When Ling voiced that final suspicion, Fang Ran stared at the miniature New York and drifted off for a moment.
After that night, he had truly felt too much—the limits of reality, the intensity of Night Battles, the difference abilities made, the vast grandeur of the world's upper echelons, and the insignificance of his own strength.
Those thoughts nearly filled his mind completely. So after the crisis had been resolved, he had never really thought deeply about the Covenant's motives behind that night's plan.
Yeah, why had the Covenant launched that financial war?
Prompted by Ling, he began considering it. If the Covenant had won that night, what exactly would those 650 billion US Dollars have been used for?
An answer instinctively sprang into Fang Ran's mind, and he voiced it tentatively:
"The God Descent Plan?"
"It's difficult to say for certain."
As the Wandering Night Angel, Ling had witnessed more than one incident led by the Covenant over the long years of the past. At that moment, she spoke with cool rationality:
"The Covenant has always pursued several goals in parallel. As a Night Battle hegemon, it also has many deeply hidden plans, like the Faceless Men and dark energy experiments."
But then her tone shifted. Her pale golden gaze became like a chilled blade, piercing through appearances as she looked at the projection of miniature New York.
"But the European incident ended not long ago, and they've already made another move this large. The most likely reason is the God Descent Plan."
"They urgently needed a large amount of funding to complete some crucial step."
The God Descent Plan.
Fang Ran had not expected that everything North America had gone through—that financial war involving healthcare, energy, and the stock market—would also point toward the thing he had initially