Sun Hang had the Mainframe look into Copper Finger's track record again. It couldn't exactly be called lackluster; it was more accurate to say there was absolutely nothing noteworthy about it... Sun Hang even suspected that the guy was starting to regret leaving the Anomaly Research Institute to become a freelance hunter—risking his life to make a living was nowhere near as appealing as holding an iron rice bowl and living off the public dime.
Those freelance hunters on social media and short-video platforms might look like they were living carefree, glamorous lives, but they would never film their real hardships and post them online. Even if they did, it would only be to play up their misery, fish for sympathy, and craft a certain persona.
Copper Finger had undergone his most recent full examination just last month. Based on the meme intensity mentioned in the report, even if he drained himself dry, he could convert less than two kilograms of pure copper per day at most. The current market price of raw pure copper hovered around eighty yuan per kilogram. In other words, even if the guy wore himself out every day turning trash into pure copper, he would earn less than five thousand yuan a month at best...
Not to mention that once meme abilities were overdrawn, recovery became extremely difficult... According to the Mainframe's calculations, factoring in the balance between overdrawing himself and the time needed to recover, he could earn no more than a thousand yuan or so a month by converting pure copper.
If the Federal Government did not give infected people a monthly subsistence allowance, that little money probably would not even be enough to keep him fed.
He might actually make more by joining a circus and using his ability to perform magic