Brother Yu died without a doubt. Over the next few days, Brother Song never used his personal Communicator to contact anyone else. He reached out to his friend at City Hall just once, using the Communicator he used for work. He learned that the Communicator used by the informant had been stolen two years earlier. Its original owner's information had been crudely replaced with a fake identity that didn't exist, and the device had been used intermittently ever since, proving that the informant was from Flower City.
The informant had reported more than just Brother Yu. After that, he reported three other Players who were similarly involved in kidnapping and human trafficking. They all had one thing in common: they often mixed with groups of unsuccessful Players and dealt in all sorts of scams and shady businesses.
"Probably got reported by a rival," the City Hall employee said. "Those lowlifes sometimes fight tooth and nail over territory. Reporting someone in the middle of all that is nothing... You weren't involved in this, were you?"
"Is this a big deal?" Brother Song asked.
"Not that big, but one of the kids' fathers had some connection to a Player in the Field family. He has a bit of standing himself. He caused a huge fuss, and although he's been detained for questioning, they'll probably release him soon out of consideration for the Field family. They'll also have to deal with a few people to give the Field family an answer." The other man paused, then lowered his voice. "Sure, he was able to make such a fuss by leveraging the Field family's influence, but at least he got some justice for those dead kids. You really weren't mixed up in it, right? If you were, we couldn't stay friends."
"You know what