Chen Mu had been in the village for two months, and he had finally gained a fairly concrete understanding of this settlement cut off from the world. The village had no name, and the villagers had a very unusual surname: Moqi. Even Bo Wen, who had studied surnames in some depth, had never heard of it.
For scions of wealthy and nearly wealthy families like Bo Wen, the study of surnames was a required subject. It was immensely useful in navigating high society. Bo Wen knew virtually every surname of any renown in the Tianyou Federation like the back of his hand, and he was even familiar with some ancient surnames that had once enjoyed great glory. Yet he had never heard of a surname as strange as Moqi.
The village had roughly a hundred thousand inhabitants, making it a sizable tribe. What surprised Chen Mu most was its level of technological development. Although the villagers were far behind in cards, they were much more advanced than the Tianyou Federation in other areas, such as metalworking.
Metalworking had never received much attention in the Tianyou Federation. Metal offered very limited protection, which restricted its military applications. Its low cost, however, had led to extremely widespread civilian use, particularly in construction.
To Chen Mu, the village's metalworking technology had reached an almost inconceivable level. They could produce extraordinarily precise instruments, far exceeding the average standard of metalworking in the Tianyou Federation. Their manufacture of Wrist Devices made this clear. Alfonso used an extremely lightweight alloy to make one, taking just two days to reproduce a Wrist Device with ease. Its performance was excellent.
Unfortunately, neither Bo Wen nor Cheng Ying recognized this. In their eyes, could even the most precise metal instrument compare with a still more accurate Detection Card?
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