Cao Xianming's brain was working furiously.
His Data Model was running projections at maximum speed, screening, comparing, and eliminating every possible target one by one.
But he knew perfectly well that he was wasting his effort.
He had encountered beings his Data Model could not extrapolate at all, and more than once.
Only those top-tier bosses...
Like the thing in Mirage Lake before, the Whale Lord, the master of those Evil Eyes on Yang Yong, and the master of that layer of white bones counted too...
They were all terrifying beings of that kind.
Those beings shared certain traits: they could not be extrapolated, measured, or opposed.
Cao Xianming was now caught between a rock and a hard place.
He forced himself to calm down and forced his rapidly running Data Model not to collapse.
In just an instant, he calculated the probability of a connection between the person before him and that Earth Dragon. The result was as high as eighty-seven percent.
That number had not come from analysis. It was more like a quantified expression of some intuition, because his model simply lacked sufficient parameters for a precise calculation.
Eighty-seven percent meant it was all but certain.
That Earth Dragon was very likely this person's offspring, or perhaps his servant.
Cao Xianming's thoughts raced, but outwardly, he had no choice but to pretend he was drenched in cold sweat and frightened almost to death.
He knew that any pretense was meaningless before a being like this, but putting on an act was better than doing nothing.
At the very least, he had to send the other party a message: I'm weak. I pose no threat. You don't need to pay any attention to me.
The man came over and patted Cao Xianming on the shoulder.
"Don't be nervous."