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Chapter 1008 Script in Progress (Part 1)

"Our Six-Eyed Cult's beliefs were established by the previous perpetual calendar, and we believe in the horse in the forest, taking observation as our foundation and pursuing possibilities."

You know we are very interested in the major events that happen in the world, but actually the most important thing for our sect is not to record and collect the major events of the present world, but to perform probabilistic calculations in the old history.

Like the strategists of the Warring States period, we manipulate various small events in history like dominoes, connecting them one after another, ultimately creating a butterfly effect that turns a small ripple into a huge tsunami, and then... we will record this process of change.

I know you still don't understand the process we're going through. Simply put, we treat an era as an unknown black box program. We continuously input large amounts of data and record the output results, eventually reaching a point where we can predict the corresponding results no matter what we input.

In other words...to control the world.

"That's impossible, isn't it? The history of the old era is indeed fixed. If someone can keep testing it, then theoretically it is indeed possible to control the development of history. But that's only in theory, because the influencing factors are not only you, but also other people in the present world. These variables will affect the final result."

"That's right, so we don't study the modern era much, but rather the distant era, minimizing the variables of the present world."

From the Scar Age to the modern era, including the sixteenth century, we have fully explored the early periods and grasped almost all the key variables in the modern era.

For example, the reason why Xia Shou's invisibility spell suddenly failed in that battle was because the invisibility spell relied on the legacy left by Grand Duke Rosa. As long as the source was destroyed, he withered naturally like a tree without roots.

To influence the course of history, one doesn't need to be meticulous in every detail; it's enough to control the most influential aspects.

We used the intelligence accumulated over tens of thousands of years to plan and calculate everything that happened during Sprite's counterattack on the present world!
If all the key parts of what ultimately happens match the predictions of the previous perpetual calendar, then our esteemed lord will be promoted to acting lord!

This impossible feat is enough to please the gods who know all the future!

Yin Mingzi's calm and composed tone contained immense confidence.

Carter frowned and pondered for a moment, then questioned, "But the Wood Horse is a god of observation, a god of glimpsing possibilities. Directly interfering with the present should not align with the Wood Horse's desires."

Although the modern-day Forest Horse is called the director, and the director will interfere with the progress of things, the script is written from the beginning.

I had a friend who is a real-life director, and I learned a lot about the Forest Horse Cult from him, especially about its films.

He said that the filming method most advocated by the director, Lin Zhongma, is a film that is made without any interference or adjustment after filming begins, with all the actors, scenes, and things in place in one go, following the script in one go.

The ideal scenario is to achieve a completely continuous shot in one take, while still maintaining an artistic touch in switching between multiple perspectives.

However, the more times a scene is reshot during filming, and the more interference and adjustments are made during filming, the further it deviates from the original desire of the horse in the woods.

Because a script represents control over possibilities, and modifying or adjusting it means having no control over the original possibilities. While you seem to imply your sect has unparalleled control over the past, this constant adjustment and modification based on the actions of the participants seems to have strayed from the path of the horse in the woods, doesn't it?

No sooner had Carter finished speaking than Kanae immediately followed up with another attack:
"Besides, Sprite is dead, so your script is already a failure, right? If you continue now, it won't be a movie made according to the script, but a script rewritten according to the scenes that have been filmed. This has absolutely nothing to do with possibility anymore."

Yin Mingzi smiled and said, "Who said our script was about Sprite eventually ascending to heaven?"

Carter and Kanae's expressions froze instantly, staring in shock at the gloomy, cold-smiling woman before them, unable to believe it.

She said there was no plan for Sprite to ascend in the first place, which means... when they first started working with the adult, they didn't intend to help defeat the Control Bureau!

"Are you treating us like pawns?!" Carter demanded through gritted teeth, his expression as cold as ice.

Yin Mingzi waved his hand: "No, no, I think you've misunderstood."

That's a terrible injustice to us. If anyone is a pawn, it's us, who are being used as pawns by your leader.

Our goal wasn't to kill Summer Guardian, let Sprite ascend, or anything else. Our goal was to accurately predict a possibility, determine every step we should take from the very beginning, and ensure that this possibility could be perfectly realized in reality.

The key is success, and the probability of choosing this path must be small enough. Only when a sufficiently small probability emerges step by step according to the script after the initial prediction will it please Lin Zhongma.

Otherwise, why would we cooperate with you? Isn't it simple to predict history after it has already happened? If we don't interfere, history will most likely continue to follow its original course, just like filling in an exam paper with the answers.

Instead of giving it their all, deliberately sabotaging you and throwing the match, leading to Sprite's death—guessing such an ending is completely meaningless, because deliberately losing is not a small possibility at all; losing is very easy.

"Then what do you mean?"

"The Six Eyes Cult has done everything it could and provided all the help it could before. If this confrontation with the Control Bureau is a matter of weighing the two sides of a scale, then the Six Eyes Cult has put all the weights on it. On the contrary, your lord has hidden his most crucial thing."

Our entire church gave it our all, but giving it our all has no fundamental causal relationship with winning or losing; the two are only related in terms of expected value.

The former perpetual calendar did his best to assist you, but still judged that Sprite could not defeat the Bureau of Control, and his script was written based on this absolutely accurate prediction.

So far... everything has unfolded exactly as the script was written by the previous perpetual calendar, including the real truth and secrets behind this that I am now telling you, which is also one of the steps written in the script.

Everything has proceeded exactly as predicted by the previous perpetual calendar; our mentor, our destined agent, has fully grasped that subtle and intricate possibility.

(End of this chapter)