"What do you mean there was no matching data found in the archives?"
"Could her face have been so badly deformed that facial recognition couldn't identify her?"
"Being uneducated is terrifying! Modern facial recognition records skeletal data. As long as her bones haven't melted away, she can definitely still be identified!" one Hunter said. "This person... couldn't be an Illegal Infected, could she?"
So-called "Illegal Infected" were, literally speaking, infected individuals who had not been legally registered—people who, upon being infected by an Anomaly Meme, did not cause enough of a disturbance to attract the attention of the Public Security Bureau or the Anomaly Investigation Bureau. They often silently changed from ordinary people into infected individuals, sometimes without even realizing they had been infected by an Anomaly Meme.
It was often a strange high fever, an unexplained coma, or an accident in a surveillance blind spot... Within the Federation, Illegal Infected like these appeared almost every day. Some of them, lacking professional medical treatment and inhibitors, entered the Mutation Period within a short time and transformed into anomalies or anomaly remains.
Others would be actively or passively discovered by the Anomaly Investigation Bureau, then become infected individuals with legal identities.
Of course, there was another kind of Illegal Infected—the kind that gave the Public Security Bureau the greatest headache.
They were infected individuals deliberately created by Cult Organizations that worshipped anomalies.
Ordinary Illegal Infected, so long as they had not entered the Mutation Period, generally posed no great threat to human society. After gaining an anomaly's abilities, as long as their cognition and values had not been twisted, most would not do anything heinous—first, because they still retained some human moral bottom line; second, because they feared being hunted by Anomaly Hunters.
In fact, after learning they had been infected,