Xiao Moshan merely smiled noncommittally at Hill's suggestion.
"Heh, whatever we want, we don't need anyone else to give it to us. We'll take it ourselves!"
Seeing that the other party remained noncommittal, Hill grew a little anxious.
"I'm really not joking. Given your deed of killing the star beast and saving your comrades, it might actually work!"
"Let's not talk about that," Xiao Moshan said with a wave of his hand. "What I find strange is that the star beasts are such a huge threat, yet the Federation still doesn't care?"
He genuinely could not understand it. The Federation was facing such a crisis, yet it still wanted to make a move against the Empire.
Fighting on two fronts... just how much nerve did that take? Hill misunderstood his meaning. "It's not that they don't care. It's just that, to prevent social unrest, they need to retake the Empire before they can focus entirely on dealing with the star beasts."
Considering that the other party might intend to collude with the Empire, he did not say any more and instead brought up something else.
"Now that the jump is over, can our comrades... come out of the Life Support Pods?"
Xiao Moshan nodded. "We'll let them out, but I hope you can keep them under control. We truly don't mind killing people!"
A day later, they encountered a military Patrol Team.
A Battalion-Class Ship alone would have been one thing, and the Jin Yang Merchant Ship was no issue either, but the problem was that the Teres Merchant Ship was damaged! The merchant ship could still move, but it was being towed along by the Battalion-Class Ship!
The situation was simply too strange, so a patrol starship stopped them for a thorough interrogation.
Fortunately, the Battalion-Class Ship had all