Value (6,800 added)

In this era, scavenging was already a profession in its own right.

And given the current state of employment, along with the pitifully low rates of waste processing and recycling, anyone doing it on a large scale had a nine-in-ten chance of losing money.

Wu Ming treated the garbage Navi had painstakingly sorted like so much trash and moved away from it, stopping in front of another pile.

These were the little odds and ends Navi had picked out of the enormous garbage heap at Wu Ming's request, things that "looked like they might be slightly interesting."

Although 99 percent of them were genuine junk, one or two did have some decent value.

"Hm?"

For instance, after walking around once, Wu Ming found several broken pieces of gray-white plaster. He put them together and ended up with a mermaid statue.

"Judging by these lines and the mermaid's scales, this should be in the style of the Luokai Period, three hundred years ago. It could just about be considered a work of art. It wasn't made by any famous artist, but if we glue it back together properly, it'll still have some collectible value..."

His extensive knowledge and ravenous appetite for learning had sent Wu Ming's expertise in appraising objects soaring.

His Spirit Power was far beyond that of ordinary people, and he was especially sensitive to the marks of history on genuine antiques. Within a small area, almost nothing could escape his detection.

Find old objects in the garbage heap, then use his knowledge of appraisal to identify their origins—and these things that had once been worthless might become antiques and works of art!

After all, during the wars, with all the upheaval and chaos, who had time to care about such things? Add in the ravages of war, and