Chapter 758 (1/2)
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Of course, Sui Xiong would know about Leon’s injury.
After all, Leon was wounded in his own temple. As a god, if he did not even know about what was going on within his own temple, then he might as well buy a piece of tofu and die trying to knock his head against it!
Sui Xiong was very unhappy, but he had no intentions of personally dealing with the Red Moon King.
Firstly, Leon was not seriously injured; secondly, regarding this matter… Leon was in fact, quite at fault himself.
He was the one running over to spy on someone else. As a result, he was wounded by the other’s counterattack. What was there for him to complain about?
Of course, if Leon was severely injured, Sui Xiong would not bother about being reasonable. But Leon was not seriously injured. Under such a situation, Brother Xiong was still willing to talk some sense.
Anyway, the strength of the Red Moon King was just as it was. Leon would surpass him sooner or later. When the time came, Leon should be the one to look for the Red Moon King to settle this grudge once and for all. This would make more sense.
In contrast, Sui Xiong was more concerned about something else at the moment.
“Name?” he asked. He was feeling somewhat confused as he looked at the report. “You mean to say that there are still so many nameless people in our Republic of Northwest?”
This report was submitted by Leonard, and its content was about the suggestion to carry out the “Perfect Name” movement in the Republic of Northwest.
Sui Xiong froze the moment he set his eyes on the report—why is there a need to perfect names? Could the reason be that there were still many people without names in the Republic of Northwest? Or there were too many strange and weird names?
As he read through the report carefully, he finally understood what Leonard meant.
In this world, the civilians did not have surnames. They merely had first names. Because of their lack of culture, there was nothing special about their names in general. Their names were usually made up of a few common words or some descriptive words related to their status. This led to a serious situation of repeated names.
Leonard did the calculations. Just among the permanent residents of Void City, there were 6,296 residents by the name of “Spoolin,” 5,261 by the name of “Joe” and 5,250 by the name of “Jack…” and these were the three most common names used in Void City.
Similarly, there were many other names that were also heavily repeated. In short, Void City had a total of 424,500 permanent residents, but only 1,109 people had names that were completely unique and not repeated at all.
After subtracting these names, the remaining ones were more or less repeated names. Adding them up would give a total of 4,991, which did not even amount to 5,000. If names that were less repetitive were further removed from the list, the final result would be 582 highly repetitive names that were used by a total of nearly 300,000 people.
Less than 600 names for 300,000 people would mean an average of one name being used every 500 people. Especially for some of the commonly used names, just by shouting out one of these names while walking on the main streets could turn many heads around.
In fact, this situation was no big deal, but Leonard could not help finding it disconcerting.
The reason was simple. The ninth most heavily repeated name was “Leonard.” There was a total of 4,006 people with this name.
At first, Leonard did not take this to heart. Or rather, he did not even notice this problem in the first place. Not long ago, he presided over the restructuring of the entire army. In the process of reorganizing the troops, he checked through the army roster with great interest. But he was embarrassed to find out that there were a few Leonards in the army. The norm was that one page would have two to three soldiers by the name of Leonard.
In the entire army of the Republic of Northwest, there were more than one hundred people by the name of “Leonard.”
This was seriously beyond all reason. There were not many army troops in the Republic of Northwest to start with, and the total number of names on that roster was only around three thousand!
Leonard was so shocked by this incident that naturally he would want to solve the problem. But he could not possibly get so many people to change their names. After much deliberation, he proposed to promote the “Perfect Name” movement to let people choose their own surnames.
The first names could be repeated, but the surnames generally would not be repeated.