Although grumbling internally, Feng Xue still had to enter the junkyard, carrying a huge, fluffy, and obviously cheap backpack, following the crowd. However, he arrived later than usual this time, so when he entered, it wasn't like before when he could see the recently gang-sorted yet unscavenged trash.
After finally escaping the dense crowd and reaching a more spacious area, he was greeted with a scene of disarray; motorbike wreckage was visible everywhere, many showing signs of being stomped flat by the scavengers.
Among these obviously worthless things, there were also some scattered papers.
Hmm…
Feng Xue suddenly remembered the Tool Card mentioned by the Newbie Guide and quickly walked over, only to find that the bits and pieces on the ground were nothing more than ordinary playing cards, identified mostly as [Toys] even under the scrutiny of Golden Finger. Only a very few carried the [Gambling Tools] tag.
"So, could this be some sort of gambling-apocalypse world? But that doesn't explain the vehicles though!"
After confirming that there was nothing else of interest nearby, Feng Xue had no intention of staying. He immediately started running toward the center of the junkyard.
Thanks to the speed boost of the Silent Boots, Feng Xue managed to leave some of the still-searching people behind until an element appeared in his vision that almost made him choke—
[Perpetual Motion Machine]
"Wow, what kind of immortal element is this?"
Feng Xue almost instantly hit the brakes, not even caring that he tripped over a bicycle handle by the roadside and scrambled toward the location of that element, only to find in front of him a…
Motorcycle?
"This is a D-Wheel, man! A D-Wheel!"
Feng Xue recognized the identity of this object almost instantly. Although significantly damaged, anything with a Duel Disk attached to the front seat but a D-Wheel couldn't be anything else. It certainly couldn't mean that Shadow Poem Part III involved motorbike card games, right?
"No wonder there's a Perpetual Motion Machine tag, it freaking runs on Star Wandering Particles... But then, could the gemstone possibly be a Jade Beast?"
Feng Xue grinned and picked up an iron rod from the side to start dismantling the motorcycle.
He obviously couldn't take such a large object with him, especially seeing it so damaged, yet still containing its element, meant he should probably just remove the engine.
Generally speaking, Feng Xue definitely lacked knowledge in this area, but the severe damage made it relatively easy for him to pry open the outer shell. As for locating the core that hosted the [Perpetual Motion Machine] element, just use Golden Finger!
About ten minutes later, Feng Xue carefully removed several pipes and detached the "iron bucket," weighing about fifty or sixty pounds, from the D-Wheel.
Stuffing this extinguished, but still possessing the powerful elements of [Perpetual Motion Machine] and [Evolution] into his backpack, he found the [Speed] element slightly bothersome. But with a two-thirds chance, he couldn't be that unlucky, right?
Unknowingly, Feng Xue had set a flag for himself, but he didn't care, as finding a D-wheel at least suggested that the junkyard was connected to the Yu-Gi-Oh World. If that was so, there couldn't just be one D-wheel around.
The weight of forty to fifty kilograms would have accounted for seventy percent of his carrying capacity ten days ago, but after unlocking the Transport skill, Feng Xue's endurance and strength had greatly improved—carrying a motorcycle engine felt like carrying a power bank on his back. Now, he was more concerned about the size of his bag than its weight.
"If not, I'll just have to grab a handcart," Feng Xue thought to himself, harboring some dangerous thoughts, as he stood up again. Due to his intense excitement about the "Perpetual Motion Machine" term, he had neglected the other things around him, only now realizing that the scattered cards had turned into classic Yu-Gi-Oh cards.
"Professor Kronos... Ah no, it's the Desire Pot." Feng Xue pulled an unknown joke, but then he tossed away the eternal banned card—it didn't have any attributes, just a bunch of gibberish.
"No wonder that Newbie Guide said that no matter how strong a card was before, it's now just scrap paper... At least that Thunder God thing still packed a punch given enough 'Identity' supply."
A bit disappointed, Feng Xue shook his head, abandoning the idea of checking each card's identity and instead activated the Golden Finger's identifying feature, returning to his routine of searching for treasures based on attributes.
These cards weren't completely useless, he figured; he might as well pick up a stack when he left, seeing if binding them could serve as the base material for a Skill Book.
...
Scavenging is quite the contradictory task—if you sped up, you could miss important items, but if you searched carefully, a more significant item might be picked up by someone else first.
Feng Xue didn't spend much time searching, but dismantling the D-wheel had taken up some time, and by the time he set off again, the surrounding environment had deteriorated significantly.
Nonchalantly flipping open a car door that read "Fujiwara Tofu Shop," Feng Xue didn't care whether it was a replica and picked up the card beneath it with the "Destroy" attribute. However, this wasn't a Yu-Gi-Oh card or even a collectible card—it was...
"How come there's something from the Island of Greed?" Feng Xue stuffed the card named "Fierce Bullet" (designated to destroy one card), numbered 1029, into his backpack, gaining a new understanding of the landfill area—of course, considering the "junkyard" setting, it could also be counterfeit merchandise…
"Anyway, anything can be a card, right? But what on earth does a card have to do with a vehicle?"
Feng Xue felt it was quite complicated to untangle this matter, or it might entirely be unrelated. Considering the gems that had been collected, he wouldn't be surprised even if he stumbled upon a Heradic Cube soon.
But soon, Feng Xue lost interest in figuring out such inconsequential matters because his vision had captured an exciting attribute—
"Destiny"
"Oh boy, is Fate destined to send me to Heaven?" Feng Xue's eyes immediately lit up. With this, even if he couldn't synthesize VAWRUDO, he could probably work on Heavenly Creation. If not, King Crimson could work too!
As the thought crossed Feng Xue's mind, he was already on the move, taking a few steps to reach the vicinity of the element, which was covered in...ice?
"This doesn't look like perpetually frozen ice, huh?" Feng Xue noted that the ice only bore a string of gibberish, assuming that the unmelting state was just a feature of the junkyard. But as he reached out to scrape away the ice, an intense sense of crisis suddenly emerged in his mind.
Without any hesitation, Feng Xue immediately rolled on the spot. As the uneven ground scraped against his body causing pain, Feng Xue propped himself up with one hand, quickly adjusting his posture. When he looked up in the direction from which the sense of crisis had come, a man wearing a gray shirt and jeans was holding an iron rod, seemingly surprised that Feng Xue had managed to dodge...