The Garbage Mountain and the Garbage Dump Are Different

"Omen on the Garbage Mountain?" Feng Xue looked surprised. "Isn't the Garbage Dump supposed to be the digestive organ of the Infinite City, where everything is decomposed except on Garbage Day?"

"Take a look at that Garbage Mountain first," Old Li said helplessly, as if he were standing next to Feng Xue, pointing to the Garbage Mountain in the distance.

Looking at the towering mountain that had become the core of the Landfill Area, Feng Xue couldn't help but feel a little puzzled. Judging from its appearance, it certainly didn't seem like it would disappear every few days.

"In the beginning, Infinite City only had four Landfill Area and four Garbage Dump, but it received garbage from countless worlds. So the garbage here has piled up to the point that even the decomposition of the Garbage Dump can't keep up with the accumulation. You can think of the Garbage Dump in the four Landfill Area as completely buried by garbage, turning them into internal furnaces of this Garbage Mountain. Although the garbage is constantly being decomposed, the Garbage Mountain is still piling up higher and higher. So occasionally, some of these Garbage Mountain will collapse. Generally speaking, it's not a big deal; at most, they'll just be buried by garbage. But some unlucky ones can fall into a hollow in the mountain and be completely decomposed, leaving not even ashes."

"So, you mean you can pick up trash from the Garbage Mountain in the four major Landfill Area every day?" Feng Xue's question made Old Li pause slightly, but he still answered:

"That's right. And it's an admission system here. Simply put, you pay a fee to get in, and the staff doesn't care how much stuff you find."

"This is mainly because the four Landfill Area are home to many Weird Tale who failed to gain a seat in the Tower of Babylon. Although they are not as good as the managers of the four Landfill Area, the managers and those experts cannot stay in the Garbage Mountain forever. These experts secretly hide something, and the inspectors have no way to find out. In the end, they simply used an admission ticket system."

"Of course, the management also has corresponding collection stations. You can sell the trash you find that you don't want to them. The purchase price is higher than in ordinary Landfill Area, reaching up to 70% of the estimated value."

"Isn't this just the orchard model..." Feng Xue grinned, but didn't dwell on the issue. Being able to bring in Phantom Object and the ticket system were good news for him. More important than that was the initial problem—

"So what's the Omen in the Garbage Mountain?"

"Just like you thought, people who die on Garbage Mountain don't decompose in the Garbage Dump, and there are no walls around the Landfill Area, so dumping the bodies is not cost-effective. In the end, they are simply dumped in the Garbage Mountain. In fact, compared to the 'harvesting' of other Landfill Area, the Garbage Mountain in the four major Landfill Area are more like 'hunting'. Only Manufacturing Type professions care about that garbage; Omen are the targets that most people pursue."

Hearing what Old Li said, Feng Xue roughly understood the exaggerated prevalence of Phantom Object in this Landfill Area. She decided to start walking, retrieving her own Phantom Object while maintaining her call with Old Li.

"According to you, the drop rate of Omen in the Garbage Mountain is very high? I've killed Omen in the wild before, but I've never seen Phantom Object drop from them."

"..."

Old Li, on the other end of the employee badge, suddenly fell silent. It wasn't until Feng Xue was almost upon the location of the Sealed Golden Cabinet that he finally spoke:

"Hey, did you forget to discard the base after killing Omen?"

"Forehead..."

"Phantom Object are formed by the accumulation of a large number of elements on a single object. Therefore, unless the Omen itself carries an 'object,' you must add objects as a base yourself to have any chance of forming Phantom Object. Of course, sometimes if the elements are right, even stones or sticks on the ground can serve as a base. In short, there's trash everywhere in the Garbage Mountain, so you don't need to worry about the base..."

Old Li spoke in a way that was as gentle as possible to Feng Xue, leaving Feng Xue feeling somewhat embarrassed. He realized that the reason he hadn't lost Phantom Object wasn't because he lacked the foundation, but because he had directly melted the corpse of the Omen.

In general, the Omen Phantom Object drop is essentially similar to his Golden Finger's Reforge function. It involves absorbing elements from False Thing or True Thing, and once certain criteria are met, it can be transformed into Phantom Object.

However, in terms of success rate, the probability of obtaining the Omen seems to be slightly higher than that of Smelt herself. After thinking for a moment, Feng Xue could only attribute it to the fact that under natural conditions, compatible elements are more likely to coalesce.

After all, he didn't know which elements were compatible; he was just Smelt according to his own needs.

"Hey, are you feeling down? Don't be sad. You've made it to the four major Landfill Area, so killing a few Omen won't be difficult for you. Hey, are you still there?"

Old Li seemed to notice that Feng Xue hadn't responded for a while and was getting a little worried. Feng Xue, however, brought her employee ID to her ear and smiled, saying:

"It's nothing, we're just being watched."

"Oh, that's all. Those who camp out at the bottom of the Landfill Area are all lowlifes. I'll hang up now, contact me later if there are any problems." Old Li decisively hung up his work badge, which Feng Xue nonchalantly put back in her pocket. She turned around and said directly:

"Come out."

"I thought he was just a newbie, but he's actually quite clever. No wonder you got this far." As Feng Xue finished speaking, three non-mainstream Shamate dressed in a style reminiscent of the end of the century appeared in his field of vision. However, Feng Xue was not careless. Although he sensed them using his reactivated [Acuity] ability, he could only roughly determine their direction before they actually revealed themselves.

These people are quite capable.

After a brief standoff, the man with the large, monstrous bird-like hairstyle, who seemed to be getting impatient, said:

"Kid, judging by your appearance, you've probably hidden all the Phantom Object outside the city, haven't you? If you know what's good for you, hurry up and lead us there. If we're in a good mood, we might spare you some face; otherwise, hehe..."

The man with the monstrous bird hairstyle uttered these standard villain lines while holding a Double-barreled Hunting Rifle with a caliber of nearly three centimeters in his hand.

Although it looks like one of those low-end models with only a barrel and a handstock, it's undeniably a Phantom Object.

Name: Phantom Object Double-barreled Hunting Rifle

Elements: [Weapons], [General Use], [Shooting], [Cutting]

Description: This is a Double-barreled Hunting Rifle that can use any object smaller than its caliber as bullets. It can fire without gunpowder. For some reason, if you use it as a melee weapon to whip an enemy, it will cause cuts similar to those from a knife.

Note: Don't use it to fight against Martial Arts Master!

"So, it has all sorts of Phantom Object and comedic gadgets... Speaking of which, if I hadn't given the remote-controlled toy to Chen Xiyao, would it have worked perfectly with this thing? Hmm, and there's the filter too." Feng Xue looked at the Phantom Object panel provided by her Golden Finger, her lips twitching slightly. Then, amidst the three Shamate looking at her like she was an idiot, she struck a pose like a martial arts master...

It's not that I underestimate supernatural power, but rather that you've overestimated the power of the gods, or rather, overestimated the imagination of the ancients.

Monkey King's Sea Calming Needle weighs 13,500 jin (approximately 6,250 kg), while weapons in the Dragon Palace weighing only a few thousand jin (approximately 50 kg) require a group of Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals to carry. You can say that Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals are weak, but they are already regular soldiers of the Dragon Palace, aren't they? And in the ginseng fruit tree episode, Monkey King even said, "It can crush stones into powder and leave marks even when hitting raw iron." You can see the imagination of the ancients.

You can go and see what the original myths looked like. Let's not talk about the combat power that's been hyped up in modern times (of course, I've hyped it up in my old books too), and we don't need to go too far back, just look at the last few hundred years. You'll see that believing in gods is really not as practical as giant ships and cannons.

Ancient people weren't like modern people. They were very simple and honest. They couldn't say things like "ancient Martial General could easily draw a bow with a weight of 300 jin" like modern people do. Li Yuanba in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms killed a million oxen by himself [beep--], right? His double hammers only weighed 800 jin.

Not to mention that the belief in God is only the upper limit; whether it can be achieved depends on how many believers provide [knowledge/understanding].

The power of a person Weird Tale, depends on two aspects: legends determine the upper limit, and perception determines the lower limit. The stronger the inherent setting, the stronger the upper limit. However, whether or not one can reach that limit depends on the number of people who provide them with the knowledge and the degree of belief in the setting.

Finally, when the colonial army attacks the natives, the gods can hide, but the natives cannot. When the natives are killed, the gods become weaker. In fact, they don't even need to be killed. As long as the natives witness the terror of giant ships and cannons and have thoughts like "the gods can't protect us," the gods will become weaker.