He blinked, a little awkwardly, then nodded.

"Yeah, I’ve been busy with a lot of things, so I really didn’t have time to come over. This Wei Yilong... isn’t this a waste? Just getting any old room ready for me would’ve been fine. I don’t have the time to come here often. I’ll have a word with him later. Oh, right, Xiaoliu, how’s that sorting workshop I talked to Yilong about coming along?"

Hearing the chairman’s question, Liu Xia quickly replied:

"Everything here is now fully operational. All the sorting workshops are up and running. In addition, the separate workshop for sorting recyclable and reusable materials, which President Wei arranged to have built, has also been put into use."

Fang Chenyi’s eyes lit up when he heard about the workshop for recycling and reuse. This was the very workshop he had asked Wei Yilong to set up.

His original reason for building this place, his ultimate goal, was all for that workshop!

Now that he heard it was operational, he was itching with anticipation.

"Oh? It’s already in use? Alright, let’s go take a look now."

Without another moment of hesitation, he stood up and headed for the door.

It wasn’t that Fang Chenyi was impatient. The main reason was that he’d only reached his current status and accumulated his vast fortune entirely because of the Scrap Picking System.

Therefore, when it came to picking scraps, Fang Chenyi was always incredibly serious and enthusiastic.

Seeing this, Liu Xia quickly followed him out of the office. She then led him to an electric cart and drove him to a long row of a dozen massive workshops.

"Chairman, we’re here."

Since this was the recycling area, there were none of the large trucks that were constantly coming and going outside. The only vehicles here were internal transports, moving items over from the other sorting workshops.

He nodded in satisfaction and walked directly to the entrance of the first workshop. Looking at the massive building, which covered several acres, Fang Chenyi couldn’t help but think, ’If I want to sort through everything in this one workshop, it’ll take me at least a dozen days! Just imagine how many rewards I’ll get if I collect it all!’

"Alright, you can go back for now. I’ll wander around here by myself and think about the best way to handle these things. Oh, right, seal off all entrances and exits to this Workshop Number One for now."

Fang Chenyi had personally designed these ten workshops. Each building was completely isolated from the next. Furthermore, the entire area was enclosed by a wall over ten meters high. This meant that as soon as the main gate was shut, the area was effectively sealed off like a private courtyard.

Although Liu Xia didn’t understand why Fang Chenyi was doing this, she was smart enough not to ask any questions. She immediately gave the order for the staff to close the workshop, then turned, hopped back on the electric cart, and left.

Fang Chenyi was quite satisfied with Liu Xia’s reaction. ’Doesn’t ask what shouldn’t be asked, doesn’t look at what shouldn’t be seen. This is exactly the kind of person I need.’

Once everything was sealed, Fang Chenyi finally stepped through the small side door of Warehouse One, turning back to lock it from the inside.

He took a deep breath, reached into his coat, and pulled out a tattered clutch. He unzipped it and, with a flick of his wrist, produced his prized woven bag.

"Heh heh, my dearest little scraps, I’m here for you!"

He eagerly walked deeper into the warehouse, where he was greeted by rows of massive, neatly arranged stainless steel bins.

Fang Chenyi had designed these bins himself. They were square on top and tapered into a cone at the bottom. At the very tip of the cone was a custom-made small hatch. This hatch extended out a good ten centimeters or so, and its opening was the perfect size for fitting a woven bag over it.

The purpose, obviously, was to make scrap collecting a little easier for Fang Chenyi.

’All I have to do is slip the woven bag over the hatch, open it up, and—instant satisfaction!’

Gleefully thinking about this, he walked over to the first bin near the entrance, found the small hatch, and slipped his woven bag over it.

The next moment, as the hatch opened, Fang Chenyi heard a great RUSHING sound, followed by a continuous stream of notifications ringing in his mind.

[Master has collected one worn-out plastic toy car. System Reward: 700 yuan. The reward has been deposited into Master’s bank account. Please check your balance.]

[Master has collected one worn-out plastic phone case. System Reward: 150 yuan. The reward has been deposited into Master’s bank account. Please check your balance.]

[Master has collected one worn-out plastic cup. System Reward: 300 yuan. The reward has been deposited into Master’s bank account. Please check your balance.]

Listening to the notifications in his mind, Fang Chenyi was thrilled. ’I can’t believe this method actually works! At this rate, the time it’ll take for me to really take off will be cut down drastically!’

Ten minutes... half an hour... an hour. After a full hour, he had finally managed to collect the entire contents of the massive bin into his woven bag.

However, the bin had been filled entirely with plastic products, and he hadn’t triggered a single special reward, which left him a little frustrated.

He shook his head in frustration. In the last hour, he must have collected tens of thousands of scraps into his bag!

Of course, aside from feeling frustrated, there was nothing Fang Chenyi could do about it.

Taking a deep breath, he turned and moved on to the next massive bin.

Same procedure, same actions. Same endless stream of notifications.

Over an hour later, Fang Chenyi found himself just as frustrated to discover that, once again, he hadn’t triggered any special rewards.

For a moment, Fang Chenyi began to wonder, ’Is it possible this "cheating" method is being restricted from getting special rewards?’

If that was really the case, he might as well just turn around and leave. This entire facility would have been built for nothing.

The money was still rolling in, but to the current Fang Chenyi, it was a trivial amount. It was no exaggeration to say that.

With the income from his corporate group, he wouldn’t even bother to pick up 10,000 yuan if he saw it on the ground. In the time it would take him to bend over, he would have already earned more than that.

If, as he suspected, he couldn’t trigger special rewards this way, then there was absolutely no reason to waste his time here.

Clinging to a sliver of hope, he moved on to the next bin.

[Master has collected one worn-out pair of plastic binoculars. System Reward: 900 yuan. The reward has been deposited into Master’s bank account. Please check your balance.]

[Master has collected one worn-out plastic vibrator. System Reward: 400 yuan. The reward has been deposited into Master’s bank account. Please check your balance.]

[Master has collected one worn-out laptop computer. Special system reward activated...