Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 309 - 304: Then Let Them All Die

Ji Ning thought of the information given to her by Huang Ying and Lin Yuanyang, raising an eyebrow.

"Have they already found a way to transform ordinary people into superpower users?" 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Ye Xiangying didn’t expect Ji Ning to ask such a question, her eyes slightly widened as she tried to suppress the panic in her heart, "This, I am not sure. If you want to ask about experiment-related matters, my father is looking forward to meeting you to discuss them in detail."

Ji Ning smiled, took another sip of water, but did not comment.

Ye Xiangying was uncertain about Ji Ning’s stance, and continued, "My father has always wanted to invite you to the Ye Family as a guest. It’s also a good opportunity to discuss the Pollution Zone with you. Do you have time?"

Ji Ning screwed the cap back onto the water bottle, gently rotating the bottle, watching her with a faint smile, and Ye Xiangying immediately said, "If you don’t have time, that’s alright. He happens to be attending Anhe’s 120th anniversary celebration. He can wait to meet you with Mr. Fu."

At this moment, Ye Xiangying no longer had the decisiveness she displayed in front of outsiders, her voice carried a cautious, probing tone, fearing the woman in front of her might be angered.

Earlier, Ji Ning intentionally withdrew her spiritual power shield, revealing the conversation between herself and Fu Linyang to certain individuals on the ship.

The Fu Family, the Ye Family, the Li Family, Ji Family Army, the Lane family, spies from other continents...

Various factions learned the content of those conversations almost simultaneously.

Whether they believed it or not, the "Commander’s return" was now out in the open.

Now it’s a matter of who plays their card first!

Ji Ning looked at Ye Xiangying, trying to find similarities to Ye Jianxiu’s face on her, but unfortunately, aside from a somewhat similar mouth, she didn’t resemble him.

"Your lips look a lot like his."

Then, Ji Ning stood up, preparing to leave.

"Once I get to Beijing, I’ll go to the institute to see him."

Ye Xiangying initially felt puzzled but then breathed a sigh of relief, dutifully replying, "I will inform my father."

***

The sea journey is much slower than flying, and it would take three more days for the international passenger ship to reach Beijing.

During these three days, Ji Ning received various probing gestures.

Especially from members of the Ji Family Army.

Interestingly, people from the same Ji Family Army faction delivering tokens to her didn’t recognize each other’s identities.

Ji Ning looked at two supposed relics of hers in her hand and threw them directly into the sea.

None were authentic, so why keep them?

The person observing her in secret narrowed their eyes and turned away.

Next, over at Ji Hong’s side, someone began trying to rescue her.

Ji Hong, on the contrary, lost her resolve; even when she had a great opportunity to leave, she didn’t go but kept waiting for Ji Ning’s arrival.

The sunset over the sea painted a vast natural canvas, coloring everything in gold.

The last dazzling splendor of the setting sun shines forth, slowly heading into darkness.

On the top deck of the passenger ship, two figures faced the sunset.

"Why didn’t you leave?" Ji Ning asked.

Ji Hong’s face showed disdain, "Leave? To be caught by you again?"

Ji Ning walked over to her and sat down, calmly watching the distant sunset.

Ji Hong turned her face to look at her, under the sunset glow, Ji Ning’s face was exceedingly exquisite, as if heaven had bestowed all its beauty upon her, but such beauty often led people to automatically overlook it.

Later, she figured out why someone so beautiful hadn’t drawn excessive attention from others.

She possessed strong spiritual abilities, allowing her to control and diminish others’ focus on her appearance.

That was also where her intelligence lay; when people no longer focused on her face, only her formidable strength remained to be feared.

Ji Hong shifted her gaze away, looking at the silver earrings on her earlobes that resembled her own, suppressing the anomaly at the tip of her heart, she turned her face and similarly looked into the distance, softly asking, "Are we alike?"

"What do you think?"

"No, you know more than I do. Compared to you, I’m just a rough copy."

Ji Ning smiled, the silver earrings on her earlobes shining dazzlingly under the sunset’s rays.

"But even as a copy, I want to stand proudly among the crowds and live openly. Why can’t even this small wish be realized?" Ji Hong murmured, her tone filled with reluctance and repression.

Ji Ning turned her face to look at her; Ji Hong’s face was buried in the shadow of the sunset, making it hard to discern her expression.

"I remember being carried onto the ship and hearing about an explosion at the place where I was held for 18 years. I remember being called 7374, if only I hadn’t woken up at that time..."

"You want revenge?"

Ji Hong’s fingers suddenly tightened, after a long time, she asked, "Once we reach Beijing, where will you send me?"

Ji Ning looked at the remaining final splendor of the distant sunset, slowly getting up, placing a hand on Ji Hong’s head, saying lightly, "To where you belong."

Ji Hong’s face showed a painful expression, "You..."

"Boom——"

A loud noise.

Massive superpower fluctuations emanated from the top of the ship.

Xiao Shun and Blue Team members inside the cabin were startled and immediately ran upstairs.

"What’s happening?"

"Go see!"

People standing on the deck near the window had been frightened out of their wits by the scene on the sea.

"Ah——tsunami——"

It was seen that beside the ship, unbeknownst to when, a several hundred meters high wave had risen, seemingly about to swallow the passenger ship.

Joe Lane and the high-level superpower users on the ship simultaneously ran to the top.

It was seen atop the ship, Ji Ning’s arms outstretched towards the impending wave, her eyes black as hollow ghosts.

Standing opposite her was Ji Hong, with blood seeping from the corners of her mouth, her face pale.

Her face was already covered with fine veins, evidently controlling an unbearable superpower with all her life.

"Ji Ning... you won’t let me live, then everyone dies... hahaha..."

Ji Ning pursed her lips without speaking, one hand fending off the wave, the other fiercely striking Ji Hong’s body.

"Pfft——"

The railing was overturned by the powerful energy, Ji Hong’s body was instantly suspended in mid-air, blood spraying everywhere.

Ji Ning didn’t give her a chance to breathe, also rising into the air, striking Ji Hong again, mercilessly.

Both their bodies were like kites with broken strings, getting closer and closer to the overwhelming sea wall.

"Ning——"

Joe Lane shouted, wanting to follow, but was tightly held by Jiazhou’s bodyguards who had caught up.

Being a step behind means falling further behind, and by the time he had finally shaken off the people around him, the sea no longer held their figures.

The uncontrollable seawater then surged toward the passenger ship like a flood.

Just as everyone closed their eyes in despair, the seawater stopped, frozen as if time had stood still, a sheet of crystal quickly extended from the crest of the wave downward.

"Full-speed ahead!"

Those on the top of the ship awakened as if from a dream, shouting hysterically.

Joe Lane’s handsome face was as pale as paper, his smooth skin gradually aged, wrinkle upon wrinkle emerged deep from his skin, slowly spreading all over, his black hair began turning white from the roots.

Life force in his body gradually withered.

Even though the ship was advancing at full speed, it couldn’t leave the area covered by the wave within just a few minutes.

Just as Joe Lane felt his body reaching its energy limit, a "crack" was heard.

The ice at the crest of the wave cracked open a huge gap.

Everyone was terrified.

But the seawater did not fall due to gravity, as if some invisible force fixed it tightly above everyone’s head.

Before Joe Lane fell into darkness, he seemed to see a familiar figure leaping out of the sea.