Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 856 Observer Effect

"Want to guess my age this year? There's no reward for guessing right, and of course no punishment for guessing wrong."

Song Shi chuckled: "To be old and not die is to be a thief. Do you intend to use your age to your advantage?"

Croft Wilder seemed unfazed by these somewhat offensive remarks, casually tapping his fingers on Deep Space: "Since there's no guess, I won't reveal the answer."

"Hmm, you're currently at the fifth ring. You're at the second stage of True Spirit, and one of the top tier. Unless a third-stage True Spirit intervenes, you'll remain within the fifth ring."

Croft Wilder scrutinized Song Shi, his gaze seemingly reaching the deepest recesses of his soul, revealing everything that could not be hidden.

His tone was light and cheerful as he casually threw out a series of remarks: "At least among the fifth rings I've seen, no one dares to say they can definitely beat you."

"I broke through to the second stage of True Spirit when I was forty-four or forty-five? I can't quite remember." He said slowly, "As for the speed of breakthrough, that has always been my weakness. I can't do it as quickly and steadily as some people."

"—The question is..."

Croft Wilder's tone was childlike and curious.

"The second stage of a true spirit under thirty years old."

"A hundred years ago, I had never heard of it; a thousand years ago, I couldn't find another like it. Ten thousand years ago, I wasn't Meredith, and I wasn't so obsessed with history; I was unclear about it."

"But I guess it probably isn't."

The man extended his right hand politely: "So, could you, Song Shi, perhaps help me resolve my confusion a little?"

"Yes, there is." Song Shi replied without hesitation, "You guessed right, there is indeed a secret."

"Please?" Croft Wilder smiled.

"—But I refuse to tell you."

Song Shi had already stood up, gently patting the Heavy Killing Blade with his left hand.

Previously, his True Spirit "Present World" was annihilated in a head-on collision with Solomon Beaufort, and he could no longer mobilize it for the time being. He also suffered considerable injuries, and his condition declined significantly. Fortunately, with the time he spent recovering and ingesting [Emperor's Essence], he has finally recovered from being "hardly able to move" to having the strength to fight.

"Secrets are like that; they can be valuable or worthless, depending entirely on who asks them." Song Shi's lips gradually curled into a smile: "If it were Lapis Lazuli asking, he could tell you while we're eating."

"—But you?" Song Shi stared ahead and said, "I refuse."

".hiss."

After a moment of silence, a strange look appeared on Croft Wilder's face.

"Uh, were my words too mild? To the point that they gave you some inappropriate impression?" He interlaced his fingers and rubbed them together a few times. "It's been quite a while."

“No, no.” He seemed to suddenly remember something: “A little over two days ago, someone else also rejected my offer. Ah, my dear friend Solomon Beaufort, who is now nothing but ashes.”

He seemed to be talking to himself.

However, Song Shi sensed that something was wrong with his surroundings all of a sudden!
Every particle in the environment seemed to have stopped moving; the eternally unchanging Brownian motion of molecules, atoms, electrons, and neutrons had come to a standstill, their spins frozen at freezing points. Everything was still.

Legend has it that absolute zero exists only in theory and can even freeze energy. The scene at this moment is incredibly close to it. However, as the fifth ring, the [Great Source] who walks on "fire", Song Shi can tell that this is not absolute zero at all, and the two are clearly unrelated.

It's more like it's locked down! It's fixed in place!
In this static world, the only exception is Song Shi.

He could still move, but that was all. Like a small insect suddenly encased in amber, he trembled and shook, but could no longer make the large movements of flapping his wings.

—The observer effect!
A strange stiffness gradually seeped into his limbs and bones. With each inch it penetrated, that inch seemed to freeze and become lifeless, unable to transmit any sensation. In the brief contact, Song Shi had already come to the answer in his heart!

The act of measurement and the system being measured are not entirely independent entities; they interact, causing the latter—the system being measured—to collapse from a quantum state to a deterministic state. This is known as "observer utility."

A cat, a bottle of poison, and a radioactive source were placed in a sealed box. The cat's death or survival could only be officially confirmed when the box was opened; before that, the cat was in a superposition of being alive and dead.

Croft Wilder's move.
Song Shi was insightful; he saw himself as the system being tested, measuring his behavior to gradually determine his "dead" state!
The sixth ring, "Balance"—is this the true power of a divine throne?

"Hehe." Song Shi spat out each word through gritted teeth, "You're unhappy, then I'm happy! If I really told you..."

"Then you're the one who's happy, and I'm the one who's unhappy!"

My body was as stiff as ice.

But the psionic energy can still move for now!

Song Shi glanced at his spiritual energy. He couldn't use the "present world" energy, but he still had "annihilation." Indeed, the external world was controlled by Croft Wilder, and he was powerless to change it, but the internal world—his internal world—still belonged to "Song Shi"!

—The True Spirit's "annihilation" can be used.

—The psionic skill 【A Glimpse of Heaven】can be used.

Death is not the issue. The question is whether, before dying, one's own flame can burn brighter than ever before, leaving a deep impression on a [God's Throne]!

Holding Chong Shi's hand, he moved it little by little, as if his five fingers, exposed to the Antarctic permafrost for dozens of hours, moved with difficulty but determination, slowly tightening his grip.

At that very moment, the bone-chilling pressure suddenly eased.

Song Shi felt as if he were a drowning person who had suddenly floated to the surface of the sea. A huge amount of air was forced into his lungs, and he felt incredibly refreshed.

“Stubborn as ever, stubborn as ever.” Croft Wilder stopped talking to himself at some point, shaking his head and sighing, “Couldn’t he just kneel down and beg for mercy, and confess everything? He’s throwing away his precious life for a little bit of cheap pleasure.”

“Life. Heh.” Song Shi took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and chuckled, “I live to be happy.”

“If you don’t want to tell me, then don’t tell me. I’m not really interested in killing, at least not today.” Croft Wilder stood up leisurely and tapped his pupils. “By the way, most of the secrets in this world can actually be discovered by careful observation. I already have a few guesses. No rush, let me observe and verify them slowly.”

"As for—"

Before the words were finished, at the far end of the deep space, a point of divine light suddenly shone, then burst into a great burst and arrived in an instant.

Chakro threw a punch!
(End of this chapter)