Chapter 1: Glazed Ring

Chapter 1: The Glazed Ring

"Blood Butterfly, are you ready?" asked a curvaceous, short-haired woman in the passenger seat.

"Mm," replied a woman in a black bodysuit in the driver's seat, her voice cold and detached.

"Then let's head out! The sooner we finish the mission, the sooner I can go home and get my beauty sleep. Sigh... my dark circles are getting deeper again. Boss is really something, calling people up in the middle of the night to execute a mission. I don't know why this mission was moved up, though. We're carrying so little equipment and we don't even know the enemy's internal situation. What if we fail? Sigh... forget it, I won't say such unlucky things. I believe in your strength, Blood Butterfly."

Having finished speaking, she took a small mirror out of her bag and began admiring her own face narcissistically.

But the person reflected in the mirror was not her face, but Ye Qian, who was focused on driving.

Meng Rao stared quietly at the face in the mirror. Though her expression remained calm on the surface, her heart was churning with a thousand waves.

Willow-leaf eyebrows, a pair of star-like eyes that seemed dreamlike, a small, exquisite nose, jade-like cheeks tinged with a hint of coquetry, cherry lips like crimson ink, and a face without a trace of makeup that looked like congealed fat, with skin as smooth as jade...

Truly a peerless beauty. No wonder the Boss likes you so much. But it doesn't matter anymore; once tonight is over, there won't be anyone named Ye Qian left in this world, hehe...

(Ye Qian, Codename: Blood Butterfly, Age: 24, Relatives: None, Organization: M Group.

Meng Rao, Codename: White Fox, Age: 23, Relatives: None, Organization: M Group.

Mission: Steal the Glazed Ring, Location: Z-Country Museum) Ye Qian checked her watch. 9:30. The timing was perfect.

"Meng Rao, move out."

With that, she opened the car door alone, quickly put on her pre-prepared wireless earpiece and high-suction spider gloves, and began her operation.

Outside the Z-Country Museum, relying on years of experience, Ye Qian easily climbed up the back wall of the museum building to the outside of a window on the 100th floor.

Just like in the movies, a red beam shot out from her spider gloves, "drawing" a light circle on the glass window. The glass was neatly cut away, and using the spider gloves, she suctioned the cut piece and pushed it inward, separating it from the window frame. She then stepped lightly through the window, turned around to enter the museum, and placed the glass gently on the floor. The entire process was silent, as if she were a ghost.

Ye Qian scanned her surroundings and looked toward the direction of the security cameras. She gave a contemptuous smile, drew a black box from her waist, opened it, and quickly assembled it. Within seconds, Ye Qian had finished assembling a suction-cup-shaped jammer. She picked up a remote from the black box, pressed the jammer against the wall, and lightly pressed a button on the remote. A red light on the jammer lit up. The device could interfere with the museum's surveillance cameras, preventing them from functioning normally for about an hour—plenty of time for Ye Qian.

"Blood Butterfly, two security guards around the corner, five meters ahead," Meng Rao's voice came through the wireless earpiece.

Ye Qian moved quickly along the wall and came to a sudden halt at the corner. Then, with lightning speed, she struck. Her hands gripped the necks of the two guards directly. With a light twist, two crisp sounds of breaking bone echoed. When she released her grip, the two guards had already slumped lifelessly to the ground.

Only their eyes remained, bulging wide with unknown terror, never knowing who had killed them even in death.

A flash of disgust appeared in Ye Qian's eyes. She hated killing; she hated having her hands stained with blood. This had been true since the first time she killed a person.

Since the age of ten, Ye Qian had been sent from an orphanage to this place called the M Group. To outsiders, it appeared to be an ordinary electronics corporation, but in Ye Qian's eyes, it was a dark hell.

Starting at age ten, Ye Qian and a group of children of similar ages were sent here to begin a period of brutal training. First, they were thrown into a primeval forest for elimination.

Five days. During those five days, they endured all kinds of torture. Some children were eaten by wild beasts in the forest, while the physically weak died of starvation. Ye Qian had also nearly lost her life there...

In the end, only about twenty children remained, and among them, only two girls: Ye Qian and Meng Rao. They were then sent to the M Group's secret base to begin eight years of training, undergoing brutal drills every single day.

Ye Qian still remembered the first time she killed—the way the middle-aged man's blood splashed onto her face, and the fear and helplessness in his eyes as he looked at her. Her hands had trembled uncontrollably. Although she had killed many wild beasts, this time it was a fellow human. She couldn't bear it, but if she didn't kill him, she would suffer the consequences herself...

Ye Qian clenched her fist tightly, adjusting her emotions.

After dealing with the guards, Ye Qian followed the intelligence continuously provided by Meng Rao and arrived safely at the location of the treasure, the Glazed Ring.

It was in a luxuriously decorated hall. An ebony box with strange patterns sat independently inside a glass display case. The surrounding walls were lined with rare and precious paintings and treasures. Clearly, the Glazed Ring was inside that ebony box. Ye Qian ignored the other treasures and walked straight toward the Glazed Ring.

She smiled faintly and stopped three meters away from the ring. She then pulled a thin blade from the inside of her bodysuit sleeve and lightly tapped on a floor tile that was slightly darker than the others. Using the blade, she sliced along the seam of the floor. Though the blade was thin, it was made of a special material; cutting through the floor was as easy as slicing a cake. Using the spider gloves, she suctioned the floor tile up, revealing a safe underneath. This level of challenge was nothing more than a formality to Blood Butterfly; it held no difficulty at all. Ye Qian leisurely took a slender hairpin from her cascading black hair, inserted it into the safe's keyhole, turned it a few times, and pressed several buttons. With a "click," the safe opened.

A power switch was revealed. After Ye Qian turned the switch off, an energy light screen that had been centered around the Glazed Ring within a three-meter radius flickered once and vanished.

Ye Qian approached the Glazed Ring, opened the glass case, and took it out. She looked at it in her hand. "Just a ring, it's not even that useful." Having said that, she casually slipped the ring onto her own finger. It had to be said that although the ring wasn't particularly special, Ye Qian liked it very much, as if she had seen it long ago.

Ye Qian leisurely opened a window and toggled a buckle on her belt, shooting out an extremely thin, specialized steel wire made of a new material, which embedded itself directly into the corner of the wall.

"Calling White Fox, calling White Fox, mission accomplished!" After landing safely, Ye Qian reported the situation to headquarters in a detached manner.

"Received! Received! Blood Butterfly, after this mission, are you heading straight back to headquarters?"

"Mm."

"Then, Blood Butterfly, could you... could you let me take a look at the Glazed Ring? I really don't know what kind of treasure it is to make the Boss value it so much. Don't worry, I'll just look. Besides, with you, the strongest assassin, around, how could anything happen to the Glazed Ring? Please?"

"Then, see you at Mount Feng on the Z-Country border!"

"Mm, alright, I'll be there immediately!"

Meng Rao took off her wireless earpiece and tossed it casually into the car. She picked up the phone from her bag and quickly dialed a few numbers. "Tell your boss, Blood Butterfly is at Mount Feng on the Z-Country border!" Having said that, she hung up quickly, giving the other party no chance to speak.

Hehe, Ye Qian, today is your death day. When the time comes, the title of the strongest female assassin will be mine, and the person by the Boss's side will be me—it can only be me!