One container after another was auctioned off at varying prices. Some manufacturers inspected the goods on the spot, while quite a few simply hauled the containers away intact.
When all was said and done, this was hardly a particularly wholesome line of work. Even if you really did uncover a golden legend, there was no guarantee someone wouldn't intercept you on the way home.
Old Li's Yuelai Tavern had already opened more than a dozen branches across Bailin Country, and he even had one or two assembly plants under his control. But ultimately, it was still only a small business, and in the end, it had managed to auction off only some parts from an old battlefield.
The feeling was probably much like "buying a few pieces of jadeite rough from an old mine to prove you've been there," wasn't it?
At least, that was what Mang Ke believed for now.
Until...
"What the heck is this?!"
Looking at the opened container, Mang Ke's face filled with confusion. It wasn't that the things inside were too good or too bad. Rather...
"Why is the damage to these frames so strange?"
Yes, strange.
This was a box of parts from a secondary battlefield of the Ideal Country. The frames were roughly second-line models by the Ideal Country's standards, and all the Core Fighters equipped with Onboard Computers had already been removed. As far as the estimated value went, they could barely avoid taking a loss.
The problem, however, was that the damage to these parts differed from ordinary battle damage. They were covered in tiny cuts no more than 0.1 millimeters thick, looking almost like skin slashed by a small knife.
Such wounds would naturally be no problem if they appeared on flesh and blood, but they had appeared on the