While Gon and the others were taking the Hunter Exam just as they had in the original story, quite a few things were quietly happening in the outside world.
First, a certain gang trafficking human organs was inexplicably wiped out overnight. When the police arrived after receiving a report, all that remained in the gang's hideout was a vast number of gruesomely mutilated corpses.
But that was not the end of it.
The very next day, the director of a certain prestigious private hospital and his subordinates were found hanging from the streetlights outside the hospital.
Then, on the morning of the third day, officials from the Ministry of Health were found hanging from the streetlights outside the government building.
From the evidence recovered from these victims' homes, the police discovered the connection between all three parties.
The director of that prestigious private hospital had secretly been running an illegal organ transplant business. He had conspired with the gang, which kidnapped suitable candidates and then transplanted their organs into wealthy people who needed them to survive. The Ministry of Health officials had served as the intermediaries.
In other words, the culprit had first eliminated the gang that carried out the dirty work, then captured the private hospital director, tortured information out of him, and finally killed the officials responsible for making the connections.
Of course... it did not end there.
Although the police had ordered a thorough search, when people woke up on the fourth morning, they discovered hundreds of corpses hanging from the streetlights lining both sides of the streets. Every one of them had been a famous wealthy businessman or a senior member of a family-run corporation.
There was no need to ask. These people had all benefited from organ transplants.
Because those killed included high-ranking government officials