all, you're my lackey, it's only right that the boss takes care of you."
"However," you asked curiously, "credits don't seem that hard to earn, do they? You can easily earn 30 points in no time."
Upon hearing this, Xu Wen couldn't help but roll his eyes.
["Because this is newly dumped garbage that no one has turned over; because my strength can only reach six meters, I can't probe the inside of the garbage mountain; because I can't turn over the large pieces of garbage weighing tens of tons; because these garbage are piled up layer by layer, even the slightest movement could cause a 'landslide' and crush me to death..."]
[Xu Wen's words, towards the end, were practically a direct accusation: "Why don't you eat meat porridge?"]
"How frustrating. Those who lived 20 years longer than me are practically useless. Sigh."
[In the following Taobao search, following Xu Wen's request, you no longer acted too ostentatiously, but instead used your control to precisely retrieve the sensing object.]
More than twenty kilometers away, across mountains of garbage, the sounds of fierce fighting could be heard. Several Garbage Kings and their forces were searching for and vying for the remains of the Mad Rhino King—its high-end exoskeleton.
[You didn't participate; instead, you worked with Xu Wen from four in the morning until noon, looking up to see crowds of people carrying backpacks all around you.]
"Living off garbage, what a unique ecosystem," you might mutter.
As you were leaving, you discovered a row of scarred mechanical legs on the outskirts, each positioned at a distance, firmly blocking your return.
They are the Scarface Team, under the command of the Octopus King, one of the six remaining garbage kings in this garbage dump.
[Their job is to intercept those returning laden with their spoils and make them pay the appropriate price before they can take their catch home.]
"Interesting." You spotted one of the scarred men; he was the same killer who had riddled Xu Wen with bullets two days ago, nearly killing him as well.
However, Xu Wen simply walked straight past.
"It seems a major conflict is about to erupt."
"One is someone who came back from the dead, the other is someone who killed him. Tsk tsk tsk."
You have some expectations and are ready to make a move.
[To avoid being caught off guard, let's look at the future first.]
Xu Wen approached Scarface.
Scarface held out his hand: "This area is Octopus King's territory. Hand over half of your scavenging earnings."
Xu Wen pointed to his school uniform: "I'm a student, let me go for free."
He pulled out a gun, pointed it at his head, and said, "If you don't let me through, I'll kill myself."
"It has something in common with the Ninth Prince back then (Chapter 153)."
[Scarface: "..."]
"Hurry up and decide, my hands are very unsteady."
【you:"……"】
"If you don't move aside, do you think the Octopus King will compensate you with 10,000 credits?"
The scarred man made way for them.
You silently ended this future, and began another.
In the second future, you bring Xu Wen to Scarface and ask, "Do you remember this face?"
[Xu Wen: "W-what's wrong?"]
"Don't you remember him shooting you to death the day before yesterday?"
"How am I supposed to tell them apart...aren't all the Scarface team members the same?"
【you:"……"】
[You reopen the third future, pull Xu Wen over, and ask Scarface, "Do you know him?"]
Scarface gave Xu Wen a strange look, then glanced at you: "What important person's son is he?"
"The person you shot and killed the day before yesterday, don't you recognize him now?"
[Scarface hesitated for a moment: "He was quite far away yesterday, not wearing this school uniform, and his face was sticky with blood from my shot."]
You're utterly speechless. These are two people with face blindness who've bumped into each other.
[Back to the present, you're too lazy to interfere with them, and things proceed as planned, you just coast along as a student.]
[Xu Wen used a backpack full of treasures to exchange for 1080 credits in an underground shop, and then took you to get an ID card, which cost 1 credit.]
[The ID card of the abandoned mining planet... is more like a credit point account than an ID card.]
There's no real census or background check in this place. As long as you're alive and breathing, nobody cares about being an "unregistered resident" wherever you go.
This ID card is like a personal nickname and profile on QQ; you can change your name and place of birth at will. Staff will only verify basic information like your gender.
However, if a man insists he is a woman, they can still record him as female; however, if he encounters trouble afterward, it's none of their business.
"It feels so unprofessional."
"My goodness, things aren't so easy to do if it's done through the proper channels," Xu Wen said.
"In that case, when we reach the Upper Realm—uh, I mean the Void Realm—we'll be considered people of unknown origin, right?"
"How would I know?" He shrugged. "But we people from these abandoned mining planets don't really exist in the Holy Land's airspace, do we?"
"However, those who went through the school's channels should be able to reapply for official household registration."
In the days that followed, you didn't simply stay at Xuwen's house; instead, you started adding extra ingredients to his meals and guiding him to break through his limits quickly.
"Under my guidance, you will surely achieve a leap in improvement within the next month and break through to the Crystal Realm!"
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