"Ah, so it's Student Lu. Please, let me show you around," Manager Ak said enthusiastically. Although he was briefly surprised by Lu Yin's name, he quickly covered it up. The surname Lu was rare in the universe.
Lu Yin looked up at the sky of this planet, which was a dark yellow color without the sun shining. Above was a thick layer of yellow clouds, giving a depressing feeling.
"No need for the tour, Manager Ak. Just take me to the place where I can complete the task," Lu Yin said directly.
Ak nodded, "Alright, please board the aircraft."
Lu Yin and Ak boarded a large aircraft, which soon departed the space station and flew towards the distance.
"Student Lu, this planet is filled with irritating gases, making it uninhabitable. Therefore, our Ilto Company bought it specifically for storing discarded machinery. As you can see, there are abandoned mechanical products everywhere, including discarded spacecraft, aircraft, and even weapons and battle armor..." Ak explained.
Lu Yin's expression remained calm. This was a planet close to death, which might have once developed a civilization similar to Earth's. But now, due to various reasons, it was on the verge of destruction and could only be used as a dump.
Perhaps in tens of thousands of years, this planet would no longer exist.
The ground was dry, and there was no basic water resource.
Many people in spacesuits were searching for something. These people were slaves brought by Ilto Company from primitive planets to search for slightly useful items. There were too many of such people. If Lu Yin hadn't protected Earth, its evolutionaries would have been sent to the battlefield, and the ordinary people would have ended up like these, living their days on such abandoned planets as garbage scavengers until death.
"Student Lu, which model of the disassembler do you prefer?" Manager Ak asked.
There was too much trash in the universe, a significant portion of which was man-made. Although discarded, many companies would separate useful materials from this trash to reforge, saving costs and effectively cleaning up the universe. The machine used for separating materials is called a disassembler.
Lu Yin had checked this over the past two days. Practitioners use stellar energy through the disassembler to strip different materials. Generally speaking, the better the control over stellar energy, the more materials can be stripped, which was one reason the Tenth Institute accepted this task, as it could train stellar energy.
"I don't need a disassembler," Lu Yin said lightly.
Manager Ak was stunned, staring at Lu Yin, "Student Lu, what did you say?"
Lu Yin frowned, "Prepare a quiet place for me; I don't need a disassembler."
A flash of light passed through Manager Ak's eyes as he nodded and directed the aircraft to change course.
Half an hour later, at a spot by a hill, the aircraft landed. "Student Lu, there's no one here, and there are plenty of discarded machines around. You can practice freely, and rest assured, no one will monitor you."
Lu Yin got off the aircraft, breathing in the pungent gases. These gases were like poison to ordinary people, but for practitioners like him, it was harmless, just a bit unpleasant.
"I'll have someone prepare an air purifier for you," Manager Ak quickly said.
Lu Yin waved his hand, "No need, you can leave. I'll call you when I'm done."
Manager Ak didn't insist, boarded the aircraft, and left.
Just after leaving, he contacted the general manager, "General Manager, the student from the Tenth Institute doesn't need a disassembler. He either relies on stellar energy or a special talent."
"It's probably a special talent. Anyone who can purely rely on stellar energy to disassemble materials could become an Interpreter and wouldn't take on such tasks. Ignore him and wait for the results," a pleasant female voice said.
Manager Ak quickly agreed.
The hill wasn't high. Lu Yin floated up, looking around. Numerous towering discarded machines were scattered on the ground, some large, some small. The largest one extended far into the distance, likely a large spacecraft.
Dark yellow clouds floated in the sky. Lu Yin moved his limbs, "Let's start. I hope I can roll a two," he said, taking out the die.
At this moment, the die emitted a hazy starlight, no longer needing the replenishment from a stellar energy crystal. It should have been restored after so many days.
Swallowing nervously, Lu Yin was always tense when rolling the die.
With a tap of his finger, the die spun rapidly and eventually landed on one. With a pop, a battle knife fell out. Lu Yin picked it up and examined it, exerting slight force. It was quite good, suitable for someone at the Meld Realm, but useless to him.
Taking out one cubic meter of stellar energy crystal from his cosmic ring and crushing it, the die was restored. Lu Yin tapped it again.
This time, luck favored him. It landed on two, and a disassembling vortex appeared.
Lu Yin was thrilled. This was what he wanted. Without hesitation, he crushed eighteen cubic meters of stellar energy crystal. The disassembling vortex, like the space-time stillness space, could extend its duration with stellar energy. One cubic meter of stellar energy crystal could extend it by 160 minutes, double that of the space-time stillness space. Eighteen cubic meters of stellar energy crystal were enough to keep the vortex active for a whole day.
"But it's a bit small," Lu Yin muttered, casually picking up a discarded instrument and tossing it into the vortex. As it passed through, some unknown materials fell out quickly.
Taking a deep breath, Lu Yin said, "Time to work," and began pushing heaps of trash into the disassembling vortex. Though small, the vortex would disassemble anything passing through it. It took Lu Yin two hours to disassemble a mountain of trash, resulting in a significant pile of various materials on the ground, most of which he didn't recognize.
Recalling the disassembling of the cosmic ring earlier, Lu Yin guessed that these materials could be further disassembled to get more precious items. But he decided not to do so. His disassembling speed was already astonishing. If he disassembled these materials further and got something extraordinary, who knew what might happen.
The entire day passed like this. Lu Yin spent the whole day disassembling a considerable amount of discarded machinery. The surroundings of the hill became more spacious, while the disassembled materials piled up like a mountain.
"I wonder how much income these will generate," Lu Yin thought, crushing another eighteen cubic meters of stellar energy crystal, "One more day."
Two days later, Manager Ak received the notification and hurriedly took the aircraft to Lu Yin.
Seeing two small mountains of disassembled materials, Manager Ak rubbed his eyes in disbelief. It was real. In just two days, so much had been disassembled? Even an extreme realm practitioner using the most efficient disassembler couldn't achieve such a volume in a month! This efficiency was too high!
For a moment, Manager Ak looked at Lu Yin as if he were a deity.
Lu Yin coughed, "So, Manager Ak, is this enough?"
Manager Ak quickly replied, "Yes, it's more than enough. Student Lu, you've completed the task, and even exceeded expectations. Did you do this all by yourself?"
He had to ask. Previously, some students had privately brought many materials to claim they were disassembled, but the company didn't mind, treating the materials as purchased goods and even making a profit. However, this much material was too much. Did he bring multiple cosmic rings? Was this real or fake? Could disassembling be this fast?
Lu Yin said calmly, "Please calculate my compensation."
Manager Ak promptly agreed, instructing the staff to settle Lu Yin's payment while contacting the general manager, the head of Ilto Company in the Canglan Territory.
"It's impossible. A student can't disassemble that fast unless they're an Interpreter," the pleasant female voice firmly stated.
Manager Ak said, "Should I ask?"
"No need. It's probably fake. Interpreters wouldn't care about this payment and wouldn't waste time on such tasks. Let the student go."
"What about the task progress?"
"Exceedingly completed."
"Understood," Manager Ak ended the call. Meanwhile, Lu Yin had received his payment. He had spent two days disassembling a mountain of materials, most of which were worthless, just ordinary hard metals. However, there were valuable special materials among them, sold by the gram. These materials totaled several tons, worth hundreds of billions of universal currency, earning Lu Yin over thirty billion universal currency as his share.
Lu Yin calculated. The discarded machinery he disassembled, if intact, would be worth no less than a trillion universal currency. Ilto Company repurchased them at an extremely low price, had practitioners like him disassemble them to get the materials, then remade and sold the products for hundreds of billions. Even after paying the practitioners, they still made over a hundred billion in profit, an absolute windfall.
Moreover, machinery maintenance, training, and other expenses were also paid to Ilto Company. Their revenue was endless. No wonder they could afford to buy planets as dumps.
Lu Yin felt a bit envious. How wealthy was this company? Yet, it was just a company in the Outer Universe, insignificant compared to other major forces, let alone Mebius Bank.