After Crossing Over, I Marked the Empress

The sudden gunshot and death simultaneously shocked all members on both sides of the battle.

So much so that when Shen Han snatched Ke Qin’s weapon and continued firing, everyone finally entered a combat state.

Ma Haoyu designated two people to protect the empress, while he led another alpha to charge to the front line, supporting Shen Han.

The number of enemy combatants wasn’t large.

Because no one could predict in advance when and where the empress would pass through.

There were still more than a dozen squads patrolling various parts of the town.

But they couldn’t possibly teleport to the battlefield in a short time.

Based on this understanding, Shen Han chose to kill Ke Qin as quickly as possible.

Another point was that the way he looked at Miss Gu made her extremely uncomfortable.

It was a feeling of anger when one’s private territory was invaded by an outsider.

And Shen Han had always adhered to the principle that territory is inviolable!

The gunfire briefly ceased.

When Shen Han and Ma Haoyu returned to the team with an aura of bloodshed, both were wounded.

And the alpha warrior who had charged forward with Ma Haoyu would never again have the moment of high-fiving with his comrades.

“How are you? Is the wound serious?”

As they moved forward, Gu Junwan gently tugged at the alpha’s clothes beside her, asking softly.

Shen Han glanced at the burn on her arm, then squeezed out a reassuring smile at the other.

“It’s nothing, didn’t hit the bone, just hurts a bit.”

“When we get to your territory later, you can’t be stingy, you have to give me the best medicine, I want the most expensive kind!”

Knowing the other was trying to ease her emotions, Gu Junwan didn’t say much more, to avoid distracting her.

They hadn’t yet left the enemy’s defense range.

They needed to maintain the highest alertness at all times.

After advancing for about five more minutes.

The group came to an area of ruins and broken walls covered in scorched earth.

All around was silent, the annoying summer night insect chirping seemed to have been muted.

The grass blades bent slightly in the same direction, brewing an indescribable eeriness.

Ma Haoyu, holding a submachine gun and leading the way, nervously observed as they advanced.

Suddenly, his shoulder was gripped by someone.

Ma Haoyu’s whole body shuddered. He turned to look at Shen Han and said quietly, “What’s wrong, boss?”

Shen Han didn’t answer, but instead asked him a question in a voice only the two of them could hear: “Tell me directly, will you strictly execute the orders I give?”

Hearing this, Ma Haoyu immediately had a bad feeling.

His agent’s sensitivity told him that something big was about to happen.

“I will!” The small special agent answered firmly.

From the moment Shen Han shot Ke Qin earlier, he had acknowledged her as his superior.

“Very good!”

Shen Han raised her arm to stop everyone, then calmly spoke towards a broken wall ahead: “Come out, you two!”

The night wind blew, and all around was quiet.

Two figures slowly emerged from behind the broken wall.

Though there were only two people, they gave an extremely dangerous sense of pressure.

Two S-rank alpha warriors!

Born killers on the battlefield.

Looking at the holographic glasses half-hanging on their ears, the golden pupils in Gu Junwan’s phoenix eyes gradually contracted.

Those were devices newly equipped by Yin Country’s special assassins, capable of analyzing bullet trajectories and giving advance warnings.

In other words, just this point alone reduced the threat of gun attacks on them by more than half.

The pro-war politicians of Yin Country mostly had treacherous and dirty blood flowing in their veins, like cold poisonous snakes hiding in gutters.

The appearance of these two assassins was certainly aimed at killing her.

If she died, the Free Federation would surely fall into chaos.

Dying on the border of New Li Country would lead to war between the two countries.

Countries and forces with ulterior motives were extremely skilled at profiting from chaos.

“Shen Han! Don’t go, they—”

The empress’s words were only halfway out when a sudden hand strike hit her neck.

She looked incredulously at Shen Han, who was still some distance away from her, her ears ringing, her vision blurring.

The next second, the fainted empress was caught in the arms of Shen Han, who had stepped forward.

“Well done!” Shen Han stared at the anxious-looking Ma Haoyu, not sparing her praise.

She had been worried earlier that he wouldn’t understand her hand signals, or that he would understand but not dare to execute them.

“Take her away, don’t look back. It’s still three kilometers to the rendezvous point. I want you to safely deliver her to the hands of the Free Federation’s reception army. Can you do it?”

The three team members’ eyes were bloodshot as they nodded heavily.

Saluting Shen Han once more, they carried the empress and retreated.

Seeing the big fish caught in the net trying to escape, the two assassins immediately dashed out.

Their speed was fast, far beyond comparison with the alphas Shen Han had encountered before.

She chose a target and charged forward without hesitation.

But her hands gripped her gun, simultaneously pulling the trigger at both of them.

Dense gunfire tore through the air as the two top-tier alphas engaged in close combat, rapidly shooting at each other.

With the enhancement of the holographic glasses, the alpha assassin avoided most of the enemy’s firepower.

He was shot in the shoulder, but it wasn’t fatal.

Shen Han was also shot once, wounded in her right arm, causing her gun-holding hand to start shaking uncontrollably.

And the weapon in her left hand had already emptied its magazine.

“Interesting, I’ve long heard that there was a gun expert in the empress’s personal guard, indeed seeing is believing.”

“I wonder if you can still pull the trigger now?”

The assassin alpha’s laughter came with the wind, his voice full of arrogance.

Shen Han tried to raise her gun again, enduring the pain.

Just as her arm lifted, a bullet had already been fired, hitting her gun and knocking her to the ground.

The knocked-away gun fell far off, and her right palm was full of burst wounds.

The assassin alpha walked very calmly to her front, looking down at his defeated opponent.

He smiled and said: “I see it’s nothing more than—”

Before the last word “this” could be uttered, a hand burning with red fire had already risen from the ground, directly slapping his face.

The assassin alpha let out a heart-wrenching howl, his eyeballs completely losing their color in the burning flames.

Shen Han used the momentum to flip behind him, cradling his neck and twisting hard, ending his howls and his life.

The other assassin alpha wasn’t far away, originally planning to watch his companion kill the enemy before chasing after the empress.

He never expected that the one whose life would be harvested would be on his side.

Staring at the red flames extinguishing in Shen Han’s palm, he reached out to remove his holographic glasses and casually threw them away.

“A fire attribute ability user? But you can only use that kind of power once, right?”

The assassin alpha flipped his hand, his palm already gripping a cold dagger.

“Let’s see if your movements are faster, or if my knife is quicker!”

As he finished speaking, he had already charged out like a battle tank, attacking towards Shen Han.

Unlike his companion just now, he preferred bladed weapons and was also skilled in close combat.

Fighting an alpha at the end of her strength with his best condition.

He believed he didn’t even need to use a gun.

The satisfaction of personally piercing an opponent’s throat was incomparable to any hot weapon.

The pheromones of the two top-tier alphas simultaneously exploded on the ruins.

Sweeping with a thick smell of blood, rolling and spreading in all directions.

At one moment, the sharp dagger pierced Shen Han’s back shoulder, the huge pushing force causing her to stumble forward.

The assassin alpha licked the fresh blood on the edge of the knife back, the feeling of hunting making his whole body’s blood boil.

Just as he was about to stab another knife into the other’s spleen and kidney area.

A thin blade suddenly spun horizontally, cutting across his waist and abdomen.

The assassin alpha’s pupils contracted, and then he saw his own blood gushing from his abdomen.

“I’ll kill you, bastard!”

The enraged roar came along with a powerful impact.

Shen Han felt as if she had been hit by an off-road vehicle, her internal organs seeming to have shifted.

Her body was thrown several meters, only stopping when she crashed into a remnant wall.

Her right arm, already severely wounded by bullets, was further devastated by the concrete wall, the sound of bones breaking particularly jarring in the quiet night.

Shen Han leaned powerlessly against the broken wall, staring at the broken bone protruding from her right arm’s skin and muscle, her teeth chattering uncontrollably.

The rapid loss of blood made her back feel cold.

The assassin alpha, clutching his abdomen, cursed as he walked to the edge of the broken wall.

He crouched down, wiped the blood from his dagger on Shen Han’s clothes, then spoke: “Damn it, hunting eagles for years, never thought I’d still get my eye pecked by one!”

But at this moment, Shen Han began to laugh softly.

“What are you laughing at?”

The answer he received wasn’t heroic words before death, but a sharp broken bone.

In that instant, he saw eyes similar to those of a fierce beast, cold and vicious.

The assassin alpha’s carotid artery was violently pierced, like a burst blood bag, crimson spraying out, dyeing a small section of the broken wall red, and also half of Shen Han’s face.

She watched the enemy in front of her break free from her broken bone, roll among the messy grass blades, and then completely stop moving.

Only then did she slowly exhale a long breath.

The severely wounded girl leaned against the broken wall, her gradually clouding eyes looking towards a certain direction under the night sky.

She thought: Miss Gu should have joined up with her reinforcements by now, right?

…

Turning the clock back 10 minutes.

When Gu Junwan opened her eyes and saw the Free Federation’s army group standing all around her, she knew something had gone wrong!

She propped herself up from the comfortable chair and sat up, her first question was: Where’s Shen Han?

No one answered.

“Where are Ma Haoyu and the others!” The empress’s voice instantly turned icy.

They?

Everyone was a bit confused, because only one person had arrived at the rendezvous point carrying the empress.

Two officers brought Ma Haoyu forward.

Before the empress could continue questioning, this small special agent had already spilled everything, his face full of grief.

Including Shen Han’s decision, and the deaths of the other two comrades.

“Arrest him!” Gu Junwan’s face was so dark it seemed water could drip from it. “Have Ping Jiashi come see me, form up, follow me back to the town!”

At the empress’s order, Ma Haoyu was taken out of the temporary command post.

A middle-aged man in combat uniform came before her.

This was the highest-ranking commander in the reception team, Colonel Ping Jiashi.

He calmly and objectively reported the current situation, trying to prevent the empress from taking unnecessary risks.

“Your Majesty, the warships of both countries are currently facing off in the air. If you step into New Li Country’s territory again, it may directly trigger a war between the two countries.”

Gu Junwan knew he was absolutely right, and also knew that her most correct choice now was to retreat with the team.

But she couldn’t do it.

Thinking of Shen Han staying behind on her own to hold off two S-rank alpha assassins, her heart felt like it had been carved open with a blunt instrument.

The cold wind of fear gusted in, making her hands and feet cold, her whole body chilled.

Ping Jiashi didn’t dare disobey the empress’s will.

He directly ordered the entire combat unit to advance towards the abandoned town on New Li’s border.

The airships stood by, ready to engage in full-scale combat if the other side made any reckless moves.

Amidst the huge engine roar of the fighter jets in the air, Gu Junwan jumped onto an armored vehicle.

Leading the murderous large army behind her, she returned to the town!