Exploring Immortality Cultivation
Chapter 487 - 241 Pedestrian Flow Cellular Automata

Time passed day by day, and soon it was November. The impact brought by the Divine Capital murderer running rampant had started to gradually fade more than two months ago.

The Law Enforcement Officer had made up his mind this time to capture him and bring him to justice. Originally, the special team of ten people had been expanded to include everyone, with all personnel of the Divine Capital Criminal Law Department revolving around this case. Dozens of Law Enforcement Officers at the Golden Core Stage and specialized assistants had been transferred from various places to Divine Capital. Martial law began on the streets; after 7 p.m., pedestrians were not allowed to walk the streets anymore.

But, one could only say it was useless—unless that guy committed another crime, there was really no target for this Heaven and Earth Net.

Locally, only the Foundation Establishment Stage Law Enforcement Officers, after initial busyness, had nothing much to do. The team of officers was already several times more than the minimum required, to ensure everyone had enough time for empirical work or cultivation—the workload falling on each person was minimal. With the addition of the Divine Capital Family and the transfer of high-order Law Enforcement Officers, they suddenly had a lot of free time. Since everyone was a cultivator with limited time, they settled into a life of half-day shifts.

Chen Feng's Empirical Department had resumed operations and everything seemed to be getting back to normal.

However, Chen Feng just didn't feel content.

Especially today when he had received a notification.

Irritated, he searched for Wang Qi and found him standing at the door of his own room, hands behind his back, gazing up at the sky at a 45-degree angle. Chen Feng was startled by this artistic pose and felt even more annoyed.

This damned Wang Qi... he shouldn't be like this...

Chen Feng barked out, "Wang Qi, what exactly have you done?"

Wang Qi curiously responded, "What have I done now?"

Chen Feng flung out the notification. Seeing it, Wang Qi laughed: "Oh, it's already here. The Immortal Alliance is quite fast!"

"Behavioral Science and Probability Theory Based Pedestrian Flow Model Research Application," Chen Feng Empirical Department, Wang Qi Experimental Group.

Application Content: Funding of around 200 Merit Points, used to exchange the necessary existing theories. Additionally, all surveillance footage and various archives left by the Immortal Alliance monitoring system in recent years.

Approval Results: Allocates 50 Merit Points and agrees to the applicant's access to surveillance records and related materials.

Chen Feng angrily said, "What exactly are you trying to do? I don't remember arranging anything like this..."

"Boss, isn't this part of the Human Dao?" Wang Qi said with an insincere smile, "I specifically obtained a Behavioral Science empirical qualification for your Dao."

To apply for funding from the Immortal Alliance, one must first pass a trial and obtain qualifications. This system doesn't exist on Earth, where anyone who can write an application certainly qualifies. But the Immortal Alliance deals with all cultivators, so a test is necessary to filter through.

"You actually passed, consider yourself impressive," Chen Feng stared at Wang Qi. "I don't know what kind of perseverance you used to overcome the difficulties and achieve this without my knowledge, but do you know that it's not worth it?"

Wang Qi smiled mysteriously, "How do you know it's not worth it?"

He really didn't feel like he had exerted much effort. With Jarvis's multi-threading assistance, his learning pace was dozens of times faster than others.

"This matter has been attempted by Tianling Ridge's Spirit Beast Mountain and Yangshen Pavilion, and their expertise in Behavioral Science is no weaker than yours. What makes you think you can achieve what others couldn't?"

With a serious face, Wang Qi replied, "Because I have never tried things others couldn't do, you don't know the whole scenario, so my probability of failure and success is fifty percent... ah, I have won a Dao Artifact Award once, so I think my actual success rate is higher than fifty percent."

"Dao Artifact Award winners come once every decade, don't be too complacent!" Chen Feng turned his head away, "You're wasting time and squandering your talents."

Before Wang Qi could retort, a rainbow light shot from the sky, transforming into a Flying Sword that plunged deeply into the courtyard's Guiding Array. Wang Qi stretched out his hand to pull out the Flying Sword: "Yo, what a coincidence, this thing has just arrived... Damn, it's quite heavy."

"A medium-sized cargo Flying Sword." Chen Feng asked, "What did you buy?"

This array was only used by Chen Youjia for online shopping of delicacies from various places.

Wang Qi wiped the array, and a pile of strange red cylindrical objects appeared on the ground, each slightly larger than a fist, but not by much.

"I had these specially customized at the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion, they are Mechanical Beasts for collecting research data." Wang Qi said, "The biomimetic type used during Combat is sufficient for collecting enemy intelligence, but a dozen or twenty are far from enough for research data collection. I specifically ordered this batch."

Chen Feng counted and found that these cylindrical objects formed a square several meters high, probably amounting to thousands. He asked in surprise, "Are these also Mechanical Beasts?"

"For easy storage, I omitted the biomimetic exterior and made them foldable." Wang Qi picked up a cylinder, pressed the mechanism on its top, and the cylinder opened and extended, finally transforming into a mechanical bird.

"Jarvis!" Wang Qi shouted softly, and the shoulder armor on his left shoulder lit up, Spirit Light scanning those cylinders, permeating into the core calculator unit. Jarvis quickly gained control of these Mechanical Birds. At Wang Qi's command, the Mechanical Birds flew out of the courtyard.

Chen Feng stood dumbfounded: "What are they going to do?"

Wang Qi spoke softly, "To find that key element."

After parting with Chen Feng on a not-so-happy note, Wang Qi returned to his study and used a large calculator to infiltrate the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm. Following the Dao markings he applied for, he entered the database of the Immortal Alliance.

It was an enormous amount of data, and Wang Qi was unable to download it all. Therefore, he could only analyze it while maintaining a connection.

"First is Divine Capital..."

Jarvis automatically extracted over thirty segments of footage, all from Divine Capital's surveillance videos a day before and after the serial killings. These thirty-plus segments of footage were downloaded into Jarvis's database, overlaid with Wang Qi's previously organized "Divine Capital Serial Killer Crime Map."

"Then...from Da Lian's official population database and the Divine Capital Criminal Law Department's search data, extract all data about the victims and those related to the victims..."

Jarvis worked efficiently, and a few minutes later, Wang Qi received the data he wanted.

"It's not needed at this stage, just record it for now." Wang Qi didn't look at his data but continued issuing orders.

However, this command was different from the previous ones.

"Jarvis, randomly extract one-tenth of the surveillance videos from Divine Capital, and model each video."

This time, my goal is not a theory with universality... I just need a special solution... a solution that is absolutely effective in Divine Capital...

Jarvis seemed to stutter for a moment: "Sir, please provide detailed instructions."

"Establish a pedestrian flow model of Cellular Automata." Wang Qi closed his eyes, pondering, "The model is based on the following basic rules: one, cells are either empty or occupied by at most one pedestrian; two, pedestrians move to one of the eight neighboring cells with a certain probability or stay put; three, pedestrians are not allowed to move to an occupied neighboring cell, hence probability zero; four, consider the following parameters when modeling pedestrian movement..."

Jarvis paused for a while, then started on the labor-intensive task.

The progress bar, like a snail, appeared in front of Wang Qi.

Wang Qi watched the footage that might contain the serial killer, a cold smirk appearing on his lips.

Now, it's our turn to battle. (To be continued. If you like this work, you can support it by voting on qidian.com or buying a monthly ticket. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)