Chapter 597: Dehya and the Gilded Brigade

What Alhaitham meant was that the Akademiya was monitoring everything in Sumeru, and for Cyno, the Akademiya people had some special methods.

This statement made the readers vigilant—not because they suspected Cyno, but because everyone remembered Setaria.

Didn't Setaria's operation fail precisely because she didn't discover the tracking device on her body? Could Cyno have one too? Otherwise, should they strip him naked and check?

That was obviously not the case. With Cyno's abilities, it would be impossible for him not to detect a tracking device on himself.

So why did Alhaitham say this? Because Alhaitham was the "Scribe," and the information he had access to was far more than ordinary people.

He had come into contact with Cyno's information—action reports, execution habits... every aspect—and all of it had been recorded into the Akasha.

Just like the Laplace's Demon mentioned before, when everything is known, the "future" can be predicted.

In theory, human computational power is hard to reach this standard, but the Akasha was an exception.

All of this was recorded into the Akasha. With the Akasha's computational ability, it could completely simulate a Cyno and then analyze his behavioral habits and what he would do in the future.

So everything about Cyno was actually within the Akademiya's calculations!

This was profiling, the reason the Akademiya could know what the Traveler and the others were investigating.

For this kind of profiling, the Akademiya still needed to rely on the Akasha. Alhaitham was different—he relied entirely on himself.

In the later plan against Azar, Alhaitham used his own calculations to profile everything about Azar, predicting all of his actions.

Predicting someone like Azar, who had a bit of cleverness but not much, was even simpler than predicting Kaveh, that straightforward guy.

In the story, the next to speak was Candace, who was comforting Cyno.

["Cyno, please don't take it to heart. This actually proves that you are a trustworthy companion."]

It had to be said, Candace's emotional intelligence was really high—one sentence took care of Cyno's feelings.

Cyno didn't have much emotion about it either; instead, it sparked his thinking. Since the Akademiya predicted his actions and then avoided them, what if he predicted in reverse?

The Akademiya analyzes Cyno's actions, then Cyno analyzes the Akademiya's actions based on their analysis.

Infinite recursion, crazy nesting.

And that's exactly what Cyno in the story did—wasn't it just analyzing the Akademiya's analysis and then analyzing further? Very simple!

Don't forget what Cyno likes to do—play cards!

Playing cards can also be considered a kind of "rock-paper-scissors game." Rock-paper-scissors games are about predicting the opponent's prediction, and Cyno was very good at this.

Since they could calculate his movements, they would definitely avoid him—so where would be the safest place to hide?

[Alhaitham: "Safety is always hidden between crisis and crisis."]

[Paimon: "So that's how it is! I get it now too!"]

The readers were shocked—Paimon actually understood?

It seemed that being with smart people really did make one smarter.

She was so silly before probably because she hadn't come to Sumeru yet—spending too much time with Ei in Inazuma.

As for what Paimon understood, it was naturally the meaning in Alhaitham's words.

[Paimon: "Since the person they're avoiding is Cyno, the safest place would be..."]

["The place Cyno has just passed through."]

This behavior is commonly known as "darkness under the lamp."

This trick works well against smart people like Cyno, because Cyno remembers every place he's investigated clearly and doesn't need to investigate a second time.

If the analysis target was Paimon, this trick couldn't be used—Paimon might forget and go back to investigate again, over and over.

After listening to everyone's discussion, Dehya seemed to think of something and left without a word.

Alhaitham, on the other hand, left after saying a word—he was polite.

Perhaps because Paimon had mentioned it before, he now said something before heading out to investigate.

When everyone was preparing to set off, Isak stepped forward—he wanted to come along too.

He was too worried about his grandfather. The readers could understand this, but everyone still didn't want him to follow.

This wasn't a spring outing— if something unexpected really happened, who could guarantee a child wouldn't get hurt?

What was the cause of the previous Aranyaka story? In the end, wasn't it Youdan? Though he was also a victim.

But the Traveler was a very good big sister, and Lumine, who was great at taking care of children, didn't refuse. Everyone went together.

At this point, some might wonder: Doesn't the Akasha analyze Cyno's behavior?

Wouldn't Cyno's current behavior of turning back to search be calculated?

In fact, the Akasha's analysis is only useful when Cyno doesn't know he's being observed. Once Cyno knows, the analysis becomes ineffective.

Because this would cause an infinite recursion, crazy nesting phenomenon—even the Akasha couldn't compute it.

Perhaps it wasn't that it couldn't compute, but that it would have to repeat too much content in the calculations, and the computation speed couldn't keep up with Cyno's action speed.

By the time Cyno's actions were over and the Akasha calculated that he would turn back, what meaning would it have?

So the group in the story boldly searched in the desert, even led by Cyno.

And on the way, Cyno discovered something strange—there seemed to be something buried in the sandbags.

And it wasn't just this one to dig up—there were more nearby.

Also, digging and digging in the vast desert, looking for small devices.

At this moment, these devices were scattered everywhere. According to Cyno's analysis, the group that fled the hospital had most likely encountered an attack.

The time of the attack was proposed by Alhaitham—it should have happened before the sandstorm, meaning a few days ago.

It had to be said, the two of them worked quite well together—one investigating, one analyzing. This time, the Traveler not only didn't need to think, but even the investigation was saved.

According to their analysis, the incident happened just a few days ago. In that amount of time, carrying people and cargo in the desert, they couldn't have gone too far.

Whether it was the hospital people or the attackers, they should both be ahead.

Yes, right ahead. What was unexpected was that Dehya was also ahead.

Dehya was confronting people from the Gilded Brigade. The group that arrived later didn't rashly show themselves and hid in the dark to observe.

[Dehya: "...If you'd notified me earlier, we could have..."]

[Rahman: "...You're a companion... We never deceive..."]

"You're a companion"—the readers saw this keyword. It seemed this Rahman and Dehya had an unusual relationship?

But everyone didn't suspect Dehya of being the inside spy. Among the few in the Traveler's team, the person the readers trusted most was actually Dehya.

Everyone could believe Cyno or Alhaitham were spies, but they wouldn't believe Dehya was.

The readers wouldn't believe Dehya would betray them, but the child didn't think that much.

Isak heard their conversation and couldn't hold back, rushing out—this rush also sent the readers' blood pressure skyrocketing.