My Mission Is Complete!

Sin City, on the outskirts of District Five, inside an abandoned prefab house.

A man in a blue baseball jersey sat at a table, operating a computer without taking his eyes off the screen.

Zhou Xi, a member of Spark and the person in charge of Operation Serpent Lure.

"Old Zhou, give me half an hour at most, and I'll have all the data we need!"

"I'm almost done here too. Just a little longer!"

"They call themselves a major conglomerate, but Serpent Coil isn't much after all!"

"...Don't get cocky."

Listening to his teammates' reports through his headset, Zhou Xi smiled and reminded them, "This is our first mission. If you screw it up, I won't let you off."

Though he had only joined Spark recently, Leader Shen had left a deep impression on him.

Kind and approachable, elegant in speech.

Most importantly, he had seen hope in the other man.

Hope of overthrowing the conglomerates' centralized rule.

Compared to that, the other gangs in Sin City, who only knew how to scheme against one another, were ugly beyond measure... That was why he had sincerely wanted to follow him.

"Don't worry, Old Zhou. How could we possibly mess this up?"

"Exactly. We're all veterans. Crashing and burning? That's so blue!"

"This job really is exhausting, though. When it's over, you've got to treat me to a proper dri—ah!!"

"Sixth! What happened over there?!"

The joking suddenly turned into wails of agony, and Zhou Xi immediately felt that something was wrong.

Yet no matter how they called out, all they received was the hiss of static.

"Could it be... the damn conglomerate found us?"

Everyone quickly realized it. "If that's really the case... what do we do now?"

"...Keep going!"

Looking at the "89%" progress bar on the screen, Zhou Xi hesitated briefly before speeding up his hands. "We're spread out. Even if Sixth was exposed, we still have time!"

They were only one step away. They absolutely could not give up now!

However, Serpent Coil moved far faster than they had imagined.

90%, 91%...

"Who the hell are you?! Breaking and entering is a cri—Bang!"

92%, 93%...

"No, no, I surrender! Don't kill me... ah!!"

94%, 95%...

"Fuck you, conglomerate dogs! Go to hel—" "Rat-a-tat-tat..."

In less than twenty minutes, every hideout except Zhou Xi's had been exposed!

The gunfire and screams coming through their headsets proved that every one of them had been killed.

"...Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fucking hell!"

As he heard his teammates fall one after another, Zhou Xi's expression gradually twisted. "Damn it, what's going on?!"

Why had the conglomerate dogs suddenly become so fast?

And he knew perfectly well that if this continued, he would be next!

So the best choice now was to pack up and run before the combat team arrived.

However, just as he was about to make a break for it, Leader Shen's words suddenly surfaced in his mind.

"To overthrow the conglomerates, bloodshed and sacrifice are unavoidable. If you wish to join us, then I hope Mr. Zhou's team possesses such resolve as well."

After struggling for a moment, he sat back down at the table and began hammering at the keyboard.

Leader Shen was right!

No matter what, he had to tear off a piece of flesh from them!

96%, 97%...

At the same time.

"...43, -79!"

After reporting the final coordinates, Gu Yi shouted in relief, "Hurry up, hurry up and turn this thing off!"

Xu Shi nodded approvingly. Sure enough, handing it to her had been the right choice.

However, just as he was about to stop the countdown, he suddenly thought of something and withdrew his hand.

"We'll talk about that later. Help me with something first."

"?!"

Miss Black Rabbit sprang up from her chair. "What else do you want me to do?!"

Was this never going to end?

"You should know what those people are looking for, right?"

Xu Shi ignored her and continued on his own.

"...You want me to intercept the information they captured?"

Gu Yi caught on and looked at him.

"No. I want you to disguise yourself as Serpent Coil's database terminal, then replace the information they obtain according to my instructions."

Xu Shi shook his head. "They can't notice anything at all. That shouldn't be difficult for you, right?"

"...It's still kind of troublesome."

Miss Black Rabbit said weakly, "How about you disarm the bomb first..."

"I was just considering whether I should waive the losses you caused the company."

Xu Shi cut her off, pretending to mutter in hesitation, "But if you refuse to cooperate, that'll make things difficult..."

Looking at his half-smiling expression, Gu Yi really wanted to drag him over and beat him senseless.

She had never seen such a bastard!

But angry as she was, his terms were indeed difficult to refuse.

Not to mention that the bomb still had not been disarmed... After shooting Xu Shi a resentful glare, Miss Black Rabbit puffed out her cheeks and got back to work.

(╬?◥益◤?) You broke your promise. Your mouth is going to rot sooner or later!

Xu Shi's last-minute change of plans bought Zhou Xi a brief chance to catch his breath.

He had no idea what had happened. At this moment, the only thing in his eyes was the remaining three percent on the progress bar.

98%, 99%... 100%!

Completed!

"It worked!"

Zhou Xi slammed down the Enter key and sent the data out.

With the situation so urgent, he had not noticed that the information he had scraped had changed.

Nor did he have time to react.

Because in the next second, the apartment door was violently blasted open.

"Serpent Coil's combat team will now execute you for illegally stealing corporate information."

The sound of high heels rang out as Su Lin slowly approached with the combat team, delivering the sentence without expression.

Zhou Xi did not panic. Instead, he sneered. "With you?"

The moment he made his decision, he had known that his chances of surviving were slim.

So now... killing one would be enough, and killing two would be a profit!

Especially that short-haired woman at the front. The blood on her face made it clear that she was the butcher who had killed his other brothers!

"Hahaha, Leader Shen, my mission is complete!"

Zhou Xi laughed wildly and pulled out the grenade he had prepared long ago, ready to die with them. "You bitch, let's die together!"

However.

Before he could pull the pin, Su Lin vanished from before his eyes.

The next second, she appeared behind Zhou Xi, gripped his neck, and gave it a light twist.

Crack.

The sound of his cervical vertebra snapping rang out, and Zhou Xi collapsed powerlessly to the floor.

It had all been futile.

He stared at the woman before him in disbelief and uttered his final words.

"You're... an Ascendant..."

"Remove his Brain-Computer Chip."

Su Lin casually kicked his corpse aside, then put on an earpiece. "Take anything valuable in the room as well, then withdraw."