Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 305 - 300: Dead, Poisoned to Death!

"Impossible." Ji Hong directly denied, her eyes wide as if trying to dispel some deep-seated fear.

Ji Ning looked at her without further correction, pointing at the man kneeling on the ground, asking, "Why don’t you explain the purpose of making her the Commander?"

The man felt the pressure on him suddenly ease, but he continued to tremble uncontrollably, his mind a jumble of confusion.

What is she planning to do?

Why is she also the Commander?

His superiors never mentioned there was another experiment subject?

What to do if these two experimental subjects meet?

How does she know about Ji Hong’s affairs?

Could she already know about that plan?

"What purpose? We just want to find the Commander..."

The man forced himself to reply, but dared not admit anything, suppressing his shock and fear—yet his facial muscles twitched involuntarily, provoking a sarcastic smile on Ji Ning’s face.

"A person who’s been dead for 120 years and yet someone still remembers her, even wants someone to replace her?"

The man swallowed nervously, his gaze suddenly incredibly determined, locking onto Ji Hong’s eyes, shouting, "The Commander isn’t dead, she will come back someday! She is the faith of our Ji Family Army. She is our spiritual lea—"

Before he finished speaking, Ji Ning suddenly rushed forward, but it was too late.

A dark red blood flowed from the man’s mouth, and a foul smell accompanied its flow.

He died.

Ji Hong’s body shook, and after a moment of shock, she ran over, reaching to check the man’s breath.

"Dead, poisoned to death!" Ji Ning said lightly.

Ji Hong silently looked at the body lying on the floor, the man dead with his eyes open.

Suddenly, her gaze turned sinister and she looked at Ji Ning, "You killed him!"

Ji Ning raised an eyebrow, looking down at her.

At that moment, she was crouching on the floor, her head upturned, eyes filled with dangerous and mad glint.

But Ji Ning’s beautiful eyes were clear and penetrating as if seeing through one’s soul.

Ji Hong’s hands, hanging at her sides, suddenly clenched, and she said again, "You forced him to death. You’re the murderer!"

With her words, footsteps gradually approached from afar, and Ji Ning chuckled, "Aren’t you going to validate if what he said was true or not?"

"You’re the murderer!"

"Bang—"

"Put your hands up!"

The back kitchen door was violently kicked open, a group of Jiazhou guards pointing their weapons at the two inside the room.

Does it really matter if it’s true or false?

She only knows that there can only be one king among the wolves.

She wants to be that sole king...

***

A Hua Continent bodyguard was suspected of murder in the hotel, caught red-handed by Jiazhou guards.

This news made the Gold Team leader’s face extraordinarily grim, swiftly blocking Ye Xiangying and her team, coldly asking, "Where are our people?"

"Taken away by Joe Lane’s bodyguards."

"You let them take the people away like that?" The Gold Team leader’s voice was full of anger.

Ye Xiangying, already exhausted from the search during the day, was overtaken with worry when the Gold Team member murder case erupted, the stress leaving fine lines on her forehead.

Being questioned by a bodyguard made her lose her usual composure, sarcastically saying, "If you have an issue with my work, report it to the Alliance!"

The same words thrown back made the Gold Team leader furious.

Behind the Gold Team leader, Xiao Shun quickly mediated, "Minister Ye, our leader is very concerned about the safety of No. 31, his tone might have been a bit rushed, please don’t take it amiss. Could you kindly inform us of No. 31’s current situation?"

Ye Xiangying, wearing a stern face, didn’t look kindly at Xiao Shun either, while her secretary spoke up for her, "If you want to know the specific situation, don’t hinder Minister Ye’s work here."

Xiao Shun had no choice but to step aside, allowing Ye Xiangying and her secretary, along with other officials, to leave swiftly.

The Gold Team leader watched their departure, eyes full of gloom.

Elsewhere.

Ji Ning was sitting in a lavish room, eating an apple.

Opposite her sat Joe Lane, a member of the most powerful family in Jiazhou, and not far from him was an unconscious person lying on the floor.

There were no other people in the room besides them.

Ji Hong never imagined that her effort to pin the murder on Ji Ning and have the Jiazhou guards control Ji Ning backfired; the guards instead controlled her, and even injected her with a superpower suppressant while she wasn’t ready, afterward putting a Hua Continent Security Bureau mask on her and roughly escorting her away.

Then, Ji Ning was politely invited into Joe Lane’s room by these Jiazhou guards.

At this moment, Joe Lane’s face was excited and elated, much like a love-struck teenager, wearing luxurious clothing with meticulously groomed hair; his appearance seemed even younger than before.

As soon as Ji Ning arrived, she noticed the unique nature of Joe Lane’s superpower, which allowed his skin to stay youthful.

But according to records, his age was well past his sixties.

"Ning... Ning... do you still remember me?"

Ji Ning’s face was calm, her beautiful eyes appearing to see through everything, speaking a name plainly: "Berry Lane."

Joe Lane’s beautiful blue pupils immediately glistened with tears, torn between wanting to cry and wanting to laugh, he said incoherently, "I knew it, I knew you would come back... I never thought I’d see you again in my lifetime. Did you know I almost thought I’d never see you again..."

"Did you also go to Jiuming Mountain?" Ji Ning interrupted him.

Joe Lane wiped the tears from the corner of his eye, "I tried to stop them, but by the time I reached the mountaintop, a sudden explosion occurred, and when I opened my eyes again, I was here..."

Ji Ning continued to eat her apple, her eyes calm as if she had already known this matter.

"They?"

A trace of unnaturalness appeared on Joe Lane’s face, but he still mentioned a few names, "Josen, Kro... Simon."

The last name was Joe Lane’s elder brother, Simon Lane.

Ji Ning nodded slightly and asked again, "Why have you aged so much?"

Joe Lane, a bit flustered, raised a hand to touch his cheek, "Old? But it should still be a youthful face..."

Under Ji Ning’s silent gaze, Joe Lane sighed, "Fine, I woke up forty years ago. Simon was even a bit earlier than me, but he’s already dead."

"So, are all those who wanted to assassinate me at the top of Jiuming Mountain here?"

Joe Lane nodded, then shook his head, "Possibly, I don’t know how many people were at Jiuming Mountain back then? All my information came from Simon. As far as I know, among Simon’s men, it seems only Simon himself arrived here. But I haven’t been able to find out if the others are still alive. Ever since your assassination at Jiuming Mountain, Hua Continent has closely guarded it, never allowing any Outer Continent people to approach Jiuming Mountain..."

At this point, Joe Lane paused as if contemplating something, then continued, "I rushed to Jiuming Mountain because I overheard Simon telling his subordinates that the assassination this time was foolproof, and someone from Hua Continent would join them at the Jiuming Mountain top. So Ning, there was a traitor beside you..."