Probability

Bobo wasn't home, so they were having fish tonight.

Loop's cooking skills were on the same level as Chen Miemie's. Both could cook food all the way through without making it too salty, but there was still a subtle distance from it actually being delicious.

However, after eating roast chicken every day, a change of pace definitely added to the flavor.

Dusk arrived.

The Eternal Moon rose into the sky.

Glancing at the yellow moon in the sky, Chen Miemie started contacting his master's wife, Cassan, and Yue Junyang.

This Eternal Moon night was going to be busy, with several matters waiting to be handled.

Cassan and Yue Junyang replied very quickly; everything was proceeding according to plan.

Chen Miemie went downstairs, got into the sedan chair, and first went to Teacher Dawn's house to pick up Cassan, before heading to the agreed-upon restaurant to meet Yue Junyang.

Master's wife Cassan was as hot as ever, always generously showing off her waist.

Inside the sedan chair.

"Chen Miemie, why are you sitting so far away? Come a little closer, I won't eat you."

"I don't want to. Your charm is too overwhelming, I'm scared."

"Hehe. By the way, this sedan chair of yours is quite interesting. It looks wobbly from the outside, but sitting inside is perfectly steady. You can even see the scenery outside the window. But with windows this big, what happens if we encounter a mist anomaly?"

Chen Miemie chuckled inwardly: Is there a possibility that, sitting in this sedan chair, we ourselves are the anomalies.

"If you like it, just send me a message wherever you want to go in the future, and I'll send the sedan over. As for safety, don't worry. The wind can't blow these curtains; once they are drawn, it's completely sealed." Chen Miemie knew that Cassan didn't own a car and didn't know how to drive.

Even among Mystics, there were plenty who hadn't gotten a driver's license and didn't know how to drive.

"Forget it, I won't take what you love. Just use it yourself."

"There are two sedan chairs, so it won't affect me. Master has lost his eyes now and it's inconvenient for him to travel, so I'll park one downstairs at your place."

"Miemie is so sweet. Come here, let me pat your head."

From picking up Cassan to arriving at the restaurant, it only took half an hour.

Yue Junyang had set out immediately after receiving the message, and he had just arrived as well.

Inside the restaurant's private room, the three of them got straight to the point as soon as they met, not even ordering a table of food for display.

After Chen Miemie introduced the two of them, he left the private room.

"I have long heard the great name of the Critical Point Dancer and admire you immensely. I would like to ask you to help me calculate the success rate of a certain matter."

Cassan was indeed very aloof and cold when facing outsiders.

"You should know that things like probability are never absolute."

"I know. Regardless of the result, if you are willing to help, I will offer you 1000 years of time."

"What is it? Speak."

"I hope you can keep what I am about to say, including the calculation results, a secret from everyone, including Chen Miemie."

"I can."

"I once made an agreement with an anomaly. I needed to complete a task for it, but now I find that I cannot complete it.

I want to know, if I find someone to kill it, or manage to hide so it cannot find me, what is the probability of escaping the penalty for breaking the agreement?"

Cassan pondered for a moment: "Be more specific. What anomaly, and what is the penalty?"

"The Gift-giving Crab. The penalty is that the person who gave the gift will die."

"I haven't heard of this anomaly. I will start calculating based on the information you provided. Go outside and wait for a bit."

Cassan knew very well that Yue Junyang was still hiding something, but if he was willing to spend over a thousand years and still hide it at this point, asking further would be useless.

Yue Junyang also left the private room. Seeing Chen Miemie sitting bored in the lobby not far away, he walked over.

Cassan took thirty-six candles out of her bag, arranged them into a complex pattern on the floor, and then lit them one by one.

Then, standing on her tiptoes, she began to dance gracefully among the candles.

In a pile of candles where it seemed even a mouse passing through would knock them over, Cassan's every step landed precisely in the gaps, her tiptoes brushing past the candle flames time and time again by a mere fraction of a millimeter.

The slight breeze stirred up by her dance steps gently brushed the candle flames, thereby creating fleeting pathways within a space of candlelight where it was theoretically impossible to step.

As she danced, the candle flames gradually shone in the same direction, casting the shadow of a crab on the nearby wall.

If Yue Junyang were here, he would definitely cry out in surprise.

This shadow was exactly the appearance of the Gift-giving Crab.

After the crab's shadow appeared, it immediately began to struggle, while the flames of the 36 candles tried their best to pin it down.

Amidst the tug-of-war, some candles began to go out.

In the lobby outside the private room.

"Chen Miemie, thank you so much for this time."

"You're thanking me too early, the results aren't even out yet."

"Actually, I already found someone to calculate it once yesterday."

"You're calculating it again after already doing it? Do you have so much time at home that you have nowhere to spend it?"

"Hehe, people, you know, always hope to hear the results they want to hear and believe what they are willing to believe."

The implication of Yue Junyang's words was that yesterday's calculation did not yield a good result.

"I don't really understand probability, and I probably don't believe in that stuff much either, but I feel that no matter what the result is, you'll probably still go and do that thing. This calculation will only give you unnecessary worries."

"You're right. No matter what, I have to do it."

The two chatted for a while longer.

The door to the private room opened.

"Go on in, good luck." Chen Miemie didn't get up from his seat.

Yue Junyang stood up, took two deep breaths, and walked into the private room.

As soon as he entered the private room, he saw candles all over the floor. Some were almost burned out, while others were still brand new.

Cassan was covered in sweat, leaning against the wall.

"The results are out. You can't hide from it. The probability that you can't kill it, or that the penalty will still take effect even if you kill it, is over 90 percent."

Yue Junyang's face instantly turned pale.

"I understand. It's about the same as the previous result... no, it's more precise. Despairingly precise."

After taking about a dozen seconds to recover, Yue Junyang finally suppressed his emotions: "Thank you for your help. I will transfer the funds to you right away."

Cassan waited for him to calm down before speaking again:

"I also saw another possibility."

Yue Junyang was instantly stunned. This was something the calculation master from yesterday hadn't mentioned at all.

"What possibility?"

Cassan looked at him and said, word by word: "You complete the agreement."

Yue Junyang's teeth chattered secretly, his face went numb, and he almost couldn't stand steady.

He let out a trembling voice: "May... may I ask, what is the probability of this?"

"100 percent or 0."