The sandstorm that had shrouded the seven oases dissipated, but the traces of the battle and explosions within it did not.
Just as Dan Lei had expected, a large sandstorm would not alert the IPC branch on Agyha. This sort of thing happened on the planet every moment of every day.
But the self-destruction after the death of the giant True Drone could not be concealed.
Fortunately, the IPC's first reaction was that those interstellar drifters had fought among themselves and detonated some illegal, high-powered bombs.
Thus, as soon as the sandstorm ended, a spaceship arrived at the site to investigate.
However, by then Dan Lei had already cleaned up the battlefield and fled straight back to the workshop beneath the ground.
Moreover, Dan Lei had temporarily shut down all the Ley Line extraction arrays. Even if the IPC brought all its planetary probes back right now, they would not detect anything unusual.
After all, the energy in the Ley Line lake had just been completely consumed to open the door. Relying on natural accumulation, it would take at least several decades to open it again—and that was assuming the IPC did not accidentally destroy the Ley Line waterways again.
Thus, faced with nothing but a crater and unable to find the cause, the IPC employees could only seal off the site before leaving to investigate the surrounding oases and see whether they could find the cause of the explosion.
Meanwhile, Dan Lei watched the IPC's actions from within the underground workshop.
It had to be said that the IPC's management system was remarkably mature for an organization that had risen to its current position across the cosmos.
Dan Lei had originally thought that on a planet like Agyha, which had only recently caused a serious incident and had been