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"You're very observant! Andrei smiled back.

"I've heard about the Ratcatcher's Guild, most of it from Mr. Lucius, and Ms. Josti has a lot of praise for you!" Christopher praised first, "Technically, this case doesn't require the skills of a ratcatcher, please help with this case, I hope you can provide some professional knowledge for our reference, Dr. Douglas has said that from your professional point of view, you can often provide new ideas for the case, and I am good friends with him!"

"I'm listening!" Andrei pulled a cigarette out of his pocket, "do you mind?".

"Mind that!" said Lady Tilly coldly.

Andre was stunned and stuffed the cigarette case back into his pocket.

"Why don't we go to the smoking room and talk?" Christopher was very accommodating to his subordinates.

Andrei was noncommittal, and the two walked into the train's smoking room.

The carriage they were in was exclusive to the 'Chamber of Commerce', there were no other passengers to disturb them, and the smoking room was empty.

"What do you think of the soul, Mr. Sheva?" Christopher asked, lighting a cigarette.

Andre was stopped by Christopher's question, although he and Vieri had been dealing with cases about ghosts, and they were all in contact with soul-related things, but Christopher asked so suddenly, he really couldn't answer for a while.

"It's really confusing for someone who has been dealing with cold machinery for years to ask such a question!" Christopher smiled self-deprecatingly, "So, what do you know about the 'Soul Stone'?"

"A valuable gem?" Andre shrugged, "There is a lot of energy in the stone, and it can produce a huge amount of energy!".

"What I'm going to say next is the confidentiality of the 'Chamber of Commerce', of course, we are all institutions of the 'Chamber of Commerce' now, and there is no such thing as secrecy, but I hope Mr. Sheva is tight-lipped about what he hears!" Christopher looked at Andre with a smirk.

Andre nodded slightly, indicating that he understood.

"The energy contained in the Soul Stone is the so-called 'soul'!" Christopher explains, "which is where the name of the Soul Stone comes from!"

"Ever since the discovery of the Soul Stone, there has been an inaccurate answer to the question of why the Soul Stone contains energy!, until the first construct was invented, which led to the study of the Soul Stone!" Christopher said in a soothing tone, the cigarette curling white smoke between his fingers.

"The first construct made by Benjamin Hanks, the creator of the construct, behaved like a pet dog, with low intelligence, and could only understand the simple instructions of the owner, digging holes everywhere!" Christopher chuckled, "With the invention of constructor technology, researchers have found that each constructor will exhibit different behavioral dynamics, some are quiet, some are lively, and some even show strong aggression. "

"Scholars who study the constructs have tried to find out the reasons for the inconsistency of the individual behaviors of the constructs, and have done a lot of research, including assembling the constructs with soul stones of different levels and energies, but they have never been able to find the root cause, until someone has put forward an inconsequential conjecture, but the question has been perfectly answered!".

"The conjecture put forward by that scientist is that the soul stone does not contain energy, but souls, and all kinds of souls, human and animal, and it is the difference in the soul within the soul stone that causes the difference in the behavior of the constructs!".

"Interesting hypothesis!" said Andrei.

"Interesting, but also terrifying!" Christopher nodded, "This hypothesis has opened up a whole new path and direction for the study of soul stones and constructs, and after years of research, we have finally confirmed the accuracy of this hypothesis!"

Andre nodded solemnly, he knew what Christopher meant by "terrifying", the soul stone can absorb people's souls, thus generating huge energy, then the definition of "human" may just be "fuel"!

He shuddered at the thought, and understood why the 'Chamber of Commerce' had made this matter extremely secret!

"When a creature dies, the soul will be absorbed by the soul stone buried in the ground and turned into a simple form of energy, which is to return to the origin of this planet from a theological point of view!" Christopher said in a flat tone, "As this hypothesis was confirmed, the study of the soul stone gave rise to a branch, that is, to distinguish the soul contained in the soul stone, and scientists invented an instrument that can distinguish the difference between the soul of a person and other living beings, and the development of the constructs has entered a new stage!"

"Does the use of a soul stone containing a human being mounted on a construct mean that this person has been resurrected?" Andre guessed accurately.

"In a sense, yes!" Christopher nodded, "but the actual situation is more complicated, the constructs researchers did try to use the soul stones with human souls to drive the constructs, but the constructs created from this only have human actions and no human minds!

Andrei looked relieved.

Christopher noticed the change in his expression and nodded slightly, "When I knew this conclusion, I was as relieved as you!

Andrei deeply agreed, he couldn't imagine what it would be like for a soul stone with thoughts and memories to be thrown into a machine for refining!

That's as cruel as throwing a living person into a fire as fuel!

"Even so, in order to avoid ethical problems, the 'Chamber of Commerce' still strictly restricts the constructs, especially after the 'Constructs Massacre' incident, the 'Chamber of Commerce' has controlled all the constructs, and at present, every construct, has been recorded by the 'Chamber of Commerce' and monitored by our thunderbolts!"

"What the hell is the 'Construct Massacre'?" Andrei was curious about this old news from more than a decade ago, which gave birth to Thunderbolt.

"This is the first case of loss of control of the construct, when the 'Chamber of Commerce' was not so strict in the control of the research of the construct, many of the 'Chamber of Commerce' officials will also buy the constructs as servants, which was the trend of dignitaries at that time, until a certain research constructs in the laboratory suddenly out of control, killing everyone in the research room, after analysis, the behavior of the constructs has a complete logic, like a cold-blooded killer to slaughter the experimenters one by one!".

"This incident has shaken the theory that the soul stone does not exist in thinking, and in order to avoid the recurrence of similar incidents, the 'Chamber of Commerce' has restricted the research of the people on the constructs, and established a thunderbolt to deal with similar incidents!"