Wang Dong understood what he meant, of course.
There was no way Wang Dong would ask him about the Mechanical God Cult for no reason.
It had to be because Wang Dong had crossed paths with the Mechanical God Cult, and the encounter had probably been less than pleasant. That was why he had asked.
So Yang Duanmang told Wang Dong everything he knew in detail.
He also quietly offered a few words of advice.
Wang Dong nodded slowly.
This time, he had finally gotten a thorough understanding of the Mechanical God Cult.
It had deep roots and a special status in terms of soft power.
And in terms of hard power, it possessed multiple Death Starships, as well as an unknown number of "Mechanical Deities"!
Even losing an Armored Cuirassier in Wuche River System after Wang Dong had tricked them hardly counted as a crippling loss for the Mechanical God Cult.
At the same time, this conversation made Wang Dong realize something else.
His earlier plan had been to use the Purple River Kingdom to draw the Mechanical God Cult's attention, then use the influence of the Kindling Human Civilization Alliance to drag it into a quagmire. That plan was probably never going to work.
After all, the Kindling Human Civilization Alliance's attitude toward the Mechanical God Cult was actually rather ambiguous.
With the Mechanical God Cult's strength, a mere Purple River Kingdom didn't even qualify as a "quagmire"!
In Wang Dong's mind, this raised the potential threat posed by the Mechanical God Cult by an entire level.
It was fair to say that the biggest reason the Sky Peng Horizontal was still going to such lengths to keep its identity hidden in Changpan River System was the Mechanical God Cult!
During this period,
Wang Dong had poured a