I Pick Up Trash on Mars and Find a Level Nine Civilization

Chen Mo, 108 years old, one of the first recipients of gene repair treatment, with the appearance of a thirty-eight-year-old.

Occupation: Level Three Cleaner, Orbital Environment Management Bureau, Aerospace Department, Chinese Federation.

Put simply, he’s a space janitor.

He has a steady government job, social insurance, and a reliable salary. His only dream is to save enough to retire in an apartment on Mars.

Until one day, his superior assigned him a “top-secret mission”: retrieve an unidentified piece of debris from the Earth-Sun Lagrange point.

He went.

Then his world fell apart.

That “trash” was the core of an advanced AI left behind by a Level Nine civilization.

And now that AI lived inside his brain.

**“The other civilization’s level: Two. Your solar system overall: 0.95.”**

**“You might not make it back from this trip.”**

On one side, special agents from the Europa Union were lying in wait in the docking area.

On the other, someone inside the Space Force was trying to take him away under the pretext of an “investigation.”

And overhead, a harvesting fleet from a higher civilization was closing in...

Chen Mo was just a low-ranking civil servant who cleaned up garbage.

He had no superpowers, couldn’t master peerless martial arts, and was no stronger than an ordinary person.

But he had an exoskeleton. He had a mech. He had access to the most advanced equipment from the South Heavenly Gate Project, ready to be modified.

And he had an alien civilization’s AI living in his brain, teaching him to advance the tech tree to levels humanity would never dare imagine.

**From a civilian cleanup vessel to a mech with folded space, from picking up trash to shaping the fate of the solar system...**

**This is a hard science fiction story about ordinary people, instrumental rationality, and the indifference of the universe.**