The Liberation Front's brazen kidnapping at the signing ceremony shocked the entire world.
The Britannian Empire naturally reacted at once. Area 11 entered a complete lockdown, and the military began searching every corner of Area 11 for remaining Liberation Front members and resistance fighters, executing them on sight. Yet this time, neither public opinion nor the public had anything to say about Britannia's actions.
Even the Eurasian Federation, which would normally have piled on, remained silent. After all, there were still rules in this world—rules of politics, rules of war. All kinds of rules existed to maintain order. What was more, they had originally hoped to use the Japan Special Administrative Region to curb the Britannian Empire's expansion in East Asia, but the Liberation Front had ruined all of it. No matter how much they wanted to suppress Britannia, they still had to play by the rules.
Openly kidnapping people and demanding ransom at the signing ceremony had already crossed the line of what they could accept.
Now Britannia stood on the moral high ground, and aside from cursing, "What a bunch of pigheaded teammates," the Eurasian Federation had nothing else to say.
Under the Britannian military's sweeping purge, the resistance organizations throughout Area 11 had already been mostly uprooted and could no longer amount to much.
In fact, that had been Fang Zheng's goal all along.
When he had made contact with the resistance groups, Fang Zheng had realized that there were still many die-hard resistance fighters within Area 11. They refused to submit to Britannia and were constantly waiting for a chance to reclaim their homeland.
But Fang Zheng's goal was not to help them regain independence. His goal was to annex Area 11. Thus, when it came to these resistance groups, Fang Zheng's stance was the same