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Chapter 53: Truth Eye
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Xing Ye and the mirror returned to their residence. It was around 9 in the morning, when the sun was shining brightly above them. Xing Ye took the wooden logs that served as window covers in the dilapidated old house so the light could stream in, lighting up the interior.

This time, Xing Ye carefully surveyed the area and found there were many shops near his house.

From the building layout, he should be living in the downtown commercial area. However, the location was strange and the building itself was also very small. The door looked beat-up and didn't have a signboard or anything, making it look more like a warehouse.

The area in front of his house was completely empty, with no customers walking near it.

With the mirror's help, Xing Ye arduously brought everything inside the house outside.

Now he seemed even more like a junk collector. The room was filled with all kinds of parts: hands, eyes, etc., but they were all worn out and needed to be replaced. There were even a bunch of iron sheet puppets that were very heavy and took up a lot of space.

They rummaged through everything until the afternoon. They had to stop several times to rewind their springs before continuing to tidy up the house. Xing Ye used some planks, nails, and a hammer he found in the junkpile to build a simple shelf, organizing the different types of items by shelf. Large things like the old puppet bodies were placed on the very bottom shelf, fixing it in place.

After organizing everything, all the objects became obvious at a glance.

"There's a lot of the newer iron sheet puppet parts as well as some tools and cloth materials." Xing Ye said as he held his chin up, "It looks like the original owner of the body was a puppet that had a very strong desire to become a new generation puppet. He didn't have money, so he picked up other people's junk everywhere, thirsting for the day he could collect enough to get a new body."

When he looked at his current body, Xing Ye completely understood the original's thoughts. This body was simply too old.

"The original probably found the copper mirror puppet while he was collecting scrap materials. We just don't know where he found it. If we did, it might give us clues about Master Benedict."

Without a neck, the mirror couldn't nod his head and instead struck his stomach to show his approval.

"It's too bad there's no pen or paper here. The original didn't have a diary, so we don't know where he found the copper mirror puppet."

The trail broke off here.

Xing Ye gave the mirror's body another one over. This time, he found algae in a small chink of the mirror's armour.

"You were probably fished up from the river," Xing Ye said. "There's a net here. It looks like the original often goes to the nearby river to fish up rubbish... throwing parts into the water would probably pollute it, wouldn't it? Even if puppets don't need to drink water, it's not a good habit. Although Master Benedict can make puppets, it doesn't seem like he knows much about the environment."

Xing Ye analyzed Master Benedict's personality from the trails he currently had in hopes of finding him in the town.

The mirror was especially upset. He had already been trying his best to ignore how ugly he was, but now he found out he was actually fished up from the river, rusted and filthy and gross with even algae growing on him. This was the first time he had ever been so miserable.