The Queen Returns, Sweeping the Battlefield
"Sister Huo, there are enemies everywhere outside! We're surrounded!"
"We've been out of food and water for three days, and everyone's life is hanging by a thread. The group is offering one hundred million. Please come and support us immediately... Respond if you receive this, respond if you receive this!"
Su Zhan, the ship's captain, was gravely wounded. Clutching his communications device, he sent out distress calls again and again.
Their massive cargo ship was stranded in the middle of the ocean, under fierce attack by pirates.
They couldn't hold out much longer.
Their only hope now was for Ye Huo, the legendary queen of top mercenaries, to accept the job and save them.
Ye Huo was an agent and assassin who embodied boundless ruthlessness and arrogance, a top mercenary queen who struck fear into the world.
She was twenty years old!
Adopted by an assassin organization as a child, she had grown up in a tropical rainforest teeming with beasts, traveling through the most dangerous places in the world on top-secret missions.
Her mission success rate was a full 100%. She had never failed.
"Captain, what... what if Sister Huo doesn't come?"
A new crew member aboard the oceangoing cargo ship wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and asked fearfully.
It was his first time escorting an oceangoing cargo ship, and he was already facing a life-or-death test. Clearly, he had yet to adjust to such a dangerous environment.
"Then prepare to take the enemy down with us. Remember, as sailors, the word 'retreat' isn't in our dictionary!"
"Yes, captain!"
The sailors shouted their resolute response in unison.
Boom, boom, boom-
Deafening explosions rang out beyond the cabin.
The pirates had lost patience and launched an all-out attack on the cargo ship.
Hundreds of pirates, armed and piloting boats, charged in from every direction.
Captain Su Zhan and more than sixty elite sailors occupied the ship's high ground, hurling grenades and firing shells outward without pause.
Bang, bang, bang.
The two sides fought fiercely, dense fire blanketing the battlefield at sea.
The enemy attacked with growing ferocity.
Su Zhan watched the pirates swarm toward them like a tide of zombies, a trace of despair showing in his eyes.
He gripped the grenade's fuse, his voice resolute and tragic. "I'll detonate the explosives. Use the chance to lead everyone out!"
"No, captain!"
His men cried out in alarm.
They had never imagined that their esteemed captain would choose, at the final moment, to take the enemy down with him to cover his companions.
At that critical moment, a voice rang out from the sky like that of a savior.
"Brothers of China, don't be afraid. Your sister is here!"
An armed helicopter slowly appeared, stirring up a powerful wind.
Light shone from behind the young woman, coating her in a golden glow.
Her radiance outshone everyone present, like a goddess descending from the heavens.
Ye Huo, the mercenary queen, stood in the helicopter's open doorway with an M3 nuclear rocket launcher on her shoulder. She turned her head coldly, her ink-dark pupils slowly focusing on the battlefield at sea.
Her gaze was indifferent, a playful, unrestrained smile playing at the corner of her lips.
The next second, the nuclear rocket launcher, whose power ranked among humanity's greatest, unleashed a series of deafening blasts. Boom, boom, boom, boom.
Thick smoke billowed into the sky as fire swept in every direction.
The pirates were blown apart, flesh and blood flying.
The nuclear rocket launcher fired five hundred rounds a minute, unleashing an extremely dense barrage that suppressed the entire battlefield.
In less than three minutes, it had blasted the ferocious pirates into corpses strewn everywhere, their blood flowing into a sea.
The air was thick with the smell of sulfur and burnt corpses.
Countless wisps of bloody mist floated over the sea.
After killing the lackeys on the perimeter, Ye Huo leaped nimbly from the helicopter and entered the cabin.
She wore tight leather clothes, a saber in her hand and a gun at her waist. Her figure was voluptuous, and her cheeks were fair.
Her long, narrow black eyes were beautiful, and her red lips curved slightly upward, giving her an arrestingly cold beauty.
She was Ye Huo, codename Sister Huo.
The king of the Five Continents International Mercenary Corps.
The number one assassin and mercenary in the world rankings.
On any battlefield where she stood, everyone else was trash!
"Si... Sister Huo, it's you!"
The pirate leader's voice trembled as he spoke in English.
As he looked at the person before him, his eyes filled with intense fear.
"Kill her, or we'll all die here!"
The dozen or so pirates froze, then drew their weapons and attacked.
"You're asking for a beating!"
Ye Huo was like an asura from hell. Equipped with top-of-the-line combat gear, she fiercely tossed her long, ink-black hair and moved like lightning
around behind a member of the terrorist organization, driving the military dagger in her hand precisely into his body.
Before the pirate could react, his eyes widened, his body twitched, and he died.
The other pirates swiftly drew their guns and aimed at the young woman, firing a barrage of shots to turn her into a bloody sieve.
Ye Huo sneered and leaped more than three meters away, a submachine gun now in her hands.
She narrowed her eyes, flicked and shook her wrist, then raised the gun and aimed at her targets.
Pfft, pfft, pfft-
A frantic burst of automatic fire followed.
Hot, bright red liquid splattered across the deck.
More than a dozen bodies fell at once, each struck in the heart by a single shot.
The young woman known as Sister Huo raised her brows slightly, walked over, and checked him. He was Jack, the notorious pirate leader.
He ranked fifth among bounty hunters in the underground world.
He was worth 27 million US dollars! This trip had been profitable.
Ye Huo's lips curved slightly, full of mockery, with a hint of bloodlust and cruelty.
After she took out the pirate leader and the others, three people came running over on the ship.
They were all top agents of the mysterious organization Bloodfire.
Snake Demon.
Blood Blade.
Thousand Mechanisms.
Sister Huo was unquestionably the strongest member of their team.
The three walked up to the young woman and said coldly, "Reporting to Sister Huo, the pirates have been eliminated. We have achieved total victory!"
"Well done."
Ye Huo spoke calmly and soon freed all the hostages.
"Thank you."
Captain Su Zhan slowly approached Sister Huo, a trace of gratitude on his handsome face.
"You're welcome."
A faint smile tugged at Ye Huo's lips, yet it looked so cold and cruel.
Only then did Su Zhan notice the mercenary's epaulet on the left shoulder of the valiant young woman before him.
She was a mercenary queen worthy of the title.
"The mission is complete. My people will escort you to safe waters. Have the one hundred million transferred to my account on time!"
Ye Huo wore the same unchanging smile.
She was so defiant, so unrestrained, with a pride that placed her above all things.
"Please rest assured. I, Su Zhan, young master of Haiyun Group, always keep my word!"
Su Zhan straightened his back and, with a sharp snap, gave the young woman a formal salute.
Tall and standing straight, he gazed at her with deep admiration in his dark eyes. "When you return to Country Z, Haiyun Group will be sure to give you a warm welcome!"
"Very good!"
Ye Huo's red lips curved slightly.
She knew who he was: Su Zhan, the young master of Haiyun Group, a man of noble status and an immensely powerful background.
The shipping company exported goods worth hundreds of billions every year.
It was also one of her main employers.
Over the years, Ye Huo had killed as many people as hemp stalks and had grown tired of living a life licking blood from a blade's edge.
She had already earned more than enough in commissions.
Three days ago, she had learned about her origins and her family through underground intelligence circles.
Several days later, Ye Huo returned to her home country, arriving at the exit of the capital's international airport.
"Young miss, we've finally found you!"