Many small things gather together, and they can change everything.
Why did Inez kill Nellie?
Lamont didn't know.
In fact, he hadn't created any decisive factors. There was no necessary connection between what happened and what would happen.
He just knew how things would develop after doing what he did.
As long as you can see the future, you just need to do something you don't even understand, and things will develop in the direction you want.
Perhaps if he just left five minutes later one morning, millions of people would change their fate on a future day.
Maybe if he just dumped a cup of coffee at the right time, he could change the direction of a country two hundred years later.
As long as nothing unexpected happens, things will move in the direction he hopes for.
But he couldn't guarantee that accidents wouldn't happen.
Because in the basement, there was a dark and blurry shadow that he couldn't see clearly.