Evenson left without looking back, never even mentioning the matter of dividing up the benefits.
What was there to discuss? Xandar was already in such a miserable state. Even if they immediately carved up its territory and handed it over to him, all he would get was a complete mess—and one he could not handle himself.
It would be better to wait until Xandar's economy recovered, then come back and take the finished product. As for whether Xandar's economy could recover, the answer was definitely yes.
When an existing economic system could no longer function properly and no one was capable of cleaning up the mess, that system would collapse. After a series of upheavals, regressions, and bloody suppressions, a brand-new economic system would emerge through compromises on all sides.
Of course, there would inevitably be many brutal sacrifices during that process. Xandar would pay a painful price, likely losing around twenty percent of its population, but the nation would survive. This was known as the large-scale immunization method of economics.
But Evenson did not want to take part in that process, so he returned directly to Earth.
"I'm home, so where should I go now?" After returning to Earth, Evenson did not immediately seek out the Eredar Twins and Klayya. Instead, he hid out in the little shop he had once owned.
He was like a child who had secretly gone out to play until dark and was now too scared to go home.
He had originally said he would only be gone for two or three days, but he had accidentally stood them up for nearly half a year. If he went straight to their door without making any preparations, was he assuming the Eredar Twins' hooves were not hard enough, or that Klayya's Holy Lance was not