"Hmm?"
When Mo Fang saw the piece of fine steel Chen Ping pushed over, his expression was initially quite composed, but he soon noticed its unusual qualities, from its texture to every other aspect.
Mo Fang first picked up a small hammer from the table and tapped the ingot Chen Ping had brought. Then he took out an ordinary ingot and tapped that too, bringing his ear close to listen carefully to the difference between the sounds.
"Strange, truly strange. They're both clearly fine steel, so why is there such a huge difference in their sound, texture, and mass for the same volume?"
Mo Fang puzzled over it without finding an answer, but his instincts as a Soul Engineer instantly alerted him to the staggering value of this strange piece of fine steel.
"Uh, Teacher Mo, have you never seen a rare metal with special properties like this before?"
Chen Ping scratched his head, suddenly remembering that when he competed two years ago, he seemed to have traded a piece of thousand-refined fine steel to Xiao Hongchen for a portable Soul Power Fluctuation Detector.
Two years had passed, yet Mo Fang, a Level 9 Soul Engineer at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, had never even laid eyes on that piece of thousand-refined metal?
Mo Fang's eyes were equally bewildered. "What, should I have seen it? This special steel was probably refined using some new technology exclusive to your Shrek, wasn't it? Why would you think I'd seen it?"
Though he said that, his expression turned quite ugly after he briefly connected it to how Jing Hongchen and the academy's other three Level 9 Soul Engineers had frequently gathered for secretive little meetings over the past two years.
So those bastards hadn't reached a critical breakthrough stage with Experiment