Federal Special Waste Disposal Site No. 23.
Also known as the "Magical Treasure Cemetery."
As the cultivation civilization continues to develop, the once high-status magical treasures that only cultivators could command have entered every household, becoming essential tools for ordinary people in their daily lives, travel, study, and work.
While bringing convenience to life, they also generate a large amount of scrapped magical treasures and metal waste.
These waste treasures mostly retain a significant amount of spiritual energy, which can easily cause radiation pollution. The arrays used to construct the treasures are also extremely unstable, posing a risk of explosion. If left unchecked, they can cause great damage to the environment.
Therefore, around every major city in the Federation, there are several "special waste disposal sites" specifically for handling scrapped magical treasures.
The No. 23 Special Waste Disposal Site is located in the southern suburbs of "Fuguo City," a major cultivation center in the Federation.
Under the dim yellow sky, a polluted purple swamp emits a strong foul odor. Mountains made of metal debris rise like the backs of dozens of dinosaurs emerging from the swamp. These mountains are littered with broken flying swords. Next to the swords sit rusty crystal puppets, their hollow eye sockets having long extinguished their spiritual fire. Only small insects that feed on spiritual energy peek out from them, cautiously surveying this dangerous "magical treasure cemetery."
"Boom!"
Not far away, the array of a scrapped treasure inside a garbage mountain ruptures, and the residual spiritual energy explodes instantly, blasting half of the mountain into the sky.
Countless metal components scatter like petals from a celestial flower, triggering a chain collapse of several nearby garbage mountains. The resulting dust clouds rise like demons dancing, obscuring the entire sky.
This place seems to be a forbidden zone for life, with only insignificant cockroaches and worms considering it a paradise.
However...
Li Yao crouches behind a garbage mountain, licking his cracked lips. His earth-yellow trench coat is covered in dust, blending him perfectly with the environment.
Glancing at the rising explosion cloud not far away, the young man's clear eyes show no emotion, calm and undisturbed.
Only when soil and metal debris splash onto the garbage mountain where he is hiding does he slightly retreat deeper into the pile, putting on goggles that cover half his face.
"Here it comes!"
When the spiritual particle watch on his wrist vibrates gently, the young man's spirits are lifted, and a slightly mischievous smile appears on the corner of his mouth.
At 3:52:38 PM, the daily garbage disposal time, it is also the carnival moment for "garbage bugs" like Li Yao!
The spiritual particle watch on his left wrist is a hunting-specific model launched by the cultivation sect "Fei Ling Sect" three years ago. He found it in the garbage mountain and spent two months repairing it.
In addition to keeping time, it has a very powerful function: it can record vibrations at special frequencies and notify the owner when specific vibrations are detected nearby.
This function was originally designed to alert hunters to the presence of powerful beasts nearby.
However, after Li Yao's modification, it has become a reminder that the garbage ship is about to appear.
A moment later, accompanied by an insignificant humming sound, a dozen black dots appear on the northern horizon.
The smoke from the explosion that obscured the sky has not yet cleared, and the dozen small black dots are mixed in it, indistinguishable.
Li Yao sniffs the air and lightly touches a rune on the side of his goggles. "Whoosh," the surface of the goggles turns blood red.
Under the red light scan, the garbage ship hidden behind the smoke is clearly outlined.
And the hunting function of the spiritual particle watch has also locked onto the special vibration frequency of one of the garbage ships.
"Garbage ship number 1327, it's you!"
From birth to ten years old, Li Yao has been in the magical treasure cemetery for ten years, and he is familiar with every inch of the land and every garbage ship in the sky. This "Garbage Ship No. 1327" is responsible for collecting garbage from the "Upper East District" of Fuguo City.
The Upper East District is the most luxurious rich area in the city, where many cultivators live, and the magical treasures they discard are the most valuable.
There are many magical treasures that are even intact, just because they are slightly old, or a new generation of products has been launched, they are carelessly discarded by cultivators and the rich.
For Li Yao, this is not a garbage ship at all, but a treasure ship full of gold mines!
"Whoosh!"
Li Yao exerts force with both feet, shooting out like a bullet, rushing through the garbage mountains, rushing towards the smoke, rushing towards "Garbage Ship No. 1327"!
Around him are garbage mountains that are about to collapse, and under his feet is a poisonous swamp that is bubbling with bubbles. Li Yao is like the most nimble monkey in the forest, constantly borrowing strength from some protruding parts of the garbage mountain, and every time he steps on it, he can bounce dozens of meters away, moving smoothly and pleasing to the eye.
"Li Yao, you bastard, you're competing with me for food again!"
At this time, more than a dozen figures rushed out from behind several garbage mountains, dressed similarly to Li Yao, but without the advanced blood-red goggles and spiritual particle watch that he wore.
These people all hold shovels and iron sticks, coming fiercely.
They, like Li Yao, are garbage bugs who make a living in the "No. 23 Special Waste Disposal Site."
Where there is profit, there is struggle. A ship of scrapped magical treasures may be garbage to the high-status cultivators, but it is the hope of survival for these grassroots poor people. Li Yao is the best garbage bug in the magical treasure cemetery, and naturally, he is also the thorn in the eyes of most garbage bugs.
However, Li Yao is not worried at all, hehe, with a sudden force from his waist, his body turns strangely, turning ninety degrees without any signs, dodging a fat boy with a frowning face in front of him, and taking the opportunity to stomp hard on the fat face, and then he rushed out more than thirty meters.
"Fat Dragon, everyone is here to make a living, what we compete for is who is faster, you should lose weight!"
The fat boy's face has a huge red mark, and his nose is almost buried in the fat, which makes him angry and commands his followers to chase desperately, and soon they entered the smoke area.
This place just had an explosion and is very unstable, and dozens of garbage mountains may collapse at any time. Even the ferocious Fat Dragon and his followers slowed down when they entered this place, watching Li Yao rush forward.
Fat Dragon can't help but spit.
"This bastard is really famous for being money-minded and lifeless. If God has eyes, a thunderbolt will kill him..."
Before he finished speaking, another explosion occurred inside a garbage mountain not far from Li Yao, and tens of thousands of tons of metal components and broken magical treasures rushed down like a mountain flood!
"So spiritual!" Fat Dragon and the other boys were all staring blankly, at a loss!
However, a scream came from the smoke: "Xiao Hei, save me!"
A black ray deeper than the night sky shot out, turned around in the metal mountain flood, and then rushed into the sky, which was a rusty, chipped, and completely black flying sword. This flying sword has a huge guard like a black wing, and Li Yao clung to the flying sword like a drowning person desperately grabbing a straw, very clumsily lying on the flying sword, surrounded by black light, rushing towards the sky!
In the sky, the huge figures of more than a dozen garbage ships have been revealed. Each garbage ship is hundreds of meters long, and its round body is like a turtle that supports the earth in the legend. The "turtle shell" is densely engraved with tens of thousands of runes, with spiritual light flashing and colorful, helping these tens of thousands of tons of heavyweights resist the invasion of gravity.
"Whoosh!"
The cabin doors on the belly of each "big turtle" open, and a sea of metal components and broken magical treasures pour out, hitting the ground fiercely.
For a moment, the spiritual energy in the whole world is stirred up crazily, causing a storm!
Even the tens of thousands of tons of garbage ships are swaying and shaking violently in the spiritual energy waves, and they have to try hard to separate and reduce the interference.
Fat Dragon and the others dare not approach easily, for fear of being affected.
Li Yao is still riding the black flying sword in the spiritual energy waves, looking extremely miserable, but as nimble as a loach.
Of course he dare not confront the storm head-on, but he relies on more than ten years of survival experience to try to find a relatively calm and safe area between the spiritual energy tides, just to get as close as possible to the landing point of the garbage magical treasures, and to get the moon first.
Finally——
Nearly ten minutes of pouring ended, the garbage ship roared like a beast, turned around, and lazily returned to the harbor, and the smoke gradually dissipated.
Fat Dragon finally climbed into the dense garbage pouring center point, and saw Li Yao sitting comfortably on a brand new garbage mountain, smiling at him.
"Damn it!" Fat Dragon's face trembled with anger, but he was quite entangled in his heart.
The garbagemountain Li Yao chose was quite clever. It wasn't the largest one, nor did it seem to be the richest in resources. There were dozens of other garbage mountains scattered around, all containing valuable scrapped magical treasures. And the garbage bugs were not just their two groups...
If they continued to tangle with Li Yao here, they might be taken advantage of by other garbage bugs. Vaguely, the figures of other garbage bugs could be seen around, and cheers could be heard from several garbage mountains, as someone found something valuable.
Moreover...
Fat Dragon had heard that this brat Li Yao was a student at the well-known "Chi Xiao Sect Affiliated Second High School" in Fuguo City. Chi Xiao Sect is a powerful sect in the southern part of the Federation, with strong strength and many experts.
Although Li Yao may not have learned any real skills, he is not someone who can be dealt with in a few punches. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to survive alone in the magical treasure cemetery for more than ten years, still lively and active, and even earned the nickname "Vulture"!
But if he just left like this, where would his face be? His nose was still embedded in the flesh!
While he was entangled in his thoughts, a gust of wind passed by, and Fat Dragon instinctively reached out and caught something cold in his hand. It was a scrapped crystal brain the size of a fist.
Li Yao said with a smile: "Fat Dragon, we are all here to make a living. It's not like I killed your father last time when I snatched a 'Starlight' level crystal brain from you. Is it really necessary to be so relentless? Look, I just found a 'Qinglongmen' made 'Snapdragon 17' type crystal brain, the most advanced model, which can calculate more than five thousand thoughts per second. Although it's burnt out, I estimate it can still be sold for three to four thousand dollars. Let's call it my respect for you, Fat Dragon, and let's call it even, how about that?"
"You..." Fat Dragon didn't expect Li Yao to do this, and he was stunned for a moment, scratching his face in disbelief.
"Hey, look over there, the people from 'Wild Wolf Gang' are coming. They are not like me, a lone wanderer. They will definitely clean up dozens of garbage mountains and won't leave you a single screw!" Li Yao pointed to the west.
Fat Dragon's face changed, and after observing for a long time, he finally made up his mind, gave Li Yao a thumbs-up, and squeezed out a sentence:
"Good kid, you have a set! Let's go, hurry up and sweep the goods!"
A group of garbage bugs scattered and rushed to the garbage mountains in all directions.
"Phew..."
Li Yao let out a long breath, sat down on the garbage pile, and big sweat drops rolled down his forehead. His smiling face instantly turned sad.
"Damn fat guy, the 'Snapdragon' level crystal brain I found so hard was just given to you for free!"
"You wait, is it so easy to take my things, 'Vulture Li Yao'? One day, you will have to return what you took from me, and you will have to pay interest, calculated at usurious rates, and let you know why everyone calls me 'the vulture who is willing to risk his life for money'!"
"No, I must speed up. Those bastards from 'Wild Wolf Gang' are even more unreasonable than Fat Dragon!"
Li Yao pulled off his goggles, hung them around his neck, rubbed his hands, his eyes shining, licked his lips, and plunged into the newly made garbage pile!