Xu Huo and the others had left, but the aftermath of the attack on the new District Government city was far from over.
First, the badly damaged new District Government managed to recover a video from the rubble showing the attacker traveling from the pharmaceutical Factory to beneath the Century Building. Although it showed only part of his face, the District Government used technical methods to reconstruct a three-dimensional likeness and submitted it to the game system. After his death, the Gentleman Player was listed as a Wanted Criminal with a bounty of one hundred million. The bounty had been privately funded by the new District Government.
The Ya tribe people who had also taken part in the unrest were subjected to a district-wide manhunt. However, given Zone 023's unusual natural environment, the Ya tribe people's small numbers, and their adaptation to life in the wilderness, the new District Government's wide-net search yielded little.
On top of that, somehow the truth about how the Ya tribe people had nearly been wiped out years ago had leaked. Several videos, purportedly showing outsiders who had helped establish the District Government killing people for fun, were also made public. Before the new District Government city could even be rebuilt, it had already faced a backlash across Zone 023.
The backlash seemed a little laughable now, but it reflected the will of the people. It might not make a difference in a few months or years, but ten or fifteen years from now, the situation in Zone 023 could be completely different.
Of course, that was only what the District Government had to deal with in Zone 023. After suffering such heavy losses, they still had to answer to their funders. And now that the clones had been exposed, they faced pressure not only