"So... all of this was within your expectations?" Sun Hang studied the Brain in a Vat before him with interest. "You can foresee the future, so you were never worried about Tianfu City's eventual fate?"
"No, it wasn't the future sight you're imagining." Pei Zongjun's holographic projection shook his head. "Sphinx's precognitive ability was like the riddles it posed—abstract and vague. I had to sift through the information and perform extensive calculations and analysis before I could obtain a few useful... 'clues.'"
"Clues?"
"I only knew that you were crucial, but I didn't know how you would deal with Chimera Seventeen, nor did I know whether you would ultimately succeed... All I could do was follow the clues Sphinx gave me and provide you with as many resources as possible without condition... You could say I was gambling, but it seemed I made the right bet."
"Then... has Sphinx's precognition ever been wrong?" Sun Hang asked.
"Not so far," the Mainframe said. "It allowed me to find the 'optimal solution' among countless choices... Even if some options did not seem like the best ones from the current perspective, as time passed, Sphinx's prophecies proved time and again that it was right."
"You seem rather dependent on its ability... Aren't you afraid it might still retain part of its self-awareness, or be remotely controlled by the other half of its brain and stab you in the back at a critical moment?" Sun Hang countered.
"If Sphinx had wanted to destroy humanity, it had many opportunities to do so already," the Mainframe said. "But it didn't."
"Then was sending me to Nameless Island for the Rank Advancement Trial also part of Sphinx's prophecy?" Sun Hang narrowed his eyes. "What was the purpose of that?"
"Sphinx's prophecies are very vague. I only knew