The Most Powerful Brain in the Interstellar Space

Chapter 306 Secondhand Goods

After the conversation ended, Jiang Hui was busy with something again, working late into the night. Only after emerging from the mental space did she wash up and go to sleep, and another dreamless night passed.

She woke up naturally the next day, and leisurely packed her things before navigating to the agreed meeting point.

They thought she had arrived long ago, but when she arrived, the other four people all looked at her, as if they had been there for a while.

Jiang Hui was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but check the time on her personal terminal. Was she late?
Hillman came up to Jiang Hui and patted him on the shoulder: "You're not late, we're the ones who are early."

He was the first one to arrive.

Hillman was young, and his parents were busy for various reasons when he was young, so they didn't have time to take care of him. His childhood was quite lonely, and he rarely had contact with peers from the outside world. His siblings were also far away in the central star system, so he never had any childhood friends.

Unexpectedly, entering the intermediate academy led to him making quite a few friends. This was the first time he had gone out with classmates his own age. Although he appeared calm in the virtual machine, he was overjoyed after the conversation ended and chatted on and on with his father, who rarely had time to relax at home.

Then, early this morning, I asked my family to take me out, and I wandered around the area by myself. Then I ran into Zhou Xiuwen and Clarence, who had also arrived early.

Huan Xian didn't arrive early; he arrived a little earlier than Jiang Hui, so Jiang Hui became the last one to arrive.

Knowing that he wasn't late, Jiang Hui breathed a sigh of relief and casually asked if the others had eaten breakfast.

Since they had already eaten breakfast, even though it was still a little early, they didn't need to linger there. They went straight to the recycling center and could browse around for a while longer.

The "Rich or Poor" secondhand market is located on a relatively quiet street within the city's Second Ring Road. Yes, "relatively quiet" is only relative to the bustling area of ​​the Second Ring Road.

From Jiang Hui's perspective, this secondhand market was truly enormous. To be honest, the libraries and large shopping malls she'd been to before didn't seem nearly as big, and some weren't even as tall. If she hadn't known it was a secondhand recycling center, she would have thought it was some rather old-fashioned shopping mall.

The group was quite efficient, and the group followed the team into the shop, which looked rather unremarkable from the outside.

Surprisingly, although it looked unremarkable and drab on the outside, it was quite lively inside.

The first floor alone is filled with dazzling shelves of goods, all neatly arranged. There are many people, many things, a riot of colors, and the air is filled with the cacophony of voices—it's so lively that it's hard to take it all in.

"This..." Jiang Hui was somewhat taken aback.

Is secondhand goods in the interstellar area really that popular? It seems even more bustling than the shopping malls. She had previously visited a large offline shopping mall, which was quite deserted, leading her to believe that the convenience of shopping in the interstellar area meant everyone was completing all the steps online. She hadn't expected the secondhand recycling center to be so lively; it felt more bustling than many other places within the city's second ring road.

"The official website says today is a special sale. Most of the items on the first floor are everyday items that are 80-90% new, and they are all 50% off, so the prices are quite favorable."

The items were almost brand new, half price—no wonder there were so many people. Jiang Hui glanced at the entire row of shelves; she even suspected that many of the items were practically brand new and hadn't been used much. The second floor was almost entirely filled with large items and bulky home furnishings, which none of the group was interested in.

The third floor was filled with all sorts of odds and ends, and there were many people there, so the group simply skipped it.

Finally, they arrived at the fourth floor, where the group almost stopped. Half of the space was filled with both new and used books; it was a clearance sale of used books.

Although there were still many people, there were also many books. These books weren't just displayed on shelves; many were scattered on the floor, spread out on large sheets of cloth, piled up in huge stacks, like free waste paper. Many people would glance at them, tossing those that interested into their baskets, and quickly moving on from those that weren't.

Seeing Zhou Xiuwen walk inside without hesitation, Jiang Hui knew that this was probably the interesting place he was referring to. She was right about him; he was a book lover who couldn't resist books.

Clarence followed closely behind.

However, Jiang Hui and the others didn't make a decision immediately. Since they had found the places they wanted to visit, there was no need for them to stay together; they could go their separate ways. The remaining people nodded to each other and dispersed.

Jiang Hui hesitated for a moment. She was actually quite interested in this place, but she hadn't forgotten her main purpose for coming here.

This recycling center has dozens of floors, each with two or three themes, and is filled with things; you could spend eight or ten days exploring it all.

Since it was her first time there and she had specific things she wanted to buy, she naturally went straight for her first target.

When Jiang Hui came in, he glanced at the index board in front of him and seemed to remember that the mecha-related floors were marked on the seventh to ninth floors, so he simply took the elevator straight to the seventh floor.

The seventh floor was still crowded, or rather, there was no place with few people. Jiang Hui was already somewhat used to this kind of crowd, so she squeezed through the throng to look at the things.

After looking around for a while, Jiang Hui finally realized that there was absolutely no order in this place. A bunch of things were arranged indiscriminately, regardless of their purpose or condition. Some were grouped together by size, others by general purpose, and most were just a jumbled mess on the ground, a chaotic jumble of everything.

Jiang Hui swore that if it weren't for so many people carefully selecting items here, she would have thought it was some kind of massive garbage dump.

Even though it's so chaotic, the recycling center doesn't seem worried about customers taking advantage of the chaos to steal, because this place prohibits the use of storage items like spatial buttons.

You can take things out of the space, but you can't put them back in. Therefore, customers who come here to buy things have to use the recycling bins provided. Each bin costs 2.5 interstellar coins to use, and considering the flow of people, they can make a considerable amount of money just from these fees every day. They're quite shrewd at making money.
Jiang Hui wasn't used to it at first, but later she learned to sit shoulder to shoulder with others and gradually became immersed in it, picking out quite a few strange things.

There's this... There's even this... Is it really this cheap?... This thing... This seems to work too... Isn't this the one she was looking for?
Oh, this damn recycling center is really amazing.

(End of this chapter)