Ten thousand I am across the heavens

Mo Chengzi always harbored rather absurd fantasies about the future. Especially since he had lived three lifetimes in a row, his imagination about his situation became even more absurd, though his conjectures were remarkably close to reality. But he quickly abandoned his fantasies and simply focused on living earnestly in this world.

Whether my guess is correct or not, guessing is meaningless.

After a busy half-day, rummaging through the garbage, I found more than 1000 yuan, which was enough to break even, but soon the system issued another task.

"Please search for at least 10kg of valuable trash immediately and sell it to a recycling station. The value of the recycled trash must not be less than fifty yuan."

"What will happen if I don't collect them? Will I be eliminated if I don't complete the mission?" Mo Chengzi was a little worried that he had encountered one of those ridiculous systems from a literary work. However, he soon discovered that the situation was not as bad as he had imagined.

"If the user fails to complete the system task, the system will no longer provide services to the user and will automatically delete the user's memory of the system."

"I see. It seems the punishment isn't too severe. But this system does seem to be somewhat useful. Having over 1000 yuan on hand at least solves my immediate problem. If the debt collectors come, I can barely manage to deal with them. The little money left might even be enough to buy medicine for class tomorrow."

I wonder if this system has any other capabilities. Based on the two functions just demonstrated, this system should have some other auxiliary abilities. These two functions seem to demonstrate the ability to collect data and perform big data analysis. To collect data on each person getting off the subway, it only requires modeling each person's movement patterns. People who frequently travel between certain locations tend to have fixed boarding and alighting station locations. Even for people going to less frequented places, their destination can be determined through data from their mobile devices, with a very high accuracy rate.

As for finding money, big data can be used to roughly determine where someone has lost money and pinpoint an area, making it highly likely that I can find money in that area.

If the system can truly do a lot at the data level, then there should be many more ways it can help me.

"Fire Seed System! Help me make money, let me see where your limits are!"

As he silently called upon his system, he also found several relatively intact plastic bags in the garbage heap. He rummaged through bottles and jars, picking out anything of value and putting it inside, intending to sell it to a recycling center later. He had originally planned to take this opportunity to recycle some recyclables to supplement his household income.

You can't forget your roots just because you found 1000 yuan. You should save where you should and spend where you should.

The tasks given by the system made him think of more things. Picking up trash and recycling waste seemed like a good excuse for finding the money. Because of his impoverished life, he had no choice but to pick up trash, and finding money in the process wasn't that unbelievable. Even if someone were interested in investigating, it would be difficult to find out anything about it.

Mo Chengzi inherited the original memories and knew which items were valuable. After searching through the items, he collected the valuable ones and soon sent them to the recycling station.

The scrap metal recycling station was actually built right next to the landfill. Many impoverished people lived off this mountain of garbage. The so-called landfill was already piled high with trash, some reaching thousands of meters in height. The compacted garbage, repeatedly crushed by trucks, had formed a winding mountain road. The mountain was teeming with scavengers, using the cheapest prosthetics, digging and rummaging through the garbage for anything of value. Smoke could be seen rising from the garbage mountain everywhere; scavengers were burning copper wires coated with paint or circuit boards they had collected to recover the metals.

Within a 1km radius of the garbage mountain, one can smell a strong, pungent odor, a mixture of burning and rotting smells.

Most of the scavengers here wear heavy gas masks, but the owner of the scrap yard doesn't. Compared to the scavengers, he's much better off; his lungs have been replaced with artificial ones. Not only can he breathe through his nose and mouth, but his lungs can also open up to create ventilation grilles like shark gills. This allows for more efficient breathing and filters out impurities from the air by constantly changing the filters.

To showcase his prosthetic lungs, the boss often goes shirtless, just to reveal the multicolored turbines shimmering between his ribs.

No, he genuinely thought it was cool. It was the cooling fan and the central turbine with LED lights that played advertisements as it rotated. It was a technology, not a particularly advanced special screen. It utilized the effect of human visual afterimages.

A high-speed rotating fan leaves an afterimage in a person's eyes, but if light is emitted at a regular frequency from the edge of each fan blade, regular text and animations can be displayed on the high-speed rotating fan blade.

At that moment, an advertisement was playing on a loop on those fans: "Military technology, overcoming the defects of incomplete evolution! Experience the exhilaration of holding your breath!"

Mo Chengzi stared at the advertisement, which made him feel dizzy. He felt that these people had gone mad.

The shop owner didn't waste any words with him. He pointed to the scale next to him and told him to put the trash he had collected on it. The trash poured out of the plastic bag quickly separated into several piles of different densities under the high-speed vibration of the electronic scale, separating the metal and plastic items.

"Sixty-one, the money has been transferred to you. Pick up more next time and come find me. This little bit of stuff is too much for me to even turn on my phone."

After finishing his sentence, the boss threw the collected trash into the recycling truck and then hurried to serve the next person. Just as he had said, the others had collected far more stuff; they were carrying huge sacks of it – the difference in quantity between the two groups was significant.

After receiving the money, Mo Chengzi saw his own progress. The task he had accepted was marked as completed, but there were no rewards.

"This cheat is poorly designed. There's no reward or punishment system. How are users motivated? But logically speaking, if you want to maintain maximum stealth, it's indeed not convenient to add a punishment system."

On his way home, he kept fiddling with his newly acquired system, trying to see if it had any other functions.

On the way home, the system did indeed activate some new functions, such as an automatic navigation system and an automatic shortcut system. The terrain of the lower city is intricate and complex; relying solely on the official map often leads to long detours. Most of the buildings here are constructed from discarded shipping containers, like building blocks. Thanks to advancements in materials science, even if the buildings are crooked and uneven, they generally won't collapse. This makes the roads extremely rugged, sometimes requiring climbing several stories high and then rappelling down via cable car to bypass obstacles and quickly reach the destination.

Mo Chengzi found the automatic shortcut feature quite useful. He was only really familiar with the terrain around his home; he knew every path and all the trails in that area. But in other areas, he wasn't so knowledgeable. And the routes he was currently taking were clearly the ones delivery drivers desperately trying to find on time had to scramble and jump – records compiled after countless people had explored them.

Whether you're being hunted down for some crime or actually end up delivering food, this automatic shortcut system seems to have its merits.

"It seems that this system generates tasks and plugins based on my needs, and it doesn't seem to have any creativity itself. It can only help me by thinking of a way to make money and loading plugins on the spot according to my ideas."

"In that case, could I ask him to help me find some abandoned, unfinished buildings? Copper wire isn't cheap, so we should be able to make a lot of money by digging for copper wire there."

Thinking of this, he immediately asked the system, and the system began to load a new plugin. A moment later, a red notification flashed in front of him.

"User's combat power is insufficient, cheat loading failed. Please try a more secure cheat. Click here for details."

Mo Chengzi focused his mind on the details page and then saw the explanation given by the system.

"What? There's a dark network of wire-cutting in the lower city? There's a gang that specializes in this? Goodness, these guys know about any unfinished housing projects the moment they see them, and within a week, they've completely stripped the copper wires out of the site. The only housing projects these guys avoid are ones they can't afford to mess with. No wonder the system said the risk level was too high."

"Damn it, what other way is there to make money safely and quickly? Even if I'm lucky and find 1000 yuan a day, it's not enough to live on. Besides, luck can't last forever. The efficiency of finding money will decrease as I use it more often. After all, the number of easily found, large amounts of lost currency is limited; it's accumulated over many years, and every time I find it, it's one less."

Mo Chengzi then inquired with the system about the risks of selling pirated videos or counterfeit medicines. The answer was always the same: his current combat strength was insufficient. He was advised against participating in such activities. In this world, everything revolves around money. Therefore, things like copyright are extremely important. The penalties for infringing on copyrights are also quite severe.

Mo Chengzi did try to become a copyist, but he quickly gave up. The main reason was the different cultural background. The works he remembered would likely not be suitable for this world, since the people here had a distorted way of thinking, and even among the poor, there were quite a few who were not normal.

However, after trying for a while, he wasn't entirely without success, because after his continuous attempts, the system generated a new cheat for him. It wasn't a money-making cheat, but a super debt-avoidance system.

It allows for real-time monitoring of the location of debt collection agency members. It enables immediate police alerts when the debt collectors approach your home and also allows you to avoid them.

In order to enable the system to function properly, he also awakened the homelessness system.

It sounds like a pretty pathetic system function. The homeless system can help him find the nearest underpass, unfinished building, unattended ATM, underground parking lot, 24-hour shopping mall, hospital, and any other place where he can make do for the night with just one click.

This displays all nearby public restrooms and free public power outlets. It ensures he can still wash and charge his devices even when homeless, and provides a place to hide his belongings, guaranteeing he won't have to worry about thieves or scavengers taking them for a considerable period.

Mo Chengzi was truly impressed by the system. He had originally intended to pay off his rent debts, but now that he had awakened this homeless system, it would be a waste not to make use of it. The system detected a suitable underpass not far from his school, in the Upper City district. Even in the Upper City district, there were always abandoned, unfinished buildings.

The system helped him assess the probability of getting a good night's sleep in different shopping malls, subways, hospitals, and other places, and then selected the most suitable place to fall asleep immediately.

It also allows him to move around frequently, sleeping in a different place every day without being chased away by those around him who might figure out his routine. It's practically a top-tier system for homeless people.

The biggest advantage of doing this is that once the debt collection company comes knocking, there's no risk of them running away. They have no idea where he lives, so they can't vandalize his place with paint. As for the debt collection company going to the school, that's not a concern in the short term. Most of the lenders willing to give money to someone as poor as him are small platforms with very limited loan amounts, and it's uncertain how long these small companies will survive. If they go bankrupt, he might not even have to repay the money. Although it will affect his credit rating to some extent, owing hundreds of thousands of yuan already puts his credit rating in the red. If he were to honestly repay the money, he'd have to work for years without eating or drinking; for now, he can only delay.

After he had mostly tidied up all the bottles and jars in his house and hidden them in the basement of an unfinished building, he found a shopping mall where he could mooch off customers for the night. However, he discovered that a new system had activated: a free tasting system. This system could find all the businesses within a 5km radius offering free samples and then filter out the best ones in terms of taste and quantity of samples. So, even his food problem was solved! The system even knew to avoid over-recommending the same place within three days.

This bizarre, ghostly system didn't give him many opportunities to make money. However, it maximized his money-saving abilities. Mo Chengzi felt this thing shouldn't be called the "Fire Seed System," but rather the "Max-Level Homeless System."

"The user requested a name change; multiple system functions have now been merged into the folder 'Vagabond's Sacred Body'."

Mo Chengzi: ""

[To be continued]

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