Chapter 508 Digital Area

"The name 'scavengers' sounds like a group of people who pick up garbage and form an organization after getting together." Seeing that Lin Yi was interested in scavengers, Zhang Cheng explained.

Because Jiang Chen was also a scavenger, Zhang Cheng also learned a lot about scavengers from Leohard.

"But in fact, scavengers are not an organization, and they can't even be called a 'force'."

"But--"

When he said this, Zhang Cheng deliberately paused.

Seeing that Lin Yi listened seriously, he smiled and continued: "They are indeed a group of people who pick up garbage."

"......" Lin Yi was stunned for a moment and didn't react for a while.

"The original scavengers were refugees who lost their homes in the war and wandered here. Since the digital zone does not belong to any country, no one drove them away, so they settled here."

"Because they make a living by picking up garbage, they are called 'scavengers'."

"But the garbage they pick up is not ordinary garbage."

As the saying goes, "live by the mountain and eat by the mountain, live by the sea and eat by the sea", the scavengers living in the digital zone naturally know what to live on.

Although they are not allowed and do not have enough ability and equipment to mine resources, they can pick up leaks.

No other country will enter those areas that have been mined for the second time. Even if there may be residual resources in these areas, the residual amount will not be taken seriously by these countries.

So, these residual resources have become the main target of scavengers.

They wander around these mined areas, enter the mines, and carefully check every place. Once they find residual resources, they can take them away, sell them, and exchange them for the necessary materials for life.

In addition, the digital zone also has a designated "waste dumping area" - most of the equipment used by various countries to mine resources will be thrown here directly after being scrapped.

Scavengers often visit the scrap area and pick out things that can still be used, either for their own use after modification or for sale after repair.

Jiang Chen's mechanical prosthesis was reassembled from the parts of the scrap area at the beginning.

"However, even if the scavengers do not belong to any force, they should not be underestimated too much." Zhang Cheng continued.

"I know this!" Lu Linhai on the side rushed to say.

"If they have no skills at all, they will be captured by the mining team here and used as slaves to mine resources."

Not all countries are as rich as Stryker, so when most countries mine resources, they use the most primitive human mining - in addition to the livestock purchased from Stryker, the most are slaves.

Jiang Chen was also a slave responsible for mining resources at the beginning.

Because of an accident during the mining process, he was seriously injured and almost only had one breath left.

The mining team will not spend time treating injured livestock and slaves. If the injury is minor, they will continue to work until the injury worsens and they can no longer work. Then, like those who are seriously injured, they will be thrown directly into the waste area.

Jiang Chen was lucky to meet a kind scavenger, so he was lucky enough to save his life.

According to the coordinates given by Jiang Chen, the spacecraft stopped at an area that had been mined.

These mined areas are called "buffer zones", of course, they can also be called "repair zones", "transport zones", etc.

Spacecraft from various countries can only fly over the buffer zone, and all the places in the digital zone that have not been mined are prohibited air zones-this is to prevent some countries from exploring unmined areas without authorization and secretly mining.

This rule was also first proposed by Stryker.

The emergence of the no-fly order means that all mined resources can only be transported to the buffer zone by manpower and mechanical equipment, and then brought back to their respective countries by spacecraft.

The whole process is not only cumbersome, but also extremely troublesome.

However, for Sterrell, this regulation is not very restrictive - Sterrell's mining team has AI machines, artificial humans, and a large number of livestock, so transportation will not waste too much time.

Therefore, the no-fly order is actually established to limit the mining progress of other countries.

But Sterrell still claims to protect the environment under the banner of environmental protection, claiming that too many spacecraft landings will damage the environment of the digital zone.

When Lin Yi walked out of the spaceship and saw the hills in front of him, he realized how ridiculous Sterrell's so-called "environmental protection" was.

Looking around, there were mined hills all around, the environment was destroyed, and there were holes everywhere, which was terrible.

"Don't worry." Zhang Cheng walked to Lin Yi and patted him on the shoulder, as if he understood Lin Yi's feelings.

"Taohuayuan has arranged people to explore here. If the environment in these places can still be saved, they will find a way."

In fact, Zhang Cheng only said half of his words.

He had attended many meetings with Leohard. Taohuayuan did want to improve the current environment, but their ability was limited.

If the environment was damaged too badly, even to the point where it could not be improved, then when the resources in the digital zone were fully mined, it would be the beginning of human extinction.

Therefore, in addition to exploring the current environment, Taohuayuan also began to contact the Ketra Alliance under Leohard's arrangement.

This is the outcome they least want to see - the human race's war for resources is likely to break out again. Not only that, humans will also have to face aliens and new humans.

If these problems cannot be solved, then the worst plan is to abandon the earth and find a new home suitable for human habitation.

"Advisor, you must be careful!" Dabao said goodbye to everyone. His mission was just to send Lin Yi and others here.

"The mining team here is very evil, especially some small countries, they will catch anyone they see."

"They don't have money to buy equipment and people, so they can only catch some innocent people to mine resources."

"Don't get caught!"

"Shut up your crow mouth!" Zhang Cheng glared at Dabao, "Be careful when you go back, be careful not to be targeted by Sterrel."

After the spaceship left, Zhang Cheng looked around.

"Strange, why hasn't Jiang Chen arrived yet?" Glancing at the time and confirming the coordinates again, Zhang Cheng continued, "This is indeed the coordinate Jiang Chen gave me, where is he?"

"Overslept?" Lu Linhai asked.

"Contact him." An Chengdao was always alert to his surroundings.

Zhang Cheng nodded, and just as he was about to take action, a series of noises suddenly came from not far away.

An Chengdao frowned, quickly walked to the front, and protected Lin Yi and the other two behind him.

"The sound came from there!" Lu Linhai's ears changed, and he used the power of evolution to determine the direction from which the sound came.

Looking in the direction of Lu Linhai's finger, several figures suddenly jumped out of the mine not far away.