The Recorded Battle (Big Chapter Seeking Monthly Ticket)

Inie lowered her head and looked at what the boy was holding. It was a transparent plastic display case covered in scratches, containing an old camera with a damaged shell that exposed the motherboard inside.

"Men Shu CTX-50?"

Inie stared at the camera. She was stunned for a moment, then looked surprised.

"Oh, you know this?"

The boy opened the case and took out the camera.

"Of course. The Men Shu CTX-50 was a top-tier camera ten years ago, a classic product from the Men Shu Group."

Inie watched the camera in the boy's hands and nodded. "This camera originally sold for over ten thousand Federal currency. Even now, well-preserved ones in the federal secondhand market sell for five or six hundred Federal currency. Where did you get this? The secondhand market?"

"I bought it at the waste disposal station. Some scavenger was going to sell it to me for ten Federal currency, but I bargained him down to six."

The boy turned on the camera. Amid a flickering startup icon, it slowly booted up. He showed Inie the display. "I thought this thing was unusable, but it turned out only the capacitor was broken. I found a wire and connected it directly to the motherboard, bypassing that capacitor. Didn't expect it to still turn on."

Inie did not understand what the boy meant by a damaged capacitor or bypassing it with a wire, but she understood that he had bought something worth several hundred Federal currency for six. She nodded admiringly. "You're incredibly lucky, and very capable too."

"I was just lucky."

The boy glanced at the camera screen, which was still displaying its flickering startup screen. "This camera takes a while to boot up. Wait a moment."

With that, the boy passed by Inie and walked toward the