They won the Holy Grail War, but this turned out to be the Virtual Tree Universe.

Chapter 54 One Must Be Strong to Forge Iron (Seeking Recommendations and Further Reading)
The sandstorm that had enveloped the seven oases has dissipated, but the traces of the battle and explosions remain.

Just as Dan Lei had predicted, a large dust storm would not alarm the Ejihazo Interstellar Peace Corporation branch, because such things happen on this planet every moment.

However, the self-destruction of a giant true cricket after its death cannot be concealed.

Fortunately, the first reaction from the Interstellar Peace Corporation was that the interstellar refugees had engaged in a shootout, detonating some illegal high-powered bombs.

Therefore, as soon as the sandstorm ended, a spacecraft arrived at the scene to investigate.

However, Dan Lei had already cleaned up the battlefield and disappeared back into the underground workshop.

Moreover, Danlei has temporarily shut down all the ley line absorption arrays, so even if the Interstellar Peace Corporation were to bring all its planetary probes back now, it would not be able to detect anything unusual.

After all, the energy in the ley lines lake was completely consumed as soon as the gate was opened. Relying on natural accumulation, it would take at least several decades before the gate could be opened again, and that would only be if the Interstellar Peace Corporation accidentally damaged the ley lines waterway again.

Faced with a crater and unable to find the cause, the employees of Interstellar Peace Company could only seal off the site and leave to investigate the surrounding oases to see if they could find the cause of the explosion.

Meanwhile, Dan Lei, in his underground workshop, kept a close eye on the actions of the Interstellar Peace Company.

It must be said that the Star Peace Corporation's ability to reach its current position in the world is due to its highly mature management model.

Dan Lei originally thought that on a planet like Aijihazo, which had just been the site of a serious incident and was being used by the Interstellar Peace Corporation, the company employees stationed there wouldn't pay much attention to something that was explainable and not very important, even if they didn't slack off to an extreme degree.

As a result, the first group of employees who came to investigate the explosion returned empty-handed, but clearly reported the incident promptly.

Then, the Interstellar Peace Corporation sent a team equipped with machinery to conduct a second inspection.

Clearly, the machines of the Interstellar Peace Corporation had sensed something, and soon a team of scholars bearing the insignia of the Erudite Society arrived to investigate in detail.

The good news for Dan Lei is that the investigation centers of the Interstellar Peace Corporation and the Bo Shi Society are still focused on that pit. Even with the scanning of the surrounding sand, they have not detected Dan Lei's workshop deep underground.

The bad news is that it was only a matter of time before Interstellar Peace discovered Danlei Workshop.

Because the Interstellar Peace Corporation must still have internal scans of the planet Egihazo, and they must know the coordinates of the basic lava cavities where their seven workshops are located.

The Interstellar Peace Corporation simply did not know what these basic lava cavities represented.

Now that the Erudite Society has arrived, they will definitely investigate underground, and their workshop will be discovered sooner or later.

It's unrealistic to expect Interstellar Peace Corporation to suddenly stop their investigation halfway through.

Because Dan Lei has no connections within the Interstellar Peace Corporation, the high-ranking officials appearing in the game are all people I know but who don't know me, so there's no way he could use his connections within the Interstellar Peace Corporation to stop this investigation.

Since hiding will only lead to exposure sooner or later, why not just go out and seek cooperation?
Dan Lei only did a little deduction to the consequences of doing so, and was able to conclude that the Interstellar Peace Corporation would give him a worthless reward and then abandon him to go it alone. Moreover, after letting him go, there was a high probability that they would silence him.

All I can say is, never underestimate the greed of capitalists; Interstellar Peace Corporation is definitely a capitalist among capitalists.

Now that the gate to the Sea of ​​Quanta is on the territory of the Interstellar Peace Corporation, and there may be reproductive relics inside, how could they not want to keep it all for themselves?

The mere presence of the Star God's remains within would be enough to warrant war from the Interstellar Peace Corporation to protect its interests. Moreover, the gate to the Quantum Sea lies within; Dan Lei wouldn't be surprised if the Interstellar Peace Corporation were to wage another interstellar trade war over it.

Therefore, there are two necessary conditions for Interstellar Peace Corporation to share its profits with external parties.

First, you need to have enough power or backing to prevent Interstellar Peace Corporation from confronting you directly. Even if they do confront you directly, you can protect your own interests.

Secondly, you have to be important enough that the Interstellar Peace Corporation feels it cannot obtain any benefits without you, so it chooses to give you a small portion of its profits.

Unfortunately, it is clear that Danlei cannot meet either of the two conditions.

First, regarding condition one, although Dan Lei is a Celestial Ship user holding a training license, he does not represent the Celestial Ship Alliance.

With such enormous profits at stake, after the Interstellar Peace Corporation silences the murderers, they can simply shift the blame onto a qualified high-ranking official to quell the anger of the Immortal Boat Alliance.

As long as the cause of the incident remains unknown, and given that the culprit has already been punished, the Immortal Boat Alliance is unlikely to actually go to war with Dan Lei and the Interstellar Peace Company.

However, Dan Lei could still save his life from this incident by leaking the information. As long as the Immortal Boat Alliance knew what he had discovered, his life would be spared.

Interstellar Peace Corporation would never dare to silence them at this time, and would do everything in its power to protect its own life.

Taking action against Dan Lei at this time would give the Immortal Boat Alliance a perfect excuse to intervene in the incident.

Dan Lei could not accept this outcome, because he knew he would be excluded from the decision-making level and given a paltry reward before leaving the center of the matter.

Therefore, for Danlei, the key is still condition two.

I must demonstrate that this matter is something I can accomplish, and I must take advantage of the factional struggles within the Interstellar Peace Corporation, otherwise it will absolutely not work.

But this brings us back to the first question: given Danlei's current strength, which is so great that he struggles to take on even a single large true stinging insect, why would anyone believe that he can't do without him?
Blustering at the Interstellar Peace Company is suicidal. Given the involvement of the Star God's ruins and remains, it's perfectly normal for the Interstellar Peace Company to send an envoy. The ten members of the Stone Heart team will definitely appear.

It's fair to say that Dan Lei's current strength is nothing compared to the ten members of Shi Xin. They might be able to hold him off for a while if they don't unleash their ultimate moves, but once they "sacrifice everything to the Amber King," Dan Lei won't even have a chance to escape.

So, Danlei looked at the Holy Grail, which was now brimming with the energy to travel through time, and prepared to travel through time again.

The goal this time is simple: to accumulate enough strength before returning.

The previous time travel had already proven that the items and possessions I created and owned in the other world would return as conceptual costumes.

Given the opportunity, Danlei must raise a puppet army during this time travel.

Anyway, I have plenty of time. As long as I don't go to some world with no spiritual veins and can only rely on technological development, I can just cultivate for a hundred or two hundred years and then come back.

Dan Lei knew that one had to be strong to succeed; if he wanted to talk to the Interstellar Peace Company, he first needed to have the basic strength to sit at the table and have a dialogue with them.

Having thought it through, Danlei entered the inner space of the Holy Grail without hesitation, preparing to begin his second journey.

(End of this chapter)