Less than half an hour after the starships set off, a medium-sized Armed Merchant Ship appeared diagonally ahead and sent a communication request.
"Is this Horizon? We're the Wild Wolf Business Association. We're inviting you to hunt Alien Races with us."
The control room on this side fell silent for three or four seconds before someone answered, "We're also going to hunt Alien Races."
"We know that," the other side replied flatly. "Strength comes in numbers. What, do you have a problem with that?"
After two seconds of silence, someone here asked, "Can we refuse?"
"Are you serious?" the other party asked lazily. "I already told you—we're the Wild Wolf Business Association!"
Qu Jianlei and the others exchanged looks at that, while Jia Shuiqing gave a cold snort.
This Wild Wolf Business Association was the very hunting group she had contacted before.
You could tell from the name that the association had originally been a mercenary group as well.
But Wild Wolf later grew stronger and absorbed quite a few small and medium-sized factions, so it now called itself a business association.
Even now, the Wild Wolf Business Association did not engage in much legitimate business, and its reputation was far from good.
However, they had powerful backers and considerable strength, so under normal circumstances, few were willing to provoke them.
What Jia Shuiqing found ironic was that she had already given up contacting them, only to run into them again after all these twists and turns.
The Horizon Mercenary Group clearly did not want to offend them, and began bargaining while swallowing their anger.
In the end, all they managed to secure was that their fleet would not be split apart and would retain a certain degree of autonomy.
Obviously, being forcibly grouped together like this carried too much