The night was deep.
By now, most people had already drifted off to sleep. Yet in Alfin's room, the blonde Princess was wide awake. She held a book as she sat at her desk, reading with rapt attention and occasionally taking out a pen to jot something down in her notebook.
"Productive forces determine relations of production. Relations of production must adapt to the development of productive forces. Relations of production are the form through which productive forces develop, and they can in turn affect productive forces..."
Murmuring the contents of the book under her breath, Alfin excitedly clenched her little fist. Then she rose to her feet and began pacing back and forth around the room.
To be honest, when Fang Zheng had first started teaching them, Alfin had only half understood what was written in the textbooks. Fang Zheng had explained it as well, but it was difficult to grasp its true meaning simply by listening to the textbook material. Yet after this field practicum, Alfin realized that everything she had previously struggled to understand had become perfectly clear. She had truly connected all the pieces!
"That's right. According to Mr. Fang Zheng, advances in Orbal Technology have increased society's demand for Arsenite Ore. Traditional manual mining methods can no longer meet society's growing needs, so new tools capable of meeting those needs must be created. And one day, manual mining will inevitably be abandoned..."
Alfin muttered to herself, so excited she could practically jump for joy. At first, she had thought this was simply a matter of using tools to increase a mine's output. But she had never expected it to be tied to the development of Orbal Technology throughout society as a whole!
Alfin could feel that her perspective had changed.
Before, she could only see