"If it were only predictions on that level, of course I could understand."
The Wolf King said, "But the future we saw and experienced in Doomsday Nightmare was far more than 'prospecting a mineral vein and predicting the population of a satellite town,' or 'discovering that someone kept irregular hours, ate unhealthily, and had a family history of hereditary disease, then predicting that he could not live to a hundred.'
"Just how much information—or rather, how much initial data—would one need to predict the future in such... minute detail, so vividly lifelike?"
"That is why I said it was some 'existence above us.'"
Meng Chao said, "All deduction works this way. The more detailed and reliable the initial data fed into a computing system, the more refined and accurate its output will be.
"If some Super Enterprise from Dragon City only possessed rough data about a set of Crystal Veins, it could only predict the future development of the industrial chain and Satellite City surrounding those veins.
"If you only possessed initial data about Turanze, then all you could see would be Turanze's future and doom.
"But if this 'existence above us' could grasp all information about a city, a region, a continent, a civilization, or even an entire planet—even if not all of it, at least 50 percent, or even merely 10 percent—then it might conduct vast amounts of deduction, calculation, and prediction regarding the fate of a civilization or even an entire planet, arriving at conclusions that might not be exact, but would at least be reasonable and conform to the laws governing the development of things."
"All the information on an entire planet?"
The Wolf King frowned. "What kind of immensely powerful existence would possess such terrifying capabilities? Could such an existence truly exist?"
"I originally thought