The Black Robes who had fled earlier had used the alarm device to teleport out of the Marvel Universe.
They had also killed every one of Dapus's subordinates.
Their organization could not be exposed. Those people were simply unlucky.
But after teleporting so many people and so much cargo, the light on the alarm device dimmed, then went out completely.
Clearly, its energy was exhausted.
"What a mess. Sigh..." one of the Black Robes said.
"Who knows how much ore it'll take to recharge it after that teleport?"
"That was Lin Feng just now, wasn't it?"
"Yeah, no question. Lord Li said only he could trigger a red alert in the Marvel Universe."
"Good. Then Lord Li probably won't blame us for using the teleport."
As luck would have it, these Black Robes were subordinates of the same Lord Li who had tried to recruit Lin Feng's avatar.
Word of the three Black Robes' escape soon reached Li Xieqian.
Li Xieqian was on a life-bearing planet at the time.
The planet belonged to the Gold-Silver Tree Faction.
This was common in the Black Robes Organization. Nearly every First Sequence member had star systems dedicated to their faction.
Within those systems, they kept their entire teams and the treasures they had either found or been awarded over the years.
That included life-bearing planets.
Li Xieqian was consistently reliable and had earned merit time and again, so he had been rewarded with this life-bearing planet.
Of course, the planet had been seized from another star system...
Li Xieqian listened to the report without expression, then waved everyone away.
Losing the alarm device stung.
The energy stored in a single alarm device was worth more than the lives of those three Black Robes combined.
Fortunately, they had thought to teleport the ore along