"This is..." Old Nick took up the badge and examined it carefully.
After Xing Ye observed his face for a while, he gave up understanding the other's emotions through micro expressions, and the puppets didn't have that kind of thing.
Puppets love to lie, and they don't have micro-expressions and small actions. This will greatly increase the difficulty of the game, but it is not impossible to find out the real news.
At this time, some tips are needed.
Xing Ye didn't say that the city lord's private soldiers had died, 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 should settle the account first. You know that for me, the most important thing is to pay back the money. It feels uncomfortable to carry debts. We will talk about it later. "
In the process of negotiation, the older the other party is the fritters, the deeper the city, the less able to see the other party's purpose, the more you have to be calm, and you must not be self-confident. Only in this way can you gain the upper hand and force the other party to expose flaws.
Fortunately, puppets are not scheming negotiation experts. They do not have too detailed expression functions, but most puppets are very simple and are prone to loopholes in speech.
The key is to distinguish whether they are telling the truth or the lie. This is crucial.
Even if the tone, face, eyes, and facial muscles cannot be used as a basis for judgment, you can still use the speed of speech, and the different details obtained after repeated inquiries about one thing to judge the truth.
No matter how true the falsehood is, it will be exposed.
Old Nick was really anxious, his speech speed became faster, and the wooden lips kept colliding up and down, making a "dada da da" crashing sound: "You will know to pay the debt if you pay the debt, as long as you read what you saw in the mine. Tell me, you and Stickman will not pay any debts, they will be written off!"
Are you impatient so soon? What an impatient puppet.
Xing Ye said calmly: "Then take the bill out first, but Stickman and I pressed our fingerprints."
"You tell me first, did anyone with these badges enter the mine?" Old Nick said, patting the table.
"Go in, with a weapon, and leave someone outside to guard. We have been seeing 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 his room and flipped through the account book to write a receipt. Cao Qian walked over and high-five Xing Ye.
It feels good to be able to force old Nick's true feelings and to pay off his debts.
Guanling watched stunnedly from the side. He imagined that if he was talking to Xing Ye, maybe he would say all the embarrassing things he had done since childhood.
After Old Nick settled the accounts for Xing Ye and Cao Qian, Xing Ye said: "You know we only have three muskets, of course you dare not get too close, but if you tell us who those are, I might know their fate. "
"You..." If it weren't for the weapon being snatched by Cao Qian, Old Nick would really kill someone.
"That's right!" Xing Ye slapped his head, "I remember, I seem to hear them say that we must use all means to kill the people in the mine."
"They dare!" The anxious old Nick finally couldn't help but shouted loudly.
"Oh," Xing Ye said clearly, "Uncle Nick, you suspect that the man 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 puppet he made at the beginning. The first task was to hand over the tools to the master. Later, the master needed an assistant to transform me a little bit. It became what it is today, and the master is the person I admire most."
Truth, but what feelings other than respect needs further confirmation.
"Yes, I also admire the master the most, but I don't like him or appreciate him." Xing Ye said tentatively.
"Why!" Old Nick was very unhappy, and his beard blew up again.
Having had the experience last night, Xing Ye felt that a puppet with a human nature might not thank Benedict.
A person cannot shed tears when he is sad, and can only show a programmed smirk when he is happy. He knows in his heart that he is not a human being, but a toy created by someone. He possesses humanity but will never become a human. Such a puppet will Thank you Master Benedict?
There are also ordinary puppets who are born inferior to others. When he knows that he is destined to be weaker than other puppets because of a whim of someone, will he feel happy?
Xing Ye feels that most of the puppets in the puppet city must have very complicated feelings for Benedict. They have admiration for the person who created them, and resent him for giving them life but not being able to give them justice. Let them taste The ups and downs taste, but it can't really blend into it.
He needs to determine the old Nick's feelings for Benedict. If old Nick is as malicious as the city owner, then there is no need to continue.
"Is Uncle Nick not a bit of hatred for the master?" Xing Ye asked, "Every time I see my body, I can't help but hate it."
"The master is just a creator. He can't be completely fair. The puppeteer who is humanized has to learn to live by himself!" Old Nick excitedly argued with Xing Ye, "Humans are also born unequal, so should they hate God? I personally watched how Master Benedict worked so hard to create puppets one after another. He carefully put each core into the puppet, and looked at each puppet with loving eyes. There are indeed differences between the individual puppets. But that is affected by the technology of the times. Master Benedict has created countless puppets in different times in his life, and each of them is treated as his own child!"
Very well, old Nick is kind to Benedict so that the conversation can continue.
Xing Ye said: "But there are still puppets who want to kill Master Benedict, and those who wear weapons are like that."
"What do they know, they don't even know who the person they are looking for is!" 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 before being in the city. I found illegal mines outside, thinking that Benedict might be there. The people you see are just the private soldiers of the city lord. The lord has been eroded by human nature, and he wants to be the only master of the puppet city, and he does not want the existence of people to override him. I will find someone to assassinate the master. Tell me, how is the master?"
Xing Ye solemnly said: "Uncle Nick, can you swear? I swear that I will never tell a lie about Master Benedictine. If you lie, you will always forget the years that accompanied the Master. As long as you swear, I I will tell you everything I saw in the mine. To be honest, I really found something very important."
After dialogue, Xing Ye felt that Old Nick could be trusted and could get key clues from him, but he needed assurance.
Only by swearing with the most important thing, old Nick dare not lie casually.
Old Nick hesitated for a moment, and finally chose to swear. He really cared about Benedict's safety and wanted to know what the important things Xing Ye said.
After he swears by the core according to Xing Ye's statement, the whole puppet is quite decadent. It seems that just saying that he has forgotten this kind of thing is a kind of damage to the old Nick's spirit.
Seeing him like this, Xing Ye said: "Don't worry, the master is fine, all the private soldiers have been killed. There are countless high-purity raw ore in the mine, and robots that far exceed our Puppet City technology. Those robots are It is made of all metal and is weapon-type. It has no human nature and only executes orders. They are very strong. They cut off all the puppets sent by the city lord to kill them, but they will not attack the puppets outside the mine. Ou outside escaped back."
"Master...why did he make inhuman puppets? Has he changed? He clearly said that he should give every puppet a soul..." Old Nick said in despair, seemingly unable to believe that Benedict treats puppets as puppets. tool.
"I think it has something to do with what I saw," Xing Ye said. "We saw a young heart in a glassware in the deepest part of the mine. It is not an adult's heart. It hasn't grown. Yes, if its owner is still alive, he should be only about ten years old."
After his younger brother died, Xing Ye also studied a lot of data about the heart, and he probably understood the changes in the size of the heart during its growth.
So when he saw the heart on the projector, he never equated it with Benedict. It is impossible for an elderly master to have a ten-year-old heart.
"Ten years old..." Old Nick sat in a chair, thinking hard, "Is it the son of the master?"
son? Old Nick really has a key clue here. Xing Ye asked, "Can you tell me about the master's son?"
Old Nick nodded and said, "Actually, many people in Puppet City know this. Master Benedict originally built Puppet City for his son.
The master's son was frail and sick since he was young and could not play with the children. He was a master craftsman. He studied puppets for his son and helped him make the first puppet that he could play with him on his own.
He regarded the puppets as his son's friend, and each puppet was carefully made. The master's son also liked the puppets.
But his son became more and more ill and passed away at the age of ten. After being decadent for more than a year, Master Benedict ran away his wealth, bought the land of Puppet City, and began to make puppets.
He wants to build a city where he can freely move and play for his dead son, and make this city full of childishness. "
"You mean, did the master make his son 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 gave the puppets humanity, the master was disappointed. He said so In a city, his innocent and kind son cannot survive.
The master wanted to transform the puppet city, but he tried many ways 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. He asked me to stay here for the time being to repair everyone's body. He left after speaking.
Since then, I have never seen a master again. "