In the end, Fang Zheng sent Raven off to Schicksal.
After all, from a legal standpoint, Raven had purchased the island, the island had sunk during the Honkai disaster, and that disaster had been orchestrated by Schicksal's Overseer, Otto. Naturally, Schicksal had to bear responsibility for compensation. Although Otto was dead, that did not mean Schicksal no longer had to pay...
In fact, Theresa had looked completely bewildered when she heard about this from Fang Zheng... But in the end, she agreed that if the woman called Raven could provide sufficient evidence that she had indeed bought the island, and that it had indeed sunk because of the Honkai disaster, then Schicksal would take responsibility for compensation. As for Raven's wanted status... it was not impossible that it could be revoked depending on the circumstances.
After all, Schicksal had been at fault first.
After tossing that mess to Schicksal, Fang Zheng got up and headed to World Serpent's headquarters again to see this "top secret" Raven had mentioned.
"So it's down here..."
Standing before the entrance to a passage blocked by rubble, Fang Zheng nodded slightly. Schicksal and Anti-Entropy had already sent people here once and recovered World Serpent's data and similar materials. Their only gains had been the corpse of "Jackal," the mastermind behind the Sky Dome City Honkai disaster plan, along with some of her research materials on Honkai Energy.
As for everything else, there had been no gains. The Swarm's cleanup methods were unmatched; leaving even a few corpses behind counted as mercy.
So after both sides searched the place and confirmed that nothing had been overlooked, they returned home.
But in truth, they really had missed something.
According to Raven, behind the ritual grounds at the deepest part of the World Serpent base, there was actually