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You follow Yin Dong's intel and visit the Institute of Materials Science.
- Fu Qiu
Welcome, visitors... What is the purpose of this visit?
- Yin Dong
Oh, hi. My name's Yin Dong. I'm a student of Tianshi Mo. My mentor has...
- Fu Qiu
Tianshi Mo... I know him. Has he accepted another student? Oh poor thing, I hope you haven't suffered much.
- Yin Dong
Wha? My ... uh, Mr. Mo treats me really well. No one's suffering.
- Fu Qiu
Well... My own mentor told me about Old Mo. They go back a long way. Old Mo has an ... interesting temperament. He rarely accepts disciples.
- Fu Qiu
And when he did, those poor souls just wouldn't stop complaining. All of them left after a while.
- Fu Qiu
When his favorite disciple passed away, he simply stopped accepting any more.
- Fu Qiu
That was for the best. His theories are fringe and extreme. It's not easy for anyone involved.
- Fu Qiu
Oh, I also heard Old Mo had been admitted to the Medical Clinic. How is he doing?
- Yin Dong
He's... Well, I came here to see where he went. Tianshi Mo went missing when the Blight Tide hit us.
- Fu Qiu
What? The Blight Tide... Did he ... do it again...?
- Fu Qiu
He just couldn't let go of his preposterous ideas... Sorry, but I'm afraid we haven't seen him.
- Perlica
You seem to know Tianshi Mo very well. Can you share a few more details with us?
- Fu Qiu
Endministrator and Supervisor Perlica? You're actually here for Old Mo as well.
- Fu Qiu
I don't really know what to say about him. I just started my career when I met him, and he was already planning his resignation.
- Chen Qianyu
Why did he want to leave?
- Fu Qiu
It was the Blight Tide. Everyone says so. It's been the only thing on his mind in these last ten years.
- Fu Qiu
He lost vision in one of his eyes during that disaster ten years ago. Since then, he swore to completely neutralize the Blight Tide...
- Yin Dong
So that's what happened to his eye...
- Fu Qiu
He's like many in the city. They lost loved ones or family, and it burned a mark on them.
- Fu Qiu
He looked upon the ever-growing Blight Tide with nothing but hate...
- Fu Qiu
Old Mo occasionally went to the tidal shores just to curse the Tide. And his curses could last an entire day.
- Fu Qiu
The Institute often criticized his attitude towards his research, but Old Mo never cared.
- Perlica
What is his research...?
- Fu Qiu
It's a project based on a branch of Xiranite science. He chose the most dangerous project of all — the Tide Flayer.
- Fu Qiu
He believed the flaying whip could expand fracture points into fault planes. A direct strike at the core would bring the whole thing down.
- Perlica
It's theoretically feasible, but...
- Fu Qiu
But it's too risky. A user of the Tide Flayer would be completely exposed to the Blight itself.
- Fu Qiu
The slightest miscalculations of core locations would have potentially lethal consequences...
- Chen Qianyu
No wonder the Institute went against it.
- Yin Dong
But Mr. Mo is usually a really kind man, this is...
- Fu Qiu
I hardly ever saw him after he left the Institute. I hope he's doing alright.
- Perlica
Thank you for sharing the information with us. We'll keep searching the Institute to see if there're any clues we've missed.
- Yin Dong
Blight Tide, Blight Tide... Mr. Mo really hates this thing...
