The matter in South City was not a particularly serious problem. Secretary Fang was simply rather clever. He valued the people who "charged into battle" at the front, lending them some of the identity- and movement-concealing items he had obtained through Hua Baoren's connections. He then used generous resources and rewards as bait to attract more Cannibal Players. With so many steps in between, any point could be cut off. Even if they found the processing factory, Hua Baoren would be the first one implicated, and it would have nothing to do with a minor secretary like him.
What was infuriating was that this person was not even a Player. He had merely occupied a suitable position to manipulate that group of marginalized Cannibal Players, using them to harm ordinary people and strike at the Special Defense Department.
After the connection to the missing-person cases was confirmed through Secretary Fang, who had been given a truth serum, Xu Huo executed him on the spot, along with Manager Liu and several others.
When he captured Manager Liu and the others, he had already told Yu Qingqing about some of the gathering places of the Cannibal Players they had named, especially the locations where there might be more of them. He told her that taking action with her people would be safer than letting the South City Special Defense Department handle it. As for Nan Mingzhu's side... Xu Huo had originally planned to wipe them all out, but he had not expected the result to be like this.
Still, this was not necessarily a bad thing. As the number of Players increased, the Special Defense Department should indeed start considering how to resettle Cannibal Players. After all, quite a few people had ended up becoming Cannibal Players in a daze, just like