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Chapter 496 The Ubiquitous Commissioner Smith
"Didn't you say you wanted to check on the situation of those heroes first?"

Fina, who was adjusting the nano-unit network module according to the network protocol of this world, saw that Feng Xue looked idle and couldn't help but ask.

"Because there's a simpler way." Feng Xue pursed her lips, opened her phone, and directly brought up her photo album, listing one tragic or mundane photo after another.

“Who are these people?”

Liu Yunxi leaned closer, looking at the photos of people who were either unrecognizable, or were just half-corpses, or were lying peacefully on hospital beds. She suppressed her curiosity, afraid that these people were Feng Xue's relatives and friends.

"They are all heroes." Feng Xue activated her Heavenly Lifespan Observation skill, looking at the extraordinary lifespans of those individuals, and casually remarked:
“These people are people who were in car accidents in this world. They either became vegetative or simply turned into corpses, but I can still see their lifespan, which means that they are still living somewhere in biological form.”

"Oh, so this is the hero that crazy woman was talking about, right?" Sarah nodded thoughtfully. Feng Xue was too lazy to complain about her talking about other people's crazy women, and looked at the photos one by one.

But even with the last card, he still hadn't found the answer he was looking for.

"Everyone still has a lifespan, although it has changed somewhat from before, but it can still be observed. It is significantly different from the state of Delis, where the lifespan is completely invisible. They should still be doing the work of heroes."

But immediately, Feng Xue thought of a problem—

Those who were completely killed in the accident are one thing, but what about those who are in a vegetative state in the hospital? If their souls return, how should the cause and effect be accounted for?
Or to put it more bluntly, why was he able to travel through time while the other person was unconscious?
Thinking of this, Feng Xue immediately reached out and pulled Delilah out of the pouch. Faced with Feng Xue's question, she displayed an attitude of taking it for granted—

"Because of cause and effect!"

"So wouldn't cause and effect mean that the time between time travel and return is only the time it takes to run away?"

Feng Xue frowned and casually locked the Ghostly Heart lock on Delis.

He realized that Delis's current personality had the arrogance typical of a top student. If he didn't use the "bewitching mind" technique to forcibly control her, she would spout a bunch of nonsense like "Isn't this simple?", "How come you don't know something so simple?", and "This is common sense, after all."

As her mind was captivated, Delis instantly entered a hypnotic state and spoke the answer in a flat, emotionless tone—

"Because this world is used to select heroes, if we follow the conventional cause and effect, it would lead to a waste that each world can only have one hero. Even if we arrange hundreds of car accidents at the same time, it would still result in a situation where if even one of these heroes survives, the plane will not be able to produce any more heroes."

"So the hero's karma has been severed? But didn't you say before that a hero can only sever karma after becoming a god?"

Feng Xue frowned. There was a loophole in Delis's words, which was not only a matter of the reliability of knowledge, but also meant that the lock of being bewitched was no longer reliable.

However, under hypnosis, Delis was clearly unaware of Feng Xue's emotions and calmly responded:
“Not coming back is also a consequence of karma.” “Oh?” Feng Xue raised an eyebrow, and Delis immediately added:

"Repeatedly entering and leaving a world will return you to the point in time you left. Your departure is the cause, and your return is the effect. As long as you come back, the effect will inevitably happen, so you will inevitably return to the point in time you left."

"Conversely, if someone is destined to never return after leaving, then not returning is the consequence. So it doesn't matter whether others leave this world or enter it, because no one will hold you back in terms of cause and effect."

"You can think of it as the moment a hero leaves this world, the divine realm's records will add a note to the cause and effect of this world, indicating that this person will not return, and the cause and effect will end there. This process is much easier than severing cause and effect, but it also requires long-term maintenance. Part of my previous work involved observing the state of this note."

"However, you left this world without going through the relevant procedures, so this world is essentially stuck because of you. In fact, this is not a big crime in itself, but the problem is that there is a lot of money to be made from the cause and effect interpretation. I am worried that your illegal crossing will become a pretext for settling accounts, and then I, the lowest-ranking person, will have to take the blame. So I don't even dare to report it, because no one knows if the higher-ups will want you to make a bigger scene so that they can settle more accounts (Note ①)."

"I see." Feng Xue nodded silently, seemingly understanding why Delis descended to earth to capture her. After all, this kind of problem could be serious or minor. If it was minor, it would just be an accidental illegal time travel, but if it was serious, it might involve a bunch of interest chains that profited from the interpretation of cause and effect.

But then another question came to his mind—

"Didn't you say before that heroes could go back to their hometowns? Since they're destined not to be able to go back, how can they go back home?"

When Feng Xue realized this, her first reaction was not to suspect Delis, but to suspect that the heroes who were allowed by the Heavenly Realm to return to their hometowns had actually been dealt with.

But Delis gave him a reasonable yet absurd answer:
"Why not just change the annotation again? If a hero can save enough money to return home, he must have created a great deal of value. Taking a small portion of that value would be enough to pay him for changing the annotation. Change the annotation from 'never to return' to 'return in the next moment.' Moreover, changing the annotation itself is quite profitable. If a hero creates 100,000 in value, he can get a reward of 100. If he spends 80 to change the annotation, the relevant unit can still make a net profit of 79.9 yuan!"

"Alright then." Feng Xue was too lazy to even complain about the fact that there was a Commissioner Smith in the Celestial Realm. She casually closed the photo album and opened her browser to start searching for news.

Just as he was being drawn in by all sorts of silly content, Little Bell finally made a sound, just as reliably as before.

"Master, I found a news article from six months ago."

"Just send it over." As Feng Xue spoke, he opened his wristwatch terminal, and a line of text immediately caught his eye—

"Shocking! A truck driver claims he hit a Kamen Rider, causing a pile of jade stones to explode on the ground! Experts speculate that we are actually NPCs in a game..."

"..."

Feng Xue's lips twitched slightly. She glanced at the time and knew it must be about her previous incident. She immediately opened the article and began reading…

(End of this chapter)