White River City.
Outside the northern docks lay a stretch of water piled with every kind of unusable vessel, from massive cruise ships to fishing boats to rotten wooden rafts. Nothing was missing.
Thousands upon thousands of wrecked ships had formed a ruin-like ship graveyard here. Accumulated over the years, this rarely visited place had become a paradise for all kinds of fish. Occasionally, elderly residents of White River City would arrange to come here and fish, often returning with modest catches. Young people, however, disliked the ship graveyard. The rusting, rotting wrecks strewn everywhere constantly gave off a foul, unpleasant stench.
Perhaps the elderly did not care about such things, but young people could not stand this place, heavy with the air of decay and reeking of rot.
Today, a pair of young women had arrived at the ship graveyard, most unusually.
One was dressed in white, pure as snow.
The other wore black, dark as ink.
Their arrival sliced through the stagnant waters, bringing a breath of rare fresh air to this wreckage-filled region steeped in decay!
"Oh my, I really couldn't tell. The graveyard you picked isn't bad at all—burial at sea, simple and convenient. Wonderful!" The woman in black was naturally Water Spider, universally acknowledged among White River City's younger generation as the most ruthless and vicious one. The woman in white was Liu Ye, the target she intended to hunt down. Water Spider had originally had no reason to kill this harmless human woman. No matter how one looked at it, killing Liu Ye was not in her own interests. But did Water Spider need a reason to kill Liu Ye? Did she?
She needed no reason at all to kill someone.
If there was one, the only possible reason was that Water Spider could