Richest Rag-picker

"B-Bro! Did you just see what that was? Oh my god! We... we should get out of here! Let’s go!"

The two youths were sprawled on the ground, staring up as two small points of light vanished in the sky. They exchanged a look, and one of them stammered out the words.

Hearing this, the other youth nodded frantically and chimed in, "Right! Right! Let’s go! Let’s go!"

After saying that, he managed to pull himself up using the fence of the garbage transfer station and, with a burst of energy from god knows where, took off at a dead sprint.

But he had only run about ten meters before he suddenly stopped in his tracks. The one behind couldn’t brake in time and slammed right into him. The front one paid it no mind, however, and spoke uneasily.

"Xiaoliu, maybe... maybe we should give him back the money we got from selling that electric scooter..."

As he spoke, the youth couldn’t help but gulp. The scene moments ago had been far too shocking! Who could have imagined that the guy who showed up on an electric scooter could actually "fly"?!

The youth called Xiaoliu sank into thought upon hearing this. A moment later, he nodded in agreement, hastily saying it was a good idea.

So, after a brief discussion, the pair of them quickly pulled out their wallets.

It should be noted here that this pair was used to petty theft. When they took stolen goods to the scrap yard to sell, they would naturally refuse to be paid via bank transfer.

The reason, of course, was their fear of being traced. They always demanded cash when selling their stolen goods. Because of this, they were actually able to scrape together 2,000 yuan from their wallets.

Staring at the 2,000 yuan in their hands, the two found themselves in a bind. Who was going to be the one to deliver the money?

The two looked back and forth at each other, but neither dared to go. Who knew if that guy would suddenly return?

If he happened to see one of them by his scooter, he’d definitely realize they were the ones who stole it before. If that happened, it would not end well for them.

In the end, the slightly older youth steeled himself, snatched the 2,000 yuan from the other’s hand.

He clutched the cash and sprinted back toward the garbage transfer station. Once he was outside, perhaps out of fear that the owner would return, the guy’s movements became surprisingly nimble.

With a running start and a leap, he vaulted right over the fence and into the garbage transfer station, landing in front of Fang Chenyi’s Lamborghini-brand electric scooter.

Without a second thought, he opened the scooter’s basket and tossed the two thousand yuan inside. Then, as if a rabid dog was on his heels, he bounded back out of the station in a few quick leaps and disappeared into the distant darkness without a single look back.

Of course, Fang Chenyi was completely unaware of all this.

He was, at that very moment, soaring through the sky.

As he continued to ascend, various streams of data flickered before Fang Chenyi’s eyes.

A thought flickered through his mind—he wanted to know how high he was. Instantly, a string of data appeared before him. Real-time altitude:

8,312 meters... 8,356 meters... 8,411 meters.

The numbers kept ticking upward, and Fang Chenyi’s altitude continued to climb.

When Fang Chenyi saw his current altitude, he was left speechless.

’This armor is truly incredible,’ he marveled. He was already at the cruising altitude of a commercial airliner.

At this altitude, the temperature, atmospheric pressure, and oxygen levels were completely unsuitable for human survival.

And yet, Fang Chenyi felt perfectly fine.

’Not feeling the cold might be because of the Water Spirit Pearl,’ he thought. ’But the fact that I can breathe normally... This suit must have a built-in oxygen generator.’

Soon, Fang Chenyi broke an altitude of 10,000 meters. Below him was a vast sea of clouds.

With the sun now gradually rising, the scene was exceptionally magnificent and beautiful.

This was a completely different feeling from being inside an airplane. Fang Chenyi was truly among the clouds.

Suddenly, a worry struck Fang Chenyi. He quickly tried to check how much longer the armor could sustain flight.

The moment the thought formed, a new set of data appeared before him.

After reviewing the data, Fang Chenyi’s heart, which had been lodged in his throat, finally settled back into his chest. He had been worried that if he flew too high, he might plummet from the sky if the fuel suddenly ran out. But now, it seemed that was completely impossible.

The reason? The armor’s display explained that it could extract fuel directly from the air.

This meant that the suit of armor was capable of virtually infinite flight.

And just then, the system’s prompt chimed again in Fang Chenyi’s mind.

[Ding! Host’s query detected. The System will now provide an answer: While this is an Iron Man Armor, it has been modified by the System. It is more powerful than the original armor from the Marvel universe, and its functions have been optimized and enhanced.]

’So that’s how it is. The System modified it.’ Hearing this, Fang Chenyi felt even more at ease.

Looking at the sun, which had already climbed high into the sky, he knew returning to the garbage transfer station was out of the question. The place would be bustling with people during the day.

He knew that around 5:30 AM, sanitation workers would start bringing loads of trash from all the nearby residential complexes and public bins to the station.

’Since I can’t go back there, I might as well not go down at all.’

’I’ll just head straight to Lotus Peak Mountain later, then I can call Qi Xiaotian and have them meet me there. Simple.’

With that in mind, Fang Chenyi was in no hurry to descend. Instead, he remained at an altitude of ten thousand meters, trying out various flight maneuvers and testing all the armor’s different functions.

After a series of tests, and with the operating manual for the armor already in his head, Fang Chenyi quickly and thoroughly mastered its use.

Standing ten thousand meters high, above the sea of clouds, he looked down upon the land below, truly feeling like a god surveying the mortal realm.

He shook his head, pushing aside such useless thoughts. He picked a direction and shot off in a straight line.

The armor’s flight speed was truly astonishing. In just the span of a few breaths, he found himself hovering over the commercial district he was developing.

Standing on a cloud and gazing down at the commercial district below, Fang Chenyi couldn’t help but nod in satisfaction.