Life in North America, you call this an autopsy officer?!

No matter what they tried, it remained tangled.

In such circumstances, those Mutants with Third Rank Life became much more ruthless, without any scruples.

Dissenters were eradicated physically.

Isn't that how order improved?

Anyway, the current global situation is very bizarre.

Mutant forces tacitly probed step by step.

Small nations, weak in technological power, and with poor research capabilities, resulting in resource scarcity, had few enhancers and Beastification People in their official ranks, completely no match for the Mutants, and unable to suppress them.

Big nations, although still able to remain composed, had lost their greatest deterrent, and with numerous local institutions and forces within the country, many ambitions were exposed, trying to seize more power and wealth by taking advantage of the situation, or their internal instability made it hard to concentrate forces to deal with the provocation of Mutant forces.

Plus, there was no more suppression from above.

The structure of order suffered damage.

Originally, if one place was overwhelmed, they could call on surrounding forces and official institutions for help, but now it's much more difficult, with a lot of red tape, and even some small forces betting on the Mutants and colluding with Mutant forces to attack families and institutions they disliked, plundering their research achievements and wealth...

In a word, chaos.

This had a cascade effect.

Even ordinary people who knew nothing were affected, causing the public security, which had started to improve, to worsen once again.

In a country like the United States where everyone is armed, it's somewhat better.

There are many Mutants, but the civilian armed forces are also abundant.

A regular Mutant dies if shot.

With the already average law enforcement, where one could hear the sound of police sirens every day, ordinary people didn't react too much to the worsening public security, aside from perceiving a significant deterioration.

Ordinary people feeling something was wrong could only vaguely sense it, ultimately not understanding what exactly was happening to the world.

..

The bigger trouble still lay in the internal fighting of this capitalist Federation region.

Actually, even before the Meme Weapon, the existence of Third Rank Life was not sufficient to threaten the overall security of the country.

The structure of order was relatively stable.

With the disappearance of the Meme Weapon, those families that were originally well-off started eyeing the larger families that had been enjoying privileges above them, thanks to the Meme Weapon.

Take Los Angeles, for instance.

Before Brian attacked the NW organization, the most powerful family in the greater Los Angeles area was the Liki family.

The Liki family, relying on the Meme Weapon – the Book of Death, not only enjoyed the most 'tribute' but also extended their reach into the military, creating a large number of their own personnel within the NW's Combat Department through vampiric cultivation, having the most enhancers and Beastification People experts.

It can be said.

From birth, every individual of the Liki family was a person above persons.

Not only that.

The Liki family had vast business interests throughout the entire Federation.

Money was merely a set of numbers to them.

They, along with the few other families that owned Meme Weapons, influenced the decision-making of the entire Federation, basically earning money while lying down, possessing great influence and the ability to mobilize resources.

Now that the Book of Death was gone.

Oh snap.

Done for.

In just over a month, the Liki family lost all their business resources outside of Los Angeles.

One by one, their distributed research institutions were harassed by various attacks and could not find peace.

Plus internally, because of the death of Balazs Liki, several small factions fought against each other, leading to internal strife that ultimately forced them to pull all their personnel back to Los Angeles, preparing to address the loss of external assets once the internal negotiations were settled.

The Liki family is just a microcosm.

After all, they still have a foundation, their military spokespersons, their fists.

Without expansion, they can still ensure their current status and interests, at most being bled and preyed upon.

The other two families had it worse.

The Wittgenstein family, average in money and military strength but with authority throughout the greater Los Angeles region.

They originally obeyed the Liki family, enjoying their own influence by riding their coattails.

Now with the Liki family weakened, they immediately became ineffective.

First, police chiefs from various districts met with all sorts of trouble, took the initiative to resign, or defected. Then came the spokespersons and members of Parliament supported by the Z Government, with all sorts of scandals erupting and overwhelming them. The losses in interests and influence during this period were impossible to tally.

Even worse off was the White family.

The White family had money and fostered top-notch experts, but they lacked an army and Third Rank Experts.

They had become a founding family mainly because the Liki family took the lead, constantly providing support, which allowed the Whites to rise in status.

Now, without the tiger skin of the Liki family, not only were external interests being devoured crazily, but other powerful yet less influential families within Los Angeles also targeted them; the family wealth could not be defended. The most miserable part was that they didn't have enough official power to escort and protect them— even if they were willing to cut off some of their flesh.

Under an avalanche, there is an inertia.

If the White family had not expanded on the influence of the Liki family but honestly conducted their own business, they likely wouldn't have suffered much impact.

But that wasn't the case anymore.

Those forces that pounced on the Whites to feast on their flesh and blood had tasted sweetness and had not faced much retribution. Seeing the vulnerability of the White family, they tacitly refused to give them any chance to breathe, preparing to thoroughly encircle and kill off this fat pig and swallow them up.

When one whale falls, myriad creatures thrive.

The old order disappeared, and a new one emerged from the corpses beneath it.

The Three Founders' families of NW had risen this way initially.

Now was just a new cycle.

...

It was while Brian was perusing Dean's painstakingly collected intelligence with the casual interest of gossiping that the unique confidential phone rang.

Brian reached for the phone with a lazy greeting, "Hey, Dean, what's up?"

"Big trouble!"

Dean's voice was serious, "Next door in Mexico, all the CIA offices over there were slaughtered overnight, every staff member— The entire official upper echelon in all the cities over there has been wiped out... It's total chaos now..."

On hearing this, Brian was taken aback, "All the higher-ups are dead?"

"Yes, including the president they supported, everyone's dead. It's not just that they died; they were exterminated. Everyone in the family, even down to their pet dogs, was killed and hung outside their residences, with videos of it being posted online."

Brian stood up, his voice much louder, "Isn't that akin to national extermination?"

All the ruling class assassinated was equivalent to national extermination, wasn't it?

"That's one way to put it," Dean said seriously, "Right now, it's total mayhem over there, with gangs running wild, warlords rebelling, but the organization behind the massacres hasn't shown itself. Also, Mexico is right next door to the United States Federation. I'm guessing this will agitate the insides of the Federation; on our side in NW, negotiations will likely start soon."

Ah, I see...

Brian stretched lazily, "Well, then I'll get ready."

Negotiations were the time to reshape order.

It was also when Brian would step in to suppress everything.

"Yeah, and don't go easy when the time comes. I'll send you a list. These are some of the families with the worst reputation who have been especially joyous lately. When the time comes to strike a blow and instill fear, just find any excuse and wipe them out!"

Dean's voice carried a note of grim determination as he said this.

Chaos brings out the crazies.

The Adams family had not expanded previously, and external enemies had largely been annihilated after Dean was promoted to Third Rank.

But they too had suffered from this upheaval.

Naturally, Dean had noted these forces down in his little book.

"Very well!"

Brian didn't intend to dampen his father-in-law's mood.

...

After hanging up the phone.

Susan licked her fingers, covered with sweet crumbs, and looked excitedly at Brian, "Are we about to make a move?"

She had been stifled during this period.

Brian nodded his head.

He rose to his feet and stepped onto the balcony, walking into the air and ascending several hundred meters. His eyes turned one black and one red, scanning the entire downtown Los Angeles.

Countless black fogs surged.

He saw many deaths.

It was time to put an end to the chaos around them!