"Oh, it's Student Lu. Please, I'll show you around," Ahke said warmly. Although he was surprised to hear Lu Yin's name, he quickly covered it up. It was rare to see someone with the surname Lu in the universe.
Lu Yin looked up and saw a dark yellow sky. There was no sun, only thick yellow clouds that gave off an oppressive feeling.
"It's fine, Manager Ahke. Take me to where the mission is," Lu Yin said directly.
Ahke nodded, "Alright, please take the spacecraft."
Lu Yin and Ahke boarded a large spacecraft that quickly left the space station and flew off into the distance.
"Mr. Lu, this planet is full of irritating gases, it's not suitable for living, so we, Iltol, bought it to store abandoned machines. Look, there are abandoned machines everywhere, including abandoned spaceships, aircraft, weapons, armors, everything …" Ah Ke explained.
Lu Yin's gaze was calm; this was a dying planet. Perhaps it had once given birth to a civilization similar to Earth, but due to various reasons, it was on the verge of destruction and could only be used as a garbage dump.
Perhaps in a few hundred thousand years, this planet would cease to exist.
The land was dry, and there wasn't even a basic water source.
Many people in spacesuits were searching for something; they were all slaves that Iltoco had brought over from a desolate planet to search for something useful. There were too many of them; if not for Lu Yin's protection, the cultivators on Earth would have been sent to the battlefield, and the ordinary people would have ended up like these people, living on this desolate planet as garbage until they died.
"Student Lu, what kind of disassembler do you use?" Ahke asked.
There was too much trash in the universe, and a considerable amount of it was man-made. Although these products were discarded, many companies would separate useful materials from them and reforge them. This method was cost-effective and also effective in cleaning up the universe's trash. The device used to separate materials was called a disassembler.
Lu Yin had done some research over the past two days and found that cultivators used star energy to separate different materials. Generally speaking, the better one's control of star energy, the more material they could separate. This was one of the reasons why Astral-10 had accepted this mission; it allowed them to train their star energy.
"I don't need a disassembler," Lu Yin said calmly.
Ahke was stunned and stared at Lu Yin, "Student Lu, what did you say?"
Lu Yin frowned, "Prepare a quiet place for me, I don't need a disassembler."
Manager Ake's eyes flashed. He nodded and ordered the aircraft to turn around.
Half an hour later, the aircraft stopped beside a hill. "Student Lu, there's no one here, and there are many abandoned machines around. You can use them to your heart's content. Don't worry, there won't be anyone watching."
Lu Yin got off the aircraft and breathed in the pungent gas. This gas was no different from poison to ordinary people, but it was harmless to cultivators like him. It was just a little unpleasant.
"I'll get someone to prepare an air freshener for you," Manager Ahke quickly said.
Lu Yin waved a hand. "There's no need for that. You guys can leave. I'll call you when I'm done."
Manager Ahke did not continue to be courteous and left on the aircraft.
As soon as he left, he activated his gadget. "General Manager, the students from Astral-10 don't need a disassembler. They either rely on star energy or innate gifts."
"He's probably relying on his innate gift. If he can decompose materials with just his star energy, then he's qualified to become a Lockbreaker. He won't accept such a mission, so don't worry about him. Let's wait for the results to come out," a pleasant female voice said.
Manager Ah Ke hurriedly agreed.
The hill wasn't very tall, so Lu Yin rose into the air and looked around. There were countless abandoned machines that reached into the clouds, some large and some small. The largest one stretched far into the distance; it was probably a large spacecraft.
Dark yellow clouds floated in the sky as Lu Yin stretched his limbs. "Let's begin. I hope I get two pips." He then took out his die.
The die emitted a hazy starlight; it didn't need to be replenished with star crystals. After so many days, it should have returned to its original state.
He gulped; every time he rolled the die, Lu Yin was always nervous.
He tapped the die, causing it to spin rapidly until it finally rolled a pip. There was a clatter as a warblade fell to the ground. Lu Yin picked it up and inspected it. It wasn't bad and was suitable for a Melder, but it was useless to him.
He took out a cube of star crystals from his cosmic ring and crushed it. The die returned to its original state and he tapped it again.
His luck wasn't bad; he rolled a pip and a disassembler vortex appeared.
Lu Yin was delighted; this was it! He crushed eighteen cubes of star crystals without a second thought. This vortex was similar to the Time Stop space, and it could use star energy to increase time. One cube of star crystals could increase time by 160 minutes, which was twice as long as the Time Stop space. Eighteen cubes would be enough to sustain the vortex for an entire day.
"But it's a little small," Lu Yin muttered to himself as he picked up an abandoned machine and tossed it into the vortex. The moment it passed through the vortex, some unknown materials fell to the ground.
Lu Yin took a deep breath, "Let's get to work." He pushed the mountainous pile of trash towards the decomposing whirlpool. Although the whirlpool was small, anything that passed through its range would be decomposed. Lu Yin could only push it back and forth, and it took him a full two hours to decompose the mountain of trash. There was a considerable amount of material on the ground that he didn't recognize.
When he thought back to how he had broken down the cosmic rings, he guessed that these materials could be broken down to obtain even more precious items. However, he decided against it after some thought. His own speed of decomposition was already shocking enough, and if he broke down even more precious materials, who knew what would happen?
A day passed just like that, and Lu Yin spent the entire day disintegrating a considerable number of abandoned machines. The area around the hill had become more spacious, and the materials he had disintegrated piled up into a mountain.
"I wonder how much I can earn from this," Lu Yin thought about it and crushed another eighteen cubes of star crystals, "Let's do this for another day."
Two days later, Ahke received a notice and hurriedly took a flying device to Lu Yin's location.
When he saw the two mountains of decomposed materials, Manager Ahke rubbed his eyes hard. It was real. It was actually real. They actually decomposed so much in two days?
Even a Limiteer wouldn't be able to disintegrate so much in a month with the most efficient disassembler!
This efficiency was too high!
For a moment, Ahke looked at Lu Yin as if he was looking at a god.
Lu Yin coughed, "What's wrong, Manager Ahke, is this enough?"
Ahke hurriedly replied, "Yes, it's enough. Your mission is complete, and it's more than enough. Student Lu, did you do all of this by yourself?"
He couldn't help but suspect that there had been students in the past who had privately brought in a lot of materials to complete missions from the academy, claiming that they had disintegrated them. In reality, they didn't really care and would just treat the materials as purchases. It was a win-win situation, but this was too much. How many cosmic rings had this student brought?
Was this for real?
How could he have disintegrated so quickly?
Lu Yin calmly said, "Please calculate my payment."
Ahke hurriedly agreed and had someone calculate Lu Yin's payment. At the same time, he contacted the general manager, who was the person in charge of the Frostwave Weave's Iltol Company.
"Impossible, a student can't have disintegrated so quickly unless he's a Lockbreaker," the pleasant female voice said with certainty.
Ahke said, "Then I'll ask."
"No need, it's probably fake. Lockbreakers don't care about this small amount of payment, and they wouldn't waste their time on something like this. Let the student go."
"Then, how's the mission going?"
"It's more than enough."
"Yes." Ahke hung up. On the other end, Lu Yin had already received his payment. He had spent two days disintegrating a mountain of materials. Most of them were worthless as they were just ordinary hard metals, but there were also valuable special materials that were sold by the gram. The materials added up to several tons and were worth ten billion Universe Credits. In the end, Lu Yin's share of the payment was more than three billion Universe Credits.
Lu Yin did a quick calculation. If the machines he had disintegrated were in good condition, they would have been worth at least a hundred billion Universe Credits. Iltol Company had bought them at a very low price and then asked the cultivators to disintegrate them and remake them. The finished products could be sold for tens of billions of Universe Credits. Even after deducting the payment, Lu Yin could still make more than ten billion Universe Credits.
The repairs, maintenance, and training of the machines all cost money, and this money would also be paid to Iltol Company. It was no wonder that they had the money to buy a planet and turn it into a garbage dump.
Lu Yin felt jealous. This company was just one of the Outerverse companies, and it was nothing compared to the other major powers, not to mention the Mavis Bank.