A Mountain of Trash to Start With

What did hunger feel like?

To Ye Tong, who had lived without worrying about food or clothes, enjoying the generous benefits brought by his parents from childhood to adulthood...

Hunger had been a completely unfamiliar word.

But now, he knew what hunger felt like.

His shriveled stomach protested nonstop, his limbs felt weak, and his head spun.

Indescribable pain washed over him wave after wave, like waves rising across the sea.

The intense pain also brought him an incomparably vivid realization.

"Ding, integration with the Junk-Picking System successful."

Along with the intense hunger, an electronic synthesized voice sounded beside Ye Tong's ear.

"The Trash-Picking System?"

After a moment of bewilderment, Ye Tong realized that he had transmigrated.

And it was, in a sense, a soul transmigration!

Ye Tong had just been an ordinary high school student playing on his phone in bed. How had he woken up in this godforsaken place after a single nap?!

"Bzzz..."

At that moment, an inexplicable ripple swept over him, invigorating the originally frail Ye Tong somewhat.

At the same time, additional information appeared in his mind.

"The Goa Kingdom, Gray Terminal?"

A flood of information instantly poured into Ye Tong's mind.

The original owner of this body in this life had been named Grot Ye Tong.

His parents had died of illness several years ago, leaving him an orphan.

In High Town, an orphan only a few years old could not survive.

Later, after the original owner fell ill, the people of the Goa Kingdom had thrown him here.

Gray Terminal, where all the garbage was gathered.

Ye Tong looked at the countless piles of trash around him, and all his hunger vanished at once.

Though he did not know what the system could do, didn't this place have endless garbage to pick up?

"Ding, picked up a broken food bag. Obtained one loaf of bread."

He casually picked up a trash bag, and that familiar electronic synthesized voice rang out beside his ear again.

At the same time, a warm loaf of bread appeared in his hand.

"This... is my cheat?"

"Chomp, chomp..."

Before Ye Tong could continue thinking, his body began eating on its own.

After the loaf of bread entered his stomach, the satisfaction of obtaining food instantly filled his entire body.

Food was the people's foremost need; that was not just empty talk.

"Then what about this?"

As Ye Tong spoke, he picked up a bottle from the ground.

"Ding, picked up a broken wine bottle. Obtained one jug of rum."

As the system prompt sounded, Ye Tong stared at the mountain of trash before him, his eyes shining brightly!

Though this place had no resources whatsoever, it had plenty of garbage!

"Gulp, gulp..."

"World of One Piece, here I come!"

After downing the liquor in huge gulps, Ye Tong shouted those words with lofty vigor.

"Alright, time to get to work!"

Although he had arrived, he still had to pick up trash!

"Ding, picked up a torn newspaper. Obtained 1,000 Beli."

"Ding, picked up a scrap of torn cloth. Obtained one set of clothing."

"Ding, congratulations, Host. You have successfully picked up ten pieces of junk and obtained the title Super Novice Junk-Picker."

After hearing the system prompt, Ye Tong set down the large and small bundles of items in his hands, then changed into the clothes.

At the same time, he could not help but complain that this system was rather unfriendly.

This title was just too...

"System, what is this title for?"

Ye Tong tried asking.

Wasn't it said that Hosts could communicate with their systems?

Now that Ye Tong no longer had to worry about food or clothes, he wanted to give it a try.

"Ding, displaying panel."

As an electronic synthesized voice rang out, a black panel appeared before Ye Tong.

Host: Ye Tong

Age: 12

Pickup Value: 10

Strength: 10

Speed: 10

Defense: 10

Agility: 10

Spirit: 100

[Normal human base attributes: 50]

Title: Super Novice Junk-Picker [After equipping, increases all attributes by 20, grants 10 cubic meters of personal storage space, equippable]