Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 353 - 106: Old Acquaintance... Sort of?

The Immortal Alliance's prison was already very modernized—imprisonment and interrogation were separate, and treatment differed between misdemeanors and felonies. The reason Qin Xuan had locked up Wang Qi was for provoking trouble and brawling, both considered misdemeanors. Even though Qin Xuan was determined to please Chen Yan, he dared not violate regulations by placing Wang Qi in a prison for serious crimes.

Now, Wang Qi was still in a single cell, even had a bed, and could keep most of his personal belongings. The only item taken by the Criminal Law Department was the Kun Mountain Sword, which could be used as a weapon.

Wang Qi looked across. Ai Zhenwu had also been captured. However, compared to the unscathed Wang Qi, Ai Zhenwu looked much more miserable. His right cheek was completely swollen, his right eye entirely shut, and his left eye surrounded by a dark bruise. His mouth was also busted, with a trace of blood remaining.

"Don't look at me like that; Monkey had it worse." Ai Zhenwu pointed towards the cell next to Wang Qi's. Wang Qi couldn't see there, only hearing Hou Benli's muffled curse: "Those Ancient Method Practitioners are too arrogant..."

Wang Qi nodded, "Indeed."

Ai Zhenwu sighed, "But at least you have Junior Brother Chen backing you; they didn't dare beat you in front of him... That Qin Xuan is truly a disgraceful figure, colluding with the Ancient Method Practitioners."

Wang Qi asked, "Were the attackers four quick-training Foundation Establishment and one Body Refining Late-Stage Foundation Establishment? Those four quick-training ones must be dead by now. Not sure if that leading Body Refining Cultivator is dead."

Ai Zhenwu's eyes lit up, "Exactly! Senior Brother Wang, does Junior Brother Chen know about this yet? When can he come out and uphold justice?"

Wang Qi thought for a moment, "Wait about four more days. He's on duty once every five days, and he just did his duty yesterday; he probably won't come anytime soon."

After saying this, Wang Qi suddenly found it funny.

It seemed that the opponents had calculated that Chen Feng wouldn't intervene for the moment, so they boldly played this game.

The main occupation of Immortal Alliance cultivators was researcher, but a group of researchers still needed a management system and manager. Therefore, everyone from the Carefree Great Power down to the Qi Refining Practitioners had to devote a certain amount of time to maintaining the operation of the Immortal Alliance. However, disciples with talent in research had special privileges. Someone like Chen Feng would only need to attend one day in five and could even apply for long-term absence. Even so, the Criminal Law Department would not deduct a fraction of their monthly salary.

Watching the two beside him sighing and complaining, Wang Qi shook his head and advised, "Rather than complain, you two should focus on healing your injuries."

The two sighed and started activating the Tianling Ridge spells to treat their injuries. Wang Qi continued to inquire from Zhen Chan, "Old man, continue, what other methods are there?"

Zhen Chan suddenly fell silent, then said, "I just realized, having been with you for so long, my mind has also descended into the ditch."

"Uh…"

"While we are here plotting against the Chen Family, have you thought about how you're going to get out?"

Wang Qi shrugged, "I'll wait."

"You... aren't really planning to wait four days, are you?"

"Otherwise, what can I do? There's no internet... no signal... even the calculator can't connect to the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm, and I don't have any other communication magic artifacts."

Wang Qi felt somewhat helpless. The Immortal Alliance's Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm WiFi signal covered Shenzhou, but the prison wouldn't afford such treatment to inmates.

He knew that simply entering keywords like Xuanxing Temple into the Immortal Alliance's search engine could summon Carefree Level summoned beasts such as Teacher Feng or the special summoned beast Chen Feng from the Divine Capital instance. Regrettably, it showed "Service Unavailable," a truly frustrating issue.

"What do you plan to do then?"

"Read some books." Wang Qi took out a mathematics text from his storage bag and said, "I've already wasted too much time on those scoundrels."

"General Foundations of Set Theory," similar to the theory text with the same name on Earth, was considered fundamental to set theory and where mathematics began to be unified.

From Wang Qi's 21st-century perspective, the book seemed outdated. Without Hilbert's in-depth research, without Gödel's and Turing's Nirvana, this initial set theory still lacked the power to explain all mathematics.

Nevertheless, Wang Qi still read diligently.

Although mathematics was highly similar between the two worlds, there were subtle differences—like how Wang Qi still had not fully grasped how the Shenzhou Cultivators had managed to construct the mathematical system by bypassing "Cantor's Diagonal Argument." What Wang Qi was currently doing was grasping the pulse of this world's mathematics and consolidating his foundation.

The thought of participating in this otherworldly version of Hilbert's Program excited Wang Qi beyond control. It was the fervor of a mathematician. To better participate in this grand mathematical feast, he needed to continuously improve.

"Logic may indeed be incomplete, systems may not necessarily be compatible, propositions may not necessarily be decidable...but Hilbert's Program must not fail, at least not announce its failure this early."

—No one can drive us out of the Eden Garden created by Cantor.

If I could bring up the compatibility of the arithmetic system before the theorem on completeness... guide others to prove it, or prove it myself, perhaps this great leap in mathematics could last a bit longer?

As Wang Qi gradually immersed himself in the world of set theory, someone knocked on the iron door of his cell.

Wang Qi, disrupted from his thoughts, appeared somewhat irritable. Seeing the unfamiliar face by the cell door, he impatiently said, "What? What is it? Who are you? Here to fight or what? If it's not important, don't bother me."

The young man in splendid clothes was startled and tentatively asked, "Senior Brother Wang?"

Eh? Someone familiar?

Wang Qi looked at the young man in splendid clothes and asked, "Excuse me... have we met?"

The young man gave a bitter smile, seeming somewhat fearful of Wang Qi, "Senior Brother Wang really has a short memory for famous people, huh? We're from the same Immortal Institute…"

"An Immortal Institute session has hundreds of people; do I need to remember everyone?"

"We met through a fight…"

"I've fought too many people; enough with the riddles, just say your name."

The young man was choked for a long while before finally saying, "I wonder if Senior Brother Wang still remembers the name Du Bin?"

Wang Qi took a while to dig up that name from his memory, "Oh, it's you!"

Was it for that clumsy cat that I chopped off this guy's Flying Sword? Did I beat him too? When was that again?

Unaware that he had been reduced to a mere backdrop to some half-demon in Wang Qi's memory, Du Bin laughed heartily, "To think I could meet Senior Brother Wang here, truly…"

Was this guy always like this? Wang Qi wondered, looking at him perplexed, feeling like "my life went through several hundred chapters and then the character setting collapsed."