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Chapter 278: Chapter 181 Welcome to the Second Loop (Part 2)_2

All the cats on the boat were dragged out, and every single one was pinned to the ground and severely beaten by the squirrels. Only after repeating “Conquer” dozens of times were they taken to the reform camp for labor reform.

The Food Lord also got in a few vicious kicks, and had the Maine Coon not been dragging Him, He could have continued kicking.

Even as He was being dragged away, He was still saying fiercely, “These members of the Food Lord’s Sect are really shameless, picking on us all the time! Pah, don’t stop me, I want to kick more. When their master comes, I’ll kick them too!”

Seeing such a Food Lord, Pingping really wanted to remind Him that He was their master.

Pingping was also alarmed by the actions of the Sect.

When she opened the Game Inn, she found that not only Car Star was being extorted by the Sect.

On the forums, players started to rant about the Sect’s overfishing and overestimation of its power.

“I was peacefully hunting Shadows when the nearby Sect suddenly notified me to help pray in preparation for resisting the Shadows. I want to ask, who are you praying for? The Shadows?”

“I was transporting supplies to the frontlines when my spaceship was detained by a Sect spaceship nearby. Their reason for impounding my ship was that I hadn’t prayed on time. Let me ask, isn’t there a chance that transporting supplies to the frontline could be more effective than praying?”

“I’m bankrupt… I admit, I gambled a bit, I hoarded a large amount of military supplies, then they were requisitioned by the Sect for no compensation, claiming the Sect had the highest interpretive authority and unlimited requisition rights during the grand mass. Abuse of power for private gain, huh!”

“We saved a real-world interloper, who said that it’s quite normal for the Sect to do this kind of thing recently. When I told it that the more the Sect robs, the worse its treatment with us, it also started cursing the Sect.”

Such malicious robberies were happening everywhere, and what should have been a solemn grand mass seemed to have become an opportunity for the Sect to gather wealth, causing resentment around the world.

According to the Information Hunter, such grand masses had happened before with similar situations, where the Planetary Governors led the forces at the frontlines against the Shadows, and the Sects used the excuse of holding grand masses to gather wealth.

Players at the frontlines also conducted a survey, and the results were somewhat surprising.

Considering the church’s wealth-gathering efforts, even if only one-fifth made it to the frontline, the number of their warships should be twice what it is now, support should be countless, players should be able to make a fortune by participating in the war, instead of currently having to pay out of their own pocket and using their own magical weapons to attack the Shadows.

After all, in this world, prayer can earn faith, and faith is currency. This calculation is simple and undeniable.

However, overall, the players’ resistance against the Shadows is still on track, even though the Sect is constantly scheming behind the scenes, resisting the Shadows remains the mainstream, and any outstanding issues can be dealt with later.

But then, players discovered they had overestimated the bottom line of these Sect NPCs.

While the players led by Pingping didn’t go to the frontline, they provided a batch of extraordinary ingredients with the help of real-world interlopers.

These ingredients, blessed by the real-world interlopers, could temporarily enhance various attributes when consumed, such as rapid physical recovery, swift healing, and fast movement.

With these ingredients, along with some magical weapons that came as support, the united Demigods also became a main force in resisting the Shadows, and consuming these ingredients became an essential part of their post-battle routine.

These items had been clearly defined as irreplaceable, and everything else could be touched, but these were truly off-limits.

Later, however, the spaceship transporting these supplies was hijacked by an unidentified force, and all the goods on the ship disappeared.

The Freedom Alliance used their influence, along with the Information Hunter, to investigate the whereabouts of the supplies, only to discover them on the dining tables of the Sect.

Aside from the food, the Information Hunter discovered other things as well.

Power armors intended to support the frontlines were stored as craft pieces in the warehouse of the High Priest, a magical weapon powerful enough to extinguish planets was tossed into storage, cartoons meant to boost morale were hoarded in large quantities, becoming useless wealth rather than weapons.

Although they knew the Sect’s greed, they never imagined it would be so extreme.

Seeing the warriors at the frontlines making do with simple meals, and then seeing the screenshots the Information Hunters released from the Sect, the players felt they had reached the peak of rage.

We take the hits for you, and you play mind games with us, right?

But the angriest of all were not the players, but the reincarnated Gods within the players’ ranks.

These extraordinary items were produced in cooperation with the players, and some items were quite difficult to create, even the Gods had to ponder how to make the world heed their commands and produce the relevant items.

In the past, they were the ones worshipped by the Sect, and even if the Heavenly Tao network suffered damage, it could be managed by holding a grand mass.

But now, they have become suppliers, and it was only after actually engaging in it that they realized, the Sect was truly no good.

Besides what was rightfully due to the Gods, eighty percent of the faith was withheld, various rare items that could change the course of battles were embezzled, they’re no longer just parasites but naked fat pigs, even actual pigs would drool at the sight.