The Internal Affairs Officer being abducted from the execution ground quickly shocked the entire Imperial Capital. Everyone who heard about it was dumbfounded. Worse still, the judge who had announced the Emperor's decree had been killed on the spot. This was practically naked contempt for the Emperor!!
For a time, the entire Imperial Capital sprang into action. Whether it was the Imperial Guard or the Security Force, they patrolled around the clock. The entire capital was sealed off, and everyone entering or leaving had to undergo the strictest inspections. A curfew was also imposed.
The high-ranking officials had originally believed that, under such severe orders, those bastards who dared offend imperial authority would not dare show themselves again. But reality was completely different from what they had imagined. As security throughout the Imperial Capital was tightened, the frequency of these "Grim Reapers" striking actually increased!
A squad of guards patrolling late at night failed to return on time. By the time they were found, they had already become corpses in an alley.
The security captain in charge of the patrol district had sent someone to get breakfast. But when the subordinate returned with the food, he found that the security captain and his two subordinates sitting in the office were already dead.
An Imperial Guard adjutant was found dead in a toilet.
A low-ranking official responsible for inspecting the market was found hanged from a railing in the street.
Although the enraged Imperial Capital soldiers adopted an attitude of killing a hundred by mistake rather than letting even one slip through, arresting and even imprisoning ordinary people for trial in an attempt to threaten those ghosts who came and went without a trace, those who did so generally did not survive for more than two days before they were found