He needed Captain Hui and Fang Hong to verify his theory.
Seeing Chu Sheng's expression, Captain Hui clearly also knew that An Xi's claim about wanting more people to survive did not hold up.
He also understood how serious the situation was.
And he was not the only one. Fang Hong stood nearby with an equally grave expression.
"I understand what you mean." Captain Hui looked at Chu Sheng, then shook his head. "You want me to divine the answer, right?"
"Yes." Chu Sheng did not deny it. He had never tried to hide that intention in anything he said.
Seeing Chu Sheng nod, Captain Hui shook his head again. "I can try, but don't get your hopes up."
"I probably can't divine something like this unless I spend my own lifespan."
His Sequence had severe restrictions. Besides having to speak the truth, there was another major limitation he had kept so tightly under wraps that even Chu Sheng and the others thought his Sequence ability simply worked that way.
Although his Sequence ability seemed capable of calculating and divining anything, everything actually came at a cost.
The only question was whether he could accept that cost.
Even the mental power he consumed during ordinary divination was a form of payment. As his Sequence grew, he could divine more and more things, while the price he needed to pay grew smaller.
Even so, every divination consumed at least twice the usual mental power.
This was the cost of his Sequence. Whenever he used his Sequence ability, he had to pay a price. That price diminished as his Sequence grew, until it eventually became a drain on his mental power.
That was also why he did not dare casually perform divinations on Sequence Adepts.
Otherwise, his ability would allow him to