The news that the Red Spider Merchant Group was about to reach a Deep Cooperation Agreement with the Tian Yuan Alliance quickly spread throughout the city under Aldrich's careful orchestration.
Soon, the news was confirmed a second time by Hunter Tiger, that big mouth, making it seem even more credible.
If the alliance's sphere of influence had been expanding rapidly lately, and the vigorous development of the western suburbs had merely pushed things along,
then this Deep Cooperation Agreement was the final straw that broke the camel's back.
What? You say you don't want to cooperate with the alliance?
Even the Foundation's Level Five Merchant Group had recognized the alliance's potential. Did your status really surpass the Foundation's?
As a result, some shelters that had not been in a hurry before, as well as some managers who had conflicts with Hunter Tiger, could no longer sit still.
Previously, they had been waiting to see whether Qinggang Shelter would take advantage of the Tian Yuan Alliance's growing power and establish the Qinggang Alliance to rival it.
But before this so-called "Qinggang Alliance" could even appear, the Foundation's merchant group had already stepped in first.
And once it intervened, it had brought the Deep Cooperation Agreement that Qinggang City had desperately sought before but never obtained! A Deep Cooperation Agreement was a privilege available only to merchant groups that had reached Level Five.
Once signed, the agreement meant that the merchant group intended to belong to a certain faction and begin striving for the higher sixth and seventh levels.
The Foundation headquarters would give the faction three years of protection.
During that period, no merchant group entering the agreement's covered area could casually sell goods around the faction that had signed it.
If this Deep Cooperation Agreement could truly be signed, the