Inside the warehouse, large dumpsters—the kind that could be loaded onto trucks—were arranged in neat rows. At a rough glance, there had to be at least a hundred of them.

Fang Chenyi walked up to a random dumpster and peeked inside, only to be left completely speechless.

’What the hell, it’s just grass clippings from a lawn!’

After checking a dozen or so dumpsters in a row, Fang Chenyi discovered to his dismay that they were all full of grass.

’This is a pain in the ass. Dammit, I got all excited for nothing.’

But persistence pays off. When he walked over to the other side, he finally saw something different: an entire dumpster full of golf balls.

A quick glance revealed that most of them were damaged.

He carefully scanned the area and found no cameras or other surveillance equipment, much to his satisfaction.

Turning his attention back to the bin of golf balls, he wondered if they were worth anything. He tentatively tossed one into his woven bag, and a system notification immediately sounded in his mind.

[Master has picked up one golf ball. System reward: 600 yuan. The reward has been deposited into Master’s bank account. Please check your account.]

’Hey, not bad at all. Six hundred yuan each. This bin looks like it has at least ten thousand of them... By that math, this one bin is worth six million!’

At that thought, Fang Chenyi couldn’t help but break into a gratified smile. ’Tonight’s work wasn’t for nothing after all.’

He glanced at the shape of the dumpster. Besides a half-meter-wide square opening on the side, it also had a large, locked lid on the back.

Obviously, Fang Chenyi didn’t have the key for the lock. Picking the golf balls out one by one through the square opening was clearly not feasible; it would take at least four or five hours to empty the bin that way.

As he frowned, trying to figure out a faster way, something he had almost completely forgotten suddenly occurred to him.

Smacking his forehead, Fang Chenyi couldn’t help but mutter to himself:

"Dammit, I almost forgot. My precious trash picker has another ridiculously awesome ability."

As he spoke, he gestured a couple of times at the three-meter-long, two-meter-wide, one-meter-high dumpster with the trash picker. Then, with a flick of his left hand, he shook the woven bag open.

With his other hand, he clamped the trash picker onto one of the dumpster’s tow hooks.

With a light lift, he effortlessly raised the dumpster, which weighed three to five tons.

The next moment, Fang Chenyi aimed the opening of the woven bag at the dumpster’s chute. Instantly, the golf balls inside came pouring out with a great RATTLE, flowing into the bag.

As the golf balls entered the mouth of the woven bag, they were instantly collected by the system and vanished.

The system notifications in Fang Chenyi’s mind began chiming so rapidly that he couldn’t make out the words at all.

[Master has picked up one golf ball. System reward: 600 yuan. The reward has been deposited into Master’s bank account. Please check your account.]

[Master has picked up one golf ball. System reward: 600 yuan. The reward has been deposited into Master’s bank account. Please check your account.]

...

Even so, it took nearly five minutes to empty the entire bin of golf balls.

Some of them even scattered across the floor, rolling in every direction.

He placed the dumpster back in its original spot, then moved to another one that was half-full of golf balls and repeated the process.

After collecting all the golf balls from both dumpsters, he used his picker to gather the ones scattered on the floor.

He pulled out his phone to check. ’Whoa, holy cow! Over thirteen million! That’s pretty damn good!’

Looking at the transaction records on his phone, Fang Chenyi’s lips curled into a smile.

After finishing with the golf balls, Fang Chenyi turned his attention to the remaining dumpsters.

Although most of the dumpsters were filled with grass, quite a few contained other items: damaged or excessively dirty golf balls, broken or bent arrows, and even cracked bowling balls, shuttlecocks, billiard balls, and so on.

In short, aside from these items, Fang Chenyi didn’t see any regular household trash.

Fang Chenyi didn’t hold back, collecting all this trash into his woven bag for the system to recycle. After working for over three hours, his bank account was richer by more than seventy million yuan.

Satisfied, he put away his woven bag and walked out through the keypad-locked door.

After returning to the room Xia Bingbao had arranged for him, he checked the time. It was already past midnight. He took a nice, refreshing cold shower and then crashed into bed.

「The next day.」

Early in the morning, after breakfast, Fang Chenyi had nothing else to do, so he had Xia Bingbao drive him to the airport. Char and the others had already received their orders and were waiting for him there.

Jingcheng was very close to the island, so the plane landed not long after taking off.

He got off the plane and saw the Apache waiting on his private tarmac. Fang Chenyi was stunned. ’Did these guys get the flight route approved that fast?’

He stretched as he disembarked. Just then, a man in a camouflage uniform jumped out of the Apache’s cockpit and greeted Fang Chenyi excitedly:

"Brother Fang, you’re back!"

Looking at Mu Tou in his camouflage uniform, Fang Chenyi remembered that he’d left Qi Xiaotian with his father-in-law.

After greeting Mu Tou with a smile, he pointed at the Apache. "You guys are seriously fast."

Mu Tou grinned.

"Hehe, it’s all thanks to you, Brother Fang. As soon as they heard the application was from our island’s great entrepreneur, it was approved within twenty-four hours."

Hearing Mu Tou’s explanation, Fang Chenyi understood. ’I’m planning on dropping a project worth hundreds of billions on this island; of course, getting a simple flight route approved wouldn’t be a problem.’

As he sat in the Apache, Fang Chenyi couldn’t help but sigh to himself. ’Sigh, my operation is getting bigger and bigger, but I’m running shorter and shorter on talent. Now even Qi Xiaotian has been sent away. It looks like the most important thing for me to do now is recruit more people!’

The Apache flew at high speed, covering the thirty-minute trip in less than ten. It landed in an open space next to the villa.

Watching the decorative trees get whipped back and forth by the rotor wash, Fang Chenyi shook his head. ’I used to think this villa area was huge, but now it seems way too small.’

Remembering the small, seaside hill in the area he was planning to develop, a new idea sparked in Fang Chenyi’s mind.

’I shouldn’t level that hill after all. Instead, I’ll fence it off and develop it. It’ll be my own private estate.’

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