Scrap Collector: My Newbie Reward Is an Expired Meat Bun

After Lin Tian, a down-and-out junk collector, binds the “Everything Purification and Recycling System,” trash across the world starts glittering like treasure. Scrap motherboards can be refined into gold, industrial waste yields platinum, and rare metals are hidden in polluted sludge!

The System’s expired meat buns can knock stray dogs senseless, while a rich business owner mistakes ten million yuan for “ten million little goals.” And so:

His snobbish relatives: “Xiao Tian, go find a factory job!” → Later: “Brother Tian! Could you help our son get a job?”

His vain classmate: “Lin Tian, how much can you make collecting junk?” → Later: “Mr. Lin, you absolutely must come to the reunion and share your wisdom!”

The arrogant rich kid: “Bah! You filthy scrap collector!” → Later: “Lord Lin! My dad’s begging you to take a look at our pile of ‘junk’!”

His future mother-in-law: “Stay away from my daughter!” → Later: “What a wonderful son-in-law! Mom made you some soup. You must be tired from work!”

He puts together an oddball team: a meticulous top student and campus goddess, a brother with strong street smarts and loyalty, and a socially anxious hacker genius. Their business expands from city dumps to ocean pollution, and eventually to abandoned mines across the stars!

When an alien civilization puts Earth on trial for “pollution,” Lin Tian pilots the Junk King spaceship and shouts at the interstellar fleet through a megaphone: “We buy old spaceships, decommissioned planets, and secondhand Dyson spheres! You say we’re polluting? Take a look at how backward your own waste-disposal protocols are first!”

This is a fun story about a man who makes his fortune collecting junk and eventually takes his business to the entire universe.