Chapter 384: Chapter 383: The Death of Schrodinger’s Cat

Ji Burlen spoke while looking at Suladi, “Master Suladi of the Council, do you now understand why I am so confident? In my eyes, you are as vulnerable as a child who willingly exposes his own weaknesses. You don’t need to feel inferior; it’s not your fault, it’s limited vision.

You do not stand high enough to see far, while we have always stood at the highest point.

No matter how powerful the enemy, as long as we notice them, as long as we feel it necessary to target them, we can find a way to restrain them and easily kill them, even a Giant Dragon cannot escape–we can use a special, complex spell to make the defenses of a Giant Dragon as thin as paper, slaughter them in groups like killing sheep and ultimately exterminate them.”

“So, the downfall of your Council, the state you have ended up in, you shouldn’t be too sad about it,” Ji Burlen said, walking behind Suladi and pulling out a dagger, placing it against his neck.

“The demise of your Council is not accidental but inevitable. Anyone who blocks our path will die; you are just one of many. Actually, you are not completely dead,” Ji Burlen thought of something and said aloud, “Your body is frail and decaying, which interests me not, yet your head still has some use. I plan to take it back. In a way, part of you will continue to live. How do you feel about that?”

“I’m thinking…” Suladi’s body could not move at all, even speaking was extremely difficult, but he still tried hard to utter, “I’m thinking…I should perhaps thank you, after all…you left me a head. Just not sure if you, when you die, will receive the same treatment.”

“Heh, I will not die,” said Ji Burlen.

“Is there anyone who does not die?” Suladi asked bluntly.

“There is,” Ji Burlen asserted, “As long as I refuse to die, then I will not die.”

“Heh, I don’t believe it.”

“But that is the truth.”

“That is just imagination.”

The study room suddenly fell quiet again, sinking into silence. Just as the atmosphere was becoming thick, “creak,” the door of the study suddenly opened.

A young man appeared at the door, squinting into the room, as both Suladi and Ji Burlen turned to look at each other.

Time seemed to pause briefly, then Suladi shouted, “Richard, quickly take Heidi away…”

He did not finish his words; the dagger in Ji Burlen’s hand had already swept across his neck, severating his head from his body.

“Bang!”

A soft sound, as Ji Burlen placed Suladi’s head on the desk, looking at the young man who appeared. In his perception, there was no Mana fluctuation around the man, no characteristics of Extraordinary Power, just an ordinary person.

“Is he a servant in this courtyard, who I failed to kill earlier? Or perhaps, a student of Suladi who came to seek advice?”

Ji Burlen pondered, glancing at Heidi, whom Suladi had asked the young man to take away, then affirmatively spoke to the young man, “You won’t be able to take him away.”

“Uh…” The young man clearly didn’t expect this situation, or perhaps he was already stunned by the scene in front of him, and after hearing Ji Burlen’s words, he weakly replied, “How about I leave myself?”

“Leave by yourself? Heh!”

Ji Burlen couldn’t help but laugh inwardly, then the next moment he said, “I’m afraid that won’t work either.”

Pausing for a moment, Ji Burlen looked at the young man and said, “Though I don’t know how you sneaked in here, I’m sorry, since you’ve appeared, you’ll have to stay here now.”

“The same way as the people who died outside?”

“It seems that the other party has seen the bodies of a few servants in the outside courtyard, yet still ran inside; he must be quite courageous,” Ji Burlen thought to himself, looking at the young man with a hint of admiration, as if observing an ant brave enough to attempt to save its companions.

“If you have special requests, within certain bounds, I can fulfill them,” Ji Burlen stated.

“Um…” The man fell silent, as if pondering, or perhaps trying to mask his expression of panic, while Ji Burlen waited, eager to see how he would react.

After a long pause, Ji Burlen saw the young man raise his head, a serious expression on his face, as he asked, “How about choosing Schrodinger’s cat death method?”

“Hm?” It was Ji Burlen’s turn to fall silent, “…”

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Schrodinger’s cat? What cat?

Cats and death, what’s the connection?

What exactly is he talking about?

In the silence, Ji Burlen’s mind raced.

Richard, observing Ji Burlen, slowly and earnestly explained, “The death method of Schrodinger’s cat was proposed by a physicist, well, a wizard named Schrodinger.

He designed a special device to maximally punish his cat–which had misbehaved–while sparing himself the guilt of killing a living being.

This device is a box containing food, everything needed for the cat to survive long-term, and a bottle of gaseous poison.

The poison is sealed within a glass bottle fixed onto a hammer mechanism, controlled by a switch powered by a special radioactive atom… ah, a piece of special energy stone.

This special energy stone vanishes by half every fixed length of time, known as ‘half-life,’ releasing an energy stream named ‘alpha particles’ which triggers the previously mentioned switch, causing the hammer to shatter the poison bottle and release the lethal gas, killing the cat.

Thus, once the ‘half-life’ is determined, the energy stone could at any moment release energy and kill the cat, or it might remain stable and not kill it. The odds, one to one.

Therefore, as long as the box remains closed, those outside cannot know whether the cat inside is dead or alive, placing the cat in a superposed state of being alive or dead–constantly close to death, but without confirmation of its actual death.

Of course, if the waiting time is sufficiently prolonged, surpassing one ‘half-life,’ the cat will ultimately die, and this is what is referred to as Schrodinger’s cat death method.”

Taking a deep breath, Richard continued to look at Ji Burlen and said, “If you agree to let me die using this method, it would place me perpetually in fear of ‘dying the next second’ inside the device, enduring constant torment–more frightening than death itself. And you will always have the opportunity to change everything, since you can stop it at any moment.

What do you think of my request? To torture me to the greatest extent, you could also choose an element called Uranium 238… ah, energy stone, which has a half-life of 4.45 billion years, thus I would be in fear all my life.”

“…” Silence, a long silence.

Silence is the black night, the night wind, the treetops brushed by the wind, a withered leaf fluttering down from the treetops.

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