Chapter 1 Scavenging for Goldfingers
It's dog days, and it's the hottest days of summer.
The sky was clear and cloudy, except for a huge fireball hanging high above the sky.
The blazing light slowly shimmered down, shining brightly on the ruins above the ground below.
It was an ordinary, very special ruin.
Usually because this ruin is just a place to store waste, and it has never been visited by anyone.
As for why it is special, it is because the items stored in this ruin are not useless garbage or the like, but the remains of mecha more than seven or eight meters high.
All mechs are made of special alloys, and under the blazing light, the whole body takes on an exceptionally bright silver-white color.
Although the mecha remains look very technological, the metal collects heat and conducts heat, and the mecha remains are piled up together, as if the temperature in the ruins here is much higher than in other places.
Even the air seemed to freeze because of this, and there was not the slightest breeze blowing.
"Phew!"
"Phew!"
"Phew!"
……
The sound of continuous banging came from the ruins.
Looking for prestige, I saw that in the depths of countless mecha wreckage, there was a young man in his twenties, shirtless, sweating like rain and hitting the core of a mecha wreckage with a hammer.
This fist-sized diamond-shaped crystal was inlaid there, and it should have been especially important to the young man.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for that young man to be busy on the hot wreckage of the mecha in such a scorching heat.
The young man's face looked rather dark, and although the muscles of his body were not very strong, they were much more burly than ordinary people.
In particular, his long thick arms, with knotted muscles, seemed to have been formed by long hours of labor.
"Click!"
With the continuous beating of the hammer in the man's hand, a crisp cracking sound suddenly sounded.
Immediately after, the diamond-shaped crystal piece immediately fell off the wreckage of the mecha and was tightly held in the palm of his hand.
"Whew!"
The man wiped his sweat from his head, sighed with a long sigh of relief, "His grandmother's, I've been in this ghost place for more than half a year, and I'm finally going to get together the energy blocks......"
As he spoke, the man directly kicked the diamond-shaped crystal into his trouser pocket, and at the same time sat down on top of the mecha wreckage, slowly lying down, and recovering the physical strength he had consumed before.
His name is Zhou Chen, and he came to this ruin last winter.
To be precise, I should have come to this unknown world last winter.
Zhou Chen originally lived in a harmonious, prosperous, democratic, and free country, even if it was just an ordinary Shengdou small people, but he was not dissatisfied with his life.
One night last winter, however, all of a sudden, it all changed dramatically.
That night, Zhou Chen was leaning against the window to look at the stars, when suddenly a bright meteor crossed the sky.
At that time, Zhou Chen was still secretly happy and very lucky to see the meteor, but who knew that when the meteor disappeared, he immediately fell into a coma with black eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, Zhou Chen was directly frozen awake, and the originally hot home had been replaced by extremely cold snow since I don't know when.
Although he woke up, Zhou Chen's body was directly frozen, and he couldn't get up from the snow at all.
Zhou Chen was only wearing a very thin pajamas, how could he be able to withstand the bone-chilling cold?
Slowly, it didn't take long for Zhou Chen to fall into a frozen coma again.
If it weren't for a passing old man who found Zhou Chen, there was a chance that he would have been frozen to death in the ice and snow.
The old man was kind-hearted, and without saying a word, he immediately carried Zhou Chen back home from the snow.
It was boiling the hot soup to ward off the cold, and it was increasing the temperature in the house, and the old man was busy for a while, which made Zhou Chen wake up again.
After Zhou Chen's sanity came to his senses, he was ready to call the police as soon as possible to see who was tossing him so much regardless of his life.
But at that time, Zhou Chen didn't have any energy to do it at all, and he couldn't even open his mouth to thank the old man who saved him.
So Zhou Chen finally had no choice but to give up the idea of calling the police, and planned to rest for one night and wait until the next day.
However, when Zhou Chen woke up, he no longer dared to have the slightest idea of calling the police, he didn't even dare to communicate with the old man who saved him, he could only pretend to be ignorant with lost memory.
Because after Zhou Chen was completely sober, he seemed to find that the place where he was was no longer the original world.
The wreckage of the tattered mecha outside the room has completely explained all this.
Although the country where Zhou Chen grew up was prosperous and powerful, technology had never developed to the extent that it could build mechas.
The most important thing is that Zhou Chen found that there was an extra thing inside his body.
As long as ordinary people close their eyes, then there will inevitably be darkness in front of them, but Zhou Chen is completely different, when he closes his eyes, there is a vast and vast star map in front of him.
It was like the starry sky at night, but all the stars were dark and dark.
At this time, Zhou Chen still didn't understand what the initiator who brought him to this unknown world was.
But there is one thing that makes Zhou Chen very puzzled, he just saw a meteor that night, and he was not directly hit by a meteor, how could this star map send him to this unknown world?
To be honest, although Zhou Chen has also envied the predecessors of those traversers in countless novels, this does not mean that he can accept this kind of thing happening to him.
Aside from the rest, identity alone is unavoidable, indispensable, and the most critical and important place.
With the wreckage of those mechas, the world Zhou Chen is in now must be a world with very advanced technology.
In such a world, the hukou system is probably already perfect.
For example, an unidentified black household like Zhou Chen suddenly appeared, how could the officials in this world sit idly by?
So when Zhou Chen came to his senses completely, he immediately disguised himself as an ignorant appearance of memory loss.
In any case, it is better to be able to cover up for a day now than to be directly arrested by the officials of this world.
Fortunately, the old man who saved Zhou Chen was not a troubled person, and after asking Zhou Chen once to no avail, he didn't continue to ask.
Coincidentally, the old man has the same surname as Zhou Chen, and his name is unknown, so he asked Zhou Chen to call him Old Man Zhou, who is the caretaker in this ruin, without a wife and children, alone.
In addition, this ruin is in an inaccessible wilderness, except for the official personnel who transport the mecha wreckage to this ruin and regularly smelt the mecha wreckage, no one else will set foot in this ruin at all.
If Zhou Chen can stay in this ruin, he will be able to make this place a little more popular, which makes Old Man Zhou's heart a lot happier.
So from that time on, Zhou Chen stayed in this ruin, helping Old Man Zhou guard the mecha wreckage piled up here.
Winter goes to spring, this look, Zhou Chen has seen the summer of this year from last year's cold winter.
Even if Zhou Chen's identity has not been exposed, or that Old Man Zhou deliberately ignored this point and did not explore Zhou Chen's true origin.
But after all, this has always been a fatal flaw in Zhou Chen, and he has always been trying to find a way to make up for it.
Zhou Chen, who came to this unknown world alone, relied only on the mysterious star map.
When the mysterious star map was discovered for the first time, the star map fed back a message to Zhou Chen, that is, the energy was missing and could not be activated!
Although Zhou Chen didn't know what the effect of the star map would be after it was successfully activated.
However, just by virtue of the fact that that the star map could send him to this world, Zhou Chen would do his best to replenish the energy of the star map and activate the star map anyway.
However, all the energy that Zhou Chen found was not accepted by the star map, and none of the kinetic energy, thermal energy, etc. were feasible.
Thinking about it, the energy that Zhou Chen can access is because the level is very low.
Zhou Chen, who almost broke his head, even directly touched the power supply with his body, ready to try whether the electric energy was feasible.
But even so, the mysterious star map still did not return a single bit of information, but Zhou Chen himself was almost electrocuted.
If it weren't for the fact that the protection measures in the circuit were in place, and Zhou Chen had just been electrocuted, he would have disconnected by himself at the moment when he was electrocuted, let alone activating the star map, and it was uncertain whether he would be alive or not.
Just when Zhou Chen was racking his brains and meditating, a chance discovery made Zhou Chen's mind flash.
At night, there was a faint glimmer of light on the diamond-shaped crystals embedded in the chests of some mecha wreckage.
This suddenly made Zhou Chen suddenly realize that a crystal block that was only the size of a finger's belly could supply the energy needed by the mecha, and the energy level contained in this crystal must not be low.
Without any hesitation or hesitation, Zhou Chen immediately set out to try it to see if the star map would accept the energy contained in the diamond-shaped crystal.
At the beginning, Zhou Chen just stuck his body on the diamond-shaped crystal, and the star map still didn't give Zhou Chen any feedback.
However, when Zhou Chen knocked the diamond-shaped crystal block off the wreckage of the mecha, a method to absorb the internal energy of the crystal suddenly appeared in his mind.
That is, stick the knocked down crystal block to the center of the eyebrows, and the star map will naturally take the initiative to absorb the energy.
Although there was very little energy left in those crystals, even to a tiny fraction, the amount of mecha wreckage piled up in this ruin was huge.
One day, Zhou Chen will accumulate enough energy to activate the star map.
From the cold winter to the scorching heat, more than 200 days passed, and Zhou Chen beat the crystals with the remaining little energy every day, rain or shine, to supply the energy needed to stimulate the star map.
This made him a little weak, so he exercised all the tendons of his body, especially the muscles of the two arms.
Until today, Zhou Chen finally felt that the energy of the star map was about to be compensated, and I am afraid that it would not take a few crystals for him to be able to truly stimulate the star map, and at most ten crystals would be needed.
"Whew!"
After recovering his exerted physical strength, Zhou Chen turned over and stood up, and continued to tap the remaining diamond-shaped crystals with energy remaining.
Right now, the pocket of his pants was filled with six crystals, and he only needed to tap the next four to have enough energy to explore the wonders of the star map.
"Phew...... Wow......"
With the continuous waving of the hammer in Zhou Chen's hand, the crisp sound of beating echoed in the ruins again.
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