"Logically speaking, the pathogen of Corpse Horse Plague should 'simply not possess nucleic acids'!"
The moment those words left his mouth, Chen Feng's heart suddenly began to pound violently.
—Yes... that was it!
—Exactly!
—That possibility existed!
Noticing the subtle shift in Chen Feng's mana and intent, Song Shufu froze for a moment. "You've actually already prepared to alter your cultivation foundation in accordance with this understanding?"
Chen Feng nodded. "That's right. Logically, it should be so. What we need to prepare for is..."
"Wait." Song Shufu raised a hand, cutting Chen Feng off. "Come to think of it, you know the story of suspecting the neighbor of stealing an axe, right?"
Once, a man lost an axe. He suspected that his neighbor's son had stolen it, so he watched the boy. The way the boy walked looked like that of an axe thief; the look on his face also looked like that of an axe thief; even the way he spoke sounded even more like that of an axe thief. Every word and action, every gesture and movement, seemed like those of an axe thief.
Not long afterward, the man found his axe while turning over his haystack. When he saw the neighbor's son again the next day, he no longer felt that a single thing about the boy's words or actions resembled an axe thief.
"You already have a presumed conclusion in your heart, so you seek explanations within the data you already know that support your argument. Then you discover that such explanations are very easy to find." Song Shufu shook his head. "Logic is a frame. You can arrange things however you please and fence off a logical process. But you need to understand that a logical process must not only be free of internal contradictions—it