The Post Sky Tipping Era
Chapter 465 - 328 Scavenger

Chapter 465: Chapter 328 Scavenger

After separating from Xia Xiaozhong, Li Yi ran for several hours, leaving the defensive line by at least a few hundred miles. He passed through several cities along the way but chose not to enter any, continuing deeper until dawn began to break. Only then, feeling his strength fading, did he stop at an abandoned factory rarely frequented by people.

He found a place to sit and drank a bottle of Transcendent Nutrient Solution.

This Transcendent Nutrient Solution was indeed powerful, not only providing nourishment to the body but also healing it. Minor injuries could be treated directly—just one bottle, and Li Yi’s slightly numb arms quickly began to recover, even the cosmic energy depleted in his body was being replenished.

Although each effect was not outstanding, the solution was quite suitable as a food substitute.

After a brief rest of half an hour, Li Yi felt his condition had fully recovered.

At this moment, he remembered something and took out the body of the Level 5 gene warrior he had killed earlier from his Magic Artifact storage.

The body was well-preserved but had gone cold.

Li Yi looked at the battle arm guard on the corpse’s arm with curiosity. He wanted to take it apart to see just how powerful the gene warriors’ weapons in World Six really were. The arm guard did come off, but he couldn’t use it—as the weapon’s intelligent system was deeply bound to its user.

"If I can’t conquer the opponent’s intelligent system, even if I snatch a spaceship, I can’t use it."

He thought of the virus device that Bai Sinan had given him before the action.

Maybe it was worth a try.

Li Yi took out the spherical device from the Magic Artifact storage, ready to activate it, but suddenly he sensed something and fixed his gaze in a certain direction.

There was a noise coming from there.

Quickly putting things away, he leaped to a high place, then started to observe his surroundings.

Very soon.

Li Yi spotted a girl, about fifteen or sixteen years old, with pale pink hair, wearing ill-fitting, old clothes stained with grime, as she struggled to pull a handcart, searching for useful parts in the abandoned factory.

"A Scavenger?" He roughly understood.

Although the culture of each world was different, the bottom layers were the same.

For the most basic survival, they had already exerted all their strength, and the root cause of this was the exploitation created by the distorted system.

Instructor Zhou Yu had mentioned that World Six was no peaceful era; there was oppression, resistance, and the lives of those at the bottom were hard. Hence, there was a rebellion, but it was the gene warriors who locked the class system, preventing any successful resistance.

Li Yi paid no mind. He was an evil invader, not a savior. The suffering of this world had nothing to do with him, and he was about to leave the place.

However, at this time, the scavenger girl with pink hair seemed to have found a valuable part and plunged into a scrapped car to tinker with it. This caused a scrapped vehicle stacked on top to lose balance in the shaking and roll down, initiating a chain reaction that caused a mountain of trash to collapse, threatening to bury the fragile life underneath.

Seeing this, Li Yi sighed and threw a punch through the air.

Under the ravage of Fist Gang, the collapsing scrapped cars were blown apart in an instant, falling heavily to the ground with a series of sounds, while the scavenger girl with the pale pink hair hurriedly scrambled out of the car window, holding a part that emitted a glow of energy.

But when she saw the scene before her, she was stunned, then realized what had just happened.

She looked around.

Finally, on top of a pile of abandoned garbage, she saw Li Yi.

Li Yi simply glanced at her calmly before Gang Qi swept through, and he quickly left.

"Was that a gene warrior?"

The scavenger girl rubbed her eyes, doubting whether she had seen wrong, but then she got excited: "A real gene warrior, he just saved me."

She was very happy, feeling her dreary life brighten up considerably.

Dropping her handcart, she pursued, wanting to express her gratitude to the stranger warrior and willing to give him the energy core she had found as a gift. Even though she wasn’t sure if the warrior would value it, it was the most valuable thing she had found this month.

But when the scavenger girl searched around, she couldn’t find Li Yi.

She was somewhat disheartened and returned with the energy core in her arms.

"Are you looking for me?"

However, just then, Li Yi’s figure suddenly reappeared. He looked at the scavenger girl, changing his initial thoughts.

Being in World Six without any acquaintances, perhaps he could obtain some useful information from this girl.

"Great gene warrior, my name is Ke Ni, and I thank you for saving me."

The scavenger girl shouted out loud, her emotions a bit excited as she handed over the energy source: "This, this is my gift of thanks, I hope you will accept it."

After speaking, he stood there extremely tense, ill at ease.

Li Yi glanced at the glowing object, and roughly guessed that it should be the core power for an energy car, akin to an engine for a car, quite valuable to the average person, but of no use to him.

"I don’t need your gift. If you want to express your gratitude, take me to the nearest city. I’m lost and need a place to stay."

"If the Transcendent doesn’t mind, then let’s go to Philadelphia. I live there and am familiar with the place," Ke Ni said nervously and uneasily.

Philadelphia?

Li Yi looked in a certain direction.

Earlier when he had surveyed his surroundings, he indeed saw a city. However, that city appeared desolate and chaotic, so he didn’t target it, as a city like that probably wasn’t very valuable. Even if he wanted to take something by force, there wouldn’t be anything worth taking.

But then he thought again.

A place of chaos would be suitable for someone like him to hide. Only after understanding the information about World Six could he act without any restraint.

"Okay, then let’s head to Philadelphia," said Li Yi.

"Great!"

Ke Ni seemed excited and hurriedly packed up her things, pulling the old metal plank cart and set off.

"You’re not planning on walking to Philadelphia, are you?" Li Yi followed her out of the abandoned site before he spoke up.

"Yes," Ke Ni turned back, blinking with confusion.

"That’s too slow. I don’t want to waste time. I’ll take you there."

Li Yi reached out his hand and grabbed at the air toward her. His Hundred Refinement Gang Qi enveloped her, and then with a leap, the Gang Qi swept up, causing him to almost skim the ground as he flew, and he sped towards the city ahead at high velocity.

"My things..."

Ke Ni was startled. Then she reached out to grab the plank cart, unwilling to leave her things behind.

Li Yi glanced at it and casually put it inside his Magic Artifact.

"Stop shouting, I’ll take your junk for you."

Ke Ni was shocked by this scene, but before she had a chance to ask, she found herself rapidly flying through the air, an experience so unbelievable it left her in awe. But once she became accustomed to it, she excitedly yelled, "I’m flying, I’m really flying!"

Li Yi did not speak. He used the Gang Qi to race across the ground, choosing a route almost devoid of people, and soon neared the city of Philadelphia.

But as they approached, he smelled a pungent odor coming from the city, not knowing if it was chemical pollution or what, making it very uncomfortable. Compared to the environment of the Four Seas and Eight Continents, this place was far worse. Clearly, excessive technological development had damaged nature.

When they arrived at the edge of the city, Li Yi withdrew his Gang Qi, and the two fell from mid-air.

However, Ke Ni was an ordinary person and not standing steady; she fell flat on the ground.

"I’m fine, I’m totally fine," Ke Ni hastily got up, holding her nose as blood flowed out.

Li Yi looked at her and asked, "Is it hard for people living at the bottom to become gene warriors?"

"Gene medicine is very expensive; a basic one costs a million Source coins. I could never afford it in my whole life," said Ke Ni with a snicker, holding her bleeding nose. "I never thought about becoming a gene warrior, not at all. I just want to buy a house so that I don’t have to live in the sewers."

"In the winter, it’s very cold there, and when the weather’s hot, the sewer waste gas can be toxic. If you live there too long, you easily get sick."

"Is there gene medicine in this city?" Li Yi inquired.

Ke Ni sniffed, stopping the blood from her nose from dripping. She pointed to the tallest building in Philadelphia, "Over there, we call that building Tower of Hope. Every person in Philadelphia dreams of entering that building in their lifetime because only those who enter can have the chance to become a powerful gene warrior."

"But unfortunately, many people never get close to that building in their whole life," Ke Ni said with a disheartened tone.

"Perhaps a different approach is needed," said Li Yi, looking at the towering building. Calmly, he added, "Breaking in might be easier than trying to get in through effort."

"What?" Ke Ni widened her eyes, not understanding.

"Here are your things, hurry into the city."

Li Yi shifted his gaze back and took out the plank cart from the Magic Artifact.

"Come with me. I’ll take you to where I live. There are many friends of mine there; I’ll introduce you to them when we arrive," Ke Ni said hastily, grabbing her cart tightly, afraid to lose it.

"By the way, powerful gene warrior, what is your name?"

"Yi. You can call me Yi," Li Yi replied.

He found that in this world, people did not have surnames, only given names, so he had to choose a name that fit this world. He couldn’t go by Li Yi or else his identity might easily be discovered.