When the police arrived, all that remained on the ground was a pile of shell casings and some traces of blood.
As for the car, gunmen, and weapons mentioned by the caller, they had all vanished without a trace.
After the head of the security department's home was thoroughly searched, nothing abnormal was found. His family had disappeared as well.
Considering the social background of the attacked family, the local police did not connect the case to the ongoing investigation into the presidential assassination.
They simply assumed it was a revenge killing—
After all, the head of security at a major company was bound to offend some people. Being maliciously targeted was hardly unreasonable.
The Federation was not a "quiet" country. The fighting between gangs had long been growing more intense.
Ever since the Five Great Families of Bu Peien had been wiped out by the Green Brothers, the entire underground world of the Federation had been undergoing tremendous changes.
Before the Green Brothers rose to the Gang Parliament, who could have imagined that a gang active only in York State could wipe out the Five Great Families of Bu Peien in one stroke? Their success also taught many young people from the lower levels of society a lesson: bullets would always be more effective than tongues!
The gangs had entered an age of all-out war, and as the economy grew rapidly, they also gained more channels for obtaining funds.
Some overseas capital forces had even begun cultivating local powers in the Federation as their enforcers. They had seen unprecedented potential for development in the Federation and seemed to want to become part of it.
In this process, revenge killings, territory grabs, smuggling, crime...
These had long since become commonplace in every city. Some arrogant gang leaders had even proclaimed