Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 431 - 426: Beijing Training Camp (Part 4)

When these children were about to start the second round of training, Ji Ning came to the third-floor lounge to replace Huang Ying.

At this time, Ji Hong had already removed her mask and hat, and was standing by the glass window watching the training of the students below.

She heard Ji Ning’s footsteps, still a bit angry, and turned to look, only to see Ji Ning calmly walking to the water dispenser, pouring herself a glass of water.

There were no signs of exhaustion on his body, and the energy fluctuations around him were normal.

Frowning slightly, she looked complex, "You really are a freak."

Ji Ning replied blandly, "In such a vast world, nothing is too strange. Don’t use your shallow understanding to judge anything you don’t comprehend."

Ji Hong rolled her eyes directly, came over and sat on a single sofa, speaking about the purpose of her visit this time.

"I seem to have found the place I used to stay."

"Where?"

"An isolated island only 80 nautical miles from the Beizhou continent."

Since settling down at the Huang Family, she often followed their cargo ships out to sea.

She would leave for more than half a month, sometimes going to the West Continent, sometimes to Beizhou.

These routes were all Ji Ning’s instructions for the Huang Family to continue smuggling.

Half a month ago, when they were delivering goods to Beizhou, they encountered extreme weather. They thought the ship and its crew were doomed to be buried at sea. Acting as the captain, Huang Shen decisively deviated from the established route, heading to an unknown sea area.

...

"Brother Shen, are you sure you can find a sheltered island?" Ji Hong, having consumed a large amount of superpower, was struggling to control the water around the cargo ship while shouting back.

The storm’s power was too strong, and she was nearing her limit. If no solution was found, the entire ship would capsize into the sea.

Huang Shen seemed to be recalling something, but spoke the truth to her, "I’m not sure. Back when I went fishing with my father, I was young but also encountered a storm in this sea area. Later, the fishing boat veered off course, and we kept heading northeast until we came across a small island and were saved."

Ji Hong pursed her lips, pale-faced as she looked at the torrential seawater outside, fiercely augmenting her water ability, pushing the cargo ship swiftly northeast.

"Alright, let’s risk it. If we get through this crisis, I’ll recognize you as my brother when we return."

Huang Shen’s eyes showed a touch of emotion, stunned for a moment before saying, "Okay, I’m just missing a little sister. Having a superpower user sister is really a blessing for our old Huang Family. As long as we return, I’ll light incense in front of my father’s grave and acknowledge you as his daughter."

Two days later—

"Brother Shen, are you sure there’s an island here? We’ve been sailing for almost two days." Ji Hong lay powerless in the captain’s cabin, her superpower within her nearing its limit, on the brink of losing control.

Huang Shen’s lips were pale with urgency on his face. In his memory, the island wasn’t far; they reached it in less than half a day.

It shouldn’t be like now, surrounded by endless sea with no sense of direction.

Just as they felt despair, the exhausted Ji Hong suddenly heard Huang Shen’s excited voice in her ear.

"Xiao Hong, I see an island. We are saved..."

...

Ji Ning took a sip of water, "So you stumbled upon a place you used to stay?"

Ji Hong slightly nodded, "Yes, actually Brother Shen’s memory was inaccurate. Our initial direction was wrong, which is why we found the island two days later."

"How can you be sure it’s that place?"

"I recorded some videos, take a look."

Ji Hong took out a mobile phone from her pocket and handed it to Ji Ning.

The phone’s design was very old, with many scratches on the casing, not the style a girl would use.

Ji Ning raised an eyebrow, "Brother Shen’s phone?"

Ji Hong’s expression was unnatural, "The communication equipment was soaked at the time, only this one was still usable."

Ji Ning retracted her teasing gaze and opened the several videos saved on the phone.

The first video, filmed from Huang Shen’s perspective.

He stood on the ship, recording the island’s view, then got off and stood on a man-made pier, shooting the nearby scenery and environment up close.

"This island has a man-made pier, indicating islander activity. We are saved." Huang Shen’s voice came from the video.

The second video shifted to Ji Hong’s perspective.

She was now standing in front of ruins, filming. Most of these ruins were building debris, seemingly destroyed by bomb pinpointing.

Some fragments still had dark red stains of blood and unrotten human limbs.

"Xiao Hong, let’s leave. This place isn’t clean!" Huang Shen’s shout came from not far away.

But Ji Hong continued holding the phone, walking forward, even turning the lens towards the decayed limbs, single-handedly moving the large stone slabs covering them, revealing more gruesome images.

Severed limbs were everywhere, some already burnt into black charred bones.

Ji Hong crouched on the ground, using a fragment of bone to find a still intact golden ring.

She reached out to pick it up, seeing the ring’s inner edge engraved with a string of name initials.

She pocketed the ring and continued searching nearby.

Later, Huang Shen also came over to help her search.

They found quite a few golden ornaments and machine remnants together.

The third video showed them discovering an undestroyed tunnel in the building ruins. Huang Shen didn’t want Ji Hong to go down and investigate, and they argued for a while before finally descending the tunnel together.

This tunnel was very deep, Ji Hong estimated about ten meters deep, and the ropes tied on them nearly ran out.

The space below was vast but completely dark, all filled with seawater.

Ji Hong had a Water Ability, and Huang Shen grew up by the sea, both were excellent swimmers, so they randomly chose a direction to swim.

Then they discovered many corpses wearing white protective suits. These bodies were well-preserved, with faces full of panic, seemingly desperately searching for escape before dying.

Ji Hong and Huang Shen found well-preserved identity information on these bodies and recorded it all.

"These people, I later investigated, are all geniuses. Look at this person..." Ji Hong took out her phone again, handing the information she found to Ji Ning.

The phone screen showed a very young face along with his introduction.

[Zhang Xuewen, Huazhou Life Science Institute PhD, S-Class researcher, once awarded the first prize of Huazhou Technology Innovation Award...]

The densely packed academic honors took up a third of the entire report.

And the time of this report was over 30 years ago.

Ji Hong continued showing information on several people she investigated one by one.

All were top scientific researchers in Hua Continent.

Ji Ning’s gaze grew increasingly cold, then she opened the fourth video.

This video was basically evidence.

Ji Hong discovered a weird instrument still relatively intact, covered with dense circuits.

There was a young girl sitting inside the instrument, her expression very peaceful.

She seemed not to have suffered before dying.

Even though Ji Hong had watched this video dozens of times, she still trembled all over now, her voice showing an unusual emotion, "I can’t imagine whether I lived like this back then."

Ji Ning looked up at her, "It’s all past. These researchers also paid the price for their projects."

Ji Hong felt slightly better remembering this but still gritted her teeth in hatred for the mastermind.

"Among those who visited you today, one’s energy fluctuation feels very familiar to me. I’m sure he’s the mastermind."

Ji Ning fell silent for a while, calmly delivering words that surprised Ji Hong.

"But you can’t act against him now."

"So you knew long ago?" Ji Hong suppressed her emotions, until Ji Ning replied, "Yes."

Ji Hong instantly exploded in anger, feeling like she had been internally eaten by ants multiple times, her chest tightened with pain, "Why didn’t you tell me? You clearly know he’s the one who ruined my life, and look at that little girl, he killed her too..."