"Oh Father of Machines, may you one day fulfill your desires, and may I today be valued by Mr. Frey."
Scientific Knight Tang Lurong cycled this sentence twenty times between the layers of his cerebral cortex using an internal player.
Yesterday, he had just cycled it nineteen times, and tomorrow he plans to cycle it twenty-one times. Doing this in an arithmetic sequence, if one day he truly gains recognition, it will serve as repeatable validation.
Such practices were generally known as "mysticism" in the Old Era. Naturally, in this era dominated by the Father of Machines, they are strictly prohibited. Abstracting statistical results, naming statistical trends as fate, or personifying statistical conclusions are all malignant events of "cultural creation," and can lead to being deprived of one's qualification as a "human."
However, the Scientific Knight Order knows how to avoid such outcomes.
