She looks at the continuous messages coming through on her communicator.
[Fourth Species Service Bank Branch]
Identity number ending in 4444, consumptive Huo You Brook, hereby notifies: The remaining 130 Federal copper coins you owe for the “Basic LO version full-dome helmet” must be paid before midnight today.
If unpaid, the product will be canceled, and the debt will be transferred to Little Sheep Food Co.’s factory on Brook Star for indefinite confinement…
[Fourth Species Management Bureau]
Identity number ending in 4444, consumptive Huo You Brook, hereby notifies: Due to your parasitic organism test result of 0 and mental body test result of 0, it has been determined that you are the most complete fourth species consumptive type.
With low antibodies and mental strength, you provide no societal value and have been placed on the forced breeding list. In seven days, Bureau personnel will come to take you to relevant departments for random breeding to exchange your survival value for human reproduction.
If the male is satisfied, marriage will be confirmed, and you will become a permanent partner. The Bureau will reward you with 150 Federal copper coins (shared assets for the couple).
[Global Education Department] hereby notifies: As you are about to turn 18, you will enter the global entrance exam phase in three days.
At that time, you can enter the exam instance anywhere in the universe using your identity code. Requirements: full-dome helmet, parasitic organism + mental body (though not required, it’s better to have both), and a safe environment with sufficient nourishment.
Remember, this is your only chance to change your destiny.
After reading these messages, Huo You’s expression turns a bit strange.
She feels that these three messages are already insulting her through their wording, and the insults are quite harsh.
She scrolls down and sees a cross-world message from last night.
Green Tea Sis (Huo Xirou): “Sister, in a month, I’m marrying Xiao Brother. I hope you can come… I’m really happy now, but he was once your fiancé, and I feel so conflicted. Will you hate me? If you don’t, please come back from the garbage star and attend my wedding.
Otherwise, I’ll always think you haven’t forgiven me. But you’re not from our Huo Family’s bloodline, just adopted by Uncle.
After he died, you failed to awaken, and the Xiao Family wants a replacement. I couldn’t help it, I really like him. When I inherit the family business, I’ll come save you…”
Tea Cup Bro (Xiao Keming): “You’re so lowly. If you know shame, go die. If you come, don’t blame me for killing you.”
Huo You, holding her communicator, notices that the employees in the pizza shop are still discussing the “Pork Foot” man outside, saying he’s going to sell the parasite, and the woman was probably taken to a hotel.
She exits the group chat and finds the conversation window.
Three years ago, when she first arrived in this world, she witnessed the original owner being exiled to Brook Garbage Star and was attacked by her cousin, Green Tea Sis, who schemed against her.
Back then, she had changed the contact name.
Now, three years later, her cousin is getting married, while she’s still picking through trash, not having struck it rich.
But she needs some money.
Underneath this message, Huo You types a reply to her Green Tea Cousin.
“I’m about to take the entrance exam. Once I get the full-dome helmet today and get into university, I’ll be able to find work in the second-dimensional space to support myself. After I’m better, I’ll come find you in the Huo Family.
According to the family rules, as long as I get into university and become self-sufficient, I’ll still be considered a member of the Huo Family. Dad will leave something for me…
Don’t worry about me, and please don’t come find me. It’s dangerous here. No one cares if people die. I’m not worthy, but I wish you happiness.
If you really want to come, it will take three days by spaceship, but a telegram can reach Brook Star in just a few minutes.”
Now, it’s up to whether the Green Tea Cousin truly cares about her.
If she can’t come herself, is it so hard to have someone else look after her?
Beep…
Isel, a high-level star.
In the manor bedroom, a private nutritionist was using a spiritual body to control a parasitic organism, extracting nutrients from a pile of bloody parasites to nourish her own parasite.
At the same time, the beautiful young lady doing her nails glanced at her phone.
Her eyes darkened, and she stopped doing her nails.
Instead, her other hand casually typed a message on the device…
Soon, her confidante brought her an identity file, containing addresses and delivery information from the communication device’s records.
Banks and management bureaus, their information can all be sold.
It just depends on the price and connections.
Quickly, a telegram arrived at a factory on Brook Star.
“North of the garbage dump, coordinates 435.746? Alright, I understand.”
“5000 Federal copper coins, it’s fine.”
“A pizza costs 15 copper coins, let alone a life, even if it’s just a powerless consumptive type.”
“If you want the full-dome helmet and recorder destroyed along with the person, it’s an extra 10,000 Federal copper coins.”
“Don’t worry, I’ll take care of the person.”
“I’ll send you a message when it’s done.”
Huo You looked at the time.
It was time to leave work.
She quickly put on her protective gloves and went to clean up the kitchen trash.
The stench was disgusting, mixed with the bacteria and mucus that many customers carried with them—since most of them were sick, many had the habit of spitting or vomiting.
Other stores or factories would pay a high price for such trash collectors—at least 500 Federal copper coins a month.
For her, even with service industry wages, it was only 240 Federal copper coins a month.
The only benefit was that the lowest-level F-class protective suit, which was supposed to be standard, could be worn home.
This dirty work was always Huo You’s responsibility.
The trash bin was even hers to handle.
Didn’t anyone notice how she always left her broken bag under the trash bin when she came to work?
“Ah, Huo You, it’s you again… How hard it must be for you. You don’t have to do this. The boss likes you, wants to marry you.”
“It’s fine, I’m just going to the garbage dump. Don’t talk nonsense, it’s not useful.”
“You’re going to pick up trash again…?”
“No, I’m just throwing out the trash…”
“Haha, I understand, I understand, it’s your pride, but be careful. I heard from the customers outside that the big snake has been quite active lately.
It keeps going around the garbage dump perimeter. I don’t know why… be careful, that filth is disgusting. Some of those mixed liquids can even corrode metal.”
“Thanks for the concern… I got it.”
“I mean, don’t bother me.”
She stepped out of the pizza shop, and everyone avoided the garbage truck and her.
After turning a corner, she took the shortcut to the garbage dump.
It wasn’t the easiest path, but it was a shortcut.
The surveillance cameras recorded the final scene…
At the upstream area of the corrosive liquid stream at the garbage dump, the garbage truck stopped.
In the foul-smelling, desolate area, Huo You turned around and pulled out a makeshift wooden raft from the trash pile.
With the raft loaded with herself and the garbage truck, she drifted into the corrosive stream.
The bottom of the raft would corrode, but it would take about half an hour to completely disintegrate.
With a hissing sound, the raft moved downstream…
After about five minutes, it reached the middle section.
The wooden stick lodged in the grassy rusted thicket by the peaceful riverbank, trapping the raft.
Bang!
The raft stopped in the middle section.
Huo You used a rope to pull the raft out and hide it in the riverbank grass.
Then, she took out the backpack from the compartment underneath the garbage truck and put it on her back.
It was heavy, but no one paid attention to what was inside.
Ten minutes later, the Pork Foot man came out of a cheap inn in the town.
He adjusted his belt, took slow steps, and drank a bottle of 2 copper coin rum.
He sluggishly walked down the same old path into the swamp…
With no spiritual body, having used the parasitic organism once, he indulged, drinking, and everything happened within two hours.
This kept him in his weakest, most careless state.
It was also his daily routine.
A routine that was being monitored and even recorded by certain interested parties.
Then… after walking through a regular section of the swamp, he tugged at his belt again, ready to urinate while muttering to himself.
“That woman is still dirty. That Huo You seems clean though… Damn it, Jones didn’t sell her…”
His zipper hadn’t even been pulled down yet.
On the high slope of the trash hill, a thin metal arrow, about the length of a finger, shot out.
“OS…”
It directly and precisely struck the back of his neck from fifty meters away.
The arrowhead, laced with coagulant venom, pierced through his throat.
He clutched his neck, his pupils dilated, and his mouth opened.
He tried to shout, but his throat had been pierced, and only a faint sound came out.
His body convulsed and he collapsed.
As he convulsed, he heard footsteps.
His greenish, bead-like eyes saw the boots stepping on mud and weeds…
As his gaze traveled upward, he saw a 17-year-old girl wearing a cap, holding a homemade mechanical crossbow.
The shadow under the cap revealed only half of her emaciated, handsome face, hard to tell whether male or female.
Her dark eyes looked down on him.
She squatted down and pulled the leather knife from his waist.
He recognized her.
Not long ago, he had tried to take advantage of her at the pizza shop.
But now, she had come to find him.
The cold blade touched his face.
“I’m not refusing to sell, but you can’t afford the price.”
“This is your fault. You didn’t try hard enough.”
The blade turned, and the tip slid into his mouth, swiftly cutting off his tongue.