Whether Natsuki's warning had taken effect or not, Luo Zhen and the others encountered no further trouble after that. Kageno Island gradually returned to peace, and everything resumed its orderly routine.
After a full month of effort, the frozen North District was successfully rescued. Not only were the residents thawed out one by one and awakened from their slumber, but the North District's environment, facilities, buildings, and everything else were thawed as well, restoring the entire district.
With the technology of the Demon Race Special Administrative Zone, accomplishing this had never been difficult.
However, perhaps because of Natsuki's actions and the Lion King Organization's schemes, the reason the North District had been frozen had still not been made public. The official explanation was merely that a problem had occurred in an important research project, resulting in the disaster. The citizens began speculating that Kageno Island had suffered a terrorist attack, and panic spread for a time.
After all, there had already been signs of destruction in the South District before the North District was frozen.
People assumed that terrorists from somewhere had attacked Kageno Island, caused destruction in the South District, and been driven back there. Having nowhere else to go, they had finally deployed an unknown secret weapon in the North District, freezing it in retaliation and causing everything that followed.
The Artificial Island Management Corporation offered no explanation. It simply continued handling the disaster meticulously.
Under these circumstances, as the North District thawed and its people were rescued one by one, the damage in the South District was gradually repaired as well. Once everything had returned to its former appearance, the rumors finally died down.
In the end, according to the Artificial Island Management Corporation's calculations, the combined cost of the partial destruction in the South District, the