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Chapter 904 The Mechanism of the Deduction Notes

Perhaps for Lin Rizhi, the matter of his brother from decades ago was no longer important, but Xia Shou felt it was very important.

This matter was important at least until Lin Rizhe told him personally that he "no longer cared."

But Lin Rizhe did not return.

History has been reset, but he still hasn't returned.

Several of those who had defected to the King of Rift returned, just to see their living relatives before they died, but Lin Rize did not return.

If there were no way to achieve immortality, that guy would have surely died of old age by now, since he didn't actually hide in the underworld with Huangfu.

"Xia Shou, are you still not at ease?" Huangfu Zuoren looked up at him while cutting fried chicken with a spoon. "You've read all the annual reports sent back by the Control Bureau, haven't you?"

"I've seen it all. Sigh, to be honest, I am a little worried. I know I'm overthinking things, but there's just one feeling about this..." Xia Shou couldn't quite put his finger on it.

Should we describe it as dragging things out?
But it was clearly resolved very quickly and efficiently.

Or perhaps it's like a lotus root still connected by threads? There's a kind of cut that seems to sever the roots, but when the two sections are pulled apart, you can't see any threads still connecting them.

Huangfu Zuoren said: "The beginning of the Scar Era is the peak period of the previous generation of Rift King. Then Sprite will kill the previous generation of Rift King and become the strongest Rift King in history except for the First King. Finally, due to the abnormal phenomenon of "Tide of Life" which only exists in mythology, his strength will decline and the era will end."

After Sprite's death, this Scar Age will continue for some time until the Three Scars Kingdom, which was originally divided into three separate regions, merges into one country. This cycle of history will then come to a complete end and begin anew. This is the general outline of the Scar Age.

I waited there for Sprite after he was resurrected and reset, and observed him for a long time using the Deduction Notes. The Deduction Notes also gave a positive answer, stating that Sprite would follow his original life trajectory, reach the peak, fall when he encountered Yuchao, and finally die.

The Deduction Notes are a kind of sealed object similar to causality. What it reveals will definitely come true, so you can rest assured. That era has been reset and there is no threat. Even if there are people in other eras who know about the cycle of history, they cannot change the timeline of the Scar Era.

Because of Spreadtrum's experiences, which are clearly documented in the deduction notes, using definitive descriptions, it's certain that this will happen; there will be no surprises.

"Is this how deduction notes are written?" Xia Shou was quite surprised.

“Yes, the analysis department has studied the deduction notes, and the conclusions of the deduction notes are absolutely correct. So from a certain perspective, the deduction notes can actually be regarded as an EX-level sealed item.” Huangfu Zuoren opened the drawer, searched for a while, and pulled out a piece of paper for Xia Shou.

The above are the detailed conclusions drawn by the Analysis Department regarding the mechanism of the Reasoning Notebook.

The true mechanism of this notebook should be correctly described as follows: analyzing and predicting the future possibilities of the descriptive things written down, and providing corresponding result descriptions.

It calculates the probabilities of things written on paper. As it keeps recording, the notes continuously filter out similar results from countless possibilities and present these results in words on the notes.

The possibilities for most things are limited, and everyone has the ability to predict the future. The difference lies in whether the prediction is based on probability or on a glimpse of the true possibilities, as well as the type of prediction, the time frame, and so on.

"The sun will rise in the east tomorrow." "The ping-pong ball I release from my hand will fall to the ground the next second."

"I will die in the future."

Such common-sense statements can also be categorized as predictions, but since too many people can make such predictions in daily life, they are not considered predictions. (In secular society, such prophecies are common sense, almost equivalent to truth; however, Hume's skepticism itself has shaken the foundations of many common-sense notions.)
According to the analysis, this note determines the final conclusion by observing and classifying the number of possibilities. It does not involve conflict with the abnormality level of the observed target itself, but rather observes the total proportion of possibilities through some mechanism.

To give another example: If the target observed in the reasoning notes has too many possible future outcomes or too many variables, then the notes will give an answer in an uncertain tone.

However, if the reasoning notebook cannot observe some of the possibilities, then the reasoning notebook will never provide a definite answer.

Therefore, the conclusions of the reasoning notes are correct.

Xia Shou read this passage repeatedly and finally understood why the reasoning notebook was absolutely correct. Its absolute correctness was not based on the powerful function of being able to predict everything, but on "honesty".

The reasoning notebook has the function of observing the number of possibilities. If the observation cannot be carried out due to various external reasons, the notebook will give an honest answer of "I don't know". Although this answer does not solve the writer's problem, it is of course absolutely correct... because the reasoning notebook itself does not know and is uncertain.

It only gives a responsible affirmative answer to the future that it can be absolutely certain of.

“What appears in the notebook will definitely happen, so if I interfere with Sprite’s life now, wouldn’t that break the notebook?” Xia Shou asked.

"Since the notes are written like this, it means you won't. Some things can indeed be predicted with 100% certainty, and I can make one prediction right now: you will still be alive in one minute."

You think my prophecy is hilarious, right? Theoretically, if you want to break this prophecy, you just need to commit suicide right away, but in reality, you won't commit suicide at all, nor do you feel it's necessary to commit suicide for some inexplicable rebellion against the prophecy.

The reasoning notes also factored in this kind of psychology. Honestly, would you try to change Sprite's life trajectory right now?

Xia Shou remained silent.

He certainly wouldn't; he merely pointed out a seemingly "obvious" flaw. However, if he were to disrupt Sprite's normal life in order to break the causal prophecy of the Detective Notebook, ultimately leading to another war of the old history, then he would be the true sinner.

If this were to happen again, who knows how many more people would have to sacrifice to end it? Xia Shou's basic morality wouldn't allow him to do such a thing for such a ridiculous "argumentative" reason.

Perhaps the notes predicted this reason. If someone with a tendency to argue might have seen this prediction, the notes wouldn't have shown it that way, but would have used adjectives like "maybe," "probably," or "low probability."

"But the control bureau will probably remain on alert for a while, right?"

"Still worried? You can rest assured now. The Control Bureau plans to observe several cycles and slowly probe to find out about the establishment of the training base in the Scar Era without leaking information. So it's not just a short period of vigilance, but a continuous one."

(End of this chapter)