Gu Weiyang's face was livid. "Were these homeless curs who came running in from outside futures traders before all this? They certainly know how to hype things up!"
003 sighed as well. "Ultimately, they chose a good name: the 'World-Destroying Church.' It makes people think they're the authorized representatives of the [Apocalypse Fragment]."
"What's so surprising about that?" 006 said. "They came from other Safe Zones and saw the [Apocalypse Fragment] before we did. Naturally, they've had more opportunities to drum up support."
008 said, "What worries me most right now is that the World-Destroying Church might have high-tier artifacts from other Safe Zones. Even now, I can't imagine what a Tier-Six God-Hunting Artifact would look like."
"You don't need to worry about that. If they had a Tier Six Item, we'd be the ones hiding in the Sigma District's sewers like stinking maggots, not them." 007's tone carried the contempt he would have shown a pile of dog shit.
005 added, "Ah, the World-Destroying Church really knows how to scheme. Back then, how many people did they send to assassinate professors researching the secrets of the apocalypse, all to keep the [Apocalypse Fragment]'s secrets from being exposed? The entire Safe Zone was on edge. I think Zhang Kuang was the only one who survived that wave of assassinations."
"Now that they've deciphered more of the [Apocalypse Fragment], they're playing the good guys and revealing the apocalypse's secrets to the public. Are they trying to whitewash their past and go legitimate?"
"Go legitimate? If they want to do that, they'll have to kill me first!" Gu Weiyang's voice was resolute.
"It's rare to hear 002 say something I agree with," 007 said. "If the day ever comes when the World-Destroying Church takes over the Safe Zone, you and I can