Gaining a tiny bit of weight every day, my weight is a billion tons.

The wind blew in from the depths of the ash belt.

It was covered in scorched earth and smelled of rust.

Shen Qingci did not speak immediately.

Silence itself is the answer.

How do you know about Yuanjin?

She sized up Su Ming.

His gaze shifted from astonishment to scrutiny.

Finally, it settled into a complex silence.

Yuan Jin's file cannot be found in the federal open access system.

Even top students at military academies, and even most of their mentors.

I've never heard of this name before.

"Read more books and newspapers, eat fewer snacks and sleep more."

Su Ming shrugged, his tone casual.

"It's true that federal high school textbooks don't teach this."

But what can I do? I have a good part-time job.

He pointed to his head.

He is a top student in theoretical studies who has topped the list for three consecutive years.

He knows best what's inside that shell.

"The day before yesterday, I was dismantling a scrapped military special mech at a junkyard."

They found a top-secret ordnance appraisal report, half-burnt and partially charred, tucked away in a crevice of the armor lining.

Su Ming stared at the knife in Shen Qingci's hand.

It was like reciting exam questions, uttering strings of academic terms word by word.

"Extremely active metallic energy source crystals."

Accompanied by ultra-high frequency micro-oscillations, it possesses terrifying capabilities for material deconstruction and obstacle breaking.

Theoretically, it only exists within the bone marrow cavity of specific source beasts.

Currently, no awakened individual has been able to reliably extract talent from their own innate abilities.

He raised an eyebrow.

"When you instantly killed that monster just now..."

Extremely fine atmospheric refraction appeared around the blade.

The visual deflection caused by high-frequency oscillation lasts for less than half a second.

Combining the physical characteristics of liquid gold...

Su Ming shrugged.

"Is this question really that hard to guess?"

Shen Qingci remained silent.

If Su Ming slapped a third-tier beast king to death...

It relies on irrational, pure violence;

So he relied on half a page of tattered paper and a glance at the battlefield.

This allows for the accurate reconstruction of the technical details of top-secret materials.

This incident made her even more frightened than before.

She retracted Leng Feng into her fingertip.

"You're quite smart."

He paused for a moment.

"However, those old scholars in those top-secret files only know one side of the story, not the other."

Shen Qingci looked at her hands.

His eyes held an absolute pride.

"It is called Yuanjin by outsiders."

But for me, it has its own name.

"It's called 'Gengjin Miscellaneous Essence'."

Su Ming raised an eyebrow: "Secret marrow?"

"In theory, this is an extremely reactive substance called Yuanjin."

Once separated from the body, it will violently vaporize and cannot exist stably at all.

Shen Qingci did not hide anything.

Since the other party recognized her, she didn't mind showing off her true cards.

"But what if it's nurtured little by little, using the awakened person's own bone marrow as a breeding ground, through extremely harsh methods?"

Su Ming's pupils contracted slightly.

Bone marrow nourishes gold?

This is a dangerous martial art.

Moreover, it employs "draconian methods" that can break down the barriers of federal theory.

This is something that a military academy's curriculum can't provide.

I dare not even think about who's behind this.

"Therefore, this is not an external object at all."

Su Ming smacked his lips, his mind racing.

"It's your second talent sequence. And... it's specifically designed to buff the first sequence."

Shen Qingci's lips twitched slightly.

That will give this guy a shock.

That's definitely something to be happy about.

Su Ming clapped twice.

Put away the shock you just felt.

A look of admiration and envy on his face:

"The bone marrow acts as a furnace, nourishing active metals, which in turn replenish the bones."

This perfectly solves the theoretical problem of the unstable generation of source gold.

The diversity of talent awakening is truly unreasonable!

It can create a perfect complementary closed loop between killing and amplification.

"Even God is chasing after you to feed you, he's practically shoving food into the back of your head..."

Shen Qingci glanced at him smugly: "You're so smug! So, we're even?"

"We're even." Su Ming nodded.

"You have your secrets, and I have mine. Let's keep them to ourselves and let them rot in our hearts."

"OK."

Exchanging secrets is also a kind of contract.

When Shen Qingci turned around, there was still a trace of red on the tip of her ear.

The ashes were swept away by the wind, making them even more conspicuous.

The two people and the dog began cleaning up the battlefield and sorting out the spoils.

……

On the other side, deep within the Abyss.

"You found it?"

Lu Beiyuan's voice was calm, but he gripped the communicator tightly.

"Tell me, who exactly is this Mr. Shen?"

There was a full three seconds of silence on the other end of the communicator.

The intelligence chief had barely opened his mouth when his voice sounded off.

It's like forcing yourself to read a report that you yourself can't believe:

"Chief Engineer Lu... we've found it..."

"read."

"The publicly available information shows—"

Shen Hongyuan, 50 years old, is the owner of Jiangcheng Xinghuo Waste Treatment Plant.

Our main business is the recycling of used metals and scrapped machinery…

"A junk collector?"

Lu Beiyuan sneered.

The look in his eyes behind the glasses became increasingly sinister.

"Huangfujing is trying to pressure me by calling a junk collector?"

What exactly is Beichen up to, getting entangled with this kind of low-level person?

"Chief Engineer, please let me finish!"

The intelligence chief suddenly raised his voice, which cracked.

"I sensed something was wrong, so I used your S-level privileges."

They attempted to access the federal intranet to retrieve the land deeds and personnel change records for the 'Spark Waste Treatment Plant'.

"result……"

He paused for a moment.

"Your S-level privileges have been denied."

Lu Beiyuan paused for a moment while holding the communicator.

He is the youngest chief engineer at the Federal Research Institute.

S-level permissions.

It has the capacity to access all federal documents except those classified as top secret.

A scrap yard in a Class D satellite city stripped him of his authority?!

"It wasn't just rejected..."

The intelligence chief's voice began to tremble, and his teeth were chattering.

The system displayed a red "SSS-level highest warning".

Just ten seconds ago, the central AI locked onto my terminal, warning me that I was spying on me…

He swallowed hard and read those words aloud, one by one:

"【Federal Extremely Dangerous Target】".

"Chief Engineer... it seems we've... messed with someone we shouldn't have."

Lu Beiyuan's brain buzzed.

A layer of cold sweat seeped out from my back.

SSS-level warning?

Extremely dangerous target?

A junk collector?

These three pieces of information are put together.

No matter how he arranges or combines them in his mind.

They couldn't come up with a reasonable answer.

"Beichen... what exactly did Beichen do?"

His voice finally lost its former composure.

It trembled slightly, almost uncontrollably.

"The second young master... he seems to have been a guest at the time."

"Taking advantage of his talent, he hacked into one of Mr. Shen's security robots..."

Lu Beiyuan's vision went black.

I almost spat a mouthful of blood onto the control panel.

How do you hack into the security system of an SSS-level dangerous target's home?

This is beyond just daring to mess with the gods!

This is like dancing on the Book of Life and Death of the King of Hell!

……