Huang Ji decided to study history. History was not merely a collection of records.
It was also a science. In the broad sense, history could refer to every event that had occurred in the past; it did not have to be recorded by someone before it could be studied.
Examining and analyzing a series of past events and objectively determining the causal relationships behind them was also historical research.
It encompassed all kinds of techniques, using existing records or physical artifacts along with logic and science as tools to investigate events that had happened to all things and explain the course of their development.
There were far too many methods of verification involved. Huang Ji had no reason not to learn them.
Because once he learned them and used those methods and logic of verification to work backward from current information, deducing and cracking an unknown historical question, Huang Ji would be able to unlock the past state of information just as he unlocked its future state.
He would be able to directly observe the historical information of an object and trace it back through time!
He had always found it strange that, when observing a tree before, he could sense information such as "how much water it had absorbed in total" and "how much fruit it had borne in total."
At the time, Huang Ji had thought that was a historical record.
It could indeed be called a historical record, but it was not the past state of information. It was the present state.
The tree's species, volume, mass, and total number of molecules at that very moment were all present-state information.
They were the information of that exact moment, so the information kept changing as Huang Ji's time passed.
Once he unlocked the past state of information, Huang