Building design and materials research relied not only on accumulated knowledge but also on the luck of sudden inspiration.
The two were indispensable, often blending together seamlessly.
Strangely, as Su Mo scanned from the very first question all the way to the newest one added by Hou Congwen, his expression subtly shifted.
"Have a lot of new questions been added lately?" Su Mo turned to Qi Xiaomei.
Surprise flashed across her face before she nodded repeatedly. "Yes, the frequency of new questions has definitely gone up. The inscriptions on this stele are kept for a year. In the past, there would only be about twenty or thirty questions left on each stele after a year.
"But it's only June, and there are already over a hundred questions on this stele. Especially over the past three months, it seems like thirty or forty new ones were added, mostly to the second and third steles."
"So many?" Su Mo wondered. Just by looking at the questions, he felt a subtle premonition.
