July 21.
Ten days had passed since Serena exposed Homelander and Vought's crimes online. The public outcry had already peaked and was gradually settling into a decline.
Vought had received the punishment it deserved. All its assets had been forcibly sold at rock-bottom prices, and it also had to pay triple compensation to victims who had been innocently caught up in incidents caused by Super Heroes during law enforcement operations.
Of the more than two hundred Super Heroes under Vought, over ninety percent had been removed from the roster because of Serena's revelations. Two hundred and sixteen heroes had been taken away by the police for investigation or detention.
During this period, the surviving Tiger Form gathering place was also detected by the American military's Task Force Command Center.
The elite troops selected from special units such as the Green Berets, Rangers, and Delta Force then donned Umbrella Corporation's Individual Combat Systems and swiftly raided the Tiger Form gathering place.
They eliminated the monsters with ease, and the military even unusually released footage of the battle.
This caused many young people to gradually shift their admiration from Super Heroes to the Special Forces wearing sci-fi armor.
After all, in ordinary people's eyes, the rich relied on technology while the poor relied on mutation to gain superpowers, and the odds of obtaining superpowers naturally were less than one in a hundred million.
The military was different.
As long as one worked hard enough and passed test after test and round after round of selection, there was still a good chance of putting on Umbrella's Individual Equipment.
Of course, the influence of the Super Hero phenomenon remained powerful.
After the government's and law enforcement agencies' mandatory measures, the forty-three surviving Super Heroes would be taken over by Umbrella Corporation and continue maintaining