From scrap mecha to science fiction paradise

Chapter 244: Trip to the Garbage Mountain

It is endless, piled up into mountains, rising and falling and extending for who knows how many miles.

This is a mountain of garbage.

As the name suggests, this place is one of the main landfill areas for Ceylon's urban garbage, and the garbage has piled up into a continuous mountain range.

Many scavengers make a living from this.

The backer eats the mountain.

It's just that they eat a mountain of garbage, other than that, there's nothing surprising.

In order to facilitate their activities and to be able to snatch high-value items from the garbage dumped on a regular basis, most scavengers live nearby, and some even build shacks directly in the mountains of garbage.

This has formed a relatively alternative gathering place.

Built on the 'mountain', it is dilapidated and dirty, not as prosperous as a normal camp and more chaotic, but it has formed some settlements after all.

The streets are made up of numerous simple wooden houses and tents made of rags.

Occasionally there are uneven places, and wooden boards, metal pillars, or a large piece of plastic shell, all materials that can be picked up can become bridges connecting the settlements.

Living in it is also a small society.

Some people were burning garbage near their doorsteps, collecting the cheapest materials that no one was fighting over in the most primitive way.

Some people, wearing scanty fabrics, would stand at doorsteps posing coquettishly, or walk from street to street, knocking on every door, and from time to time they would enter a shed and conclude a deal.

Some people picked out the relatively intact food, especially meat, from the garbage mountain, washed it briefly, coated it with a thin layer of flour, and fried it in hot oil. It then became a delicacy for many low-level scavengers to enjoy.

"You're lucky you can eat it."

In front of such a small stall selling the most famous food in Garbage Mountain, a man and a woman were sitting opposite each other.

The skinny Asian man was eating an unknown meat that looked like fried chicken nuggets on the folding wooden table in front of him.

The charming and seductive white woman opposite frowned with disgust.

“Although it is picked from the garbage dump, it is basically free of germs after being washed and fried.”

The skinny Asian man ate the last piece of fried chicken until not a single piece of meat was left, burped with satisfaction, and continued to comment:
“The greatest pleasure of this kind of food is that you can never guess what you will eat before you put it in your mouth. It may be a whole fried chicken wing wasted by a rich person, or it may be broken bones, blood and meat from an unknown source.

If you don’t focus too much on the source of the ingredients, it’s actually quite crispy and tasty, and the sweet and sour and slightly spicy sauce is also very good.”

"Your premise is not true at all."

The charming woman glanced at the fat black woman who was openly washing a pile of broken bones and flesh not far away.

Just like washing clothes.

The things to be cleaned are also picked up from the garbage dump, such as discarded chicken bones, fried chicken remnants, etc.

It is also the raw material for the food sold at this stall.

They did not shy away from it and just cleaned and processed it right in front of us.

"But for the lowest-level scavengers, this is even a delicacy that they occasionally enjoy as a pastime. It has been a tradition for many years and has become a habit."

The skinny Asian man was holding a sharp bone spur that came from an unknown creature or part of the body, and was picking his teeth while speaking.

"That's enough. My patience has its limits."

The charming woman seemed to be on the verge of exploding, and her eyes turned cold.

"One piece of good news, one piece of bad news."

The skinny man got down to business.

"explain."

The charming woman just uttered one word in a cold voice.

"The target didn't come. Only his logistics and escort personnel came. It seems that the threat we posed was not enough and did not attract enough attention."

The skinny man didn't keep the secret any longer.

"What's the good news?"

The charming woman frowned. "Except for the target himself, almost everyone else is here. Two of them are most likely the target's confidantes. It's the same if we catch them."

At this point, the skinny man paused slightly, as if he had received some message, and touched his temple with his index and ring fingers, and then said lightly:
"The latest news is that a dimensional beast has appeared in the Black Snake Camp. It is initially estimated to be at least D-level. The target has already gone to stop it."

"That's great. It saves us the trouble and risk."

The charming woman finally revealed a charming smile after hearing this.

But this charm also has a hint of coldness and bloodthirstiness: "First, capture the people coming, and then capture the target that will cause both losses to the dimensional beast."

"As far as I know, there is more than one mecha in the Celestial Court."

The skinny man reminded.

"E-level at best."

The charming woman just chuckled disapprovingly, slowly stood up, and at the same time raised her head slightly, looking at the night sky without any stars.

Above the night sky.

A faint blue track streaked across the sky, like a falling star, becoming brighter and larger.

That is……

Nantianmen!

"Aren't you going to take action yet?"

The skinny man looked at the charming woman.

"Although this aerospace ship probably doesn't have energy shields and shipboard weapons, if it can't be completely destroyed in one go, no one can stop it from escaping. Besides, I don't have the habit of destroying my own spoils of war."

The charming woman spoke lightly, her eyes did not move, she just raised her head slightly, quietly looking up at the landing of the Nantianmen.

Although the compatibility of specialized models and high-level mechas for air combat and space combat is not ruled out, pilots mostly focus on ground combat.

After all, mechas themselves are the new generation of land warfare kings that replace tanks and infantry.

Moreover, given the speed of the aerospace ship, once it finds something wrong and starts to take off and evacuate, there is generally no way to keep it.

Therefore, the safest way is to wait for the aerospace ship to complete landing and the engine to be completely shut down.

Even if they wanted to escape at that time, it would take time to restart the engine. Whether it was heavy firepower coverage or mechas moving forward, it would be enough to keep this valuable aerospace ship here completely.

However, plans always differ from reality.

"Damn it! These guys didn't even plan to land."

The charming woman's expression quickly turned pale.

Because the Nantianmen did not completely shut down and land, but instead hovered above the Garbage Gang headquarters, and only a few people landed on individual flying skateboards.

——This thing was once used as an external flight equipment for individual exoskeletons, but with the development of technology, this backward thing has gradually become a real entertainment device similar to a skateboard.

It is also equipped on some flying vehicles as an emergency survival device, just like a lifeboat on a ship.

"At least the people are down, and it's the same if they are caught."

At this time, the skinny man seemed much calmer.

"Too."

The woman's expression improved a little after hearing this.

Now that the people have already come down, the aerospace ship cannot easily abandon these people and evacuate. Even if it really withdraws, the only losses will be the spoils, and the main goal can still be achieved.

"In that case, let's do it."

She completely lost her patience.

Fortunately, she still remembered that her goal was to capture people, not kill them.

At the command, Xue Siqiao, Xu Xiaotu, Miller and several entourage sent by Black Snake, who had just landed on their individual flying skateboards, were surrounded by a large number of gunmen hiding in various places.

(End of this chapter)