What Trash Are We Eating Today?

Aige has been in this fantastical world for a long time. Why do I call it fantastical? Because this world is so different from ours: she lives inside a gigantic garbage dump! She has no idea what the outside world is like. She’s never been to the surface. “Hey, what garbage are we eating today?” “Who knows? Old Man Gu has some new garbage in stock again, and there are new mushrooms growing on it. I’m going to take a look.” To survive, people have their own ways. They collect rainwater sent from above, dig through delicious expired food, and save up garbage to grow mushrooms. What? You want to know if mushrooms grown in garbage are safe to eat? As long as you’re in peak physical condition, you can eat anything. Reporter: “So, what exactly can people eat?” Researcher: “That won’t happen. We couldn’t bear to let it. Every person in the lower levels is injected with a serum that lets them eat this industrially synthesized garbage. If they eat each other’s garbage, they’ll die. That must never happen in our civilization.”