At the mention of Doctor, Xia Yuan frowned slightly, a trace of confusion flashing through his dead-fish eyes.
The name sounded familiar, but he could not remember where he had heard it.
He had never paid much attention to outside news or famous figures. Aside from fighting and eating, most things went in one ear and out the other.
Doctor was a household name, but asking him to remember exactly who that was would take some effort.
Mo Shiyu reacted immediately. She whipped her head toward the white-haired old man, her eyes going wide.
"Huh? You're Doctor? The most powerful scientific Contract Spirit?"
Her voice trembled with excitement, as though she had just met a living legend.
Xia Yuan tilted his head and looked at Mo Shiyu. "Is he famous?"
Mo Shiyu took a deep breath and nodded emphatically. "Powerful doesn't begin to cover it! You could call him the founding father of modern technology!"
She launched into an enthusiastic explanation. "He's responsible for at least half of modern society's technological progress."
"He created the vast majority of our advanced equipment, and he was the first to discover many scientific theories."
"From the communicators Contract Spirit Masters use to the shields protecting cities and the instruments that detect Abyssal Rifts, it's all his technology."
"You could say that without him, we wouldn't have the thriving technological world we have today."
After listening, Xia Yuan nodded expressionlessly. "Sounds pretty impressive."
Even someone as uninterested in the outside world as he was could not help giving a slight nod at that introduction.
Anyone who could get Mo Shiyu praising him so excitedly had to be something special.
Naturally, the spectators all recognized this Contract Spirit. Doctor rarely appeared in public, but his name had long since spread around the world.
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