With nothing to do at home, you could piece together some fragments, and the moment you finished, they would actually come to life and interact with you.
This kind of counterintuitive development seemed like pure shut-in fantasy, so it was no wonder Professor Lisha had been so shaken.
And there was no doubt this discovery gave people even more room to imagine what the Lost Souls' dwelling might be like.
"That really is amazing. What do you think it means?"
For a moment, after praising the discoverer, Professor Lisha, Fu Qian even asked her for her thoughts with complete seriousness.
And for a genuine researcher, there was perhaps nothing more satisfying than having their work recognized.
That was especially true for Lisha, who had always been determined to emphasize that side of herself.
She might often have had plenty of complaints about the temporary person in charge standing before her, but she could clearly sense how much attention and seriousness he was giving this little prank.
"I think it points to some essential property of this special kind of supernatural creature. For now, let's call them 'bone spirits.'
"The thing we encountered last time didn't devour things along the way and then change at the end by chance, either."
Lisha didn't hold back, laying out several of the ideas she'd been mulling over ever since.
"Remember how, the first time we went there, you said they seemed like maggots from the same corpse? They share the same nature, and can even be dismantled and put back together with one another.
"At the time, it just seemed absurd. But now that I think about it, maybe it wasn't so unreasonable."
She'd even managed to weave together findings from several different lines of research.
"Because of its ridiculous sense of superiority, the