With a deafening roar, a burst of fire erupted into the sky, sending plumes of smoke billowing into the air.
Master Xuanyi's divine sense resisted and endured the high temperature and powerful shockwave. Floating clouds, floating clouds... all of this happened in just one second.
The powerful divine force was shattered by the violent explosion! It vanished in an instant.
This data was rapidly transmitted back to the command center's database. While deeply moved, the researchers immediately immersed themselves in analysis and calculations. On the screen, the immense energy impact and collision of the missile at the moment of target strike was repeatedly displayed. It was breathtaking.
"Hit! It's gone!" A professor, sweating with excitement, jumped to his feet, almost shouting.
Li Ruiyu's heart skipped a beat, and he asked nervously, "Are you sure that the energy didn't instantly dodge when the missile hit?"
"Absolutely not!" the professor exclaimed excitedly. "Before and at the moment of the explosion, that energy suddenly burst forth and made a clear resistance to the missile's explosive force, but it was quickly shattered and destroyed!"
Li Ruiyu was stunned.
He didn't know whether to be happy or sad; he was somewhat lost.
Is that possible?
"Prepare for the second attack experiment."
Suddenly, Xu Zhengyang's soft, faint voice, tinged with a hint of gloom, came from behind.
Li Ruiyu and the two professors turned around abruptly, staring in astonishment at Xu Zhengyang, who was thin and had a calm expression.
The door to the inner room had been opened at some point. After saying this, Xu Zhengyang ignored their reaction, turned around, and went back into the inner room, closing the door again.
If this first missile attack test brought some excitement, exhilaration, and even the joy of success to Li Ruiyu and the professors and staff in charge of the research, then for Xu Zhengyang it was a profound blow—a blow of failure!
A deity is a transcendent being, and the power of their energy is far beyond what any human being can create.
However, reality directly and cruelly destroyed Xu Zhengyang's pride and superiority.
It only lasted for a second.
Unable to even put up a little more resistance, it was utterly destroyed and vanished into thin air...
Moreover, this missile is just an ordinary short-range surface-to-surface missile. What if it were a more powerful and stronger missile? Or even... a nuclear weapon? Wouldn't the gods be unable to dodge quickly enough and be injured when they sensed the danger?
Xu Zhengyang had seen everything that just happened clearly through the Nine Provinces Record.
Xu Zhengyang knew everything about Xuan Yi Daoist, not only the moment of the explosion and the collision of the two forces, but also his thoughts before and after his complete disappearance.
Xu Zhengyang was unwilling to accept this!
At that moment, he was like a gambler who had lost a bet, his head spinning, and he decided to go all in.
In the second experiment, Guliya was given divine power, reaching the level of three city gods.
The Records of Kyushu warned: "Absolutely not! If the divine power is too strong, the Heavenly Laws will directly grant Guliya authority, making her a god and causing her to lose control."
Xu Zhengyang suddenly shuddered, as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over him, suppressing his previous agitation.
Yes, what if Guliya's divine power becomes too great, and he, as the God of the State, can no longer suppress her divine authority? If the Heavenly Laws then oppose him, wouldn't that create a second god? That would be too dangerous...
After a moment's thought, Xu Zhengyang said, "It's alright. Give her some divine power first, and after the missile attack explodes, I'll give her more divine power to resist..."
Kyushu Records: This is a piecemeal tactic.
Xu Zhengyang was taken aback. Of course, this was tantamount to wasting divine power for nothing.
After a series of calculations by the Nine Provinces Record, the reason why Master Xuanyi and his divine power were so easily destroyed by the missile explosion in just one second was not because of the great difference between divine power and explosive force, but because he was unable to withstand the attack in the initial impact and was directly swallowed up by the unstoppable shock wave and high temperature.
If divine power can withstand the attack of the explosive force in the first instant, then it may be able to launch a backlash or attack, or even evade and escape.
Xu Zhengyang's desired outcome was that by adding more divine power, he could potentially delay the destruction process and allow the deity to escape danger.
Therefore, Xu Zhengyang was in a bit of a dilemma.
If he didn't want his actions to become a mere addictive tactic, then the precision of his timing needed to reach a terrifying level. In that one-thousandth of a second between the missile's explosion and its immediate collision with divine power, he needed to imbue Guliya with divine power and then counterattack with three times that amount.
If it had been done even slightly earlier, Guliya might have escaped due to immense fear, relying on her powerful divine strength.
If it's placed slightly later, then there's no point in increasing divine power.
Xu Zhengyang fell into deep thought.
The staff outside waited quietly for the next target location to show the same eerie energy fluctuations as before, and then began the missile attack.
No one dared to urge Xu Zhengyang.
A dozen minutes later, Xu Zhengyang made a decision to abandon the experiment of adding divine power.
There's no need to waste divine power and take unnecessary risks just to prove a countermeasure against missiles. The first experimental attack has already confirmed that this advanced, man-made weapon poses a lethal threat to the gods, and that's enough.
Of course, Guliya still had to endure the missile strikes.
The purpose was not to provide more information to the military's researchers, but rather for Xu Zhengyang to acquire more data so that he could conduct his own research and have the Nine Provinces Record analyze, compare, and calculate how much divine power would be needed to completely resist or even counteract this weapon.
Another reason is the issue of saving face.
After all, they had already agreed to conduct a second experiment. If they were to give up completely at this point, it would be tantamount to telling outsiders and those high-ranking leaders that the gods were afraid.
It's nothing more than expending a city god's considerable divine power.
In any case, it won't harm itself, and after two consecutive experiments, it will probably deal a serious psychological blow to those high-ranking leaders in the country who harbor some ulterior motives and disrespectful expectations.
See? The gods have been very generous and let you fight as you please. Do you accept that?
These shrewd individuals would not be foolish enough to ask the gods to cooperate with them in conducting experiments with even more powerful weapons.
Because doing so would anger the gods.
What's wrong? Are you trying to piss me off?
So Xu Zhengyang calmly sent his consciousness out of his body, transporting Guliya to another target location. After giving her another series of lies and instructions, he soothed Guliya onto the ashes-filled shelf, saying, "Take care, don't bother seeing me off..."
You got off easy, you son of a bitch, Gurielya.
Volume Six, Chapter 347: Important Meetings of the Prefecture God's Office
During monitoring and data analysis, the missile accurately hit the target and instantly destroyed the terrifying and powerful energy fluctuations; however, Xu Zhengyang was completely unharmed, allowing you to launch another missile attack. Why not use a bigger missile? This is so boring.
After the second attack experiment, it was exactly the same as the first.
Driven by a fervent passion for the unknown, the two professors primarily responsible for this experiment and analysis dared to boldly request that Xu Zhengyang cooperate with them in further researching the energy fluctuations of divine power. In other words, they even harbored the cautious, serious, and skeptical attitude characteristic of all scientists when studying anything.
The targets of the two missile attacks were indeed strange energy fluctuations, but how can we be sure that they were yours, a deity?
The professors' demands sent a chill down Li Ruiyu's spine...
Unexpectedly, before Li Ruiyu could step forward to dissuade or explain, Xu Zhengyang smiled and nodded in agreement, saying, "Then, you must make sure all the surveillance and detection equipment is set up properly this time..."
After saying that, Xu Zhengyang turned and walked out of the room, stepping into the dark night.
While everyone in the room was still in a daze, they suddenly noticed that Xu Zhengyang, who had walked into the night, stopped, slowly turned around, and raised his arms slightly... Then, a golden and reddish halo suddenly emanated from Xu Zhengyang's body, enveloping him.
The indoor energy sensor immediately started beeping rapidly.
Immediately, Xu Zhengyang, enveloped in a halo of light, rapidly ascended into the air, like a missile that had just been launched, piercing through the thick darkness of the night and disappearing into the night sky in an instant.
The radar on the screen showed that an unidentified flying object with high energy fluctuations appeared in the sky.
Instead of immediately instructing relevant personnel to conduct tracking, surveillance, and data analysis, the two professors stood there blankly, as if they had suddenly realized something: Had we gone too far just now and angered that transcendent figure?
"State secret!"
Li Ruiyu uttered those four words with a gloomy expression, then turned and left with a straight face, quickly getting into a car and rushing back.
The high-ranking military personnel who remained there, along with the two professors and a dozen researchers, were all too aware of the weight of the four words Li Ruiyu left behind before he departed.
It was a highly confidential experiment that was arranged in advance, and most of the people present were unaware of the source of this strange energy.
But now, because of your two professors' obsessive dedication to your research, this deity has generously given you another chance. However, this chance has also put you in a difficult situation. Top secrets have been revealed here, among these dozen or so soldiers, and perhaps even dozens more outside who might witness this scene.
Go ahead and worry about your headache.
Get ready to get a scolding when you get back...
When ideas and speculations are built upon a power that is too great to be compared to.
Therefore, one doesn't need a particularly brilliant mind or long-term vision to accurately predict the development of events and the decisions of anyone involved. It's like when a wolf rushes into a pack and devours a sheep, it's certain that the other sheep, even the alpha sheep, will not attack, stop, or retaliate against it.
Moreover, in this real world, Xu Zhengyang is an unrealistic and unknown terrifying force.
Therefore, Xu Zhengyang's judgment was very accurate. Just as he thought, although the high-level figures obtained a lot of experimental data and analyzed a lot of theoretical results after this missile attack test, it was like a blind man lighting a lamp and wasting his time, returning to square one.
That is, all the scientific data we rely on and trust is useless;
Gods are not something that human science and technology can study or explain.
What's even more terrifying is that the experiment only proved that advanced weapons posed no threat to the gods, but it didn't reveal what would happen if the gods retaliated.
God knows……
...
This experiment, besides giving the country's top leaders some lingering fear, also, on certain levels, made them feel complacent.
As for the secret surveillance, tracking, investigation, and research conducted on Xu Zhengyang by foreign countries, well, let them do what they want.
If other hostile countries could also confirm this incredibly shocking secret, wouldn't that be a good thing? You see, there is such a person, no, a deity, who has the status of a citizen of our country, and is extremely protective of his own, with a selfish nature.
This has a much greater deterrent effect than any strategic nuclear weapon.
Even this otherworldly deity cannot be used by us as a weapon of deterrence against other countries.
But other countries don't think that way.
Of course, this highly confidential information wouldn't be readily disclosed to them, as that would greatly diminish its effectiveness. Instead, a little pressure would be applied, creating more mystery and secrecy to pique their interest. Only by letting them slowly investigate, steal, and research, gradually uncovering the truth themselves, would the impact and deterrent effect be truly maximized.
However, Xu Zhengyang, the person involved, did not think so.
If it weren't for his compassionate heart, his concern for the world's troubles before his own, and his boundless divine grace, which prevented him from instigating war and causing the deaths of many innocent people for his own momentary pleasure, he would have loved to stand in the street and roar angrily into the crowd:
"Who wants to investigate me? Who dares to follow me? Are they tired of living?"
Therefore, after the experiment concluded, Xu Zhengyang pondered for a long time and decided to convene a high-level expanded meeting of the State God's Office.
The attendees included:
Li Haidong, Chief Judge of the City God's Office and Chief Clerk of the Prefecture God's Office;
Chen Chaojiang, the supervising official of the prefectural god's office;
Su Peng, captain of the ghost messengers of the City God's Mansion;
Acting City God's Office Steward Wan Yun;