Chris looked with satisfaction at the report in his hands. It was the second day after the players had finished their great purge. The city's Squad Chiefs and the Urban District Office, working with the Clerk, had hurriedly spent a day compiling the figures before submitting the report.
In just one day and one night, they had killed more than three thousand people.
The report only said "over three thousand," without giving an exact figure, because the count was still incomplete. Some bodies lay in obscure corners, seldom-visited places, and inside houses where the corpse collection teams had yet to find them.
Another reason was that certain players had been excessively brutal. To make themselves more entertaining in the videos they recorded, they had pursued flashy, theatrical kills, deliberately using execution moves like those in the God of War series to make the slaughter exceptionally bloody and cruel.
As a result, some bodies had merely been cut in half, while others had been disemboweled, beheaded, or stripped of their limbs. The torsos were mangled beyond recognition, making it impossible for the corpse collection teams to count the dead accurately.
Of those three thousand-plus deaths, reliable figures indicated that only twelve innocent civilians had been hacked to death by players. Seven had witnessed the slaughter and been so frightened that they ran around screaming, leading to misunderstandings.
The remaining five civilians had been killed because they had failed to read the situation. When the players came to their doors, they had threatened them with words and actions, provoking their anger.
To avoid losing reputation points, the players generally took some care while doing their work to avoid harming neutral parties. But if someone pushed them too far, they would not show mercy just because that person was a civilian.
People played