Whether it is von and Caroline, or Alice and Marisa, are confused about how to cultivate or give birth to souls with self-will and independent thinking ability: although von and Caroline know a lot about the soul level because of the knowledge accumulated over such a long period of research in the Teutonic Empire, this question is completely related to the origin of soul and life, and it is far from being able to be deciphered in a word, and Alice can be said to be experienced in making and manipulating dolls, but because her knowledge level in the soul is not as good as Feng Longde, who has been studying for a while, she can't find the reason.

The two dolls of Penglai and Shanghai are more like Alice's unintentional works, and they can't be reproducible at all. Whether it is in terms of materials or production techniques, Alice recalls for a long time and can't remember what is the difference between making the two of them and making other dolls, it can only be said that it is a coincidence, and Alice also told Feng Longde and Caroline that Penglai and Shanghai were no different from other ordinary dolls at first, but later gradually possessed self-awareness and the ability to think independently, and became puppets with life.

While everyone was staring at each other and pondering, Caroline suddenly interjected and asked, "Are these two dolls the first to be made so far?" Alice, do you have any other dolls that are older than when these two dolls were made?"

Unlike her brother, even when talking to other people with magical abilities, Caroline will not take the initiative to speak unless there is something particularly important, and often uses the simplest actions to complete things, and if she does speak, it is not convenient to solve it with actions. Either that, on a certain issue, her thoughts are not quite sure is completely accurate.

A sentence woke up the dreamer, Feng Longde, Alice, Marisa, and Reimu and Zhu Henghong, who were in a state of spectatorship, immediately realized this only variable - if Penglai and Shanghai were really the two oldest of all the dolls Alice currently had, then why they had their own self-will would be easy to explain.

Feng Longde used his soul scanning ability to peek into the internal structure of the two puppets, Penglai and Shanghai. It was found that both of them belonged to the kind of robot-like puppets that used the magic power instilled in the outside world and the magic crystals or magic cores stored inside to drive their bodies, and the most important thing was that Feng Longde found that they each had a faint soul fire in their bodies! Although the soul strength was quite weak, Feng Longde could guarantee in his own name that Penglai and Shanghai both had their own unique soul imprints, and they were still independent souls, and they were by no means puppet souls like doppelganger souls that completely controlled thoughts and actions by the main soul.

After explaining this discovery in detail, Alice suddenly realized: "Then I understand, this shows that it is inevitable that the two children of Penglai and Shanghai will become living dolls."

"The way I manipulate the puppets is from a distance using magic threads, or rather. A high concentration of mental power is attached to the various magical elements, and the actions of the puppet are controlled through the ubiquitous magic elements. Alice pondered the wording for a while, and said slowly: "If according to your Teutonic deceased, then I am using my spirit or soul to manipulate these puppets, and if there are really so few puppets that can withstand my manipulation for so long, it is likely that a certain amount of soul energy fragments will remain in their bodies more or less as long as they accumulate and reach a certain level, then an independent soul fire will be born? According to your theory of the Teutonic deceased, this should be the case, right?"

Alice's words later were questioning. It can be seen that even she is experienced in manipulating dolls, and she is not completely sure that this is not the case.

"Uh" Zhu Henghong originally wanted to speak immediately, but he quickly thought of Feng Longde, the immediate boss, who had warned and requested him. After asking for instructions in the soul connection, he asked, "Miss Alice, did you really make the puppet into a form that can explode itself?"

"Didn't Feng Longde tell you about this a long time ago?" Alice glanced at the subordinates beside Feng Longde suspiciously, "Why do you want to ask again?"

"After all, I can't be sure that I haven't confirmed it with my own eyes or learned the truth from the person concerned. Zhu Henghong's eyes rolled and he snorted, "I just want to confirm the truth, presumably Miss Alice won't be jealous of an ordinary corpse witch, right?"

For Zhu Henghong's silent agitation. Alice really didn't notice it, and replied directly: "Yes, in battle, I can manipulate the magic crystals and magic cores in the bodies of those puppets that are approaching the opponent to produce high-energy reactions, then these puppets are equivalent to powerful humanoid bombs." Thus inflicting heavy losses on the opponent. ”

Alice's words made Reimu and Marisa have a helpless wry smile on their faces, it is estimated that they have encountered this situation when they fought or sparred with Alice, and it is likely that they have also suffered in this regard, otherwise their expressions would not be so subtle.

"Then it's easy to explain. Feng Longde said in a deep voice, pointing to Penglai and Shanghai, the two puppets who were looking at him curiously, " The two of them are the first puppets you made, perhaps because of the great coincidence that they were not broken by their opponents in battle like other dolls or used as mobile explosive packs, and every time you control them, they will leave a certain amount of soul energy fragments, so after a long period of time, Penglai and Shanghai have formed an independent soul fire in their bodies, and you have found that they have a complete life, which is what they are now. ”

"In that case," Alice pondered for a while, and after analyzing that Feng Longde's conclusion was likely to be right based on her own memory and knowledge, she continued to ask, "Then why do the two of them obey my orders so much? In the previous discussion, you also said that the newly born souls only have instincts similar to those of living beings, and they will instinctively attack other individuals, but they have listened to me since the beginning? How can this be explained?"

"The reason is simple: the natural birth of the soul requires soul energy, or a collection of soul energy fragments. "On that front. Feng Longde was very glad that he had made up for most of the knowledge at the soul level, at least his soul heart could make it easy for him to understand the theory and application, "When an ordinary soul is born, if it is a collection of soul energy fragments left after the death of other life races, then there is a series of instincts that creatures should have, which are naturally difficult to control, and only more powerful souls can suppress and control it; What constitutes the fire of their two souls is the soul energy fragments you inadvertently left behind, so they will instinctively obey your orders unconditionally since they were born - fundamentally speaking, you are the creator of the two soul levels, Penglai and Shanghai are equivalent to your children, this kind of soul born naturally from your soul energy fragments, the most significant feature of which is that their personalities are exactly the same as yours, or a more prominent aspect of your personality. ”

Feng Longde's conclusion is more detailed and quite to the point: his words directly caused Reimu and Marisa to stare at Alice. The face is full of the feeling of "hey, hey, hey~".

Although they look quite obscene and evil, Feng Longde and Zhu Henghong, who are familiar with the setting of oriental characters, still understand why red and white and black and white show such expressions - it is precisely because the characters of Penglai and Shanghai inherit the two most significant characteristics of Alice's personality respectively, so anyone who understands that Alice, a demon and magician, is cold to others, basically unconventional, likes to be alone, is belligerent, and attaches great importance to retaining his own strength and does not fight with all his strength like Reimu

Regarding Alice's character, Feng Longde feels more that this blonde girl who is a magician and a demon will only show a trace of vitality when it comes to things that she is concerned about or that she is interested in, and usually looks as dull as when she was alone at home, and Patchouli is said to be similar, combined with the actions of his old sister Caroline and the lich mages, Feng Longde said that whether they are engaged in magic or not is the same as the guys who are engaged in research. are used to being stuffy for a long time by themselves or a few people, and their personalities generally have some bad places

But for Feng Longde, he said. He pays more attention to something that is not very good in Alice's personality - whether it is a secondary creation of the same person, or the clues in some official peripheral products, it shows that Alice is a guy with the most potential for blackening, and Feng Longde based on his personal feelings, he found that Alice is not on the surface, but it is likely to be a dark person with a dark heart and a withdrawn personality, and I don't know if it has something to do with her experience of coming to Gensokyo: after all, Alice herself admits that she is a demon. And the demon race, judging from the information currently known, only the demon world or the abyss of annihilation will have such an intelligent humanoid life race, and there must be a lot of articles in it.

However, in view of Feng Longde, a second person who doesn't like to use too much brain in many aspects, he can think that so many pure IQ is suddenly insufficient, and now that it is consumed, he will continue to return to the state of being too lazy to use his brain

"Now the magic crystals or magic cores in Penglai and Shanghai will no longer be used to self-detonate, right?" Feng Longde asked. After receiving Alice's affirmative answer, he continued to ask, "By the way, where did the magic crystals and magic cores that you usually use to magic envoys come from?"

"There is a certain amount of magic crystals dug up from the mines on the Tengu side of the Monster Mountain, and some monsters and monsters in the Enchanted Forest also have magic cores in their bodies. Alice replied after thinking for a moment, and then took out a handful of magic crystals and magic cores from her pocket, "I usually exchange magic crystals from Tengu mainly with magic potions and alchemy products made from those magic plants and mushrooms, as for magic cores."

"You need to hunt some demon beasts and demon beasts with demon cores in your body, which is quite troublesome. Marisa interjected, she seemed to be quite familiar with these things, "But our magicians are more accustomed to using magic crystals, which are much more minerals than magic cores, and are produced in a steady amount- Not only Tengu's own mines, but also the mines of human inhabitants can produce a small amount from time to time, and the only trouble we can also buy is that whether it is a magic crystal or a magic core, the supply is too unstable, resulting in every time we want to do an experiment, the family needs to spend a long time and a lot of effort to collect materials, in case we encounter an experiment that consumes super mana, then we have to toss at least three or four months to slowly collect the magic crystal and magic core, otherwise the experiment will not be able to continue. ”

"You magic envoys are in great demand in terms of magic crystals and magic cores?" Feng Longde's soul heart moved, and he felt as if he could seize a good opportunity, "If someone is willing to sell a large amount of magic crystals and minerals rich in magic power, you can buy as much as you can, right?"

"That's right - not only magic experiments, but I also need a lot of magic crystals and cores to drive the dolls to make my dolls, which is why I don't dare to mention the number of dolls at all: it consumes too much mana and I can't support it. Alice spread her hands, and coincidentally, even Penglai and Shanghai made similar gestures, indicating that these two little ones also took this matter very seriously, "Many times we magic envoys are not short of money and other magic materials at all, but things like magic crystals and magic cores are often in short supply - the tengu and kappa in the Monster Mountain also need these things, and only if they occasionally have a surplus will they consider selling them to us, otherwise they really can't buy them with money." ”

This made Feng Longde breathe a sigh of relief, and said in his heart that chatting with these girls this time was really an opportunity, he directly took out a few magic crystals artificially synthesized from the Elemental Tower from the space ring he was wearing on his finger, and put them on the table: "I don't think you can worry about this - we currently have a lot of magic crystals in the Teutonic camp, and the production is stable, we can consider selling a batch to you." ”

Feng Longde's act of taking out something out of thin air originally made Reimu, Marisa and Alice's eyelids jump, this kind of situation similar to taking things in the gap seemed quite strange to outsiders, but when the two magicians saw the shining magic crystals in Feng Longde's hands, they immediately looked like misers who saw a money bag: "Are you serious? can you really sell us a batch of magic crystals?"

"That's right, I'm telling the truth. Feng Longde shrugged, "Look at my sincere eyes"

At this time, Lingmeng spoke, seemingly with a hint of helplessness: "Feng Longde, don't you know that you look scary when you stare at others in a daze? ”

Feng Longde: "(To be continued.) )