Seventh Industrial Zone

In Industrial Zone 7, waste pickers don't count as people. They are the numbers at the bottom of the new federal statistical report, the three hundred thousand lives corroded by acid rain. The only way to survive is to dig out the cans for tomorrow from the trash. Lin Chen is one of them. He was nineteen years old and had never left a junkyard. All he owned was an exoskeleton that he assembled by himself, a dozen screws, and an old ring that his mother gave him before she died. He thought that this would be it for the rest of his life. Until his subordinate Xiao Qi stole an energy block from a military container, things started to get out of control. The regular army's airdrop pod crashed into the garbage dump, and soldiers in power armor searched house to house. The team was led by a colonel named Ares, who hummed a song that only scavengers could sing. To make matters more troubling, the ring resonates when it is scanned. In order to survive, Lin Chen took the picked up technical genius Li Xinghe and the frightened Xiao Qi, fled from the scrap iron mountain into the rocky beach, and then went into the flea market Rust Town deep in the abandoned mine tunnel. He accepted missions here to accumulate equipment, exchanged close combat for experience, and gradually discovered that his mother's relics were no coincidence - an old ring, a receiver, and a mechanical beetle hiding in the corner trembling. They were all numbered PROTO and belonged to the same old project that had been sealed away by Titan Military Industry for decades. And Ares, the mysterious employer behind the mercenary group, and the third-party force lurking in District 7 are all trying to grab the same thing. This is a road that starts at the bottom of the dump. There are no shortcuts.