"Bang!"
When the hand grenade exploded less than ten meters away, Jane had already guessed from the screams of her companions just now.
She suspected that the handsome and mysterious Asian Youth might have discovered them long ago and set traps in the farm in advance.
But when the hand grenade actually exploded nearby, although the shockwave didn't knock Jane off her feet or throw her to the ground...
...several pieces of shrapnel from the exploded hand grenade still sliced through her arm and cheek.
Compared to Jane, the other Female Assassin was not so lucky.
Due to her experience as an assassin, that Female Assassin named Perkins hadn't walked as close to the others.
Even between her and Jane, there was a certain distance.
But compared to Jane's position, Perkins was only six or seven meters away from the hand grenade's explosion.
Hunter's perfectly timed throw meant the hand grenade detonated immediately, giving the two assassins, who were former US Military Navy SEALs, no time to react at all.
Perkins was the same; when the two assassins were firing blindly earlier, she had stopped to the side and was keeping a careful watch.
She didn't blindly waste bullets like those two assassins.
Instead, she was carefully searching for the possible hiding place of their target for this mission.
Perkins felt that although the pasture grass had grown over a meter high...
...a standing person certainly couldn't hide, and judging by the screams and warnings of her previous companions...
...the opponent had not only set traps in the pasture but should also be hiding nearby, waiting for an opportunity to ambush.
Therefore, Perkins walked very slowly.
After realizing there might be bear traps in the grass, her feet almost glided across the ground.
Furthermore, Perkins intentionally walked behind her companions, only using the paths they had already tread.
Because of this, compared to Jane's positioning...
...Perkins was undoubtedly much closer to her two teammates who were former US Navy SEALs.
The moment the hand grenade exploded, she immediately let out a scream.
Not only was her body slammed by the shockwave of the explosion, instantly flipping her over and making her fall...
...but Perkins' body also ended up with many shrapnel cuts.
The most serious was a wound on her leg.
The stabbing pain from there made Perkins immediately realize that shrapnel had likely pierced into the muscle.
It might have even injured the bone.
However, the current environment didn't allow for it, so Perkins could only grit her teeth and ignore the wound for now.
After being flipped by the explosion's aftermath, she took the opportunity to fall into a patch of grass and remained motionless.
Perkins wasn't sure where that cunning Asian Youth was currently hiding to plot against them.
Watching her companions fall one by one to his schemes, even though she wasn't familiar with those temporary teammates...
...at this moment, she couldn't help but feel the desolate unease of the fox mourning the death of the hare.
Lying alertly in the grass, the Female Assassin carefully observed her surroundings.
She hadn't given up yet and still wanted to find the target of this assassination mission.
The bounty for this commissioned task was a full one million us dollars.
The assassin industry was not as mysterious or as highly profitable as the outside world imagined.
Human life wasn't considered very valuable in the US; most assassination missions actually paid anywhere from a few thousand to tens of thousands of us dollars.
Only for commissions involving deep-seated hatred or targets with great strength and influence would the bounty reach over a million.
Although Perkins, like Jane, was a top assassin within their Assassin Company...
...the rewards for the assassination missions she usually took were mostly only tens of thousands or over a hundred thousand.
She rarely encountered missions worth hundreds of thousands of us dollars, let alone over a million.
For a commission with a bounty of over a million us dollars, even if the company took a ten or twenty percent cut, so many companions had died.
In the end, if Perkins could actually deal with the target, she would be able to get a substantial reward.
Perkins never denied that she was a greedy woman.
She liked designer bags, expensive cosmetics, brand-name clothing, and living in large villas.
So, since joining the Assassin Company and becoming a professional assassin...
...even though it had only been a short two or three years, Perkins was never picky about missions.
The higher the reward for an assassination mission, the less she cared, even if the process might be extremely dangerous.
But this time, Perkins clearly hadn't realized that she had kicked a steel plate.
While she was still carefully watching the surroundings, trying to find the target's possible hiding place...
...suddenly, Perkins' peripheral vision seemed to catch something streaking through the air.
She instinctively looked up and, in the dark night, could only faintly see that the object flying toward her wasn't very large.
There was only one, and it seemed to be only about the size of a fist.
In her mind, she immediately thought of the hand grenade that had just detonated and killed two of her companions.
Perkins' face turned pale, and she couldn't help but shout, "Grenade!"
Jane saw it too and immediately lunged forward, about to throw herself onto the ground.
What a pity!
They had clearly underestimated Hunter's grasp of the Flashbang's detonation timing.
The Flashbang had just hit the ground when it rapidly exploded.
With intense light and a massive roar, Perkins and Jane were both within three or four meters of where the Flashbang detonated.
Instantly, one of the two women felt as if her eyes had been hit by a laser; her vision immediately became a sea of white, and she lost her ability to observe.
Along with that, her ears could no longer hear any sound.
And the other one wasn't doing much better.
Although she had her back turned and wasn't blinded by the intense light, temporarily losing her sight...
...she felt as if her head had been struck hard by a sledgehammer.
She couldn't help but let out a muffled groan, and after falling to the ground, she felt uncontrollably nauseous.
After throwing the Flashbang, Hunter had immediately turned his back, closed his eyes tightly, and even stuck two fingers into his ears...
He had experienced the power of the Flashbang during testing.
The current Hunter's five senses were far more acute than those of an ordinary person.
Because of this, the impact he felt was also greater.
Even with his ears plugged, at the moment the Flashbang detonated, Hunter still felt a buzzing in his ears and brain.
He silently counted down ten seconds in his heart before springing out from his hiding place.
He rushed quickly toward the location where the Flashbang had exploded.
During this, relying on his powerful memory, Hunter even bypassed the two bear traps he had previously set nearby.
Quickly reaching the vicinity of the two women, he first rushed to the side of the Female Assassin who was lying in the grass, still clutching her weapon tightly.
He delivered a hand blade strike to the neck of the twitching Female Assassin.
Then he quickly went to the other Female Assassin!
When Hunter saw the Female Assassin lying on the ground, curled up and currently in a state of dizziness and nausea due to the close-range detonation of the Flashbang...
...and realized she was exactly that Killer Wife Jian, whom he had dealt with twice a week ago after her failed assassination attempt...
...a happy smile immediately appeared on Hunter's face.
Then, he raised his hand.
Without hesitation, he gave Jane's neck a hand blade strike, knocking this Killer Wife unconscious as well.
Then, he took out handcuffs and ropes from his private space to bind the two captured Female Assassins.
Hunter then picked them up, one in each hand, and carried them toward another building on the farm...
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