Systems in a Junkyard

The day Lu Chuan was kicked out of school, he only had three yuan and twenty cents left on him. He rummaged through the garbage dump in the west of the city for three days and found half a steamed bun, a pair of worn shoes, and an iron lump that called itself the "All Things Recycling System." The system says: Every piece of garbage you throw away can be turned into money. Lu Chuan threw in half a piece of steamed bun - fifty was credited to his account. He threw away his old shoes - and received three hundred. He threw himself in - the system was silent. Three years later, the world's major chaebols knelt at the door of the garbage dump and begged him to recycle something. Lu Chuan squatted on the scrap metal pile and gnawed on a bun, without even raising his eyelids: "Get in line." This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.