With the survivors thinking this way, what Lin Chaoyuan and Wang Er saw was a thriving scene of development.
"Compared to them, we're more like a bunch of insects struggling through the apocalypse."
"They look like a Kindling Base that had everything prepared and planned out long ago."
Watching the scene, Lin Chaoyuan spoke to Wang Er beside him, then quickly added, "But once we deal with that fishing line and hook and get our hands on the sacrificial item Comrade Chu and his people classified as Sequence Seven, things will get better for us too."
Before meeting Chu Sheng and his group, Lin Chaoyuan and his people had had no concept of sequence levels. They knew Sequence Adepts varied in strength, but they had never drawn such precise distinctions.
After meeting Chu Sheng's group and learning how they classified sequence levels and sacrificial items, however, Lin Chaoyuan had readily accepted the system.
The reason was simple: Chu Sheng's group had a very clear way of classifying sequence levels and sacrificial items.
These ranks provided a straightforward way to distinguish strength and Sequences, and that, too, was part of order and civilization.
"Chief, we'll get there someday too." Wang Er looked at the survivors farming on the Floating Island and the not-quite-human Mechanism Puppets moving about it. "If that sacrificial item we commissioned really can be made, we won't have so much to worry about."
"Even if it only does half of what we asked, it'll take a lot of pressure off us."
Hope flickered in Wang Er's eyes as he spoke, but then he sighed. "Let's just hope the cost of using it is manageable. If it's too steep..."
He left the rest unsaid, but Lin Chaoyuan understood.
If the cost was too high, they could only keep the