Chapter 2143: Explanation, Dissection and Mapping

But the smart brain is not a true smart brain after all; it is merely a still very imperfect Spirit Cluster. Xia Duo sat silently in Sweet Water Plaza for half a day before finally reaching a relatively clear conclusion—

The expressions, movements, and postures of Talibu before and after truly have obvious differences! They are two completely distinct modes!

It is just that there is now a very realistic problem placed before Xia Duo. The reason he was able to reach such a conclusion, aside from his own foundation, is in large part because people in this world have no concept of behavioral pattern analysis at all, and that assassin had absolutely no precautions in this regard.

Even though the other party believed they had imitated Talibu as much as possible, and even made investigators from both Calimshan and Kaitemier unable to see any abnormalities, he still managed to find the differences.

Yet this brings up a problem: if even professional assassins and investigators cannot find any abnormalities, by what right is he, Xia Duo, able to see them?

Calimshan might support him out of their own stance, but would Kaitemier accept such a conclusion?

Xia Duo does not know, but he cannot simply leave the conclusion he worked so hard to obtain unsaid and unused. Moreover, he has another idea; perhaps he can even use this to find the assassin's true identity!

After pondering for a while, he rose from his seat and even casually put it away. Just as he was about to speak, Aisite, who had been watching him, hurriedly asked:

"Does Lord Xia Duo have a definitive clue? Is what you just said about being able to prove the assassin is not Talibu himself true?"

"Mage Aisite, no need to rush. Before answering this question, I would like to ask you one first."

Upon hearing these words, Aisite's eyebrows stood straight up. Although he was very annoyed inside, he still endured it and asked, "What question?"

"It is like this, Mage Aisite, do you believe that there are two naturally grown leaves in this world that are also completely identical?"

"Whether there are two completely identical leaves? What exactly does Lord Xia Duo want to say?"

"Mage Aisite, please answer my question first."

"No, how could there be two completely identical leaves in nature!" Aisite blurted out without hesitation.

"Since that is the case, then does Mage Aisite believe that there exist two completely identical people in this world?" Xia Duo asked again.

"Of course I do not believe it, but this does not include Magic!"

Aisite guessed roughly what Xia Duo wanted to say based on intuition, so he directly pointed out the interference of Magic. In reality, this is a catch-all basket; anything that cannot be explained can be thrown into it.

However, Xia Duo did not care and continued to ask: "Very well, since Mage Aisite believes that there do not exist two completely identical people in this world, then do you agree that there exists one or more methods that can help us distinguish those two people?"

"Of course they exist; just put those two people together and compare them, and you will know. Lord Xia Duo, what exactly are you trying to say!"

Seeing that Aisite was already showing signs of impatience, Xia Duo stopped beating around the bush and stated his view: "What I want to say is that comparison itself is indeed a method, but it is not detailed enough.

"For example, we can compare appearances; an Elf and a human are very obvious. We can also compare bloodlines; take two twins, for instance, there are very obvious differences between their bloodlines. I believe Mage Aisite would not deny this!"

"Yes, I know that Calimshan has similar identification Spells." Aisite nodded, seemingly realizing what Xia Duo wanted to say, and his originally irritable mood gradually calmed down.

"Then if it is a person transformed by Magic, who even collected the blood of the person being transformed in advance, then it is very difficult for us to judge the difference between the two through appearance and bloodline."

At this point, Xia Duo truly threw out his point of view—"But we can still analyze their similarities and differences through various means, such as the expression when seeing an object, person, or event, the movements when walking or doing anything else, and even the intuitive attitude of outsiders toward them."

"Wait."

Aisite hurriedly interrupted Xia Duo's words, "Lord Xia Duo, we can see appearances at a glance, and bloodlines can be detected by Spells, but if expressions and movements are deliberately imitated, how are we to compare them?"

"It is possible."

Through the analysis of Talibu's behavior before and after just now, Xia Duo had already initially grasped the path of behavioral analysis, so he proposed: "If Mage Aisite does not believe it, you can find a subordinate who is good at imitation, and have Calimshan provide a sample, to see if I can distinguish the imitator among them."

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"This—"

"This question is very important and directly relates to the determination of the assassin's identity. If Mage Aisite cannot decide, please report back to Special Envoy Yilati."

"You—"

Aisite was suddenly speechless. He certainly knew the importance of this question, but to be manipulated by a human like this, he still subconsciously felt a sense of resistance.

Taking a deep breath, Aisite finally agreed. At the same time, Jiabulile also left with Aisite under Xia Duo's Indication.

……

"Xia Duo, are you sure? Don't end up unable to distinguish them and be unable to clean up the mess!"

Although Saville also accepted the theory of behavioral analysis, if he were really asked to distinguish someone who was deliberately imitating based solely on behavior, he would have absolutely no clue.

Regarding Saville's concern, Xia Duo smiled confidently and did not answer directly. At the same time, he had already begun to try to use the smart brain to turn this analytical method into a Spell, or rather, to standardize it.

In the future, when encountering such situations, one could directly cast a Spell to obtain a conclusion without having to rack one's brains to calculate. Moreover, it could allow others to use it and reach the conclusion themselves, without having to rely on him.

But after a simple attempt, Xia Duo temporarily gave up on this idea. It was truly too complex. Unless a server loaded with algorithms and computing power was specifically created, allowing the Spellcaster to directly call upon the server, otherwise, casting the Spell on one's own would be no different from the half-day he spent sitting silently earlier.

Yet he only sat silently for half a day because he had the assistance of the smart brain. If an ordinary Spellcaster without assistance were to use Spellcasting to replace calculation, the time would likely be even longer.

"Huh—"

For some reason, Xia Duo suddenly thought of the legendary Prophecy. Generally speaking, those who master Prophecy are Priests. Is communicating with a god actually calling upon "server" functions?

There are also non-Priest prophecy Mages. Could it be that those people who spend their whole lives studying prophecy Spells are actually performing some kind of analysis and deduction, whether sophisticated or crude?

If the definition of a prophecy Spell is to directly obtain answers to some abstract questions, then perhaps he has already mastered a type of prophecy Spell, which can be called—

【Holy Relic Xingwei Tezheng Identify Shu】!

……

Since it is impossible to realize the Spell-based version of behavioral characteristic analysis in a short time, Xia Duo began to optimize the algorithm itself. This can also reduce the amount of calculation and is conducive to later Spell-based and standardized versions.

Before long, Aisite and Jiabulile returned to the center of the plaza. In addition to the two people Xia Duo was to distinguish as agreed, General Hashimu, whom Xia Duo had seen at the southern camp before, also came over.

"Lord Xia Duo, I just heard Jiabulile mention your behavioral analysis theory. I have always been interested in this emerging theory. May I observe?"

"Of course, General Hashimu, please feel free."

On someone else's turf, as long as they didn't surround the place so tightly that not even water could pass through, Xia Duo didn't care even if there were a few more onlookers. After confirming with both Aisite and Hashimu that there were no problems with the targets to be distinguished, Xia Duo began his performance.

"You two, one run east and one run west, run to the edge of the plaza at the fastest speed!"

The two did as told. Afterward, Xia Duo continued to issue instructions: "You two, run back here, run back at the fastest speed."

The two did as told again. Xia Duo did not know how these two were found. Generally speaking, behaviors involving "fastest" or "inadvertent" are the easiest to expose differences.

Yet the performance of those two just now showed absolutely no difference, at least that was how it looked to the naked eye.

Then the next step is the true behavioral characteristic analysis!