The garbage dump was vast. A huge garbage aircraft slowly appeared above it, while the countless people surrounding the garbage mountain prepared to charge!
Time was extremely limited. They had to find what they needed from the garbage pile as quickly as possible, or the robots would soon arrive.
People could not leisurely collect garbage at the dump, because specialized cleanup robots operated here.
The programs installed in those robots did not regard the people living in the Slums as human. Or rather, the people in the Slums had no wristbands, so the robots' programs could not identify them.
And those who could not be identified, those without value, were not people. They were garbage.
They had the duty and necessity of cleaning up garbage.
Five minutes after each shipment of garbage arrived, the robots at the Garbage Station would activate. They would push the garbage into the crusher, then incinerate it.
Once, someone had been too slow and tried to leave after the robots had already arrived. He failed.
The robot's Mechanical Arm seized him and sent him into the incinerator with the other garbage. In an instant, he became part of the Slums' water supply system.
When the garbage container slowly opened, and the foul-smelling garbage mixed with wastewater began raining down, the people sprang into action.
Lucia watched the garbage with some surprise. Time seemed to slow at that moment, allowing her to easily distinguish roughly what was falling from the sky.
What she needed and what she did not.
At that very instant, her attention shifted away from the falling garbage, and time returned to normal.
In a daze, she recalled the course she had recently completed in the Virtual World: the basic applications of Cosmic Energy.
She found it unbelievable. The things in the Virtual