The Federation Mecha Pilot Guild had no objection to Li John changing the scheduled time. Based on the video footage alone, Li John was enough to make the Guild's people wait.
No one suspected the footage was fake, because the cost of fabricating it would have been far too great—whether it was the first counterattack that wiped out the Pufferfish Mercenaries, or the friction between Black Star Company and Golden Lion City.
If it had been fake, the price paid would have been far too high.
The reason the clash between Black Star Company and Golden Lion City was called mere friction was that it had not dealt Golden Lion City a fatal blow. At the very least, casualties had been few.
In the Federation, people were worthless, yet also extremely valuable.
For a city, population still came first. Only a sufficient population could generate enough profit.
People were worthless because equipment was more valuable. The Federation's automated equipment was exorbitantly expensive.
The main reason was that few of the Federation's major companies could achieve fully industrialized production. Take a Bionic Robot, for example—it involved a great many technologies, and it was difficult for a single company to master them all.
Many companies worked together in the Alliance as well, but in the Federation, companies found it difficult to trust one another. Even if a company could manufacture Bionic Robots, other domestic companies would not buy them, fearing that someone had planted backdoors in the equipment.
They would rather pay a high price for equipment imported from the Alliance, which was why equipment prices were so high.
As long as Golden Lion City itself had not been invaded and its population had not suffered major losses, it was not a serious matter. Those were the foundations.
Only if the city