Chapter 442: Cooperation Reached and [Immortal Evolution]

As mentioned before, Secret Blood Company is currently busy dealing with another large enterprise and has no time to bother with a small company located in a remote region; Ma Ding only asked these questions to observe the reaction of a future collaborator.

Without a doubt, he did not see the picture he had imagined.

Li Ang showed no fear of Secret Blood Company whatsoever, nor even much solemnity, as if this food industry giant spanning the Obsidian Star Domain were some stray cat or dog on the roadside.

But what was the reason? Such an attitude must have something backing it, right?

Ma Ding, who had a certain understanding of his future collaborator, did not think the young man was the reckless type; such a display must have some confidence behind it.

With a somewhat puzzled mind, the quartermaster began rummaging through the intelligence in his head.

Soon, he made what he considered the correct inference.

【Aio Logistics】.

This cosmic giant had appeared multiple times in the other's resume, and the two had even crossed paths back when he was in the Kells Star Cluster.

If the dragon before him drew his confidence from this, then it could indeed explain why he looked down on Secret Blood Company.

Compared to 【Aio Logistics】, Secret Blood Company really was nothing.

Thinking of this, a flash of understanding crossed Ma Ding's eyes, and he smiled and shook his head: "It seems I was overthinking it. I agree to the cooperation."

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Looking at the androgynous person opposite him who seemed to have thought of something, Li Ang raised an eyebrow.

But since the other party had already agreed to cooperate with the Plant Union, he couldn't be bothered to dig deeper.

After all, maintaining the subsequent plan to gather professional information undoubtedly required a very large amount of capital.

You can't expect the horse to run without letting it graze, right?

In any case, for Li Ang, money in the main universe basically only had this one use.

Coupled with the fact that seizing Secret Blood Company's market share would very likely trigger a major event, reaching an agreement with the 9000th Group Army was a complete win-win.

Meaning Li Ang wins twice by himself.

Although cooperation had been reached verbally, the specific details still needed careful discussion between both sides.

At the end of the day, as the Federation's violent apparatus stationed in the Obsidian Star Domain, becoming an actual supplier to the 9000th Group Army was no small matter, even though the share the Plant Union took on was not that large.

Fortunately, Li Ang didn't need to worry about these matters, after all, among the Servants he pulled out of the Type-Moon world, there were quite a few talents skilled in commercial affairs.

Incidentally, a certain white-haired internet scammer, after entering the main universe, had been like a fish in water, returning to his old trade as a vtuber, now active under the alias 'Magic Meri-chan' across the networks of several nearby star systems.

Li Ang wouldn't interfere with this kind of personal hobby, after all, those viewers really did send money, and moreover Merlin could obtain some unknown insider tips from the top donor.

Like how the 89th concubine of a certain planetary Viceroy in the neighboring star system was actually his own younger sister.

After finishing the official business, Ma Ding casually opened a bottle of new functional drink placed in front of him and downed it in one go.

As the refreshing drink went down, a hint of surprise immediately flashed in the quartermaster's eyes, and he said with some astonishment: "Your product iterations are actually this fast?"

"It's all the credit of my subordinates."

Hearing this, Li Ang smiled and likewise opened a can of drink.

This batch of functional drinks was a new product developed by Karina based on the materials Christine sent back; in essence it used Secret Blood Company's technology, except the raw materials had been switched to Clearstream Fruit.

So it wasn't wrong for him to say so.

After taking a few sips of 【Clearstream Blood Type I】, Li Ang put on a casual attitude: "I met Lord Afra some days ago. Has something happened in the Obsidian Star Domain recently?"

The two sentences were unrelated; he just wanted to use that councilor's name to probe what anomalies the Federation had recently.

Although Li Ang was likewise within the Federation system, the intelligence accessible to a planetary Viceroy and a group army was clearly different; at the very least, he hadn't received any news.

Facing the inquiry, Ma Ding was first stunned, then a somewhat odd expression appeared on his face: "Lord Afra? Didn't expect you to be quite well-informed."

Hearing this, Li Ang immediately perked up with full attention.

He hadn't originally expected to obtain any useful information from the other's mouth, but unexpectedly there really was a gain.

Ma Ding didn't keep him in suspense and quickly stated what he knew.

Only, contrary to Li Ang's thoughts, the so-called big event was not world development, but another matter that was likewise related to him.

He hadn't expected that after so much time, what had happened back then on Colonial Star 9527 could still boomerang and hit him.

"You should know about that Zerg Broodmother that's been hovering near the Obsidian Star Domain, right? The war between the group army and It has entered a white-hot stage; my lord the Army Commander has taken action more than once, but unfortunately failed to take It down."

"However, the group army has recently discovered something: that Zerg Broodmother seems to have some connection with the people from 【Immortal Evolution】."

Logically speaking, Ma Ding shouldn't have disclosed this information to outsiders, but who could blame him when that Zerg Broodmother was, in a sense, brought here by the dragon before him.

Although even without what happened back then on Colonial Star 9527, that Zerg Broodmother would still very likely have advanced toward the Obsidian Star Domain.

Thinking this, Ma Ding couldn't help but shake his head slightly: "Based on the army's inference, that incident on Colonial Star 9527 should also have been instigated by those lunatics from 【Immortal Evolution】."

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Hearing this, Li Ang fell silent for a moment.