South District 1023 Branch was the local branch that the Punishment Department had dispatched today to arrest Xia Yuanfang.
The director of that branch was this female captain.
She stood up and said uneasily, "Director Cen personally arranged it. We were only following orders."
The Mulan City Disciplinary Department currently had four Punishment Departments under it, distributed across the east, south, west, and north of Mulan City.
Each Punishment Department then had at least a thousand local branches beneath it, each responsible for detailed grid-based management of its respective area.
The South District Punishment Department Director who had died today had actually held quite a high position.
But what use was a high position now? He was already dead.
The chief officer in charge of South District affairs at Disciplinary Department headquarters glared at the female director and said, "I was wondering what was going on with you people!"
"Did you get surrounded and wiped out?!"
"What kind of operation was this? You didn't even report it to me, your chief officer!"
The female director's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that the director hadn't reported it to the chief officer?!
Then whose orders had the director been following?! Though she thought this, she did not dare let the slightest hint of it show. She muttered, "...We don't know either. The director notified us, and we followed along..."
They genuinely did not know the truth, so it was only right to put everything on the director.
And since the director was already dead, there was most likely no way to verify anything.
Thinking of all those dead colleagues, the female director felt an inexplicable wave of sorrow rise within her.
The chief officer took one look at her expression. He was angry, but he also knew there was no