The fighting ring was packed shoulder to shoulder. The sudden moonshadow and the girl leaping down caused an outcry among the spectators.
The originally bored audience instantly became highly interested.
"It's a little Asian woman, looking so petite and delicate. Amna has never had such a pretty and fair little woman before."
"Is that the person she kicked down? She's quite capable indeed. Is she going to fight a match? That would be fun to watch. What are the odds?"
"Such a fresh and delicious little woman, who the hell wants to watch a boxing match? I'd feel bad if she got hurt."
Qiao Ying looked coldly at Moon Shadow across from her: "Are you going to lead the way obediently, or do I have to escort you there by force?"
Moon Shadow didn't say a word.
He knew he was no match for her. Resisting would be seeking death. But having him surrender meekly was absolutely impossible.
So Moon Shadow rushed towards Qiao Ying in one swift movement, taking the initiative to attack. He went straight for the vitals from the very start. As Qiao Ying easily dissolved Moon Shadow's killer move, the audience was shocked and thrilled.
In terms of both speed and skill, Moon Shadow was inferior to the woman before him. But Qiao Ying wouldn't be able to subdue him easily in a short time either. So the two of them started their spar.
The boxers in previous years were mostly brawny bulls. Often, it was just watching two bulls lock horns.
It was alright for a few times, but it got boring after too many.
But the two people currently on stage didn't look anything like boxers, no matter how you looked at them. Their skills were clearly different from those bulls.
The audience couldn't even catch their moves at all. Over a dozen techniques had passed in the blink of an eye.
How many people in the world could witness two top assassins spar? This was truly an eye-opener.
The audience was so shocked that they didn't even have time to get excited. All eyes closely followed the two fighters, afraid to miss any wonderful details.
The punch that Moon Shadow focused his strength to slam towards Qiao Ying’s face was blocked again by her. The impact of the collision forced Qiao Ying to retreat half a step with one foot.
Moon Shadow immediately seized the opportunity to follow up. He lifted his leg and bent his knee to strike at Qiao Ying's abdomen.
Oddly, this girl who had a close relationship with Blood Shadow seemed to know his skills well. At the same time, she also lifted her leg, hitting his raised thigh first with her knee.
She successfully deflected his move back at him.
Moon Shadow immediately retaliated with a life-risking killer move that injured both the enemy and himself, temporarily forcing Qiao Ying back as they separated.
But his arm was broken because of it.
Unable to support himself, Moon Shadow fell to one knee on the stage. That injured leg couldn't stand up for a while.
He was supporting himself with one hand on the floor, breathing heavily and looking rather miserable.
Fidel watched the incredibly powerful Qiao Ying on stage and was dumbfounded. He felt lucky once more that she was the boss.
If she had been an enemy, he would have met Jesus eight hundred times by now.
Qiao Ying didn't give Moon Shadow time to relocate his dislocated arm joint. She directly rushed towards him in one swift movement.
Her shadow swiftly approached. Moon Shadow raised his hand to block before him, but was kicked off stage by Qiao Ying’s foot and heavily smashed onto the ground.
The scared audience quickly dodged aside.
Spitting out a mouthful of blood, Moon Shadow looked up at Qiao Ying towering over him on the stage and heard her say, "Stubborn fool."
Moon Shadow’s world went black and he passed out.
The hidden Dark Shadow assassins in the fighting ring were shocked seeing Moon Shadow’s defeat. As they jumped onto the stage rushing towards Qiao Ying, she dodged the flying hidden weapons, and leisurely threw a sentence to Fidel below: "Tie that guy up."
Then she started clearing out the Dark Shadow people.
Seeing that people had died, everyone immediately turned to flee this trouble spot, no longer daring to watch the spectacle.
With all the people gone, Qiao Ying could freely move as she wished.
Fidel had just finished tying up Moon Shadow when Qiao Ying on the other side cleanly took care of the rest. By the time he turned back around, there were several bodies on the ground.
The desert nights were very cold. A nameless big fire brought warmth to every Amna citizen – the flames lit up the entire southwest corner.
After an interval of two days, another fighting venue was consumed by the flames.
Fidel looked at the building being swallowed up by the huge fire in the rearview mirror and swallowed his saliva. He thought: what a huge grudge this was.
Fidel escorted the tied-up Moon Shadow back to the hotel with Qiao Ying in broad daylight. Seeing this, the hotel staff only took a couple more glances.
Clearly such things didn't even count as incidents in Amna.
Moreover, that person was Fidel whom they were all familiar with.
Qiao Ying used the keycard to open the door.
"Wife, you're back," the robot Qin Hanyue immediately came up, "Wife, are you thirsty? Let me pour you some water to drink."
Hearing the steady male voice from behind, Fidel was shocked for a moment and immediately looked inside, "Boss?"
But there was no sight of his boss inside the room.
Qin Hanyue the robot asked: "Wife, who are these two men?"
Fidel looked towards the source of the voice and was flabbergasted.
"Is this my boss's voice?"
Having it used to play with like this? And it had to be the boss's wife at that. Admirable indeed.
Qiao Ying narrowed her eyes slightly looking at "Qin Hanyue".
That gaze didn't know whether it was annoyed or speechless. She raised her hand and rapped the round metal head of the robot twice with a "clang clang".
"Wife, why are you knocking me?"
"I'm checking to see if Qin Hanyue is hiding inside you."
"Then wife, knock gently. Don't knock painfully on your hand."
"Go pour water."
This blasted bot had acknowledged "wife" as the most intimate form of address between them. Even with the risk of having its system tampered with, it stubbornly refused to change how it addressed her.
"Yes wife."
One day later,
The off-road vehicle drove in the endless yellow sandy desert, heading deeper inward.
In the back seat,
Moon Shadow's face was pale. His upper body was bound up tight by finger-thick nylon ropes. The arm twisted off by Qiao Ying hadn't been reattached yet.
Half of his body was numb, including that arm.
His two legs seemed still free, but actually couldn't even lift at all - Qiao Ying had struck his acupoints with several needles, rendering them useless.
Beside him, Qiao Ying sat with crossed arms and eyes closed to nourish her spirit.
Moon Shadow: "...Blood Shadow also knew the body's acupoints."
The person beside him did not react.
Moon Shadow: “Blood Shadow was raised by the organization. She was Dark Shadow's irreplaceable glory. I had thought you were Blood Shadow's friend.”
“But you killed her mentors. Whether you are Blood Shadow's enemy or Dark Shadow's enemy, what vengeance do you have against Dark Shadow?”
Fidel who was driving glanced up: Dark Shadow? Blood Shadow?
Boss’s wife knew the legendary genius assassin?!
This guy is from Dark Shadow?
Moon Shadow: “Blood Shadow failed her mission. I had always wondered what mission it was that even she couldn't complete. You know right? Anyway I’m going die, so telling me shouldn’t matter.”
The previously resting-her-spirit Qiao Ying finally reacted a little: “Say one more word about Blood Shadow failing her mission and I’ll kill you.”
Moon Shadow wondered: “Wasn’t it? She didn’t die?”
The desert air was very dry. Qiao Ying slowly took a deep breath to change her breath.
Then she opened her eyes, turned to look at Moon Shadow beside her who had been kept in the dark like everyone else. Her tone was calm like still water: “Dead. Killed by the very organization you are all so loyal to.”
Moon Shadow immediately refuted: “Impossible!”
