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Chapter 238 The Dead Magical Girl

"Huh? This is Mitakihara?" Fang Zheng was somewhat taken aback by Yan Chi's answer.

He clearly remembered that he flew towards the outside of Mitakihara. Although he didn't pay much attention to the direction while flying, judging from the distance he flew, he shouldn't still be stuck in Mitakihara City.

Moreover, the city of Mitakihara that I saw the day before yesterday and yesterday looked quite high-tech and prosperous, with various skyscrapers and holographic screens everywhere, all exuding a sense of the future.

But what about here?

Fang Zheng clearly remembered that although he hadn't specifically observed the terrain, when he sensed the magical aura and landed, the scene in the commercial street was quite lively, but compared to the prosperity of Mitakihara, it seemed somewhat old and backward.

“Yeah, if this isn’t Mitakihara, where else could it be?” Yan Chi was also a bit confused, not understanding what this little guy who called himself Fang Zheng was talking nonsense about.

Fang Zheng explained to him with a puzzled look, "Oh, it's like this, the two magical girls who protect Mitakihara City, their names are..."

He explained in detail his experiences over the past two days, as well as the existence of magical girls like Mami Tomoe.

"I feel like something's not right..." Yan Chi listened to Fang Zheng's description, his brows gradually furrowing into a knot.

About two years ago, Yan Chi, an orphan who lost both his parents, was captured by the Monster Domain along with some thugs when he fought with them to stand up for his insulted parents.

He witnessed firsthand the horrific sight of humans being brutally murdered and eaten.

It was then that he encountered the machine core, signed a battle contract with it, survived with great difficulty, and abandoned his old name to become Kamen Rider Enki.

He fought against monsters all the way, protecting this city until today.

When the incident occurred, Yan Chi was only a 13-year-old boy. After experiencing many brutal battles and losses, he finally made up his mind to make protecting the city his life goal.

With this goal in mind, he stopped going to school and instead spent his days wandering around Mitakihara City, carefully searching for any possible monster auras, in order to minimize the tragedy of citizens being harmed by monsters.

Naturally, he knew the city inside and out, so well that no subtle change in any street or alley could escape his notice.

However, the names of some of the street scenes, streets, and shops in the Jianlong Plain that Fang Zheng had just described gave Yan Chi a sense of familiarity, yet also a strange feeling.

He stroked his chin and said in a low voice, "You mean the magical girl who protects Mitakihara, there's one named Tomoe Mami, right? That name... I think I vaguely remember it."

"Wait a mininute!"

His brows furrowed as he walked to a corner of the room, opened a cabinet made of red crystal and some kind of metal, which exuded a faint magical aura, and began rummaging through it. "This isn't it, this isn't it... Found it!"

He pulled a notebook from the cabinet, took it to the table, and carefully searched for it by date. "Found it!"

He handed the notebook to Fang Zheng and said, "The Mami Tomoe you mentioned, could it be this girl?"

Fang Zheng was looking at the contents of his notebook.

This page has a slightly yellowed photograph pasted on it, showing a smiling blonde girl holding the hands of a man and a woman.

The girl looked to be about seven or eight years old, but her face was extremely similar to that of Mami Tomoe, whom Fang Zheng knew. In other words, they were the same person.

The text below the photo clearly states that this family of three was devoured and killed by the monster's domain two years ago.

Fang Zheng looked up, puzzled, and asked, "What does this mean? You mean, the Mami Tomoe you knew is dead?"

Yan Chi explained directly that the humans killed by the monsters and the buildings destroyed would gradually become "reasonable" in the eyes of ordinary people.

The people they killed either gradually disappeared completely from the memories of ordinary people, or were believed by ordinary people to have died from various strange and bizarre disasters.

Two years ago, when Yan Chi had just become a Kamen Rider, he witnessed a comrade-in-arms who had saved him in a battle, and who was also a senior Kamen Rider, being killed by a monster.

After being killed by the monster, his friends at school gradually forgot about him, and even his family quickly stopped grieving and completely forgot about him. In fact, even in photos of him with his family, his senior's picture began to blur and disappear.

At first, Yan Chi was not quite clear about this and was very angry. He barged into his senior's house and angrily questioned his family, asking them why they had forgotten their "family".

But the bewilderment of his elders and family members when they faced his questioning, and the fear in their eyes as they looked at him, dealt Yan Chi an unprecedented blow.

After that, he developed a habit: whenever he killed a monster, he would do his best to investigate it before all traces of the victims devoured by the monster disappeared completely, and record their names and traces in a notebook that he protected with energy.

The photo Fang Zheng was seeing was the one Yan Chi had found two years ago during a battle with a monster, after witnessing a family of three die tragically due to his own powerlessness.

Later, the family of three was reported in the news to have died in a car accident, with no remains found.

"You said that the magical girl named Mami Tomoe only signed the contract about two years ago..."

"There's another magical girl named Sakura Kyoko. We signed the contract about two months ago..." Yan Chi rested his chin on his hand and pondered for a moment.

He walked to the window, took out his phone, and dialed a friend's number: "Hey, Lan Hai, are you free right now?"

A flippant voice came from the other end of the phone: "Hey, isn't this Red Warrior? What brings you to call your old friend today?" Yan Chi said helplessly, "You jerk, how many times have I told you, I'm Kamen Rider Yan Chi, not some old-fashioned Red Warrior!"

"I'm not here to chat. I need your help to find someone, a girl named Sakura Kyoko. She probably died about two months ago."

"What do you mean by 'possibly died more than two months ago'?" Kamen Rider Blue on the other end of the phone frowned slightly. "Was she a new monster victim?"

"Never mind all that, just help me investigate. Let's focus on the area around Mitakihara City."

"I understand, just give me two minutes," Lan Hai replied.

After hanging up the phone, Yan Chi opened a chat application on his computer.

Just a minute and a half later, he received a file message.

Upon opening the file, a local news report came into view—two months ago, a fire broke out in a remote church one night, and a family of four was burned to death.

According to the police investigation, the fire was not an accident, but a deliberate act. It is suspected that the homeowner, an unpopular and impoverished priest, deliberately set the gasoline on fire, burning his entire family to death.

Among the victims' list is Kyoko Sakura's name, along with more detailed information about her social relationships.

The two magical girls, Mami Tomoe and Kyoko Sakura, whom he had only seen yesterday, now revealed that one of them had died two years ago and the other two months ago.

Could it be a parallel world?

No... I just flew around casually, did I really fly to Mitakihara in another parallel world?
How exactly did I fly here?

"What exactly is this...?" Fang Zheng turned his gaze to Qiu Bi, "Can you explain it to us?"

Cupid nimbly jumped onto the table, licked his paws, and then calmly replied in his clear, childlike voice, "Of course, if you have any questions."

“Remember what I just mentioned about wave function collapse? For every wave function in Hilbert’s infinite-dimensional space, the total number of possible solutions is infinite. But after observation, these infinite solutions will collapse into a single solution.”

"Whether you're a magical girl or a Kamen Rider, you are indeed all in a place called Mitakihara City."

"It's just that you are like a collapsing wave function, collapsing to different aspects because of your respective observations."

Fang Zheng was taken aback: "Huh? You mean, I really came to a different parallel universe?"

Kyubey glanced at him and explained in a way that he could roughly understand: "If you mean the traditional parallel universe, that's not accurate. In your human physics, there's a hypothesis called 'quantum suicide,' you should know about it."

So-called quantum suicide is a thought experiment under the quantum many-worlds interpretation, in which any possibility exists simultaneously and in parallel.

An analogy can be drawn using the 'infinite monkey theorem'.

According to the Infinite Monkey Theorem, it is possible for a monkey to randomly type on a keyboard and, starting with exactly the first letter, type out the complete set of Hamlet.

Within a limited timeframe, the possibility is extremely slim, so small as to be negligible.

But what if it's an infinite amount of time?

The probability of successfully striking it will approach 1, which is 100%.

In the quantum many-worlds interpretation, it is assumed that there are infinitely many parallel worlds, and at the same time, there are infinitely many monkeys, each of which randomly types on the keyboard in front of it.

In this infinite world, there are infinitely many monkeys simultaneously tapping A, tapping B, tapping C...

Therefore, no matter when it begins, and regardless of whether there is enough time, there will inevitably be an infinite number of monkeys who will be able to perfectly transcribe the complete and flawless version of Hamlet.

The quantum suicide hypothesis works on the same principle.

Among the infinite number of worlds existing simultaneously, there exists such a world—

The possibility that a person could survive from birth, regardless of any crisis or event, is 100% certain. This possibility exists 100% in an infinite world.

A person possessing quantum suicide properties is not special, but he can remain unharmed when attacked by any weapon, conjure nutrients out of thin air when hungry, and even in the extreme environment of a collapsing universe followed by another Big Bang, he can inexplicably exist and survive. He will live forever.

"Limited by physical factors, such as the Planck scale, the number of worlds that can actually exist, although infinite and growing exponentially, is still finite. Only in the realm of pure mathematics can the many-worlds interpretation fully embody the concept of 'infinity'."

Kyubey looked at the two of them and continued, "So, in your opinion, what are the underlying principles of your magic, energy, transformation, weapon summoning, and other such abilities?"

Looking at the floating core in front of him, Yan Chi frowned and pondered for a moment in response to Kyubey's question, then replied with a puzzled look, "Isn't my Kamen Rider armor a high-tech product of an alien civilization?"

Fang Zheng chimed in, "I don't quite understand what magic is, but shouldn't this be some kind of soul power?"

(End of this chapter)