Beastmaster: I don’t want to be a breeder!

"Pooji ~ (Delicious)" Little Soft said, her eyes curved into crescents, holding up a barbecue skewer.

Dark Crow stood on his shoulder, nudging Li Cunxu's cheek with its head.

"Gua ~ (Another ten skewers of grilled fat cicadas.)"

"It's so-so! It would be better if they added some poison, or if they could grill them with poisonous insects."

Little White Spider also eats insects. It curiously tasted a grilled fat cicada, then transformed back into its plushie form and stopped eating.

Li Cunxu laughed: "If you want to eat grilled poisonous insects, you have to go to a barbecue restaurant that specializes in poison-type grilling. They won't grill poisonous insects here, in case they touch other barbecued items and cause a poisoning incident."

After a satisfying meal, Li Cunxu found a hotel near the Machine Capital's landfill to stay in.

The next day, as dawn faintly broke, Li Cunxu went out and entered the landfill to find the hammer-forging craftsman.

The search didn't go smoothly because the Machine Capital's landfill was simply too large.

The Machine Capital only had landfills for storing garbage, not garbage disposal plants for cleaning it up.

The vast majority of the Machine Capital's garbage was mechanical parts from mechanical pets. These mechanical parts were mostly made of heat-resistant alloys, so they were very resistant to high temperatures. Melting and decomposing these high-temperature resistant mechanical parts with a furnace required extremely high temperatures, and maintaining ultra-high temperatures required a large amount of spiritual energy.

Spiritual energy couldn't just appear out of thin air; it had to be exchanged for money.

The Machine Emperor calculated that the cost of processing mechanical waste was dozens of times higher than the cost of recovering these metals.

In other words, processing mechanical waste and then recycling it was a losing business. It was better to just leave the mechanical waste there.

It was like digging a piece of iron from the ground, which only cost one yuan, while recovering a piece of iron from mechanical waste cost fifty yuan.

Moreover, the Divine Imperial Region had abundant underground mineral resources, so there was no need to recycle and conserve.

Furthermore, there was a benefit to having mechanical waste piled up together: there was a chance that garbage-related scrap mechanical pets would be born.

Scrap Kids were a common representative of scrap mechanical pets, composed of messy mechanical waste parts. They had many evolution directions. There were currently twenty-three known evolution directions. They wandered around the landfill all day picking up garbage, hoping to find better mechanical parts to replace their own.

Precisely because of this, they valued their territory very much, and often fought over it.

Anyone who rashly entered their territory would be attacked and driven away. Of course, there were exceptions, such as garbage trucks delivering garbage. They would warmly welcome them, and were very clever. They would use treasures found in the landfill to bribe the garbage truck drivers, so that they would deliver more garbage to their territory.

An aluminum can head popped out from the top of a garbage mountain. Li Cunxu noticed it and saw a wrench thrown at him.

Li Cunxu threw out his scythe, knocking down the thrown wrench.

If it had been in the past, Li Cunxu's scythe could have cut this wrench in half, but it couldn't now. It could only knock it down.

The Grim Scythe Scarecrow's foundation of power had granted Li Cunxu its skill 'Grim Scythe,' but as the evil personality Li Xiao'e drew away the evil god's pollution, most of the power left by the Grim Scythe Scarecrow was also drawn away.

The current Grim Scythe's strength was much weaker. It was difficult to even cut a small tree trunk; it could only cut grass and do odd jobs.

"It's a Scrap Kid. Dark Crow, grab it for me."

Dark Crow flew out, and the Scrap Kid was easily grabbed and thrown in front of Li Cunxu.

The Scrap Kid glared at Li Cunxu, emitting an electronic voice.

"This is the territory of my Green Scarf Gang. I warn you humans to leave."

Green Scarf Gang? Li Cunxu's gaze went to the green scarf wrapped around its right wrist.

"You're threatening me ( * ￣ ︶ ￣ ), that's quite brave."

The Scrap Kid took down the signal gun from its waist and fired a shot into the sky. A green signal flare rose into the air.

The Scrap Kids wearing stockings were the most interesting, with white stockings, flesh-colored stockings, black stockings, red stockings, fishnets…

White stockings were less common because they easily got dirty in the landfill.

Red stockings were the most conspicuous.

Without exception, these Scrap Kids all had green scarves tied around their right arms.

"Humans, leave here. This is the territory of the Scrap Green Scarf Gang. If you want to pick up garbage, go somewhere else."

A large Scrap Kid jumped out and spoke.

Li Cunxu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. They thought he was competing with them for garbage.

"I'm not here to steal garbage. I'm here to find something."

The large Scrap Kid's screen face showed a contemptuous emoticon.

"I've heard that excuse many times. Don't try to fool me. You're using the name of finding something, but in reality, you want to steal garbage in my territory."

Li Cunxu rubbed his temples. Why couldn't he make them understand?

"Look at what I'm wearing. Do I look like someone who's here to steal garbage from you?"

"Yes."

The large Scrap Kid answered instantly.

Li Cunxu's forehead was covered in black lines. "Where do I look like it? I'm asking you."

"Everywhere looks like it."

"I'm just passing through, is that okay?"

"No, you're using the name of passing through, but in reality, you want to enter my territory to steal garbage. I've seen a lot of people like that."

Li Cunxu was speechless. Was garbage picking so competitive these days?

"If good words don't work, then let's use force! Little Soft, knock them all down."

If he was stopped by a group of Scrap Kids and had to detour, how would Li Cunxu find the hammer-forging robot? He knew that there were many groups of Scrap Kids like this in the entire landfill. He couldn't detour every time he encountered one.

Not to mention wasting time, what if he encountered territories that were connected and couldn't be bypassed?

And what if the hammer-forging robot was hidden in the Scrap Kids' territory?

Little Soft fired water balls continuously. The large Scrap Kid was knocked flying into the garbage mountain. The other Scrap Kids didn't seem to know what fear was, and all jumped out together.

Their momentum was strong, as if thousands of troops were ambushing on the mountain and jumping out together.

But the result… was miserable.

How could a group of Scrap Kids who hadn't even reached the bronze level withstand Little Soft's water ball bombardment? They all took a cold shower.

Li Cunxu supported his chin, pondering whether to mobilize the Scrap Kids to help him find the hammer-forging craftsman.

If the Scrap Kids helped, the more people there were, the greater the power, and the greater the hope of finding it.

But after thinking carefully, Li Cunxu decided against it.

If the Scrap Kids looked for the hammer-forging craftsman, they would definitely make a big commotion. If others noticed, it wouldn't be good.

After all, no one was a fool. Since someone was making such a big effort to find the hammer-forging craftsman, then this hammer-forging craftsman must have something special about him.

If someone intercepted him, Li Cunxu would be in trouble. If the other party was strong, Li Cunxu wouldn't be able to snatch him back. By the time the other party discovered the hammer-forging craftsman's specialness, they would probably sell him off, and it would be too late by the time his own strength developed.

It was better for him to find it quietly by himself. If he found it, it would be his own, and no one would compete for it.

Li Cunxu searched the Green Scarf Gang's territory and left without seeing any robots other than Scrap Kids.

Next, the Red Scarf Gang, Black Scarf Gang, and White Scarf Gang's Scrap Kids appeared one after another. Li Cunxu was most impressed by the Fishnet Gang, all of whom wore black fishnet stockings on their heads.