Humans, for the most part, followed the crowd.
As social animals, contact with the people around them was unavoidable, and the pressure that came from the group, along with the pursuit of a sense of belonging, forced people to change their own views and deliberately fit in.
Even professors and scholars who had read extensively and possessed profound learning were no exception.
Not to mention, the carving technique and imagery expressed by the [Ram Deer Figurine] itself did have merits worth praising.
Under the frenzied pursuit of the noble class, which symbolized power and wealth within Newm City, even ordinary people who originally felt nothing for it would gradually change their minds after repeated bombardment by public opinion.
As for those "smart people" who possessed sufficient thinking ability and firm convictions, and were not swept along by the masses, they naturally would not publicly sing a different tune merely to show how unlike everyone else they were. Most of the time, they simply watched in silence.
Xia Nan had never met Jamie's mentor and did not know which type the other party belonged to.
But with the statue itself showing no obvious abnormalities, and having already circulated through the city for a long time, including contact with many high-level Professionals...
There was nothing wrong with the other party not believing him, an "uncultured" Adventurer who had only just come from River Valley Town to the big city.
To a certain extent, Jeff's family reacting so intensely was what was abnormal.
If not for the encounter inside the "Fairy Wind" general store, and the eerie description on the Attribute Panel, which had allowed Xia Nan to confirm that the [Ram Deer Figurine] truly did have something strange about it...
He might even have thought that he himself was making a mountain