Tracing the Origins of Materials at the Salvage Yard

On his thirtieth birthday, Wen Feng gets laid off. Then his uncle skips town, leaving him with a junkyard burdened by 12,000 yuan in overdue rent and a three-day deadline to meet environmental regulations. The landlord blocks the entrance with a lock, and Zhao the Fat Man next door is waiting to buy him out for next to nothing. Everyone thinks he’s finished. Then he steps on the power switch of a rusted server, and a message appears before his eyes: Materials Traceability System activated. Touch any object, and its model, the condition of its core components, and what urgent buyers will pay are all instantly revealed. Others see a power supply worth five yuan per jin in scrap; he pulls out an IGBT module and sells it for 300 yuan, face-slapping Zhao the Fat Man on the spot. He makes 800 yuan refurbishing a junked motor and 1,200 yuan repairing and reselling an old radio. Sun, the king of secondhand parts, personally drives over to ask for a partnership, but Wen Feng turns him down. Su Wan from the Environmental Protection Bureau arrives with a closure notice, but three days later she helps him apply for a proper license. The System has an ethics lock: fraudulent deals cost points and lock the system. As Wen Feng faces one choice after another in pursuit of profit, he also discovers that a much bigger secret lies behind the System. From a junkyard on the brink of closure to a recycling platform covering the entire county, he finds an entire industrial chain amid the piles of trash. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.