Wasteland Evolution: Scavenger Lord

Long Xi, the lowest scavenger in the radiation zone, had his throat bitten through by a radiation rat. As his blood was about to run dry, a black fragment embedded itself in his wound. His left arm split open and healed, skin hardening like iron, strength tripling. A panel only he could see appeared before his eyes: 【Gene Evolution: 1%】 【Current Abilities: Skin Hardening (Level 1), Strength Enhancement (Level 1), Radiation Immunity (Low)】 From then on, the most worthless junk in the wasteland became evolution material in his hands. Others picked scrap metal for food; he picked it to harden his bones. Others avoided radiation beasts; he hunted them down. An energy hunting knife forged from scrap and radiation ore split open a guild's alloy gate in one strike. A gene purifier assembled from discarded medical equipment made radiation sickness no longer a death sentence for wastelanders. A reverse-gravity engine modified from an old-era rocket motor propelled an entire city off Earth. From number 7341 at the bottom of Settlement 7 to the first scavenger in the wasteland to defy the guilds. Until he unlocked the first layer of the fragment's knowledge base and saw the blurred log: "The seed has deviated from its designated coordinates. Initiating emergency protocol." Only then did he learn the fragment's name: "Civilization Seed." And the hunter who had chased it across the universe for eighty-three years had already locked onto Earth. — Description from novelcodex.org