But who could have imagined that Herta would become Emperor the Third?
Perhaps because of this, Screwllum, having learned the full story, had even started talking nonsense.
But in any case, not allowing Intelligent Machines and intelligent life to become completely opposed was Screwllum's bottom line.
Again and again and again—this would truly make intelligent life question the stability of the Intelligent Machine race.
"Because the entire Honkai: Star Rail world has no possibility of defying me, so-called 'anchored moments' merely refer to the point when I choose to let go of the entire world."
Chen Li spread his hands.
That was what a "moment" was.
It merely referred to something that would inevitably happen after The Erudition calculated and, to some extent, interfered.
The Erudition could use extreme micro-control to guide every possibility onto the same path. For example, the emergence and deaths of Emperor the First and Emperor the Second, even the birth of the Iron Tomb—making facts irreversible and thereby preventing Parallel Worlds leading to other possibilities from coming into being.
But for Chen Li, it was much simpler. Given his personality, only killing him could possibly send the world down a bad What If route.
Just as long as Chen Li was alive, Great Herta could not become Emperor the Third, Jingliu could not become a Great Extinguisher fused with Propagation, and the Astral Express crew could not be wiped out...
So when someone could influence the development of the entire world according to their own mood and play a decisive role in the world's progress, that person was a living "moment," or rather, a "period of time."
The Erudition found this difficult to achieve, but it was scheming beyond measure, so it could find another way around it.
Therefore, 'anchored moments' were not actually difficult