When it was confirmed that the enemy was stronger than them, yet had allowed their side to advance steadily all along, they should have considered why that was.
Now they knew. The other side had not been inactive; they had merely been deceiving them.
The measure of concealing garrisoned troops seemed utterly ordinary, yet it revealed a terrifying core beneath the surface.
Simply put, it was like two computers playing rock-paper-scissors. You determined that the other side was highly likely to play rock, so you prepared to play paper. The other side determined that you had determined they would play rock and would therefore play paper, so they decided to play scissors. Then you determined that they had determined that you had determined they would play rock...
In the end, after a contest involving countless layers of calculation, they still returned to the starting point and played rock, while you misjudged the situation and played scissors.
There was no use regretting it. In ordinary people's eyes, one would lament why one had overthought things. If they had simply stopped thinking further and played paper, would they not have won?
But if you did not think deeply or calculate further, the other side would not have played rock at all—they would have played scissors.
In the end, everything returned to simplicity. It looked as though rock had merely beaten scissors, but behind it lay an infinitely terrifying contest of Computing Power, outwardly appearing completely unremarkable.
The commander who had narrowly avoided falling into the enemy's scheme said, "We must remain vigilant at all times. Without Tang Chuan's warning, we nearly would have made a grave mistake.
"This cannot be blamed on the upper Light Brain either. Through countless preparations and schemes, the enemy found the one area where our Light Brain