Chapter 964 — The Echo of the Counter-Tide
Blade of Dawn · Page 3 of 4
"There is no choice," the Dragon God said frankly. "At least with it before our eyes we can monitor its condition at all times. If that tower were located anywhere else in the world, it would be a true danger—the faith of the Counter-Tide Empire gave that tower a strong tendency to spread knowledge outward. If it were allowed to come into contact with other mortal civilizations, it would give birth to countless Counter-Tide Empires, countless runaway divine catastrophes that worship the Pathfinders as their object."
At this point, the Dragon God suddenly glanced at Gaoyang. "What—do you have an interest in going to take a look at that tower? Perhaps you would not be affected by it—"
"No, thank you," Gaoyang said without hesitation. "At least for now, I have little interest in it."
Are you joking? That was a genuine Pathfinders' relic mutated by divine pollution—divinity, mutation, Pathfinders: it had basically claimed every one of this world's greatest danger factors. To rashly go in under such circumstances would be to ask for a coffin, wouldn't it? Gaoyang considered himself to have a certain resistance to divine pollution, but he knew his resistance came from the Pathfinders, and that tower was a Pathfinders' relic after divine pollution. Whether his resistance would still work before that tower was entirely an unknown.
More importantly—he could use the "Abandoned Protocol" to deter a rational Dragon God, but he had no way to deter a "Counter-Tide God" that didn't even seem to have grown a brain. That kind of thing couldn't be fought and couldn't be reasoned with, and to Gaoyang it held little research value... Why risk his life to probe it?
In the end, his curiosity about the Counter-Tide Empire was still only a diversion for Gaoyang, not a necessity—in his view, it didn't even rank as high as the cola in his cup.
He picked up the oak cup brimming with "Reflection" and took a deep draught to settle himself.
At a certain moment just now, another thought had actually occurred to him—if the "fall coordinates" of certain satellites and space stations in the sky were set on that tower, could it be destroyed once and for all?
But the thought had surfaced only for an instant before Gaoyang rejected it himself.
Because he was not confident—he was not confident he could make those space facilities crash precisely onto the tower, nor could he guarantee how effective it would be to smash a Pathfinders' relic with a Pathfinders' relic.
As for the former, even before setting out, when he had used the Firmament Station's systems to simulate the reentry process of orbital facilities, Gaoyang had discovered that the fall error of those old antiques was actually frighteningly large—the outdated systems and the power deviations caused by energy shortages all affected their reentry precision. Although the base of that tower might be as large as an island, the reentry error of those orbital facilities could send them veering straight over to nearby Talund...
That was also why Gaoyang would use abandoned satellites and space stations to deter the Dragon God, but had never thought of applying them to the situation on the Loren continent—too many uncontrollable factors. To smash Talund, of course, he didn't need to consider so much; the dragon realm was so vast that wherever it fell, the effect would surely be the same. But on the Loren continent, with its many nations and complex powers, if a satellite came down and a booster engine deviated, it might just smash into his own head—to say nothing of the fact that such a thing was terrifyingly powerful and utterly impossible to use in conventional warfare...
And as for the latter... that was even more cause for worry.
Using a Pathfinders' satellite to smash a Pathfinders' tower—if it were smashed to ashes, fine, but what if it had no effect, or what if it just happened to crack the tower open and release the "thing" inside? Whose responsibility would that be?