Chapter Ninety-One: The Bronze Swamp
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However, while the large number of magical items brings convenience to people's lives, they also produce more waste, garbage and environmental pollution.
Because magic items still have a lot of magic power left after they are scrapped, and the various radiation they produce will cause great damage to the environment, so the disposal of these magical garbage has become a very tricky matter.
In this regard, the Worsted Federation has opened up a number of special waste treatment bases for these special "garbage" for unified destruction.
The No. 81 Special Waste Treatment Site, also known as the Blue Copper Marsh, is located on the outskirts of the northern border town of Fort Saint-Na, and due to its special environment, it is the largest special waste treatment site in the Federation.
Beneath the dim sky, a swamp polluted to a blue-bronze color.
Here, countless magical items are crammed into a mountain of garbage, and the various radiation generated by the waste products has turned this place into a forbidden area for life.
……
Deep underground in the middle of the swamp, there was a piece of ice that exuded an icy blue cold aura that was firmly sealed within a radius of a kilometer by some kind of magic circle.
Suddenly, bursts of rhythmic light emanated from this eternal ice, like human breath.
“……%#&%¥*&……”
“…… The symbiotic relationship has been established......"
“…… The host has completed the regularization transformation, and the remaining energy is insufficient......"
“…… Data information is being matched......"
“…… In order to facilitate the host's comprehension and operation, the 'Scepter of Truth' is converted into a game mode based on the host's memory......"
“…… After the data information matching is completed, the memory transmission starts to ......"
“…… Drip! Game mode activates and the host begins to recover......"
“……”
The dark blue ice in the depths of the earth gradually melted, revealing the figure of a young man.
"I ...... Not dead? ”
"I ...... Be...... Who? ”
"Weiko? Victor? ”
"I remembered......"
"My name is Victor Tisrel, I'm a time-traveler, I'm a mage!"
“……”
Scenes flashed through Victor's mind, and all the information about the "Scepter of Truth" flooded into his mind.
"I see...... I have formed a symbiotic relationship with the Scepter of Truth! ”
Victor stiffened his arm and rubbed his still dizzy mind with his fingers, and it took a while for him to return to normal.
"Thirty thousand years have passed like this?" Victor looked at the surrounding environment with emotion, "Things are not people......"
"The World Outside...... What will it become? ”
After a slight hesitation, Victor walked out along the route he remembered.
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Jodi, only 16 years old, comes from a poor background as a "waste picker", a poor man who makes ends meet by picking up garbage.
In the afternoon of this day, Jody went to the periphery of the "blue copper swamp" as usual, waiting for the arrival of a new batch of "garbage".
Lurking behind a three-story mountain of garbage, Jody carefully observes the surroundings.
"It's hard to find a 'good place', but don't run into the 'Jackals' guys!"
Jody muttered as she waited for the arrival of the scrap disposal airship, the "garbage ship".
At this moment, the magic watch on Jody's right wrist, which he had obtained from scavenging, suddenly vibrate.
"It's coming!"
Jody's spirits lifted, and he checked the goggles on his head again, rubbing his hands.
With a low roar, five or six black dots slowly approached from the southwest-facing sky.
Soon, the shadows cast from the massive hull of the "junk boat" covered Jody's area, and the thrusters spewed out a powerful air stream from the bottom of the hull, stirring up clouds of smoke and dust.
The nearly 100-meter-long garbage boat was carved with dense runes, flickering with a glimmer of light. The hatch in the center of the belly of the huge hull slowly opened, and all kinds of magical waste spurted out and smashed into the ground.
Jodi, who had been prepared for a long time, lightly touched the rune on the side of the goggles and activated the small magic circle engraved on the goggles, and with a "brush" sound, the surface of the goggles glowed with a layer of crimson.
Under the infrared scanning, the "garbage boat" shrouded in smoke and dust is presented in a green pattern in Jody's field of vision.
"Scrap disposal airship No. 069? That's you! ”
Jordy, who has been living in the Copper Marsh since he was a child, knows every inch of land and every junk boat here, and the 069 garbage ship has been responsible for the disposal of waste in the 16th district of Fort Saint-Ne for the last few years.
The 16th arrondissement, also known as the Wakihach district, is located in the northeast of Saint-Nayburg and is the most luxurious and affluent district in the city. For waste pickers like Jodi, the garbage generated in the city is also the most valuable, and if a few worn-out magical items discarded by mages and wealthy people are found in the process of scavenging, maybe they won't have to worry about food and clothing for a few months.
"Rush!"
Jody flew out like a projectile and rushed towards the spot where the garbage ship 069 dumped the waste.
Walking through crumbling mountains of garbage and leaping over swamps bubbling with unknown gases, Jodi's "parkour"-like moves are so fluid that no one is there to watch them.
"Jodi! You little rabbit, let Lao Tzu meet you again! ”
At this moment, more than a dozen figures flashed from behind the garbage mountain on the left, and one of the leaders immediately scolded when he saw Jodi.
Where there are people, there is a conflict of interest, even in this "blue copper swamp". These scraps are rubbish for those who are high up and down, but for "waste pickers" like Jodi, they are the hope of survival!
"Pray, boy! Don't let Lao Tzu catch you, otherwise you will look good!! ”
The leader of the group of scavengers cursed and led his men towards the freshly baked garbage mountain.
"Damn! I've run into the 'Jackals' guy again......"
Jody's heart tightened, but his movements didn't slow down in the slightest.
The "Jackals" and their gang are the same identity as Jodi, they are all "waste pickers" who wander around the No. 81 Special Waste Treatment Base, and there are many disputes between the two sides over the garbage. Fortunately, Jody's luck has always been good, and he has never left any trace for "Jackal" and others to find his residence.
"Whoa!"
A mountain of garbage not far from Jody, Jackal, and the others collapsed under the influence of the air currents ejected from the "garbage boat".
This slowed down the pace of the jackal and the others, but Jody continued to rush towards the target without care.
"Whew! This little rabbit cub still wants money and death as always! ”
The jackal who stopped spitting fiercely at Jody's back, "Lao Tzu's life is very expensive, count your kid lucky!" ”
Before he could finish speaking, a huge explosion occurred in a garbage area next to Jodi, and all kinds of garbage rushed into the air like a volcanic eruption, and then fell.
The group of jackals were stunned and ran off into the distance, dodging the garbage that fell from mid-air.
"Wowhaha!"
The jackal who escaped suddenly burst into laughter, "You little rabbit, this time it should be over!" No one will snatch food from Lao Tzu anymore......"
On the other side, Jody, who was lying in the depression, also looked in front of him dumbfounded. In the pungent smoke and dust, a vague figure was standing quietly in the center of the explosion point.
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