Feng Jiawen's parents got up early to cook. After eating, they headed to the factory. Though work supposedly started at nine, the town residents all set out early, Players included.
Xu Huo had looked into this kind of instrument before. The production process was fairly simple, but it required painstakingly filling the instruments over and over with the sap or roots and stems of Mutated Plants. Some factories even ordered ready-made instruments and used robots to do the filling directly. Robots weren't affected by mental interference, so there was practically no technical skill involved.
However, the instruments made by the Feng family—those who could withstand mental interference to a certain extent—were more popular. It wasn't merely the value conferred by being "handmade." More importantly, instruments filled by people worked a little better. This had been tested, especially with highly skilled craftsmen, who could adjust the instrument's shape and the Mutated Plant filling in response to one another. The final result was far superior to machine-filled products.
This was true of any craft in the world. Given the same raw materials and the same process, the finished products could still differ.
Naturally, Feng Jiawen couldn't use red-eye fruit for his lesson. He used dirt instead, mainly to demonstrate assembling the instrument and filling it.
Despite being so small, the instrument contained a great many parts, and the filler had to be precisely packed into the grooves of most of those components.
Feng Jiawen was extremely conscientious. He even proactively taught Xu Huo a few "tricks." For example, if the instrument was shaped like an animal, the parts around the eyes could be filled a few extra times, because most people looked at the eyes first. But if it was shaped like a flower, the focus should be on the edges of