The conversation shifted to Jack the Ripper, and the warning of the triple yoke was lifted.

Jack the Ripper is a real person in a previous life, and does not belong to "reincarnation intelligence" in the strict sense, and any form of mentioning it is not considered a violation.

Chino directly said the key point: "When you told me about Jack the Ripper before, you mentioned that she had a dice, and she used this dice to evade the trapper many times. ”

Chou Xi's expression was a little strange: "It's just a legend, who knows if it's true or not, maybe Jack deliberately made up those stories in order to highlight his mystery." It's like the ancient emperors of the East, who all claimed to be the true dragon emperor, but biologists have never found the existence of dragons in archaeology. ”

Chino really wants to tell Chou Xi that there are dragons, there are dragons, but you haven't seen them.

But every time he raised this thought, the warning would follow him, which meant that his every move, and even any change in thinking caused by the brain electrical nerves, was under the control of the Supreme Being.

Chino didn't dwell on the dragon issue and continued: "According to Jack the Ripper's literature, what is the use of that dice? You give me a complete reproduction. ”

Chou Xi: "I play Jack in the first person? ”

Chino: "yes, you're treating you as Jack and I'm arresting you, how are you going to escape with this dice?" ”

Chou Xi opened the storage compartment of the secret room, found the sealed and preserved dice, and then coughed lightly, and said slowly: "Will I be captured by Chino today?" 8。 ”

She throws the dice, which land, and it shows a 1.

Seeing this, Chou Xi spread his hands lazily and said, "Okay, you have failed, at least today, you can't catch me no matter what, no one can." ”

Chino stared at the dice, a little puzzled, "Why?" ”

"Because the points don't match, and the dice show a negative attitude - that is, I won't be caught by Chino today - so even if I dangle in front of you, you can't catch me, there will be a phone call to transfer you away, a runaway car will knock you off, or even a meteorite will fall from the sky... Whatever the reason, you can't catch me anyway. ”

Chino: "I don't understand... So if she's unlucky, she says 8 and the dice show 8, she will definitely be caught by me? ”

"First of all, you misunderstood one thing, it has nothing to do with luck, and it's not gambling, it's not a matter of guessing right or wrong, it's a kind of "foreknowledge". If I were to explain the definition here, it would be like a concept in dialectical materialism—the law of cause and effect. ”

"You should know that our world is a huge chaotic system, where everything moves irregularly, uncertain, unrepeatable, and unpredictable."

"But have you ever thought that the so-called chaotic system is only observed and defined from the perspective of our three-dimensional creatures, if there are higher-dimensional creatures, the basic vectors in their eyes are different, and the observed things are also different? Perhaps everything that seems random and unpredictable is actually a fixed program, but it is not perceptible from a three-dimensional perspective. ”

Without warning, Chino drew his dagger and stabbed his palm with a knife, then showed the bloody wound to Chou Xi: "You mean, my act of raising a thought is also a fixed procedure?" ”

While bandaging Chino's hand, Chou Xi said lazily: "You are now stabbing yourself without warning in order to prove the unpredictability of the chaotic system, in your eyes, this is a temporary, completely random, and unpredictable behavior. ”

"But in fact, the fact that you suddenly stabbed yourself may have been doomed a long time ago, and what you think is 'unpredictable' is just a written program, triggered at a specific point in time, and the person who wrote this program can see it clearly, but you can't perceive it yourself."

Chino shook his head: "This is idealism, which completely denies the objective existence of human beings, and has been out of the category of materialism. ”

He shook his head and said, "Materialism, idealism... This is just a philosophical faction, defined from a human perspective. If the legend about Jack is true, and if you want to understand it, you have to detach yourself from the human perspective - you see yourself as a god, an omnipotent god, and not be bound by any so-called human morality, scientific axioms. ”

Chino closed his eyes and was silent for a moment, then opened them and nodded, indicating that he had changed his mind.

Chou Xi: "Then let's move on." As mentioned earlier, Jack's dice have nothing to do with luck, not that there is a prize for guessing correctly, but it is unlucky to guess wrong. It just gives Jack a way to predict the outcome of something — in layman's terms, the future, through the counting of the dice. ”

In other words, the outcome of the dice prediction is predestined for a long time, and it only tells you the result through the number of points. For example, I won't be caught by you today, this result has been determined, the number of points I said in my mouth is 8, the dice express negation, the number of points it throws must not be 8, even if I throw a thousand times 10,000 times, I will only get 123456790, not 8. ”

Whether this dice are really as magical as they used to be, Chino doesn't know for the time being.

If it is true, it would be too exaggerated, this is already a power that completely transcends cognition, not to mention that in the previous life, even in the transcendent world, it was an unimaginable power.

And Chino has a vague premonition that this power may be real...

In the game he laid out with Bolton before, the whole set of schemes was linked together, and there were no mistakes, but the reincarnators were hundreds of miles away, and those who had no spiritual abilities somehow saw through the scheme, and they simply didn't take the bait.

If there were such dice...

Wrong... As he said in the past, this dice is just a medium, it is just a very ordinary dice, and there is nothing special about it, but Jack, who has that power, just chose to roll the dice to show his abilities.

Strictly speaking, dice are not a necessity, they are just Jack's personal hobby, and she can switch to anything like a coin toss, a lot, a lot, etc.

An adversary who can predict the future... This is outrageous, this is no longer the power of the same dimension.

Chino thought for a long time and asked, "I have a question, if I am Jack, after predicting the future, can I modify the future result through specific means?" ”

Chou Xi: "What do you mean?" ”

Chino: "In the theory of cause and effect, cause and effect is a cycle, and if Jack foresees the 'effect', he should be able to change the 'effect' by modifying the 'cause'. ”

"For example, Jack is going to City A today, but she knows through the dice that going to City A will be captured by a man, so she directly modifies the 'cause' - she won't go to City A today-so that there is no 'fruit' of 'Jack was captured by a man in City A'."

Chou Xi shook his head dryly: "No." ”

Chino: "Why not?" ”

"First of all, you think of the world as a program that doesn't have any bugs. So do you think that if you are a piece of code in a program, even if you can see other codes, do you have a way to change them? ”

Chino: "And what I just mentioned about City A, which is a paradox?" ”

Chou Xi: "It's not a paradox. Suppose Jack learns that he will be captured in City A today, it is logical that as long as she doesn't go to City A today, she will not be captured - but in fact, this is not true. ”

"The future 'effect' has been determined, and no matter how much Jack modifies the 'cause', that effect will eventually be reached. She tries her best not to get to City A, but eventually she gets there for various reasons - for example, the city where she lives suddenly quakes and the entire population is forced to move to City A; For example, she boarded the plane and wanted to escape to another place, but the plane broke down and had to make a forced landing in City A; Another example is that she stayed at home and couldn't go out, but the catcher suddenly found a clue and came to arrest her, she was forced to run all the way, and finally caught in City A..."

"Once the 'fruit' is predestined, there is no way to modify it."

Chino: "And the dice... Or rather, what is the use of Jack's power? Since the outcome cannot be changed once it is predestined, if Jack foresees something bad for her, and she can't do anything to change it, can that force be of any real use? ”

"Strictly speaking, from the perspective of pure profit, it is really useless. But that force is terrible, it denies the unpredictability of the world. Do you understand what this means? This means that there is no meaning in this world, everyone is a program, fate is already predestined, and your every move is written. ”

Others can't foresee their fate, but Jack can, even if she can't change it, but "foreseeing" is already an unimaginable force in itself, and she directly peeks into the unknown laws of terror in this world. It could even be said that she has eyes that are like gods, and she can see cause and effect! Isn't that scary? ”

Chino fell into a long contemplation.

Those metaphysical things—whether the world is a program, whether human beings have objective existence, whether everything is real... These Chino don't care, a person who has no empathy ability, will not have a solemn heart for any existence, and will not be in awe of the truth.

Chino's only concern is Jack's power, and the essence that comes out of that power.

Seeing Cause and Effect...

Chino asked slowly, "So, can I summarize Jack's abilities in one sentence - she can see the future, but she can't influence it." ”

Chou Xi snapped his fingers: "100% accurate." ”

Chino: "In other words, what she foresees will happen, and no one can change it." ”

Chou Xi: "That's right. ”

Chino chuckled and quipped, "If I were her, I would be throwing dice every day." ”

Chou Xi suddenly jumped up, waved his arms and made a "boom" motion, and said with a hippie smile, "Surprise! Finally on this topic, don't you think that there are no limits to this ability? ”

Chino was stunned for a moment, and said angrily, "You... Can you finish it in one sitting next time? ”

Chou Xi deliberately sold a pass, and said lazily, "Such an interesting thing, of course, you have to talk about it slowly." Suppose that there are transcendental beings in this world, let's call them gods, then the law of cause and effect is a manuscript written by a god, and it is not something that mortals can peep at if they want to. ”

"At least in the codex left by Jack the Ripper, there is a mention of this dice - or the limitations of the use of this ability."

Chino: "Say it quickly, or you'll lose your salary." ”

In the past: "Limit one, time." Jack can only use 0:00 a.m. as a benchmark to foresee today's events. ”

"For example, if she asks, 'Am I going to be caught today?'

"But if she asks, 'Am I going to be caught?' no."

"The word 'today' must be added, and nothing beyond midnight can be foreseen."

Chino pondered: "Even if there is such a time rule, if she foresees different things multiple times a day, theoretically there is no limit. ”

"Limit two, the number of times." Chou Xi interrupted Chino's thoughts, "Jack's ability can only be used twice a day, so he can't be infinitely foreseeable. ”

Chino nodded, the number of times plus time, this is already a big weakness, but he also thought of another possible way to "cheat", and asked in a deep voice: "If Jack puts the dice..."

"Restriction three, user." "I told you before that what really works is Jack's ability, not the dice themselves, so it's useless for others to hold the dice, and there is no way to give the dice to others to use and bypass the limit." ”

Needless to remind Chino, Chou Xi continued: "There is one last limit, and it is also a very crucial limit, Jack's ability can only foresee 'itself'. ”

Chino muttered, "Myself..."

Chou Xi nodded: "That's right, she can only take herself as the main perspective to foresee the future." In other words, the question format must be 'How am I today?' ”

"For example, she asked, 'Am I going to die today?' 'Am I going to be killed by Chino today?' 'Will Chino be killed by me today?' ’... These questions about 'me' are all right. ”

"But if her question is 'Is Chino going to die today?' 'Will the past die today?' 'Will the dog neighbor upstairs who sang karaoke in the middle of the night die today?' ’... These questions that don't involve 'me' will not be answered. ”

Chino kept all these restrictions in mind, and in order to prevent Chou from gasping for breath when he spoke, he specifically asked, "Is it gone?" ”

Chou Xi shrugged: "No, these four restrictions are mentioned in the codex left by Jack." If there are any restrictions, it can only be that she did not write. ”

Chino nodded silently: "Understood, the answer is much better than I expected, at least let me know that this is not an opponent that cannot be solved." ”

Suddenly, Chou Xi stretched out his arm around Chino's shoulder, and the expression of his once hippie smile had long since disappeared, replaced by a seriousness and depth that he had never felt before: "Be careful... I know you very well as a person, and you don't know how to be in awe of the unknown, which is your biggest weakness. ”

"Always remember that you are not only facing the serial killer who made the whole fog tremble, she is also the original head of our organization, a terrifying being who can foresee the future."

"So... Put away your arrogance and be careful. ”