Landing 500 Years Early, I Became a God by Digging for Treasures 29

Chapter 29: Even with Kidney Deficiency, Gotta Keep Scrounging for Trash!

This cavern was enormous. From the entrance, one could see its reinforced concrete structure. The walls were blackened, covered in a grayish-green moss, with rusty rebar occasionally exposed. A palpable sense of time’s passage hung in the air.

Lu Yuan frowned slightly.

This seemed to be… an air-raid shelter dug by the Midea Civilization?!

Most of the supplies had been eroded by time. Things like cars and machines had been turned into metallic trash by fire lizards.

Thus, this air-raid shelter had become a filthy monster nest.

Lu Yuan crouched down. Though exhausted, the garbage-man’s heart was brimming with anticipation!

He found a discarded metal door…

It was made of some unknown alloy, looking incredibly sturdy and rust-free.

It was far too heavy. He’d leave it for later.

He found over a hundred bundles of smelly, dirty fabric?!

The material resembled melt-blown fabric used for making masks—chemical fiber, each roll two meters wide, tightly wound.

However, much of the fabric was contaminated with fire lizard excrement…

Lu Yuan wasn’t sure if it could be cleaned.

“If I can find clean fabric, I can make clothes and pants, a pretty good haul.”

“If I can’t clean it… sigh, oh well!”

Lu Yuan pinched his nose, shaking his head at the chemical fibers.

It wasn’t that he was being picky; wearing foul-smelling clothes would severely impact his mental state—no normal person would wear clothes reeking of feces, right?

When out and about, a good mood is crucial!

He found… a large quantity of gold, silver, and various other miscellaneous metals!

Especially striking were the gold bricks!

Huge, hefty gold bricks!

The glittering gold bricks were haphazardly piled together like building blocks, almost blinding Lu Yuan.

He almost thought he’d stumbled upon a vault.

The silver, eroded by time, was covered in rust.

Only the gold retained its brilliant, golden luster.

“Did these fire lizards have a fondness for shiny things? Like the legendary habits of dragons?” Lu Yuan moved a few; each brick likely weighed 10 kilograms.

This lot could weigh several dozen tons. At 700 yuan per gram of gold, he’d just picked up several billion yuan?

“If only it had even a little use, but it’s completely useless!”

He also found several dozen glowing stones and metals, each weighing several tons.

[Steel ingot bitten by a fire lizard. Care for a bite?]

[Aluminum alloy licked by a fire lizard.]

It was almost certain that these fire lizards exhibited dragon-like habits.

One garbage man thus struck it rich off another garbage man’s hoard.

If the fire lizards possessed spirits in the heavens, they would surely roar in fury: Did you hunt me just to steal the garbage I’d accumulated for hundreds of years?!

Why do garbage men have to make things so difficult for each other?!

“Oh dear, I think my brain is malfunctioning.”

Lu Yuan was ecstatic, having found dozens of tons of metallic trash—ecstatic enough to lie down.

He didn’t understand his own perverse psychology. It was a pile of useless things, yet he desperately wanted to take it all, carry it all away!

As the saying goes, the dragon slayer eventually becomes the dragon—he was evolving into a true dragon of garbage.

“Lu Yuan, calm down. Find something useful, take it back to improve your life.”

[Fluorite, a fluorine-containing mineral. It emits a faint light when rubbed, heated, or exposed to ultraviolet light. An industrial raw material, typically used to extract fluorine.]

“Can this be used as toothpaste?”

He remembered that toothpaste seemed to contain fluorine.

[Apatite, a phosphorus-containing mineral. When heated, it slowly releases energy and produces a faint glow.]

He had no idea what use this had.

[Calcium uranyl silicate, emits a pale greenish-yellow fluorescence under ultraviolet light and is highly radioactive. Are you sure you want to live with this thing long-term? Extremely small probability of benign mutation, but increases the likelihood of various cancers by over 1000%.]

Lu Yuan shivered, instinctively moving away from the green stone.

Continuing to explore the deepest part of the cave, Lu Yuan found something resembling a large iron ball, partially buried in the earth, gleaming silver. On the ball were several crystal-like screens.

It looked… unusual?

Its surface was coated with fire lizard fuel and dried saliva.

The Explorer’s Eye explained: [It might be a civilization management auxiliary device developed by some powerful civilization. It can be used to detect various human resource data of this civilization, and also has a certain remote communication function. Whether this civilization held benevolent or malicious intent remains a mystery… ]

[However, due to prolonged playing by fire lizards, this civilization management device seems to be partially damaged, and a small portion of its functions might still work.]

[Current energy reserves are critically low; it can be charged via solar energy.]

Lu Yuan was startled. His facial muscles twitched as he rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

Then, a wave of elation washed over him. What incredible luck… he’d actually found a relic of a higher civilization?!

Could he use this thing to contact human civilization?!

Even if he couldn’t return physically, a phone call would be nice!

His homesick heart trembled.

Lu Yuan pressed a button on the machine; a nearby indicator light blinked on and off.

A strange electronic sound emitted from the large sphere; a crackling sound, like a broken speaker.

“I wonder if it has artificial intelligence…”

With a hopeful attempt, Lu Yuan shouted at the sphere: “Human civilization! Can you contact humanity? Hello! Quickly contact humanity!”

“Number… what’s the human number again… 7812HSKKJ-1 to 7812HSKKJ-17.”

“That should be the right number…” Lu Yuan used the buttons on the sphere’s surface to input a string of numbers onto a secondary screen that lit up.

The secondary screen displayed static.

But after a long wait, the main screen didn’t light up.

This large machine seemed to have crashed, unresponsive.

Lu Yuan was greatly disappointed, sighing for a long time. He tried to move it out to sun it, but couldn’t budge it—the difference in strength between him and the fire lizards was simply too vast.

But this disappointment only lasted a minute.

After all, in the current circumstances, one couldn’t expect to just randomly find a high-level communicator and contact human civilization kilometers away.

“Forget it, forget it. No expectations, no disappointments.”

“If they don’t have this kind of machine on the human side, I wouldn’t be able to contact them anyway…”

“It’s like making a phone call; if the other side doesn’t have a phone, no matter how many times I dial, it’s useless…”

He consoled himself, though deep down, he couldn’t help but feel disappointed.

But he’d encountered so many setbacks that a couple more wouldn’t make a difference.

He quickly regained his optimism, after all, just those two finds alone made him content.

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