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"This is..." Old Nick picked up the badge and examined it carefully.

After observing his face for a while, Xing Ye gave up trying to understand the other person's emotions through micro-expressions. Puppets don't have that kind of thing.

Puppets love to tell lies, and they don't have micro-expressions and some small movements. This will greatly increase the difficulty of the game, but it is not impossible to find out the real news from it.

This is where a little trick is needed.

Xing Ye didn't say that the city lord's personal soldiers were dead, he only said that he saw them.

Sure enough, old Nick asked excitedly: "They...the puppets you saw also went to the illegal mine?"

Xing Ye said: "Well...Uncle Nick, let's settle the accounts first. You know that for me, the most important thing is to pay back the money. It doesn't feel good to be in debt. What's the matter with us here? I'll talk about it later."

In the process of negotiation, the older the other party is, the deeper the city, the more unable to see through the other party's purpose, the more calm you must be, and you must not mess up your own position. Only in this way can you gain the upper hand and force the other party to show its flaws.

Fortunately, puppets are not wily negotiators, and they don't have too fine expression function, but most puppets are very simple, and it is easy to have loopholes in their speech.

The key is to distinguish whether they are telling the truth or lying, this is very important.

Even if the tone of voice, complexion, eyes, and facial muscles cannot be used as the basis for judgment, you can still use the speed of speech and the different details obtained after repeatedly asking about one thing to judge whether it is true or false.

No matter how true a lie is, it will be exposed.

Old Nick was really impatient, his speech speed became faster, and the wooden lips kept colliding up and down to make a "da da da" sound: "If you pay the debt, you will know how to pay the debt, as long as you know what you saw and heard in the mine. Tell me ten times, you and the stickman will not pay back any debts, it will be written off!"

Are you impatient so soon? What an impatient puppet.

Xing Ye said calmly: "Then bring out the bill first, the stickman and I have our fingerprints."

"Tell me first, have people with these badges entered the mine!" Old Nick said, patting the table.

"I went in, still with a weapon, and left a person outside to guard. We have been watching until the end, do you want to know? Take out the ledger and write us a receipt."

Old Nick was so angry that he went back to the room to look through the ledger and write the receipt. Cao Qian came over and gave Xing Ye a high-five.

It's nice to be able to force out old Nick's real feelings and be able to pay off the debt.

Guan Ling was stunned to observe. He imagined that if he was the one talking to Xing Ye, maybe he would tell all the embarrassing things he did since childhood.

After the old Nick settled the bills for Xing Ye and Cao Qian, Xing Ye said: "You know we only have three guns/guns, so of course we don't dare to get too close, but if you tell us who those are, maybe I can Know their end."

"You..." If the weapon hadn't been snatched by Cao Qian, old Nick would really kill someone.

"That's right!" Xing Ye slapped his head, "I remembered, I seem to have heard them say that they must use all means to kill the people in the mine."

"They dare!" The cornered old Nick finally couldn't bear it and roared loudly.

"Oh," Xing Ye said clearly, "Uncle Nick, you suspect that the person in the mine is Master Benedict, and you don't want him to die. It seems that Uncle Nick respects Master Benedict very much."

"Of course respect!" Old Nick said, "The entire puppet city was made by the master. I was the first puppet he made. The first task was just to hand over the tools to the master. Later, the master needed an assistant to modify it a little bit. Me, I became what I am today, the master is the person I admire the most."

It’s true, but there are other feelings besides respect, which need to be further confirmed.

"Yes, I also admire the master the most, but I don't like him, nor am I grateful to him." Xing Ye said tentatively.

"Why!" Old Nick was very unhappy, and his beard blew up again.

After the experience last night, Xing Ye felt that the human puppet may not be grateful to Benedict.

A person cannot shed tears when he is sad, and can only show a programmed fake smile when he is happy. He knows in his heart that he is not a human being, but a toy created by someone. He has human nature, but he will never become a human being. Such a puppet Man, will thank Master Benedict?

There are also some ordinary puppet people who are born inferior. When he knows that he is destined to be weaker than other puppet people just because of someone's whim, will he feel happy?

Xing Ye thinks that most of the puppets in Puppet City must have very complicated feelings for Benedict. They have admiration for the person who created them, and resent that he gave them life but could not give them fairness. They taste the ups and downs, but they can't really integrate into it.

He needs to confirm Old Nick's feelings for Benedict. If Old Nick is as malicious as the Santo, then there is no need to continue talking.

"Uncle Nick has no hatred for the master?" Xing Ye asked, "Every time I see my body, I can't help but hate it."

"The master is just the creator, he can't be completely fair, the puppet who has been endowed with human nature has to learn to live by himself!" Old Nick argued excitedly with Xing Ye, "Human beings are also born unequal, why should we hate God? I saw with my own eyes how Master Benedict painstakingly created one puppet after another. He carefully put each core into the puppet and looked at each puppet with eyes full of love. The puppet's Individuals do have differences, but that is influenced by the technology of the times. Master Benedict created countless puppets in different times of his life, and he treats each one as his own child!"

Very well, old Nick is kind to Benedict, so the conversation can continue.

Xing Ye said: "But there are still puppets who want to kill Master Benedict, and those with weapons are just like that."

"What do they know? They don't even know who they are looking for!" Old Nick said, "Only a few people know that Master Benedict is still alive. His whereabouts are also a mystery. I have been investigating for many years. I just found an illegal mine outside the city, and I think Benedict might be there. The people you see are just the private soldiers of the city lord. The city lord has been corrupted by humanity, and he wants to be the only master of the puppet city, and he doesn't want anyone to override him. If you are above yourself, you will find someone to assassinate the master, tell me, how is the master?"

Xing Ye said solemnly: "Uncle Nick, can you swear? Swear that you will never tell half a lie about Master Benedict. If you lie, you will never forget the years with Master. As long as you I swear, I will tell you everything I saw in the mine. To be honest, I really found something very important."

After the conversation, Xing Ye felt that Old Nick could be trusted, and he could get key clues from him, but he needed assurance.

Only by swearing on the most important thing, old Nick dare not lie casually.

Old Nick hesitated for a moment, and finally chose to swear. He was really concerned about Benedict's safety and wanted to know what important things Xing Ye said.

After he swears with the core according to Xing Ye's statement, his whole body has become a lot more decadent. It seems that just saying things like forgetting is a kind of harm to old Nick's spirit.

Seeing him like this, Xing Ye said: "Don't worry, Master is fine, all those private soldiers have been killed. There are countless high-purity raw ores in the mine, as well as robots that far exceed the technology of our Puppet City. Those robots are made of all metal, are weapon-type, have no humanity, and only simply execute orders. They are very strong, cutting off the core of all the puppets sent by the city lord, but they will not attack the puppets outside the mine, that The one guarding the door fled back."

"Master...why do you want to make puppets without humanity? Has he changed? He clearly said that he would endow every puppet with a soul..." Old Nick said in a daze, as if he couldn't believe that Benedict made the puppet They are considered tools.

"I think it has something to do with what I saw," Xing Ye said, "In the deepest part of the mine, we saw a glass vessel containing a young heart. It hasn't grown up yet, if its owner is still alive, it should be only about ten years old."

After the death of his brother, Xing Ye also studied a lot of heart data, and roughly understood the changes in the size of the heart during the growth process.

So when he saw the heart on the projector, he never equated it with Benedict. It is impossible for an old master to have a ten-year-old heart.

"Ten years old..." Old Nick sat on a chair, trying to think back, "Is he the master's son?"

Son? Old Nick really had a key clue here, and Xing Ye asked, "Can you tell me about the master's son?"

Old Nick nodded and said: "Actually, many people in Puppet City know about it. Master Benedict first built Puppet City for his son.

The master's son was weak and sick since he was a child, and he couldn't play with the children. He was a master craftsman. He studied puppets for his son and helped him make the first puppet that could move independently to play with him.

He regards puppets as his son's friends, and each puppet is carefully crafted, and the master's son also likes puppets very much.

But his son's illness became more and more serious, and he passed away at the age of ten. After being decadent for more than a year, Master Benedict dispersed all his wealth and bought the land of Puppet City, and began to make puppets continuously.

He wants to build a city for his dead son where he can move and play freely, and make this city full of childlike fun. "

"What do you mean, the master also made his son into a puppet?"

Old Nick shook his head: "No, I have never seen the puppets of the master's son. The master wanted to build a puppet city first, and then let his son live here. But when he endowed the puppets with humanity, the master was disappointed. He said that his innocent and kind son could not live in such a city.

The master wanted to transform the puppet city, but he tried many methods but failed. During this period, I stayed with the master, until one day the master told me that he was going to find a way to purify the puppet city, and asked me to stay here temporarily to repair the body for everyone, and he left after speaking.

Since then, I have never seen the master again. "