"After the establishment of Thunderbolt, it dealt with many incidents of uncontrolled constructs, most of them wild constructs, and almost all of them were people who made constructs privately. Christopher didn't answer Andre's question directly, "Before the advent of your Rat Catcher Society, our understanding of the loss of control of constructs was based on the theory that 'the mutation of the soul stone causes the loss of control', but Dr. Douglas made a hypothesis based on your example, which prompted me to invite you to be our advisor on this trip!".

"There is a treacherous spirit in the soul stone, which will cause the constructor to get out of control!" Andre spat out the last puff of his cigarette and extinguished the cigarette butt.

"As I said before, Mr. Andrew!" said Captain Thunder nodded approvingly, "Your presence has provided new ideas for all unscientific explanations!

"What do you think?" asked Andre rhetorically, "I don't think Mr. Team Leader believes in the existence of strange spirits!".

"Although Thunderbolt is a special law enforcement agency of the 'Chamber of Commerce', we tend to call ourselves scientific organizations. It's more academic, and it's clearly different from the martial arts factions like the Hunter and the Death Police!" Christopher smiled, "We're good at explaining everything in a scientific way, but there are too many phenomena on this planet that can't be explained scientifically, such as souls, spells, and spirits!"

"You're avoiding answering!" Andre chuckled.

"Maybe that's the stubborn side of being a scholar!" Christopher smiled.

The two men looked at each other and smiled, and instead of continuing the conversation, they turned to tell the story of the case of the uncontrolled structure.

When the three arrived in Doom Town, the local police station sent police to assist them, and the three got into the carriage arranged by the police station and set off towards the place where the incident occurred.

The

out-of-control case of the structure did not occur in Doom Town, but in a nearby village called Oil Lamp.

The trio were led by police officers to a small farm on the outskirts of the village, owned by the locals, Mr. and Mrs. Clough, who were found dead in their backyard, where the out-of-control construct stood next to their bodies, armed with a scythe, the weapon of the attack.

The body had been dragged away, and the only remnants of blood and the structure had fallen to the ground in the backyard.

Christopher, wearing gloves, was the first to inspect the structure, which looked like a robot made of iron pieces, with an iron bump on its face, no facial features, a dented head and a soul stone on his chest that had been removed and lay flat on the ground.

"It's shoddy, it's a random patch of parts!" Christopher's finger ran over the structure, he turned it over, and looked at the structure's head closely, "It's not numbered, it's a wild structure!"

Tilly, the assistant, stood aside, not thinking of stepping forward to help.

Andrei lit a cigarette and observed his surroundings.

"Who stopped the construct?" Christopher looked at the accompanying officers.

The

officer waved his hand at one of the onlookers, and a middle-aged man with sloppy hair and rosacea walked over and looked at them with fear.

"He was the one who knocked the structure down, he's a farmer in this village, his name is Hansen!" the officer told the trio.

"Tell me about it!" Christopher looked at Hansen.

"Yes, sir, no, sir!" Hansen rubbed his hands together in a frightened expression. Last night, I came to Mr. Clough for a drink, and I called in the front yard for a long time, and the lights were on, but no one answered me, and I went around to the backyard, and saw Mr. and Mrs. Clough lying on the ground, and the thing was standing in front of them, and I thought they had been robbed, so I took a stick and snuck behind it, and gave him a head shot, and ouch, the head of that thing was hard enough, and my hand was numb from the shock, and the stick was broken, and the thing fell like that, and I found out that it was an iron lump! Then I called the others and called the police!".

Christopher patiently listened to Hansen's rambling narration and asked, "Didn't it resist?"

"Who?" Hansen was stunned for a moment, only to see Christopher pointing to the construct, "No, it fell to the ground and didn't move!".

Christopher frowned and looked at the officer, "Where's the Soul Stone?"

"Here!" the officer pulled out a cloth-wrapped soul stone from his pocket and handed it to Christopher.

Christopher opened the white cloth, revealing the red soul stone inside, "Inferior soul stone!".

As he spoke, he handed the soul stone to Tilly behind him, and Tilly gathered the soul stone in front of him and stared at it carefully for a while, and then returned it to his team leader.

"People!".

She said briefly.

Christopher handed the soul stone to Andre again, and Andre held it in his hand for a while, shaking his head, indicating that he had no clue.

Christopher rewrapped the soul stone, handed it to the officer, and ordered, "Send the constructor and soul stone to the Thunderbolt branch of Doom Town, and we'll go to the experimental research later!"

The police officer listened to the order and arranged for his colleagues to carry the structure.

Christopher stared at the busy work, frowned and thought for a moment, and asked, "Is there a garbage dump or an abandoned factory or anything like that around here?"

The police officer was stunned by the question, and he was not familiar with the local area, so he had to call another villager for questioning.

After a few moments, the officer replied, "There is no dump nearby, but there is an abandoned manufacturing plant upstream of the river, which is said to have been abandoned for several years!".

"Let him take us!" Christopher said to the officer.

The

police officer talked to the villager, and the villager showed extreme resistance, shaking his head again and again, and the police officer looked at the other villagers, and the others also shook their heads and refused.

The police officer reluctantly returned to Christopher's side, "He refused, he said that some villagers went there to scavenge and encountered terrible monsters, and the locals were afraid to approach that place." "

"Monsters?" Christopher looked back at Andre and smiled, "Looks like you're going to need your expertise, Mr. Andre." "

"Let him show the way, and we'll go ourselves!" Christopher said to the officer.

"We?" the officer looked equally afraid.

"You wait here, let's see for ourselves!" Christopher said very understandingly, and the police officer was instantly relieved, and quickly asked the villagers to point out the direction of the abandoned factory.

The villagers began to point in the direction and kindly reminded them that it was getting dark and that the monsters were said to be along the river, so they had to be careful.

"Let's go!" Christopher smiled at his assistant and Andre.

The three of them followed the villagers' instructions towards the abandoned factory.

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