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Chapter 195. The Female Lead is Getting the hang of it.
Jiang Jianxin stood still, the sound of rain pattering on the tent gradually fading from his ears.

She couldn't quite describe her emotions at that moment—shock like a thunderbolt, confusion like a pervasive fog, and more than anything, a dull ache of helplessness.

If the person standing here at this moment were a prophet, they might be able to speak eloquently and analyze the still-developing apocalypse with Xia Qizhen.

But she is the Sword Master, a war giant, someone who wields a sharp blade yet cannot sever the future.

So she could only remain silent.

Tang Guangjian lay quietly in his arms, while Jiang Jianxin looked out at the raging rain outside the tent, as if he could see the wheels of history rolling over the mud, and fate weeping in the wind and rain.

"The war you're talking about..."

She spoke slowly, her voice softer than the sound of rain:
Is it really just around the corner?

Xia Qizhen's emotions had calmed down, and she nodded slightly:
"soon."

"Why are you so sure?"

Jiang Jianxin frowned.

"Within the Light faction..."

Xia Qizhen's lips curled into a meaningful smile.

"There are more than one pair of eyes watching this war."

She paused and added:
"Originally, the gray transition society wouldn't have evolved so quickly, but with so many luminous giants—omniscient sequences, and even precognitive sequences—each adding fuel to the fire, how could the situation not escalate?"

Jiang Jianxin's confusion deepened:
Why are the leaders of the Light faction so eager for war?

She was in the war camp, and although the people around her were fanatical and warlike, they did not show any eager desire for war. There were even quite a few people in the war camp's internal forum who opposed war and called for peace.

The faction that makes a living by fighting, and becomes penniless once they leave the battlefield, prays for world peace every day—how come it's the faction that stays in the rear and is never seen that's plotting war?

"It's not a desire."

Xia Qizhen shook her head, her eyes suddenly sharpening, and she emphasized:
"War is an inevitable product of this distorted society. They are not looking forward to war, but fighting for it—fighting for the power to control the course of war, and fighting for the best position to seize profits from the flames of war."

Jiang Jianxin opened his eyes wide and suddenly understood something.

Previously, the letters from the Predictor, including the fourth playthrough, kept emphasizing that the Predictor was playing a grand game, but Jiang Jianxin had never known what the Predictor was planning.

But today, she seemed to vaguely see the shape of the chessboard.

—Perhaps, the game she was planning was this world war?

Jiang Jianxin was unsure and couldn't ask directly, so he could only vaguely mention:
"...You just said that precognitive sequences are also involved?"

Xia Qizhen nodded. The strategist, draped in dark green, turned around, his gold-rimmed glasses gleaming, and squinted at her, saying:

"Why is Jiang Zemin interested in this?"

Jiang Jianxin wasn't surprised by the strategist's keen insight, but she also had a way to deal with it. At this moment, she closed her eyes and rambled incoherently:
"Ah... My circle consists of war experts, and I've never seen anyone with a precognitive sequence, so I'm a little curious—have you ever seen one?"

Xia Qizhen turned his head and answered objectively:
"The giants of the Light rarely show their faces. I have never seen them in person, but I have observed their plans. In this kind of manipulation of the situation, the Predictive Sequence is better at it than the Omniscient Sequence."

Jiang Jianxin paused for a moment and asked:

"Why do you say that?"

Xia Qizhen pointed to his eyes and said:
Do you know the essential difference between omniscient sequences and predictive sequences?

That's a very good question. She's been happily using the basic abilities of the Light faction for over half a year, but she still doesn't know much about the two sequences under the faction.

Jiang Jianxin touched his nose and hesitated before saying:

"The Precognitive Sequence allows one to see the future, the Omniscient Sequence... knows even more?"

Xia Qizhen wasn't surprised by her ignorance. She pushed up the mirror and said helplessly:
"...The fundamental difference between these two sequences is that the predictive sequence sees the future, while the omniscient sequence sees the past."

"You can also understand it as the wisdom of all philosophers throughout history being gathered in the omniscient sequence, while the great ideas to be born in the future are gathered in the predictive sequence," Xia Qizhen continued.
"Strategists of the omniscient sequence who want to manipulate the situation can only deduce it through the logic and laws of the old society, while strategists of the predictive sequence who want to manipulate the situation only need to change the future they already know."

She spread her hands and said:

"If it weren't for the fact that there are too few people with the Precognitive Sequence and that only a few advanced Precognitive abilities can be awakened—the current mainstream strategists in the Talent World wouldn't even be in the omniscient Sequence."

"Were the two factions of the Light faction originally not evenly matched in terms of numbers?"

Jiang Jianxin asked.

"Of course, 90% of those who awaken in the Light faction are of the Omniscient Sequence, and the remaining 10% who can awaken to the Precognition Sequence are mostly of the Low-level Precognition."

Xia Qizhen laughed mockingly:
“Low-level foresight cannot see the true future and lacks the wisdom of the past and present; it is no exaggeration to call it useless.”

Jiang Jianxin understood somewhat; this was the first time she had learned about the internal situation of the Light Faction. She asked cautiously:

"Did you know that ten years ago, there was a powerful precognitive?"

"Ten years ago?"

Xia Qizhen glanced casually outside the tent. The rain had stopped sometime earlier, and the broadcast from the flood control office was gradually fading away.

She gently brushed away non-existent dust from her clothes, straightened her dark green shawl, and regained her refined and gentle demeanor as a strategist.
"It's been too long, who still remembers?"

A river breeze swept through the damp camp. She gazed at the lights gradually lighting up in the tents where the refugees lived in the distance, and said softly:

"Guangming has no shortage of outstanding strategists, and heroes from all over the world are as numerous as carp crossing a river."

"Who would remember a dead person?"

……

The heavy rain that Yin Ju used to maintain order stopped quietly after about half an hour.

The refugee camp was unusually quiet after the rain, with only sporadic footsteps heard among the tents set up by the flood control office.

Xia Qizhen left in a hurry as soon as the rain stopped, presumably to check on Song Jun's condition.

Jiang Jianxin was bored alone in the tent, so he simply picked up the Tangguang Sword and walked back.

A damp river breeze, carrying the scent of earth, brushed against her face as she walked slowly along the embankment, her mind replaying the conversation she had just had.

—Communicating with the erudite Light faction is indeed completely different. She might not have been able to understand so much explosive information even after years in the War faction, but now she casually mentioned it as common sense.

Previously, Jiang Jianxin had seen the Light faction mocking the War faction on the forum for being all brawn and no brains, but she hadn't taken it seriously.

After exchanging ideas today, the difference in skill level is truly obvious.

A broad vision and perspective are indeed a game-changer in warfare, and the comments on the forum are not just empty boasts.

The honest people were simply telling the truth; she had mistaken their realistic feelings for popular literature.

Jiang Jianxin sighed deeply, his thoughts drifting further and further away.

She thought to herself how foolish she had been when she first entered the apocalypse; when she met Lin Xin'an at the police station, she should have immediately thrust her sword at his neck—

The leader of the Light Sect doesn't reveal her true identity, but she has the Light Sect close at hand from the very beginning, and she's also an all-knowing strategist—it's practically a godsend.

She should have seized the opportunity to exploit and oppress him, getting that psychic advisor from the mental hospital to spill more information; she might have avoided taking six months of detours.

However, there's nothing to regret about the past. Jiang Jianxin knew his level of understanding at the beginning of the apocalypse, so it was normal that he couldn't believe it.

Her sudden reflections now are simply the result of her revisiting her past after the strategist broadened her horizons, and then discovering many clues.

In other words, she seems to be—

I'm starting to understand what the Predictor Family is up to.

The female lead finally understood.