Hong Yi likes to look up at the starry sky. The deep night and bright starlight can make people forget their worries for the time being, and can also fantasize about what you want but cannot get, or recall the beauty of the past. However, no matter how far the thoughts fly, there will be times when they return to reality.

The most important thing for a person is to live down-to-earth and look forward.

This is the survival experience summarized by Hong Yi. He took back his gaze from the sky and continued to look for useful materials in the pile of stinking garbage.

Now is the 73rd year of the New Era. More than 70 years ago, the human world suffered an unprecedented catastrophe. One night, countless meteorites falling from the sky broke the originally peaceful life of mankind. Meteorites shattered cities, roads, and bridges, and this was just the beginning of a real terrifying disaster.

Meteorites carry something, a virus, and after human infection, the body changes, and will become something else. Some creatures that originally exist only in human imagination and in myths are cruel, bloodthirsty, and have lost their original consciousness. This is the root of the catastrophe.

In the human textbooks of the new era, this virus is called "prototype", and the infected humans become mutants after mutating. For the past seventy years, humans have been competing with mutants for dominance on this planet.

All humans in the gathering place No. 7 know this knowledge, whether it is the human elite in the rich area or the working people in the slums. But for Hong Yi, who has never left Base No. 7, survival is whether he can find valuable things from the garbage dump every day to sell it. As for the terrifying variants mentioned in the book, it has little to do with Hong Yi.

Hong Yi is currently picking up garbage in an open-air garbage dump in a slum area in the outer slums.

These garbage are transported from the rich areas in the central urban area of ​​the gathering place and are temporarily piled up in the garbage dump. They will be taken away in the early morning. There are more than 100,000 people in the rich areas. The garbage generated every day is definitely a huge number. As a person living in the bottom of the slums, rummaging through the garbage dump for money is something he must do every day.

Some parts, rare metals, circuit boards and batteries that can be used, dirty but still worn clothes, toothbrushes, and even some expired medicines are Hong Yi’s goal as long as they are valuable. If you are lucky, you can get something that is of great significance to Hong Yi.

Relying on collecting garbage and selling garbage, Hong Yi can exchange some new coins every day, which may cost seven or eight yuan, and sometimes it costs a little more, but it will not exceed twenty yuan. Hong Yi saved up some of them, and the remaining money was only enough to buy a few dirty fried meat cakes from Master Tian in the slums to fill his stomach, or it was a little extravagant, spending a few more dollars to get a large bowl of hot meat dumplings in the small restaurant next door.

Thinking of food, Hong Yi felt his saliva overflowing from his mouth, and his empty stomach was burned by gastric juice, which made him feel extremely uncomfortable. At this time, he could only swallow his saliva and tighten the belt around his waist to resolve this crazy hunger.

At this time, Hong Yi touched the part connected to the back of his head and the spine. On the back of his head, several diamond-shaped metal pieces were inlaid up along the spine. At this moment, the indicator light on the metal pieces was turned off. This is the "Adminton" intelligent brain. Many humans in the new era have placed such technological items.

The value of the adjutant's intelligent brain is undoubtedly huge. In textbooks, it is an invention that can be connected to the human brain, thereby assisting in controlling the human body, stimulating the human body with special nerve signals, enhancing the body's strength, speed and reflex nerves, and even by stimulating a mysterious area of ​​the brain, humans have the power to control elements.

Simply put, a good adjutant's intelligence can turn an ordinary person into a superman. After importing some knowledge data, it can also make people become a learned scholar. When introducing combat programs, it can become a powerful warrior.

Most adjutants can strengthen the human body to some extent, delay the aging of body organs, and reduce dependence on ordinary food.

In the early stage of the catastrophe, humans retreated step by step under the attack of mutants. After the adjutant's intelligent brain was developed and used on a large scale, humans had time to breathe.

Hong Yi's adjutant's intelligence brain was implanted by his father when he was still alive. Hong Yi still remembered the incident that night very clearly. After implanting the adjutant's intelligence brain, his father left the gathering place and never came back, and disappeared from then on.

His adjutant's intelligence brain belongs to the earliest generation of products. He cannot absorb bioelectric energy from the inside of the human body to operate, but requires external batteries. However, with his father's disappearance, Hong Yi's originally rich life suddenly fell to the bottom. Not only was he driven out of the wealthy area, but his adjutant's intelligence brain also stopped working four years ago because he had no energy.

Even the earliest generation of products were very strong on the black market, but Hong Yi never thought of selling his adjutant's smart brain, because this was the only thing his father left him.

It represents a beautiful memory.

How can I sell my memories?

At this moment, the backpack was filled with all kinds of garbage. In addition, Hong Yi was carrying a tough sack in his hand to hold things. Today, he not only made a lot of valuable things, but also found some mechanical parts he needed.

In the past year, Hong Yi has been assembling his own mechanical dog.

The so-called mechanical dog is a kind of combat robot. There are competitions specifically for mechanical dogs in the gathering place. If you win, you can make a lot of money. This is a plan by Hong Yi, to assemble a mechanical dog with parts found in the garbage dump to participate in the black market competition, and then make money and change his destiny.

Now Hong Yi's mechanical dog has been assembled 90%, and only a few parts can be assembled.

At this time, something that Hong Yi swept into the corner of his eyes, looking for valuable items in the messy garbage mountain has become one of his abilities.

What Hong Yi saw was a ball of stuff stuck to the soil, mixed in a lot of garbage, only one corner was exposed, which was inconspicuous.

But even so, Hong Yi still recognized what this was.

"It's the adjutant's intelligence brain!" Hong Yi's heart jumped, and he immediately rushed over and carefully turned the thing out of the messy garbage dump.

This is an adjutant's intelligence brain, about fifteen centimeters long, with six metal pieces and many nerve tentacles.

After erasing the soil on it, Hong Yi confirmed his discovery.

Hong Yi has never seen the appearance and model of this adjutant, and it is estimated that it is a relatively new model. Even if it is damaged, it can be exchanged for a lot of money. If it is not damaged, then you can use it just in time.

Hong Yi was very excited. He had been picking up garbage in the garbage dump for several years. This was the first time he discovered the abandoned adjutant's intelligence brain. Not only himself, he had never heard anyone find it.

This shows how precious this thing is. Even in the wealthy area, it is an important object. The entire gathering place has very strict control over the adjutant's intelligence brain, because this thing is a strategic material.

I didn't expect that today I was so lucky that I picked up one for nothing.

Hong Yi was very excited and looked around and no one noticed it. Then he carefully hid the adjutant's intelligence brain in his pocket. With this great gain, he planned to end here today.

With a bulging backpack and a sack in his hand, Hong Yi skillfully ran down from the garbage mountain. Several people who were also picking up garbage all greeted Hong Yi when they saw it.

People who often pick up garbage know each other, and there are organizations. Different organizations only allow picking up garbage in specific areas. This is the rule of slums. Hong Yi is an old man who picks up garbage and is familiar with many people.

"Brother Yi, how is the harvest today?" A young man with dark skin, seventeen or eighteen years old, hurriedly came over when he saw Hong Yi walking down.

"It's okay, there is no one in the place above, you can pick it up!" After Hong Yi said that, the young man thanked him and climbed up excitedly.

Among these people who pick up garbage, Hong Yi is a celebrity and is also very respected. In the slums, if a person wants to gain respect, the only way is to show his force and tell others that he is not easy to mess with. In the past year, Hong Yi has defeated at least seven or eight people who compete with him for territory and won the priority and status of this garbage dump with his fists. Whenever he picks up garbage, no one is allowed to pick it up within 30 meters.

So even if the young man was one or two years older than Hong Yi, he was respectful in front of Hong Yi.

Not to mention the dark boy who was excited to rush to the garbage dump, Hong Yi left the garbage dump with his spoils, and walked around and arrived at an alley in the slums.

This is the closest "commercial street", but even so, there are only a few lights, most of which are lit torches for lighting.

Unlike rich areas, the electricity supply in slums is very tight. At night, the slums that accommodate millions of slums are basically dark from a distance.

Some people on this street specialize in purchasing things found in the garbage dump. Hong Yi knew a dealer who bought garbage, and the other party was called Mad Dog.

The mad dog's surname is Zhang, a man in his twenties. His right hand was cut off a few years ago and almost died at that time. However, when he appeared again a few days later, the broken right hand had been replaced by a robotic arm. He killed the enemy and removed the enemy from the other party's family. When he was killed, he was like a madman, so the name suddenly started to be called out.

In this area, everyone knows about mad dogs.

Hong Yi and Mad Dog have known each other for several years. When Hong Yi was driven out of the rich area, it was Mad Dog who helped him. At that time, Mad Dog was not a mad Dog, and the two had a good relationship with each other was similar to their own brothers. However, few people knew that when the mad Dog was cut off by someone, Hong Yi secretly dragged him back, cured him from the injury and stopped bleeding, and installed an abandoned robotic arm. A few days later, Mad Dog killed his enemy's family.

But just after that night, Hong Yi and Mad Dog parted ways and went their separate ways. The reason was that Mad Dog also killed his opponent's son who had just turned six.

Hong Yi felt that seeking revenge would not be as guilty as his family, let alone a child. The mad dog said that if the grass is cut, the roots will not be eradicated, and the spring breeze will give birth again.

So the two who were as close as brothers had a big quarrel and broke up from then on, and they said they were different and did not plan to work together.

Later, Mad Dog joined a gang in the slums and relied on metal arms and a crazy ruthless spirit to become a small leader, responsible for the acquisition of this piece of garbage. Hong Yi still lived a life of picking up garbage. When he got the garbage, he went to Mad Dog to sell it, but he didn't say much, just like a stranger.

The Mad Dog's shop is not big, and there are two strong men sitting against the wall at the door. After seeing Hong Yi, they ignored it because Hong Yi comes to sell garbage every day and is already very familiar with it. Or the Mad Dog has given it specifically, so they did not interrogate it.

After entering the shop, a guy wearing a ragged vest and like a monkey was lying on the table and dozing off. The mad dog was not there. He should have been sleeping behind the shop. Hong Yi came when he was looking for the mad dog to be away.

He doesn't want to see a mad dog.

Hong Yi put the sack in his hand on the counter with a bang, making a sound. The thin guy who was sleeping soundly was awakened and was about to scold him, but when he saw that it was Hong Yi, he swallowed it back immediately and changed into a smile.

"Isn't this Brother Yi? Have you made good things again?"

This thin guy is the subordinate of Mad Dog and has been with Mad Dog for several years. He knows that Hong Yi has a different relationship with Mad Dog, so although Hong Yi is younger than him, he is also the eldest brother and the shorter brother, and he is very enthusiastic.

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