"Get the inventory and classification done as soon as possible. Oh, if there's a vault for the artifacts, then under the rules for Class A ruins' private partners, Yaxiu can pick one to three items first," Yu Lian said.
Whether he got one item or three, of course, depended on how many artifacts there were in total.
Fifi shot a glance at the twin sisters. They immediately grabbed a pair of compass-like devices and skipped off to a nearby storeroom, where the spiritual energy was thickest.
Yu Lian added, "Also, under international regulations, besides the artifacts, he should receive cash or valuables worth one-tenth of the ruins' total value."
"Got it. I'll get the skimming underway right away! Akinayama and Mr. Wood are the best at that sort of thing. I'll call them over!" Fifi gave him a thumbs-up. "It's only been two or three hours since we got here from Tulong."
"Don't bully honest people," Yu Lian said, exasperated. "Besides, Miss Taina is from the Moen family, one of the Alliance's Seventeen Great Families. She obviously knows a thing or two about skimming. Are you sure you can fool her?"
"Don't worry. Taina's long since risen above such lowly interests," Fifi said with a smile.
"Huh?" Yu Lian was about to ask what she meant, but Fifi's attention had already been drawn to a storeroom on the left. Inside stood an exquisite humanoid statue with eight faces and a hundred arms. Every face was solemn and dignified, every arm held an ancient-looking object brimming with power.
Anyone seeing such a magnificent and imposing statue for the first time, especially in an Enlightener ruin, might naturally assume the objects in its hundred hands were all artifacts.
Yu Lian knew, of course, that they were just decorations.
Even so, the statue