Previously, the person Bugra Free State had sent to contact The Alliance had always been Xavier, a Flint Group salesman. This time, a man claiming to be the foreign minister had suddenly appeared. Chu Guang had no idea whether his identity was genuine or not, so after exchanging a few pleasantries, he left him waiting off to the side.
To be honest, he did not particularly like those people from the north.
Especially during the cleanup of the slums outside Boulder City, The Alliance's guards had discovered that many gangs had Flint Group's shadow behind them.
Those people had done plenty of inhuman things under the guise of private enterprises, and whenever they ran into trouble, they cowardly hid behind the Free State.
Since the Free State was a "protected state" of the Great Rift, and the latter possessed military strength no weaker than the Legion or the Enterprise, no one could do anything about them.
The Alliance's guards could hardly enter the Free State to enforce the law right under the Great Rift's nose.
Flint Group was also quite clever. It never provoked enormous powers like the Academy, the Legion, or the Enterprise, at most conducting business in their vassals or settlements under their indirect control.
For example, settlements governed by the Science Committee, the countries of the Sunset Province, or relatively prosperous settlements in the eastern provinces.
Those guys were like an annoying fly. The people capable of swatting it had no interest in doing so, while those who wanted to could not reach it.
What puzzled Chu Guang was that even if Norreg really was the Free State's foreign minister, why had the foreign minister come this time instead of a Flint Group representative?
Flint Group was the true controller of the Free State. The other side