Jiang Hao spoke casually, seemingly unsurprised by being surrounded by predators on all sides. "Everyone knows perfectly well that some of us have [Apocalypse Fragments]. We simply keep it to ourselves. As for who exactly has one, I have no evidence, so I can't say for certain. I just have a rough idea."
Guo Jiuxiao frowned deeply at that. "Looks like I was still too optimistic."
"That's only natural," Jiang Hao continued. "After all, you weren't in that position from the start, nor did you have an [Apocalypse Fragment] from the start."
Then he shifted the subject, his tone turning probing. "But other people's circumstances have nothing to do with me. I dislike meddling more than anything. What interests me more is this: Principal Guo, you deliberately brought up the [Apocalypse Fragment], even going so far as to reveal your own trump card. Surely you weren't merely trying to confirm whether I had one? What exactly are you trying to say?"
"Since you have an [Apocalypse Fragment] too, Chairman Jiang, that makes the rest of this conversation much easier."
Guo Jiuxiao lowered his voice further. "Qin Siyang attracts far more attention now than Yan Budong ever did. Once we kill Qin Siyang and the others, Sigma District-even the entire Safe Zone-will be rocked by an enormous upheaval! The United Government's crackdown, the desperate counterattacks of the various surviving factions, those covetous onlookers lurking in the shadows... we'll become everyone's target. I'm afraid there won't be anywhere for us to establish ourselves in Sigma District, or even anywhere in the known Safe Zone, for quite some time."
"So my plan is to use the [Apocalypse Fragment] to travel to the next Safe Zone. What do you think, Chairman Jiang?"
Jiang Hao listened quietly, his initially calm expression gradually giving way to