Picking Up Trash Made People Rich (v1c2)
It was different from the dirty, messy garbage dump that Ye Sheng remembered. Food was too precious in the wasteland era. Even the powerful people in the central area wouldn’t throw away food as rubbish.
There was no unpleasant smell of rotting food or flies buzzing everywhere. There were only some junk items in the garbage dump, such as discarded scrap copper and iron, various broken utensils, and occasionally the bones of polluted creatures.
The garbage dump was large enough to accommodate the entire base's garbage, but it was not enough for the large crowd of scavengers and the few amount of valuable stuff. As soon as the gate of the garbage dump opened, tens of thousands of people from the mitigation zone rushed in.
They started picking up rubbish while competing with each other.
Zhou Lin, who was standing next to Ye Sheng, rolled up her sleeves and didn’t bother to talk anymore. She aimed at one direction and ran off, determined to find something good.
Ye Sheng had never seen such a big scene before. She was stunned for a moment, then snapped out of it and stopped standing still.
Following Zhou Lin's lead, she found a place with fewer people and began to pick and choose.
Ye Sheng didn't know much about this world, but she had a magical detection machine... The detection machine was distributed free of charge by the base. If she lost it, she could apply for a replacement.
The detection machine was a small, palm-sized device, like a smaller version of the supermarket cashier's QR code scanner. She held it in her hand and pointed it at the thing she wanted to detect, and she could get specific information with a single scan.
'Beep~Polluted cocoon detected! '
'Beep~Damaged green sandalwood detected'
'Beep~ Bones of polluted creatures detected! '
Ye Sheng tried hard to sort through the garbage, hoping to find something that could be exchanged for credits, but she had little luck.
Before coming, Zhou Lin had asked her to look for more scrap and pieces, maybe she could exchange them for a credit.
As for the rest, she could only try her luck.
Fortunately, other than the strange things, there were also some things that Ye Sheng recognized.
Throwing away the broken glass, Ye Sheng put a wire into a simple patched shoulder bag and continued searching.
"Haha, I found a silver spoon!!!"
"Damn it, some wicked guy threw a nail and it pierced me to death!"
“Oh my gosh, this cotton is so soft!!!”
The people in the mitigation zone were at the bottom of the slums and lacked everything. Therefore, some garbage was not worth exchanging for many credits, so they might as well keep it for themselves.
Ye Sheng looked at the person who picked up the silver spoon with envy. Although silver items were not as valuable as gold, they could still be exchanged for a few credits in the swap shop.
A bottle of nutrient solution cost 3 credits.
She had to pick up more garbage today to avoid starving to death! ! !
Ye Sheng silently encouraged herself and began to diligently use the detector to scan various areas. She was so busy that she didn't even raise her head, so she didn't notice that the further she walked in, the fewer people there were around her.
Some people nearby even looked at Ye Sheng like a fool.
Even a three-year-old child in the mitigation area knew that wood and glass were not valuable. There was a lot of discarded wood in the area where Ye Sheng was. It was not worth wasting time here.
The garbage dump didn't specifically classify garbage, but if a company or a mercenary group dumped a large amount of garbage, there would be a large area filled with the same garbage.
For example, the garbage area that Ye Sheng chose was the substandard products and damaged raw materials thrown away by a furniture company.
To prevent future disputes, these unqualified furniture pieces were dismantled before being thrown away as garbage. They were completely unrecognizable.
Even if someone picked them up and took them home, they could only use them as firewood to keep warm.
But in the wilderness, highly radioactive plants polluted by the poisonous fog grew extremely fast, and various mercenary groups had to clean them up regularly to prevent them from becoming towering trees and attracting polluted creatures.
If anyone wanted firewood, they could just get it in the wilderness. Why bother looking for it in the garbage dump?
Ye Sheng, who had just arrived in this world had barely the knowledge of three years old, was panting and carrying the wood. As she walked deeper in, she didn't even use the detector. It was all wood and there was no need to inspect it.
Along the way, she also saw some small pieces of furniture that had been dismantled, and they might be restored by assembling them.
But Ye Sheng, who had been starving for two days, didn't have the strength to move the pile of wood home, let alone assemble it. She tried to find only lighter garbage to avoid being unable to carry it.
But she moved many pieces of wood and found nothing.
Ye Sheng didn't give up, though. She identified this area and continued to walk inside, rummaging around.
Until everyone around her left for other places, she was the only one who stubbornly kept walking inside.
After lifting a piece of wood that was half his height, Ye Sheng felt a headache looking at the pile of broken wood. She felt that she might develop a phobia of wood in the future.
She muttered silently, moving her hands slowly and searching mechanically.
At that moment, a small broken wooden box appeared among the broken wood. Ye Sheng raised her hand to open it casually, and saw that it contained six tubes of green liquid! ! !
!!!∑(ﾟДﾟノ)ノ
Although Ye Sheng was not familiar with anything else, she still remembered the nutrient solution!
Hunger made her swallow hard, a look of longing on his face, but she thought in her heart that she should be more cautious.
She didn't know anything about this strange wasteland world. If these were not nutrient solutions, but poisons, she would be doomed!
Luckily, she had a detector in his hand.
'Beep~ Nutrient solution (normal) detected! '
'Thank God, it was really nutrient solution! ! !'
Ye Sheng took back the detector that was aimed at the nutrient solution, then impatiently picked up a tube, pulled out the cap, raised her head, and drank the whole bottle of nutrient solution in one gulp.
Finally, her stomach stopped growling from hunger, and her hands and feet regained their strength!
Ye Sheng, who was full, didn't care whether it was dirty or not, and sat down on the ground. She almost cried with joy, her eyes wet. At the same time, she didn't forget to pick up the small wooden box with a solemn expression and poured out all the remaining five nutrient solutions. She stowed them away in the shoulder bag compartment.
At least she wouldn't have to go hungry for the next five days.
'Sure enough, picking up trash made people rich! ! !'
The nutrient solution dhe drank took effect quickly, and Ye Sheng felt a surge of energy in her body. She could continue to rummage through the garbage for a day... Unfortunately, the destruction setting of the garbage dump was about to be activated at dawn.
If she stayed in the garbage dump, she would be destroyed as garbage when the time came.
Knowing that time was running out, Ye Sheng didn't rest for too long and continued to turn over the wood with great motivation, hoping to find other good things.
Finding the nutrient solution was a stroke of luck, but there were only five bottles left. Based on a thirty-day month, she would still starve for twenty-five days in the future.
The dump was only open once a month.
If she couldn't pick up valuable garbage to exchange for credit points this time, Ye Sheng would have to go to the wilderness to look for edible low-radiation plants.
She shuddered at the thought of her parents being killed by polluted creatures in the wilderness. She would avoid going there if she could.
No matter how unsafe the mitigation zone was, the city wall next to the safe zone was much stronger than the dangerous wilderness.
But it wasn't that Ye Sheng didn't want to go. If she didn't find anything and became hungry in future she had to go for survival.
So she could only pray in her heart for something good.
With that in mind, she searched for a large piece of wood, hoping to find something hidden underneath and get lucky again.
Maybe god heard her silent hope. When she lifted the wooden board again, it was finally not wood, but...
A woman covered in blood.
Even with blood on her face and her eyes closed, she couldn't conceal her beautiful features. She was a very beautiful woman!